SERBIAN TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH

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New Stienik monastery
Serbia
Fathers, brothers and sisters, take a look of the three videos of the monastery celebration: the Birth of the St. John the Baptist - IVANDAN 2009.

[asthione]

From: Fr Steven Allen
Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:18 AM
Subject: the monastery of Novi Stjenik
To: frsteven

Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. Spyridon,

Many of you now know that my daughter, Sara Elizabeth, has become a novice in the monastery of Novi Stjenik in Serbia, the only women's monastery in Serbia under the Synod of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece. These heroic nuns were brutally evicted from the historic Stjenik monastery when they stopped commemorating the local bishop of the ecumenist state church of Serbia. They are confessors of the Faith, and it is a great joy and privilege that our daughter is now numbered among them.

I have attached an account of how Mother Efrosinja, the abbess, and her sisterhood were violently removed from their monastery in 2003. Note that most of the hoodlums involved were priests: 200 of them, against 8 nuns, whom they coarsely insulted and manhandled. Note that they re-consecrated the church where our priest, Fr. Akakije, had served. So...

The "loving" ecumenists "love" the powerful and wealthy non-Orthodox leaders, whom they praise and say lovely words to in their "dialogues," but they hate the tiny, powerless remnant of True Orthodox, whom they insult, beat, and persecute in various ways. They are all smiles and full of "love" until you challenge them, and then they become monsters. It is evident whom they serve.

They will have "inter-faith" (i.e., heretical) services in Orthodox altars, which they do not then re-consecrate, but if a True Orthodox priest serves on an altar, they will re-consecrate it.

It is clear then, from their own actions, that they are of one "faith" with the non-Orthodox, and they are not of the Faith of the true Orthodox.

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The account I have attached is a rough English translation, which we plan to edit before publishing it in finished form.   But it struck me so forcibly in its present form that I do not hesitate to pass it along. 

It is later than we think.

with love in Christ,
Fr. Steven

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[Anastasios]

I'd like to delete your attachment and have it reposted without the zip because people, virus scan programs, etc., inherently distrust zip. If you can still edit your post, please do so; if not, let me know, and I will change the attachment. Thanks!

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I deleted the zip file, but I cannot upload another attachment because the extensions pdf doc txt are not allowed...

[Martha]

Believe the following may be the text of the link that you had posted. I received this from Father Steven and found it very enlightening. May God have mercy on the TOC in Serbia and especially these true confessing nuns.
In Christ,
Martha

