"Keepers of the Faith": "Under the Holy Omophorion"translated

We present to readers a new publication from the series “Keepers of the Faith. Middle Urals".

The heroine of today's publication is the Vdovin family, parishioners of the church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Kurganovo. Singer and Sunday school teacher Yulia Pavlovna Vdovina talks about how their family became part of a large and friendly parish. The publication was prepared by Natalya Grigorievna and Anna Pikh, members of the Club of Parish Press Secretaries of the Ekaterinburg Metropolis.

"Under the holy omophorion"

– Yulia Pavlovna, we have known each other since the first days of service and during these singing years in the choir, as they say, we sang together. Please tell us how your family parish history began?

– Our Vdovin family – head Igor Ivanovich, sons Ilya, Ivan and Alexey – have been in the parish for 13 years. The time has come, and we decided to settle in the village of Kurganovo. They began to find out whether the church would be restored and in whose honor it was built. What a huge feeling of tenderness and gratitude to God’s Providence was when we learned that St. Nicholas had brought us to live next to his church. Construction began, and when we started going to services, there were few parishioners. I was invited to sing in the choir and teach in...