Requiem services for recently-deceased Patriarch Alexy held at patriarchal residence at Peredelkino

Throughout the night of December 6, 2008, the Gospel was read and prayers for the repose the soul of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, were lifted up at his coffin in the domestic chapel of the patriarchal residence at Peredelkino.

In the morning of December 6, the commemoration day of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, the first liturgy for the repose of his soul was celebrated at the domestic church of Our Lady ‘Swift to Hearken’ by the father superior of St. Daniel’s monastery, Archimandrite Alexy (Polikarpov). The choir of St. Daniel’s monastery sang at the liturgy.

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