Divine Liturgy was celebrated in correctional colony No. 5translated

On August 21, 2026, on the feast day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, on the day of remembrance of St. Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (815-820), the Divine Liturgy was celebrated in correctional colony No. 5. The service was performed by the rector of the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov in the city of Penza, Archpriest Andrei Polyakov, and the cleric of the Church of St. Seraphim, Protodeacon Nikolai Bogovik.  During the Divine Liturgy, the condemned received communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. Sermon before communion [...]