Overview
- Speaking at the XII All-Church Congress on Social Service in Moscow on November 9, Patriarch Kirill recommended holding molebens for family wellbeing on June 1 or the first Sunday after.
- He proposed drafting liturgical texts so these services can be used uniformly across the Russian Orthodox Church.
- He urged parishes to establish support groups for relatives of people struggling with addictions.
- He called for referral of the proposal to the Inter-Council commission so the Synodal liturgical commission can set out actions and potentially write the texts.
- The forum is focusing on aid for returning servicemembers and families, volunteer coordination, and support for the homeless, people with addictions and disabilities, with the Nadezhda Monetova homeless-aid prize to be presented during the event.