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18 Jule 2010
Section Feasts and Weekdays was refreshed. There a story "200th anniversary: festivity in pictures" appeared
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27 April 2010
Section Feasts and Weekdays was refreshed. There a story "The spiritual father of our monastery is ordained an archimandrite" appeared
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03 March 2010
Section Feasts and Weekdays was refreshed. There a story "The monastery in the lens of National Geographic" appeared
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14 January 2010
Section Feasts and Weekdays was refreshed. There a story "An American with an un-American destiny" appeared
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Feastdays and ordinary days
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18.07.2010 |
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200th anniversary: festivity in pictures
This day is one of those that is left in memory forever. Our convent has joyfully and truly festively celebrated the great festivity – two hundred years since the day of its foundation. And perhaps, the services, the cross procession, and the festive concert had so much light and emotion, because they had been filled with your prayers and love.
Festive photo-gallery
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27.04.2010 |
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The spiritual father of our monastery is ordained an archimandrite
Bright week means daily processions with cross and banners, as well as the joyous Paschal hymns and the exultant greeting: "Christ is Risen!" – "Truly He is Risen!" This year, during Paschal days the Lord has granted us a special joy: during the All-Night-Vigil service in the monastery church in honor of All-Merciful Savior, archbishop Vikentiy ordained schema-abbot Avraam, the spiritual father of our monastery and of St. Kosma men's hermitage, an archimandrite.
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03.03.2010 |
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The monastery in the lens of National Geographic
«The difficulties of photographing in a monastery are obvious. A prayer is a personal dialogue with God. It does not lend itself to the presence of a person with a camera. Yet, I saw a lot and was moved by many things. Sincerity of faith was evident in the solemn morning prayers; the hard work was demonstrated in the art classes; the talent and dedication showed in the icon painting... I was stunned how easily the sisters were able to bridge the gap between traditional spirituality and modern life with its new technology, when two sisters ordinarily took wrenches and other tools and started serious repairs of a loom....»
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14.01.2010 |
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An American with an un-American destiny
When a person departs for ever, one suddenly begins to see him more vividly and more clearly; secondary traits fade, primary traits remain. Archimandrite Joasaph McLellan died on December 18th at the age of 47 in Boston. Seven years ago, a friendship began between him and our convent when he started to translate materials for the English version of our website. An unusual combination: an American, a graduate of the Holy Trinity Theological Seminary in Jordanville, a choir director, a Ph.D. in Slavic linguistics, an educator in universities in Missouri and Princeton... and during the last year of his life – a novice, a hierodeacon, an archimandrite, the Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. An odd fate? No, it is simply that he searched always and in everything not for his own will, but for God's Will. He truly possessed the monastic virtue of obedience.
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09.10.2009 |
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A family journal. The notes of a nanny from an Orthodox orphanage
An Orthodox orphanage on a monastery's grounds... It would seem that the children here are special, not like their worldly peers. They are, indeed, special, but at the same time they are like the rest of the children: happy, playful, stubborn, loving... But – you have to meet them yourselves: in front of you are some selected notes of a nanny from the Orthodox orphanage in honor of holy martyr Great Princess Elizaveta Feodorovna on our monastery's grounds.
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25.09.2009 |
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New pages in the chronicle of miracles
"Holy righteous Simeon, pray to God for us!" – again and again one hears these words full of faith and hope under the domes of churches in Verkhoturye and Merkushino at the shrine of holy righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye, by his tomb with the healing spring. And nobody leaves without being heard... On the 25th of September the transferring of relics of holy righteous Simeon from Merkushino to Verkhoturye is celebrated. Congratulations on this radiant feast, and our wish is that through the prayers of the righteous one the Lord would fulfill all your good petitions! Today we are publishing new testimonies of miracles that took place through his intercession.
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19.07.2009 |
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How we play humility
“False humility is humility for show. You can be saying to yourself to your heart's content, as prophet David, that you are “a worm and not a man,” but in your thoughts you would be holding: “Here, I am a worm and not a man, and therefore I am better than all these people. Because they are not thinking about themselves that they are worms, whereas I do. Therefore, they are worms, and I am human.” The talk of the spiritual father of the monastery, Father Superior Avraam (Reydman).