Sisterhood of Monastery Saint John the Baptist
STJENIK, mountain Jelica, Serbia

PUBLIC NOTICE
Regarding our lawless and abduct eviction from the monastery

SHORT HISTORY OF THE MONASTERY
Monastery Stjenik is the legacy of the Mrnjavčević family (XIV century). From the beginning, martyrdom and confession pervade the history of its inhabitants. One historian claims that the sole foundation of the monastery (dedicated to the birth of Saint John the Baptist) is filled with the martyr blood of the monks - confessors. Because of their orthodox confession, Jovan Stjenik as well as a great many Serbian monks, have perished from this holy ground. They were tortured most dreadfully, burnt alive and beheaded by the agnostic Turkish hand. It was from this monastery that Saint djakon Abakuk and abbot Pajsije started confessing the faith of Christ, with props on their shoulders, singing: ”There is no better faith than the christian, the Serb belongs to Christ, he joys to death”. In this holy monastery started the famous rebellion of Hadži-Prodan, which was suppressed in blood. During this time, a thick dark cloud of sacrilegious Turks, overcast Serbia. The Turks were conducting the “wholly” war Džihad, against the orthodox Christians, inspired by their father Satan.
The monastery was torn down to the ground several times. Before World War I, hieromartyr Nikolaj Žički, reconstructed it and settled in it nun Julijana. He made her a nun and was also her spiritual father. Due to the fact that, during the war the monastery served as a hideout for chetnics of general Draža Mihajlović, the monastery was once again torn down, first on behalf of the German Nazis, and afterwards by the Serbian communists. It was thanks to Saint bishop Nikolaj who established the retention of orthodox religion with nun Julijana, as well as non-compromising attitude towards the heathens. He also taught her how to maintain the holy tradition, which she sincerely passed on to our sisterhood.
Until recently monastery Sjenik was completely derelict. MotherJulijana lived totally forgotten, in the deep deserted forest on mountain Jelica, until the first novice came. Very often she did not have bread. The first novice to the monastery was today abbess mother Efrosinija. Ever since we came to this sanctity, we have tried to live as our holy fathers have taught, never seeking any worldly pleasure, which we have seen in other places. In time we came to realize the situation of our other diocese, of the official Serbian church. The spiritual fathers and clergy had damaged us spiritually, more than they had enabled us spiritual purification and transformation. Baptisms as well as other holy sacraments were inconsiderately distorted and corupted. In such a surrounding and under such spiritual guidance, we could not anymore see ourselves as nuns. Along with this slowly in front of us a terrible apostasy and fall of our church into the heresy of ecumenism was revealing itself. By the time we could not see any other way out, we refused obedience to the archimandrite Benjamin, avoid all the other priests of the official Serbian church. At that moment we were proclaimed improper, dangerous and delusional. Many believers were told during sermons not to come to our monastery Sjenik. We cried out prayers to the Lord, along with the regular fasting, begging him to help us come out of the apostasy darkness and lead us to his unspotted bride – The One and Holy Apostolic Minster Church, which has nothing in common with the new apostates: ecumenists, newcalendarists, newpashalists and other Gods enemies, with the God - fighting judaists and masons in charge. Following in the steps of holy martyr bishop Nikolaj (which had stopped communicating with the Belgrade patriarchy, during the rule of the communist patriarch German)we decided to leave the apostasy jurisdiction of the Serbian church, even though ecumenism had not yet gained ground. We started searching for a way out, together with fast and ardent prayers.
We seeked for affiliation but with those who don`t participate in the treason of Christ’s truth – the holy Orthodoxy. We seeked for those who are not creating a new religion with the Antichrist as its pontiff, a religion which is now arising trough the monstrous heretic organization of the World Council of Church’s
In our search there was an option of turning over to the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, but as soon as we got familiar with its pitiful condition and the ecumenical course of propinquity with the official apostasies of orthodoxy it is performing, we turned to the Russian catacombians and Greek Old calendarists. But since there is a great intrigue on power in Russia and it is almost impossible to contact canonic followers of the Russian catacombians, we decided to seek help from the Greek followers of the tradition. Soon we heard about the metoh of the svetogorski monastery Esfigmen on Fruska Gora and also that Serbia has a true orthodox jurisdiction, which has a canonical apostolic succession from the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, from its famous confessionary period, precisely, from the newly glorified confessor Saint Filarte (Voznesenky).
Our prayers were answered, and words can not explain our happiness when we finally came in touch with the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Serbia, in particular hieromonk Akakije. He especially helped us in making the first steps towards true Orthodoxy: helping us in ending contacts with the Serbian Church and accede with the true orthodox bishop. The first time we met our present spiritual leader, jeromonch Akakije, thanks to Gods mercy, we received a truly orthodox spiritual guide and from that moment on we were able to receive the holy sacraments, and without them salvation is impossible. We started with the basis of salvation – Baptism, since we had all been baptized in a unorthodox and anti canonic manner: by splashing or spilling. After the baptism, the sisters who were nuns received The Great Angel “Obraz” – The Schema. Before all this we confessed truthfully for the first time, and after the baptism we took the holy sacraments almost every day. Strengthened or even better revived by the boon of God, we decided to confess a stop to the communication with the ecumenists, by a public notice in which we explained reasons which led us to this decision. We sent the document to our ex-competent bishop Chrysostom of Banat and Zicha, archimandrite Venjaminu, and the clergy of Čačak.
Bishop Chrysostom was informed about what was happening in the monastery before the document was handed to him, so his reaction was unexpectedly fast and incredibly brutal.
The contents of the document follows:

