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Just an historical aside-- Abbess Paula was abbess of the Russian Orthodox Monastery of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives in the Holy Land. She was originally from Lesna, and had been the foundress', St. Catherine of Lesna, cell attendant. After Abbess Catherine's repose she was appointed Abbess ...

No, the True Orthodox do not recognize Fr. Amphilochius as a saint. His lived and died at the Pochaev monastery, as a member of the MP, in full communion with this sergianist and ecumenist church. at a time when they officially denied the very existence of the new martyrs. There is no record of him ...

The Typica are part of the cycle of services during Great Lent according to the rubrics of the Russian Church, so we read them on the weekdays throughout Great Lent, and on anyday when we do not have a liturgy celebrated here at the monastery outside of Great Lent. We have 4 parishes connected to th...

Part 4 In 1950 the Lesna monastery moved to France and settled in a former Roman Catholic seminary in Fourqueux, a Parisian suburb. Rassaphore Nun Anna continued to toil, especially in the vegetable garden. She also worked in the kitchen and around the house, went out with the sisters to gather kind...

Part 3 At this time, after the fire, sr. Anna failed in patience and a great temptation came upon her. She decided that everything was finished with Lesna, but she wanted a real monastery life. She ran away and began to wander from monastery to monastery throughout old Serbia. She recalled that ther...

Part 2 Novice Anna lived peacefully at Khopovo up until the war began. By then the Lesna sisters had been living at this ancient monastery on Fruska Gora, founded by St. Angelina, a princess of the Brankovich dynasty in the 16th century, for 20 years. It was a life of prayer and hard work, in keepin...