Father Arseny, 1893-1973 Icon Figure_Gabriel the Archangel Contains: Mountain tea

Contains: Mountain tea

The Oblation Bread and Wine

Thus wrote Archimandrite Sophrony

the means that securely lead to salvation

Father Arseny lived by injunction to "bear one another's burdens

Father Arseny, 1893-1973 Icon Figure_Gabriel the Archangel Contains: Mountain teaFather Arseny, Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father It is one of the great mysteries of life that in atmospheres of the harshest cruelty, a certain few not only survive but emerge as beacons of light and life. Father Arseny, former scholar of church art, became Prisoner No. 18736 in the brutal "special sector" of the Soviet prison camp system. In the darkness of systematic degradation of body and soul, he shone with the light of Christ's peace and