ABBESS ANA (Adžić) – EXAMPLE OF A LIFE OF DEVOTION
a collection of stories on the occasion of 120 years since birth and 70 years since receiving the monastic rank of Abbesss Ana
ABBESS ANA – EXAMPLE OF A LIFE OF DEVOTION: a collection of texts
The abbess Agripina and sisters of the Kovilje monastery are young nuns who have not had an opportunity to meet the abbess Ana in person. However, while living in the Vraćevšnica monastery, before moving to Kovilje, they were listening the older nuns talking about her. The abbess Ana’s life in Christ, her compassion for all God’s creatures, her care and sacrifice, left a strong impression on the sisters. This paper is written in a form of letters in which they talk to the holy soul of the abbess Ana.
SRETEN ADŽIĆ AND HIS DAUGTHER ABBESS ANA
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SRETEN ADŽIĆ AND HIS DAUGTHER ABBESS ANA
There were many cases, especially in the old days, when the richest Serbian ladies struggled as nuns for eternal salvation. All of them had rejected luxury, so they dressed in simple monastic robes, to serve others as the Lord himself. Many centuries passed before a nun was born to the famous Empress Milica, the later saint Eugenia, and that was Abbess Anna's mother.
Love brought you, love moved you. That's why you came here. The Bible says: "A barren woman will have more children than the one who gives birth." That is what was said on such occasions. You will have a hundred spiritual children here. And how many spiritual children did Saint Petka have, then Saint Sava, who gave birth to all our people? You came here to leave a great memory to your parents and yourself…
St. Nikolaj Velimirović
It is clear to me only that I will not be hampered by marriage. It is too narrow and suffocating for me, and the Lord Himself pointed out to me new ways wide and bright. I want to pray to God to serve him for the rest of my life… Sometimes my heart is weak, but I don't look back, because I know that there is still unfinished business and that big tasks are still waiting for me.
Abbess Ana
The child's soul is the beginning, the basis for the future man.
Everything we see in man, strong and worthless, intelligent and
silly, honorable and mean - it's in the beginning
Sreten Adžić