3/21/2013

PASSOVER 2013


ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕС



Do not stand in place – go!
Do not vegetate – live!
Do not give up – fight!
Do not lose hope – believe!



Jesus is risen and ONLY IN HIM THERE IS LIFE, REAL LIFE!

MAY THIS PASSOVER BE FOR ALL OF US THE NEW BREATH OF THE SPIRIT! 



With joyful ALLELUIA! Your Sisters Donata and Jana
  

PS. This is our last message in this blog… May the Lord bless you all

+ GIVE THANKS FOR EVERYTHING…



It all happened very quickly and unexpectedly. On February 14, we were informed that within 14 days we had to leave Kamchatka. Otherwise, we would be deported ... In the passport, in the permission for temporary stay, we got the stamp which said: canceled.  We were in shock.  There were lots of questions in our minds.  Especially one of them kept returning to us like the echo: Why? 14 days can be a lot of time, and can also be not enough time.  Where to start?  How can we prepare babushkas to hear that message? Our parish started praying for us.  Maybe there is still some hope? We tried to work as always, give our hearts, pray, and serve to the end, after all this is why we were missioned to Kamchatka.  After the tears, the time came for thanksgiving. We have experienced so much here. We watched small miracles with our own eyes.  If you read our blogs entries, then you will see them. Kamchatka and the Parish of St. Teresa has become our home, and all parishioners and the people whom we met in the city have become our loved ones. How many times strangers asked us to pray, how many times our Muslim brothers greeted us, Marian Sisters, how many times we gave a smile and a kind word to renew hope in someone ... how many times ... hard to count them all.  And how can you not give thanks and praise to God for so much good graces! The seed was planted, someone else will water it and someone else will reap.
Even on the last day a man came up to us asking: Please bless me, Mothers, and pray for me and my son, and our Muslim brothers moved us to tears when they confessed: We prayed to Allah that you may stay here. It was hard to say goodbye, our hearts were in pain.  The hardest part was to look at the tears of babushkas and parishioners. It was also not easy for us... The last days, the last hours, last hugs ... On February 27, we left Kamchatka by plane, and thus our mission is over.  Are you sure? The fact that we are not still among the parishioners, does not mean that we're not together. They will stay forever in our hearts and prayers.

Dearest sisters, friends and benefactors! Thank you for your prayers for us, for your good, kind words, your suffering, and for your closeness. We know that you were with us spiritually while we were missioned in Kamchatka. Please do not forget the Parish of St. Therese of the Child Jesus in Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky.



Keep praying and thank you
for everything!
 
Deo Gratias!


Your Sisters 
Donata and Jana