Icon of the blessed saints of Diveyevo Pelagia, Paraskeva, Mary. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Monastery
In the world she was a serf peasant, modest, hardworking, widowed early. Blessed Pasha of Sarov (in the world - Irina) was born in 1795 in the village of Nikolskoye, Spassky district, Tambov province, into the family of the serf peasant Ivan and his wife Daria, who had three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters was called Irina, the current Pasha. The gentlemen gave her at the age of seventeen, against her will and desire, to marry the peasant Theodore. Irina lived well with her husband, in harmony, loving each other, and her husband’s relatives loved her for her meek disposition and hard work, she loved church services, prayed fervently, avoided guests, society, and did not go to village games. Fifteen years passed, and the Lord did not bless them with children. The Bulygin landowners sold Irina and her husband to the Schmidts in the village of Surkot.
Five years after this resettlement, Irina’s husband fell ill with consumption and died. The Schmidts tried to marry Irina a second time, but when they heard the words: “Even if you kill me, I won’t marry again,” they decided to leave her at home. Irina did not have to work as a housekeeper for long; after a year and a half, trouble struck the Schmidt estate, the theft of two canvases was discovered... The servants revealed that Irina had stolen them. The policeman arrived with his soldiers, and the landowners begged him to punish the culprit. the soldiers brutally beat her, tortured her, pierced her head, tore her ears... Irina continued to say that she did not take the canvases. Then the gentlemen called a local fortune teller, who said that it was really Irina who stole the canvases, but not this one, and lowered them into the water, that is, into the river. Based on the words, fortune tellers began to look for canvases in the river and found them.
After the torture she suffered, innocent Irina was not able to live with the “non-Christ” gentlemen and one fine day she left. The landowner filed a missing person report. A year and a half later, she was found in Kyiv, where she arrived in the name of Christ on a pilgrimage. They grabbed the unfortunate Irina, put her in prison and then, of course, slowly, escorted her to the landowner. One can imagine what she experienced in prison, sitting with the prisoners, tormented by hunger and the treatment of the guard soldiers! The landowners, feeling their guilt and how cruelly they treated her, forgave Irina, wanting to use her services again. The Lord made Irina a gardener, and for more than a year she served them with faith and truth, but as a result of the suffering and injustice she experienced, and thanks to communication with the Kyiv ascetics, an internal change occurred in her. A year later she was found again in Kyiv and arrested. Again she had to endure the suffering of the prison, a return to the landowners, and finally, to top off all the trials, the gentlemen did not accept her and kicked her out, naked, without a piece of bread, onto the streets of the village. Going to Kyiv, of course, was unbearable and even useless in a spiritual sense; undoubtedly, the spiritual fathers blessed her for foolishness for the sake of Christ, and she took secret tonsure in Kiev with the name Paraskeva, which is why she began to call herself Pasha. For five years she wandered around the village like a madwoman, serving as a laughing stock not only to the children, but to all the peasants. Here she developed the habit of living all four seasons in the air, starving, enduring the cold, and then disappeared.
She stayed in the Sarov Forest, according to the testimony of monastics in the desert, for about 30 years; lived in a cave that she dug for herself. She went from time to time to Sarov, to Diveevo, and she was more often seen at the Sarov mill, where she came to work for the monks living there.
She always had a surprisingly pleasant appearance. During her life in the Sarov Forest, her long asceticism and fasting, Pasha looked like Mary of Egypt. Thin, tall, completely sunburnt and literally black, scary, she wore short hair at that time, since everyone was amazed at her long hair that reached the ground, which gave her beauty, which now bothered her in the forest and did not correspond to her secret tonsure. Barefoot, wearing a man's monastic shirt, a scroll unbuttoned on her chest, with bare arms, with a serious expression on her face, she came to the monastery and struck fear into everyone who did not know her. Four years before moving to the Diveyevo monastery, she temporarily lived in one of the villages. She was already considered blessed then, and with her insight she earned universal respect and love. Peasants and wanderers gave her money, asking for her prayers, and the primordial enemy of all that is good and good in humanity inspired the robbers to attack her and rob non-existent wealth, which made her suffering like to the suffering of Father Fr. Seraphim. The villains beat her half to death, and blessed Pasha was found covered in blood. She was ill after that for a whole year and never recovered at all. The pain of a broken head and a swelling in the pit of her stomach torment her constantly, although she, apparently, does not pay any attention and only occasionally says to herself: “Oh, mummy, how it hurts here! No matter what you do, Mama, it won’t go down in the pit of your stomach.”
Already living in Diveyevo, in the fall of 1884 she walked past the fence of the cemetery Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and, hitting a fence post with a stick, said: “As soon as I knock down this post, they will go to die, just have time to dig graves.” These words soon came true: as the pillar fell - blessed Pelageya Ivanovna, the priest Felixov died after her, then so many nuns that the Magpies did not stop for a whole year, and it happened that two were buried at once.
She wandered for many years, acting like a fool, before moving to the Sarov Forest. Contemporaries noted that the appearance of Blessed Pasha of Sarov changed depending on her mood; she was either overly strict, angry and menacing, or affectionate and kind:
“Her childish, kind, bright, deep and clear eyes amaze so much that all doubt about her purity, righteousness and high feat disappears. They testify that all her oddities - allegorical conversation, severe reprimands and antics - are only an outer shell that deliberately hides humility, meekness, love and compassion."
The blessed one spent all nights in prayer, and during the day after church services she reaped grass with a sickle, knitted stockings and did other work, constantly saying the Jesus Prayer. Every year the number of sufferers who turned to her for advice and requests to pray for them increased.
After the death of Diveyevo’s blessed Pelageya Ivanovna Serebrennikova in 1884, Pasha remained in the monastery until the end of her days and for 31 years continued their common purpose: to save the souls of monastics from the onslaught of the enemy of humanity, from temptations and passions known to them by insight.
It is impossible to collect and describe cases of blessed Pasha’s clairvoyance. So, one day she got up in the morning all upset, in the afternoon a visiting gentleman came up to her, said hello and wanted to talk, but Praskovya Ivanovna screamed and waved her hands: “Go away, go away!” Don't you see, devil! They chopped off the gov with an ax!” The visitor was frightened and walked away, not understanding anything, but soon the bell was rung, announcing that a nun had now died in the hospital during an attack of epilepsy; then the words of blessed Pasha became clear.
It is also known that in 1903, during the glorification of St. Seraphim of Sarov, she was visited by the most august persons - Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The blessed one predicted for them the imminent birth of the long-awaited Heir, as well as the death of Russia and the royal dynasty, the defeat of the Church and a sea of blood, after which the Tsar more than once turned to the predictions of Paraskeva Ivanovna, sending the Grand Dukes to her from time to time for advice. Shortly before her death, the blessed one often prayed in front of the portrait of the Emperor, foreseeing his imminent martyrdom.
Blessed schema-nun Paraskeva died at the age of 120. The grave of Paraskeva Ivanovna is located at the altar of the Trinity Cathedral.
Before her death, Blessed Paraskeva blessed her successor, Blessed Maria Ivanovna, to live in the Diveyevo monastery.
