On October 9, 2020, the Reverend Sergei Nezhdanov returned to his heavenly home at age 75. Pastor Sergei served the Church of the Transfiguration of our Lord in Zelenogorsk and the Church of St. John the Baptist in Gubanitsy, Leningrad Oblast, and in the recent years he was the second pastor of the Church of St. Michael in St. Petersburg. Born in a … [Read more...]
St. Michael’s Church Celebrates Michaelmas, Reopens Library
September 29 – the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels On Sunday, September 27, 2020, St. Michael’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg celebrated the Feast of St. Michael which is the name day of the church. Founded by decree of Empress Anna of Russia in 1732 as the home church of the First Cadet Corps, it did not have a name for the first hundred … [Read more...]
New Confirmations at St. Michael’s Church
On July 12, 2020, the 5th Sunday after Trinity, St. Michael’s Congregation in St. Petersburg celebrated the confirmations of Adele and Yekaterina! Prior to that, they went through a confirmation class taught by Rev. Dmitri Petrov, the congregation’s pastor. After the worship service, the young ladies received a gift of the book Dying to Live: The … [Read more...]
New Catechist and New Member in St. Michael’s Church, St. Petersburg
St. Michael’s Congregation, St. Petersburg, June 14, 2020: Today on the first Sunday after Trinity, our congregation saw two joyful events: the installation of Aleksei Savonchik as a catechist and the confirmation of Aleksandr Shuklin. Both young church members Aleksei and Aleksandr joined St. Michael’s Congregation almost at the same time last … [Read more...]
St. Michael’s Congregation in St. Petersburg Re-Unites in Worship on Trinity Sunday
Message from St. Michael’s Congregation in St. Petersburg “Today, on Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2020, St. Michael’s Congregation met together again! We hadn’t seen each other for two and a half months, so much the greater was the joy of the congregants meeting with their pastor, for he had been speaking his sermons in an empty and cold church all that … [Read more...]