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On 22 January/4 February 1985, the Synod of Bishops HEARD:
the oral report of Archbishop Anthony of San Francisco, that
in the United States of America there is the pious custom of
marking the civil holiday known as Thanksgiving Day with prayers
of thanksgiving. In several of our parishes a Supplicatory Service
of Thanksgiving is served on this day. This custom ought to
be legitimized.
RESOLVED: In the Russian Orthodox churches within the United
States of America to establish the serving of supplicatory services
of thanksgiving, which are to replace petitions of thanksgiving
during the Reiterate Litany, if the Liturgy is celebrated on
that day.
[Resolved also:] To send out an encyclical directive concerning
this to all the diocesan bishops and the rectors of those parishes
within the United States of America which are subject directly
to the President of the Synod.
20 February/5 March 1985
#21/35/61 |
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