Prayer to reprimand from demons. Herman's father reprimands him from demons What kind of father is herman
Arhangelsk region
Verkola. Artemiev Verkolsky Monastery
Ershovka. St. John the Theologian Monastery (2005)
Kiy-island. Kiysky Cross Monastery (1656)
Koryazhma. Koryazhemsky Nikolaevsky Monastery (1535)
Monastery. Life-Giving Trinity Anthony Siysky Monastery (1520)
Oshevenskoe. Alexander-Oshevensky Monastery (1600)
Severodvinsk. Nikolaevsky Korelsky Monastery (1395)
Solovetsky Islands. Solovetsky Zosimo-Savvatievsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. Golgotha-Crucifixion Monastery (1714)
Solovetsky Islands. Solovetsky Zosimo-Savvatievsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. Holy Ascension Monastery
Solovetsky Islands. Solovetsky Zosimo-Savvatievsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1429)
Solovetsky Islands. Solovetsky Zosimo-Savvatievsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. Holy Trinity Skete (1620)
Solovetsky Islands. Solovetsky Zosimo-Savvatievsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. St. Andrew's Hermitage (1702)
Solovetsky Islands. Solovetsky Zosimo-Savvatievsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. Savvatievsky monastery (1750)
Solovetsky Islands. Solovetsky Zosimo-Savvatievsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. Filippovskaya Hermitage
Astrakhan region
Astrakhan. John the Baptist Monastery (1688)
Astrakhan. Trinity Monastery (1603)
Astrakhan. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1597)
Belgorod region
Belgorod. Marfo-Mariinsky Monastery (1993)
Withers. Holy Trinity Kholkovsky Monastery (1620)
Bryansk region
White Shores. Ioanno-Predtechenskaya Belo-Berezhskaya men's hermitage
Berezhok. Karachevsky Resurrection Monastery
Bryansk. Petro-Paul Convent
Bryansk. Gorno-Nikolsky Diocesan Monastery
Bryansk. Svensky Assumption Monastery (1288)
Katashin. Nikolaevsky Katashinsky Monastery (1699)
Kvetun. Cholsky Spassky Monastery (1700)
Klintsy. St. Nicholas Klintsovsky Convent (1900)
Odrino. Nikolo-Odrin convent
Pokrovskoe. Klimovsky Pokrovsky Monastery (1765)
Bee. Kazan Bogoroditskaya Ploshchanskaya men's hermitage (1613)
Sevsk. Holy Trinity Sevsky Monastery
Sevsk. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1636)
Sevsk. Holy Cross Sevsky Convent (1802)
Vladimir region
Akinshino, tract. Epiphany Monastery. Holy Kazan Monastery (2001)
Alexandrov. Holy Dormition Monastery (1508)
Arsaki. Smolensk-Zosimova Hermitage
Bogolyubovo. Holy Bogolyubsky Convent (1158)
Vvedenskoe. Pokrovskaya Svyato-Vvedenskaya Island women's hermitage
Vladimir. Princess Convent (1200)
Vladimir. Mother of God Nativity Monastery (1900)
Vladimir. St. Alexievsky Konstantino-Eleninsky Monastery (1362)
Volosovo. Nikolo-Volosovsky Diocesan Convent (1300)
Vyazniki. Annunciation Monastery (1641)
Vyazniki. Vvedensky Monastery
Gorokhovets. Znamensky Convent (1598)
Gorokhovets. Nikolo-Trinity Monastery (1644)
Gorokhovets. Sretensky Convent (1658)
Kideksha. Boris and Gleb Monastery (1399)
Kirzhach. Annunciation Convent
Kirzhach district, Filippovskoe village, St. Nicholas Church (Archpriest Stakhy Minchenko - visionary)
Kovrov. Znamensky Convent (1917)
Lukyantsevo. St. Lucian's men's hermitage (1594)
Matveevka. Skete of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Colpi of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra (1995)
Mahra. Holy Trinity Stefano-Makhrishchi Convent
Mstera. Epiphany Monastery
Moore. Spassky Monastery (1096)
Moore. Resurrection Monastery
Moore. Trinity Convent (1643)
Moore. Annunciation Monastery (1553)
Unprecedented. Holy Dormition Kosmin Monastery (1492)
New. St. Nicholas Convent (1826)
Serapion Pustyn. Community-skete of Serapion Pustyn of the Murom Annunciation Monastery (1850)
Spas-Kupalische. Compound of the Bogolyubsky Convent (1881)
Suzdal. Deposition of Robe Monastery
Suzdal. Trinity Monastery
Suzdal. Alexander Monastery (1899)
Suzdal. Spaso-Evfimievsky Monastery (1352)
Suzdal. Vasilyevsky Monastery (1899)
Suzdal. Pokrovsky Convent (1364)
Timoshkino, Blagoveshchensky Pogost. Holy Annunciation Monastery (1501)
Khmelevo. Sorrowful Monastery (1902)
Yuriev-Polsky. St. Vvedensky Nikon Monastery)
Yuriev-Polsky. Michael the Archangel Monastery (1250)
Volgograd region
Dubovka. Holy Ascension Convent
Serafimovich. Ust-Medveditsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1665)
Vologda Region
Veliky Ustyug. John the Baptist Monastery
Veliky Ustyug. Michael the Archangel Monastery (1212)
Vologda. Gorniy Assumption Convent
Goritsy. Resurrection Goritsky Monastery (1544)
Dubrovskoe. Vladimir Zaonikiev Hermitage
Green Beach. Krasnoborskaya Holy Trinity Philip of Irapsky hermitage
Stone island. Spaso-Kamenny Transfiguration Monastery (1260)
Kirillov. Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
Kornilevo. Kornilyevo-Komelsky Monastery
Morozovitsa. Trinity-Gledensky Monastery
Popovka, tract. Spaso-Evfimiev Syamzhensky Monastery (1420)
Pryluki. Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery (1371)
Totma. Spaso-Sumorin Monastery (1554)
Ferapontovo. Ferapontov Monastery (1408)
Youthful. Holy Trinity Pavlo-Obnorsky Monastery
Voronezh region
Belogorye. Belogorsky Resurrection Monastery
Voronezh. St. Alexis Akatov Monastery (1620)
Vyazniki. Shatrishchegorsk Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
Divnogorye. Holy Dormition Divnogorsk Monastery
Kalach. Unknown cave monastery
Kostomarovo. Kostomarovsky Spassky Monastery
Novomakarovo. Seraphim of Sarov, monastery (1995)
Stadnitsa. Zemlyansky Znamensky Convent (1866)
Tolshi. Tolshevsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Convent
Ivanovo region
Antushkovo. Descent of the Cross, monastery (1776)
Bohrok. Borkovskaya Trinity-Nicholas Hermitage (1765)
Introduction. Nikolo-Shartomsky Monastery (1300)
Dunilovo. Holy Dormition Convent (1650)
Ermolino. Holy Resurrection Men's Ermolinsk Hermitage
Zolotnikovskaya hermitage. Zolotnikovskaya Assumption Hermitage (1651)
Ivanovo. Holy Dormition Monastery
Ivanovo. Holy Vvedensky Convent (1907)
Kineshma. Assumption Convent (1730)
Kuznetsovo. Dormition-Kazan Monastery
Mugreevsky. Svyatoezerskaya Iverskaya Hermitage
Privolzhsk St. Nicholas Convent (1998)
Reshma. Makariev Reshem Monastery (1400)
Sergeevo. Resurrection Fedorov Monastery (1897)
Timiryazevo. St. Nicholas Tikhonov Lukhsky Monastery (1498)
