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Orthodox take action against coronavirus disease

CONVENT IN EKATERINBURG PREPARES INCENSE WITH ENHANCED ANTIVIRAL EFFECT

Interfax-Religiia, 19 March 2020

 

Incense with an enhanced antiviral effect will be produced in the Novo-Tikhvin Alexander Nevsky convent of Ekaterinburg.

 

"In our workshop incense will be manufactured with essential oils of lavender, geranium, basil, and lemon, because the essential oils of these plants have a more powerful antiviral effect. Censing will be performed in worship services only with this incense," a report of the cloister says.

 

At the same time, it is noted that parishioners get sick less often since the incense that is burned in the church buildings during liturgies cleanses the air of viruses and strengthens the immunity function of the organism.

 

The new incense will be able to be used at home also.

 

As reported, in Sverdlovsk oblast a regime of heightened readiness has been introduced because of the threat of coronavirus. On Tuesday, the first case of this infection in the region was registered. It was detected in a girl who had flown in from Italy.

 

The patient returned to the Urals from a cruise on the Mediterranean Sea on 12 March and she was hospitalized on 16 March. At the present time, the girl is in a separate isolation unit of the hospital; her condition is satisfactory. (tr. by PDS, posted 19 March 2020)

 

PROCESSIONS AGAINST CORONAVIRUS TO BE PERFORMED DAILY IN CENTER OF MOSCOW

Interfax-Religiia, 19 March 2020

 

Inhabitants of the Vysoko-Petrov monastery of Moscow have decided to circumambulate their cloister every evening with a procession of the holy cross with sung prayers for deliverance from the coronavirus.

 

"Considering the trial that has visited the city and Muscovites, the brothers of our Vysoko-Petrov monastery will walk around its walls every evening with a sung prayer service. While sprinkling the territory of the cloister and surrounding its walls with holy water, we will appeal to the Lord, the Most Holy Mother of God, and the holy prelate of Kiev Peter the Miracleworker of Moscow for aid and intercession for all in need," the abbot of the cloister, Hegumen Peter, wrote on Instagram.

 

The first procession of the holy cross was performed on Wednesday after the evening liturgy. The monks walked along the sidewalks surrounding the monastery with the Blachernae icon of the Mother of God, maintaining a safe distance from one another.

 

"Today we all need help from above and therefore the brothers of our monastery have unanimously decided to intensify prayer. The Lord will not abandon anyone," the abbot of the cloister is sure. (tr. by PDS, posted 19 March 2020)


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