“The sisterhood of the monastery of Saint John the Baptist – Stjenik.
We are informing the bishops, the clergy and monk hood in the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church that our monastery Stjenik (all of the sisterhood) is putting an end to the every communion of prayer with you.
To this decision we had not come hastily or unthoughtfully. Having taken in mind the present situation of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), as well as other local churches, our orthodox consciousness does not permit us further contact with you. The reasons for this decision are as follows:

1. The anticanonical ordinance of “patriarch” German, on behalf of the Tito - communist God government.
2. The Serbian Orthodox Church as an organic member, remained in the Antichrist heretical organization – The World Church Council, the heresy of ecumenism(interrogation and praising together with the heretics) for several years.
3. Full euchristic communion with the apostates from the Holy Orthodoxy: sergiansts (Moscow patriarchate), new calendarists new paschalists, and also with the heretics monofisits anathematised by the four Ecumenical Councils.
4. Taking of the anathema from 1054, against the popes heresy, even though the Roman pope remained unrepented of all his innovations. Also, the forming of a union between all the orthodox churches and the Catholic church. Complete acknowledgement of the Catholic church as a sisterly church, as well as acknowledgement of its sacraments.
5. Charging the conductions of Holy Sacraments (simony).
6. Mutilation of the holy sacraments with the Latin practice of splashing or spilling.
   After a long search for a way out of your jurisdiction, which has completely fallen into heresy of ecumenism, without any hope that it will get out of it, we have decided to join the only canonical and orthodox jurisdiction in Serbia – the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Serbia under the archbishop Omofor of Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece, whose first-hierarch is his holiness Archbishop of Athens, Chrysostom II.
   Since serbian monasteries were obviously not built for ecumenists – those who withdraw from the of Saint Savva way and Orthodoxy, but also having in mind that monks and nuns are supposed to maintain sacraments, and never to hand them into the hands of enemies of God, we shall continue to live in our monastery and would leave it only if some one would force us out of it.
   We do not acknowledge the church court and we shall not answer to its calling, nor will any verdicts of this court be valid for us.
   Because of our solid attitude to continue the confession of the holy Orthodoxy, we are ready to die, with the help of God.
   This notice is unanimously signed, without force or any interest, but with solid faith in the Lord, Mother of God, our patron Saint John the Baptist, Saint Sava, Saint martyr Avakum djakon, and the rest of the confessionary martyr of Stjenik.
   (Below are the signatures of all eight sisters and the monastery stamp)
   In the Saint Monastery Stjenik, Year 2003.
   Upon the the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross

THE BEGINNING OF THE http://vimeo.com/4817391In a chronological order of events

Monday, October 6th 2003. Conception of Saint John the Forerunner
Brother Stefan who had been baptized together with his family and had joined the True Orthodoxy, went to the eparchy to hand over the notice of the Stjenik nuns, to the bishop Chrysostom. On his way he passed a delegation from the eparchy, which was urgently sent to Stjenik, by Chrysostom himself. The delegation consisted of the following members: eparchy secretary jerej Toma, archimandrite Venjamin, abbot of the Preobraženje monastery, scorer jerej Ljubiša from Mataruška Banja and abbess Jelena from Žiča. The delegation arrived at Stjenik almost at the same time as brother Stefan hadned the notice from the sisters to the bishop. After a brief talk, all four members of the delegation decidedthat we should immediately be evited, even with the help of the police if neccessary. They threatened, telling us that they would beat us with sticks if we didnt repent and kiss the bishops, as they said, »holy« right hand, never the less, with a certain epithimy.
All of the nuns and novices attended this conversation with the delegation. We have this unanimous attitude that we will consistently follow the Tradition of the Holu Fathers, and none of us have any dilemma whether we should repent before anz episcope of the ecumenist Serbian Orthodox Church. Having taken such a firm attitude, we were faced with insults, blackmail, all together with the most common ecumenist phrase:” You have no appeasement, you are not obedient”.
During this conversation, if it can be called a conversation at all, a record had been taken in which everything we beleive in is stated: From the part that we do not ackowledge the church authorities of the official Serbian church nor her boon, up to the part that we had been properly baptised (not agin!)
Each and every one of us signed that document gladly, and soon the delgation angrily left the monastery, threatening us we wouldn`t see the morning. Being afraid that they would corrupted the altar, which was already holyfide and the Holy Eucharisty been held inside, we didnt unlock the church for them, and that got them extremly upset. Honestly, we have never seen such hatered and scorning, and especially not from people who were untill recently our shepards.
Meanwhile, in the heart of the diocese of Zicha in Kraljevo, brother Stefan, as we have already said, was giving our notice to bishop Chrysostom. By the vladikas command the notice was read out the to some preists, who were there at that moment, by the abot of Studenica. The more he read on, his voice changed, and he could hardly finish reading. Together with the notice, a photocopy from vladikas latest book, with which he presented himself to the diocese of Zicha, and were he also recommends the popes calendar, whilst making fun out of the holy-fathers calendar. We had sent our notice to other eparchies as well, and the end of the day came together with so many phone calls, from »soul-caring« priests and other religious people, from the eparchy, trying to convince us to change our minds and repent.

