Glykeria Karataeva landowner biography

Chapter XI. Monasticism and the world among the instructions of the priest are scattered by many tips on how to live in a Christian in the world. And more than once in conversations with the monks, he enthusiastically extolled a monastic life. Once, Kursk merchants drove to him from the Nizhny Novgorod Fair in the desert. Before goodbye, they asked the priest: - What will you order to tell your brother Alexy?

And when they left, the reverend gave his hands to the sky and with enthusiasm, moreover, several times, repeated before the then Diveevo sister Praskovia Ivanovna, the glorification of the monasticism: - There is no better monastic life! No better! And another time, when the admirer of the Monk, I. Karataev left for the same native Kursk, and also asked: whether to transfer anything to his relatives, then St.

Seraphim, pointing to the faces of the Savior and the Mother of God, said: “Here are my relatives.” And for living relatives, I am already a living dead. And he loved the monastery and monastic life so much that he had never even regretted the world even in his thoughts and did not want to turn back. When the same sister of Praskovya decided to leave the Diveevo monastery, father, his spirit, causing it to the spirit, called her to her desert, began to console her and began to tell her about herself and about his life in the monastery.

And in the end he added: - I, mother, passed all the monastery life, and never, below with the thought, I have not left the monastery. Here, mother, I opened them with them in the prologue from the Life of Vasily the Great, as they blessed at his brother Peter; And the saint of Vasily showed them the lie of the blessing of their power and the power of God. A deliberate conversation about love for the nuns is conveyed by the old woman Maria Vasilievna Nikashina.

Once he asks: - Have you seen Diveevo, and my girls, mother? So exactly my girls, exactly like bees, will always be with God's mother. Why envy them? After all, the widows are good there, mother! And the widow is good! After all, they will be there! You know Anna, I read the prophetess, read? After all, the widow was, but what, mother! After this servant of God was widowed and entered the desired Diveev.

But, loving monasticism, the Monk had in view of true monks and nuns, who accepted monasticism not by anything, as soon as by love for God, for the sake of saving his soul; And moreover, if the monastic path does not externally pass only with them, but with good fertile consequences. In this sense, the case with one seminarist is remarkable. Thought about monasticism.

Once the father turned to me with the question: - Why do you want to go to the monks? You probably disdain marriage? I answered this: - I never had thin thoughts about the holy sacrament of marriage, but I would like to go to monks with that purpose to make it more convenient to serve the Lord. After this, the elder said: “Your path is blessed!” But look: write my following words not on paper, but on my heart: learn smart, heart prayer.

One external prayer is insufficient. God heeds the mind, and therefore those monks, which do not connect the external prayer with the inner, not monks, but black firebracks! Subsequently, the young man tonsured monks with the name of Nikon and ended his life with the archimandrite of the Balaklava monastery in the Crimea. Many asked the priest of the blessing to retire to save the soul to the Holy Mount Athos, but he advised to escape in Orthodox Russia.

If we cry the monks here, then go there - for a hundred times crying, and if we do not cry here, then there is nothing to think about the holy monastery. Those who are worthy and by the will of God accepts monasticism, great grace opens everywhere. This is how the Rev. said the Rev. about tonsure Elena Vasilievna Manturova, comparing him earthly with marriage, this is the most solemn and happy moment of human life.

Seraphim, calling from Diveev to a desert - it’s time for you and the fiancé to engage. Elena Vasilievna, frightened, sobbed and exclaimed: - I do not want to marry, father! Seraphim ordered you to engage with the fiancé - dress in black clothes. After all, how to get married, mother! After all, what a groom, my joy! Your groom is in the absence, you do not discourage, and the begging is only more to be more.

So prayer, always inseparable prayer and prepare all three years and get ready, my joy, so that at three years everything would be ready for you. I’m telling you about tonsure, mother and how to cut yourself, you will be more and more in your chest. And what will it be then! That's with what great and blessed event finally compared Fr. Seraphim of monastic tonsure - with the embodiment of God himself in the womb of the Virgin, is even scary to say.

But the priest spoke from experience. Monasticism must be read by both worldly people and heart and deed, and thus at least a little a part of the monastic grace through others: for this, the priest advised to give alms or work in monasteries. And vice versa, the resentment of the monks, ”he taught,“ will be strictly punished by the Lord. And a lot, a lot of wonderful he predicted me about Diveev.

Whoever evens out with their hearts and regrets them, and the Lord will reward.Whoever brought the gift does not bring him to you, but to God: it is not for you to thank him, but may he thank the Lord himself that the Lord will accept his gift. There is your own - give. But on the other hand, the very monasticism, worthy of passing, is already the great mercy of God not only by the beneficialities themselves, but also to their whole family.

If you observe, I will even say to you, saved yourself and your dreams, which you take care of: “Not a video,” the Prophet said, “the righteous is left below the seeds of his offspring, asking for bread” Ps. But he especially expressed the same thought in an interview with his native nineteen -year -old Martha, who was Maria's novice, after her death. When her older sister, Praskovya Semenovna Melukova, the Diveevo nun, came to the Monk Seraphim for the coffin who was hollowed out for the deceased, then the priest, comforting her, said: “And you don’t lose heart, mother: Her soul in the Kingdom of Heaven and near the Holy Trinity near the throne of God.” And your whole family will be saved on it!

And her brother, the gatekeeper mentioned, then still a peasant Ivan, said after the funeral of Mary: “Here, my joy, how mercy she was given from the Lord!” She is your prayer book for the whole family! She is a scimonachine Martha, I tonsured her. Even from his orwear orphan, others will not be pardoned. This was open to him in a wonderful vision by the very Mother of God in the year at the festival of the Assumption.

And now, what a joy to us, father! Mother of God inexplicable goodness covered the wretched Seraphim. What mercy to us the Queen of Heaven showed! And the saint of God himself was so enlightened, and he shone with delight.

And he asked that everything, everything in the Seraphim of the desert would be saved orphans, father! And the Mother of God promised the wretched Seraphim of this indescribable joy, father! .. At the same time, the elder’s bright face clouded after seven months the reverence was another phenomenon of the Virgin, the most wonderful. Then the sister of Evdokia Efremovna was present.

She is after a vision about. And all, mother, will be saved. And besides the three, the merciful mistress promised everyone to save, all my joy! The chosen ones who will do my affairs, mother, and with me will be in my monastery. And the ones called, which only temporarily will only eat our bread, which is a dark place. Only a bed will be given to them, they will be in shirts alone, but they will always yearn!

These are negligent and lazy, mother, who do not take care of the general thing and are only busy with their own affairs. Where it will be gloomy and difficult for them! Everyone will sit, swinging from side to side in one place! And you say so to everyone. The mysterious pages from the future world are revealed here the Monk, but not to our carnal and limited mind to talk about this.

Only we, monks, need to remember both three dead and many called, but, alas, not elect. Next, we learn about the terrible fate of two convicted abbess. It was not without reason that the saint of God cried about us, negligent. Superviations of us from this mud, Lord. For the prayers of your mother. And the Monk Seraphim. But he strangely finished this conversation about the prison, as if about other people: - We don’t have it before them, mother, let our bread eat our bread!

Exactly alienated, expelled, forgotten secrets - the courts of God