Shuya. All Saints Edinoverie Convent (1880)
Irkutsk region
Irkutsk Znamensky Monastery (1689)
Caucasian republics
Kizlyar. Exaltation of the Holy Cross, monastery
State Farm. Holy Trinity Convent
Kaliningrad region
Kaliningrad. Nicholas Convent (1998)
Kaluga region
Baryatino. Nativity of the Virgin Mary Hermitage (1796)
Krasnoyarsk region
Krasnoyarsk Territory, Yeniseisk, Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
Krasnoyarsk, Church of the Archangel Michael (Vetluzhanka microdistrict)
Krasnoyarsk Assumption Monastery (1879)
Krasnoyarsk Annunciation Convent (1995)
Kurgan region
Upper Techa. Vvedensky Convent (1742)
Dalmatovo. Dalmatovo Holy Dormition Monastery (1644)
Chimeevo. Holy Kazan Chimeevsky Monastery
Kursk region
Kursk Trinity Monastery (1600)
Kursk Znamensky Monastery (1816)
Rylsky district, village. Suburban Slobodka, st. Mirnaya, 2. Rylsky St. Nicholas Monastery (1505)
Freedom. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Root Hermitage (1597)
Sudzhansky district, village Gornal. Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery (1672) - lectures are given by abbot Father Pitirim (Plaksin)
Leningrad region (St. Petersburg)
Moskovsky district. Resurrection Novodevichy Monastery (1714)
Petrogradsky district. Ioannovsky Stavropegic Convent (1900)
Strelna. Holy Trinity Sergius Seaside Hermitage (1734)
Central District. Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Lavra (1873)
Central District. Resurrection Smolny Novodevichy Convent (1748)
Leningrad region
Armored car. Antoniyevo-Dymsky Holy Trinity Monastery
Vladimirovka. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Konevsky Monastery (1393)
Zelenets. Trinity Zelenetsky Monastery (1564)
Koltushi (Pavlovo). St. Andrew the First-Called Alexander Nevsky Lavra, monastery (1998)
Kurkovitsy. Pyatogorsky Monastery (1890)
Leninsky. Constantinople-Eleninsky Monastery (2006)
Makaryevskaya hermitage, tract. Makaryevskaya Hermitage (1550)
Lights. Lintul Monastery (1896)
Oyat. Vvedeno-Oyatsky Convent
Padano, tract. Vvedensky Padansky Monastery ()
Senno. Trinity Skete of the Assumption Tikhvin Monastery ()
Old Ladoga. Nikolsky Monastery (1250)
Old Ladoga. Staraya Ladoga Holy Dormition Convent (1150)
Old settlement. Alexander-Svirsky Monastery (1484)
Be careful. Nicholas Storozhensky Monastery ()
Tervenici. Intercession-Tervenichsky Convent (1991)
Tikhvin. Tikhvin Mother of God Assumption Monastery (1560)
Tikhvin. Vvedensky Monastery (1560)
Cheremenets. St. John the Theologian Cheremenets Monastery (1500)
Lipetsk region
Dace. Trinity Monastery (1850)
Dace. Znamensky Monastery (1700)
Zadonsk. St. Tikhon's Transfiguration Convent
Zadonsk. Zadonsky Nativity of the Theotokos Monastery (1620)
Lebedyan. Trinity Monastery (1621)
Roshchinsky. Peter and Paul Hermitage (1703)
Sezenovo. Sezenovsky St. John of Kazan Convent (1838)
Troekurovo. Troyekurovsky St. Demetrius Illarionovsky Convent (1857)
Tyunino. Bogoroditsko-Tikhonovsky Tyuninsky Convent
Moscow region (Moscow)
Basmanny. John the Baptist (Ivanovo) Monastery
Gagarinsky. St. Andrew's Monastery, former (1648)
Danilovsky. Simonov Monastery (1379)
Danilovsky. St. Daniel's Monastery
Donskoy. Donskoy Monastery (1686)
Meshchansky. Mother of God Nativity Monastery
Meshchansky. Sretensky Monastery
Printers. Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery (1623)
Tagansky. Novospassky Monastery (1490)
Tagansky. Intercession Monastery (1635)
Tverskoy. VysokoPetrovsky Monastery (1315)
Khamovniki. Novodevichy Convent
Khamovniki. Conception Monastery
Yakimanka. Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy (1908)
Moscow region
Akatovo. Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Anosino. Anosin Boris and Gleb Monastery (1810)
Bityagovo. Seraphim-Znamensky Skete (1912)
Visible. St. Catherine's Monastery (1664)
Voskresenskoe (Avdotino). Nikolo-Berlyukovskaya hermitage
Dedenevo (Novospasskoe). Spaso-Vlaherna Monastery (1861)
Dzerzhinsky. Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery
Dmitrov. Boris and Gleb, monastery (1472)
Yegoryevsk. Holy Trinity Mariinsky Monastery (1903)
Zvenigorod. Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery (1398)
Zosimova Hermitage. Trinity-Odigitrievskaya Zosimova Hermitage (1915)
Istra. New Jerusalem Monastery (1656)
Kashira. Alexander Nikitsky Monastery (1823)
Kolomna. Novo-Golutvin Monastery
Kolomna. Brusensky Monastery
Kolomna. Staro-Golutvin Monastery (1374)
Kolotskoe. Kolotsky Assumption Monastery
Kolychevo. Kazan Monastery
Kurovskaya. Guslitsky Monastery
Lugovoy. Nikolo-Peshnoshsky Monastery (1361)
Lukino. Holy Cross Monastery in Jerusalem (1865)
Maklakovo. Alexander Monastery
Mozhaisk Ferapontov Luzhetsky Mozhaisk Monastery (1408)
New Life. Ascension David's Hermitage (1682)
Pavlovsky Posad. Pokrovsko-Vasilevsky Monastery (1874)
Radovice. Nikolo-Radovitsky Monastery
Semenovskoye (Borodinsky village). Spaso-Borodinsky Monastery (1838)
Sergiev Posad. Spaso-Vifansky Monastery, former (1783)
Sergiev Posad. Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (1337) (Archimandrite German (Chesnokov) conducts the rite of reprimand)
Serpukhov. Vladychny Convent (1360)
Serpukhov. Vysotsky Monastery (1374)
Serpukhov. Crucifixion, monastery (1718)
Change. Paraklit-Tarbeeva hermitage (1858)
Old Bobrenevo. Bobrenev Monastery (1381)
Stupino. Holy Trinity Belopesotsky Monastery
Stupinsky district, village. Ivan-Teremets, Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (nearest Shugarovo station)
Teryaevo. Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery (1479)
Faustovo (Red Hill). Krasnokholmskaya Novo-Solovetskaya Marchugovskaya hermitage
Khotkovo. Intercession Khotkov Monastery (1308)
Nizhny Novgorod Region
Arzamas. Nikolaevsky Convent
Arzamas. Vysokogorsky Ascension Monastery (1716)
Arzamas. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1556)
Arzamas. Alekseevsky Novodevichy Convent (1634)
Balakhna. Pokrovsky Monastery
Belbazh. Trinity Belbazh Convent (1708)
Vorsma. Ostrovoezersky Trinity Monastery (1688)
Vyksa. Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, monastery (1863)
Diveevo. Seraphim-Diveevsky Trinity Monastery (1842)
Green Mountains. Spaso-Zelenogorsk Convent (1653)
Makaryevo. Trinity Makariev Zheltovodsk Monastery (1435)
Small Pizza. Malopitsky Sorrowful Convent (1850)
Nizhny Novgorod. Pechersky Ascension Monastery