Tuesday, October 7th 2003. First martyr Tekla – the last peacefull morning in our monastery.
We started the day with Liturgy, which was held by father Akakije, and finished at dawn. The Liturgy was very soul-stirring for all. We presentimented we would not stay in our beloved monastery for much longer. It was as if we were already parting with the relics of the Stjenik martyrers, which were stored in the monastery temple. It was as if we were parting from our spiritual teacher, mother Julijana, her grave and from the whole sacrement of Stjenik. And no longer did any earthly tie us to the ground, we were all facing the sky. The Jevandjelje and Apostol of this day implied awesome events which took place a few hours later.
While we were enjoying our last moments after the Liturgy, the peace of mountain Jelica was disturbed by sounds of Cacak police cars, carrying officers, but without their uniforms. They insisted the abess came with them to the Chief of the police. Mother Efrosinija and one more nun, took our car and returned from this interview for about three hours. The confused but friendly Chief, tried to convince the mother Efrosinija to persuade the sisterhood to change their attitude about parting from the official church. Being that the Chief did not understan the problems and reasons for the decision of the sisters, who are even ready to be evicted from the monastery, after a long persuassion, together thez went to see the mare Mr. Velja Ilić. He also said that it was no time for changes or reactions to the policies of the SOC. He begged mother Efrosinija to apologise to the bishop, and convenced her that he would try to brighten up the bishop. Of course mother Efrosinija did not accept this offer even after several hours of convincing. She turned back to the monstery. When she stopped at the gas station, unexpectedly she was surrounded by four cars, full of priests, yelling out loud and expressing thier unsatisfaction.
It seemed that the eparchian djakon Rados, who was among them, had the leading role and he was the one everyone was listening to. This will come to light later on during the brutal eviction of the sisters.
Mother Efrosinija sat in the car and tried to get away from them, but she couldnt because they followed her all the way to the monastery: with two cars in front and two behind. When they arriver to the monstery the pursuit began. The ones of us who stayed in the monastery begged father Akakije to move deeper into the forest, fearing his stay in the monastery could be very dangerous. After a short urging, father Akakije and monk David, a brother from the metochion of the monastery Esphigmenou from Fruska Gora, hid in the forest Jelica. Very soon a large number of vehicles filled the not so small parking in front of the monastery. In the beggining there were about 50 priests in the courtyard of the monastery together with a hundred incouraged laypeople. As time went by the number of went up to 200 bystanders. They insisted to come inside the church at once, what we enabled them imediately. They had all come to frighten eight nuns and make them change their minds, or to through them out of the monastery. 200 men vs 8 nuns! Almost all of them were convinced that they were doing a good thing by evicting the nuns. From the start they provoked and were agresive with the small and unprotected sisterhood. They holyfide the church which was by their words discacrecide by schismatics. This was never done after joint prayers with the heretics or after popeists and anglicans entered their altars. In the western world it is common to using altar holy table with various heretics, without the holyfide of the dissacrecide table. Finaly when they came out of the temple having finished the ceremony, and when the provocation became vulgar, the nuns unanimously sang the begining of Davids Psalter: »The bless is the man….«
Hearing the nuns sing the priests went into the church to serve the All-night vigil which lasted for half an hour. Afterwards they came out to the courtyard, lit their cigarettes and started a new attack aimed at the nuns.
It seems they were actually, just preparing everything for the arrival of the bishop. Even though there was only a few truly beleiving orthodox people with the nuns, strengthening them, the vladika was afraid to come so the priests were informing him what was going on in the monastery on cellular telephones. They`re fear was so big that they incouraged one police officer to ask the nuns if it is true that they are armed?!!
