On Sunday, September 22, the feast of the Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim & Anna, Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan celebrated Divine Liturgy in the Kursk Root Hermitage in the presence of the wonderworking Kursk Root Icon. Concelebrating with His Grace were monastery clergy and clerics accompanying the Eastern American Diocesan vicar on his pilgrimage.

Singing the divine service were two choirs: the monastic male choir and a youth and children’s choir, "Lampada," from the Sunday School of All Saints Church in Kursk.

Bishop Nicholas addressed the faithful with a sermon, in which he, in part, called on them to come to the wonderworking icon, receiving from it God’s grace, which they ought to preserve in their hears.