well, because these are the very walls that we have left for 150 years for a wooden hut - this is a long time. of course, they collected bit by bit, but nothing from that time was practically preserved, with the exception of a few things of the reverend, abrosia, a fairy girl in a wand with us. in 1988, the first of all the monk ambrose in the world alexander mikhailovich grenkov was canonized, he had a phenomenal memory, he was fluent in five foreign languages. he has been gifted and promising since childhood. i entered the seminary at the age of 12, but in the last grade i fell seriously ill and gave dinner to god if i recover, i will be tonsured a monk for my ministry. he took optina pustyn, he had a number of diseases and the doctor who treated him said

that according to all medical indicators, this person would live half an hour an hour, but he treated him with hearts for years and later. for a long significant time, he converted to orthodoxy through this, being a foreigner. if i am not mistaken, a lutheran, st. ambrose could speak with everyone in his language to help illiterate peasant woman. to give advice to a wealthy landowner and answer the questions of fyodor dostoevsky and leo tolstoy, the elder's conversations with the guests took place in a special room. asceticism reigns here , but these walls have seen even royal persons and with the name of romanov on the wall there is a kind of gallery of portraits of those who visited the ambros. this is one of the rooms in the hut of the monk ambrose at that time, specially arranged for the reception of

honored visitors, where they could have a private conversation with the elder, maybe confess leo tolstoy visited optina six times. the first meeting of tolstoy and the elders in russia was in 1877 . the conversation between them was so sharp and heavy that the elder was completely exhausted and could hardly breathe, then the elder said he was extremely proud of the writer, he came here all the time, then he dressed up as a peasant so that they would know, then officially somehow came. every time, he practically met with the elders. and this is the door. this hut was always open to him. there is evidence that immediately before death. he came to optina for the last time. wanted to visit an old man, but did not dare to enter the skid and so left fyodor dostoevsky came to optina after the heavy drama of the death of his son alyosha in 1877. dostoevsky

could not answer the question of why such a small angel-like child was taken from this life, he was brought to optina pustyn to the elder ambrose, he talked with him in his cell and left from there a completely different renewed person. he lived in the skete for a very short time, but that was enough for the impression of the trip to enter into the brothers karamazov as the prototype of the elder zosima in the book dostoevsky, the elder himself appeared in russia it’s wild to think about it, but on the graves of the elders during the soviet years there was a dance floor. and in the cells of the monastery itself there was a rest house, then a state farm, then a vocational school , the burial places of the holy elders were found with great difficulty. everything here was trampled down, the devastation was so depressing that the locals did not believe in the revival, optina. and although in soviet

times the monastery stood in ruins overnight, miracles did not stop in the prayerful place. so now the monastery is experiencing its own, if possible, so to put it in the renaissance, today the bell tower has been restored in the monastery, but on the territory there is also a separate belfry; it was erected immediately after the revival of the monastery, as a temporary one, and then preserved. as a memory here on easter 1993, a tragedy occurred after breaking the fast, the brothers, optina, or father trofim, father report, went to the belfry to glorify god, ring the bells at that time, the murderer nikolai. well crept up from the back let's say he was planning. this is murder. it was ritual and pierced them with a sword in the back when the father vasily turned his back on him. he also pierced his back with such a two-handed sword, uh 40 cm.

uh, she herself here is the blade, yes, and 20 cm with her hands turns out to be a two-handed sword, but three sixes were scrawled on the blade. that is, it is clear, yes, who is the customer? who the customer is murder. the killer of satanists was detained almost immediately during the investigation, he was recognized as insane by the murdered monks, and the kerafim feraponte and father vasily stalin were martyred. if it is a great happiness for a monk to become a martyr, swearing will not hold them back much father vasily was the only child in the family of his mother. after the death of her son, she became a nun in front of the monastic order. she said i want to meet him after death. father trofim's mother also went to a monastery and lives here near the optina desert. the brothers were buried at the eastern wall of the monastery, a little

later a chapel was built over the graves, and almost immediately the suffering people were drawn here. in general, i myself am their death. i went through very hard. maybe because i had a mother myself. here is a purely maternal feeling, god, how hard it is now. material, manger. oh lord, glen valentina mikhailovna perceived all the tragic news in those days. she was very acutely diagnosed the other day with a serious diagnosis, from that moment on every free minute. she prayed to god, for a miracle she was one of the first to go to venerate the graves of the new martyrs. my friend, who was already churched, said to me, let's go to optina and pray. let's ask these guys to ask that i call them that to help. guys, they lived on the ground, that is, eh, well, as if i live here, and they lived miserably. i'm on the ground. that