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26.04.2009 |
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Seven days of joy. Paschal days in pictures
The festive "Let God Arise" merges with the singing of birds; church vestments shine in the light of lampadas; the unexpectedly newly fallen spring snow crunches under the feet of the church banner-bearers, and the exultant words: "Christ is Risen! – Truly is Risen!" fly up to the very sky.
Seven day of the Paschal feast for all Christians is a joyous, rich, unique time. Daily cross processions, worship services according to the Paschal office, the arrival of the ruling hierarch into the monastery - such was for us the most Bright week of the year.
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15.04.2009 |
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"Be saved in the angelic order!" A word to the newly-tonsured sisters
“At the tonsuring, the soul is freed from all sins and receives special grace. When this grace is with us, it is easy and natural for us to spend entire hours and days in prayer. We think that all our life we will be near the Lord. Yet, the days strictly dedicated to prayer and tears are over, and we come back to the so-called normal life of work. And this is when we would need tenfold more spiritual vigilance, zeal, labor, and care in order not to yield, not to succumb to vanity and passions, not to let them steal our spiritual wealth that we had collected in our soul on the day of taking the veil and the days following it”.
Great Lent is the time when in monasteries, among them, in our abode, a spiritual feast is prepared – tonsuring into the angelic image. Usually, upon tonsuring, sisters spend several days in the church without going out from there, dedicating all of the time to prayer. When, according to the tradition, all sisters were gathered in one of the Lenten days, in order to lead out from the church the newly-tonsured nuns with singing, mother Domnika said a word about the unfathomable greatness of taking the veil, about that abundant grace that is given to all who enter the monastic order.
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21.01.2009 |
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In a large family circle. A warm winter holiday at the orphanage
"Over the sleeping Bethlehem a star has suddenly stopped, and the entire neighborhood gleaned with the shining God's light..." On the Christmastide week, the girls from the monastery's orphanage were congratulating their guests with the Nativity of Christ. They performed a fairy-tale opera "Morozko" ("Frost") that the nuns, professional singers, and actors helped them prepare.
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24.10.2008 |
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The monastery received the relics of its benefactor
Pray to God for us, o holy righteous Theodore! Our holy benefactor and heavenly intercessor dwells now through his venerable relics at our monastery: on October 11th, a part of relics and the icon of righteous Theodore Ushakov was brought to the monastery.
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07.08.2008 |
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Archbishop Mark: "We must not get used to monastic life, a true gift of God"
Born in Germany, highly ranked in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, head of the European Eparchy with its vast territory – and Russian nuns living in one of the convents located in the Urals. We seem to have so little in common… And yet, within just a couple of days Archbishop Mark became a very close and dear person to us, a person who left cordial and hearty memories in the convent.
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10.07.2008 |
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Rejoice! The Heavenly Queen has visited us
It happened! The most important relic of our monastery has come back: the copy of the miracle-working Icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God. A fragrant path out of flowers, four thousand pilgrims, hymns honoring the icon that seemed to be reaching heavens – everything here was for Her, our Most Blessed Abbess, the glorious Lady Theotokos.
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27.05.2008 |
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Reading the Gospel. Address of Mother Superior Domnika to the Sisters of the Convent.
"Many people dream of meeting a grand spiritual advisor, a monk who would see the depths of one’s soul at once and could explain the causes for one’s grieves and troubles, who could comfort, encourage and what is much more important advise, how to live from now on. To find this, people are ready to travel to the world’s end and overcome numerous obstacles… And in this desire we do forget that it is indeed not necessary to take a long trip to learn God’s will. Each person can find revelation, consolation and encouragement virtually daily. And all that to the degree as if one had an opportunity to speak with a grand spiritual advisor every day."
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22.02.2008 |
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The Church of the Heavenly Abbess. The old church of the Theotokos is being restored at the monastery.
From the moment of the restoration of the monastery, on its territory there had been not a single church dedicated to the Mother of God, our Heavenly Abbess. So now, the first stone has been laid: the new church in honor of the icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow" will be built on the spot of the pre-revolutionary church of the same name, defiled in the years of godlessness.
The office of laying was performed by the Ekaterinburg's archbishop Vikentiy and by the vicar of the German diocese of ROCOR, bishop Agapit of Stuttgart.
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10.12.2007 |
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From Alexander the Blessed to Nicholas the Passion-Bearer. What connects our abode with the Imperial house
In October of 1824, there was a great festivity at the abode: the sisters were welcoming an eminent guest: the Russian Emperor Alexander I. For them, he was not only a Tsar but also their benefactor: due to his royal patronage, the opening of the Novo-Tikhvinsky monastery became possible. At the moment of this joyous encounter no one could imagine that in less than a hundred years, sisters themselves will become the benefactors of the Russian Emperor, now Nicholas II...
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20.08.2007 |
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Why the sisters sing Serbian songs
« If someone asks the question, why monks sing those songs at all, I will answer: they sing them because they are monks. Who, if not the monks, can grasp the spirit of Orthodoxy, the spirit of sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love to each other that is inherent in these songs?». The convent recorded a new CD with Serbian patriotic songs performed by the choristers of the convent.
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07.05.2007 |
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Young Pilgrims in the City of St. Peter
Prayer to the miracle-working icon of the “Tikhvin” icon of the Theotokos, visit to the Alexander Palace and the Hermitage – so much to see! A couple of weeks ago a group of girls from the Orthodox orphanage made a trip to Saint-Petersburg and Tikhvin.
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10.01.2007 |
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New Prioress of the Ñonvent Appointed
December 26, 2006 nun Domnika (Korobeinikova) was appointed the prioress of our convent by the Decree of the Holy Synod. The former prioress Mother Superior Liubov (Nesterenko) was relieved of her post due to the state of health. With respect to the enormous efforts that Mother Superior Liubov made to revive the convent, she remains the honorary prioress of the convent and will live in the abode at rest.
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25.09.2006 |
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On canonization of the saints. A talk with archpriest Georgiy Mitrofanov.
Our abode was visited by archpriest Georgiy Mitrofanov, professor of St.-Petersubrg spiritual academy, a known church historian, a member of the Synodal committee of the canonization of saints. Fr. Georgiy spoke to the sisters at the St.-Ignatius skete about the canonization of saints.
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20.07.2006 |
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The Royal Days at the Abode
The Royal days took place in the Ekaterinburg diocese since the 12th until the 23rd of July. The events of the holy days have not passed by our abode. These days we were welcoming the greatest relic at the skete: a particle of the Life-Creating Cross of the Lord, as well as celebrating the fifth anniversary of our abode and receiving numerous guests who came to venerate the Royal sites.
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09.06.2006 |
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Hierarchal Liturgy is served at the skete
Metropolitan Timofey of Vostr (the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem) visited out abode on the day of the apodosis of Pascha. The Bishop was serving Divine Liturgy in St. Ignatius skete on May 31st. The hierarchal service in our skete took place for the first time.
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06.05.2006 |
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The foster girls of our orphanage in honor of holy martyr Elisabeth have made their first great journey. They saw the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and Moscow.
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30.01.2006 |
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Every Orthodox Christian has prayed many times at the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and much more seldom at the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great. And yet not every Christian even knows about the Liturgy of St. apostle Jacob, the brother of the Lord. On the day of the memory of this apostle this rarely served Liturgy was served at the church of St.-Ignatius skete of our monastery, for the first time in the history of our restored abode.
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29.11.2005 |
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Mother Photinia, the abbess of St. Paraskeva monastery (island of Korfou, Greece) has visited our monastery. In the present time, mother Photinia is the only nun of this old monastery and she single-handedly undertakes the task of its restoration. Meeting such people who lead the truly selfless lifestyle always brings one great spiritual good.
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21.10.2005 |
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A group of sisters from our abode accompanied by a priest have made a pilgrimage to a wonderful country. This country with which we are spiritually united, is adorned with multiplicity of relics, ancient and new monasteries, majestic cathedrals and small churches. The nature is picturesque here, the land is fertile, the people are friendly, pious, and well-disposed. Only one thing deeply saddened the hearts of our pilgrims: seeing the next beautiful cathedral with shining domes in front of them, they did not know whether they could cross themselves at it . the schism in Ukraine has not been overcome.
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01.09.2005 |
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Two nuns of the monastery have returned from Beslan where they went in order to present as a gift to the Osetian people the Mozdok icons of the Mother of God painted at the abode.
