8/27/2017
Bishop Benjamin of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk
When the Lord calls you, you have to answer yourself whether it is your path or not. You cannot go to a monastery because it is beautiful or right, but because you love God and want to serve Him.
Hieromonk Isaac (Gusev)
The very existence of monasteries gives every man the opportunity to orient himself in this world, to see the light and find the right direction.
EHieromonk Isaac (Gusev)
Eldership, as I see it, implies two aspects.
Abbess Seraphima (Shevchik)
The abbesses of the monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in the western provinces of Ukraine have told me many times that they are waiting for an assault and bloodshed any day.
Ekaterina Orlova, Abbess Filareta (Kalacheva)
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 28
How does a monastery that was never closed in the Soviet years and that has raised up abbesses for many convents in various dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church live today? Does it preserve the inheritance left by former abbess Mother Barbara? We spoke with the current Pukhtitsa mother superior, Abbess Philareta (Kalacheva) on these questions and on monastic life in general.
