{"id":17033,"date":"2021-02-15T18:11:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpda.ru\/?post_type=news&p=17033"},"modified":"2021-02-19T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T08:32:36","slug":"prazdnichnye-bogosluzhenija-sretenija-gospodnja-v-moskovskoj-duhovnoj-akademii","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/mpda.ru\/en\/news\/prazdnichnye-bogosluzhenija-sretenija-gospodnja-v-moskovskoj-duhovnoj-akademii\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive services on the Day of Presentation Christ to the Holy Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the Church rejoices together with righteous Simeon the God-Receiver, who hold the Savior into his hands. The meeting of the blessed old man with pure sinless Infant Child symbolically represents the meeting of the Old and New Testaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celebrating this day, the clergy and parishioners of nowadays, just like righteous Simeon, have a great honor to meet the Savior in a sacrament of the Holy Communion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 14, Bishop of Zvenigorod Theodorite, Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, and the Bishop of Amur and Chegdomynsk Nikolay officed an all-night vigil at the Intercession Academic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While singing the praising stichera, Bishop Theodorite ordained Reader Philip Bakhtin, four-year Bachelor student, into a subdeacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 15, the Bishop of Amur and Chegdomynsk Nikolay together with Bishop Theodorite celebrated the Divine Liturgy co-served by teachers and students in the priesthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After reading the Holy Gospel, Bishop Theodorite addressed an assembly with his archpastoral word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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