Liturgy is served daily by Archimandrite Arseny. Compline in the small chapel follows supper. All services are in Church Slavonic. The Convent has large fruit and vegetable gardens with neatly trimmed shrubs and a variety of flowers. Sisters also take care of bees and chickens, make prosphora, sew vestments, paint icons, and struggle in the office with the latest bureaucratic red tape sent by the socialist French government.
Guests share a common trapeza with the sisters three times a day.
In December 1976, after a lengthy illness, Abbess Theodora reposed, and Mother Magdalena, her spiritual daughter and assistant for 20 years, became the Convent's fourth Abbess. Under her strict but loving guidance the Convent has continued in its age-old traditions, and has become a spiritual center caring for the needs of many pilgrims from all parts of the world. Lesna has few living links with the past, although spiritual links remain. The last monastic to enter while the monastery was actually in Lesna died in 1983. Only two remain who entered in Hopova.