How Our Departed Ones Live: The Experience of the Orthodox Church 50 Translated by Holy Trinity Monastery

Translated by Holy Trinity Monastery

He suffered arrest and imprisonment by the communists in 1933

Published by Holy Trinity (Jordanville)

the Optina Elders

who taught for many years at the University of Alaska

How Our Departed Ones Live: The Experience of the Orthodox Church 50 Translated by Holy Trinity MonasteryBy Monk Mitrophan Translated by Archpriest John Shaw Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Conqueror of death, and, consequently, of the death of our departed ones. Let us say to them in Him, not Farewell, but Until we meet again, beloved spouse, good parents, dear brother or sister. Until we meet again! While many are now abandoning traditional religious practice, none the less, the reality of death and questions regarding the afterlife remain at the