“AGE IN RUSSIA: THE AMATEURS OF FAITH AND BENEVOLENCE OF THE XX AND XXI CENTURIES”
Description:
The essence of old age, a covenant between the old man and the student. The elder and his service, love in relation to the student, leadership, relating to the nature and spiritual structure of the student, and support.
- With a visit to the Cemetery of the Savage-Prebrazhensky Varlaam-Khutyn Women's Monastery, where the famous Novgorod elders rested: Archimandrite Agafangel (+1999), Archimandrite Hilarion (+2008, Prikhodko), AP (2004), AGAPHANGEL (+1999), ARCHIMANDRITION (+2008, Pryhodokhodokhodko), AKOLI (2004) And DR.
Duration of Excursion - 2 Hours
The old man is a hard oak, around which grows the winding circle of his weak plants, alone dying from storms and winds. The old man is the steamer of the ship. The essence and all the power of old-fashioned leadership - old-fashionedness - is concluded in the covenant between the old man and the student, according to whom the spiritual father takes on himself the work of guiding the soul of the student of the pupil, in front of the face of God, the dog, and in our place.
He also had a special confession. Father Anatolia was able to see the inner world of man. His attitude towards the spiritual child more resembled the attitude of the doctor to the sick. The surface perception of man for him was unthinkable. He did not denounce or fear what he repented of, so as not to push man away from the church and fear him. He did not impose punishments for sins in the form of impermissible epithymia, but suffered a person and offered him help in the form of a council - how to get rid of sins and passions. (From the book “The Movement of Love and Mediation” by the Father Anatoly Malinin in the Memoirs of Spiritual Chads).
In the old man, Hilarion was struck by his insight. I heard about him from Mother Hilarion (then just Helena) and went to the Leningrad Spiritual Academy to meet him. When he saw me for the first time, he immediately called me “Mother’s Abbey,” even though it was a long way off. When my sisters and I arrived in the armored rooms, I said, “The Yelets abbot has arrived.” He spoke about himself, about constant calls to the police, about debilitating aids, proposals to cooperate with the godless authorities.
He united us all with love for each other and for the Lord. He was very unpretentious and patient. I ate and slept very little. But when they came to him, he met everyone joyfully, answered many questions, even sometimes sang. (From the book “For the Candle of Your Life to Burn... Shepherd of the Land of the Novgorod Archimandrite Hilarion – Memories of the Abbess Lyudmila (+2015), The Birth of the Virgin of the Snetogorsk Women’s Monastery).
Archimandrite Agafangel (Dogadin) was a populace of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, where in 1974 he was taken to the San Igumen. In the Holy Abode he found the legendary elders-spiritualists: Schiarchimandrite Pimen, Archimandrite Athenogen, Schiigumen Luke, Schijero-Monach Simeon, Schimonachus Nicholas... The flower of Russian monasticism of the XX century! Celia O. Agafangela was a neighbor with O. Ioanna’s cell (Pestiankina), the veneration of which father instilled in his children.
As the spiritual children remember, the father of Agafangel was himself a living preaching, beginning from walking and ending with inexhaustible help to people. Already mortally ill, after going for treatment in 1997, he christened 20 people of the Antichristian faith in Riga.