The women that come to live and work at our monastic farmstead are of very different backgrounds. Many of them have never had anything to do with Christianity before. But here in the Rehabilitation Center, they get a chance to find God and change their lives.
This chant are troparia taken from the evening prayer rule. The chant is performed by the Monastic Choir of St. Elisabeth Convent. The choir grew out of an amateur choir of the sisters of mercy who visited the patients of the National Psychiatric Hospital in Novinki.
It is, unfortunately, not an uncommon phenomenon for us to see pious faithful in whose faces joy, good cheer, and the light of Grace do not blossom forth. In this video father Andrey reflects on what is a true joy for Orthodox Christians.