Bishop's service on the day of remembrance of the martyr Lyudmila, Princess of Bohemiatranslated

With the blessing of Metropolitan John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, on September 29, the day of remembrance of the holy martyr Lyudmila, Princess of Bohemia, Metropolitan John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Epiphany Church. Concelebrating with His Eminence were the dean of the First Belgorod District, Archpriest Oleg Kobets, the rector of the Pochaev Church of the city of Belgorod, Archpriest Alexey Luporev, the dean of the Second Belgorod District, Archpriest Sergius Koliy, the rector of the Belgorod Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, Archpriest John Borchuk, and the cleric of the Church of the Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and Their Mother Sophia, priest Alexander Fokin. At the special litany, special petitions were offered and a prayer for Holy Rus' was read. At the end of the service, Metropolitan John addressed the worshipers with a sermon dedicated to the memory of the holy Princess Lyudmila. The Bishop emphasized that her feat was primarily internal - long before the Baptism of Rus', she showed light to the Slavic peoples not from the rostrum, but by personal example.

“She resisted the temptations of pagan temptations and raised the future prince - the famous Vyacheslav. There are high-profile cases known to everyone, and there are those that Christ accepts immediately...