On Saturday, November 11th, a panihida was served at St. Alexander Nevsky Diocesan Cathedral in Howell, NJ to commemorate all those martyred and killed by the godless authorities. It comes in conjunction with the centenary of the October Revolution on November 7th, 1917, the day on which the radical Bolsheviks seized power from the democratic socialist government of Alexander Kerensky in St. Petersburg and began their systematic destruction of traditional Russian society and the eradication of the Orthodox Church and Her faithful.

Cathedral cleric Archpriest Seraphim Chemodakov led the panihida, which was attended by members of the clergy, parishioners, and representatives of the Russian Imperial Union-Order. In his eulogy, Fr. Seraphim said, in part:

"We remember all those people, from clergy on down to children, who put their lives on the line because of their faith. And because they believed in God and the Church and did not wish to denounce God, they suffered and ultimately gave up their lives for the motherland, the Faith, and also for the glory of the Kingdom of Heaven… Imagine, if you were to take yourself back a hundred years ago: all of the hatred that was evident toward the Church and toward religion at the time. How people despised anything that had to do with God and religion! Imagine all those people who stood up for their faith, and the courage that existed back then… How many times do we sit down for a meal at a restaurant and cross ourselves without feeling a little bit embarrassed? Just imagine those people, who bravely stood up to these tormentors and executioners, knowing that they were doing the right thing! Thank you for having highlighted the memory of those people through a panihida today."

Such an event was at one time an annual occurrence in the Russian Diaspora, known traditionally as the Day of Irreconcilability. It was on this day that the Russian people abroad would commemorate those who fell victim to the persecution of the Soviet government and also those who fought to free Russia from Communism. Demonstrations would often be organized to show solidarity with their countrymen in the motherland, which the Diaspora believed was under the occupation of a godless totalitarian dictatorship. It was regarded by the White Émigrés as a day of strict fasting and penance up until the glorification of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in 1981.

After the panihida, a brief funerary repast prepared by the Russian School was offered, which was followed directly by the Sunday All-Night Vigil.