Assembly of the Holy Archangel Gabriel ( 08.04.2006 )
Today, when the
“The Birthgiver of God with Her own example and experience—with Her very Self—has given forever to the whole venerable monastic rank a model of a concentrated and attentive life of the inner man, so that monastics can—shunning the world, resembling Her—be fervent in the monastic feats and mind-and-heart prayer, everyone within his own abilities and strength, but also through the prayers of the Most Pure Virgin, so as to follow Her to the very end.” (A
