Letorniya

“Actually, it’s hard to get used to life. You can get used to order and disorder, fortunately and suffering, to monasticism and marriage, to many things and their absence, to bad and good people, to luxury and simplicity, to righteousness and wickedness, to prayer and idleness, to good and evil . In short, a person is such a creature that he gets used to literally everything except life itself. ” In a relaxed manner, deprived of bare and teachings, Sergey Senkin, who knows firsthand what the monks and ascetics live, talks about “his own” Athos. About this unique “monastic republic”, a certain community of saints and righteous, negligent monks, pilgrims, workers, re -recovering tops and seeking truths, voluntary beggars and even thieves and criminals, which opens from an unexpected side and leaves after reading a bright sense of involvement in the ancient and deep monastic tradition. Filled with love and subtle knowledge of the life of the Svyatogorstsy, the book will be interesting to the church to the reader, and only begins to be interested in the Orthodoxy of Neophytus