Get ready for the monastery. How to go to the monastery How the novice meets the worker at the monastery

16.10.2014

Making a decision about entering the monastery is not easy, such decisions are one of the coolest turns in the life of any person. The reasons for this may vary. In order to achieve this goal, those who firmly decide to connect their life with the church must undergo a test test.

The achievement of this goal can be intelligently divided into 3 stages:

• the blessed one;
• entered the monastery as a novice;
• tonsured by Chentsi.

Blessed

Many people are leaving the monastery as if they are leaving a very peaceful life. Such a decision is made, as a rule, for low reasons, but the result is always the same. A young man in a dark-haired odyssey, rich and uninitiated, seems incomprehensible there, where he is drunk. I guess I should just live and live. However, this is not entirely correct. The Holy Father, who may bless a person on his way out of the monastery, usually spends a long time talking to those who have arrived before him, and is really surprised to understand how such a decision is right. After the blessed man, who wants to become a novice, has been removed, he can go on his way to the Church of the Lord. However, as the priest believes, that he is not yet ready for such a task, he still has to submit and would like to be promptly convinced of his decision.

Join as a novice

The spiritual mentor, after the blessing, can please you to which monastery is best to sing to. Afterwards, I will allow you to speak with the abbot of the monastery in order to grant him permission for novitiate. The novices live at the monastery, fast, work, pray to the Lord, and read the Bible.

Such a period in the life of a novice can last for up to 10 years. During this period, people change their minds about leaving the monastery and return to worldly life. Most often, you can reject the position of being a worker, in order to give the monastery help from the priest, and then become a novice.

tonsure

Vlasna, he was tonsured and dedicated in a ceremony. He tonsured this as a symbol to indicate that one only serves the Lord. At the moment there are 3 stages of blackness. Ryasophorus (Rassophora chernets) is the first and preparatory stage before the reception of the lesser schema, after which the chernets gives the habit of hearing, intelligence and lack of speech. After the priesthood, in which the blackness of all worldly things is seen, the great novice becomes a schema-monk (or a member of the great schema, an angelic image).

The monastery goes for a variety of reasons - including worldly rituals, atonement for sins, self-refinement, and the fight against worldly desires. Hello, you need to clearly understand what this important choice in life entails...

After describing the structure of Varto's services, let me point out one very important food service - perhaps central to this book. The nutrition was formulated by one reader of the first version of this book before its publication.

Let's take a look at the most often all-night vigil that is celebrated - it's a week long. It serves in the previous week, on Saturday evening. The Most Holy Day is structurally very similar to the Weekly, with a few exceptions.

The road to blackness is one of the most difficult and reliable solutions for people. Until then, they do not come from hopelessness, they do not come from disappointment in life, they do not arise from special problems. To go to blackness for a close connection with God, the quiet joy of singing with Him and a feeling of bliss.

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It's time to go to the monastery

Monasticism has the right to embrace the rites of the Orthodox Church, which includes Baptism, Confirmation, Wedding, Communion, Priesthood, the remnants of a sinful life, the seal of the congregation, united forever with Christ and dedicated to serving God.

Monasticism is the destiny of the strong in spirit and body. Because people are unhappy in their worldly life, coming to the monastery can only help their misfortune.

At the monastery you can sing only those who have broken ties from the outside world, recite everything earthly and devote your life to serving the Lord. One blessing is not enough for anyone: a cry and a great heart to smite the people close to you until they turn black. For what purpose do you need to prepare and prepare.

The path begins at the monastery from the knowledge of the depths of spiritual life.

Tonsured by Chentsi

A look at the women's monastery

How do women sing at the monastery? It is a decision that the woman herself accepts, but not without the help of a spiritual mentor that is blessed by God.

Don’t forget that you come to the monastery not to heal spiritual wounds, torn away from the world in the form of unhappy love, the death of loved ones, but to reunite with the Lord, to cleanse the soul from sins, in the understanding that everything lives You must now serve as a servant of Christ.

In the monastery, for the sake of everyone, if the problems of worldly life are still lost, the walls of the monastery cannot be built, but can only ruin the camp. When entering the monastery, there is no harm in losing the everyday conveniences that are essential to everyday life. Since the readiness to give in to the service of the Lord is strong, then in life, after the bark of the blueberry, one will find peace and tranquility in one’s deeds, in prayers, and in recognition of what the Lord has always entrusted.

