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Everyday Saints and Other Stories (Russian Orthodox)
Everyday Saints and Other Stories - Russian Orthodox Author:Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) In Communist Russian in 1984, five youths from non-religious backgrounds joined a monastery. This is the story of what they experienced and some of the 'everyday saints' they met. Why did the join? "So why had we come to the monastery? And why were we planning to stay here for the rest of our lives? We knew very well. It was because... more », for each of us, a new world had suddenly opened up, incomparable in its beauty. And that world had turned out to be boundlessly more attractive than the one in which we had previously lived 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 manifestations of divine strength and comfort".« less