our fathers and brethren, create eternal life with the angels for all the saints, would you polit varsanofiyyour eminence, vladyka mstislav, your eminence and grace, dear fathers, brothers and sisters, it is impossible to celebrate the divine liturgy in this holy place without special inner excitement, especially, apparently, to those hierarchs and priests who remember how everything was, through what we, the outstanding hierarchs and those unworthy of us, had to go through, until this holy place really became so holy and magnificent, but the true spiritual decoration of this place and the entire north-west of russia is the miraculous tikhven icon of the mother of god, who by the grace of god is with us today. this is also a sign of her mercy. the mercy of the queen of heaven, but how could it be otherwise, how could the mother of god depart from russia, seeing the suffering of her people, deeply devoted to her, keeping faith in her, as in the queen of heaven, calling for her protection, how could she retreat from this plea, from these sufferings, from these sorrows that preceded the triumph