Notes of the writer of the elder. 4th ed. (Per.). Smirnova T.S.

The author of the book Tatyana Sergeeva Smirnova is a person who knew closely the elder and confessor of the Pskov-Pechersky monastery Archimandrite John (peasant). For many years she was his assistant, a cell and a writer. Based on the distant 1969, the Providence of God to the monastery and met the Father John there, she became one of his faithful spiritual children. Incidentally, obediently next to the elder from 1981 to his death in 2006, she was a witness to the innermost spiritual life of her mentor.

Memories of T. S. Smirnova, previously unknown pages of the life of Father John, reveal to the reader, They also show how the Providence of God is invisible, relentlessly and graciously present in our life.

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