Icons of our church. Painters: father Artemy, sister Leonida.
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Evfrosinya Pochaevskaya
The Great Seal that was on Mother was the teaching of Orthodoxy as the path of acquiring the Spirit.
The Keys of Acquiring the Holy Spirit
Virginity is only for falling in love. The beloved was hot. Before her spiritual gaze stood her Beloved, worthy of all earthly suitors. St Evfrosinya was in love with Christ and the Mother of God. She taught: ‘One must personally experience the gospel, become a contemporary of Christ and the Mother of God,’ – enter into the gospel experience. ...
Evfrosiniya of Pochaev: Holiness transforming the world
It is impossible to understand the work of Blessed John and his messianic sacrificial activity without understanding the life of St. Evfrosiniya. However, the word ‘life’ in relation to this great ascetic seems incomplete, truncated and even inappropriate. It suggests a more weighty, capacious, biblical-tinged and loaded word – ‘life of Saint'. ...
Russian tears
Evfrosiniya's hut. Nostalgic Russian landscape. A three-horse in the snow rushes through the forest. It's as cold as the North Pole. Sviridov wrote a suite for Mandelstam and orchestra. Two decrepit old ladies, widowed brides. There's no one to say a word to, it's so lonely. Holy Russia is waiting for a New God – a good, different One, without...