Since people are constantly hanging around the world - they want to lose their friends, deprive them of their children, then there is no sense that life is worse than life for the benefit of such a lost soul.

Important! Reliability is required now and then. You can’t enter into yourself. It is necessary not to go to the monastery, but to come to the monastery, to be alert to the new day, the new world, where the Lord is watching over you.

Look at the monastery people

How do people sing at the monastery? The decision is not easy. But the rules are unchanged, just like women. It’s just that society has more responsibility for family, work, and children on people’s shoulders.

So, walking to the monastery, or near it, approaching God, you need to think about how not to lose your loved ones without support and a strong shoulder of a person.

There is no great difference between a man and a woman, such as going to the monastery. Each person has his own reason for not looking into the monastery. The only thing that will bring about future successes is the inheritance of Christ’s way of living.

Preparation for black life

Monk - translated from Greek means “self-made”, and in Russia they were called Chens - from the words “other”, “other”. A monastic life is not a matter of the world, its farbs and buried lives, but rather of addictions and sinfulness, of bodily pleasures and wealth. The purpose is to serve as a renewal of the primary purity and sinlessness that Adam and Eve were endowed with in Paradise.

So, this is an important and folding path, but the city is great - inheritance of the image of Christ, endless joy about God, mindful of accepting everything that the Lord sends. Crimea, Chenci are the first prayer books about the sinful world. Until then, this prayer can be heard - stand and light. This is the main task of the Chents - to pray for the whole world.

While a man or woman lives in the world, and understands with all his soul that their place is in the monastery, it is time for them to prepare and make the right and lasting choice between worldly lives and lives. there is oneness with God:

• From the very beginning you need to be an Orthodox Christian;
• Build a temple, not formally, but transfer your soul to worship and love them;
• Follow the morning and evening prayer rule;
• Learn to achieve both bodily and spiritual fasting;
• Vshanovuvati Orthodox saints;
• Read spiritual literature, the lives of saints and become familiar with books written by holy people, which tell about black life, the history of black life;
• Find a spiritual mentor who will reveal the truth about the monastic life, develop the myth about living in a monastery, and give blessings to the service of God;
• Make a pilgrimage to several monasteries, become a laborer, and lose your hearing.

About Orthodox monasteries:

Who can enter the monastery

The impossibility of living without God leads man and woman to the walls of the monastery. The stench does not flow out from people, but follows the repentance, the inner need for repentance.

And yet, once you cross to enter the monastery, you may not be blessed to become a monk.

I can’t be a Chen or a nun:

• Lyudina Simeina;
• A man or a woman, like the care of small children;
• The one who wants to cope with the unfortunate situation, difficulties, misfortunes;
• A person’s poor age becomes a barrier for blackness, even in the monastery to work diligently and hard, and for this mother’s need for health. It is important to change the signs that have taken root, otherwise they will become corrupted by blackness.

Since there is no such thing and the intention to come before the blackness does not deprive people of any sin, it is insane, no one and nothing can be persuaded to swear to the world and sing to the monastery.

The people walking to the monastery are completely different: they have achieved success in the world, they are enlightened, they are intelligent, they are beautiful. Go, for the soul is greater than the greater.

Reveal monasticism to everyone, otherwise not everyone is ready for the good. Chastity is a life without sums, it is reasonable that people indulge in worldly noises and turbot. But this life is much more important than the life of a family person. The family cross is important, but having entered the monastery, there is disappointment and relief does not come.

Please! And yet, in order to set foot on the difficult path of blackness, which is due to poverty, it is necessary to be important and carefully calm down, so that later you don’t look back and don’t scold about what has happened.

Tonsured by Chentsi

Yak buti with dads

In the old days, in Russia and other Orthodox countries, there was a religious obligation for children to sing. The youths were trained from childhood to praise the monks. Such children were respected as prayer leaders throughout the family.

There were also deep believers who categorically opposed the service of their children in the black field. We wanted to make our children successful and successful in worldly life.

