On the Feast of the Cathedral of the New Martyrs, in Butovo, the Primate of the Russian Church performed the Liturgy on the Butovo landfill mp

On the Feast of the Cathedral of the New Martyrs, in Butovo, the Primate of the Russian Church performed the Liturgy on the Butovo landfill mp On the Feast of the Cathedral of the New Martyrs, in Butovo, the Primate of the Russian Church performed the Liturgy on the Butovo landfill В праздник Собора новомучеников, в Бутове пострадавших, Предстоятель Русской Церкви совершил Литургию на Бутовском полигоне print version May 13, 2017 14:42 On May 13, 2017, on the Feast of the New Martyrs' Council in Butovo, the victims (a passing celebration on the 4th Saturday after Easter), His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the open air at Butovskiy polygon - the place of mass shootings and burial of victims of political repressions , Including many clerics and laity, now glorified in the congregation of the New Martyrs. On the Butovo landfill was brought the ark with particles of the relics of all the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church, whose remains were found in the years of the revival of church life. In the year of the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution, the ark with the relics of the New Martyrs and Confessors will be brought to all the dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia. During the Liturgy His Holiness was co-served by: Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna , Patriarchal governor of the Moscow diocese; Metropolitan Istra Arseny , First Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in Moscow; Archbishop Evgeny Vereisky , Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church; Archbishop Feghnost of Sergiev Posad , chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism , governor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra ; Archbishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk , head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate; Bishop Ilyan (Vostryakov) ; Bishop Guri (Shalimov) ; Bishop Vidnovsky Tikhon ; Bishop Dmitrovsky Theophylact , governor of St. Andrew's Stauropegial Monastery ; Bishop Jerome (Chernyshov) ; Bishop Tikhon of Podolsky ; Bishop Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon , chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service ; Bishop of the Resurrection Savva , first deputy administrator of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, governor of the Novospassky stauropegial monastery ; Bishop Nikolai of Balashikha ; Bishop Constantine of Zaraisk ; Bishop Bronnitsky Paramon , governor of the Don Stavropigial Monastery ; Bishop Peter Lukhovitsky ; Protopriest Vladimir Divakov , secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in Moscow; Archimandrite Alexy (Polikarpov) , the governor of Danilov, a stauropegic monastery ; Archpriest Mikhail Ryazantsev , key-holder of the cathedral church of Christ the Savior of Moscow; Protopriest Nikolai Balashov , Deputy Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations ; Protopriest Mikhail Egorov, Secretary of the Moscow Regional Diocesan Administration ; Archimandrite Nestor (Zhilyaev), Dean of the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Diocese; Protopriest Alexander Ageykin , rector of the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow; Protopriest Dimitry Smirnov , Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission for Family, Maternity and Childhood Protection ; Protopriest Kirill Kaleda, Rector of the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at Butovo Range ; The clergy of Moscow and the Moscow region. The divine service was attended by: Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, M.A. Fedotov; Head of the Leninsky Municipal District of the Moscow Region O.V. Khromov. Liturgy was prayed for by the abbesses and inhabitants of a number of women's monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church, numerous pilgrims from Moscow and the Moscow region. Liturgical hymns were performed by the choir of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University (regent TI Koroleva). Divine service was broadcast live on Soyuz . After a special litany, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church offered a prayer for peace in Ukraine. Then, there were petitions for the repose of the souls of the deceased servants of God, "for the faith and the truth, terrible suffering and torture during the years of persecution and persecution of the Church of Christ endured, afflicted and killed, from disease, grief and cold, in dungeons and bonds and in this martyrdom Their deceased archpastors, pastors, monastics and laity, their names are You, Lord, are weights. " Preacher before the communion spoke abbot Peter (Eremeev) , the governor of the High-Petrovsky stauropegial monastery . At the end of the Liturgy, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill performed a moleben to the holy new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church and the funeral litany for all those who died and were buried at the Butovo landfill. The rector of the church on the Butovskiy proving ground, Protopriest Kirill Kaleda, greeted His Holiness and presented His Holiness with a red miter. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia addressed the believers with the First-Hierarchal Word . As a gift to the rector of the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, the Primate of the Russian Church handed over the Easter egg.