On Sunday, September 16, with the blessing of Hs Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia and at the invitation of the parish rector, Archbishop Antony of Budapest and Vienna, Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk served at the Divine Liturgy  in the Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist in Moscow. The hierarchs were co-served by parish clerics.

Following the dismissal, a short moleben was served before the relics of the heavenly patron of the temple, St. John the Baptist.