Sunday schools of the Simbirsk diocese held lessons on “Life in Service”translated

With the blessing of Metropolitan Longin of Simbirsk and Novospassky, classes on the topic “Life in Service” were held in Sunday schools of the Simbirsk diocese. The lessons were timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'.

On November 7, at the Sunday school at the church in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in the city of Novoulyanovsk, students learned about the main stages of the Primate’s life: his childhood, years of study, receiving spiritual education, the period when Metropolitan Kirill headed the Smolensk and Kaliningrad diocese, and about the time of his Primate service. The children were also presented with a book about the Spaso-Voznesensky Cathedral of Ulyanovsk, consecrated by Patriarch Kirill in 2015.

On November 8, at the Sunday school of the Resurrection-Germanovsky Church in the city of Ulyanovsk, teacher of the Law of God Natalya Pronko told the students of the senior and junior groups that service is a choice of life path. The children watched a presentation about Patriarch Kirill and learned the story of his life in service to Russia. At the end of the lesson, the children played the game “Web of Kindness.”

At the Sunday school “Blagovestnik” at the church in honor of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the city of Ulyanovsk...