349. Речь Благочестивейшей Государыне Императрице Марии Александровне, пред вступлением в Свято-Троицкую Сергиеву Лавру

(Said on August 12th; printed in the Works of the Holy Father, in the Moscow Gazette, 1858, and in the collection, 1861) 861 Most pious Empress! Having already welcomed You with joy many times, the monastery of St. Sergius now has a new increase in this joy in the memory that the love of Your Imperial Majesties for St. Sergius was pleased to enter into a new spiritual union with him, through the perception of his blessed name for Your Blessed Son. Moreover, we believe and hope that your prayer, in communion with his heavenly prayer, will reach the heavenly throne of grace, and will bring down new blessings of the Most Holy Trinity on you and on your blessed Family. The rector of the Lavra, the Metropolitan of Moscow, due to illness, could not participate in the meeting of Her Majesty at the gates of the Lavra, but met her at the entrance to the Trinity Cathedral and had the good fortune to greet her in the following expressions: See Creation. St. Ot. 1858 Book. 3rd, art. The highest visit to the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra. You might be interested in: