Great Vespers will be followed this day by a New Year's Eve Molieben (Thanksgiving Service).
The Meeting of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ is described in the third Gospel (Luke 2:22-40). Forty days after His birth the Divine Child was brought to the Temple at Jerusalem to be presented to the Lord. According to the Law of Moses (Lev. 12:2-8), a woman who gave birth to a male Read more...