St Macarius' Church (Kyiv)

St Macarius' Church stands in Kyiv, on Stara Poliana Street, in the Tatarka neighbourhood². It is consecrated in honour of the Hieromartyr Macarius, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus; the parish itself calls its church the only one in Kyiv with that dedication and notes that the first Liturgy was celebrated in it on 13 December 1897³.

The community has given the history of the church a whole section of its website, and inside it separate pages on the Hieromartyr Macarius himself and on "The History of the Parish in Persons"¹. Beside them stand the Sunday school, theological courses, the schedule of services and the sermons, which the parish publishes in writing, week after week¹.

Works of mercy have a heading of their own here. Again and again the parish gathers clothing and footwear and hands them to the patients of Kyiv Municipal Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 named after I. P. Pavlov, and it reports every such delivery on its website¹.

The church broadcasts its services on a channel of its own, opened on 13 January 2016³. It labels them all alike — simply "Service", with no name of the office — so one can tell them apart only by the day and the hour: the broadcasts gather into two daily clusters, a morning one and a late afternoon one, and run thickest on Saturday and Sunday³. The longest recordings fall in Holy Week: the Paschal night service here ran for almost twelve hours³.