Igumenia Drosida Sorokopud Biography

The Liturgy is an evening service of the winter time in the priests of the monastery - senior priest Archpriest Andrei Cherny - Archpriest Konstantin Ostapenko Trinity -Georgian convent is located in a picturesque place, which harmoniously combines the beauty of nature and beauty, created by man's hands. This amazing place is located very close to the Black Sea: only 20 kilometers from Adler towards Krasnaya Polyana.

In September, the nun Drosid Sorokopud was appointed to the post of abbess. According to the Decree of the Holy Synod of December 28, the confessor of the monastery was appointed rector of the monastery “Cross desert”, Hegumen Lev Gryzun. In the monastery, the sisters are read daily by the full daily circle of worship. On Saturday, Sunday and holidays, the Divine Liturgy, the rank of panagia, prayers and requiem, is performed.

In the monastery, a reading of the vigilant psalter, a daily procession, is performed in the monastery. In emergency days, raising the level of the Psaho River Sisters purely pray and read the akathist Archangel Mikhail. In addition to the temples, the nursing corps, a monastery tea, a border arbor, a decorative pond with water lilies are located on the territory of the monastery.

The subtropical garden of the monastery is similar to the green oasis, which pleases with many subtropical plantations, and in warm times - a variety of flowering plants. Here, fruiting persimmons, plum, iva, citrus and fig trees grow here, as well as olive, eucalyptus, banana, boxwood, palm trees, laurels, myrtle, kiwi, cypressers, oleandra, sequences, cacti of the Opfontation, shit of context, gingo, gingo, gingo, gingo, gingo, gingo, gingo.

Lagistremia, Yukki, Sakura, Japanese lilac, hibiscus, Svirin, Trofoliat, Opel, Lomonos, Hitolaca, Cathedral, Frudmansia, Kuningamia, Hob, Tulip tree, as well as Ozimin, the ceremonies, the beautiful -fruiter of Callicarpa. Invisible life, despite the external gospel and peacefulness, an invisible inner spiritual life is being conducted in the monastery, which is full of difficulties and battle.

Monasticism is an equalangelic way of life, when a person refuses not only all the “joys and amenities” of our earthly world, from previous friendly and related connections, but also from himself, his proud and selfish “I”, under which numerous passions and sinful inclinations are hidden. All this is replaced by a single desire and desire to love one God.

What does it mean and how to love God? Love for God is confirmed and proved by the strict performance of all Christian commandments, as well as complete obedience and humility, observance of the rules of the monastery charter, unceasing prayer. This is the narrow and thorny path that the Lord Jesus Christ instructed us.