Patriarch Kirill Celebrates Divine Liturgy At Novo-tikhvin Monastery

[Apotheoun]

The Moscow Patriarchate has posted to its Youtube Channel the national broadcast of the liturgy celebrated by Patriarch Kirill at the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery. The video begins with the Rite of Great Blessing of the restored Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky, and concludes with the Divine Liturgy celebrated in the newly consecrated and restored Temple.

 

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSHYvo9QjTI

 

 

[Apotheoun]

Continued from the post above:

 

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWBHUd0ogjM

 

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_vgLRoYunE

[Apotheoun]

The Novo-Tikhvin Women's Monastery was founded in the late eighteenth century, and at its height in the early twentieth century the monastery was populated by over 1,000 sisters. In the 1920s the monastery was closed by the atheist Bolsheviks, and many of the buildings of the monastery were destroyed. With the collapse of the godless Soviet Union in the early 1990s the monastery was re-founded and the monastery complex has been rebuilt. There are presently 11 nuns, 42 cenobites, and over 70 novices living, praying, and working at the monastery.