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The main purpose of the
sisterhood is the ecclesiastical enlightenment of the people through charity,
conversations, sermons, sacred literature and mass media. It is a sacred
assistance, consolation of sufferers, preparing of the latter for accepting of
the Saint Sacraments, anti-sectarian teaching, struggling against abortions,
drug addiction and hard drinking.
Nurses.
Orthodox nursery has a name of Nicholas the Consecrator,
archbishop of MirLikiya the Miracle-Man.
The nurserys confessor is priest Piotr Mirochnik
The senior nurse is Leontieva Tamara Michaelovna
The nursery has been realizing
its activities since October, 2001, in two directions:
1. The work at the Regional Oncologic Clinic and Public Health Institution
Brest Town Hospital. 
2. The work for the carriage invalids.
1. The visiting of the patients in hospital by the nurses has the way of the
intercourse with the purpose of relieving of the emotional state of the
formers, preparing them for the Sacraments of the Confession and Eucharist, and
in case of need writing the notes for public prayer, bringing appropriate
sacred literature, answer the questions appeared, buy medicine, call home, etc.
The Regional Oncologic Clinic.
In addition to the visiting of the patients in
wards, the nurses perform services at Nicholas the Consecrators Chapel that is
situated on the ground floor at the Oncologic Clinic. At the Chapel with blessing
of the confessor the nurses read Acathistus.
 The reading of the Acathistus takes place at 5.00 P.M. four times a week.
After the reading a nurse spreads saint oil on patients, gives them communion
bread, saint water. Also the ecclesiastical discussions are hold and the
literature is given (there is a small library at the Chapel). Once a week on
Thursdays the priest Piotr (the confessor of the nursery) makes worship. This
day the patients confess and receive communion. Those who are seriously ill and
the post-operated patients who cant come to the Chapel are confessed and given
communion by parson Piotr in their wards. The information concerned ill
persons, is prepared by nurses the day before. After the confession and the
communion the priest serves water-consecrated public worship for the health of
all those who are ill at the clinic (the notes for the public worship the
nurses also prepare the day before by visiting the ill people in the wards). At
the Chapel or in the wards of those who are seriously ill at their requests
parson Piotr makes extreme unction and christening. Every Thursday at the Chapel (and in the
wards) 25-30 persons are confessed and given communion. During the fastings and
especially the Lent and Christmas fasting, there are more those who confess
up to 50 persons (and there are more than 150 persons in Clinic).During the
period from October, 2001, t0 February, 2008, in the Clinic 53 persons were
baptized. There are some stable traditions in the Oncologic Clinic: on holidays
(the Great Easter and Christmas) nurses come to the Clinic with small gifts,
walk over all wards greeting each patient. At the Epiphany parson Piotr
together with the senior nurse also greets each patient, sprinkling with Saint
Epiphany Water the wards, medical rooms and patients.
Brest Town Hospital: 
In the Institution of Public Health Brest Town Hospital 5 times a week
(except for holidays) St. Pantheleimon the Great Martyr and Healer Chapel
works. At the Chapel there are hold conversations, there are shown Orthodox
video films, there are listened to the psalms (audio/tape reels), sermons and
other ecclesiastical admonitions.
On Tuesdays the priest Aleksandr
Gurpa, the cleric of St. Nicholas Brotherly Church performs Sacraments and
Occasional Religious Rites.
During all twelve and Great Holidays the public prayers are performed. At
Christmas the childrens choir is invited, and it sings Christmas cards for the
medical personnel and patients.
2. The work for the carriage invalids has ecclesiastical-enlightener character
(also it may be social if necessary): nurses prepare their wards for Confession
and Eucharist, invite parsons from St. Nicholas Church or other churches that
are situated close to the living places of the invalids.
 Besides the main activities in these two directions the nursery realizes
assistance as far as it is required:
- gathering the donations (cloth, footwear, bedclothes, etc.) for the needy
poor families;
- taking care of the large family (mother after oncologic operation) in the village
Bolshiye Yakovchitsy (food stuffs, cloth, kitchen and bed accessories,
repairing materials, materials for school equipment, etc.);
- connection with the family where mother is an ex-prisoner is not broken,
too (there has been rendered assistance in looking for job, apartment; has been
given help in cloth, in articles for apartment, some pecuniary aid, birthday
greetings for children, christening of the girl, etc.);
- looking for nurses for bed-patients;
- helping with products and cloth for homeless people, and others.
Today there are 18 nurses at
the nursery at the age from 35 to 65 and practically all of them have high
education.
Of course, now the nursery has many problems yet, but it has everything
that is the most required for its purpose these are people, who dont see
another sense of their lives than the service to their neighbours for Jesus
love. These people are the best in our society. These people more and more
realize their role in life, their destination that is not in a life of
idleness, but in a help to the weaker!
The life of every organism is in constant transformation. The nursery is a
vivid organism that has absorbed the spiritual and physical attempts of those
who help and those whom help to. And these interaction and unity in service
give strength for the soul, for its liberation from the ties of senselessness,
loneliness, selfishness, hearless, for the liberation of the soul from the ties
of sin with the prayers of the Saints.
If You feel Yourself alone,
if God has given You understanding of the necessity of helping those who are
weaker than You join us! Together well feel easier ourselves!
You may oblige God in
any mission if God requires service exactly in this walk of life given for You,
and in nowadays when we have an impoverishment of love, deficiency of just
Christian relation among the people, a woman like a Jesus preacher with no
words but affairs may be demanded in full measure.
M. Kravtsova, A
womans solitude
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