An archive recording from 2005 of a service for the Orthodox Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross from the Trinity Cathedral in the Danilov Monastery - the oldest monastery in Moscow, reconsecrated in 1988 after decades as a boys' prison and now the official residence of the Russian Patriarch. The Cathedral Choir directed by Georgi Safonov sings music by Dodonov, Chesnokov, Goncharov and Trubachev. The Gospel for the day is John 12 vv28-36.

Archpriest Andrei Teterin gives the homily and the commentator is Canon Michael Bourdeaux.

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