Every Tuesday the Spiritual father of the Convent meets with the laity and answer different questions about spiritual life, personal problems. In this video fr Andrey speaks about the challenges of being in a family, compares it with a monastery.
In this video brother Alexander continues to talk about the importance of commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas. Saint Gregory's position won. What does it mean for us? It has several important implications.
Kontakion of The First Week of Great Lent is taken from the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete. The Great Canon is a lengthy penitential canon composed in the seventh century, which is sung during Great Lent.
In our minds, we cannot put Christ in the Procrustean bed worldly laws; none of our deliberations can do justice to His love. Nor can we conceive of it with all the knowledge of this world, this perishable world.