yes, they are closer to god now than anyone else. we went to the grave, it wasn't there yet. the chapels came to the grave, and i sat down on the grave and i don’t remember how long i sat for 2 hours or three i asked, i asked for it in 3 days. she went for an examination. the tests showed valentina mikhailovna is absolutely healthy. there was no trace of the disease. the doctors just shrugged. i was told that this rarely happens, but i still need to be examined again, because they didn’t find out, imagine how i have already prepared myself, how to hear the world and the nums. here such a miracle of course a miracle, well, what is it differently? once i heard father philip

speak in a sermon. but that one woman came to pray at the grave, the brothers saw that the man had sore hands, so you put your hands on something. here are the graves, yes, he attached. and just like that, father philip says that right before his eyes , his hands turned red from white and took on a healthy look. telling us this story, father barsanuphius did not know that we had found this healed man. he treated these three monks with great respect, visited the graves and prayed hope for them and that, as it were, i don’t know, they will pray for me there. aleksey akimov, a former tractor driver, once got into an accident stronger. in total , their hands suffered after fractures; they were collected

practically along the bones, the bones grew together, but the blood circulation of the hand was disturbed. they were whiter, the papers froze even at a fifteen-degree temperature. if you forget to put on gloves, you could start congreno, on your hands, as if there is no blood circulation and the feeling that there are only bones. uh, the hands turn white and don't work. in general and in general, in general, you freeze. well, i asked you. here is how she is being treated, as they said she is not being treated, practically nothing is the last hope for god immediately after the examination on the way home. he drove to optina and stayed for a few days to work hard and pray every day. he went to the graves of the martyrs to hear rumors of healings. it has long been walking among the pilgrims. i'm thinking of leaving. here are the lands, i kiss them, i’ll take them, there was a woman sitting there. i asked her to collect land. she suggested that i

ask hieromonk vasily to help me heal my illnesses. mm. i will not be long. think, turned prayerfully and literally. probably, here three minutes have passed, the hand remained, and before there were many healings during two or three days, when you pray, this is a blade, but this particular case is very similar, as if in front of you right there and with witnesses. after that incident, alexey became a sexton, helping to conduct services in the church near his house. and most importantly, he can’t wait for the canonization of the new martyrs. although personally for him. they are already saints none. and so many people go there and feel the outgoing grace from them. although they are not glorified, but go as not already. glorified by the saint. hmm, the largest church in the optina of the kazan

icon of the mother of god, daily evening services are held in it, sunday festive late liturgies. there is always a decent queue for communion on weekends, and on the big holidays of christmas time easter in the monastery there are so many people that they put them to sleep right on the floor in the church. jesus christ, our god have mercy on us ah, many of those who came here at least once as pilgrims want to stay and live for some time in the monastery, their they call them laborers and they feed them free of charge, but on one condition. they are required to work and go to all services. they say such trips heal the soul, is it like living on another planet? we are chasing all the time, chasing money for everything for this

for this saint and we understand that we get nothing. although her. maybe we're making some progress there. yes, we are getting something. well, nothing spiritual was taught. god's help to me, in principle, now with god's help. i can overcome this state of despondency, or something like that, here any grief in life, in principle with prayer. in ordinary life, a policeman, but now he lives in a monastery, where there are no ranks or social distinctions here. he is just a brother, maxim , that we are all brothers and sisters in faith, that he is, as it were, each other's people. well, as we say, well, we try to treat each other more respectfully than in moderation. oh the first time. maxim came here last summer and spent a merry launch here. it seemed to him that the most difficult thing was not work, but there was no such daily routine. for the same in the army. we will be every morning a bell, that is, 5 o'clock in the morning, we turn on the light for us and we want, we don't want, we have to get up. well

