3/14/2014
Alexei Solonitsyn
There are “breakthroughs”, when the performer of the leading role refuses to conform himself to the will of circumstances, producers, or even collective opinion, and does not waiver from the path leading to understanding a man’s mystery.
“Do you know what kind of abbess she was? I was told she galloped on horseback! She saved all the convent’s holy objects that could be hidden here. She was so brave! And what about us? I wish we could inherit if only a tiny bit of their faith and fortitude!”
Aleksei Solonitsyn
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Services at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist were closely tied to the Eastern Rite, and pilgrims from Russia suggested to Brother Basile more than once that he should become Orthodox. And he thought much about that.
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When I began to ponder it, I looked at the names of the Nobel Laureates among the signatures, and the writers’ position became a littler clearer to me, because I recalled a few of their works.
