TIME CODE:

SCENE / MUSIC / MONK / SCENE

VOICE OVER / SCRIPT

0.00

The Good Struggle - title
Sound of bells (SROS)

07.19

W – monastery in landscape
Sound of wind in landscape

15.05

Brother Haitham knocking on doors to wake up the monks.

Haitham: Prayers for the saintly fathers. Prayers for the saintly fathers. Amen.

58.14

Brother Haitham waking the monks with the wooden prayer instrument. 
Sound of the instrument

1.07

Brother Haitham enters the church.
Sound of the instrument

1.12

Brother Haitham lights candles. Ambient sound

1.18

Candles rise to the ceiling.

1.23

Wide of Church, monks enter

1.31

CU of Brother Elie 2

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: Silence is the language of paradise. Or the language of the Kingdom.

1.37

CU of Brother Minas

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: You cannot have two people talking

1.40

Monks in church – Silouane, Elie 2

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: and understanding each other at the same time.

1.45

CU – hand and prayer beads
SROS: monks praying

1.50

MS – church details
SROS: monks praying

1.55

CU – Brother Elie 2

SROS: monks praying

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: The monk’s tongue ceases to talk to the others.

2.01

MS – Brothers Luqa, Haitham, Seraphim

SROS: monks praying

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: But inside him he’d be continuously praying: Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner.

2.05

CU – Brother Seraphim

SROS: monks praying

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner.

2.08

CU – Brothers Toni, Seraphim listen

SROS: monks praying

2.12

M – Brother Niqolas in chair

SROS: monks praying

2.15

M – Monks kissing icons

SROS: monks praying

2.23

M – Monks leaving church

SROS: monks praying + feet walking

2.32

W – monastery in landscape

SROS: monks chanting

2.36

M – monastery in landscape

SROS: monks chanting

2.42

M – candles

SROS: monks chanting

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: The monk as a human being also needs periods – as he cannot be perpetually silent – but busies himself by hymning to God.

2.55

M – Brothers John, Luqa

SROS: monks chanting

3.14

W – choir practice + group of monks

SROS: monks chanting

3.17

M – choir practice + hands of monks

SROS: monks chanting

3.20

M – Monks Haitham, Toni

SROS: monks chanting

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: Music plays a very important role in all his senses,

3.24

M – Monks John, Luqa, Elie 2

SROS: monks chanting

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: through the text he hears, recited or intoned in the church, or the melody that makes him to ascend with all his emotions,

3.36

W – choir practice, group

SROS: monks chanting

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: or the melody that makes him to ascend with all his emotions, and charge all his thoughts and powers so he can proffer his love. “Love thy God, your God, with all your powers.”

3.57

M – Monks John, Luqa, slow mo chanting

SROS: monks chanting

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: So, recitation also has a great role because it allows him to live in different worlds. A spiritual world above this material world.

4.18

CU – still of church icon

SROS: monks chanting

4.24

W - Arch. Pandaleimon Farah walking down arched corridor
SROS: fade monks chanting

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: I am the Archimandrite Pandeleimon Farah. I grew up in Kousba village. And since my early years, I was very close to the monastery. In late 1994, Metropolitan Bishop George Khodr, appointed me to be the head of the monastery.

4.50

M – view of monastery on hillside

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: The Lady’s Monastery of Hamatoura means, in the Assyrian language, “The Mountain of Enthusiasm or Ardor”.  

4.58

W – view of monastery on hillside @ sunset

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: “The Mountain of Enthusiasm or Ardor”.  

5.01

W – view of monastery on hillside @ sunset

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: It is located in north Lebanon at an altitude of 450 metres above sea level.   

5.08

M – Brothers Silouane and Elie 2 talking

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: of 450 metres above sea level.   

5.13

CU – Brother Elie 2

5.16

W – Brother Charbel walking up mountain

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: The road up to here is difficult.

5.22

M – Brother Charbel walking up mountain

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: Coming by foot, if the climber is in good health, takes half an hour up the mountain.

5.29

W – landscape from above looking at staircase to monastery
SROS: fade in prayer sounds

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: takes half an hour up the mountain.

5.35

M – P Farah in church conducting service
SROS: prayer sounds

5.40

CU – P Farah in church conducting service
SROS: prayer sounds

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: We have been here for 22 years, and our number has reached 18.

5.48

W – P Farah with Brothers Luqa, Seraphim, Minaas

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: There were more before but not all could endure and prove their ability to remain in the monastery, or they did not find the monastery is able to help them

6.03

CU – Brother Seraphim in prayer

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: express themselves and prove themselves in this strife.