, you remember everything. we get up and that everything is good together, as if, you see, the brother has become necessary and , as it were, it is already becoming ashamed at 5:30. first blessing. breakfast works lunch. again obedience to all obedience takes several hours a day, maybe four and a half hours. evening worship and evening rules are quite a bit of free time, but it just doesn’t remain for something empty, and maybe not useful staff are accommodated in a special hotel. this is certainly not a five star hotel. but everything you need to live. here there are 4-5 people living in a room sleeping on bunk beds in order to settle in, you only need a passport and work clothes. everything else as needed. they will give you a replacement here. requires only one thing to follow the rules of the monastery. if someone is really kept smoking, even on the territory of the

monastery, of course, this is a serious violation. yes alcohol is not allowed music, generally hmm on wandering territory is not allowed. it's still a holy place. christ is risen and everything is changing, you feel that you are not alone, that there is some kind of everything that loves you. you begin to understand that not only do you need god, but god needs you, the lord showed that he is one with the people lined up. this is the road from there to us here on earth. this is such a union with god when god takes us to himself completely, he shares grief fear into mental suffering. all people, just like a christian, are separated by the physical suffering of easter today on the first sunday of the savior there is an incredibly important statement for every person of the idea that evil cannot, the lord always work, because

the monastery is located. the monks are not fully self-sufficient, they are fed and clothed. they themselves are the subsidiary farm of the monastery. one of the largest agricultural enterprises. throughout the kaluga region. we are located at the utility house of the monastery. it is located near the walls much larger in area than the monastery. here we have a barn, a stable, a chicken coop, an apiary, a granary. mill ponds, greenhouse vegetable gardens, and so on prayer and labor. all the monks in worldly life had some kind of profession and today in the monastery, they are trying to give them exactly the work that they know, the veterinarian takes care of the

animals, the doctors treat, and the artists paint icons. in a monastery, work must be obligatory if a monk lives without labor, only his attack can be called a parasite, even go far for about easter, already these easter are all in the service. dinner, as if to cook in the summer part of the brothers and leaves for sowing work, but even in the field they are not exempted from prayers and church services. so a special temple on wheels is leaving with them. he is taken out to the field camp for kozelsky. we have about 800 hectares of land for about half a year for the season, so that the brothers who carry. there, obedience combiners tractor drivers cooks

beekeepers could serve there without coming to the monastery. some workers live here for years, and there are those who do not leave at all and prepare for monasticism. the lord said not healthy, requires a doctor, but you understand more painfully, and therefore, naturally, people come here who are humans, so to speak, or who find themselves in some kind of difficult life situation in a spiritual crisis, lost from the point of view of spiritual life. dmitry glukhov is difficult to obey, or speaking in secular language, the work that he does here preparing prosphora, the obedience that we do, it brings joy to the soul , you understand, and therefore people, in general, come here and not in order to live to obey to be with god, work for the glory of god, not for

money, nor for any, say, rewards for any. so to speak, the reward dmitry came to the monastery, 15 years ago, the construction business, family life and divorce were left behind. so on the threshold of the monastery, he appeared not at all in her car with a burning view, that moment was searching. came here. when you read in books that the monastery is, so to speak, this life of holy people, it is, so to speak, the feeling that flowers just live here. here, and when you come, so to speak, uh yourself and, uh, you see around, so to speak, ordinary people who are, in general, everywhere, here are the most ordinary and a couple of times unusual all sorts of different. that's why you begin to understand that this is, in general, and not a place. where do they live? and the place where they become saints dmitry has not yet become a saint, but soon, most

likely, he will become a monk over the years. he understood. life outside the monastery, finally ceased to interest him. i like it here, i like life, so to speak, in the monastery. way to fulfill all resignedly this is the most difficult. that's what we are learning is that to overcome our own egoism, our pride, so to speak, this is our selfhood. this is probably the most. the main thing here is to overcome here. today lined up around the monastery. whole village. they settled here. those who do not understand their lives, without optina are people who received healing or came to god thanks to the optina elders. here, they say, we all live differently, but everything is fine. when you get to optina desert you can feel what? you

you find yourself in a kind of mystical space, where every situation, every meeting, every word carries, and some kind of internal spiritual load maria monomenova grew up in an atheistic family. she found faith in god precisely in optina. 10 years. and recently, maria decided to move to the walls of the monasteries, bought land forever and began to build a house. she just can't imagine her life. far from this abode, i could never even imagine. what could be happiness that i will live close by. it seemed to me that the people who live here are, well, like the celestials, the monastery and the spiritual and economic

impact on life in the area, if in the late nineties a small house here could be bought for 50,000 rubles. together with the land, today only a hundred square meters of land costs 250,000 rubles. all life in the village is connected with the monastery. many villagers take tourists to postoy or lead excursions for them. well , this is me and my daughter with my daughter. it's like she's the one. they came some of her friends and then here somehow it is necessary to place. there, on the internet , family and now with children or a husband, wife with a child. here, as if i accept such, come to your pilgrims, not so much for the sake of earning. how much for the sake of communication. the children grew up at home empty, and here come a variety of people. and everyone has their own problems. there is no good. everyone has

