I was recently asked "why is the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville so special for you?" In our appeal to raise funds to help this venerable ROCOR institution, the emphasis was made on their financial plight. I, personally, experienced a thought that terrified me: "what if there were no Jordanville!?" I'm sure most readers could share a similar feeling, based on their own experience at the monastery. You see, Jordanville served as a spiritual anchor for my family.
Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), Elena Beilina
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I had told these stories many times before to my students, friends, and brothers of the monastery. Some of those who heard them asked me to write them down, and since I have written many things before and am used to writing, at a certain moment the structure of the book took shape, and it looked interesting to me. You know, I think that every writer is really writing to specific people. The second no less important—although somewhat egotistical—element is that what you write must be interesting to you. Well, I felt that both of these elements were present.
Nicholai Moskov
Very few people understand that this man is the most precious among us all. Statesmen work until the end of their terms, but he will serve his people until the end of his life. His quiet, yet steadfast labor for the sake of his fatherland could never be replaced by Comecon, by the Warsaw Pact, NATO, or the European Union taken all together. Eighty-five years of his life were spent under the church domes, and the altar is his true home. There, His Holiness prays no less than three times a day for the well-being of his people.
Alexander Karaulov, Valery Korostelev
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Fifty years ago, on November 4, 2012, Metropolitan Nestor (Anisimov) departed to the Lord. He was one of the greatest missionaries of the twentieth century, the enlightener of Kamchatka, a humble archpastor, who spent eight years in the Mordovian gulag for his faith in Christ. Pravoslavie.ru/OrthoChristian.com is publishing these notes about this remarkable man, sent to us by his Godson, Alexander Kirillovich Karaulov.
Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)
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But during this present, difficult time, when the earth has grown old, is burdened by faithlessness, lawlessness, and ignorance of the knowledge of God’s commandments, has our Fervent Intercessor turned away from us in her zeal for the glory of her Son and God? No, my dears, this could not be. Needy children are dearer to a mother.