"We have everything..."

 

“We have everything we need for happiness,” say the nuns from the convent in honor of the Albazin Icon of the Mother of God. It is nestled on the outskirts of the village of Srednebelaya, Ivanovo district. Inside the monastery there is devastation - walls are falling apart and ceilings are crumbling, but the 11 monastic sisters living here do not give up. They bake their own bread, garden, raise livestock, run the household and supply themselves with everything necessary for life. The monastery is completely self-sufficient. In addition to daily work at the monastery, the mothers carry out active social work. The sisters help women who find themselves in difficult life situations, work with the local rural children's mothers, who can barely make ends meet, and share with others everything that they are rich in: material and spiritual.

“We have everything we need for happiness: home-baked bread, soup, tomatoes from the garden. The most important thing is God. We want to help people. A person needs, like oxygen, a place where he can feel God’s presence. Don’t hear mythical fairy tales - light so many candles, and you will be happy, and specifically: how can I not be afraid to live, how to talk with my family, how to find happiness, how to cope with anxiety, what is the meaning of life, explains Abbess Daniila .

The sisters help those in need find a way out of dead-end situations, not give up and hear the voice of their own soul. No one thinks about how much mental energy and time mothers spend absolutely free of charge to help their neighbors. They are not paid money, like psychologists, but they come here for moral support at any time of the day. Under the roof of the monastery they always find help: not only with good advice, but also with deeds.

At Diveyvo

Watching the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov is an obedience that all the Diveyevo sisters perform in turn.

The new holy icon of Panagia Varnakova after the fire that burned the monastery last year. Tears of joy flooded the Abbess and the worthy nuns.

 

The icon of St. Anna

Mother Christophera of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Wayne Township opens a glass case to give a better view of the Icon of St. Anna on Saturday.

The Reverend Archimandrite Athanasy, takes the icon all over the United States. He was present at the Divine Liturgy on Saturday, and his message was "Love each other and forgive." Father Athanasy, also, shared the story of the Icon of St. Anna which for him started when he was a child and fell out of a window. He broke his arm so severely that they thought they would have to amputate his arm. His mother, who was devoted to St. Anna, took him to a church dedicated to St. Anna and prayed. His arm was saved and he told the congregation that he is still using it.

From 1980 to 1981 Father Athanasy served at the Mount of Olives Convent in Jerusalem. While he was there someone gave him a gift of a thousand dollars and he commissioned the Icon of St. Anna, the mother of the Holy Virgin Mary, and when it was completed she was blessed at the Sepulcher of Our Lord in the Jerusalem Church of the Resurrection and brought to the Russian Orthodox Church of Our Lady of Joy of All Who Sorrow in Philadelphia.

On May 9, 2004, Mother's Day, the Icon of St. Anna, the Mother of the Holy Virgin Mary, began to stream myrrh, an aromatic resin. One of the parishioners mentioned it to the parish rector, that the Icon of St. Anna seemed to be perspiring and he saw the visible liquid streams and droplets. Accumulations of the liquid were seen on the cuff on St. Anna's left hand and on her left shoulder veil. Droplets were also found elsewhere on the Icon. This fragrant, slightly oily liquid is commonly called myrrh and at first it looked like tear drops as if St. Anna was crying. More recently small, slow-moving streams of myrrh have appeared on other parts of the Icon.

Since the fall of 2012, the Icon has been at St. Tikhon's Monastery in Waymart, Pa. and has a pleasing fragrance but is not currently weeping.

Monastery of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Greece

The Monastery of St. Seraphim of Sarov is located in Trikorpho in Phocis. It was built in 1984 by Abbot Nectarios Mulatiotis and Archimandrite Augustine of Syros.
A certain light descended from heaven every year on July 19 to a small Golgotha, built in the monastery by Abbot Nectarios and spread over the cross and the image of the crucified Christ.This light came from heaven day and night, illuminating everything around, which many witnessed.

At this place, Saint Seraphim of Sarov began to appear and walk around the Golgotha ​​of the monastery, as well as approach a copy of the tomb of our Lord.

Where Saint Seraphim passed, the monks arranged proskinitarians with scenes from the life of the saint, from his birth to his repose. Since then, the believers began to break off pieces of the cross, because miracles began to happen from it.

Today, the monastery is home to about 20 monks who have received spiritual education in various regions of Greece and abroad. The abbot of the monks to this day is Father Nektarios, who built the monastery of St. Seraphim from scratch. Before the foundation of the monastery, there were only fields and abandoned vineyards.

Father Nektarios also built the cathedral of the monastery with a bell tower, which is the largest in the world: it can hold 62 bells and 400 chimes.

Electronic bells play the various melodies of the church troparia. Father Nektarios, together with his monks, also organizes a church camp, to which children from poor families come in summer to spend several days of recreation in nature, near the monastery walls. Between 300 and 400 children arrive and are accommodated at the camp every summer.

The monks planted a beautiful grove and called it the “Fence of the Mother of God”, because inside it there is a church in honor of the Mother of God. Outside this wooden church, there is a marble baptismal font similar to the early Christian ones in the shape of a cross, in which babies are baptized, as well as everyone who wants to become Orthodox Christians.

