The solemn Divine Liturgy at the Holy Dormition’s Cathedral of the monastery on that day was headed by four archpastors: Metropolitan Hilarion of Donetsk and Mariupol, the monastery’s abbot; Metropolitan Mitrofan (Metrophanes) of Horlivka and Sloviansk; Archbishop Varnava (Barnabas) of Makeevka; and Bishop Ephraim of Berdyansk.
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An amateur film on the modern Orthodox ascetic of piety from Holy Mount Athos, Schema-Monk Anthony of Zograf, who reposed on Mt. Athos in 2000 at a very young age, has appeared on YouTube.
"We are living in an astonishing age. There is a reappraisal of everything: of values, virtues and good. All is changing. Today the things that our ancestors regarded as vices and sins are being promoted by people. This is impurity and spite. And it is in our time of change when one should keep lucid mind."
Near the commemorative sign installed in the area called Smyadyn in the western part of Smolensk where, according to tradition, the Holy Prince Gleb, son of Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, was killed in 1015, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church performed a prayer service to the Holy Passion-Bearers Boris and Gleb.
On August 28, 2015, the rector of the church of the Assumption at the Russian embassy in China, the Rev. Sergiy Voronin celebrated the Divine Liturgy at one of the Catholic churches in Beijing for the Orthodox citizens in China.