Time to prepare for the "Holidays"

...here, in this land of the dollar, even on the eve of Christ's Nativity you hear dance music. In America they begin a whole month in advance to decorate shop windows with Christmas decorations, and a month before Christmas day Christmas trees are lit on glittering streetcorners but all of this is only 'business' and nothing else.
Archimandrite Gerasim (Schmaltz)

Behold!

...the bolsheviks have destroyed the monastery; they destroyed the cemetery, too. Behold twentieth century civilization!
Archimandrite Gerasim (Schmaltz)