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26.06.2005 |
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On this sunny Sunday at the monastery orphanage, an unusual puppet play was given. The performance took place in the open air and captivated everyone. The children went on a wonderful and full of adventures journey "To Africa," and the festival was completed by riding a donkey that lives at the orphange.
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30.05.2005 |
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A man, ardently aspiring to imitate the ascetic deeds of the Holy Fathers, is very rare these days. We were fortunate to host such a person in our convent for a few days. It was an Archpriest from Cyprus, Father Savva Mikhailidis, who took upon himself a feat (‘podvig’) similar to that of St. Vitaly of the 7th Century.
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03.04.2005 |
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In our abode a book dedicated to the subject which is as important and interesting as it is insufficiently explored, is about to be published. It will tell the readers about the elderhood tradition in Ural.
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25.01.2005 |
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Several days before the commemoration of St. Simeon of Verkhoturye in Michael the Archangel's church of Merkushino village, a joyous event happened: the imperishable relics of hieromartyr Konstantin Bogoyavlensky discovered about three years ago, were rested in a shrine wrought specially for them, a shrine which could worthily be called a true masterpiece of church art.
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15.12.2004 |
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In the monastery skete, discussions on spiritual topics are not infrequent. And yet, every time the sisters are impatiently for them. A few days ago the abbess of the monastery, mother Lyubov talked about the necessity of a serious attitude toward the readings of the holy fathers.
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26.10.2004 |
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This month our abode was receiving very dear and long-awaited guests: a group of pilgrims from the German eparchy with bishop Agapit (Gorachek) of Stuttgart at the head.
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05.10.2004 |
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Bishop Mikhail of Boston, the vicar of Eastern American eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, is vising our eparchy as a pilgrim. His Eminence has visited our abode as well.
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04.10.2004 |
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The Lord is merciful! Our orphange for girls which bears the name of saint martyr Elisaveta Feodorovna, was visited through her holy relics by its heavenly patroness.
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12.08.2004 |
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In 2004, it turned 400 years since the time of the foundation of the Verkhotursky St. Nicholas men's monastery, and 300 years since the time of transfer to this monastery of the incorrupt relics of St. righteous Simeon from Merkushino village. Both these remarkable anniversaries were celebrated from August 8th until August 12th.
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03.08.2004 |
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Sisters are sincerely grateful to all those who help our abode in preparation for the all-diocesan festivities that will take place on August 10th through 12th
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09.07.2004 |
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Yesterday our abode celebrated a double feast. To the day of the Tikhvinskaya icon of the Mother of God in whose honor our monastery is named, was added the feast concerned with the tenth anniversary since the beginning of the restoration of our abode. We are sincerely grateful to all who took part in the celebration: it was a true summer Pascha.
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08.07.2004 |
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Yesterday at the Sverdlovsk museum of Local History the Most Reverend Vikentiy, archbishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, inaugurated an exhibition that was timed to the anniversary of our monastery, the oldest one in Ekaterinburg. At the inauguration the government representatives and the city's intelligentsia were present.
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10.06.2004 |
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The sisters have completed an embroidered vestment which was handed over to the Orthodox church in the city of Bari on the day of commemoration of St. Nicholas.
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02.06.2004 |
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The monastery in collaboration with the Moscow publishing house “Palomnik” (“Pilgrim”) has published a talk by our spiritual father abbot Avraam (Reydman) about the great event of Christ's resurrection. The new, graphically designed book is called “The Truth of the Resurrection.”
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06.05.2004 |
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The oldest sister of our monastery, nun Georgia (Glafira Nikitichna Yarutina) turns 90.
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23.03.2004 |
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Sisters of the icon-painting workshop are continuously receiving orders for painting family icons and small home iconostases.
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02.02.2004 |
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Yesterday there was a unique cross mounted at the main dome of the at the cathedral in honor of St. Alexander Nevskiy.
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22.01.2004 |
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Our cloister is taking part in the Second All-Church exhibition “The Orthodox Russia”. For us, participation in the exhibition is particularly symbolic. Exactly 100 years back during the first All-Russian exhibition at the Tavrichesky Palace of Saint Petersburg our cloister was awarded a prize for “beautifully sewed pictures and images”. And this year we were granted an honor of gifting embroidered works of our sisters to the Patriarchs of two Churches.
