The inexhaustible wealth of the Divine Liturgytranslated

We come to the church for worship. Some people participate in the Liturgy every Sunday, some less often... But are we able to absorb all the spiritual fullness and beauty of meaning hidden in the prayers, chants, exclamations and actions of the priests, which each time become more and more familiar to us? The book “On the Divine Services of the Orthodox Church” by Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov) will help you renew the value of each Liturgy in your heart.

In the preface to the publication, historian and candidate of theology Alexey Konstantinovich Svetozarsky introduces the reader to the personality of Bishop Benjamin and his legacy. He notes that the future metropolitan was strongly influenced by the holy righteous John of Kronstadt: “And later, when the young hieromonk Benjamin again visited “Father Father John” and served him during the Divine Liturgy, he was even more amazed by his manner of serving, preaching, and addressing the people. Subsequently, he recalled this: “...to Father John - with his burning energy, thundering faith; with thousands of people thirsting for his bold prayer; with their awareness of the needs, grief, sorrows, and sins of these simple children of God; even with the enormity of the church itself, which requires strong...