Children who independently chose to live at the monastery are preparing their loved ones to make such a serious choice. After choosing the right words and evidence, how to deal with fathers correctly and not introduce them into sins of judgment.

In their own right, prudent fathers carefully study the choice of their child, understand the essence of all nutrition, help and support a loved one in such an important undertaking.

It’s just that most of the ignorance of the essence of blackness perceives the need of children to serve the Lord as something alien, unnatural. They begin to fall into tears and tightness.

The fathers understand that there will be no onuks, that ever since then we have not experienced all the basic worldly joys that are usually considered the greatest achievements for people.

Please! Monasticism is the child’s life’s decision, and the support of the fathers is an important repository for the remaining confirmed correctness of the choice of the future path of life.

About the education of children from the faith:

An hour for reflection: worker and novice

To choose a monastery from which you will lose your monk, spend more than one trip to the holy places. When building one monastery, it is important to understand that the heart of a person is lost here for the servant of God.

Having left the monastery with only a few seniors, men and women, the role of a priest is assigned.

This is the period of the people:

• pray a lot, confess;
• work for the benefit of the monastery;
• the giblets taste like black life.

If a worker lives at the monastery, he will live right there. At this stage, they are still surprised in the monastery, and when a person is deprived of his faithful devotion to monasticism, they are expected to become a novice in the monastery - a person who is preparing to take monastic vows and undergo spiritual testing in the monastery.

Important: listening is Christian honesty, black habitation, testing, all this is reduced to liberation of the soul, and not to slavery. The essence and importance of rumors must be understood and taken into account. Understand why you should strive for good, and not for torment. Having listened to him for a long time, one understands that the old man, who bears responsibility for the future prince, is working for the salvation of his soul.

If you try too hard, if your spirit is weak, you can soon turn to your elder and hear about difficulties. And spontaneous prayer to God is the first aid to a precious spirit.

Being a novice can lead to many fates. The people are ready to praise the monks, says the confessor. At the listening stage, you have another hour to think about your future life.

The bishop or rector of the monastery performs the rite of black tonsure. After I take tonsure, there is no way back: distance from addictions, managing and becoming unbreakable to create an unbreakable connection with God.

Important: don’t rush, don’t rush to accept blackness. Impulsive behavior, lack of communication, and hot temper are taken for granted as a substitute. And then people begin to feel anxious, angry, sad, and driven from the monastery. The promises have been made and no one can withdraw them. And life turns into flour.

That’s why the Holy Fathers set up a headache - careful listening and testing over the course of a long period of time, which and showing the right intention will be called out to the blackness.

Life at the monastery

As our 21st century approaches, it has become possible for ordinary people to improve their lives.

Pilgrimage trips to women's and men's monasteries are now being organized. The pilgrimage is covered for several days. The laity live at the monastery, in specially designated areas for guests. Some accommodations may be paid, but the price is symbolic and the cost will go to your home in the morning. The food without cats, according to the monastery statute, is like a song.

The lay people do not live at the monastery like tourists, but get to live the life of the monastery. Listen, work for the good of the monastery, pray and feel the grace of God with all your being. They are very tired, but then they are received, blessed, as they bring peace to the souls and perceive the closeness of God.

After such trips, many myths about the life of the people develop:

1. The monastery has discipline, but it does not oppress the monks and people, but brings joy. At fasting, robots and prayers the stench of the senses of life.
2. Nobody stops the value of reading books, listening to music, marveling at films, having fun with friends, going up in price, but everything is for the good of the soul.
3. The cells are not frowning, as they show in feature films, but the wardrobe, the bed, the table, the anonymous icon - everything is even quiet.

After tonsure, three priests are accepted: value, non-covetousness, listening:

• Chernetska valuableness- this is lovelessness, as a warehouse element of directness to God; the concept of value as a tiredness from the contentment of the flesh is evident in the world, so the sense of this dwelling in these blackness is also the creation of God Himself;
• Listen to Chernetska- surrendering one’s will before everyone - elders, before every person, before Christ. Trust completely in God and be submissive to everyone. Accept everything from everyday life as it is. Such a life brings forth a special inner light, one closely collides with God and is not obscured by any external circumstances;
• Unhealthy means the divine view of the earthly. Foreign life is seen as a substitute for earthly blessings: the monk is not guilty of any motherly passion. When you see earthly riches, you experience lightness of spirit.

