Bishop Georgy of Nizni Novgorod and Arzamas consecrates a prayer room in the Gorkovskaya railway’s hospital

Bishop Georgy of Nizni Novgorod and Arzamas consecrated a prayer room in the Clinical Hospital of the Gorkovskaya railway on October 21, 2005.

Among the present were doctors, nurses and patients of the hospital. Archpriest Igor Pokrovsky, Rector of the Church of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, will care for the prayer room.

It is the sixth hospital prayer room in Nizni Novgorod.

‘We had an idea to organize a prayer room in the hospital long ago’, V. Starostin, Chairman for Medicine of the Gorkovskaya railway, says. ‘Both patients and doctors wanted it. I think that today’s event is very important for the hospital. It was not the decision of administration. Doctors and patients wanted it.’

‘The Church of God is a spiritual hospital. Divine services will be celebrated in the prayer room. A priest will visit those who cannot come here. Thus, the true ministry of the Gospel will be realized. Our duty is to care for the sick, to help doctors and nurses who see people’s grief every day. We will pray to the Lord to strengthen them’, Bishop Georgy said.

Bishop Georgy talked to the doctors after consecration. The bishop’s choir sang several church hymns for them.

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The Diocese of Nizni Novgorod