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12.01.2004 |
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The glorification among the saints of elder Vasilisk of Siberia took place on January 11th. It could be said without exaggeration that this event is important for the entire Church. And especially for us, since the sisters had the opportunity to contribute to the act of glorification of the new saint of God.
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15.11.2003 |
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Our cloister took part in a trade display “The Orthodox Russia” which was held in St. Petersburg in the exposition center of the Michael manege. During this exhibition there was a show of books nominated for the annual All-Russian Prize “The Orthodox book of Russia” organized, and our convent was awarded the first prize in the nomination “The best Orthodox book for children”.
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12.11.2003 |
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On the 25th of October which is considered to be the day of commemoration of the Ural hermit Annushka – schemanun Evfrosiniya (Mezenova), the sisters of the monastery and over a hundred of the church people of the Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk dioceses went for a pilgrim trip to the villages of Maminskoe and Shilovo of the Kamensk-Uralsky district. A visit to Annushka is always a holiday.
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25.10.2003 |
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Not long ago a group of the sisters of our monastery came back from the trip to the Vladimir and Suzdal land. Such trips when the sisters get familiar with the ancient samples are simply indispensable for the development of the icon-painting and sewing obediences. It is not less important that the sisters were accompanied by the Moscow art critic and byzantinist A. I. Yakovleva.
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12.09.2003 |
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The twelfth of September is celebrated as our patronal festival. The main cathedral of the cloister is named in honor of Saint Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky. Nowadays, it is being vacated from the museum archives and we expect to have it involved in restoration next year.
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03.09.2003 |
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The time of lents is the time of deep repentance. This is why taking of monastic vows is traditionally done during lents. This year, upon the blessing of the Ruling bishop, taking the veil into schema was done for the first time at our abode.
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26.08.2003 |
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A new collection of talks of hegumen Abraham (Reydman), a ghostly father of two Ekaterinburg monasteries — our cloister and the men’s monastery in the name of All-Merciful Jesus Christ was issued in our publishing house.
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01.08.2003 |
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The sisters of the monastery’s sewing workshop have filled a large order from the Sarov-Diveevo convent and the Sarov hermitage for the festivities surrounding the 100th anniversary of the canonization of Saint Seraphim of Sarov.
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27.07.2003 |
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Merkushino village has been long known in the Orthodox world as the place of discovery of relics of saint righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye. After about 300 years later a new miracle happened here: the relics of a new saint have been found.
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11.07.2003 |
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The ninth of July is a special day for us, for today we hold celebration of the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God in honor of which our cloister got the name of the Novo-Tikhvin women’s monastery.
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05.07.2003 |
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Recently, on the website of the electronic library “Historical atlas of Christianity in Russia” where different materials on the history, sociology and culture of Christianity in Russia are collected, a new article devoted to our monastery “The largest Ural women’s cloister” was published.
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14.06.2003 |
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The sisters of the monastery icon-painting workshop are laboring to fulfill a crucially important order: they are painting icons for the iconostases of the Cathedral on the Blood.
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31.05.2003 |
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May 31st is the day of commemoration of schema-nun Evfrosiniya (Mezenova) who is frequently simply called Annushka, and who is venerated in our abode.
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26.05.2003 |
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On the 26th of May a remarkable event taking place no more than several times during life of one cloister occurred: a newly restored church was consecrated in a new metochion. The church was consecrated by Vikenty, the Archbishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye.
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22.05.2003 |
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The first bishop’s vestments have been made at the sewing workshop of our monastery.
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08.04.2003 |
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With participation of the Ekaterinburg All Saints Charity Fund icons painted by the nuns of the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery have been donated to some churches in Russia and abroad.
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26.03.2003 |
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The archives obedience was established in the monastery only last year. First we only had a list of nuns who used to inhabit the monastery. But with kind assistance of the people who have responded to the request of the monastery archives this list is gradually being enlivened with stories of sisters’ lives; we come to know their lifestories, their characters and episodes from their lives.
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30.01.2003 |
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The sisters from the sewing workshop have finished their first embroidered gonfalon for the army church.
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