About an hour outside of Moscow is the St Sergius Monastery, for almost 1000 years an important center of Russian Orthodoxy pilgrimage and education. I have never seen such piety as was expressed the day I visited there. The building are beautiful, there are many priests, monks, and nuns about (there is a seminary attached), but what was most interesting was the attitude of the many Russians who were visiting there. An extremely worth-while side trip and a good introduction to Russian Orthodoxy.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Trinity St Sergius Monastery
About an hour outside of Moscow is the St Sergius Monastery, for almost 1000 years an important center of Russian Orthodoxy pilgrimage and education. I have never seen such piety as was expressed the day I visited there. The building are beautiful, there are many priests, monks, and nuns about (there is a seminary attached), but what was most interesting was the attitude of the many Russians who were visiting there. An extremely worth-while side trip and a good introduction to Russian Orthodoxy.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment