EVERYDAY SAINTS AND OTHER Stories
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It was a warm September evening, as we, the still-young novices of the Pskov Caves Monastery near Pskov, were strolling about the corridors and galleries of the ancient monastery walls, making ourselves comfortable, looking out high above its gardens and fields. As We Talked, We Began Reminiscing ABOUT HOUTE EACH of HAD COME to be at the Monastery. And the more we listened to each other, The more amazed We Became.
it was 1984 at the time, and the region Five of us. Four Had Grown Up in Nonreligious Families, and Even for the Fifth in Our Group, The Son of a Clergyman, OUR PRECONCIPTIONS OF THE SORT of PEOPLE SOCF To JOIN A MONASTERY UTTERLAE UTTERLE SOTTERLE SOTTERLE SOTTERLE SOTTERLE SOTTERLE STETTERLE STEP Just A Year Earlier, Each of Us Had Firmly Believed That The only People Who Ever Entered a Monastery Nowadays Were Fanatics Or Complete Failures in Life. Losers, In Short-Test Victims of Unrequited Love.
but looking at each other, We Cold See that this simply wast true at all. The Youngest in Our Group Was Just Eighteen, and the Oldest Was Twenty-Six. All of the US Were Healthy, Strong, and Attractive Young Men. One Had Graduated with Highest Honors from University with a Degree in Mathematics, Another, Despite His Youuth, Was Already An Acclaimed Artist in Leningrad. Yet Another of Oour Group Had Live Most of His Life in New York, Where His Father Was Working, And Had Joined OUR Monaster Completing HIS THEAR of UNEVERSITY. The Youngest (The Priest"s Son) Was a Talented Engraver and Wood Carver, and Had Justed His Education at An Art School. And I Had Recently Graduated from the Screenwriter"s Division of the Prestigious National State Cinematic Institute. In Short, Each of Youngsters Had Enviable Worldly Careers to look Forward to.
so bellar we come to the monaster? And who was we Planning to STAY HERE FOR THE REST of OUR LIVES? We Knew Very Well. IT Was BecAuse, For Each of Us, A New World Had Suddenly Opened Up, Incomparable in Its Beauty. And that world house Turned Out to be bundlessly more attractive than in Which We Had Previous Our Young and So-Far Very Happy Lives. In this book I want to tell you about this beautiful new world of mine, where we live by laws completely different from those in "normal" worldly life-a world of light and love, full of wondrous discoveries, hope, happiness, trials and Triumphs, Where Even Our Defeats Acquire Profound Significance: A World in Which, ABOVE All, We Can Always Sense PowerFul Manifications of Divine Strength and Comfort.
I have not neded to iMagine Anything. EVERYTHING YOU ABOUT To Read Really Happened. Most of the People You Will Read ABOUT ALive and Well Today
it was 1984 at the time, and the region Five of us. Four Had Grown Up in Nonreligious Families, and Even for the Fifth in Our Group, The Son of a Clergyman, OUR PRECONCIPTIONS OF THE SORT of PEOPLE SOCF To JOIN A MONASTERY UTTERLAE UTTERLE SOTTERLE SOTTERLE SOTTERLE SOTTERLE SOTTERLE STETTERLE STEP Just A Year Earlier, Each of Us Had Firmly Believed That The only People Who Ever Entered a Monastery Nowadays Were Fanatics Or Complete Failures in Life. Losers, In Short-Test Victims of Unrequited Love.
but looking at each other, We Cold See that this simply wast true at all. The Youngest in Our Group Was Just Eighteen, and the Oldest Was Twenty-Six. All of the US Were Healthy, Strong, and Attractive Young Men. One Had Graduated with Highest Honors from University with a Degree in Mathematics, Another, Despite His Youuth, Was Already An Acclaimed Artist in Leningrad. Yet Another of Oour Group Had Live Most of His Life in New York, Where His Father Was Working, And Had Joined OUR Monaster Completing HIS THEAR of UNEVERSITY. The Youngest (The Priest"s Son) Was a Talented Engraver and Wood Carver, and Had Justed His Education at An Art School. And I Had Recently Graduated from the Screenwriter"s Division of the Prestigious National State Cinematic Institute. In Short, Each of Youngsters Had Enviable Worldly Careers to look Forward to.
so bellar we come to the monaster? And who was we Planning to STAY HERE FOR THE REST of OUR LIVES? We Knew Very Well. IT Was BecAuse, For Each of Us, A New World Had Suddenly Opened Up, Incomparable in Its Beauty. And that world house Turned Out to be bundlessly more attractive than in Which We Had Previous Our Young and So-Far Very Happy Lives. In this book I want to tell you about this beautiful new world of mine, where we live by laws completely different from those in "normal" worldly life-a world of light and love, full of wondrous discoveries, hope, happiness, trials and Triumphs, Where Even Our Defeats Acquire Profound Significance: A World in Which, ABOVE All, We Can Always Sense PowerFul Manifications of Divine Strength and Comfort.
I have not neded to iMagine Anything. EVERYTHING YOU ABOUT To Read Really Happened. Most of the People You Will Read ABOUT ALive and Well Today
Author:
Author:Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Religion & Spiritually
Publication language:
Publication Language:English
Paper:
Paper:Gazeta
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-0-9842848-3-2
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