And only with the Lord, if singing with Him is above everything - the decision, in principle, is neither obligatory nor important.

Marvel at the sight of those walking to the monastery

Monastir is not a wall, Monastir is not a people! The Chernetsk community is called brotherhood, it is equal to the family. Every member of the family is dear and priceless to us. And all of us in the monastery are parts of the body of Christ.

Thinking about choosing a path, every person decides how to try for himself, how to find that monastery where he can become a place for the village. From the very beginning you need to marvel at the life of the monastery in the middle, its status and spiritual structure. For this purpose, it is recommended to live in the monastery longer, take part in the life of the brethren of the monastery, and train as a novice.

The Orthodox Christian, who came to the Transfiguration of the Savior Valaam Monastery, with the intention of losing it in the future, begins his dark journey from difficulty. During the period of calm, the worker lives in the dormitory rich cell, together with the monastery brethren, eats in the monastery refectory, walks in the basic worldly odyssey, carrying obedience apparently up to of his abilities and talents, and strives to strengthen the rule of prayer. The hierarchy and the brothers are amazed at those who listen to the brother, lead the divine service, and are placed before other bastards. He must be accepted back to his black homeland.

At the first stage, the worker must be “amazed” at the monastery, evaluate his strengths and sacrifice himself in this monastery, and then test the firmness of his intention to completely dedicate his life to the service of God and His Holiness Churches.

To arrive to Valaam as a doctor, you must first fill out the doctor's application form by e-mail. Application forms are posted on the website of the Hotel Service (reception of police officers). After removing all the necessary information, the military officer informs the HS office about the blessing for the worker to come to Valaam or about the maiden in that case. If a potential practitioner is able to quickly contact you by email or fax, you can provide your personal information to the healthcare provider at the GS office by phone (812-902-86-03).

After the singing of the hour, call the fate to two fates, for the minds of the confessor, it becomes possible to enroll him in the brotherhood of the monastery as a novice. Based on the worker’s readiness to become a brethren, the confessor submits his candidacy for consideration by the Spiritual Council of the monastery (which includes the Abbot of the monastery and the elder brethren), and after a positive decision, the next novice begins to collect the necessary documents. Official entry to the brethren takes place after the approval of the final resolution by the Holy Patriarch.

The priest, who, having arrived at the Valaam monastery, who may dedicate himself to the dark feat, is no longer guilty of the mother of his waning circumstances in the world, such as the old father or family who were thrown into the Swaville share, unpaid borgs or ship transfers bath.

After the holy period of prayer in the monastery, at which time there is a firmness in our intention to completely dedicate our lives to serving God, according to the decisions of the abbot or the Spiritual Council, people can be accepted as novices of the monastery. For which the priest submits a corresponding application and this determines the termination of the status of his monastery.

A novice is already a member of the brethren, who is preparing to accept monasticism and go through a new stage of serenity - a re-examination of how close this way of living is to him, how close he is to another. Define the term of black mysticism to become no less than three rocks, but it can be shortened to one fate for those who, having received spiritual illumination, or begin on the daily basis of the spiritual initial mortgage (another reason for changing the term - the illness is severe). The experimental term may be continued, the decision about this is made by the abbot of the monastery - either simultaneously or simultaneously with the Spiritual Council.

It is important to respect that one who is willing to devote himself to a noble feat is not guilty of being tied up in the world by such situations as deprived summer fathers, families and children who have not reached the age of majority, Borgovs and others. All civil duties. All items with light must be removed before entering the monastery.

Having lived at the monastery, the novice is guilty of violating the statute in an unscrupulous manner. In this case, even before tonsure, you can see your destiny and turn to the world without knowing the usual canonical assumptions. Besides being employed in monastery duties, the candidate for tonsure takes part in divine services and in the Sacraments of the Church. This period is spent under the special spiritual influence of the abbot himself and the spiritual mentor assigned to him.

In the hour of black peace, it is especially important to follow yourself with your own promises and understand that at this moment you yourself are laying the foundation of all black life. Monasticism is a special practice, a special type of feat. The furnishings of the parish in the monastery may be slaughtered, but by the end of the day, behind the word of the Gospel, the pursuit of moral thoroughness and the infusion of the grace of the Holy Spirit by the path of deprivation of the world, by doing one’s own will, by the path of empowered and prayers and practices.

