Nowhere can they "breathe" so easily!

 

Aikaterina Malencenko Ekaterina, wife of astronaut Yuri Malencenko:

- Two years ago I went to Arizona, to the monastery of St. Antonios. I've lived in America for a long time, but I didn't expect to see what I saw there...

The Greek Orthodox Church in America has always been a little isolated, so-called Church for its own, that is for Greeks.

If you're not Greek, it's like you don't have a place there. However, when I was in the monastery of Father Ephrem, I was amazed, because there were all together: both Russians and Greeks and Americans and people from completely different countries.

All are gathered together for Christ, for the Kingdom of God, and not because of some past and some other human purpose.

When I approached Father Ephrem, he said nothing to me, he just called me with a nod, saying:

- "Let's go." And i am off .

This is how I entered the temple. There he visited me inside the temple and every talk about anything on earth was pointless...

Grandpa looks at you and you realize he knows everything and more...

The depth of Orthodox faith is nowhere else.

Neither in the Catholic Church, nor in Protestantism, which is so widespread in the US.

People can't find there, what they find in Orthodoxy.

Nowhere can they "breathe" so easily.