Father Arseny, 1893-1973 Icon Figure_Gabriel the Archangel Father Arseny lived by injunction

Father Arseny lived by injunction to "bear one another's burdens

Thus wrote Archimandrite Sophrony

Pure beeswax Paschal candles decorated by the sisters of the monastery with the inscription of Christ is risen in Greek

For Paschal hymns and services see also The Pentecostarion

he is honored as the greatest among those born of women and the last of the Old Testament prophets

Father Arseny, 1893-1973 Icon Figure_Gabriel the Archangel Father Arseny lived by injunctionFather Arseny, Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father It is one of the great mysteries of life that in atmospheres of the harshest cruelty, a certain few not only survive but emerge as beacons of light and life. Father Arseny, former scholar of church art, became Prisoner No. 18736 in the brutal "special sector" of the Soviet prison camp system. In the darkness of systematic degradation of body and soul, he shone with the light of Christ's peace and