Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral (OCA) in Los Angeles
Recently our parishioners received through email an abbreviated lay service for protection from the Coronavirus, which is modeled on the Moleben (Prayer Service) in Time of Devastating Epidemic and Deathbearing Pestilence, a service of our ancient church tradition. In an effort to share with everyone the services being offered throughout our diocese at this time, I am including a link below to this Moleben, served only by the rector and chanter in an auxiliary chapel of Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral in Los Angeles. Our diocesan assembly was held in the main cathedral temple there several years ago, and I happen to have once been the rector there myself. The prayers are rooted in ancient Christianity, and they are both realistic and severe. But so is our faith in the face of the current pestilence.