In Yekaterinburg, at the Assumption Convent of Mercy for the elderly and infirm, the first Divine Liturgy was celebratedtranslated

The day before, in Yekaterinburg, at the Assumption Convent of Mercy for the elderly and infirm, the first Divine Liturgy was celebrated. Thus, here, behind the walls of an old two-story residential building at 65 Yerevan Street, spiritual life has been renewed.

The almshouse of the Orthodox Mercy Service of the Yekaterinburg diocese is a real spiritual pearl of our time.

“In it, as if following the commandment of our Lord Jesus Christ not to display the treasures of God, but at the same time to always be close to the needy and disadvantaged, there is a house church in the name of the Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna and the Assumption Convent of Mercy under her patronage,” note the Department of Social Ministry of the Ekaterinburg Diocese. — The unity of the church and the Monastery is as natural as the desire to unite within itself the love of God and the desire to serve and help one’s neighbor is natural for every human soul. The ideal of such a union is Saint Elizabeth Feodorovna herself.

The organizers note that being one of the activities of the Orthodox Mercy Service, the Assumption Monastery was created in the image of the Marfo-Mariinsky Monastery that once existed and is called upon...