Sisters of Mercy honored the memory of the deceased on Dimitrievskaya Parents' Saturdaytranslated

On November 7, on Dimitrievskaya Parent Saturday, a meeting took place between the sisters of the Simbirsk Sisterhood of Mercy in the name of St. Blessed Andrei of Simbirsk with the spiritual father of the sisterhood, the rector of the Church in the name of the Holy Righteous Philaret the Merciful of the city of Ulyanovsk, Priest Dimitry Subbotin.

The priest performed the Divine Liturgy, after which he served a requiem mass. During the service, sisters of mercy prayed and offered prayers for the repose of the deceased Orthodox Christians.

At the end of the service, a working meeting was held at the Istok social service center. Father Dimitri, together with his sisters, summed up the current work and discussed issues of social service. Then the confessor and the sisters of mercy shared a memorial meal for the repose of all deceased Orthodox Christians, and also remembered the recently deceased mother of one of the sisters, who was 40 days from the day of her death.