The 19th Regional Day of Sobriety will be celebrated in the Ekaterinburg Diocese with a festive Divine Liturgy, a vow of sobriety and spiritual and educational events.translated

On the day of the Beheading of the Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, September 11, 2026, in all churches of the Yekaterinburg diocese during the Divine Liturgy, a special litany will be read about those suffering from drunkenness and an appeal from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on the occasion of the Day of Sobriety will be read.

Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Evgeniy will celebrate the solemn Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Yekaterinburg. Starts at 9:00.

In the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Ural State Mining University, the festive service will be led by the chairman of the John the Baptist Brotherhood “Temperance” of the Russian Orthodox Church, head of the department for the promotion of sobriety and the prevention of addictions of the Yekaterinburg diocese, Archpriest Igor Bachinin. According to tradition, during the Liturgy on September 11 and 13, a prayer service will be performed to express the vow of sobriety. On this day, the sufferers and their relatives, who are confident that by changing their lives, they will help their relatives, are preparing to make a promise to God not to drink, not to smoke, and not to utter bad words. On September 13, there will be a bike ride through the streets of Yekaterinburg with the distribution of leaflets for…