Lida residents, led by a diocesan clergyman, made a pilgrimage to Valaamtranslated

In August, with the blessing of Bishop Porfiry of Lida and Smorgon, a pilgrimage trip to the island of Valaam was organized. Led the pilgrimage a group of clerics of the Lida Church of All Saints, Priest Oleg Repetsky.

The pilgrims traveled on the boat for about an hour. While still on the water, Valaam met the pilgrims with its beauty and grandeur, coniferous forests growing on the rocks, the northern Karelian nature and the visible Transfiguration Monastery is one of the most ancient monasteries of Russia. It is not for nothing that the island is called “Northern Athos”.

Stepping onto the land of the monastery, one cannot help but remember the hymn of the Valaam Monastery: “Oh, wonderful island of Valaam! The hand of Divine destiny has erected here the abode of paradise, the abode highest purity..."

On the first day of their stay on the island, the pilgrims visited St. Nicholas Skete, evening service. And on the second day we visited Divine Liturgy in the main shrine of the monastery - the Transfiguration Cathedral, where the revered shrines are located - the relics of St. Sergius and Herman of Valaam - the founders of the monastery, where they confessed and received communion.

Then the pilgrims had an excursion to the hegumen cemetery. The road to it leads along fir and deciduous alleys. IN…