6.08

M – Brother Charbel watering plants
Fade prayer sounds + watering garden sound.

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: For this reason, they could not continue.

6.17

W – monastery view

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: When people now see someone go the monastery,

6.22

W – Brother Minaas with cats

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: they find it strange, and start counter publicity. They mock the monastic life and consider the monk

6.31

M – Brothers Elie, Luqa milking olive trees
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VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: They mock the monastic life and consider the monk a lazy person, solitary and has psychological and emotional problems that make live away from society.

6.45

M - Brother Luqa milking olive trees

VO: Brother Luqa: My name is Brother Luqa.

6.50

CU – Brother Luqa interview to camera

VO: Brother Luqa: Luqa like Luke the Surgeon, the Confessor of Russia.

6.54

M - Brother Luqa milking olive trees

VO: Brother Luqa: I have this name because I had previously studied medicine.

6.59

CU - Brother Luqa milking olive trees

VO: Brother Luqa: The first difficulty I faced when I first came to monastery was to cut links with the family, and our relationship was reframed. Love of the family was an important thing. I thank God, while that hurt me a lot at the start, but I later was able to get accustomed to it.

7.15

Brother Luqa

CU – hands milking trees

VO: Brother Luqa: My age then was about 30 years.

7.20

Brother Luqa

VO: Brother Luqa: The family was very negative, and they did not comprehend the matter at all. I had a younger brother who threatened me to bring the army to the monastery.

7.32

Still life – olives on the floor

7.34

Brother Luqa + Elie laying down blankets to catch olives.

VO: Brother Luqa: The second matter was expressing the opinion. If I saw something in a different way, there would be a clash with the brothers. I was used to have students under me, and I used to give them instructions. Judging others was tormenting me a lot.

7.58

Brothers Luqa + Elie sorting olives from the branches: overhead

VO: Brother Luqa: That is why there is something called obedience in monasticism.

8.03

Brothers Luqa + Elie sorting olives – wide

VO: Brother Luqa: When I was at the university I met a female colleague

8.08

Brother Luqa milking olives

VO: Brother Luqa: and we were going out together. One time I had invited her to a restaurant

8.15

Wide landscape view from the monastery to the other side of the mountain.

VO: Brother Luqa: where we were sitting opposite the monastery.

8.17

Brother Luqa – interview to camera

VO: Brother Luqa: I was saying: “If things do not work out between us. I will. God willing, go to the monastery”.  She said: “You must surely be joking.” I said: “You will see.”

8.24

Pull focus on church icon

VO: Brother Luqa: We were planning a marriage in a few months and having a home and a family.

8.31

Brother Luqa going down the mountain stairs. View from above.
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VO: Brother Luqa:  But her age was not permitting any postponements, and to me she was a bit distant from the church. This was the mean reason I did not try hard for the relationship to continue.

8.50

Key in door
SROS: Cooking prep sounds
Music - Fade out ”Analog Dream”

8.57

Elie in kitchen preparing food

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: The monastic work that takes place here in our monastery in general, are things related to food,

9.05

Close up of Elie preparing tomatoes

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: things related to spiritual production,

9.10

Brothers Elie and Silouane

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: and things related to agricultural produce.

9.15

Close up of Elie preparing tomatoes

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: We prepare food day-by-day

9.20

Close up of Brother Elie

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: for ourselves and any guest we may have.

9.25

Brother Elie rining bell

SROS: bell ringing

9.33

Wide of all monks eating

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: The entire atmosphere helps the person

9.40

Medium view of all monks eating

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: to be simple in the affairs and needs of his life,

9.43

Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah – CU eating

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: to be simple in the affairs and needs of his life,

9.46

Medium view – Various brothers

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: and accept to live in poverty and simplicity.

9.56

Low angle, large group of monks eating at table

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: Poverty here does not mean that he has nothing at all, but that the things that he has can be shared with others.

9.46

Brotehres Minas and John sharing bread

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: but that the things that he has can be shared with others.

10.04

Wide of all monks praying after eating
SROS: prayer

10.06

Close up Brother Niqola

SROS: prayer

10.10

Close up – cheese
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10.13

Brother Elie
M view – putting cheese in bags

VO: Brother Elie: The head of the monastery assigned me to be in this service, and work in cheese and dairy products.

10.21

Brother Elie talking to camera.

VO: Brother Elie: These are the bags in which we pack the cheese. We fill them with ‘shankleesh’. And these stickers we put on the bags are also made by us.

10.29

Brother Elie making Shankleesh balls

VO: Brother Elie: In principle, the main objective is to provide for the monastery. So we can consume what is made by us.  Each works with his labour and eats. The next step is for the people around us who eat with us, love our products and request to buy from us.

