It was a narrow and rough rural road, with potholes and deep puddles of water left by recent rain. Somewhere behind heavy bushes a lake splashed, and I was searching for the way to go round it and get to the highway. The car was tossed around, and I looked forward this part of my way to finish as soon as possible. For a couple of kilometers, only the road ahead and branches above could be seen and nothing like a settlement around.
And suddenly, in the opening between trees a dome emerged. After a couple of road curves I approached a hill with an untended church on its top. The building, however, was surrounded with scaffolding. I stopped and decided to get out of the car to look at the temple.
I went up a hill and saw that the door of the church was open. I found instruments, building material and improvised hastily made wooden table by the building. It seemed that people had to be nearby. Indeed, a little farther, a car was parked and there were two people – a man and a woman in work clothes – near it.
I came up and asked the people what that place was. They told me that formerly there was the Parečča village there. Nowadays, only old forsaken gardens remind of it. They knew little about the church but there was, according to them, a legend in the vicinity that it was built more than 400 years ago. Having heard it, I smiled to myself, since it was rather in the late 19th century that they built such pseudo-Byzantine Orthodox churches in our lands. However, fairy-tales and rumors are sometimes more persistent than documents and scientific proofs. But the next fact really impressed me: those people were hired out by a local lady who widowed and after that decided to invest everything she had in giving a new life to the old abandoned church. It is so touching, I thought then. But I was even more touched with what I saw inside.
Services were apparently seldom held there. Probably, the church didn’t even have a priest serving their permanently. And it took me some time to realize what its interior resembled. And then it hit me: it was a common rural house, well-maintained and loved by its sincere and a little bit naïve owners. The ceiling, wooden and painted in light blue (they obviously thought of the color of clear sky painting it), simple and nice stenciled patterns on the walls, the crucifixion in a cozy white curtain lace setting, with coverlets and carpets at the foot – that in no way could one leave a dirty boot print…
In the same way old Belarusian rural ladies decorate their unpretentious wooden homes with everything they consider beautiful – motley curtains, laces, plastic and paper flowers, handmade embroidery, knitted carpets and home-woven textiles. They cover cheap icons with embroidered towels and love everything to be clean and orderly. As soon as spring comes, they paint window frames, doors and fences with inspiring and gaily blue – the color of heaven and mystery. They meet you with a smile and scrutinize your face trying to guess whether the guest is satisfied or not: “A guest in the house means God in the house,” they say in Belarus. Actually, their relations with their God are just the same. They invite Him to their homes, talk to Him as to a neighbor and no doubt, He hears them.
And this temple cared by common unindifferent people looks like a part of that world – full of simple coziness and devoid of formality and pathos. Centuries ago, painting icons, old Belarusian artists departed from strict canons and traditions and painted Jesus Christ, Virgin Saint Mary and the saints as if they lived in the neighboring street. And here, common people fit up the home for their God – and, it seems to me, He came and took up His abode there.
Sincerely yours,
Volha Blazhevich.
P.S. Some time ago, I saw a recent photo of this church. Now, it is painted white and sky-blue.
Answer:
Dear Shivendu Paul and Metali Listeners' Club,
dthank you for your comment! We'll send you some of our souvenirs ASAP.
Stay tuned and 73,
RBI
Hallo Radio Belarus,
ja der Dieter Leupold ist jetzt auch hier im Gästebuch vertreten... Super, bald sind wir alle zusammen hier im "Belarus Hörerclub", Dieter könnte 1.Vorsitzender werden und Jana und Elena Ehrernmitglieder, Helmut Matt Schriftführer, Alfred Albrecht Beisitzer und ich mache Hausmeister:-) Lutz Winkler wie fit bist Du bereits wieder, für Dich finden wir auch eine nette Aufgabe:-) Beste Grüße und ein schönes Wochenende.
Dietmar
Answer:
Lieber Dietmar,
das stimmt, für alle finden wir im Hörerklub eine Aufgabe!:)
Liebe Grüße und einen guten Start in die Woche!
Адказ:
Дзякуй за водгук!
Hallo Jana und Jelena,
Höre gerade den tollen Song 10:45 min ( Hörerbriefkasten) Was ist das für ein traditionelles Instrument im Soloteil, klingt etwas wie ein Dudelsack, aber der ist ja in Schottland:-)
LG
Dietmar Wolf
Адказ:
Lieber Dietmar,
das ist wirklich ein Dudelsack :) In Belarus wird es aber Dudá genannt. Eigentlich ist Duda ein belarussisches traditionelles Musikinstrument. Übrigens gibt es viele Arten und Formen von Dudelsack in verschiedenen Kulturen und Ländern von Südamerica bis Indien.
PS: das Lied ist Каляда На Балоце von Тутэйшая Шляхта. ;)
Beste Grüße
Dear sir
How are you. I am rasheed from Pakistan. I am listners of radio Belarus. All programe is informative & intersting. I am intersting in history & culture. Thanks. Please send me some datiles about radio.
Muhammad RASHEED KHAN
PAKISTAN
Адказ:
Dear Muhammad Rasheed Khan, thank you very much for listening to RBI! We'll send you a parcel via regular mail as soon as possible.
Stay tuned and 73!
RBI
Добрый день! Прошу уточнить, что за песня играла в субботу 29.09.2018 в период с 14.00 до 16.00 со словами "Маша Маруся...в Беларуси". Буду очень признательна за ответ.
Елена
Адказ:
Добрый день, Елена!
Интересующая вас музыкальная композиция - песня "Маня-Маруся", которую исполняет ансамбль "Сябры" (вокал: Валерий Рязанов)!
Спасибо, что Вы с нами!
Вiтаю радыё Беларусь! Я з`яуляюся сталым слухачом Вашай радыёстанцыi. Вельмi падабаюцца перадачы на замежных мовах, якiя даюць магчымасць не толькi даведацца, што адбываецца ў Беларусi i за яе межамi, але ж i ўдасканалiць веды ангельскай, нямецкай, французскай моваў, праслухаўшы перадачы. Хацелася б даведацца, цi плануе радыёстанцыя вяшчанне на FM у Мiнску, бо ў заходнiх рэгiёнах Беларусi радыёстанцыя на FM працуе. У шматнацыянальным Мiнску жыве шмат замежных грамадзян, таксама прыязджаюць турысты, якiя б маглi даведацца пра тое, што аббываецца ў краiне i за яе межамi праз радыё Беларусь. На сёння ў Мiнску няма нiводнай англамоўнай цi iншамоўнай радыёстанцыi. З павагай, ваш слухач Сяргей.
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