Gethsemane Convent/Bethany School

[Barbara]

All the interest generated by Mother Agapia's interview on Christian life in Palestine today leads one to research the Bethany School where she was Principal from 1998-2005.

Since we no longer have a foreign language section, I thought I would post this video ~ "Russian Icon in Bethany" here, as it's in Russian. But the scenes are spiritually educational

[Barbara]

Mother Martha [Wall] [at the time that was her name, Martha], gives two talks to St John the Baptist Cathedral in Wash DC
[she certainly minces no words about the Muslim village around the school...]

[Barbara]

Part 2 is here. Starts out the same way so one can skip ahead.

At the trapeza, Mother Martha speaks standing next to then Bishop Nicholas, now Met Nicholas of Rocor-MP