"Everyday Saints and Other Stories" by Archimandrite Tikhon
Georgy (Tikhon) Shevkunov was a graduate of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in USSR, part of the creative elite, which greatly influenced the artistic depth and vividness of his future work. He joined the Church in the late 1970s and became a spiritual son of the renowned elder, Father John (Krestiankin), he was tonsured a monk at the Pskov-Caves Monastery - the place that would later become the heart and main character of his writings. Today, he is the Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov!
"Everyday Saints" is a collection of stories and tales from life within the Pskov-Caves Monastery, and encounters with the most diverse people. Through them, the author reveals a central idea: sainthood is not the lot of a chosen few but the goal to which every Christian is called, each walking their own path, often full of falls and mistakes.
1 Peter 1:15
As he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct
The heroes of the sketches are not canonized saints but living people: monks, laypeople, intellectuals, soldiers, and simple workers. Some amaze with their humility and wisdom, like Elder John (Krestiankin), whose image becomes the spiritual core of the book. Others bring a smile with their human weaknesses. But in each of them, we see a reflection of the image of God, sometimes through the most unexpected and even comical circumstances.
The book also honestly shows the inner life of the Church during the complex Soviet period. It is a valuable testimony to how faith was preserved and strengthened in spite of persecution, not thanks to comfortable conditions
Noww, this book is a bestseller from 2011, and as I mentioned - it centers around the Pskov-Caves Monastery, the place I wrote about yesterday
Furthermore, the new cathedral in Sretensky Monastery was build mainly on the funds from selling this book! I wrote about that place too, a while ago
READ THE BOOK, IT'S GREAT ! ! !
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