but girls will divide into groups now so we need about. how many people do you need seven seven people who really choose one two three four five. six seven seven people good the rest will split into two one half will go to the farm the other to the op a girl who's already been to the upper garden you know that we're. going to go to the apple garden i'm allergic to any can go to the farm and me go to the fire cows . what comes of along with a group of volunteers men and women of all ages who are here to give something back to god and in this case it means hard work this is the middle of the busy tourist season and there's plenty to do down on the farm. i mean coming into the chicken coop it's like into the lion's den. thank you so much

i. like your careful careful household she doesn't know you japhet but i this came on the you're not on your hand she'll sit on your hand. of state it's a bit stressful for them. but i'm sure in the next week like this ok so it would. finally be like having their wattle straight this one's gone. far away from here try this. so. what's that like there's no one line there sanctified on vellum and they're very kind to me to see ok and they are you would be good good good good to go good go through. a long special eggs. see what the fuss is all about. the

most one two three. whether it's the saintly atmosphere or something in their feed that's certainly fantastic layers two gigantic seconds here and then. you very much one and. that's if one two three four five. one set. only another seven hundred seventy five to go. the volunteers come from a huge variety of different backgrounds svetlana is a model for moscow but she's not afraid of getting a hamster well it's probably not normal that a girl like me came here instead of going to turkey or enjoying summer in a beach town where but here i am living with mom's and waiting someone else's garden there is the bit there are other people that look at themselves and at life

in a completely different way and they're not held back really you know we're all here . little answer for me is a place of strong spiritual power i've wanted to come here for a long time now there is a possibility i can become a volunteer. here to work for the glory of god and how priests or this place. there are common threads that bind many of the people here together and the group also becomes like a surrogate family mostly these out worth of people who came here to find. brotherhood but of course there is some percentage that come here looking for their way in life. than i thank them for a walk in the woods. try to know what they were accounts for help them find their answer. many people simply come for the island's

outstanding natural beauty. edged by rugged shorelines and covered with lush greenery this is truly a tranquil getaway but there are some visitors to the lomu who have no families to return to his trip to the island is a welcome break from a difficult life. leaker's ill as new york runs a camp for children from local orphanages who also have learning difficulties for many it's the first time they've spent nights away from the city. because it the first time we came here with disabled children for many years before we used to take the kids on trips which is that because we understood that nature does children a world of good and that you were decided to try working with children with the help of allah is the nature of this place turned out to be totally unique and it's not just the nature here that works.

here you should bear in mind that these children are from a correctional orphanage they are believed to be unable to go to an ordinary school because of some mental disability and in fact this isn't true they are not mentally retarded whatsoever. that these are the first kids that just sit on the shore of ladder got there and watch the storms the splashing water and they say thank you for choosing that you build a full place. it was simply amazing. they feel that they can feel the beauty of the apparently they don't have good feelings in their lives. hardly any. fifteen year old denise is just one of the youngsters reaping the benefits this is his second time on the island and he says it's changed his life but it's. rocky road that's brought him here. i can't say that i had a good childhood. my dad was an alcoholic my mom was too

mom ended up in prison that's how i ended up in an orphanage. everything changes as time goes by. at the moment i have no grudge against anyone my life has become so much better. when i forgotten my past it's no good remembering it. and he's a handy men to have around when you catch something to. pull it into the sure. who. ducks.

yeah. oh it is. this eerie asli. love. the mother. did you see. i was staying in the ball into his dormitory normally men and women a kept segregate since both the old get together is allowed especially for a meet and greet session. everyone says where they're from what they've come to and then name. then all you've got to do is remember seeing here year. you. sure you. want to vomit up

ok let's have a good. to know. in saying you know. the message again not oh do you know. your own interests of homicidal. sin. i. mean you said he wouldn't be able to do it you know sometimes sometimes it works. sometimes. look at them on the street takes us all around the island along roads that people have traveled here for more than one hundred fifty years. although most of the brothers live in the center of the ministry

a small selection choose to isolate themselves from the rest of the community regarding to her messages where only men are allowed to enter the grounds. the russian school these places. and there are among the holiest centers of. each one is way off the beaten track and for some of the volunteers the journey to gold has been anything but straightforward to. use to be an atheist and believe in nothing but science logic and facts i was looking for truth everywhere i followed all the popular fashions of people write books about make films about. only after twenty years of searching did i become an orthodox christian after printing of the coffin of a famous russian saint i discovered that many things. changed because first of all the pain in my leg that i'd suffered for ages had disappeared and last but not least i discovered the ability to read in the old church slavonic even though i'd never learned how to do that. those who've been here more than once say you have to

put the time and to understand it fully that living and working here is the only way to really tap into its energy the job is to live but none of the volunteers complain everyone is confident of a spiritual rewards and happy that they're working to reestablish a face that was so persecuted joining the soviet union. is the only branch that has managed to keep the tradition alive that's not changed since the time of the apostles but maybe that's why it was preserved the bread of life the jesus christ spoke of the living would that's why russia is experiencing a spiritual rise now. ukraine deeply divided kids suffering decision to walk away from an association agreement

with brussels has resulted in an explosion of street protests and violence some western pundits have even called for the overthrow of ukraine's current political order you would see those who alternately lost the orange revolution are bent on giving it a second shot. war is probably the most complex human activity. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. a bunch of people who don't know their families there are people. reading. this something

shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because of it because it was night time or in the morning even the best given the shoulders. are going to make mistakes does this whole idea of brotherhood and order. and camaraderie in this set that was in this context that has absolutely no place.

