Blessing of the icon of St. Kentigern
Saturday, November 8, 2008 ;)
A regular service took place in St. Kentigern parish on 7-8th November. The date of the service was changed from the first Saturday of the month (2nd November) due to serving archpriest Michael Dudko’s trip to the World fellow-countryman congress in Moscow, where Farther Michael represented Russian community in Great Britain as per the decision of the Coordinating Board of Russian-speaking countrymen. Sacrament of baptism took place on Friday evening. The community was supplemented with Andrey, a young boy brought by his parents from Edinburgh.
An icon of St. Kentigern the Heavenly Patron of Glasgow and the parish was solemnly blessed after the service on Saturday. The icon is a modern painting, brought from Moscow, which belongs to Svetlana Zvereva, the secretary of the parish, who shall be bringing the icon to regular services for prayerful worship. It is envisaged that similar, but larger icon will be ordered for the parish in future.