Abstract

Your Holiness! A few days after the October Revolution of 1917, the Metropolitan Tikhon, upon receiving the news that he had been appointed Patriarch, said: Your news of my appointment as Patriarch is for me a slab of stone, on which is written: Tears, and groans, and grief…. How many tears will I have to swallow and how many groans will I utter in the service as Patriarch that now faces me. especially in this difficult year?

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