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a factual standard of living. pride and joy is its transfiguration of the savior cathedral and the sound of its bells st tourists pilgrims and volunteers to worship to work. ok let's work for the glory of god. the skilled workers cuts and replace the volunteers keep supplies coming and clean up the mess

it's a massive job because these are a seventy six meters high and in some areas they're having to remove more than one hundred twenty years of it. when they came here last year it was seen approximately the same condition. here it's a long process this is serious work and it's very expensive and requires a high degree of professionalism. i was surprised when they invited volunteers to work at best their trusted with work like this. is it enough or do we need more. i think it's enough. you'll have to carry it let's go. is it heavy. i'll take it.

away to go somewhere and again i am responsible for getting it off the scaffolding as quickly as possible we need to take the direct route. transport system but it would. be for forty years it had no proper roof it wasn't looked after properly and still it enjoyed all these conditions. means that the cathedral was made really very well it was built with a huge margin for safety because he will stand like this for many years to come but now we're trying to save what's been preserved this work should be done and it should be preserved this is truly part of the national heritage. then. why.

don't. you. feel. so us saw or going to. need them. but. at the border. or the border. leak or into a team of volunteers want their children to leave alone with a new perspective also the work they do here fosters a spirit of cooperation and they can see the effets developing before their eyes. so it's so real here it's hard to explain everything is so natural this is the way

people should live i guess. and i'm proud to be covered that's why i wanted to show these children that there is a place where they can ask for help in case something really bad happens to them i need sippin to stand completely that bad things will happen to them in the future. they're perfectly aware of what life has in store for them and they know that there will be a lot of drug dealers and alcohol things and then the stand how hard it is to resist those things so it's very important for them to know that there is a place where they're always welcome they should know how to find the way to this place. walking around the lawn is like stepping back into a different age and it's easy to see why so many regard as a sanctuary away from the real world. it seems to have

a physical and emotional energy which the monks say is a manifestation of god's grace. it's had such a profound effect on so many that there's even a syndrome named after it's. the compulsion true turn to the island again and again and it's not just adults who experience it. my mom first brought me here before i started going to scone i liked it very much and it has become my favorite place now why is it your favorite place i like it because of its weather because of the monastery so good in here they've got a farm it's nice to leave people are very kind they're not you know what you want to do when you grow up to be among your own to be a monk why it's just what's in my heart i can't explain why i feel this way. and then live here yes i want to live on what he actually wants at this point is

not to be a monk but here once he wants a purpose here once something pure something which dignified him. something which speaks of him as a man as a human being people became knights and soldiers for the same reason i would certainly encourage him. the use its journey to the brotherhood here was more unusual than most after tending university in st petersburg he spent fifteen years living in ministering in the us before retiring to villa he says each monk must end his place in the monastery. spiritual pastor so the monster will decide the whether you're prepared to become a novice and you'll become officially

a novice on the part of the brotherhood then spend some time that way and a few years or so or maybe months later if you still decide to to embrace this kind of wife and people see your. as a benefits to the community you'll be a time church and perhaps when are they and so the priests for. the monastic community has been rebuilt in the last twenty years period during the soviet union when the areas served as a mental asylum now there are around a hundred brothers living here permanently but before the russian revolution of nine hundred seventeen there were more than a thousand some of whom left a legacy down the ages. this quiet scene is called the smolensk skeet and it's famous in particular because of one monk efraim he took it upon himself to pray for the souls of dead soldiers and he took his work so seriously that he dug his own

grave and every night he would lie in his own coffin. and ever since then the chapel has been dedicated for the souls of those died for the faith and for the mother. even if the life of extreme self-sacrifice doesn't appeal it is at least possible to follow in the footsteps of some of these old saints and one of the most popular pilgrimages is to the lomas most famous. for this is the cave where saint alexander of sphere lived. this is the place where alexander of spirit spent hours praying in solitude here he would make a fire is real the stones got warm and gave heat back so he could spend winters

here can he lead such a righteous life that he was granted a vision of the holy trinity came to him in the form of three angels. and ordered him to go to the river spear and found a monastery there it is still functional. excursions like these opponents of the joy of a prison archipelago of small islands just waiting to be explored and the landscape always provides some great photos. but many of the secrets are only reveals in the churches themselves. bell ringing here is a real and the company ologists train for years to master the difficult rhythms they need to control up to a dozen bells at once and make it look effortless. it's part of the lambs proud

musical tradition displayed in its full glory during the solemn services. gemzar isn't the best aboard a bus and i think we should fill our lives with as many rich and diverse impressions as possible as reasonable today i'm a developer in two months i'll be working somewhere else in such a way your worldview builds up on different things you can develop yourself and create your personality. to play cyrano this earth is like a hotel that they were only here temporarily. to hell or to have on god tests us on the earth if you're

a me and phone my laws then you'll go to heaven what if if you don't then you'll go to how. we have to move on in this life here you get some kind of luggage that you will later he take with here into the city. we have to move on make plans build families and realizing your family what you've learned here is that there will. the pull over. but moving back to real life is easy if the some and for others the children from lekas all finished camp have reached the end of their stay and it was time to see them off for the docks.

it's clear to leak air that these are the same kids that arrived on the island just a few weeks ago that at least for a while belong this way to its magic and brought a little joy into their lives. to come make this moment any less painful. perhaps the monks of old settled here because they felt there was something otherworldly about. that it was always a place with special energy and the from nature or from something more divine. for

the pilgrims and volunteers who journey in one visit is rarely enough and many will return to the. place with the power to heal the spirits. there's a media leave us so we leave the media. potions to cure the play your part of the musical. questions that no one is that skin with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . quite often countries rich in natural resources are the poorest africa's a colony it's

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