The labor activity of novices and disciples is an invisible part of life within the walls of the monastery. The rumors that are imposed on the brethren are necessary not only because they need to create any material benefits to encourage sleep. Coming to the monastery, people bring with them their passions, which are inherited by the sin of human nature; lips for the poryatunku zvichki. It is through self-giving that the body, and at the same time the soul, becomes free from addictions, the sinful will and desires arise, pride, self-love and self-esteem are overcome. “False rumors most often conjugate pride. At the ceremonial hearing, a person begins to learn spiritual mysticism, however he wants, and if he simply marvels at the speech...” (Reverend Ambrose of Optina). And most often, the very wrong order of hearing that is imposed in the monastery is the reason that people, for teaching the enemy of the human race, are deprived of the grace-filled and military walks and leave the monastery. Confession of hearing - this is before us the sacrificial service of God and the brethren, to the consecration of the commandments of Christ.

All the novice work may be steadily accompanied by prayer activities, which are the basis of the life of the black man.

At the hour of dark calm, the novice is obliged to learn respectfully and diligently read the Holy Letter and the ascetic work of the holy fathers, first of all - the Teachings of Abbi Dorotheus, “Stunned” by St. Theodore the Studite, “The Ladder” by St. John of Sinai, “Kerivnitz” yours... Barsanuphia the Great and John the Prophet ( starting with chapter 216), the work of St. Ephraim the Syrian, the work of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov and others - for the sake of the blessed abbot and abbess of the monastery.

Upon acceptance, the novices are blessed to wear the cassock. In this case, a ritual is performed, which is called “change of robe” or “reconciliation to the world”: the worker (worker), having made three prostrations in the East before the Holy See (and the worker before the Royal Brahma) and one oath to the hegumen (abbot), accepts znyogo ( її) hand cassock, black belt, skufyu and chotki. From now on you must not wear secular clothing at the monastery.

In such cases, which convey the internal status of the monastery, for the blessings of the ruling bishop and for the letter of the novice, the novice may be required to dress in a cassock and hood. After this, the novice is called a cassock novice, a chichen, which imposes a new level of seriousness. Having lost the monastery, the novice has no right to wear a special robe, in any event during the period of probation. The abbot of the monastery, who respectfully watches over the novice of the black serenity and his readiness to accept the angelic image, himself, or together with the Spiritual Council, introduces the candidate in a letter to the ruling bishop, asking for blessing for the black tonsure.

The hour of novitiate is a special period in the life of a disciple. Who can guess anything about love? What is written, for example, about novitiate in his book “Unholy Saints” by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), the priest of the Moscow Striten Stavropegic Monastery: “Unrepeatable and, perhaps, the happiest hour of black life is required in Know your hearing skills. Then the disciple will have spiritual evils, and will overcome the reality of ideas that secular people cannot detect. There will be victories and defeats in the invisible ascetic struggle, astonishing revelations to the world itself. But it’s all the same - the fate of novice cannot be compared with anything else.

Apparently the old Patriarch Pimen was asked:

– Your Holiness, you have reached the highest level of the church hierarchy. Ale yakbi can be robbed at once, whatever you wanted?

Call your weak-willed, weary patriarch, without hesitation, Vidpov:

- Novice, guard at the lower gate of the Pskov-Pechersk monastery<...>

This only reminds the light of the joy of a carefree childhood - life consists of some beautiful messages from the new unseen and unknown - the world. Before the speech, two thousand years ago, the apostles, in fact, for three years were true cob novices of Jesus Christ. Their main concern was to follow their Master and with the joyful wonder of discovering for themselves His omnipotence and love.

This is how it is with the novices of our days. The Apostle Paul made a great confession: Jesus Christ taught today and forever the same. These words are confirmed by the entire history of Christianity. Hours and people change, aka Christ, both for the generation of early Christians, and for our present-day people, it becomes deprived of that very thing.

True novices receive from God a priceless gift - holy non-turbulence, which is good and sweet for other freedom.”

