“Those elders lived with no phone, no internet, and often completely isolated in deserts, mountains and forests. They went weeks and months without seeing anyone, and without the gift of the Divine Liturgy. In that isolation they grew intensely close to God in ways we cannot begin to imagine. We have read their lives and admired them, but this year we have had the opportunity to put their example into practice.”
(From ‘The Veil’ of Protection of the Holy Virgin Monastery)