Among the civilians which came with the clergy, there were some suspicious characters. As soon as thay found out that father kakije was hiding they turned towards the forest above the monastery. They were armed with chains with a big lock hanging at the ends. Gods miracle saved him. They searched the nearby forest several timessearching for two monks. Theyre sanguinary and readiness to take a life with one look was so obvious, and it seemed they had permission for this. The agressive bishops followers pushed the nuns down the stairs, wherever they came upon them, even shoved the severly ill nun Anisia. A couple of hours later vladika Chrysostom came. As he was getting out of his car, surrounded by bodyguards, priests welcomed him in a bolshevic manner, with a song and church bells. Having come out of the temple, standing with a sceptre in his hand, he asked for the abess insisting no one else comes near. The priests roughly drew her away from the sisters and took her to the bishop making a human wall, so that no one could approach her. Surrounded mother Efrosinija was standing alone, like a sheep brought to a wolf to be slauthered. The obviously upset episcope, asked mother Efrosinija whether she acknowledgdes the Serbian Orthodox Church, and to the surprise of all gathered she admitted. She also answered the second question whether she would be obedient affirmatively. At that moment she continued to confess her acknowledgement of the Serbian Orthodox Chruch and complete obedience, but not to thier ecumenist Serbian Church. She said she would not obey them, stating that the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Serbia are the Genuine Serbian Orthodox Church and that she will obey only the true arrchiepiscope Chrysostom – the Old calendar. The vladika, full of fury started yelling: »Sieze the monastery!« In ten minutes the monastery quarters was invaded with vladikas followers – mirjana and the clergy. From that moment on the quarters all together with their personal things, were inapproachable for the nuns. They started singing »God have mercy« happily in the confessings inspiration making a signe of holy cross.
Deakon from Žiča, approached mother and the nuns and told them to leave the monastery. Mother said that they would not do such a thing unless they were shown some kind of a lawfull document. Instead of an expected lawfull document, they received several hours of torment, mental harassement, insults...
Meanwhile, the personal belogings of the nuns were wrapped into sheets and thrown out of the monastery courtyard. The sisters begged the pursuers to take some of the belongings from the cells, like a pump for asmatics, which one of the sisters needs badly. Insulting them they let them take their things, controlling what they took. The sisters found their cells chaotic, things taken out of the drawers, cupboards openned and everything thown all over the place. By then arrived the locals, living nearby the monastery. They cried watching the 200 maddening people taking out their anger on eight poor confessories.
All the sisters were on the field in front of the monastery, surrounded and without any possibility to take shelter. Continuously they answered to the provocations of the mad agressors, defending the orthodox religion.
Soon a document of their eviction was typed out, without a stamp only with the signature of the vladika Chrysostom. With this so called document, the inspector of the police came to the abess and insisted the sisterhood leave the monastery. Neither the police, nor the town authorities could stop the lawless and agressive eviction of the nuns. Helpless in providing them any lawfull protection, stunned by the agressiveness of the church leader and his servitors, the lawyer said he had never seen such law braking and that he is not able to offer them lawfull protection. As if it was ordered from some more powerfull force the once who wanted to help the nuns had theyre handds tied. The mare himself was called upon by the vladika to enable him and ease the eviction of the nuns. During ll this the police officers were protecting the nuns from being lynched and if it wasnt for them who knows how this story would end.
The sisters moved to a neutral zone, accross the creek, belonging to a public company Srbija Šume, from where their pursuers could not chase them away. The evening had allready come, the sisters stayed on the field, while most of the people had left with the vladika. In the occupied monastery stayed only a few of the bodyguards and priests which soon filled the port of the monastery with cigarette filters. They never stopped watching over the nuns, but mostly they nervously walked through the port, inside and out of the monastery.
The nuns spent the night reading the Psalter and singing spiritual songs by a fire they lit so they wouldnt freeze. The temperature was about zero.
After midnight a gruop of 15 true orthodox christians joined them led by priest Atanasije from Smederevo. The occupators of the monastery were stunned by this unexpected night visit, so they clled the police, which came at once. The police asked for the documents of the newcomers, writting down the serial numbers of their cars. But the visitors hadnt come to make chaos or take over the monastery, they had come to support the nuns.
As the night grew colder and uncertain, the sisters vorried about the fathers hidden in the deep mountain forest. Praise the Lord, who hid the fathers form thier pursuers in the forest dark. At dawn, while dark was still covering mountain Jelica, father Akakije showed up, trying not to be spotted by the police and pursuers. We begged him to leave the mountain while it was still dark, and one of the brothers took him to the city, by car leaving him at a safe place. As for monk David, we didnt know where he was. We found out later that he was hidding in the forest caves for 48 hours. He was without food or water, dressed in thin clothes in the cold mountain night.