10.40

Close up of Brother Elie making Shankleesh balls

VO: Brother Elie: Each works with his labour and eats.

10.43

Close up of Shankleesh balls

10.45

Brother Elie making Shankleesh balls

VO: Brother Elie: The next step is for the people around us who try it, start loving our product.  

10.50

Close up cheese packaging

VO: Brother Elie: The next step is for the people around us who try it, start loving our product.  

10.56

Brother  burning the rubbish with a mountain view.

VO: Brother Elie: We are not here as paid workers. What we do is for us not to be idle.

11.05

Brother Elie to camera

VO: Brother Elie: Let no one think he’s doing anything that’s worthy.

11.09

Wide view of landscape with monastery from above
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SROS: Fade in monks chanting

11.14

Still – sign for the church

11.19

Brother Minas praying

11.22

Brother Seraphim chanting

11.29

Brother Luqa standing in prayer

11.33

Brother Seraphim chanting

11.38

Brothers Silouane and Elie chanting

11.45

Brothers Elie and Niqola MV standing in church

11.49

Brother Niqolas in church

VO: Brother Niqola: The one who wants to be a monk, must first abandon everything, the whole world, his possessions, his children, he should not think of anything at all. He places Jesus and nothing else in front of him.

12.08

Brother Niqolas lighting a candle

VO: Brother Niqola: Love is the basis of everything in the universe.

12.14

Brother Niqolas lighting a candle

VO: Brother Niqola: Without love the world is worthless.

12.19

Brother Niqolas snuffing a candle

VO: Brother Niqola: Any home that is divided among itself will be destroyed. If the people of the home are not in agreement and loving each other, the home will be destroyed. And the same with the monastery, the brotherhood and family.

12.33

2 x Close up of icon in church

VO: Brother Paisios: Saint Paisios says that when there is love in the home, it spreads a big halo around it.

12.43

Candle flame

VO: Brother Paisios: That is why the people who come here feel this halo.

12.47

Cross fade to monks walking into church

VO: Brother Paisios: I am brother Paisios.

12.51

Pull focus from Brother Niqola to Paisios in the church

VO: Brother Paisios: I have been in the monastery for around 20 years. When I came here for the first time, I was very eager to see him, because of all the things people were saying about him.

13.03

Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah leading the church service

VO: Brother Paisios: As soon as I saw him, I felt something inside

13.06

Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah gives communion to Brother Paisios

VO: Brother Paisios: that put me completely at peace. It’s as if this person is inside my heart.

13.13

Monks bowing to icons in church

VO: Brother Paisios: This has helped me, and whenever I weakened, he was the only person I felt beside me… to the extent that I felt him to be more than my father and mother.

13.37

Landscape with dust
Sound of sanding

13.41

View from above – Paisios sanding wood

VO: Brother Paisios: Life on the outside does not mean anything to me.

13.45

Medium side View - Paisios sanding wood

VO: Brother Paisios: I was very riotous before I came here, or thought of monasticism.

13.49

Wide View - Paisios sanding wood

VO: Brother Paisios: I liked trouble, I liked to be noticed.

13.55

Side view - Paisios sanding wood

VO: Brother Paisios: After I finished my military service, I worked in polishing tiles.

13.59

Close up of hands sanding wood

14.01

Close up of Paisios

VO: Brother Paisios: I reached a stage and found the whole world is void. There is nothing there.

14.09

Paisios cleaning his black gowns

VO: Brother Paisios: All the happiness one runs to achieve leads to a question mark that he cannot fathom.

14.17

Paisios cleaning his hands

VO: Brother Paisios: He then finds that that was a spiritual emptiness. This spiritual emptiness leads to the love of God.

14.23

Paisios preparing glue

VO: Brother Paisios: I began trying monastic life and I loved it.

14.33

Rolling glue on wood close up

14.36

Wide - Rolling glue on wood

14.38

Preparing icon onto wood

VO: Brother Paisios: I like to be a monk because I realized that the only person

14.42

Close up - Preparing icon onto wood

VO: Brother Paisios: to whom whatever you give or take, he keeps on giving more, is the Lord Jesus.

14.47

Brother Paisios painting side of icon

VO: Brother Paisios: This gives one an obsession. Then I feel that the whole world will disappear in an instant.

14.53

Overhead side view of Brother Paisios painting icon

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14.57

Brother Paisios painting icon

VO: Brother Paisios: The monastic life has changed me by making more sacrifice and love to the other.

15.05

Spraying icons outside

15.07

Spraying icons outside – medium view

I love to sacrifice all I have to comfort my brothers.

