Prayer of the Optina Elders

“Only our cowardice makes our hearts tremble at the sight of this bodily death. And only the moment of the exit of the soul from the body, only it is both difficult and terrible. And there and now there is peace, eternal peace, eternal joy … a meeting with those dear to the heart, the sight of those whom they already loved here, whom they prayed to, with whom they lived in communion ”

Sokolov Vasily Alexandrovich, archpriest, holy martyr

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