The chant Cherubic Hymn is performed by St Elisabeth Convent's Monastic Choir. The Cherubic Hymn is the song of the angels, sung during every Divine Liturgy of the year with the exception of the liturgies of the Presanctified Gifts and those of Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday.
Father Andrey Lemeshonok gives sermon on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee Today we’re really starting our journey to Easter. It’s a journey on which the life of our soul in eternity depends. We should walk this journey ourselves. Nobody will carry us.
On this first Sunday of the Triodion’s pre-Lenten period, our lay sisters will answer questions about the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican on the spot. Our lay brother Nicholas came up with some interesting questions to the sisters about their own experience.