SKETE: The Movie

Source: Fund4Assistance (YouTube)

August 13, 2019

It took 9 months to make this movie about your First Hierarch – Metropolitan Hilarion.

Two weeks before the deadline (July 7, 2019) Vladyka said five words that were so powerful – they made the videographer delete the whole movie and start over. The Metropolitan said “this is not about me.”

Can you imagine?! Your Metropolitan has spent almost five years building a monastery with his personal assistant Fr. Tikhon and NO ONE knew about it. Then at the last minute he says “this is not about me.”

Vladyka Hilarion is the spiritual leader of ROCOR and if you follow his example you would be contributing to a lasting legacy of building a monastery.

Would you like to help your First Hierarch build a monastery? Go to www.fundforassistance.org and donate now to help Vladyka build this monastery.

Filmed and edited by Peter S. Lukianov for the Fund for Assistance to ROCOR.

O Most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Source: Fund4Assistance (YouTube)

8/14/2019

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In those years, the now-departed elders Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) and Archimandrite Adrian (Kirsanov) were still laboring in the monastery. It didn’t work out for me, a child, to meet with them of course; I didn’t even know they existed, but the whole monastery atmosphere was filled with prayer and grace. Again, I said nothing to my parents, but the thought of going to a monastery tightly fused itself to my soul. To me it seems like my coming to God and entrance into Church life was a real miracle and the mercy of God towards me. (VIDEO): I Love the Beauty of Thy House... (VIDEO): I Love the Beauty of Thy House... (VIDEO): I Love the Beauty of Thy House... (VIDEO): I Love the Beauty of Thy House...
The goal of Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church is now to build an Orthodox temple on the property, develop the land (with a community garden, an orchard, a cemetery [pending approval] and various landscaping projects), followed eventually by the construction of a trapeza (“fellowship hall”). "Visiting Kazakhstan, I feel that this is an antimension under the open skies."
Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Marina Sazonova "Visiting Kazakhstan, I feel that this is an antimension under the open skies."
Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Marina Sazonova
Visiting the expanses of Kazakhstan, I feel in my heart that this is truly an antimension under the open skies. Every populated place here is connected with the name of a New Martyr or Confessor, every kilometer of Kazakhstan soil was bathed with the blood of those suffering for Christ.

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