Place Your Hope in the Lord: The Poetic Spiritual Life of Father Lazar
Nun Jelena Stanisic is the abbess of Celija Piperska Monastery. She was born on February 4, 1967, in Niksic, Montenegro. She received a B.A. in Literature in Niksic in 1990. She was tonsured a nun on June 2, 1998, in Celija Piperska Monastery. On November 25, 2001, she was appointed as mother superior of Celija Piperska. Mother Jelena received the rank of abbess on May 30, 2010. Milena Taylor is a mother of five, a wife, and a translator by profession. Born in Serbia, educated in the United States (B.S., University of Texas), she returned with her American-Serbian husband to her motherland in 1996. She lived with her family for 10 years in Montenegro, witnessing and being part of the regional spiritual revival after 50 years of Communist suppression and persecution of the Orthodox faith. In the past 10 years, she has translated 15 Orthodox Christian books published by Orthodox monasteries in Serbia and Montenegro and numerous articles for various Orthodox magazines.