7/24/2015
Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl
In this interview, His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod, the abbot of the Holy Dormition Kiev Caves Lavra, speaks about how we should spend the Dormition Fast, how we should approach Holy Communion, and about the significance of the feasts that fall during the Fast.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 51
I leaned over him and asked: “What happened?” He looked at me with eyes full of inexpressible fear. “I was in hell! If only you’d have seen what it’s like there!"
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 90
If people knew how grace-filled this is, probably the whole world would want to receive the monastic tonsure if only just before death, just for the sake of this rite. You could call the funeral of one of our monastery’s brothers, Schema-Archimandrite Stephen, a confirmation of this. He died at age twenty-five.
Alexandra Nikiforova, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 23
Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed) of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl is known as a staunch defender of the Kiev Caves Lavra in modern history. He has served as its abbot for twenty-five years. Not only have the Lavra’s buildings risen from ruins in their former glory thanks to his labors and wisdom, spiritual life has been revived here as well.
Sergei Geruk, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 20
On the second day of the Nativity, January 8, on the eve of the evening services, about thirty men in balaclavas and masks from the radical right organization C14 (“Sich”) blocked the entrance to the territory of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Caves Lavra. Shouting political slogans and lighting fireworks, they demanded a meeting with the abbot of the Lavra, Metropolitan Paul (Lebed).
Sergei Enik, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
We must pray for our earthly Fatherland, which the Lord has given us. Once we received independence without bloodshed, and now we are losing our independence with great bloodshed… We must look in our hearts and think about it: what are we leaving to the next generation?