The Tsar and Empress knew better than anyone that the whole family would die in fulfillment of the Fifth Seal. The queen, like any mother, could not come to terms with the death of her children, which she indirectly opposed after the fourth prediction of Pasha of Sarov in 1903. Embroidering a flower of seven petals on the dress of a doll broken in Tobolsk by the Tsarevich, she depicted five petals as blooming, and two lying plucked at the base of the flower. (I have this doll in my chapel).
Having learned from predictions that their eminent relatives abroad were contributing to their death in 1918, they ordered two beautiful medallions in the shape of a shield to be made, on which the faces of George V and William II were depicted along with the Sovereign, as a reminder of their kinship. (The medallions were “stuck” in Poland).
The Emperor also tried to change what was written by the prophets. In 1905, after the defeat, as predicted by Seraphim of Sarov, in the Russian-Japanese War, he gathered all the bishops, using his right as the Head of the Church, and asked them: “What if I accept the angelic (monastic) rank and become your patriarch? "
Metropolitan Sergius writes: "And we remained silent". The Emperor turned sharply and left. It was a moment of weakness. And the Sovereign was submissive to the Will of God. He knew His purpose, knew that nothing could be changed and arrived in complete humility. In your article it is written: “The question of rescue from captivity did not arise then, because we were given to know that the sovereign would not risk it” and further: “Apparently, he then considered his life safe.” What ignorance of the Emperor!
He always considered his life to be safe. And when a shell from the cannon of the Peter and Paul Fortress flew over his head, wounding gendarme Romanov, he said only to the frightened witnesses of what had happened: “It’s not the eighteenth yet!” And when I walked 16 kilometers alone in a full soldier’s new uniform, testing it for comfort, and when I took my sick son to the front, sat with him in the trenches, walked under shells... "Not yet the eighteenth", was his answer. Everyone knew it. The Grand Dukes condemned Him for this, considering him weak and superstitious. They knew nothing at all about the numerous predictions of the prophets and had no idea about the Sovereign’s unconditional submission to the will of God. There was no need to save himself - the Provisional Government offered him, and then the Tsarina and her children, to go to relatives abroad. “We will be with our people,” was the answer. Now put yourself in the place of the Tsar... I would run ahead of the locomotive: what a Christ-like sacrifice there is! I would like to offer them materials from our website, everything is explained and even predicted there.
Let it be known to you, dear admirers of the Royal Martyrs, that back on August 1, 1903, the holy prophetess Pasha of Sarov predicted a terrible fate for the Tsar and Queen: be killed along with their children after 15 years. And so it happened.
“Next,” said the saint (three years ago she was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church), “four of your servants will be tortured along with you. For each of the 11 people killed, the Lord gives 10 years. For Your Family - seven people, take it out and put it down - the devil will walk around Russia. And for each of Your servants, the Lord will recheck every ten years: have the Russian people repented? And if they have not repented, I feel sorry for these Russian people: they must come out with vomit until they cry out: Monarchy for us! And here - the worse, the better, the sooner he will repent. But I tell you, Tsar, by the end of these 110 years there will be a Tsar in Rus' from your dynasty.” It should be added: and numerous prophecies regarding the bright future of our Motherland will come true (“And everyone will dream of living in this country”).
Well, now let's count:
July 17, 1918- the official date of the murder of the Royal Family, which has not yet been refuted even by you. Add 70 years (seven times ten), we get 1988. In the fall of 1988, Gorbachev transferred the position of General Secretary to Gromyka, preparing for the first presidential elections. Exactly 70 years. Not a word about the Tsar, the country is still communist, but the Secretary General no longer rules the country. Remember the difficult two years of “perestroika” for everyone! Until 1990, there was famine in the country, cards. There is little panic, but people have hope for perestroika. Then we went to click on the decades predicted by Pasha Sarov.
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PASHA SAROVSKAYA
Blessed Praskovya (Paraskeva) Ivanovna Diveevskaya
In the world - Irina Ivanovna
(b. 1795 – d. 1915)
Blessed, schema-nun of the Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery. Among her many predictions are the imminent birth of the long-awaited heir Nicholas II, the death of Tsarist Russia and the Tsarist dynasty, the defeat of the Church and a sea of blood.
Priest Peter Polyakov writes: “Foolishness is a great thing! He needs to be understood. But it is impossible to understand it without God’s help, without illumination from above. The world understands him little, and this is because they think little about such things and pray little. They plunged into the vanity of vanities, into pride and into carnal pleasure, and their feelings grew fat: they listen and do not hear, they look and do not see.” It is difficult to disagree with him, but it is even more difficult to understand how a person, having given up even small, but still worldly goods, takes upon himself the exorbitantly difficult feat of a holy fool for the sake of Christ. Although, probably, it is only we who feel the weight of their burden, for the holy fools themselves it is life with faith and by faith.
In 2004, at the celebrations dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the birth of St. Seraphim of Sarov, in the Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery, the canonization of blessed Pasha of Sarov and other Diveyevo blesseds who labored in this monastery in the 19th and 20th centuries took place - Pelagia and Mary .
Blessed Pasha of Sarov (in the world – Irina) was born in 1795 in the village of Nikolskoye, Spassky district, Tambov province. Her parents, Ivan and Daria, were serfs of the Bulygins. When Irina was seventeen years old, her gentlemen married her to the peasant Fyodor. Submissively submitting to her parents' and master's will, she became an exemplary wife and housewife. Her husband's family loved her for her modesty, meek disposition, hard work, and the fact that she lived with prayer. The young woman avoided guests and society and did not take part in village games and gatherings. So she lived with her husband for fifteen years, but God did not send them children. It is unknown why the married couple displeased the owners, but only the landowners Bulygins sold them to their neighbors - the Germans Schmidts in the village of Surkot. Five years after the resettlement, Fedor fell ill with consumption and died. Subsequently, when the blessed one was asked what kind of husband she had, she answered: “Yes, just as stupid as me.”
The new owners tried to marry Irina a second time, but when they heard the words: “Even if you kill me, I won’t marry again,” they decided to leave the hardworking widow in their house. A year and a half later, disaster struck - two canvases were discovered missing from the manor’s house. The servant slandered Irina. The police officer arrived with soldiers, and the landowners decided to roughly punish the woman. The soldiers brutally tortured her. But she continued to say that she did not take the canvases. Then the Schmidts turned to a local fortune teller, who said that the canvases were indeed stolen by a woman named Irina, but not this one, and that they were lying in the river. We started searching and actually found them where the fortune teller indicated. Of course, no one asked for forgiveness from the innocently punished Irina, and after what she had suffered, she was no longer able to live with the infidel masters.
The woman went to Klev on a pilgrimage. The Kyiv shrines and the meeting with the elders completely changed her inner state - she now knew why and how to live. Meanwhile, the landowner filed a missing person report. A year and a half later, the police discovered the fugitive in the monastery. For escaping, the serf peasant woman had to languish in prison for a long time before she was sent to her masters. The journey was painful and long, she had to experience hunger, cold, cruel treatment by escort soldiers, and the rudeness of male prisoners. Finally, Irina was returned to her owners. The Schmidts “forgave” her for running away and made her a gardener. After working as a gardener for the Schmidts for two years, Irina again decided to escape. It should be noted that during the second escape, Irina secretly took monastic vows with the name of Paraskeva, having received the blessing of the elders for foolishness for Christ's sake.
