Fr. Artemii

Novo-Diveevo is closed to visitors until further notice.

Христос Воскресе! / Christ has Risen!

Dear brothers and sisters,

We remind everyone that restrictions due to the Coronavirus pandemic are still in effect in Novo-Diveevo. The cathedral, small church, adult home, cemetery and the entire territory of the convent will continue to be closed to visitors until further notice. Subsequently, all events and visitations on Radonitsa are cancelled and entry into to the convent is also restricted.

We are looking forward toward an ease of the restrictions that we are hoping will come into effect in another several weeks. In the meantime, we continue to serve the full cycle of services and pray for all of you. Here you can submit a prayer request, including for Radonitsa: http://novo-diveevo.org/prayer-request-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83

Great and Holy Friday: Sermon before the Shroud.

“Say ye, His disciples…stole Him away.” So said the high priests to the soldiers when they notified them of what had happened in the tomb. Starting in verse 12 of the 28th chapter of Matthew, it says: “And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole Him away while we slept. And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. So they took the money and did as they were taught; and this story has been spread [and is being spread] among the Jews to this day” … to this day … to this day. And over Jewish life fell darkness, malice, deviousness — darkness.

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Palm Sunday. Sermon by Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

Brothers and sisters! So the Holy Church indicates for us spiritual spring. Winter is over. Ended is the state in which our heart was like ice, as if dead in languor, thirsting for Grace. And now, during the past six weeks the sun has been warming us more and more, and nature has gradually started to come back to life. And so our heart too should have come back to life.

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Fifth Sunday: St. Mary of Egypt.

“This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting (Mk. 9:29). So if you will remember, last Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Great Lent, the Gospel proclaimed to us: “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” What is “this kind’?

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