On Saturday 15 February and Sunday 16 February we had services for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son and for the Afterfeast of the Meeting of the Lord.  Following the Prayer before the Amvon, the parish rector blessed two new icons, both gifts to our church.  The first was an icon of Saint Pimen of Ugreshk (+1880), the long-serving abbot of the Nikolo-Ugreshky Monastery in Moscow glorified in 2004.  This icon was a gift from Rimma Nagikh, whose grandson Daniel was baptised in our church in March 2013.  The second was an icon of Saint Mary of Egypt and the Righteous Zosima.  This icon was brought to us from the Holy Land by our parishioner Sergei Schreider.  Through the prayers of Saints Pimen, Mary and Zosima, may God bless his servants Rimma and Sergei and their families!