smikh2009.03.30 [12:40]
original txt: http://www.ierusalim.ru/mon.php
smikh2009.03.30 [12:38]
Voskresensky stavropigalny New Jerusalem Monastery is unlike any of the churches known to me. He, in fact, not only Russian, but universal, worldwide, and even nadmirny image of something incomprehensible - the great, unearthly. To penetrate the mystery of New Jerusalem Monastery in our time is seeking more and more people.
Abode is beautiful in fine a day when the dome of the main temple of the Resurrection heavenly fire burns Moscow sun. In the reflected glow is brighter. Does not the image of the Eternal Sun of Truth, nezahodyaschimi beams illuminating heavenly Jerusalem?
It's permeated with eternal meaning and especially not by chance. We are now coming to the eastern gate, through which Christ entered Jerusalem, warm April evening, dusk thicken. On the southern wall of a monastery, away, blaze glow of fire, heard a heavy blow, to remember, Palestine, Israeli tanks deposition Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the fires of Middle East wars.
Over three hundred and fifty years, a moment of eternity that swept over New Jerusalem, Russia is unlikely to become closer to Christ. Then, in the middle of XVII century, the distinctive Orthodox civilization has faced almost insurmountable obstacles to its already long history. The only heir of Orthodox Byzantine emperor Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Tishayshy realized a sovereign patron and protector of all Orthodox Christians. In the royal palaces were built plans of conquest of Constantinople and Jerusalem, the release of the infidels and the Byzantine Holy Land.
