A feast of saint martyr Marina
On friday I and a bus full of other
brothers and sisters (most of them ladies above 60 yrs old) been to
the monastery near Botevo. For the big feast and the district
gathering many priests as well as the Varna mitropolit attended the
liturgy. On my way in the Church I've met a nice gentle looking
father who was anointing the insiders I even asked for his blessing
later on I realized he is a monk for already 11 years if I recall
correctly. In the Church service I was helping with the liturgy
preparations unwittingly I spilled some of the oil one of the altar
stick was handling one of the priests got really angry with me, it
was ridiculous the reaction not really fitting his priesthood. But
anyways ... the service was led by metropolit Kiril a metropolitan
of the Varna and Velikopreslav districts. I was feeling spiritually
not so well during the church service the same has happened to me
to the previous liturgy with metropolit Kiril I've red online for
some frauds he was involved in no idea if that is true anyways God
would know best. After the liturgy there was some food for free
fish soup even though it was friday a day for fasting fish is
allowed on feasts. I've met two monks and a guy who was a novice
preparing to be ordained as a monk on the next day as well as a nun
who happened to be a Macedonian and couldn't speak Bulgarian. After
the Church service I was shocked by the behaviour of the same monk
who blessed me during I entered the church, now he screamed at me
for the fact I was too slowly hauling up the stairs leading to the
little church. I had a few interesting conversations with the
priesthood and the clergy. In general the whole trip and what
happened there disappointed me not to say shakened my faith for
I've seen things like smoking monk, a priest whose looking appeared
like he is demon infestedsome other minor things which I cannot
remember anymore.. In the evening I met nomen who just came back
from Sofia for the weekend. We was out for a beer with him Alex and
Bino. On the day after I and my father and mother went to my
village because somebody had to dig up the vineyeard to clean it up
from the grown weed. It was quite fun to dig around with a hoe.
It's a pity I couldn't shot some pictures for you to see how
literate a sys admin could dig up with a mattock. Nomen came to my
village to pick me up around 4 o'clock. We completed the vineyard
clean up around 6 and was in Dobrich around 19:30. A bit later in
the evening I went out to meet Nina in the central park. On Sunday
I was to a Church service in the Holy Trinity temple afterwards I
and Nina drinked coffee on the fountain. In the early afternoon I
went to the church again cause friends mine was wedding (Katia and
Vlado), may God bless them with long joint life together. In the
late afternoon Bino came home and I him and Nina went out for a
drink on the "fountain". Just to sum it up. I'm do thank my God for
his aboundant everyday mercies.