Celebrations of feast day of St. Nektarios throughout Orthodoxy, but without worshippers due to pandemic

The feast day of St. Nektarios the Wonderworker was commemorated on Monday on the island of Aegina at the eponymous cathedral dedicated to the modern-era saint. An orthros service and con-celebratory Divine Liturgy was celebrated without the presence of worshippers, officiated by the Metropolitan of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, His Eminence Ephraim.

The Church of Greece hierarch emotionally recited a special prayer for deliverance from the ongoing pandemic, which plagues the country an all of humanity, supplicating St. Nektarios to intercede for an end to the malady and for the recuperation of those afflicted, as well as for strength and perseverance on the part of health care professionals.
Elsewhere, the saint’s memory was also celebrated in brilliance and reverence at the Patriarchate of Alexandria, with a service held at the chapel of the Patriarchal Monastery of St. Savvas the Sanctified in Alexandria, where St. Nektarios was ordained as a protopresbyter.
A Divine Liturgy was officiated by the Bishop of Tamiatheos, His Grace Germanos, and co-officiated by the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II.

Before the service’s conclusion, the Patriarch of Alexandria issued a celebratory homily in honor of St. Nektarios, referring to the saint’s life, patience and the great works he left as a sacred legacy.

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