Another world?
Я заметила сегодня вечером в церкви, как святые изображенные на больших иконах, св. патриарх Тихон и св. Герман Аляскинский присутствовали с самого начала и до конца на этой удивительно светлой и печальной службе. Светлой, потому, что пост кончился, а печальной, потому что осталось прожить, наверно целую жизнь, чтобы увидеть Воскресение. Их присутствие было не как видение, они просто стояли, как живые, только не вещественные. Именно живое, и именно нематериальное. Какая необыкновенная служба - когда я шла домой, я почти ничего не видела вокруг себя. То есть не видела вещественного, видела только живое.
I noticed tonight at church that the saints - st. Patriarch Tikhon and st. German of Alaska painting on the large icons, were present from the very beginning till the end at this astoundingly light and sad service. Light, because the lent is over, but sad because it seems we have the whole life to pass to the meeting with Christ in Resurrection. Their presence was not as any special vision - they were just staying like alive but only not material. Namely there was the alive, but not the material. What wondrous service - when I was coming back home, I nearly didn't see any things around. Indeed I didn't see things but only alive presence.
I could hardly explain this. It was sharp spiritual reality. For someone perhaps its frightening and terrible but indeed why? As I was shown today two are not two but one and have always been one.
I noticed tonight at church that the saints - st. Patriarch Tikhon and st. German of Alaska painting on the large icons, were present from the very beginning till the end at this astoundingly light and sad service. Light, because the lent is over, but sad because it seems we have the whole life to pass to the meeting with Christ in Resurrection. Their presence was not as any special vision - they were just staying like alive but only not material. Namely there was the alive, but not the material. What wondrous service - when I was coming back home, I nearly didn't see any things around. Indeed I didn't see things but only alive presence.
I could hardly explain this. It was sharp spiritual reality. For someone perhaps its frightening and terrible but indeed why? As I was shown today two are not two but one and have always been one.