We all have to die, beloved brethren, and it will be hard for us if, while we are in this world, we do not love each other, if we are not reconciled to our enemies, whom we have offended, and if one has grieved another, if we do not forgive him. Then we will not have eternal blessedness in that world, and the heavenly Father will not forgive our sins.
– St. Peter of Cetinje, Letter to Radulovichs, 1805
Featured image: On the Iset river, Russia. From the Prokudin-Gorskii collection. Photographer: Sergei Mikhailovich. 1863-1944. Library of Congress
