The Summer has come sharply and unexpectedly; speak, that in Beijing always so... Up to 30 degrees the temperature Suddenly has jumped up, leaves on trees have started to be dismissed literally on eyes, not waiting Saturday prokimna.

" Revive, My God, judge the grounds, jako You nasledishi in all jazytseh ". Are removed with analoev postovye coverlets, and black felon it is useful now not soon - instead of it sijaet novelty white.

Rough, already almost easter pleasure is besieged hardly with words " Yes any flesh chelovecha is silent, and yes costs with fear and trembling, and nichtozhe terrestrial in itself yes thinks ".

At father Dionisija today anniversary hirotonii; it is especially happy, thanks chorus for fine singing: " Such service here yet was not! ". " As in Moscow ", - parishioners extol. Here and for Easter so to sing!

And one more joyful news was received by us on Saturday - on easter service there will arrive last survived Chinese priest - father Alexander De.

Father Alexander considers itself as Russian though externally to Russian it is completely not similar. It is the descendant albazintsev Dubinins in the eighteenth generation - from here and surname De.

The Father was born and has grown in Bejguane, in 50th years has accepted a sacred dignity from last chief of Mission of archbishop Victor (Svjatina). Soon the territory of Mission has been transferred to embassy of the USSR, and destruction of temples, with such work constructed after revolt ihetuanej again has begun. Then the hardest years of a cultural revolution have followed: priests pursued, sent in corrective camp, derided, obrjazhaja in shutovskie caps and vymazyvaja soot the person. Through all this there has passed also father Alexander.

In Beijing remained, and to this day live nearby 250 albazintsev, but authorities forbade to father Alexander okormljat them spiritually. The father needed to be only the priest in the own house, it christened the children, having received chrism from Japan.

Now to father Alexander De more than 80 years. It is sick of a cancer of lungs and a diabetes, its state of health worsens. Members of an ambassadorial orthodox community try to help the father as can. Before arrival of father Dionisija father Alexander, referring to bad health, regretfully spoke that hardly probable can get out on service. But impossible the person to probably God...