Dear fathers, brothers & sisters!
In connection with the emergency measures adopted by the New York authorities to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus infection, the cathedral leadership urges everyone to follow all recommendations that will help stop the further spread of this dangerous disease.
We accept with understanding and humility the emergency measures being taken by the authorities, including the closing of all places of mass gathering. Accordingly, services at St. Nicholas Cathedral will be celebrated by those clergy who reside permanently at the church, in compliance with all the special sanitary instructions prescribed by the church hierarchy for the quarantine period.
Starting Saturday, March 21, the cathedral will be closed for public services but open for private visits. The resumption of services will be announced separately. For more information, contact cathedral staff member Olga at 1-347-653-1372.
We ask everyone to join, in their prayer at home, the church-wide prayer for the speediest end to the spread of the epidemic.
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Prayer in Time of Pestilence and Deadly Plague
O Lord our God, look down from the height of Thy holiness upon the prayer of us, sinful and unworthy servants, who by our iniquities have angered Thy goodness and provoked Thy mercy. Enter not into judgment with Thy servants, but turn away Thy terrible wrath justly moved against us; quench the deadly chastisement; stay Thy dread sword that invisibly and untimely smites us; spare Thy poor and wretched servants, and do not shut up in death our souls, which fall down before Thee, our merciful, compassionate and forgiving God, in repentance, with contrite heart and with tears. For Thine it is to have mercy and to save us, O our God, and unto Thee we send up glory, to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.