15.10

Spraying icons outside – overhead

They, on the other hand, do the same. This turns us into one.

15.20

View of monastery

As Saint Paisios says, the more a person sacrifices for the other, the more he has the feeling of family.

15.31

Brother Paisios carrying an icon

VO: Brother Paisios: The monastic vows are not difficult if we struggle. The problem is that with our human weakness we keep running into walls.

15.38

Close up of finished icons

15.41

Brothers John + Seraphim walking down steps with boxes

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15.48

Cross swinging at front of car on mirror

VO: Brother Charbel: My service in the monastery is to go up to the land,

15.53

Brother Charbel driving 4wd

VO: Brother Charbel: where we grow and bring vegetables to the monastery.

16.06

Brother Charbel driving 4wd

VO: Brother Silouane: Are these paulownia flowers?
VO: Brother Charbel: This is how you call it Sunflower.

VO: Brother Silouane: Correct, seeds that you have planted?

VO: Brother Charbel: Seeds.

16.37

Monks working the fields

VO: Brother Charbel: The things we plant are tomato, cucumber, lettuce, onion, garlic, potato, aubergine, squash…

16.42

Wide side view of monks working fields

VO: Brother Charbel: all the vegetables that the monastery needs.

16.51

Brother Charbel+Silouane picking vegetables

VO: Brother Charbel: If there is any surplus, it is taken to the market or given as charity to needy people.

16.56

Brothers Luqa + Silouane relaxing

17.00

Weighing vegetables + taking to car

VO: Brother Charbel: When we pick the vegetables, we put them in boxes, place them in the car and bring them to the mountain top above the monastery.

17.17

Brother Charbel in car crossing himself

VO: Brother Charbel: Bless.

17.23

POV – car driving

VO: Brother Silouane: Bye Freeky!

17.30

Carrying vegetables to the crane

VO: Brother Charbel: The crane has been there for around 20 years. We use it to lower down not just the vegetables but everything else.

17.44

Close up of vegetables on crane

17.59

Crane goes down the mountain, view from above

VO: Brother Silouane: Elias: talk to us!

18.03

Brothers Charbel + Silouane looking down the mountain – wide view

VO: Brother Silouane: Cucumbers!

18.05

View from above – monastery

VO: Brother Silouane: Tomatoes!

18.07

View of crane from below, view 1

18.11

View of crane from below, view 2 – extreme wide

18.14

Brother Silouane looking at the monastery from above

VO: Brother Charbel: It takes about 10 minutes to bring things down

18.17

Landscape - monastery from above

VO: Brother Charbel: from the mountain top to the monastery below.

18.23

Wide view from candle-making area to the landscape opposite the monastery

18.29

Smoke in the cave

18.38

Brother Luqa close up looking down

VO: Brother Luqa: Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner. Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner. Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner.

18.44

Brothers Luqa + Seraphim prepping candle making

VO: Brother Luqa: Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner. Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner.

18.51

Wide view of the cave, brothers prepping candles

VO: Brother Luqa: Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner.

18.56

Brothers Luqa + Seraphim pouring wax

VO: Brother Seraphim: Better? Put more, more. It still has enough for one more round.

18.59

Close up of wax being poured from a drum

VO: Brother Seraphim: Better? Put more, more. It still has enough for one more round.

19.07

Brother Seraphim

VO: Brother Seraphim: I learnt candle making from the brothers before me. So it is by imitation, one brother teaches the next.

19.14

Brothers Luqa + Seraphim prepping candles in cave

VO: Brother Seraphim: Let’s start from there. Starting from that side, and then go. Yes, let the first one be here. Now we put it in. Start from below, below. The lower part, and then we go… yes, it’s good.

19.31

Close up of candle strings being dunked in wax

19.33

Medium view of both brothers dunking the candles

19.37

Brother Luqa hanging the candles onto the shelves

VO: Brother Luqa: Whenever we entered this monastery, even as seculars or normal visitors, we were obliged to adhere to the monastery’s rules, which is that if I wanted to work whether in candle making, in the kitchen or in cleaning, we had to say the prayer of Lord Jesus which is: Lord Jesus have mercy on me, the sinner. This makes us get used not to talk too much. We were even not allowed to ask the monks of the monastery: Where do you come from? What did you do? Where are you going or coming? That was forbidden. I later found it to be beautiful, that one will minimise talking to the others.

20.15

Close up, burning pots

VO: Brother Luqa: A monk must like hard work, and if he does not like hard work,

20.21

Brothers processing the candles

VO: Brother Luqa: he would then depend on the others. This is not nice.

20.27

Close up Brother Luqa

VO: Brother Luqa: Because each of us must rely on himself.