Nizhny Novgorod. Holy Cross Monastery (1846)
Nizhny Novgorod. Annunciation Monastery (1221)
Ponetaevka. Seraphim-Ponetaevsky Monastery
Sarov. Holy Dormition Sarov Hermitage (1664)
Teteryugino. St. Nicholas Ambrosiev Dudin Monastery (1350)
Uspensky. Vysokovsky Koverninsky Assumption Monastery (1829)
Frolishchi. Holy Dormition Monastery of Florishcheva Pustyn
Yuryevo. Trinity Monastery on Pyana
Novgorod region
Borovichi. Holy Spirit Jacob Borovichi Monastery (1327)
Burega. Buregsky Monastery (1730)
Valdai. Iversky Monastery (1653)
Velikiy Novgorod. Derevyanitsky Monastery
Velikiy Novgorod. Anthony's Monastery (1100)
Velikiy Novgorod. Spiritual Monastery (1162)
Velikiy Novgorod. Zverin Monastery (1148)
Velikiy Novgorod. Desyatinny Monastery (1327)
Veliky Novgorod (Yuryev). Yuriev Monastery (1030)
Veliky Novgorod (Yuryev). Peryn monastery (995)
Knitters. Nikolo-Vyazhishchi Stauropegial Convent
Kosino. Nikolsky Kosinsky Monastery (1220)
Rdeyskaya desert. Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the former Rdeisky monastery, church (1898)
Rekonsky desert. Rekonsky desert
Seltso. Holy Trinity Michael-Klopsky Monastery (1400)
Staraya Russa. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
Syrkovo. Presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God Syrkov Monastery (1548)
Khutyn. Varlaamo-Khutyn Convent (1192)
Novosibirsk region
Kozikha. Michael the Archangel, monastery (1997)
Novosibirsk John the Baptist Monastery (2001)
Novosibirsk New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, monastery
Omsk region
Achair. Achair convent in the name of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord (1913)
Bolshekulache. St. Nicholas Monastery
Vyatka. St. Basil's Monastery
Tatyanovka. St. Seraphim Monastery (1991)
Oryol Region
Bolkhov. Trinity Nativity of the Virgin Mary Optin Monastery (1706)
Stifling. Holy Spirit Monastery
Nikolskoye. Mary Magdalene Convent (1884)
Eagle. Holy Dormition Monastery (1679)
Eagle. Holy Vvedensky (Nativity of Christ) Monastery (1686)
Eagle. Holy Dormition Monastery. Skete of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia (2006)
Oryol district, Saltyki village, Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1871-1886)
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With. Stanovoy Well, Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Frolovka. Skete of Saint Kuksha
Penza region
Vadinsk. Tikhvin Kerensky (monastery) (1850)
Kolyshleysky district, village. Treskino, Holy Nativity Monastery (hegumen Kronid conducts the rite of reprimand)
Penza. Trinity Convent (1692)
Penza. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1689)
Skanovo. Trinity-Skanov convent
Perm region
White Mountain. Nikolaevsky Belogorsky Monastery (1894)
Obvinsk. Assumption Obvinsky Monastery (1686)
Permian. Assumption Convent (1873)
Permian. Holy Trinity Stephen Monastery (1790)
Solikamsk Ascension Trinity Monastery (1589)
Pskov region
Kunyinsky district, village. Bolotovo, Church of the Intercession of the Virgin (1450)
(information about reporting is being clarified)
Verbilovo. Verbilovsky Monastery (1670)
Vladimirets. Holy Vvedensky Convent (1780)
Elizarovo. Spaso-Eleazarovsky Convent (1447)
Krypetskoe. St. John the Theologian Krypetsky Monastery (1485)
Nikandrova Hermitage. Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Nicholas Hermitage (1585)
Island. Siman Spaso-Kazan Monastery
Pechory. Assumption Pskov-Pechersky Monastery (1472)
Pskov. Snetogorsk convent (1311)
Pskov. Mirozhsky Monastery (1156)
Pskov. Panteleimon Monastery
Pskov. Church of St. Konstantin and Elena (Krasnogorskaya str., 26) (1681) (rank of fathers previously conducted
schema-abbot Panteleimon (Roman Ledin)) - at present, Schema-Abbot Panteleimon does not give lectures!
Pushkin Mountains. Assumption Svyatogorsk Monastery (1569)
Tvorozhkovo. Holy Trinity Tvorozhkovsky Monastery
Republic of Adygea
Victory. Michael-Athos Trans-Kuban Hermitage (1877)
Republic of Bashkortostan
Sterlitamak district, Roshchinsky village, Church of the Archangel Michael (hegumen Simeon (Alexander Nikolaevich Kuvaytsev) conducts the rite of reprimand)
Usa-Stepanovka. Dormition St. George Monastery
Ufa. Annunciation Monastery (1852)
Ufa. Church of the Kazan Mother of God (Inors microdistrict)
Republic of Karelia
Muromsky. Murom Holy Dormition Monastery
Paley Island. Paleostrovsky Nativity Monastery (1410)
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Nikolsky Skete (1750)
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Gethsemane Skete (1906)
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Konevsky monastery
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Skete of All Saints. Chapel of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Resurrection Skete (1846)
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Elias Skete (2006)
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Monastery of St. Alexander Svirsky with the Church of Alexander Svirsky (1855)
Sortavala, o. Balaam. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Skete of All Saints (1793)
Sheltozero. Annunciation Ion-Yashezersky Monastery
Komi Republic
Ulyanovo. Ulyanovsk Trinity-Stefan Monastery (1860)
Mari El Republic
Kilemary. Virgin Mary Hermitage (2000)
The Republic of Mordovia
Drakino. Pokrovsky Monastery
Insar. Insarsky convent in the name of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga (1909)
Zubovo-Polyansky district, village. Pokrov-Selishchi, St. Barsanuphievsky Monastery
Makarovka. St. John the Theologian Makarov Monastery
Pokrovsky Villages. St. Barsanuphievsky Monastery
Sanaksyr. Nativity of the Virgin Mary Sanaksar Monastery (1659)
Uchkhoz. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1655)
Republic of Tatarstan
Drozhzhanovsky district, village of Old Chekurskoe, Church of the Archangel Michael (conducting the rite of reprimand is Father Oleg)
Elabuga. Yelabuga Kazan-Bogoroditsky Convent (1857)
Kazan. Holy Dormition Zilantov Monastery (1625)
Kazan. John the Baptist Monastery (1650)
Kazan. Zilantov Monastery
Kazan. Kizichesky Vvedensky Monastery (1685)
Kazan. Kazan Bogoroditsky Monastery (1579)
Kazan. St. Nicholas Cathedral
Makaryevskaya Hermitage. Makaryevskaya men's hermitage (1691)
Raifa. Raifa Mother of God Monastery (1613)
Sviyazhsk Dormition-Bogorodichny Monastery
Sviyazhsk John the Baptist Monastery