The landowners again put her on the wanted list, and a year later she was found again in Kleve and, having been arrested, was taken along the stage to the Schmidts, who, wanting to show their power over her, did not accept her and angrily kicked her out into the street - naked and without a piece of bread. For five years, Irina, half-naked, hungry, wandered around the village, but now, having taken monastic vows, Paraskeva was not sad - she knew her path. And the fact that the landowners kicked her out was only a sign that the time had come to fulfill the blessing of the elders. For five years she wandered around the surrounding villages and was a laughing stock not only for children, but also for all peasants, enduring hunger, cold and heat. And then she went into the Sarov forests, lived there in a cave, which she dug herself. According to the testimony of the monks, the Monk Seraphim of Sarov himself, during his lifetime, blessed Praskovya Ivanovna to a wandering life in the forests. There she remained in fasting and prayer for about thirty years. They say that she had several caves in different places in the impenetrable forest. She sometimes went to Sarov and Diveevo, but more often she was seen at the Sarov mill, where she earned her living.
Once upon a time, Pasha, as she began to call herself, had a surprisingly pleasant appearance, but during her long asceticism and fasting in the Sarov forest, she began to look like Mary of Egypt (only she wore men’s clothes, because it was more convenient for her). Archimandrite Seraphim (Chichagov), author of the Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diveevo Monastery, said: “During her life in the Sarov forest, her long asceticism and fasting, she looked like Mary of Egypt. Thin, tall, completely burned by the sun and therefore black and scary, she wore short hair at that time, since previously everyone was amazed at her long hair that reached the ground, which gave her a beauty that bothered her in the forest and did not correspond to her secret tonsure. Barefoot, in a man's monastic shirt-scroll, unbuttoned on the chest, with bare arms, with a serious expression on her face, she came to the monastery and struck fear into everyone who did not know her.” The archimandrite, having perfectly studied this wonderful woman, said about her: “From her kind look, every person comes into inexpressible delight. Her childish, kind, bright, deep and clear eyes amaze so much that all doubt about her purity, righteousness and high feat disappears. They testify that all her oddities - allegorical conversation, severe reprimands and antics - are just an outer shell, deliberately hiding the greatest humility, meekness, love and compassion. Sometimes wearing sundresses, she, as if turning into a kindly child, loves bright red colors and sometimes puts on several sundresses at once, as, for example, when she meets guests of honor or as a sign of joy and cheerfulness for the person entering her.”
The life of a hermit was fraught with great dangers. It was not so much the proximity to wild animals in the forest that complicated Irina’s life, but rather the meeting with “unkind people.” One day, it happened four years before she moved to the Diveyevo monastery, she, just like Seraphim of Sarov once, was attacked by robbers and demanded money that she did not have. The surrounding peasants and pilgrims who came to Sarov deeply revered Praskovya as an ascetic, brought her food, left money, but she distributed everything to the poor. The robbers beat her half to death and left her lying in a pool of blood with a broken head. For a whole year she was between life and death and never fully recovered. Pain in her head and swelling in the pit of her stomach tormented her constantly, but she paid almost no attention to it, only occasionally saying: “Oh, mummy, how it hurts here! No matter what you do, mummy, it won’t go down in the pit of your stomach!”
Before her move from the forest to Diveevo, Praskovya Ivanovna often went to the abbess of the convent of Diveevo, Blessed Pelagia (Serebrennikova), and sat next to her, as if waiting. And every time mother answered Pasha’s silent question: “Yes! It’s good for you, you don’t have worries like I have: there are so many children [nuns]!” The wanderer bowed low to her and went into the forest. Year after year, she came to the monastery more and more often, and she always had a homemade doll in her bosom (later there were many of these dolls), which she nursed like a small child. In the last year of the abbess’s life, Pasha was inseparably with her at the monastery. One day in the late autumn of 1884, walking past the fence of the cemetery Church of the Transfiguration, the old woman hit the fence post with a stick and said: “As soon as I knock down this post, they will go to die - just keep up with digging graves!” These words soon came true - blessed Pelagia Ivanovna died, followed by the monastery priest and so many nuns that the magpies did not stop for a whole year, and it happened that they held funeral services for two at once.
Pasha remained in the monastery until the end of her days. Several times she was offered to live in the cell of the deceased.
“No, you can’t,” answered Praskovya Ivanovna, “mama doesn’t order it,” she pointed to the portrait of Pelagia Ivanovna.
Praskovya settled first with the choir members, and then in a separate cell near the gate, where she lived until her death. In the cell there was a bed with huge pillows, which she rarely occupied, and numerous dolls rested on it. At first, after moving to Diveevo, she wandered from the monastery to distant obediences or to Sarov, to her former favorite places. On these trips, she took with her a simple stick, which she called a cane, a bundle of things or a sickle on her shoulder, and several dolls in her bosom. With a cane, she sometimes frightened those who pestered her and those guilty of some offense.
The old woman listened carefully to every word and tried to interpret every gesture. And there were reasons for this. So, one day Pasha, for no apparent reason, swung a stick at a visiting bishop and tore his clothes. Out of fear, he hid in the cell of Mother Seraphim. When the blessed one fought, she was so formidable that she put everyone in awe. And then it turned out that it was Praskovya Ivanovna who simply warned him that on the way back the bishop would be attacked and beaten.
And there were many such cases. For example, once Hieromonk Iliodor (Sergei Trufanov) from Tsaritsyn came to visit the blessed one. He came with a religious procession, there were a lot of people. Praskovya Ivanovna received him, sat him down, then took off his hood, cross and insignia - she put all this in her chest and locked it, and hung the key to her belt. Then she ordered a box to be brought, put onions there, watered them and said: “Onions, grow tall...” - and she went to bed. He sat as if debunked. He needs to start the all-night vigil, but he can’t get up. It’s good that she tied the keys to her belt and was sleeping on the other side, so they untied the keys, took everything out and gave it to him. And after several years, he withdrew from the priesthood and renounced his monastic vows. And there were many such predictions that were incomprehensible at first glance. Then with the words: “What a stupid girl you are! Well, is it possible! You don’t know how many babies are taller than us! - Pasha dissuades the girl from taking monastic vows from a godly deed. She does not understand why she is not given a blessing, and a few months later her daughter-in-law dies, and a girl, an orphan, is left in her arms. Another time Praskovya Ivanovna went to the priest of the village of Alamasova, approached the psalm-reader and said: “Sir! Please, take a good nurse or some kind of nanny.” And what? Soon the psalm-reader’s perfectly healthy wife fell ill and died, leaving behind a baby.
