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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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25 September 2009
Section was refreshed.
There a «New pages in the chronicle of miracles» 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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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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19.07.2009 |
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How we play humility
“False humility is humility for show. You can be saying to yourself to your heart's content, as prophet David, that you are “a worm and not a man,” but in your thoughts you would be holding: “Here, I am a worm and not a man, and therefore I am better than all these people. Because they are not thinking about themselves that they are worms, whereas I do. Therefore, they are worms, and I am human.” The talk of the spiritual father of the monastery, Father Superior Avraam (Reydman).
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26.04.2009 |
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Seven days of joy. Paschal days in pictures
The festive "Let God Arise" merges with the singing of birds; church vestments shine in the light of lampadas; the unexpectedly newly fallen spring snow crunches under the feet of the church banner-bearers, and the exultant words: "Christ is Risen! – Truly is Risen!" fly up to the very sky.
Seven day of the Paschal feast for all Christians is a joyous, rich, unique time. Daily cross processions, worship services according to the Paschal office, the arrival of the ruling hierarch into the monastery - such was for us the most Bright week of the year.
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15.04.2009 |
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"Be saved in the angelic order!" A word to the newly-tonsured sisters
“At the tonsuring, the soul is freed from all sins and receives special grace. When this grace is with us, it is easy and natural for us to spend entire hours and days in prayer. We think that all our life we will be near the Lord. Yet, the days strictly dedicated to prayer and tears are over, and we come back to the so-called normal life of work. And this is when we would need tenfold more spiritual vigilance, zeal, labor, and care in order not to yield, not to succumb to vanity and passions, not to let them steal our spiritual wealth that we had collected in our soul on the day of taking the veil and the days following it”.
Great Lent is the time when in monasteries, among them, in our abode, a spiritual feast is prepared – tonsuring into the angelic image. Usually, upon tonsuring, sisters spend several days in the church without going out from there, dedicating all of the time to prayer. When, according to the tradition, all sisters were gathered in one of the Lenten days, in order to lead out from the church the newly-tonsured nuns with singing, mother Domnika said a word about the unfathomable greatness of taking the veil, about that abundant grace that is given to all who enter the monastic order.
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21.01.2009 |
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In a large family circle. A warm winter holiday at the orphanage
"Over the sleeping Bethlehem a star has suddenly stopped, and the entire neighborhood gleaned with the shining God's light..." On the Christmastide week, the girls from the monastery's orphanage were congratulating their guests with the Nativity of Christ. They performed a fairy-tale opera "Morozko" ("Frost") that the nuns, professional singers, and actors helped them prepare.
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