Ozarintsy, Vinnitsa Province, Ukraine, June 27, 2024
Photo: moh-pod.church.ua
An old village church in the Vinnitsa Province of Ukraine was the scene of the Divine Liturgy for the first time in 93 years this week.
The service was celebrated in the Holy Dormition Church in the village of Ozarintsy on June 25, the feast of St. Onuphrios the Great, the name’s day of the Ukrainian primate His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine. It was also the anniversary of the church’s consecration, reports the Diocese of Mogilev and Podolsk.
Photo: moh-pod.church.ua
“Due to certain circumstances,” the parish community was forced to leave its previous church, named for the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, thus the Liturgy was celebrated in the Holy Dormition Church, which was closed by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s.
The service was celebrated by clerics of the local diocese.
Following the Liturgy, there was an akathist with a moleben before the icon of St. Onuphrios, and the clergy sprinkled the people with holy water.
Yesterday, OrthoChristian reported on the recent celebration of the first Divine Liturgy in a Russian village church in over a century.
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