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PRAYER REQUEST

Forgiveness Vespers

The Forgiveness Vespers is our first Lenten act which asks and offers forgiveness to everyone present. One by one, parishioners bow, first before the priests, and then each other, asking, “Forgive me, a sinner.” Photos by Maxim Chernogolov.

a nun and a priest

a girl venerating the cross

altarmen asking for forgivess

a parishioner praying

Archpriest Andrey Lemeshonok and Archpriest Sergius Khrapitsky

children at the Forgiveness Vespers

father Andrey and father Oleg asking for forgiveness

Forgiveness Vespers

kneeling praying

lay sisters

lay sisters and altarmen asking for forgiveness

lay sisters venerating the cross

priests making a full bow

monastic choir

nuns asking for forgiveness

Priest Artemy Tonoyan

Forgiveness Vespers at St. Elisabeth convent

priests at the altar

Priest Valery Zakharov

Priests of St. Elisabeth convent asking for forgiveness