And if the blessed one did not bless some business, then it was not worth taking on it. Thus, during the construction of a new cathedral in Diveevo, Abbess Alexandra decided not to ask Praskovya Ivanovna’s blessing and even held a solemn prayer service at the foundation site. The novice Dunya told Praskovya Ivanovna about this. “The cathedral is a cathedral,” answered the blessed one, “but I saw: bird cherry trees had grown in the corners, as if they had not blocked the cathedral.” So the cathedral remained unfinished.
Non-believers also came to Praskovya Ivanovna to mock and have fun. One day two young men came and made fun of the old woman. She huddled into a ball in the corner of her cell - and not a word. They joked, laughed and left. But as soon as they walked a few yards away from the holy fool’s cell, they heard her shouting to them from the window: “Run quickly! Run quickly! Run with a bucket and flood your house! If you don’t flood your house, you’ll end up in jail.” They, of course, did not pay attention to her cry then. But a week later, a letter came to the monastery from one of those young people: “Praskovya Ivanovna prophesied to me: our house burned down, and I am in prison, arrested on suspicion of participating in workers’ riots at the factory. I was an unbeliever, but now I believe in God. Pray for me and ask Praskovya Ivanovna for forgiveness. I’ll get rid of this vain talk and come to your monastery for a different purpose.”
From those living with her, the blessed one certainly demanded that they get up to pray at midnight, and if anyone did not agree, then she made so much noise and scolded that everyone got up to appease her and pray. But sometimes Praskovya Ivanovna drove the nuns out of the house with the words: “Get out of here, scoundrels, here is the cash register.” (After the monastery was closed, a savings bank was located in her cell, and Blessed Pasha foresaw this.)
All the time she had free from prayer, the blessed one was busy with work, knitting stockings or spinning yarn. This activity was accompanied by incessant prayer, and that is why its yarn was so valued in the monastery; belts and rosaries were made from it. The old woman loved to work with a sickle. She reaped grass for them and, while working, bowed to Christ and the Mother of God. If respected people came to her, with whom she did not consider herself worthy to sit in the same room, the blessed one, having disposed of the treat and bowing at the guest’s feet, went away to reap the grass, that is, to pray for this person. She never left the harvested grass in the field or in the courtyard of the monastery; she collected it and took it to the horse yard. As a sign of trouble, she served burdock and prickly cones to those who came...
She prayed her own prayers, but she also knew some canonical ones. She called the Mother of God “Mama behind the glass.” Sometimes she stopped rooted to the spot in front of the icon and prayed, sometimes she knelt where she stood: in the field, in the upper room, in the middle of the street - and prayed earnestly with tears. It happened that she entered the church and began to extinguish the candles, the lamps near the images, or did not allow the lamps to be lit in the cell. Contemporaries noted that Pasha Sarovskaya’s appearance changed depending on her mood: she was either overly strict, angry and menacing, or affectionate and kind.
Under the windows of the old woman’s house, pilgrims crowded all day long. The name of Praskovya Ivanovna was known not only among the people, but also in the highest circles of society. Almost all of the high-ranking officials, visiting the Diveyevo Monastery, considered it their duty to visit Praskovya Ivanovna. The blessed one answered thoughts more often than questions, and people came to her for advice and consolation in an endless line. Nun Seraphim (Bulgakova) recalls: “...The future Metropolitan Seraphim, then still a brilliant guards colonel Leonid Chichagov, began to come to us in Sarov... When Chichagov arrived for the first time, Praskovya Ivanovna met him, looked from under his sleeve and said: “And the sleeves “They’re priestly.” He soon accepted the priesthood. Praskovya Ivanovna persistently told him: “Submit a petition to the sovereign so that the relics of [Seraphim of Sarov] are revealed to us.” Chichagov began collecting materials, wrote “The Chronicle...” and presented it to the sovereign. When the sovereign read it, he was inflamed with the desire to open the relics”... Thus, “the will of the Reverend, conveyed to me in categorical form by Pasha, was fulfilled.”
In 1903, the blessed one was visited by the most august persons - Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fedorovna. At this time, there were four daughters in the royal family, but there was no heir. We went to St. Seraphim to pray for the gift of a boy. Archpriest Stefan Lyashevsky testifies: “During the glorification in Diveyevo, the holy fool, blessed Pasha of Sarov, famous throughout Russia for Christ’s sake, lived. The Emperor was aware not only of Diveevo, but also of Pasha of Sarov. The sovereign with all the great princes and three metropolitans proceeded from Sarov to Diveevo. In the carriage they all drove up to the cell of Blessed Pasha. Mother Superior, of course, knew about this proposed visit and ordered all the chairs to be taken out of the cell and a large carpet to be laid out. Their Majesties, all the princes and metropolitans were barely able to enter this cell. Paraskeva Ivanovna sat, as almost always, on the bed, looked at the sovereign, and then said: “Let only the tsar and queen stay.” The Emperor, as if apologizing, looked at everyone and asked to leave him and the Empress alone - apparently, some very serious conversation was ahead.
Everyone went out and got into their carriages, waiting for their Majesties to come out. Mother Abbess was the last to leave the cell. And suddenly she hears Paraskeva Ivanovna, turning to the reigning persons, say: “Sit down.” The Emperor looked around and, seeing that there was nowhere to sit, became embarrassed, and the blessed one said to them: “Sit on the floor.” (Remember that the sovereign was arrested at the Dno station!) Great humility - the sovereign and empress sank onto the carpet, otherwise they would not have been able to resist, overwhelmed by horror from what Paraskeva Ivanovna was telling them.
She told them everything that later came true, that is, she predicted the death of Russia, the dynasty, the defeat of the Church and a sea of blood. The conversation continued for a very long time. The Empress was close to fainting, finally she said: “I don’t believe you, this cannot be!” Then Paraskeva Ivanovna took a piece of red cloth from the bed and said: “This is for your little son’s pants, and when he is born, then you will believe what I told you about.” Praskovya Ivanovna had the custom of showing everything on dolls, and then she prepared a boy doll. She laid the scarves softly and high on him and laid him down. “Hush, hush - he’s sleeping...”
They say that after visiting Pasha Sarovskaya, Nicholas II began to consider himself doomed to the agony of the cross and later said more than once: “There is no sacrifice that I would not make to save Russia.” And the cell attendant, the only one who was present at the conversation, later said that the blessed one told the king: “Sovereign, come down from the throne yourself.” When Nikolai Alexandrovich was leaving, he said that Praskovya Ivanovna was a true servant of God. Everyone and everywhere accepted him as a king, she alone accepted him as a simple person.
Hegumen Seraphim Putyatin talks about this same event in his memoirs: “The great ascetic and seer, Praskovya Ivanovna Sarovskaya... predicted the storm approaching Russia. She placed portraits of the king, queen and family in the front corner with the icons and prayed to them along with the icons, crying out: “Holy royal martyrs, pray to God for us.” In 1915, in August, I came from the front to Moscow, and then to Sarov and Diveevo, where I was personally convinced of this. I remember how I served the liturgy on the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Diveyevo, and then went straight from the church to Elder Praskovya Ivanovna, staying with her for more than an hour, listening carefully to her menacing predictions, although expressed in parables, but her cell attendant and I all understood and understood well deciphered the unclear. She revealed a lot to me, which at that time I did not understand as I should have about current world events. She told me even then that our enemies started the war with the goal of overthrowing the Tsar and tearing Russia apart. For whom they fought and in whom they hoped, they will betray us and will rejoice in our grief, but their joy will not last long, for they themselves will have the same grief.”