The blessing of God is clearly present at the monastery of St. Seraphim. Father Nektarios created and built it exclusively with funds donated by benefactors and ordinary believers. He never took money from the state, Europe or any organization.

The grace of God rests on this monastery, therefore Saint Seraphim performs many miracles here when he appears and, wherever he appears, he calls this particular monastery: "This is my home", "Come here, I live in Tricorfo, come here to worship" Many pilgrims come from all over Greece, as well as from Russia, America and Europe, to venerate the relics of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, Saint Augustine and his mother, Saint Monica, as well as the holy relics of our great Orthodox saints, such as a particle of the right hand of Saint John the Baptist. baptizing our Lord, Saint Nicholas, Saint Barbara, Saint Ephraim, Saint Anna, Mother of the Theotokos, Saint George, Saint Demetrius, Saint John Chrysostom, and many other holy relics that are kept in the cathedral of the monastery.

In the monastery there is also a particle of the Honorable Life-giving Cross, on which our Christ was crucified and many miracles are performed from it. The sick are healed, and some barren women, whom Father Nektarios baptized with the Honest and Life-giving Cross, found children and became mothers.

We must also mention the holy water of the monastery. This is the water of St. Nicholas. From 1984 to July 19, 2007, there was no water in the monastery. Father Nektarios and the monks collected rainwater in winter in a large reservoir and used it economically throughout the year. More than once they had to bring water by special transport from Nafpaktos.

On the territory of the monastery, five attempts were made to drill wells without any result.
One modest believing woman named Catherine from Constantinople gave the monastery a miraculous icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Father Nektarios placed the icon in the iconostasis of the monastery cathedral. The next day Saint Nicholas, in full bishop's vestments and with a pastoral staff, appeared in a dream to one believer named Nicholas, who lived in Athens and said to him:

“Nikolaos, I am Saint Nicholas. Go to the monastery of Father Nektarios and tell him the following: I am glad that he honored me by placing me in the iconostasis of the church. For this I will give the water of the monastery, which is deprived of it. Tell him to take his pastoral staff, go behind the altar of the temple and show the exact place, hit the ground there with the staff three times, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and then my water will appear from there, which will be holy water for believers. "

Father Nektarios did exactly as ordered. And the drill hit the indicated place on July 19, 2007, on the day of the feast of St. Seraphim, and when the icon of the matchmaker was carried nearby, the water of St. Nicholas gushed out of the well. Since then, the monastery has abundant water, and the believers take holy water and are healed of various diseases.
This is a brief history of the monastery of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Greece. Today it is the only monastery in this country bearing the name of Saint Seraphim.
Of course, there are churches and chapels in other places as well. But there has never been such a monastery.

Source: "freemonx.gr"
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For your information.
Six kilometers before the monastery of St. Seraphim of Sarov, Father Nektariy built in 1991 a second monastery for women, in which 18 nuns live today. The women's monastery is dedicated to the great Saint Nektarios the Wonderworker, Bishop of Pentapolis.
The cassock of St. John Maksimovich, Bishop of Shanghai, is kept in the monastery of St. Nektarios. The monastery also created a copy of the underground catacombs, in which Christians took refuge during the years of persecution.

In the photo:
- the monastery of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Greece
- Golgotha ​​of the holy monastery
- a copy of the Tomb of Christ: outside view
- view from the inside
- the abbot and abbots of the monastery at the bell tower of the monastery
- proskinitarians with scenes from the life of St. Seraphim
- shrines of the monastery
- Church of the Mother of God in the monastery
- "The Fence of the Mother of God"

Two days ago during the all-night vigil, two rainbows stood over St. Seraphim-Diveyevo convent in Russia.

 

Monk Gennadios Bourouleas- 96 years old- Neamtz Monastery, This is how they found him dead in his cell, yesterday, September 3, 2021

 

Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery

Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery

In front of you is the refectory
The Monastery refectory is located in the basement of the Sergievsky temple, it is designed for 80 people.

Here our parishioners can recharge their strengths with home-cooked dishes prepared with prayer: the menu always includes soups, several types of fish and vegetable hot dishes, a variety of salads, pies, cakes and other monastery products: tea, coffee, juices, mineral water and monastery chocolate ... Also in the monastery bakery every day bread is baked according to our unique recipes with sourdough.

The monastery refectory is open to everyone from 10:00 to 18:00 seven days a week. Every day from 10:00 to 12:00 we offer inexpensive set breakfasts, from 12:00 to 15:00 lunch.

The refectory is heated, so at any time of the year you can sit with friends at a table, chat and rest.

Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery, Russia. Made with love by blessing and with God's help.

The icon symbolically depicts the village of Bogorodichnoye, the former temple, below - a miraculous source, a parish school, but what is most surprising, the icon captures the miraculous prophecy of the Mother of God: the Blessed Virgin stands exactly in the place where later, in the 21st century, a new temple will be built.