At the Ringing of the Bells - The Paschal Martyrs of Optina subject_Lenten Reading It's about survival

It's about survival

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he would receive provisions (as it were) for the road to virtue

and ye visited me: I was in prison

At the Ringing of the Bells - The Paschal Martyrs of Optina subject_Lenten Reading It's about survivalOn Pascha of 1993, three young monks of the famous Optina Hermitage Hieromonk Vasily, Monk Therapont, and Monk Trophim were brutally murdered by a satanist. These men lived in our world. They went to public schools and universities. They faced the same kinds of temptations and struggles that modern people face. Yet, their saintly lives show that their martyric death was a special gift to them from the Lord, and that it is possible to dedicate one's