A year ago I have welcomed the first snow on a business trip outside Moscow. This year, the first snow came when I was in Sergiyev Posad. Perhaps it was snowing was there before. But I was not there. The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius it is especially tranquil when it’s snowing. And when during mass they turned off electric light, it seemed like with the candles’ flame nothing will distract from thoughts about God, you… From the side of Saint Sergiy Radonezhsky relic special warmth is felt… The mass has ended and… chaos began! The crowd rushed to relics. Crushing, exclaiming «let me though!», «you weren’t standing here!», «these bros came here to ask a few more billions»,… I thought, Saint Sergiy Radonezhsky is looking at us right now and it praying infinitely for us, sinful people… And my soul feels better from his protection.

Konstantin Y. Smolentsev
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