Please include my friend and co-worker, Vladimir G. in your prayers. He has no religious background having grown up in Communist Russia. He is amused that I have converted to Orthodoxy - but I also believe there is more than mere curiousity at work.
The unification of ROCOR with ROC had no impact on Vladimir, since he didn't even know what those letters stood for. But the fact that it was held at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow struck a chord. Vlad used to swim at the public swimming hole on the site where the Cathedral was destroyed and rebuilt.
All his life, he had been under the impression that the land was un-useable. Stalin wanted to build his great monument of Lenin on the site, but the earth was too mushy. Now the Cathedral is rebuilt, and Vlad is wondering how is that possible...
I told him he had been swimming in holy water, and God was saving the site for His Church to be built.
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