The bishops celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Nativity of Christ Cathedraltranslated

On the day of the celebration of the memory of the Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Samosat (380) and on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost, Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, Metropolitan Alexy of Chelyabinsk and Miass, Bishop of Chrysostom and Satka Seraphim led the Divine Liturgy in the lower church of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Chelyabinsk.

The archpastors were concelebrated by the secretary of the Chelyabinsk diocese, Archpriest Igor Shestakov, and the clergy. The chants were performed by the Bishop's male choir "Axios" under the direction of regent Alexander Khakimov.

In his sermon, Metropolitan Vincent focused on a passage from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 8:28-34, 9:1) about the Lord’s healing of two demoniacs in the country of Gergesin.

“Instead of gratitude for delivering them from the demon-possessed, instead of repentance for breaking the commandments, the inhabitants of the Gergesin country asked Jesus Christ to move away from their aisles. And the Lord often calls us to repentance through some signs in our lives. Thus, during the period of the SVO, we experience discomfort on the territory of the country due to the consequences of military operations. For us, this should be a reason to repent, to correct our lives, so that the Lord, seeing our correction, will deliver us from the enemy. But for now we...