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03 March 2010
Section Feasts and Weekdays was refreshed. There a story "The monastery in the lens of National Geographic" appeared
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14 January 2010
Section Feasts and Weekdays was refreshed. There a story "An American with an un-American destiny" appeared
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30 December 2009
There are new Christmas greeting cards appeared
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9 November 2009
Section was refreshed.
There a "A family journal. The notes of a nanny from an Orthodox
orphanage" appeared
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Express our gratitude “Naumen” company for the development and maintenance of our site
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Feastdays and ordinary days
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03.03.2010 |
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The monastery in the lens of National Geographic
«The difficulties of photographing in a monastery are obvious. A prayer is a personal dialogue with God. It does not lend itself to the presence of a person with a camera. Yet, I saw a lot and was moved by many things. Sincerity of faith was evident in the solemn morning prayers; the hard work was demonstrated in the art classes; the talent and dedication showed in the icon painting... I was stunned how easily the sisters were able to bridge the gap between traditional spirituality and modern life with its new technology, when two sisters ordinarily took wrenches and other tools and started serious repairs of a loom....»
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14.01.2010 |
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An American with an un-American destiny
When a person departs for ever, one suddenly begins to see him more vividly and more clearly; secondary traits fade, primary traits remain. Archimandrite Joasaph McLellan died on December 18th at the age of 47 in Boston. Seven years ago, a friendship began between him and our convent when he started to translate materials for the English version of our website. An unusual combination: an American, a graduate of the Holy Trinity Theological Seminary in Jordanville, a choir director, a Ph.D. in Slavic linguistics, an educator in universities in Missouri and Princeton... and during the last year of his life – a novice, a hierodeacon, an archimandrite, the Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. An odd fate? No, it is simply that he searched always and in everything not for his own will, but for God's Will. He truly possessed the monastic virtue of obedience.
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9.11.2009 |
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A family journal. The notes of a nanny from an Orthodox orphanage
An Orthodox orphanage on a monastery's grounds... It would seem that the children here are special, not like their worldly peers. They are, indeed, special, but at the same time they are like the rest of the children: happy, playful, stubborn, loving... But – you have to meet them yourselves: in front of you are some selected notes of a nanny from the Orthodox orphanage in honor of holy martyr Great Princess Elizaveta Feodorovna on our monastery's grounds.
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25.09.2009 |
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New pages in the chronicle of miracles
"Holy righteous Simeon, pray to God for us!" – again and again one hears these words full of faith and hope under the domes of churches in Verkhoturye and Merkushino at the shrine of holy righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye, by his tomb with the healing spring. And nobody leaves without being heard... On the 25th of September the transferring of relics of holy righteous Simeon from Merkushino to Verkhoturye is celebrated. Congratulations on this radiant feast, and our wish is that through the prayers of the righteous one the Lord would fulfill all your good petitions! Today we are publishing new testimonies of miracles that took place through his intercession.
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All of the icons on the site are painted by the sisters of the monastery
Materials of this site are blessed to be published only with the reference to sestry.ru
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