Hierodeacon Paisiy (Novozhenov)

When I go and knock on a wooden beater, calling for service, I see a few dozen wonderful sparrows sitting on the electric wires, they are not afraid of my knocking, watching with curiosity and chirping. When I look at them, I think of the monks as the wires of a power plant that carry spiritual energy into cities. The wires are simple in appearance and small birds can sit on them safely, but at the same time the power that passes through them, then spreads to the bridges, lights the streets, lights up thousands of apartments. I knock on my beater, I keep silent and think: how to connect the bridges between God and the hundreds of our compatriots who do not know Jesus Christ.

Hierodeacon Paisiy (Novozhenov) from the Holy Assumption Monastery in the city of Staritsa near Tver