Blessed schema-nun Paraskeva died on September 22 (October 5), 1915 at the age of 120 years. Before her death, she kept bowing to the ground in front of the portrait of the king. She was no longer able to do it herself, and they lifted her up and down.
“Why are you praying to the Emperor like that, Mama?” - they asked her.
- Fools. “He will be taller than all the kings,” answered the schema-nun.
Blessed Pasha died hard and for a long time. Before her death, she was paralyzed and suffered greatly. Some were surprised: she was so devoted to God, and how hard it was to die. The nuns said that with these dying sufferings she redeemed the souls of her spiritual children from hell.
Pasha of Sarov was buried at the altar of the Trinity Cathedral of the Diveyevo Monastery next to Blessed Pelageya Ivanovna.
Her memorial day is September 22 (October 5). People still revere this blessed one to this day and often turn to her with prayers.
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Seek God, search tearfully,
Look, people, before it's too late.
Search everywhere, search everyone,
And you will find Him one day.
And there will be joy above the sky,
But search like a beggar for bread!
to the world she was a serf peasant, modest, hardworking, widowed early. Blessed Pasha of Sarov (in the world - Irina) was born in 1795 in the village of Nikolskoye, Spassky district, Tambov province, into the family of the serf peasant Ivan and his wife Daria, who had three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters was called Irina, the current Pasha. The gentlemen gave her at the age of seventeen, against her will and desire, to marry the peasant Theodore. Irina lived well with her husband, in harmony, loving each other, and her husband’s relatives loved her for her meek disposition and hard work, she loved church services, prayed fervently, avoided guests, society and did not go to village games. Fifteen years passed, and the Lord did not bless them with children. The Bulygin landowners sold Irina and her husband to the Schmidts in the village of Surkot.
Five years after this resettlement, Irina’s husband fell ill with consumption and died. The Schmidts tried to marry Irina a second time, but when they heard the words: “Even if you kill me, I won’t marry again,” they decided to leave her at home. Irina did not have to work as a housekeeper for long; after a year and a half, trouble struck the Schmidt estate, the theft of two canvases was discovered... The servants revealed that Irina had stolen them. The policeman arrived with his soldiers, and the landowners begged him to punish the culprit. the soldiers brutally beat her, tortured her, pierced her head, tore her ears... Irina continued to say that she did not take the canvases. Then the gentlemen called a local fortune teller, who said that it was really Irina who stole the canvases, but not this one, and lowered them into the water, that is, into the river. Based on the words, fortune tellers began to look for canvases in the river and found them.
After suffering the torture, innocent Irina was not able to live with the “non-Christ” gentlemen and one fine day she left. The landowner filed a missing person report. A year and a half later, she was found in Kyiv, where she arrived in the name of Christ on a pilgrimage. They grabbed the unfortunate Irina, put her in prison and then, of course, slowly, escorted her to the landowner. One can imagine what she experienced in prison, sitting with the prisoners, tormented by hunger and the treatment of the guard soldiers! The landowners, feeling their guilt and how cruelly they treated her, forgave Irina, wanting to use her services again. The Lord made Irina a gardener, and for more than a year she served them with faith and truth, but as a result of the suffering and injustice she experienced, and thanks to communication with the Kyiv ascetics, an internal change occurred in her. A year later she was found again in Kyiv and arrested. Again she had to endure the suffering of the prison, a return to the landowners, and finally, to top off all the trials, the gentlemen did not accept her and kicked her out, naked, without a piece of bread, onto the streets of the village. Going to Kyiv, of course, was unbearable and even useless in a spiritual sense; undoubtedly, the spiritual fathers blessed her for foolishness for the sake of Christ, and she took secret tonsure in Kiev with the name Paraskeva, which is why she began to call herself Pasha. For five years she wandered around the village like a madwoman, serving as a laughing stock not only to the children, but to all the peasants. Here she developed the habit of living all four seasons in the air, starving, enduring the cold, and then disappeared.
She stayed in the Sarov Forest, according to the testimony of monastics in the desert, for about 30 years; lived in a cave that she dug for herself. She went from time to time to Sarov, to Diveevo, and she was more often seen at the Sarov mill, where she came to work for the monks living there.
She always had a surprisingly pleasant appearance. During her life in the Sarov Forest, her long asceticism and fasting, Pasha looked like Mary of Egypt. Thin, tall, completely sunburnt and literally black, scary, she wore short hair at that time, since everyone was amazed at her long hair that reached the ground, which gave her beauty, which now bothered her in the forest and did not correspond to her secret tonsure. Barefoot, wearing a man's monastic shirt, a scroll unbuttoned on her chest, with bare arms, with a serious expression on her face, she came to the monastery and struck fear into everyone who did not know her. Four years before moving to the Diveyevo monastery, she temporarily lived in one of the villages. She was already considered blessed then, and with her insight she earned universal respect and love. Peasants and wanderers gave her money, asking for her prayers, and the primordial enemy of all that is good and good in humanity inspired the robbers to attack her and rob non-existent wealth, which made her suffering like to the suffering of Father Fr. Seraphim. The villains beat her half to death, and blessed Pasha was found covered in blood. She was ill after that for a whole year and never recovered at all. The pain of a broken head and a swelling in the pit of her stomach torment her constantly, although she, apparently, does not pay any attention and only occasionally says to herself: “Oh, mummy, how it hurts here! will pass"
Already living in Diveyevo, in the fall of 1884 she walked past the fence of the cemetery Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and, hitting a fence post with a stick, said: “As soon as I knock down this post, they will go to die, just have time to dig graves.” These words soon came true: as the pillar fell - blessed Pelageya Ivanovna, the priest Felixov died after her, then so many nuns that the Magpies did not stop for a whole year, and it happened that two were buried at once.
She wandered for many years, acting like a fool, before moving to the Sarov Forest. Contemporaries noted that the appearance of Blessed Pasha of Sarov changed depending on her mood; she was either overly strict, angry and menacing, or affectionate and kind:
“Her childish, kind, bright, deep and clear eyes amaze so much that all doubt about her purity, righteousness and high feat disappears. They testify that all her oddities - allegorical conversation, severe reprimands and antics - are only an outer shell, deliberately hiding humility, meekness, love and compassion."
The blessed one spent all nights in prayer, and during the day after church services she reaped grass with a sickle, knitted stockings and did other work, constantly saying the Jesus Prayer. Every year the number of sufferers who turned to her for advice and requests to pray for them increased.
After the death of Diveyevo’s blessed Pelageya Ivanovna Serebrennikova in 1884, Pasha remained in the monastery until the end of her days and for 31 years continued their common purpose: to save the souls of monastics from the onslaught of the enemy of humanity, from temptations and passions known to them by insight.