Sedmiozerka. Sedmiozerskaya Hermitage (1630)
Republic of Udmurtia
Norya. Malo-Diveevsky Seraphim Convent
Perevoznoe. Assumption Convent. Church of the Ascension (1910)
Rostov region
Rostov-on-Don. Holy Iversky Convent (1903)
Ryazan Oblast
Vysha, Shatsk district. Holy Dormition Vyshensky Convent (1625)
Dmitrievo, Skopinsky district. St. Demetrius Monastery (Holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica) (1631)
Iberdsky. Iberd Alexander Nevsky Sophronius Monastery
Kadom. Holy Mercy Mother of God Convent (1797)
Mikhailov. Holy Intercession Convent (1999)
Poshupovo, Rybnovsky district. St. John the Theologian Monastery (1150)
Ryazan. Kazan Convent (1550)
Ryazan. St. Nicholas Cherneevsky Monastery
Ryazan. Spassky Monastery (1450)
Ryazan. Trinity Monastery (1208)
Solotcha. Ryazan region. Nativity of the Virgin Mary Monastery
Starocherneevo, Shatsk district. Nikolo-Cherneevsky Monastery (St. Nicholas Archbishop of Myra in Lycia) (1573)
Samara Region
Novokashpirsky. Kashpirsky Simeonovsky Annunciation Monastery (1712)
Samara. Samara Iversky Monastery
Samara. Resurrection of Christ, Cathedral (1992)
Sizran. Ascension Monastery (1675)
Saratov region
Saratov. St. Nicholas Monastery
Saratov. St. Alexievsky Monastery (1848)
Khvalynsk. Trinity Monastery (1880)
Khvalynsk. Cheremshansky Monastery (1871)
Sverdlovsk region
Upper Sinyachikha. Alapaevsky Monastery of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia (1995)
Verkhoturye. Pokrovsky Convent (1622)
Verkhoturye. Spaso-Nicholas Monastery (1604)
Ekaterinburg. Monastery of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers on Ganina Yama
Ekaterinburg. Exaltation of the Holy Cross, monastery (1995)
Ekaterinburg. Novo-Tikhvin Monastery
Ekaterinburg. Monastery in the name of the All-Merciful Savior (1988)
Kamensk-Uralsky. Transfiguration Monastery (1861)
Kamyshlov. Holy Intercession Convent
Kostyleva. Svyato-Kosminskaya men's hermitage (2000)
Nizhny Tagil. Sorrowful Monastery
Sredneuralsk Sredneuralsky Women's Monastery in honor of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Spreader of the Loaves"
Stavropol region
Pyatigorsk Holy Dormition Deuteroathon Monastery (1904)
Stavropol, per. Fadeeva, 1, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1847)
Smolensk region
Boldino. Trinity Gerasimo-Boldinsky Monastery (1530)
Vyazma. Arkadievsky Monastery
Vyazma. Monastery of John the Baptist (1534)
Roslavl. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
Smolensk Ascension Monastery (1697)
Smolensk Abraham Monastery (1200)
Smolensk Trinity Monastery
Tambov Region
Michurinsk. Bogolyubsky Monastery (1858)
Tambov. Ascension Monastery (1690)
Tambov. Kazan Mother of God Monastery (1677)
Tambov. Trigulyai. Tambov St. John the Baptist Trigulyaevsky Monastery (1725)
Tver region
Bezhetsk Annunciation Convent (1869)
Volgoverkhovye. Olginsky Monastery (1902)
Vyshny Volochek. Kazan Monastery (1872)
Kashin. Dmitrovsky Monastery
Kashin. Sretensky Monastery (1650)
Kashin. Nikolaevsky Klobukov Monastery
Mogilevka. Assumption Mogilev Monastery (1634)
Orsha. Ascension Orshin Convent
Ostashkov. Zhitenny Smolensky Monastery (1716)
Ostashkov. Znamensky Convent (1673)
Rigodishchi. Rigodischesky Mother of God-Nativity Monastery (1893)
Savvatyevo. Savvatyev Pustyn (1390)
Sloboda. Anthony's Krasnokholmsky Monastery (1461)
Old woman. Staritsky Assumption Monastery (1110)
Tver. Nativity of Christ, monastery (1400)
Tver. Nikolaevsky Malitsky Monastery (1584)
Tver. Assumption Zheltikov Monastery (1394)
Torzhok. Resurrection Convent
Torzhok. Boris and Gleb Monastery (1038)
Toropets. St. Tikhon's Convent
Toropets. Trinity Nebin Monastery
Worker (Terebeni). Nikolo-Terebensky Convent
Stolobny Island (Lake Seliger). Nilo-Stolobenskaya hermitage (1594)
Tomsk region
Tomsk Mother of God Alexievsky Monastery
Tula region
Anastasovo. Mother of God Nativity Anastas Monastery (1673)
Belev. Holy Cross Monastery
Belev. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1525)
Venev Monastery. Nikolsko-Uspensky Convent (1300)
Kind. Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary Good Monastery
Zhabyn, tract. Vvedenskaya Makarievskaya hermitage
Kolyupanovo. Holy Kazan Convent
Fern. Kazan Monastery
Tula. Assumption Monastery
Tula. Holy Mother of God Shcheglovsky Monastery (1859)
Tula (Burners). Mother of God Monastery
Tyumen region
Abalak. Abalaksky Znamensky Monastery
Tyumen. Trinity Monastery
Tyumen. The Mother of God of the Nativity of Ilyinsky Convent
Shantalyk. St. John the Vvedensky Mezhdugorsk Monastery
Yaroslavl region
Avraamievsky Epiphany Monastery (1261)
Adrianova Sloboda. Adrianov-Uspensky Monastery (Adrianova-Belskaya Hermitage) (1543)
Belogostitsy. St. George's Belogostitsky Monastery (1650)
Borisoglebsky. Boris and Gleb Monastery
Bykovo. Pokrovsky Convent
Varnitsy. Trinity-Varnitsky Monastery
Nekrasovskoe. Nikolo-Babaevsky Monastery
Pereslavl-Zalessky. Trinity Danilov Monastery (1505)
Pereslavl-Zalessky. Feodorovsky Monastery (1304)
Pereslavl-Zalessky. Goritsky Assumption Monastery
Pereslavl-Zalessky. Nikolsky Convent
Pereslavl-Zalessky. Nikitsky Monastery (1100)
Deserts. St. Isaac's Nativity of the Theotokos Monastery (1659)
Rostov. Spaso-Yakovlevsky Dmitriev Monastery (1389)
Rostov. Nativity Monastery (1394)
Rostov. Petrovsky Monastery (1250)
Rybinsk. Sophia Monastery (1860)
Sloboda. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Gennadiev Monastery (1647)
Solba. Nikolo-Solbinsky Convent
Tolga. Vvedensky Tolga Convent (1314)
Uglich. Epiphany Monastery
Uglich. Resurrection Monastery (1674)
Uglich. Alekseevsky Convent (1371)
Ulema. Nikolo-Uleima Monastery (1406)
Yaroslavl. Kazan Monastery (1610)
Yaroslavl. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1186)
Yaroslavl. Kirillo-Afanasyevsky Monastery (1615)
CIS countries
Abkhazia
Ukraine
Vinnytsia region
Bar. Intercession Monastery (1600)
Dnipropetrovsk region
Verbovskoe. Holy Znamensky Convent (1901)
Novomoskovsk. Samara Nikolaevsky Monastery
Donetsk region
Nikolskoye. Holy Dormition Nikolo-Vasilievsky Monastery (1998)
Svyatogorsk Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra. All Saints Skete ()
Svyatogorsk Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra (1547)
Transcarpathian region
Mukachevo. Nicholas Monastery (1600)
Zaporozhye region
St. Elizabeth's Convent Address: Ukraine, Zaporozhye region, village. Zhovtnevoe.
