1/24/2022
Mother Seraphima (Tsvetovaya)
Sometimes pilgrims ask the sisters: “Have you experienced any miracles during your time in the monastery?” I think there’s a miracle every day in the monastery, in the depths of the human heart. Spiritual joy, peace, love—isn’t that a miracle?! The revelation of thoughts to a spiritual father is a miracle. A priest is a special conductor of God’s grace as a priceless gift. Even the buildings and the air are saturated with grace.
She was a pure, bright person, very young, but zealous, having already tasted the sweetness of prayer, having experienced the truths spoken by the Prophet and King David: How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Ps. 118:103), and The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth (Ps. 144:18).