It is impossible to collect and describe cases of blessed Pasha’s clairvoyance. So, one day she got up in the morning all upset, in the afternoon a visiting gentleman came up to her, greeted her and wanted to talk, but Praskovya Ivanovna screamed and waved her hands: “Go away, go away! Can’t you see the devil! They chopped off my head with an ax!” The visitor was frightened and walked away, not understanding anything, but soon the bell was rung, announcing that a nun had now died in the hospital during an attack of epilepsy; then the words of blessed Pasha became clear.
It is also known that in 1903, during the glorification of St. Seraphim of Sarov, she was visited by the most august persons - Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The blessed one predicted for them the imminent birth of the long-awaited Heir, as well as the death of Russia and the royal dynasty, the defeat of the Church and a sea of blood, after which the Tsar more than once turned to the predictions of Paraskeva Ivanovna, sending the Grand Dukes to her from time to time for advice. Shortly before her death, the blessed one often prayed in front of the portrait of the Emperor, foreseeing his imminent martyrdom.
Blessed schema-nun Paraskeva died at the age of 120. The grave of Paraskeva Ivanovna is located at the altar of the Trinity Cathedral.
Before her death, Blessed Paraskeva blessed her successor, Blessed Maria Ivanovna, to live in the Diveyevo monastery.
HOLY BLESSED MOTHER PASHA OF SAROV PRAY TO GOD FOR US!
Or maybe this is how we should calculate it? -
For seven members of the royal family - 70 years. This is a fixed period from which there is no escape, nothing can be changed - “take it out and put it down - the devil will walk around Russia.”
And the next after these 70 fixed years is the time when we have already been given the opportunity to decide: we will repent or not. (I’m not talking about repentance so that only in violation of the oath of 1613, but about repentance in general, which the Holy Fathers teach, which the Church teaches - complete, unhypocritical repentance for all our mortal sins, whoever has them.) And then, if we repent, then from this walking of the devil The Lord will deliver Russia and give grace, as the Apostle said: “and he will flee from you,” but this is subject to obedience to God (James 4:7), by the way, to the God-Tsar. Some people seem to have forgotten that God is also a King.
“To come out of vomit” - it is possible that this is an expression similar to the expression of the Apocalypse: “As if you were stupefied, and neither warm nor cold did the Imam vomit you from My lips. You say beforehand that I am rich, and have become rich, and demand nothing: and do not weigh, for you are wretched and poor, and poor, and blind, and naked.” (Apoc. 3, 17)
And further it speaks of the need for complete repentance: “Anoint your eyes with collurium, so that you can see.” According to St. To Ignatius Brianchaninov, “collury” is tears: “Anoint your eyes with a collurium of tears, so that you can see your sins.” That makes sense.
“Be jealous and repent” (Apoc. 3:19).
“Depart” is the same as what they say at a divine service: “depart ye the catechumens.” Those. and here, as it were, the Russian people will come out of the Body of Christ, from the Apostolic Church, like vomit. Those. will be expelled from the Church of Christ, excommunicated by Himself from the Church. But it is not stated that this will certainly happen. But it is said as if to intimidate and suggest, and with pity for the people: it is a pity, they say, for this people, because in fact, due to such behavior, they “must go away,” i.e. leave the Church, fall away, be excommunicated, vomited.
Why does this warn? - But for what: “Be jealous and repent,” i.e. begin to repent as you should, and acquire gifts: repentance, humility, crying (colluria of tears), and so on, “that you may be rich, (...) that you may be clothed” (Apoc. 3:18), otherwise “Imam will vomit you out of my mouth.” "
Repentance must be found and a life of grace (as St. Ignatius speaks about this in Lamentations of the Monk, v. 3, Shin) by the time the Lord comes (the second coming), as it is said: in what he confines someone, in that he will be judge.
And it is about this coming of the Tsar-Christ (and not some other one), perhaps, that it is said: “But I tell you, Tsar, by the end of these 110 years there will be a Tsar in Rus' from your dynasty.”
“From your dynasty” does not mean exactly that from the Romanovs.
According to the Brockhaus and Efron dictionary - “Dynasty (Greek) - means a number of reigning, generally ruling persons from one house, from one ancestor.”
Now after the abdication of Ts. Nicholas, the Mother of God herself undertook to reign over Russia. That is why on the day of Nicholas’s abdication the Sovereign Icon was revealed. This is a clear sign. Which to refuse is the same as breaking the oath of 1613 again, but then the Queen Theotokos is already rejected. So what are you doing? Do you still want to not recognize or renounce this Queen? (Perhaps, by the way, this is how they saved us from breaking the oath, that is, all together: C. Nicholas, the Mother of God and God. So they all did it, so maybe there was no violation. After all, immediately after the renunciation of C. Nicholas, the Mother of God ascends to the throne. Even if it is invisible, even spiritual, it is reality, not legend, not fiction. That is, violation of this oath occurs only among those people who renounced the Tsar and did not accept the Queen-Theotokos.)
And now, by the end of these 110 years, the coming of Christ Himself, the King of our God, is promised.
And it doesn’t say exactly: when? in what year exactly? But it is said only approximately.
And many saints of recent times said: “The Second Coming is not far away anymore.”
Those. this does not violate what is said: no one knows about that day and hour. Because it’s not exactly stated here either. But although Jesus Himself says that no one knows about that exact time, he says that they should recognize the approach to it. In ch. 24 Gospel of Matthew. This is explained and it is said: “When you see all this, know that it is near, at the door.”
There are such words from the archbishop. Feofan of Poltava:
“Vladyka Theophan was asked: “Will the last Russian Tsar be Romanov?” To which the archbishop already answered on his own: “He will not be a Romanov, but according to his mother he will be a Romanov” (Russia before the Second Coming, chapter 22)
In akathists to the Theotokos it is said that the Mother of God adopted all Christians to Herself according to the word of Christ Himself, who said this about St. Apostle. John, but judging by the words of the akathists, this is the adoption of all Christians:
“Rejoice, you who adopted us all at the Cross of Your Son” (Akathist, Icon of Unexpected Joy, Ikos 8.)
Therefore, is it possible to say about Jesus that He is a Romanov mother?
Those. He is from a royal dynasty because He is a King. And He, by His Mother, is from the Romanovs, since the Romanovs were adopted by the same Mother. But at the same time it is said that He is still not Romanov: “He will not be Romanov,” it is said.
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And so it is said that we are given another 110 years maximum. 70 years of them are firmly fixed as punishment. And it may not be a coincidence that this is exactly the same period of time that the ancient God-chosen Jewish people spent in captivity in Babylon - so that we, even if involuntarily, remember and compare, and imitate them. And the following are given for repentance in order to prepare for the Second Coming. And not only for the Coming, but also for the Judgment.
It is not said that this will be joyful for us. It is not said that at the end of these 110 years we will have joy due to the fact that the King will come. But it only says that it will come. That's all! Dot.
How will He look at us then? - it depends on us.
So it is said: “repent.” In all sins, because the King will come and judge. Those. The King of kings himself, Christ, and not any other.
