Source: Pemptousia
September 6, 2017
Archimandrite Zacharias from the Holy Monastery of the Honourable Forerunner in Essex, England, founded by the saintly Elder Sophrony (Sakharov) explains how “descent” is a perfect way to meet God.
See also
Eldress Theosemni: a Quiet and Hidden Ascetic
Abbess Theoxeni
Eldress Theosemni: a Quiet and Hidden AsceticThe life of the beloved Eldress Theosemni is a Synaxarion account of perfection in self-emptying and martyric asceticism in silence and humility. Her personage and her venerable example cannot be appreciated through the description and listing of her virtues, for it is impossible to explain, through words, the balance and grace of a person who spoke through her silence.
“The Spirit of Russia is Christ”
Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov)
“The Spirit of Russia is Christ”A pre-death interview with Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov)
“The spirit of Russia is Christ. He tells us, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Inasmuch as spirituality cannot be outside of Christ, for Russia it is expressed in one word: Christ. He is everything.”
May God Give You Wisdom! The Letters of Fr. John Krestiankin. Letters to Laypeople. Part 12
Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)
May God Give You Wisdom! The Letters of Fr. John Krestiankin. Letters to Laypeople. Part 12Receiving the monastic tonsure should be preceded by our resolve for it, expressed not only in the mind and heart, but by our life itself. Therefore, do not rush to take the tonsure, but labor with firmness of will for self-crucifixion, and live monastically in the world, knowing only the institute, home, and church.
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