Comments on: Viewing Monasticism as a Lived Experience https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2021/07/viewing-monasticism-as-a-lived-experience Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:33:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Paula Ivan https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2021/07/viewing-monasticism-as-a-lived-experience#comment-4998 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:55:01 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=35488#comment-4998 Thank you for providing enlightenment and wisdom to those who need it most in this life.
I believe placing the Will of God before our own is important. This is a small step towards understanding how much God truly loves us as human beings and how close He is to our hearts in times of doubt, tribulations, fear, uncertainty, and insecurity.

Blessed be Archpriest Vladimir Kotsaba who accepted and received monastic tonsure with the name Victor on 20 March 2015.

I believe in the healing power and eternal love of Jesus Christ and Holy Theotokos my mother.

With love in Christ,
Paula

]]> By: Edward Hara https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2021/07/viewing-monasticism-as-a-lived-experience#comment-4997 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:27:21 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=35488#comment-4997 What a beautiful and inspiring article! After my wife died, I spent time at Holy Trinity Monastery in Butler, PA, discerning if this was the life for me. I was enchanted by it, and quite frankly, felt at home at the monastery, but on the last day of my stay, God revealed to me that this was not His plan. Through much prayer, events in my life, and answers to that prayer, I am now a cantor at our parish. It is always best to be what God desires you to be and nothing more.

I was especially touched by this quote: “We are all sinners, and eventually, our pure souls and hearts will be darkened by sin. Yet we must not despair. I remind myself of these words of schema-Archimandrite Joachim (Parre), a modern ascetic and father superior of a monastery near New York, “Monasticism is when a person falls a hundred times on a day and rises as many times.”

I have a tendency to despair and depression due to hardships in my life. This quote has such wisdom in it for me and for all who seek God.

Thank you for a wonderful and most helpful article.

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