Seraphimo-Diveevsky monastery in the Nizhny Novgorod region is one of the main centers of attraction of the Orthodox in the world – on a par with mount Athos and Kiev-Pechersk Lavra! and to go there seeking them. However, the village of Diveevo is closed on quarantine, so check into it – even with a good pilgrimage goal is equal to the offense. However, recent developments confirm – a few people this stops. Why Seraphimo-Diveevsky monastery attracts so many people, understood by “MK”.
due to a visit to Serafimo-Diveevsky monastery, the Protocol is already made up on Nikita Dzhigurda and Anastasia Volochkova – in Diveevo has a mode of quarantine due to coronavirus infection, and to cancel his plan no earlier than July 22. However, the media personalities that didn’t stop – they still attempted to break in abode. The paradox is that in that monastery quarantine anymore, but it continues to operate in the village.
As noted in conversation with the correspondent “MK” priest Philip Ilyashenko, to condemn those wishing to enter the monastery of the media persons is not necessary, because desire in itself is good regardless of external factors.
– the Pilgrimage in itself is a mystery, even for a public person who used to do everything openly and publicly. Even if so, if a person has an interest in faith, if it pulls to the Church, it can only be good, – said the priest.
as for the choice of the convent, that father Philip explained the history and energy, which this place is famous, unique, and find a comparable replacement is almost impossible.
– this Monastery is a place of Holiness. There is a man like we beat ourselves, have achieved inner freedom, conquered sin, which is peculiar to each person. Yes, it’s been 200 years, but it is so attractive that people can’t help it, I want to go there and join. To condemn them for it? We live in a free time and in a free country. People have the right to go where he wants – well, the monastery has the right to decide, let it pilgrims or not – summed up father Philip.
meanwhile, Seraphim-Diveevo monastery is considered one of the “Principalities of the virgin”, that is, from places in which Orthodox culture is attributed to the particular religious power. Recall that the founder of the monastery is Saint Seraphim of Sarov: according to the legend, in 1825, he was visited by the virgin pointed out the place in the village of Diveyevo, where they should have a community – so he did, and the community received the name of the Mill. Later on it rose the monastery. It was only in 1861 by the decision of the Holy Synod.
It is from this monastery in Moscow brought the icon of Matari “Tenderness” with which Patriarch Kirill toured the capital at the beginning of the pandemic and prayed for a speedy deliverance from coronavirus infection. Since 1991, the icon is kept in the house of the residence of the Patriarch in the Pure lane in Moscow, but this was the main Shrine of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Serafimo-Diveevsky monastery. It is believed that “Tenderness” was the cell icon of St. Seraphim of Sarov – just before it, he prayed when he had the gift to heal the sick.
Since 1990 the monastery relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov is one of the shrines to which pilgrims are drawn. In prayer around the relics of beg health and deliverance from sorrow.
the Pilgrims, who often come to the monastery for goodness, let me tell you: you have to dip into the water of the baths of St. Seraphim – it is curative and helps to overcome many diseases.
Another important relic of the monastery – the so-called Holy Kanavka, which, according to legend, once told me to dig around Seraphim of the monastery of the mother of God herself. According to legend, the virgin promised that the groove will protect the monastery from any evil, and to cross this little ditch, not even the devil. Seraphim of Sarov has complied with the orders (it helped living in the abode of nuns), and now this moat there is a small path. There is a perception that you need to go through it and read the prayer to the virgin Mary 150 times in a row – then you will hear.
Although virgin will respond with any prayer, it has its own unwritten rules: first, you need to pray about the spiritual (love, birth, healing, sadness), and at the end of the road, if time remains, you are allowed to ask about material. However start walking on the path with complaints about mortgages just is not worth it!
many pilgrims and priests reported that during bypass Grooves saw the mother of God in a particular form, a female image, a silhouette in the sky.