Holy Dormition Convent Address: 601600, Vladimir region, Alexandrov, st. Sovetskaya, 15
Upper Tokmak. Monastery in the name of Archangel Michael (2009)
Melitopol. Monastery of Saint Sava the Consecrated (1996)
Kyiv region
White church. Mary Magdalene monastery
Kyiv. Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (1051)
Kyiv. Trinity Monastery (Kitaevskaya Pustyn) (1767)
Kyiv. Archangel Michael's Zverinetsky Monastery ()
Kyiv. Vydubitsky Monastery (1070)
Kyiv. Epiphany Brotherhood Monastery (1760)
Kyiv. Ascension Florovsky Convent
Kyiv. St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery (1108)
Kyiv. microdistrict Bortnichi, Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Kyiv. Catherine's Greek Monastery (1738)
Kyiv. Pokrovskaya Goloseevskaya hermitage (1631)
Kyiv. Panteleimon Convent in Feofaniya (1803)
Kyiv. Trinity John's Monastery (1871)
Kyiv. Intercession Convent (1889)
Kyiv. Church of St. Michael Metropolitan of Kyiv at the Central Clinical Hospital
Princes. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
Crimea
Alushta, Reserve. Kosmo-Damiansky Alushta Monastery (1856)
Balaclava. St. George the Victorious, monastery (891)
Bakhchisaray. Assumption Monastery
Inkerman. Inkerman St. Clement Monastery
Inkerman. Sophia of the Wisdom of God, monastery
Simferopol. Holy Trinity Convent
Topolevka (Educational). Toplovsky St. Paraskevievsky Monastery (1858)
Shuldan, mountain. Shuldan, monastery (900)
Lviv region
Lviv. Church and monastery of St. Onuphrius (1550)
Odessa region
Odessa. Archangel Michael Convent (1835)
Odessa. Iversky Odessa Monastery
Odessa. Elias Odessa Monastery
Odessa. Panteleimonovsky Odessa Monastery (1876)
Odessa. Holy Iveron Monastery
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district, village. Pastnoe, Church of the Archangel Michael
Tatarbunary district, village. Borisovka, Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Poltava region
Mgar. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Mgarsky Monastery (1619)
Poltava. Exaltation of the Holy Cross, monastery (1689)
Komsomolsk-on-Dnieper. St. Nicholas Cathedral
Sumy region
Okhtyrka. Akhtyrsky Holy Trinity Monastery (1654)
Akhtyrsky district, Chupakhovka town, Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God. (?)
The lectures are given by Father Mikhail, who is also perspicacious. The temple houses the miraculous icon of the Mother of God “Akhtyrskaya” and “Chupakhovskaya Prayer Service”
New Sloboda. Mother of God of the Nativity Molchensky Monastery
Putivl. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Molchansky Convent (1575)
Sosnovka. Mother of God of the Nativity of Glinskaya Hermitage
Ternopil region
Kremenets. Epiphany Monastery (1600)
Pochaev. Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra
Pochaev. Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra. Holy Spiritual Skete
Kharkov region
Vodyanoe. Boris and Gleb Convent
Krasnokutsk Peter and Paul Monastery (1650)
Lozovaya. Michael the Archangel, church
Kherson region
Belozersky District, town. Chernobaevka. Temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (information about reporting is being clarified)
Cherkasy region
Bakaevka. Pokrovsky Krasnogorsk Convent
Chigirin. Holy Trinity Convent (1627)
Chernihiv region
Gustyn. Holy Trinity Gustynsky Monastery
Danevka. St. George's Monastery (1654)
Nezhin. Holy Vvedensky Convent (1700)
Nezhin. Nezhinsky Monastery of the Annunciation (1700)
Novgorod-Seversky. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (1033)
Osich. St. Nicholas Krupitsky Baturinsky Monastery
Chernigov. Trinity-Ilyinsky Monastery (1069)
Chernigov. Yeletsky Holy Dormition Convent
Chernivtsi region
Storozhynetsky district, village. Davydovka (father Todor - conducts exiles)
Belarus
Bogushi. Vvedensky Convent (2000)
Brest. St. Athanasius Monastery (1996)
Brest. Holy Nativity of the Virgin Mary Convent
Brest region, Zhabinkovsky district, village. Khmelevo. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
Vitebsk. Holy Spirit Monastery
Vitebsk. Holy Kazan Church of the Holy Trinity-Markov Monastery (1760)
Gomel. Gomel in the name of St. St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Monastery (1905)
Homemade people. St. John the Theologian Convent (1997)
Zhirovichi. Assumption Monastery (1470)
Kazimirovo. Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, convent
Stern. St. John of Kormyansky Convent (1760)
Lyady. Lyadensky Holy Annunciation Stauropegial Monastery. (1792)
Minsk. St. Elizabeth's Convent (1997)
Minsk region, Smilovichi, church...
Mogilev. Nikolsky Monastery (1636)
Pinsk. St. Barbara's Monastery (1521)
Pinsk. Epiphany Brotherhood Monastery (1635)
Polotsk Epiphany Monastery
Polotsk Spaso-Euphrosinievsky Convent (1125)
Tolochin. Pokrovsky Convent (1769)
Georgia
Mtskheta. Monastery of Nina of Cappadocia (339)
Latvia
Jekabpils. Jekabpils Holy Spirit Monastery (1675)
Riga. Riga Trinity-Sergius Convent (1892)
Lithuania
Vilnius, st. Auschros-Wartu, 8-1. Holy Spirit Monastery (1597)
Moldova
Transnistria, Kamensky district, village. Khrustovaya. Temple of the Archangel Michael (1839)- conducted by Mitred Archpriest Valery Galayda
Sakharna, Rezinsky district. Monastery of the Holy Trinity
Uzbekistan
Tashkent, st. March 8, 7. Holy Trinity-Nicholas Convent (1893)
Far abroad
Greece
Meteors. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
Meteors. St. Charalampios, monastery
Meteors. Nicholas the Pleasant, monastery
Meteors. Barbara, monastery (1400)
Mosfiloti. Monastery of Saint Thekla (1780)
Unsorted by country
Ayia Napa. Ayia Napa (1500)
Vardzia. Monastery of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1156)
Vask-Narva (Syrenets). Ilyinsky monastery of the Pukhtitsky monastery (1871)
Bethlehem. Monastery of St. St. George the Victorious (550)
Gelati. Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1100)
Gorno Nerezi. Monastery of St. Panteleimon (1164)
Jerusalem (Ein Karem). Gornensky Convent (1871)
Jerusalem - Mount of Olives. Olive Spaso-Voznesensky Convent (1886)
Jerusalem - New City. Monastery of St. Modesta (500)
Judean Desert, Wadi Kidron. Sava of the Consecrated, Lavra (478)
Judean Desert, Wadi Haritun (Nahal Tekoa). Sukki Lavra (345)
Kamany (Comans). John Chrysostom, monastery
Katskhi. Katskkh Spaso-Voznesensky Monastery (1027)
Kuremäe. Assumption Pyukhtitsa Convent (1891)
Larnaca. St. George the Victorious, monastery
Loutraki. Monastery of Saint Patapios (1952)
New Athos. New Athos Monastery of St. Apostle Simon the Canaanite (1875)
Palokki. Lintul Convent (1945)
Feather. Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sinai peninsula. Monastery of St. Catherine (330)
Troodos. Macheras
Troodos. Monastery of Saint Barbara
Troodos. Sacred royal and stauropegial monastery of the Kykkos Icon of the Mother of God (1081)
Troodos. Stavrovouni
Uusi-Valamo. New Valaam Monastery (1945)
Wadi Kelt Gorge. George Khozevit, monastery (450)
Cetinje. Peter of Cetinje, monastery (1600)
Chirchik. Holy Trinity-George Chirchik Monastery (1896)
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- Let me go, everyone! Damn you! Let me go everyone! I'll rip the cross off your neck!
