that service to god, then wherever it is , either in the world, or in monasteries, is something very bright, pure, good, for me god is something living, he is, well, not some kind of abstraction that somewhere far away. the sky is watching from above like dead rabbits, no, he, he is alive, he is actively involved in my life, and he responds through the circumstances of people’s lives, this faith, it is strong, it, well, helps to overcome some difficulties. the question is how will you adjust your heart? my name is olga velikaya, velikaya is my last name, and already 15

since 2008, i have been a resident of the st. elizabeth monastery. in fact, some people don’t even know that there is a monastery in minsk. that ’s the most interesting thing, this is a whole layer, there’s a whole small town here, there’s a life of its own, the monastery complex includes a monastery school, a hotel, a pilgrims’ house, monastery shops, in october the monastery spiritual and educational center kovcheg was consecrated, this is a new building, it it took about 10 years to build, and now it’s finally completed. cultural and church meetings and

educational ones take place on the territory of this center, everything in our monastery is a communal monastery for squirrels, they live here and come and we feed them with nuts at feeders like these, but people are not embarrassed at all. today there are five churches on the territory of the monastery; they are very different, each beautiful in its own way. this is a mosaic panel, it was made in honor of the visit to our monastery by the penultimate patriarch of all russia, alexei ii. this was the last temple that he illuminated abroad for the sovereign icon of the mother of god. it's not a stone, it's boiled glass coated with pigment. gold film

, if we go into the temple, it is made in the byzantine style, we will see this huge square, domes, lined with these small pieces of mosaic, this temple is the festive temple of the monastery, well , sort of the main one, the wedding ceremony and liturgy take place here on holidays, it is completely embroidered with icons and khrogvi. wooden decor, enamels, all this was made by the hands of our craftsmen. our workshop is a scattering of stones, it is unusual, here - icons and paintings are created on stone and, er, crushed stone. it is on these marble tiles that icons are created. we buy stones in moscow, and

geologists bring them there from all over the world, from kazakhstan, from china, in russia , in the urals, a lot of stones are mined, they are crushed in a mortar to get a large fraction for clothing, a small fraction for faces. we use semi-precious stones in jewelry. for example, amethyst, we split the beads in half and decorate them with it, use corals, onyxes, here the lapis lazuli stone looks very beautiful, green is added, it seems that it is not visible in the sky, but here diaptase, molacite is added, white, like the stars in the sky, this is a natural crushed female. what we value in our work is not

that the stone is expensive, but that it is beautiful for us and looks good in our work. there are the cheapest stones, we have them. shine better than some jewel, than some expensive stones from worldly points of view. let's say, if we take diamond and crush it, then it will not give us any color, it is useless to us, but some other simple stone, it gives such a pigment, which we need for work, from which our work itself becomes precious. we have a lot of workshops, we now have about ten of them, they were mainly created not according to any plan, but... due to the needs of the monastery. we have a herbal workshop, where we collect herbs, dry them, and a honey workshop, where we sew clothes, all stages of the ceramic production process. there is ceramics with a decal, there is ceramics that

is painted by hand, we have artists who come to us, they work there, using a simple pencil on... it’s interesting that in their raw form they have one color, after firing it is a completely different color, i am very surprised by the blue paint, which is in its raw form, it is pink, when it is fired, it is so bright, and you need to anticipate the result that you

’re drawing, it’s like we’re having a holiday in the monastery. and this is the hottest time, one might say, we decorate the monastery with lights, in the workshops, we make some stories on christmas themes, we have a christmas service dedicated to this, and always a christmas concert, everyone is invited as usual, it’s like being at home, celebrating christmas, waiting for... gifts, then now you feel more like, well, a mother, and it will be said loudly, but you feel like the one who is preparing this gift for the one who comes to to our monastery.

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our monastery is unusual in that we have a white sisterhood, as we call the sisterhood of mercy, and the devil sisters, sisters of monastics. there are about 400 of them in mercy, they carry out their obedience in the world, you can see them in hospitals, at points, somewhere else, and monastics like me, let’s say, we are constantly in the monastery.

the next step is given, he lives in a monastery as a full member of the sisterhood. monastic life, one might say, begins with consecration, there are only three comprehensions in orthodoxy, this is comprehension in resafor or monasticism. finally, what we call a monk proper, a monk monk. the last step is schemas. in our monastery we have the most montion monks, that is, those who have already taken vows and who serve god in this rank.

