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Summer meetings at the Nikolsky Compound in Vezhny-2026translated

July 28, 2026 · 1 min read

From July 20 to July 26, 2026, Summer meetings of the senior and middle groups of the Sunday School of the Holy Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery in Brest were held at the Nikolsky Metochion in the village of Vezhnoye.

The meetings began with a prayer service for the beginning of the case in the Summer Church of the Holy Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery in Brest. By 10.00 the guys arrived in the village of Vezhnoye, where they began setting up tents, collecting firewood, and arranging a site for a tent camp.

Each day began with joint morning prayers and ended with evening prayers. Every day, the pupils performed obedience in the courtyard, participated in rehearsals, games, plunged into the spring, watched films together and discussed them, and in the evening they talked around the fire. The basic obediences in the yard are the simplest - wash the dishes, peel potatoes, pick berries and apples, stack firewood, clean the area, water the lawns.

On the very first day—July 20—pupils of the senior and middle groups of the monastery’s Sunday school took part in an evening service, after which a meeting with Priest Pavel Kravchuk “On Obedience” took place around the fire.

On Tuesday, the pupils visited the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Pruzhany and the museum attached to it. The excursion was conducted by priest Dionisy Popov, and…

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Vladimir IlićIt’s good that the children started and finished prayer every day, and not just performed obedience. I especially liked that peeling potatoes and picking berries was a real thing, not just games. I wonder how many potatoes they ended up peeling in a week?
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