A boy of about five is squirming against the wall. His parents pressed him, holding his hands, he struggles with all his might and continues to scream, pausing only to take a breath.
“I’ll let you go after the service,” the father says firmly.
There is pandemonium on the threshold of the church. The girl screams in the doorway and falls flat on the floor. Grasping it on both sides, the parents bring it into the temple, like a New Year tree from the market. The man in the cassock looks at this with irony, then turns to the frightened girl:
- Do you know why everything happened to you? Because you paint your nails,” and sends her back over the threshold to wash off the translucent nail polish.
Rites of exorcism, or, in the Russian manner, reprimands, are not very common in the Russian church. The clergy is wary of this phenomenon; Patriarch Alexy even condemned it. It is believed that only those who have completely rid themselves of human passions can cast out demons from others. But still, there are priests in Russia who take on this. There are about two dozen of them, they rarely do this openly - as a rule, you need to specifically look for them through friends and acquaintances. But Archimandrite German Chesnokov conducts lectures, and mass ones at that, completely openly, according to a schedule: from Thursday to Saturday at 12.00. Previously, he held prayer services in the gate church of John the Baptist in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, now in the Peter and Paul Church next to the monastery.
This is where I came. Father Herman had not yet appeared, and there was already nowhere for an apple to fall in the room - several hundred people had crammed into the small church. Next to me, a young man, resting his head on his mother’s shoulder, mumbles something inaudibly about evil spirits; she dabs his forehead with a wet rag.
The boy against the wall is screaming louder. The girl next to me widens her eyes:
- Oh, it’s kind of scary. Is he really possessed?
— Is this your first time here? Does this happen often here?
— I came for the second time. Yes, anything can happen here.
- Why are you here?
- Difficult situation in life. I came from St. Petersburg especially, they say that reprimanding not only helps the possessed. My name is Olya.
The girl who was sent to wash off her nails returns. She looks exhausted, can barely stand on her feet, but still adjusts her scarf, which constantly slides off her head. Finally, Father Herman appears - he has a stern face and a thick gray beard. A reverent whisper passes through the crowd. Before the service begins, he reads a long sermon: that women should not wear trousers and paint their nails, children should not watch Western cartoons, and the word of God should be taught in all schools and universities. The boy, spread out on the wall, continues to scream.
“They sin, smoke cigarettes, and then throw themselves upside down from the 25th floor because they are possessed by demons. And those who do not believe in God call them schizophrenics...
Here the archimandrite finally pays attention to the child.
- And what's that? Possessed? Do you know why God punishes children? Because the parents live unmarried! — He pauses and looks expressively at his parents. All the other parishioners also begin to look at them. “Get him out of here while I preach the sermon.” Let him stay in the next aisle.
The disgraced parents drag the boy into another room, and Father German continues:
- One of the most terrible sins is to live unmarried. Raise your hands who got married here!
Finally, the sermon ends and the prayer service begins. And then quiet screams and groans begin to be heard from all sides. Several people fall to their knees. The girl, who was being taken away to wash off her nail polish, sits down on the bench and begins to howl in a thin voice. Her parents take her away again, but return within five minutes. She feels sick - she has a bag in her hands, she spits into it, and then snorts and mutters inarticulately in a strange bass voice, not at all similar to the voice with which she howled. The young man, whom his mother was feeding with water, jumps up and, gasping for air, bends strangely. The priest - Father Herman's assistant - rushes to him and helps his mother sit him down. The church is stuffy and dark, the little boy who was taken behind the wall continues to scream. Another childish voice joins him, promising to burn down the church. Father Herman walks through the crowd and draws unctuous crosses on the parishioners’ foreheads. As he approaches, the young man, who had previously been standing motionless, suddenly begins to shout: “Go away, you nit, go away!” The priest comes very close, the young man, making a face, twitches and squirms, the woman who came with him tries to hold him. Father Herman nevertheless touches his forehead, and he falls to the floor and remains motionless. Father Herman goes further - to the next aisle, where the little boy is still screaming.
By the end of the prayer, the temple becomes brighter. The sun's rays pass through the smoke of incense, and a fresh breeze begins to blow. I turn around and it’s true, the door has been opened. From the street there are sounds similar to a dog barking. It turns out that these sounds are made by a child. His name is Leva, he is six years old, and he cannot speak. He can only moo and bark, and he hardly sleeps, does not feel pain and does not calm down for a second. While I’m talking to his mom, he falls and starts rolling on the ground, then suddenly he throws himself at the fence and starts climbing up, so we rush together to catch him.
“I don’t know what to do with him,” says my mother. — The psychiatrist says that Leo is absolutely healthy, but look at him. I can’t go to work, I have to sit with him. It’s as if he doesn’t understand anything and doesn’t feel anything. It might hurt me and not even notice. My mother-in-law told me to try to bring him here, but I don’t know what else to do. We came from Yaroslavl. I’m waiting for the service to end, I want to talk to the rector personally.
Then the boy starts running, the woman gives chase, and our conversation ends.
Exorcist with a license from the patriarch
Father German is a legend of Sergiev Posad; people from different cities (and, as he himself claims, even from different countries) have been coming to him since Soviet times.
“Here they bring people like that to him.” They bark and crow, say the locals. - You won’t see anything.
He once served in the border troops, catching saboteurs. Then he studied at the road transport institute, and then at the seminary. He does not give interviews; he made an exception only once for the Trud newspaper in 2002.
“He doesn’t like to communicate with journalists,” they told me at the temple. - And we don’t give out his number. If you want, catch it after the service, but it’s unlikely you’ll succeed.
Indeed, after the prayer service, Father Herman unnoticed disappears into the back aisle of the church, and the employees all unanimously claim that he is no longer in the church.
“He studied with me and even drove me in the car,” recalls Alexei Osipov, a professor at the Moscow Theological Academy. - He was such a simple person. Well, in terms of education. Now, they say, he reads some strange sermons. He says: “I saw the Mother of God in a dream from this side... Oh, no, from the other,” and everyone opens their mouths. For people who are interested in religion, this is, of course, a serious undermining of the authority of the church. Ever since the times when the church was united, only a select few could cast out demons, with a special blessing, and one must be very careful with this ritual. And mass reports on a schedule are nonsense.
How it happened that such ambiguous things are happening in one of the largest monasteries in Russia and who blessed German Chesnokov to practice exorcism, no one can say for sure.