And true repentance, as the Holy Fathers say, is taught again by the Holy Spirit. Only under His guidance can a person gain true self-concept and repentance, and in general all the gifts such as contrition of heart, humility, vision of one’s sins, and so on.
And we ask this King again every day: “come and dwell in us, and cleanse us...”
And this King the Holy Spirit prepares everyone again for the judgment of the King Christ. Reminds us of this Judgment, of this inevitable meeting of everyone with the King Christ at the General Judgment, where we will all meet each other, all people without exception.
So, one must repent. But not only in violation of this conciliar oath of 1613, but in all, all mortal sins that we have. This is what the prophesied St. Saint also says. Lavrenty Chernigovsky:
“The Russian people will repent of their mortal sins, that they allowed the Jewish wickedness in Russia, that they did not protect the Anointed Tsar of God...” (There are further words from him. But everyone can easily find them for themselves.)
To understand these words of St. Lawrence should not act as if he were saying with this statement: “allowing the Jewish wickedness and not protecting the Anointed One are mortal sins.” No. This would be very wrong. Because none of us could help but let this happen.
This permission is God's permission. And this in itself is not a sin at all.
But St. Lawrence says that the Russian people fell into mortal sins, and for this they were punished by allowing this Jewish wickedness. And God allowed it. None of the people could prevent this, i.e. I couldn't stop it even if I wanted to. Where then is the sin if you think like that? St. Ignatius saw this retreat, but could not stop it. And he said to others: “Do not try to stop the retreat with your weak hand.”
The word “what” used here by St. Lavrentiy should be understood as “which”. Those. people will repent of mortal sins, because of which this tolerance of the Jewish yoke came. Or: people will repent of mortal sins, which were the reason why Jewish wickedness could appear in Rus'.
This phrase doesn’t sound like “they will repent of their sins, namely, that they allowed the Jewish wickedness and did not protect the Anointed One...” But it sounds like this: “they will repent of the sins of those that caused the appearance of this Jewish wickedness in Rus'..."
Those. One must repent of all, all mortal sins, which the Patristic Church has always taught to repent of. Those. and in sins against the Holy Spirit (in the distortion of His teachings), and in pride, and in fornication, and in anger, and in other mortals. The Holy Fathers teach: there are mortal sins and there are immortal sins. For mortals a person is deprived of a life of grace, but for immortals he is not deprived. That is why mortals are called mortals because they deprive the soul of a life of grace and kill the soul while the body is alive.
By the way, careless prayer and careless worship are also mortal and great sins. Those who carelessly pray according to the word of St. Simeon N.B. They are the enemies of the King Christ (Word 9), and He only gets angry at the prayers of such people.
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By the end of 110 years... - it says here. And in another prophecy (St. Seraphim Vyritsky) it is said that a period of repentance will be given “for 15 years, and then the Antichrist will come.”
Therefore, let’s calculate: 2028 – 15 = 2013. This period of 15 years should begin with this year, 2013. He was given for repentance. To prepare for the Judgment. This is what Russia should preach to the whole world - repentance and the coming judgment of Christ.
But again, Rev. Seraphim does not say “15 years”. Doesn't say exactly. But he only says approximately: “about 15 years.”
Therefore, we can say: approximately in 2013 this repentance should begin. Or maybe these “15 years” are also 16 or 14. It became possible that it will be in 2012 or 2014.
And about 110 years it is not said exactly what they say will happen in 110 years. But it says approximately: “by the end of these 110 years.” Therefore, this may happen not necessarily in 2028, but also in 2027, and 2026, and even earlier.
So here too, plus or minus a year, two or three...
But I think that all this is being said about some kind of repentance, when many will already begin to repent, i.e. popularly.
And first, someone should take care of this in advance. Those. there must be people who, even before repentance approaches nationwide, would have had the experience of real repentance, and would already, first of all, be in this act of true, complete, unfeigned repentance, which is always evidenced by the gift of grace and genuine life in Christ and the Holy Spirit . - First of all, such people should be found. Otherwise, who will teach?!
(Nowadays pastors, and especially the highest hierarchs, apparently, neither themselves have this experience of repentance, nor do they call or teach others. That is, exactly the kind of repentance that the Holy Fathers always taught. - For more details, see. http://blogs.mail.ru/mail/aleksiktisis/
Therefore: this repentance, the beginning of these “15 years” according to St. Petersburg, is about to begin. Seraphim Vyritsky. This could be 2012, 2013, and beyond. It's about to happen... We should already be prepared by 2028, i.e. by repentance to be cleansed of all mortal sins. This is what it means to “repent”, i.e. in all, all mortal sins. If any of us appears at the Judgment not cleansed of any mortal sin, then woe to him. And there is still time.
Only here you need to understand that the Pharisaic feeling of one’s purity from sins is not purity, but in itself the most sinful state of all sinful ones - this must be understood. This is adorable. This is not cleanliness. Purity is achieved precisely by the consciousness and vision of oneself as the most sinful of all people.
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But again. Given this account, where did I put the time of the Antichrist? For it is said that the Antichrist will come first. And then Christ.
Therefore, I counted incorrectly.
Therefore, it is quite possible that the words “But I tell you, Tsar, by the end of these 110 years there will be a Tsar in Rus' from your dynasty,” although they refer to the King-Christ, this must be understood not as the Second Coming, but as about His reign in us by His grace. Those. as is customary to say: “Christ is in our midst,” and the answer: “and is and will be” (http://minds.by/stupeny/nomera/25/st25_7.html) It’s a pity that we really don’t have this yet in life.
And if we say this, then can’t we really say that He is the King and His Kingdom is already among us. Those. if they would not only speak feignedly with their lips, but from a living and genuine feeling of the presence of God, the Holy Fathers say that this is achieved.
Or when we say to the King the Holy Spirit: “Come and dwell in us,” is it really that we are not asking the same thing: “Come and Reign over us, rule over us as your servants, your loyal subjects”?! And is this really not His Reign?! *
And this is “for 15 years,” as St. Rev. says. Seraphim Vyritsky, - then the Antichrist will come. Then Christ will come to judge everyone.
And if you understand it that way. That beginning of this “15 years” may not necessarily be in 2012 or 2013. But it could be from 2012 to 2028, in one of the years of this period. But it will happen for sure.
Those. “by the end of these 110 years” this grace-filled life will begin under the care of the King of the Holy Spirit. And this is “for 15 years,” and then the Antichrist will come. Then Christ.
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Reasons to think that this will be the reign of the Tsar-God Himself in Rus' can be found in the prophecy of the holy prophet. Abel, when he spoke to Emperor Paul:
- Is this already the end of the Russian Power and there is and will be no salvation? - asked Sovereign Pavel Petrovich.
“What is impossible for men is possible for God,” answered Abel, “God is slow to give help, but it is said that he will give it soon and erect a horn of Russian salvation.” And the Great Prince, who stands for the sons of His people, will arise in exile from Your family. This will be the Chosen One of God, and His blessing will be upon His head. He will be united and understandable to everyone, He will be sensed by the very Russian heart. His appearance will be sovereign and bright, and no one will say: “The King is here or there,” but everyone will say: “It is He.” The will of the people will submit to the mercy of God, and He Himself will confirm His calling... His name is destined three times over in Russian History. In Him lies the Salvation and Happiness of the Russian Power. There would be different paths to the Russian mountain again... And barely audibly, as if afraid that the walls would overhear the secret, Elder Abel gave the very name. For the sake of fear of dark power, let this name remain hidden until time...
