A collection of conversations with the wives of priests — women who have fully devoted themselves to the ministry.
A priest is like a soldier: where he is sent to serve, he will go there, and to which parish he will be assigned, he will stand there. And on all the paths, the priest is accompanied by his wife: this is a marriage forever, which is usually followed by a painful rejection of the usual way of life. “It was the very inevitable event that I was so afraid of,” one of the heroines of the book “Matushki”, which contains conversations with the wives of priests, tells about the ordination of her husband. “I walked around the temple and sobbed, because the huge responsibility and the complete change of life cannot but shock.” All destinies are different, characters are not simple, but all these women are united by their willingness to be close to their husbands both in difficulties and in joy. What is love? call of Duty? Christian ministry? The book of the journalist Ksenia Luchenko is about this.
Nikea, 368 p.