The Third Sunday of Great Lent, the Sunday of the Cross, is also recognized as the Sunday of Priestly Vocations in the Greek Church.
The new 3-story home, in the village of Pionersky, northwest outside of Moscow, can house up to 15 retired clerics.
The tour of the icon, led by His Grace Bishop Alexei of Sitka and Alaska, began on March 25 and continues through April 4.
Dejan Baljosevic
It was hard to see Predrag treading heavily in the evening to his house with blinded windows, carrying another bag of groceries. It was a dreadful loneliness.
Despite the fact that the Fiducia Supplicans declaration is an internal document of the Catholic Church, the Russian Orthodox Church considers it its duty to respond to such radical innovations that reject the divinely revealed norms of Christian morality.