Holy Icons Restoration Commemorated In Ridley — Lenten Vespers of the first Sunday of the Great Fast (that’s Lent) will be celebrated 4 p.m., Feb. 14 with a procession at Holy Myrrh-Bearers Eastern Catholic Church commemorating the restoration of the Holy Icons.
The church is at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore Pa, 19081 which is in Ridley Township.
The procession commemorates the end of second Iconoclast Controversy in the Byzantine empire in 843.
Holy Myrrh-Bearers is part of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Celebrants of the commemoration will be priests of the Philadelphia Deanery with Rev. Paul Makar, pastor of Saint Michaels Church, Cherry Hill, N.J.
Confessions will be heard starting at 3:30 p.m. by Monsignor Peter Waslo and Rev. Edward Higgins.
Eastern Rite churches are in full communion with the Holy See and Latin Catholics are welcome to participate in the sacraments.
Holy Icons Restoration Commemorated In Ridley