Wednesday, October 8th 2003. Feast od Saint Ephrosinia
At dawn the group of truly orthodox christians left the nuns with the blessing of father Akakije. The sisters had not slept, singing the troparion to the saint Efrosinija. They congratulated their abess her name day, and the monk feast
Thanking God for such a beautifull vigile under the stars. They split the feast cake themselves and shared it among each other. It was the first meal they had in 24 hours. They had never had a better and more boony feast. Never had there been so many wanted and unwanted guests.All the sisters were filled with happiness and peace. Its that kind of peace from which orthodoxy gives – peace given only to those who follow the signs of their fathers tradition.
The new inhabitants of our holy family, first of all had a rich breakfast before they went of to the church to serve the Liturgy. On this day, the name day of our mother Efrosinija, in our monastery, the Liturgy is being served by those who sold their faith for dinner and not by the truly orthodox. A song could be heard coming form the hurch: »..Blessed are the, outcast for justice..« We sit under a clear sky and listen a cinical Liturgy of the orthodox ecumenists. We were only a douzen meters away and a small bridge between us. The truly orthodox and the truly nonorthodox. On one side the truly orthodox without food, drink and shelter, praising their Lord Jesus Christ, and on the other food, drink, cigarettes, Liturgy and in the warm monastery quarters. And it started to rain.
Suddenly we noticed father David coming out of the forest walking otwards the monastery, not knowing anything about our eviction. The pursuers imediately went for him, but he managed to escape and come to us. We created a human wall between him and the pursuers. The above mentioned djakon Radoš, openly swore in front of everyone, and addressing Saint Simeon Mirotočivi said he would strangle father David with his bear hands. We pulled out our icons and turned them towards djakon Radoš and his company. At that moment he turned to father David and said that he was lucky this time, having the sisters save him, but that he will not get away the next time.
After this we moved to a bush near the monastery, seeking shelter from the rain.
Our things were still lying all over the field. When the rain stopped, we moved inside a van one of our brothers in Christ left parked in front of the monastery. At that moment it started snowing. This was unbelievable, snow in October! Meanwhile, one of the brothers of the official church came to visit us with his wife and children. We begged him to take father David to Čačak, so he would escape another attack of the beastly pursuers. He accepted, and as soon as they started for Čačak, two eparchy bodyguards hurried after them. Brother Stefan, who was with us all the time, frozen and sleepy, got in his YUGO and managed to get in-between the car in which father David was and the pursuers. Intentionally slowing down he didn’t let them reach father David, and when father David’s car was well out of reach, brother Stefan tried to get away himself, but the slippery roads and lack of rest and sleep stopped him – the car overturned and brother Stefan stayed unconscious. The woman and child came got out the car frightened, and begged the pursuers to help brother Stefan. They did so, giving him mouth-to-mouth first aid, and afterwards taking him to the hospital. While brother Stefan was laying unconscious and suffocating with a brain concussion, a car with archimandrite Benjamin passed him. He saw the very tragic situation but didn’t stop to see if the man was alive, but waited until the people moved him from the road and continued coldly full of contempt.
With him in the car were nuns from the monastery of Holy Meeting, and as we found out later, they were carrying food and beer for the new inhabitants of our monastery, who were smoking and drinking in the monastery dinning room. We heard in the van about brother Stefan’s accident. Fear and uncertainty overcame us, since we did not know how serious his injury was. Two sisters wanted to go with the monastery car to the hospital, but the eparchy servitors wouldn’t let them. We begged them to let the sisters visit brother Stefan and at last they let them. We stayed in the van. We shook from fever and fear for brother Stefan’s life. There is no heating in the van and it is very cold. All of a sudden we loose security. We are not sure what happened to father Akakije and David. Our souls shook with uncertainty. This Wednesday was spiritually the hardest days in a row of unpleasant events. The hours passed. We waited. At last the sisters come with good news. Brother Stefan is alive and well, in hospital. The fathers are safe and sound too. Again we are filled with unexplicable happiness. The sisters brought food from the town, feast consolation. Later on we tried to fall asleep, but we couldn’t since it was so cold. Our teeth chatter. We can see new cars coming and going from the monastery. The archimandrite Benjamin and Timotej from Studenica and off course the bishops assistant, djakon Radoš, are in charge of the new inhabitants. Monks from Studenica have taken our monastery. Antonije from Studenica, Pajsije from Uvce and German also from Studenica came to the monastery. Antonije was to be abbot. This was the new brotherhood of the monastery. They all eat meat, drink while the abbot even smokes.
Late at night one brother in Christ, travels a few miles to come and take us to a temporary hide out. One car with priests follows us, but they stop near the hospital, where we visited brother Stefan, the true orthodox Serb, who condescended to give his life for the truly holy Orthodoxy, protecting the orthodox monk from his pursuers. On our way we noticed one more eparchy docilist following us closely.
Having come to our temporary hide out, we finally rest form our small confessors accomplishment and suffering for Christ’s Truth. We thank God, our Jesus Christ, Saint John the Baptist, monk-martyr John from Stjenik and all the other martyr from Stjenik for enabling us to condescend and confess our faith, our beloved Orthodoxy. And also enabling us to expose the ones who ran away from the Tradition of Holy Fathers.
We hope with all our hearts that the Lord will strength us, so that our lives don’t bring shame on him, our savior. Because Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory of th Father, of the Son, an the Holy Spirit for ever. Amen.

