11/9/2017
Nina Pavlova
How grateful I am now to the Lord Who settled me in this holy land, but how difficult the road here was!
It usually went like this: Batiushka comes out of the church, and the many pilgrims who came to the monastery for his counsel rush over to him.
At the relics of St. Ambrose of Optina they were serving a moleben. The elderly lady fell down before the relics with the desire to repent, but then suddenly boiled over with anger. So—someone has stolen your boots and you’re supposed to repent?
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 62
“Why don’t you let her go?” I asked the husband. “Can’t you see that she is suffering and wants to depart to God? It will be better for her there.” “What does that mean, ‘better’?” Her husband didn’t understand.
Rating: 10|Votes: 23
These vignettes by Fr. Adrian’s spiritual daughter Nina Pavlova, also well known as the author of Red Pascha, a book about the three Optina monks murdered by satanists in 1993, wonderfully describe a day in the life of Fr. Adrian and his spiritual children in Pechory. It’s a picture of heaven and earth meeting at the elder’s blessing…
Rating: 10|Votes: 28
Nina Alexandrovna Pavlova, the author of the book on the Optina New Martyrs best known in Russia, Red Pascha, was the spiritual daughter of Archimandrite Adrian (Kirsanov) for many years. Until her very death she wrote down stories of the famous elder of the Pskov Caves Monastery, and this story became a living witness.
Rating: 8.6|Votes: 21
There is, finally, that mystery of words, which helps us understand why “orange” and other “color” revolutions have ended not with the promised improvements in life, but with something entirely the opposite.
