In the cathedral, the newly deceased baby Sergius was escorted on the “path of all the earth”translated

November 14, the day of remembrance of the unmercenaries and wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian of Asia and their mother, St. Feodotiya, Archbishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril Nikanor performed the funeral Divine Liturgy and funeral service for the newly departed baby Sergius, the son of Deacon Alexander and Mother Lyubov Skorodinsky, in the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

During the Liturgy, His Eminence was co-served by acting keymaster of the Resurrection Cathedral in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, priest Sergius Nemodin, keymaster of the Nativity Cathedral, priest Alexander Bragin, head of the diocesan military department, priest Grigory Kurilin, diocesan clergy.

The diaconal rank was headed by Deacon Alexander Skorodinsky.

Liturgical chants were performed by the bishop's choir under the direction of regent Lyubov Skorodinskaya.

At the special litany, special petitions were offered, then the archpastor read a prayer for Holy Russia.

At the end of the funeral service, the coffin with the body of the baby Sergius was surrounded by a religious procession around the church.

At the end of the service, Archbishop Nikanor addressed the parents and those present with a word of consolation.