12/14/2020
Archpriest George Larin
Vladyka John experienced the joy of Pascha throughout his life—regardless of whether it was Lent or any other time.
Now I would like to share some of these wonderful letters of St. John of those years in order to honor the memory of this saint of God, through whose prayers and deeds we all came safely to the end of our refugee path.
He always fulfilled one of the most difficult commandments of God: to love our enemies and do good to those who hate us.
“Vladyka really loved the Kursk Icon. He explained many things to me that I didn’t understand as a child, but he never spoke about the icon with me,” Batiushka says. “I saw many icons in his room, a whole small iconostasis, but somehow I wasn’t even interested in which icons they were.”
