KYIV. Action “An Icon to Every Home” Held at Kyiv Monastery of Tithes
OnFebruary 6, the commemoration of the Venerable Xenia the
Roman and the Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg, at the blessing of His Beatitude
Metropolitan Volodymyr the action "An Icon to Every House" was conducted at the Kyiv (Men's)
Monastery of Tithes.
After
the Divine Liturgy the prayer service was performed at the honorable relics of St.
Xenia of Milas, following which all those attending venerated the shrine
and got the icons of St. Xenia of St.
Petersburg as a blessing.
Alongside with the prayer service at the Monastery of Tithes the services at the other
churches were also performed. Among them, taking part in the action were the
Diocese of Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Crimea, Kharkiv, of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the
dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Moldova. Besided,
the actions was supported by the churches of the Orthodox Church in America,
Russian Church Abroad and of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
By approximate calculations
a total number of 300000 icons
of the God-pleaser were distributed.
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