About whom else can this be said, if not about the King-God Himself?! - “Who is God?”
And the fact that it is possible to feel this in the heart is also testified to by St. Simeon the New Theologian, and St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, and St. Right. John of Kronstadt.
And St. Simeon the New Theologian even says that the one who is baptized and does not yet see in himself the King Christ resurrecting his soul is still not a Christian:
“The Glorious Resurrection of Christ is our own resurrection, which is mentally accomplished and manifested in us, killed by sin, through the Resurrection of Christ, as the church hymn, often proclaimed by us, says: “Having seen the Resurrection of Christ (in ourselves), let us worship the Holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless." Christ never fell into sin and never changed in His glory. The most glorified and supreme of all beginning and power and strength, just as He diminished and died for our sake, so He rose again and became glorified for our sake, so that what had come true in His face would later be reproduced in us and thereby save us. How then He Himself, having departed from Jerusalem, suffered, ascended to the cross, and, having nailed the sins of the whole world on it along with Himself, died, descended into the underworld of hell, then rose again from hell, ascended into His most pure body and immediately rose from dead, and then ascended into heaven with much glory and power, and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, so now, when we come out of this world in our hearts and with confession of the sufferings of the Lord enter into the tomb of repentance and humility, then Christ Himself descends from heaven, enters us as into a tomb, unites with our souls and resurrects them, clearly in death. The resurrection of the soul is its union with life, which is Christ. Just as a dead body, unless it receives a living soul and merges with it in some unfused way, does not exist and is not called alive and cannot live, so the soul cannot live on its own unless it is united by an ineffable union and is not combined in an unfused way. with God, who truly is eternal life. And only then, when she is united with God and thus resurrected by the power of Christ, will she be worthy to see mentally and mysteriously the economic Resurrection of Christ. That’s why we sing: “God is the Lord and appear to us. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
Whoever has not yet received and seen the resurrection of his soul is still dead and cannot properly worship the Lord Jesus, together with those who have seen the Resurrection of Christ, as the Apostle says: no one can speak of the Lord Jesus except by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 12:3), and in another place it says: The Spirit is God, and whoever worships Him is worthy to worship through the Spirit and the truth (John 4:24), that is, by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Only Begotten Son, Who is the truth. He is dead because he does not have in his soul God, who gives life to all things, and he has not been granted the grace of fulfillment of the promise spoken by the Lord over him: I and the Father, by the Holy Spirit, will come to the one who loves Me and keeps My commandments, and we will make an abode with him (Jn. .14:23). Christ comes and by His coming resurrects a dead soul, and gives it life, and gives it the grace to see how He Himself rises in it and resurrects it. This is the law of the new life in Christ Jesus, that Christ the Lord, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, comes to us and resurrects our mortified souls, and gives them life, and grants eyes to see Him Himself, immortal and incorruptible, living in us. Before the soul is united with God, before it sees, knows and feels that it is truly united with Him, it is completely dead, blind, insensitive; but despite all that she is dead, she is still immortal by nature. She suffers from lack of faith or lack of faith. If she believed that there is judgment and eternal torment, she would not waste her life in vanity, but would give up everything and begin to work for her salvation and, having begun, would reach her revival and resurrection.
However, at the present time, the majority of Christians seem to be in such a disastrous state that even tongues who have not heard the name of the true God were not in such a state, and meanwhile, thinking about themselves that they are not dead in soul, they live in carelessness, and not They see, the unfortunate ones, these dead men lying before them, that is, their souls, as our word depicted them. No, such people are not Christians, not Christians. And let them not deceive themselves. They are infidels, wicked, atheists, and especially if they are also monks or priests. Oh, how great is Your forbearance and long-suffering, O Christ the King! How will the earth not open up to swallow us up! How dare any of these enter the temple of God, and especially the Holy of Holies!” (Word 29)
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“Monarchy” in the precise sense means “one chief”, “one first”, “one ruling”. Who can, in the exact sense, be called such but God? if not the King of kings? “They will shout: Monarchy for us” - this simply means that they are truly in need of God, in faith in the true God. And they will stop hoping “in princes, in the sons of men, in them there is no salvation.” Those. they will not demand from princes (authorities), from people what people simply cannot (are not capable of) giving. But they will seek God the Savior. They will seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
As another prophecy says: “God will take away all the leaders so that the Russian people will look only to Him.” (St. Aristocles of Athos)
But why do all these prophecies speak so secretly and not speak clearly about this? - Because there is a great danger. If this is misunderstood, a person may fall into delusion. Here there may be worship of some lovely imaginary Christ, St. writes about this. Ignatius, that some ascetics were so seduced that the devil came to them under the guise of Christ, and the ascetics worshiped him as Christ, and after this they fell into great disasters. That's the danger. It may also be that the Antichrist is mistaken for Christ.
In addition, there may be resistance to the authorities: they say I recognize one God, and no authorities dictate to me.
But King Christ Himself was submissive to the authorities. Who are we? The apostles were submissive to the authorities (civil, state). Who are we? And even to such a king as Nebuchaddonsor, the saints in the captivity of Babylon were submissive, although they clearly saw what he was like, and even called him “an unjust and more wicked king than all the earth” (Dan. 3:32). They just did not worship the creature (Nebuchadnezzar) more than the Creator, as it is sung in the Iromos canons.
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* But, alas, we in the majority are now more often than not loyal subjects, but rather deserters, traitors, fugitives from the army of the King Christ (as St. Ignatius says in the Lamentation of the Monk). Prodigal sons, as the Gospel says. Or as St. says. Feofan (The Path to Salvation): We are like slaves who ran away from our good master. And therefore they must come to Him with repentance.
Moreover, St. Simeon the New Theologian says that we are like warriors who rebelled against the King Christ. Or like rebels. But he says: He waits for such with repentance and accepts them graciously and comforts them abundantly. (Word 57, part 3)
And these are the same as us, i.e. people are in the same condition, and Tsar Nicholas was betrayed. Therefore, we would need to correct our state of enmity against Christ, and this would be imputed to us for repentance and before the Church. Nikolai. And I think he would rejoice at this most of all, looking at us now from Heaven with all his holy family:
“I cry for you all day; I cry for you all night. My cry is of insignificant value: another cry, of incomparable value, is made for you. The Angels are crying, the faces of the Martyrs and the Desert Fathers are crying, all the inhabitants of heaven are crying - they do not want to be consoled. They carefully and lovingly look from heaven to earth: they rejoice at the virtues performed by people, but are saddened by their sins. Your Creator and Savior Himself, who created you from nothing, redeemed you with His priceless blood, and who was not involved in sorrow, is saddened by you. What profit is there in My blood...” (St. Ignatius B., Lamentation of a Monk, v. 1, Beth.)