“He’s been doing this for thirty years now,” Father Pavel, dean of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, tells me uncertainly. - And the patriarch blessed him.
It turns out that German Chesnokov received his blessing from Patriarch Pimen, who died in 1989. And for several decades now an endless stream of visitors have been coming to the archimandrite.
“I went to Father German for lectures four times in the late 90s,” says Nikolai Kogan, one of the former parishioners. “Of course, I saw all sorts of things there: many people thought that demons were coming out of them, and screamed, and then left calm. It happened that someone would start screaming, and Father Herman would come up and hit him in the forehead with a cross. Not much, of course. At that time he was still giving lectures in the Church of John the Baptist. People came from all over Russia. I was a believer then, there was a very difficult period in my life, everything somehow didn’t go well. And it really helped me. Then he came out and flew on wings. True, now I remember and think: when you stand for two or three hours in cramped and stuffy conditions, in a crowd of people, and then go out into the street, it is not surprising that you feel easy and good. But things really went better for me after those lectures. Maybe I set myself up that way. Later, my friends, on my advice, went there to treat a neglected alcoholic, and he continued to drink.
“The Russian Orthodox Church does not have any official attitude towards the rite of reprimand,” explains Vakhtang Kipshidze, head of the information and analytical department of the synodal information department of the Russian Orthodox Church. - This is not a question of the political structure of the state or abortion in order to form a specific position.
No one knows why the church calmly reacts to the rites of mass exorcism right next door, but there are assumptions about this.
“Such rituals, of course, create a certain glory for a person,” says Alexey Osipov. - There is a rumor about him. And even though Father Herman does not take money for attending the lecture, this does not mean that they do not give it to him. The Church of Peter and Paul was dilapidated when German Chesnokov came to it. And now he’s as beautiful as a toy. And all the temples where he appears are also transformed.
Alexander, the administrator of the “The Power is in You” website, came to Father German several years ago. As he himself says, he then suddenly discovered supernatural abilities in himself - to heal people - and went to Sergiev Posad to discuss this with one of the priests. He was unable to talk to anyone, and he decided to go to German Chesnokov for a lecture - suddenly it was the evil spirit that spoke within him.
“Even before the arrival of the archimandrite, the minister had prepared a box of quite a decent size, into which the believers memorized rolled up notes with requests, and wrapped money in them. Having looked closely, I noticed that they put in no less than 300-500 rubles, more often a thousand or even more. But this was quite a long time ago, then these amounts were more significant than now,” says Alexander. “When Father Herman appeared, the first thing he did was show the parishioners this box: this is where the donations should be put. In general, nothing happened to me during my service, I didn’t feel anything. Only after that my attitude towards the church began to change, far from for the better.
Olga Suskina came to the Church of Peter and Paul when her son’s friend needed medical help. She started collecting money for the operation and went to pray that she would be able to collect the required amount.
— It was a regular service. I was so worried about the boy (he has a heart defect) that I started crying during prayer,” she recalls. “Suddenly a woman from a church shop came up to me and said that when I cry, I am “feeding the demons.” Then she sat me down on a bench, brought me water and started telling me some strange things. It’s as if I can’t communicate with dogs, because a demon can enter me through them. I thought then that she was crazy. She also gave me a number and said that I needed an individual report from Father German and that I should call him. On the way home on the train, something terrible began to happen to me. I started to feel bad, then for another five days I couldn’t sleep, I was imagining something, and some kind of feeling of panic appeared. Finally my son called that number. They told him: “You understand that you will have to donate money to the temple?” He did not specify the amount. In the end, I took it and called an ambulance myself. With my symptoms, they took me to a psychiatric hospital, and by the morning I fully recovered. I have never had anything like this before or since. I read that this happens from hormones, went to an endocrinologist, she told me that I was healthy and could have been poisoned by something. Then I thought: maybe they actually mixed something into the water they gave me?
Schizophrenics and demoniacs
Today there are exorcists not only in Russia. In 2014, the Diocese of Milan appointed seven priests to this position, and the Catholic Church of Sardinia sent three to study this craft in Rome, where special seminars for exorcists are held. There is even a special International Association of Exorcists in the world, and its actions are approved by the Vatican. According to representatives of the Catholic Church, the staff of exorcists needs to be increased, because in different countries there are more and more charlatans who promise to cast out demons for money. Indeed, even though this is the 21st century, people who call themselves exorcists manage to earn fortunes from this. American Bob Larson, for example, conducts rituals via Skype, and he receives calls from all over the world.
According to sectologist Alexander Dvorkin, exorcism existed during the times of early Christianity, from the first to third centuries AD, but never became a performance. Mass rituals appeared after the collapse of the USSR: while the country was atheistic, many managed to break away from traditions. At the same time, from a psychiatric point of view, such a spectacle can harm those involved in it.
“Before the 18th-19th centuries, there were a lot of so-called “possessed” people,” says psychiatrist Vyacheslav Tarasov. “And then the science of psychiatry began to actively develop, and the more it developed, the fewer of them there became. What was taken for demon possession turned out to be hallucinations. For example, visions of a mystical and religious nature are very characteristic of non-convulsive forms of epilepsy. Especially if a person grew up in a believing family and heard relevant conversations since childhood. And with schizophrenia, a person can “hear” how the devil communicates with him and pushes him to do terrible things. The most common disease among the “possessed” is hysteria. It can also be accompanied by feelings of communication with God or the devil. This is a serious disease and requires medical treatment. Teenage girls and older women are most susceptible to it. They are probably the ones who come to the lectures and think that someone has possessed them. Moreover, the ritual of mass exorcism can be dangerous even for a completely healthy person. After all, if any of us are placed in a group of people who see hallucinations, most likely we will begin to see them too.
I remember these words of the psychotherapist in the Church of Peter and Paul, where Father Herman’s lecture ends. Parishioners with brightened faces leave the church. The young man, who half an hour ago with a contorted face shouted “Go away, you nit!”, dejectedly drags a bag of bread behind his companion. The priest, who sent the sick girl to wash her nails, is talking at the gate with some parishioner, they laugh together. She's wearing open-toed sandals and her toenails are painted bright red.
Three days a week, special services are held in one of the churches of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The abbot of the monastery, Father German, begs, smears with myrrh and sprinkles on the raging people. The curious and mentally ill should not come here. Diseases of the spirit are treated here.
Unexplained symptoms
Quite often, the patients treated by Father Herman are people with unexplained illnesses. A person melts before our eyes, loses strength, can barely walk, but not a single doctor can determine the cause and make a diagnosis. Another case is constant melancholy, depression up to the desire to die against the backdrop of a completely prosperous fate. Or, conversely, causeless outbursts of rage and irritation, reaching the point of violence in a person who is usually calm and balanced. There may be seizures, seizures, symptoms of epilepsy or schizophrenia, but without any signs of organic mental damage.
There is such a disease - obsession
The answer may be found in the church. A sharply negative reaction to all the attributes of a church service - incense, holy water, the cross, prayers, icons, relics - is evidence that a person is guided by a force alien to him. An even greater shock may be experienced by someone who, upon entering the temple, suddenly crows or begins to use obscene language. All this happens against his will.