20.33

Brother Luqa processing candles

VO: Brother Luqa: If he was used to “Mom, bring chocolate!” or “Dad, get me a bicycle”, and they’d bring them to him, then it is hard as he is used to getting everything.

20.43

Both monks processing candles

VO: Brother Luqa: So, I say that this up to each person. We cannot say that in one or two years he becomes a monk.

20.51

Wide view of cave

VO: Brother Luqa: It depends on the background he comes from.

20.57

Brother Elie Ghandour cutting incense

21.03

Close up - cutting incense

VO: Brother Elie: I am a novice in the monastery and have been here for six years. I am twenty five years of age.

21.08

Close up of incense

VO: Brother Elie: I grew up in an Orthodox home.

21.14

Close up of Elie

VO: Brother Elie: I always had the aspiration to be in the monastery. I studied for a year at the university, archeology, and did not complete. I had a church group and taught music.

21.23

Close up of apron + cross

VO: Brother Elie: The main task that our father assigned to me when I first came to the monastery was to make incense.

21.29

Wide of room with Elie

21.32

Wide of room for the other side

VO: Brother Elie: Our father Pandeliemon is like Noah in the Ark, he was the leader of the ship, and our father is the leader here in the monastery.

21.41

Close up of hands in incense

VO: Brother Elie: He is Christ on earth for me.

21.50

Close up of Elie

VO: Brother Elie: Thus, when my father gave me the blessing to come to the monastery ... I did not know I would be joining. I was just on a visit to the monastery.

22.00

Interview to camera

VO: Brother Elie: I had not prepared myself. It was as if the Virgin said to me: “that’s it, come to me”.

22.07

Close up of incense machine

22.11

Brother Elie in the room – medium view

22.19

Landscape with monastery
SROS: monks chanting

22.22

Monks making bracelets

SROS: monks chanting

22.29

Meeting with all the monks and
Arch. Pandaleimon Farah

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: Our calling is to overcome our mistakes, overcome our agitations. A monk seeks to reach a state where nothing affects him, that’s how one advances spiritually. Where any event, anything in his life doesn’t cause him pressure or attachment. That’s why Lord Jesus asks you to forgive. Because when you forgive, you heart is cleansed and relaxes.

23.11

Medium close – Arch. Pandaleimon Farah

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: You can face your God calmly, and have no complaint. There are no complaints against you.

23.17

Monks relaxing after meeting

23.28

View of monastery

23.32

Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah talking to camera outside the monks’ burial place.

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: We are in front of monks’ burial place. A monk is usually buried in the ground according to the traditions. After a while his bones are removed and placed under the church, so that we can always pray for them and join them. This is due to the church’s belief that those who depart are not removed from us after death, we are always connected through prayer. We don’t see them, but they are connected to us with prayer. They pray for us and we pray for them.

24.08

Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah walks into the burial place

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: We always visit them to encourage ourselves by recognising that death

24.13

Close up skulls

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: is not a calamity, it is a meeting with the Lord Jesus Christ.

24.19

Wide of Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah in the burial place

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: We honor them and greet them because they had done the good struggle and God has accepted them in his Kingdom.

24.32

Landscape of monastery
SROS: monks prayer

24.35

Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah from behind in the church

24.37

Closer - Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah from behind in the church

24.39

M – P Farah in conducting prayer

SROS - prayer

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: I only know myself living this life in prayer, fasting and worship of God.

24.27

CU – hand moving to music

SROS - prayer

24.51

CU – P Farah praying
SROS - prayer

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: This life has convinced me more and more

24.56

M – P Farah in conducting prayer

SROS - prayer

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: that we can do without other matters and do not need them.  

25.06

W – Elie Ghandour in church praying

SROS - prayer

25.10

CU – Brother Silouane praying

SROS - prayer

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: That man has a mission, not just to live life, the way civilisation stresses today by saying “live your life, enjoy the world”.

25.23

CU – Brother Silouane reading prayer

SROS - prayers

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: Real life is that you have a mission.

25.27

M – Brother Minaas listening in church, crossing himself

SROS - prayers

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: While enjoying this life, what can you bring forward.  Because life will quickly end and man,

25.35

M – Brother Haitham

SROS - prayers

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: regardless of what he accumulated of personal pleasure,

25.38

CU – Brother Seraphim praying
SROS - prayers

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: will do nothing for him in death.

25.42

W – P Farah walks away to the monastery
SROS – prayers

VO: Archimandrite Pandaleimon Farah: But he leaves a legacy that he has given something to the others.

25.53

Fade to black.

25.54

Credits – end 26.00