During the 16th Week after Pentecost, preceding the Feast of the Veneration of the Most Holy and Life-Giving Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, an archiepiscopal Divine Liturgy was celebrated in Lobva village.translated

On September 20, a solemn divine service took place in the church dedicated to Saint Andrew the First-called in Lobva village. During the 16th Week after Pentecost – a special Sunday preceding the Feast of the Veneration of the Most Holy and Life-Giving Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ – the Divine Liturgy was presided over by Bishop Feognost of Serov and Krasnouryinsk.

Archbishop Feognost, assisted by the parish priest Father Pavel Kuzin and the dean of Novolyalinsky deanery Father Nikolai Melikhin, led the service.

During the liturgy, the faithful prayed, many partook of the Holy Mysteries.

After the Liturgy, the archpastor addressed the gathered with a word of preaching. In his sermon, the hierarch elucidated the spiritual meaning of the upcoming Feast of the Veneration of the Cross, reminded the believers of the symbolic significance of the cross as a sign of victory over death, and exhorted them to remain faithful to Christ in their daily labors and trials.