31 October / 13 November
The holy Monastery of the Kiev Caves is rich in saints who labored within its blessed walls. Today, the Church celebrates the memory of two more monks, even three, who pleased God with their holy lives. But these two men are particularly special.
The Monastery of the Kiev Caves
It is not uncommon for the lives of many Christian saints to seem too lofty an example for us to follow - they were strong in the face of persecutions but we are weak, they were learned in divine mysteries but we are ignorant, they were great ascetics but we struggle just to snack less. In our previous post, we talked about how confusing and complicated Christian praxis may seem, and how there are, nonetheless, beautiful examples of simplicity that give us hope. The saints celebrated today offer to us another example of sanctity in simplicity.
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