vladyka veniamin was the abbot of the lyadino monastery from 2009 to 2015, and in this office of his, we see all the paraphernalia. the working environment in which our current vladyka exak vladyka veniamset on the feat of ascetic deeds, the feat of monastic life, and was an example of how a monk should live in an offended saint, and we always looking at the example of bishop benjamin, try to imitate him, as our bishop, as a good shepherd. i have felt myself to be a religious person since childhood; i was raised as a christian who does not begin any serious business without prayer. the first person to whom i am grateful in my life for my serious religiousness is my great grandmother, thanks to whom i was already 5 years old in my childhood. prayer, this seed, less than 10 years later, bore fruit; already in childhood i began to feel within myself a calling to monasticism to serve the church in the sacred itself. i really wanted to imitate those people who found it. spiritual mentors, the first patriarchal exarch of all belarus, bishop philaret, taught me a lot in spiritual life both in his word, and in his deed, and even in his vision. as a child, i dreamed of being a policeman, but th