№: 03.18.12
March 4/17, 2012
Right-Believing Prince Daniel of Moscow

A Directive
To all Eastern American Diocesan Clergy in the Tristate Area

Dear in the Lord Reverend Fathers,

As has become our annual custom, on Bright Saturday, April 21^st, a joint Divine Liturgy will be held at St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York City between clerics of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Church Abroad. God willing, I will officiate the Liturgy, concelebrated by my brother bishops: Archbishop Justinian of Naro-Fominsk, and Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishops George of Mayfield and Jerome of Manhattan.

I hereby request that all clergy in receipt hereof to be in attendance to share in the joy of our brotherly, Paschal concelebration at Christ’s Holy Altar. If for any reason you cannot attend, please inform the diocesan administration.

Please bring your white vestments and proper head covering, and be vested in the cathedral by
9:30 AM. Following Liturgy, there will be a procession through the streets of New York.

With love in Christ,

+HILARION
Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York
First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad

Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese