“The Feast of the Exaltation of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord is the beauty of the Church”translated

With the blessing of Metropolitan John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol In the midst of autumn, on September 27, the Russian Orthodox Church remembers the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord. This day also marks the patronal feast days of the Belgorod Holy Cross Church in Koshary and the Stary Oskol Holy Cross Church in the Yamskaya settlement. On the eve of the holiday, Metropolitan John celebrated an all-night vigil at Koshara. Concelebrating with His Eminence were: the dean of the First Belgorod District, Archpriest Oleg Kobets, the rector of the church, Archpriest John Borchuk, the dean of the Second Belgorod District, Archpriest Sergius Koliy, the cleric of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, priest Igor Zhinkin, and the cleric of the Church of the Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and Their Mother Sophia, priest Alexander Fokin. During the singing of the Doxology, Metropolitan John performed the removal and rite of Exaltation of the miraculous Koshar Cross. In the Jerusalem Charter, adopted during the XII–XV centuries.

in the Orthodox Church everywhere, from its earliest editions to printed Typikons, the rite of the Exaltation of the Cross retains the characteristic features known from studio monuments: it is performed at Matins after the Great Doxology and...