A Movie About Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna

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White Duchesses 01

youtu.be/mH6SpJzPq9o

White Duchesses 02

youtu.be/WpyupQIDwmQ

 

 

Елисавета Феодоровна Романова.
(худ. М. Нестеров.)

Translated from Russian

A Movie About Elizabeth Feodorovna (Published by "Patriot" in 1989.).

• Jul. 10th, 2013 at 12:58 PM

This is the first movie about the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, who became a martyr for the faith, an amazing Christian Saint embodying in her life in practical terms those Gospel values which are so touching and pleasing a man's soul, helping turn it Christ-loving and which [values] are so much hated by the enemies of Light.

The film is short, simple, and somewhat naive; seen in it is the remodeled Soviet propaganda ["agitprop"], which, however, is non-sophisticated and ingenuous – to me it is much more pleasant than the subsequent "patriotic" and "spiritual" copies the last times, with some sort of artsy beautifulness and deviation after "high spirituality" and " killers' brutality".

By the way, he who will watch the first shots: note the complete absence of any fences and other walling in the city's streets. (Ant that in Moscow, downtown!) And just think how much has changed since 1989! ....

Monks' Alphabet to ease the Jesus prayer

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'Translated' from Polish
(thank you, reader Martin!)

Monks' Alphabet 

Rejoice monk, and once again I say – rejoice, the first [is] this.        
 

Rejoice monk, obedience, and again I say, rejoice always monk, Lord's second [is] this.         
 

Close up the cell,         
And in this way, the monastery will rejoice.
 

Always rejoice monk, I'll say it a third time,  
 

Pray monk          
All the monastery rejoice with you, monk!   
 

Always rejoice, monk, I'll say it for the fourth time.        
 

A fifth and final, listen monk        
 

If you experience a difficulty, catfish, if you fall into despair – do not lose hope,
do not retire, do not be weary, exhibit no faint-heartedness,
 

And when you need to, prostrate little bro.  
And so all the monastery rejoice with you, monk. 

"Te-Ri-Rem" – a Byzantine meaningless song during whose performance monks make the Jesus prayer.

CLICK for the text of the song in Greek along with neumatical writing –
(done by reader Martin!)