This morning we headed back out to Andriivka for 8:00am Divine Liturgy with procession and mirovanja. Then, immediately after Liturgy we headed to Lyakhvitsi because their temple is dedicated to the Holy Trinity and thus today was their patronal feast. I guess I should say that in the past tense, because their temple was taken during the suppression of our church in Transcarpathia and was never returned. The spot we celebrated liturgy at was the foundation for the new temple that they are in the process of slowly building. All the while, just off in the background, is their former church which now belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church. There were probably over a hundred people there today, and just as in Andriivka it was Divine Liturgy with procession and mirovanja.
Today we also were invited to stay for dinner to celebrate the feast, but in comparison to yesterday it was only be one dinner, not three. I again had the opportunity to use Italian to communicate with a couple of the priests who had studied in Rome. It is rather funny to think that a language, such as Italian, could be so useful outside of the Mediterranean. Just think, a little over fifty years ago we would have been speaking Latin!
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