problems. you are talking when well, everyone is your own, but someone has a family, someone who has health, by the way, housing is inexpensive from 300 rubles. for a bed , the hosts will accept a place and feed you lenten food. so optina pustyn, if i may say so, is actually a city-forming enterprise for neighboring villages. optina pustyn is surrounded by a forest, a village and healing springs, literally six hundred meters from the monastery gates on the zhizdra river there is the spring of st. pafnutius borovsky. it has long been known as healing. i had problems with my legs at that time, that is, in general, my legs hurt very much, but when i went in, that is, firstly, i could not exhale. it’s

impossible to get out of the cold from no, it’s necessary three times. and here, firstly, i didn’t have everything like that up to the waist. that is, i plunged out three times. elena suffered from arthrosis for many years, sometimes her legs hurt. so it was impossible to get out of bed and it was crazy for her to climb into the cold water, but she decided and instead of complications, her legs stopped hurting. here's what's interesting. i, of course, did not contact the source at the time. at first you don't notice, and then, when there are no symptoms and i think, they bought the water , it's very cold, only plus six degrees. however, this does not stop, believers perform a three-fold immersion with the head first. praying to the reverend pafnut for healing. well, he fell from a height unsuccessfully slightly injured his leg.

came here, bathed in the source, and then as new. i got out of the water. even the swelling went down. i have n't had a ladder down yet. two men almost on their shoulders, because there is a very steep descent, and then i climbed back with my own feet. in the optina desert it didn’t stop, the optina elders are praying for us a lot today pilgrims, still go for advice to experienced confessors and still warm the priest with caress and pray for all those who mourn. our task is to learn to love for this, and we live here and people come here, these pilgrims come here to touch it, to learn to love about such places, they say, a prayerful place of grace or

a place of power. and also in the optina desert. they say it's always a holiday here. this is especially felt at easter and christmas. this miracle of the blessed matrona is always a burden, an icon. someone me petals with a petal of the matrona, very many are healed. we came precisely for this, so that she would help us in her personal life. those who protected and took care of her came up with the idea that she was from a very poor family. this is not true. that's who that hurts, that it's worth it seems to be treated. i don't know what's right. i am applying. since matrona mogu was not born in a large family, but because at the time of the appearance of cartridges in the nikonov family. uh, there was a kid there today, a girl of 10 years old. i can't say that i just believed in it so boundlessly. he just would said it might be. and now maya

, some kind of god's providence appeared, well, they just stood in front of the chiefs and turned to matrona . i came to her. she stroked my head and said you will never have a bigger head. you will never get sick and lived 96.5 years. she now i realized that i was with the matron. easter is the main holiday for christians around the world, it symbolizes the victory over death for the salvation of all mankind. jesus christ suffered on the cross and resurrected on the third day, all the events associated with the

crucifixion by death and the resurrection of christ took place here in jerusalem at this place today stands the church of the resurrection of christ, which is often called the church of the holy sepulcher, and here every year one of the greatest miracles of the holy fire converges. sent to russia to the cathedral of christ the savior in russia. the holy fire is maintained all year round in the temple. christ the savior is renewed

every year, day in and day out. after gaining the holy fire here in jerusalem in the church of the sepulcher lord, he is sent to moscow by plane, and he gets to the believers in a few hours. the holy fire or holy light is great saturday on the eve of easter in the church of the holy sepulcher, this miracle happens every year and so on for more than one and a half thousand years. the holy fire symbolizes the end of sorrow and the beginning of the bright feast of the resurrection of

christ . the tomb of the lord is located in the morning, pilgrims begin to gather, in the temple itself fits up to 10,000 people, the entire square in front of it and the enfilades of surrounding buildings are also filled with people in such a crowd it is almost impossible to see what is happening in the temple. on the eve in the temple, all the candles of the lampada and the chandelier are extinguished. they kept the holy fire of another fire in the temple throughout the year. no, and it cannot be. the jerusalem patriarch theophilus is the first to receive the new holy fire. he does not come down just by his prayer. the ceremony begins with the

procession around the holy sepulcher of the lord , the patriarch is dressed in the robe of a clergyman with a miter and a scepter, bishops and monks are also dressed in clothes for the liturgy, everything happens here in a special chapel inside the church of the resurrection of christ, the kuvukli , translated from greek, rest. only in the ascetic remains the so-called epi.