“We shall never give up on you, our beloved Orthodoxy!
We shall never be unfaithful, fathers piety!
We shall never leave you, mother-piety!
We were born in you; in you we live, and in you we shall die.
If the time demands it we shall die a thousand times, for you!”

Composed in the name of sisters evicted from Stjenik monastery,
by schema-nun Nina.

ADDITION
The Golgotha of the sisters continues

Saturday, October 11th Prepodobni Hariton Confessor.
The nuns gained shelter in a family house. Even though it allowed them to rest for two days, and restore the monastic way of life and bogoslu`benog kruga, their temptations continue through threats which constantly kept coming. The biggest tyrrany ccured on Saturday night (October 11th 2003), when two priests tried to persuade the pursuers in a nearby inn to approach the house where the nuns where hidden and try to set it on fire. After a few hours they went away, while a car was parked next to the house, watching over it all night. The nuns await today, Sunday October 12th, afraid of the realization of the threats. This is the last information we have from them.

[asthione]

Believe the following may be the text of the link that you had posted. I received this from Father Steven and found it very enlightening. May God have mercy on the TOC in Serbia and especially these true confessing nuns.
In Christ,
Martha

Yes, thank you very much.

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Dear in Christ, fathers, brothers and sisters, Christ is Risen! Abbess of Serbian True Orthodox monastery Novi Stjenik nun Ephrosiny recently visited USA for two reasons: to established contact between True Orthodox Christians and to collect donation for expansion of living space in monastery Novi Stjenik. During the traveling trough USA it was made few videos that are mixed up in 10 – minutes entity. With pleasure we present you this video clip.

This opportunity we use to wish help from our Lord to new editor of this site fr. Anastasios Hudson.