1. At this hour, decisions about admission to novices are confirmed by the ruling bishop. The project “Regulations about monasteries and monasteries” proposes to transfer the right of the residual decision on the acceptance of novices to the abbot/abbot and the Spiritual Cathedral of the monastery. Today, nutrition is under the purview of the Inter-Council Presence.

A. Pokrovska
Photo by O. Olshanskaya

It turns out that from the women of different hairstyles, you can almost feel that the smell was pouring into the monastery. It seems that everyone is sad, who is seriously thinking about how to spend their life in a women’s monastery, and people, especially girls, having separated from the khan people and respecting that their life has ended, are heading to the monastery. to the detriment of everyone. And also in the church stakes you can almost hear stories about a poor mother who knew an immoral way of living, who abandoned her children and went to a monastery, living there now, contentedly with whatever was ready.

Why is it so easy to get to the monastery, and why is it such a turbo-free life “on everything ready”? Of course not. It’s easy to get to the monastery, and it will be necessary to convey not only to yourself, but also to other women, that the decision was not made spontaneously, that all the evidence for and against is important, that the woman is ready for such an important decision in life. In the past, the people themselves could have been forced into the monastery without their will, and they would have to go through a long, important journey on their own in order to take the black tonsure.

Necessary nuts

Peti to monastir - what is needed for what?? It is necessary to have a lot of things, first of all it is necessary to have a number of goodies, but also:

In addition, it is important to note that the blueberries are constantly engaged in important physical work, earning themselves money for their living, so their mothers need physical health and vitality. And you will also have the opportunity to complete fasts and stand at services, which are celebrated in the monastery for many years after death. . Therefore, besides physical, you need mother and spiritual strength. The skin of a person from afar can determine for himself how he can survive such a life, even if it is even more problematic to remove oneself from the black rank.

How to begin preparation before blackening

So, how do women sing at the monastery? Once your decision has been firmly praised, you can begin to prepare for monastic life. From the very beginning it is necessary to learn the life of a churched person - regularly attend services at the temple, confess, take communion, practice fasting, practice practicing the commandments. You can, with the blessing of the priest, serve in the temple - clean the candlesticks, wash the candles and windows, help at the refectory and do the final work, whether you are entrusted to another robot.

It is necessary to ensure that all food related to worldly rights - that is, who live behind an apartment or a booth (often the future monks simply sell their integrity and invest money in furnishing the monastery), choose whether it is legal and food, control home health workers, because of the stench Yes, trust your hands. Then you need to talk to your spiritual guide, news about your world. The priest will help you choose a monastery and prepare for a black life. In the obligatory order, it is necessary to reject the blessing of the confessor on the way out of life in the world.

Trip to the monastery

Otje, preparation completed, the blessing has been taken away, the monastery has been secured. Now let's go there to talk to Mother Superior. Here is information about the peculiarities of life at the chosen monastery, about the traditions and mentality of living. Please bring with you the necessary documents:

• Passport.
• Short autobiography.
• Certificate of love or certificate of death of a person (for obvious reasons).
• A lament about being accepted to the monastery.

It should be noted that tonsure is only allowed to persons who have reached thirty years of age. If the woman has minor children, it will be necessary to provide evidence of the establishment of guardianship over them of certain characteristics (the characteristics of the guardians may also affect them). It is necessary to know that in this situation the confessor may not give blessings on the monastic life and the abbess may deprive his children of the world and the care of their children. Losing yourself in the monastery, looming in the world as a minor child, can only be caused by guilt attacks. This is the same situation if the woman has an old father who will require supervision.

There is no need to contribute funds, but you can make a voluntary donation.

What is happening at the monastery?

It is impossible to take tonsure immediately after arriving at the monastery. The term you are trying out is set to three to five. At this hour the woman will be surprised Before monastic life, you can understand that you are ready to completely lose the light and lose yourself in the monastery. Before taking monastic vows, a woman goes through several stages of monastic life.

Axis and all types of food, like going to the monastery, whatever is needed. As the woman was not burdened by future difficulties, the duty to serve God and neighbor, as before, is strong, and the exit from the monastery is on the right, perhaps, this is the way, even, as it seems the priests have reached It is not people who receive people into the monastir, but the Lord himself.