to the toilet, and somehow i had to, so i washed it for about 6 years, took a mop, a bucket

and went, that’s all, it’s basically, well, kind of normal, you - then, when i realized that i this is mine, this is my house, well, this is how you wash houses, well, that’s how it is in principle, but this had to be understood, this had to be accepted, there are a lot of such moments, it happens that a sister is given obedience and just you must fulfill it, this is called cutting off one’s will, i had a long novice period, almost 9 years, but in a past life i studied at the history department of bsu, at the archives department, then... i took up the history of international relations and wrote

a paper, wrote dissertation, i know languages, english polish, i read some buddhist texts, ijin, well, in general i was interested in a lot of things, i was interested in everything, psychology, philosophy, ethics, and there was some kind of search, as i see now. but i just wanted to comprehend god with my mind, and god is comprehended with my heart, so i met god on valaam, when i was traveling, i didn’t wait then, it’s an island. russia orilya, then on vlaam there was this feeling, this is god, the presence of god, it seemed to touch my essence, it’s just here, but it’s difficult for me to convey it, but i just realized that everything, the search is over, ours is here

main stream. this is how mother elizabeth, who is our patroness, has this service. in general, she was the princess of darmstatt, the granddaughter of queen victoria, she married grand duke sergius from the house of romanov, moved to russia, converted to orthodoxy, she founded the martha marinsky monastery of mercy in moscow, it still exists, we sort of took it over from him this is a relay race of serving people, as selfless like that. sacrificial, one might say, giving of oneself, here we have courtyard, there are up to 150-200 brothers there in winter, who are these brothers, these are disabled people, these are bobzhi, these are former prisoners, drug addicts, that is, the public is very, so to speak, well

, motley, interesting, we have a women’s courtyard, a woman comes there. also with different destinies, and there are such cases that in the yard is the only chance to somehow return, somehow to some kind of life like this, well, at least somehow find some kind of refuge, i’m on the subway and... the money to rent a room for food and the phone was cut off, all that was left was nothing, i came here literally 2-3 weeks to wait until they raise me a little financially, well, three weeks are still going on, so

it remains, the fourth year has already passed, the main goal of the farmstead is not care, but rehabilitation, active rehabilitation through work and prayer, as if introducing people to some kind of then church life, it’s all free, i officially work in production, i work on dumplings , it already happened when i learned to be a tractor driver here, well, in the winter i clear the snow, in the summer i have to plow, well, it’s like they master it, it takes place in the rebirth of souls. external, yes, we give this external, we give food, we give blood, we give it to almost everyone, well, as if without refusing, the question is whether a person will be able to keep it from really being reborn, so sometimes thoughts will be like this, or maybe you drank beer there, then you think that you need this, but

without it it’s good, you on the contrary to yourself... you understand that you can sink to the same level as, well, like my father, but it’s like this, well, an unpleasant feeling , such a kind of i don’t know how to say it’s boring, it’s like something, some kind of chill body, well, there seemed to be a little bit of fear in this... he was drinking a lot, we had constant scandals, he often raised his hand to my mother, received distributions, i simply despise my father for this, and the fact that my daughter will despise me later, but

for me she, uh, as they say, is my blood, this is very, well... yes, i had hatred for a long time, even when they started here, well, i was already living here, well, before he was the first communion, i

didn’t even really know then that until now these these are some kind of grievances, that’s all, until you forgive, it’s like you can’t approach the cup, you know, the coconut has this... he seems so hairy , this outer butt, this one is so hard, unsightly, fibrous, when you prick him a little, and these droplets of milk, these coconuts, appear there, they are sweet and so tender, this is what it’s mine that i, as it were, have completely changed internally, i have somehow changed, as it were, in perception.

we are the only ones in the world, you and i, who stand up to our full height, to say, no, it is the role of the teacher that comes to the fore, it is the teacher who must, as it were, study, practice the material and convey to children the main thing, people who, risking everything, can stand up to their full height against the huge conglomerate of the west. these are people who can only be disrespected by those who have never

experienced anything serious or terrible in their lives. fascist foundations are very deeply incorporated into the very spirit of western civilization. that system that is collapsing, it included us in the mechanism of the robbery, but in the end i am convinced that we will win. project say don't be silent, don't miss it. networks, we offer to learn the belarusian language in walk with our tv guides, and also introduce you to amazing people who live in belarus and do everything for its development. ether 24:7 a project that everyone should see. watch us every friday on tv channel belarus 244.

and there was a vacant lot, this place had a sad reputation, because there was a psychiatric clinic here, in fact, now there are new things, the monastery

began with this. from this hospital, over the course of 20 years, this complex has grown, and now this is exactly the interaction happens between the patients and us, here is a temple , we consider it a hospital temple , because even the material chosen was wood, it is softer than stone, when there was no covid, we had these gates closed, the opposite ones opened for patients with their escort. who had a free exit, they simply entered the temple, lit a candle, kissed the icons, and prayed.

it would be, well, a vegetable, he doesn’t understand, he seems to absolutely, well, not react, and then somehow he says some kind of phrase, or you give him communion, or something like this, it turns out, that he knows god, there is the light of god’s love in this, that’s for me... that’s it, well, that’s important, to bring this faith, to bring this hope, that’s what i see as the main task for my sister , i realized one thing for myself, that with god sometimes it can be very difficult, but never boring, then this work, it is very interesting, because you don’t always see its fruits, this christmas holiday, it is the peak, we

try give these brothers and sisters a touch of christmas, christmas is the beginning, the beginning of our salvation, when the manger is simple, a rough manger, they accepted the one who was more than anything else in this world, the first who gave us this hope, this hope, this faith, faith is the birth of the soul, in fact, we... live, our land with our eyes foreigners, i am very happy that minsk is a clean, green

and safe city.