✅ Donate towards our social work: ✏ Why does a young lady decide to dedicate her life to God and take monastic vows? How does her family accept this choice? This documentary tells us a story of nun Olga and her way to monasticism. The climax of the film is the Sacrament of monastic tonsure. This sacrament is shown in cinematic language probably for the first time. ✏ The chants from the film: 04:57 - Lenten Troparion “Haste Thou to open unto me Thy fatherly arms“ performed by the Monastic Choir of St. Elisabeth Convent shots from the tonsure ceremony performed at our Convent. Once a year we hear these words during the church services for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, at the Vigil. At a tonsure ceremony this troparion is sung thrice as the person being tonsured crawls from the narthex of the church to the altar—from the sinful world from whence he came to this beloved embrace. 15:05 - “Haste Thou to ope
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