So the person is faced with the fact that her soul is controlled by some other force, regardless of whether she believes in its existence or not. The reprimand carried out by Father Herman shows with utmost clarity the nature of this force. “Come on, get away from me, priest!” - a thin girl can scream in a bass voice, and a little boy of about six is capable of hitting a priest sprinkling holy water with such force that he is thrown three meters away. Low, evil, aggressive - demons, demons - are the source of mysterious diseases of the human spirit, called obsession.
How to become possessed
The first reason that people find themselves in the grip of demonic power is disbelief in the spiritual world: neither in God, nor in the devil. Due to an atheistic upbringing, one generation of atheists was replaced by another, accumulating a baggage of sins, - this is how Father German explains the spread of obsession among the post-Soviet population. An unbaptized person initially lives according to passions, does not recognize the commandments of God, does not receive the protection of the Holy Spirit and falls into the power of the unclean spirit.
The believer knows the commandments and follows them. But under the influence of evil spirits, even baptized people depart from God and commit sinful acts. However, they have the opportunity to repent and restore connection with Him in the sacrament of the sacrament. The one who does not resist temptations, sins and does not repent, loses power over his soul, gives it over to the power of demons. They take root in the heart of such a person at the moment of consciously committing an unscrupulous act.
Archimandrite Herman names another set of reasons for obsession. This is coding, turning to psychics, witchcraft practices. In essence, this is “the infusion of evil spirits with the full consent of the patient and against his signature.”
But to drive out the evil spirit from the soul is no longer in the power of the sinner himself. Here we need strong prayer help from the outside, and this is what Father German provides. Sergiev Posad is a place where thousands of unfortunate people flock in the hope of regaining power over their soul.
Exorcism - driving out demons
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is one of the few places in Russia where those suffering from obsession and demonic possession can get help. In church practice, casting out demons is called exorcism. In evangelical times this was available only to Jesus Christ. The Savior taught his disciples: “This generation is driven out only by prayer and fasting” (MF.17:21). That is, only a person of strong faith and holy life can provide assistance in freeing his neighbor from evil spirits.
Since the first centuries of Christianity, a practice has been established: to expel unclean spirits, obtain a blessing from a church hierarch, whose rank is not lower than that of a bishop. In Rus', since the 14th century, a prayer for the exorcism of demons was widespread from the liturgical book of the Kyiv Mogila. Exorcism in Russia is called reprimand - this is a special divine service for Now the rite of reprimand is included in the large breviary of Orthodox clergy, it is recognized by the Orthodox Church, but not everyone is given the opportunity to practice it. Not everyone, but it’s good if only one out of a thousand.
Do we need exorcists?
Opponents of the rite of exorcism in the practice of the Orthodox Church are categorical: “The reprimand of Father Herman is a service that no one should attend.” Numerous arguments are presented, it is argued that the Russian Church has never known this rite. What do opponents of scolding offer to people in trouble? For those who are already here on earth, they saw themselves in hell and in the power of demons. Pray, fast, go to church, repent, take communion, visit holy places - in a word, correct yourself and hope for God’s mercy.
Yes! Now he is obsessed and ready to do everything that he previously neglected, but the power that controls him will not allow him to get closer to God. Not every priest in the parish has the prayer power to return the prodigal son to the bosom of the church. We need a special service and people who can perform it without harm to themselves.
Where can they help?
Father German Chesnokov is considered the leading exorcist in Russia, and the Trinity-Sergius Lavra is the most famous place where the spiritually ill receive help. Even in Soviet times, Abbot Adrian was engaged in reprimanding here. About thirty years ago, Father German received a blessing from the patriarch for this service. The Lavra, however, is not the only place where spiritual healing is promoted. 100 kilometers from Moscow, in the village of Shugaevo, Fr. Panteleimon, Fr. is known in Bashkortostan. Simon, conduct reports in the Kaluga and Gornalsky-Kursk regions; in the Nizhny Novgorod region, such services are held in the Oransky monastery, and in the Penza region - in Svyato-Rozhdestvensky, in the village of Treskino. In rural churches in the Vladimir region and Tatarstan there are priests who use the rite of reprimand to help people. In total, there are up to 25 priests in Russia practicing this service, which attracts a huge number of people. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” (Matthew 9:37). In the person of these priests, the Orthodox Church extends its hand to people who have fallen into enemy captivity. Why are there so few of them?
Did a good deed - prepare for temptation
One popular Orthodox book tells the story of a priest who once risked healing a demon-possessed girl. Couldn't resist the requests of his unhappy parents. After a week of strengthening, he carried out the rite of reprimand according to the breviary - and the unclean spirit left the child.
The feeling of joy was accompanied by an innocent thought: “And I’m not so simple, I can do something.” The desire to unwind and relax after the strain of spiritual strength is also quite understandable - and the priest, with a newspaper in his hands, delved into reading the city news. Looking up from the interesting article, he clearly saw who came out of the girl. The demon, looking straight into his eyes, studied him carefully. Not remembering himself from horror, the priest rushed to his spiritual father, from whom he did not even ask for a blessing for this service. One must think that the prayers of the confessor softened the punishment: the priest was robbed, beaten, and lost all his teeth.
"Without Me you can do nothing"
Absolute humility, which excludes any thought about one’s involvement in success, is the condition for protection from the attacks of evil spirits. Humility is an experienced knowledge of one’s weakness; the minister is one hundred percent sure that only Christ heals. “I don’t cast out demons, I read a prayer asking God to help,” explains Father Herman. Reviews of his service may vary, but everyone recognizes that he is a strong man of prayer. He develops the idea further: the service of scolding does not have a special philosophy and does not require supernatural abilities; he performs it not out of vocation and personal attraction, but out of obedience. Father Simeon from Bashkiria has the same attitude towards the rite of reprimanding - this is simply spiritual hygiene, after all, we wash our hands and brush our teeth.
Another component of safety, protection from attacks by demons, is maximum distance from everything worldly. This is easier to do in a monastery. People in the world need to be more careful. “Television is a source of spiritual damage,” says Father Herman, and lists it among the most common causes of obsession.
Obedience, humility, renunciation of the world with its passions - it would seem nothing supernatural, but there are so few ministers who are capable of this!
Alexandra Chesnokova
Divine providence exists in the life of every person, but not everyone can follow it. Father Herman saw a series of miracles in his life - his biography contains many seemingly incompatible facts.
Military service in Central Asia in a special border district. The times were turbulent - there was a war in Afghanistan. For military operations to detain spies, Alexander Chesnokov (the secular name of Herman’s father) was even nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Why not the beginning of a successful military career? But the applicant was not a member of the CPSU and, apparently, did not intend to join it. The next stage is studying at the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute, a prestigious Soviet university. He studied at the Faculty of Economics. Cars, economics - an education that could provide an interesting job and a successful life in both Soviet and post-Soviet society. Unexpectedly for relatives and friends it is interrupted.
“My life is a series of miracles”
On the advice of his spiritual father, Alexander becomes a student at a theological seminary and then at an academy. MDA professor A. Osipov recalls that at his seminars Chesnokov did not stand out for his special knowledge, he was a simple listener, and did not go into the intricacies of theology. And in the last year of his studies, student Alexander becomes a novice of the Lavra, trying on the monastic life.
When the question of future life arose: to become a monk or a priest in the world, the “episode with salt” occurred. It shows a direct indication of the will of God. Half an hour before giving the final answer, Alexander, sitting in his cell, thought: “If I stay in the Lavra, let someone ask me for something.” Immediately there was a knock on the door, and a familiar hieromonk asked him for salt. The issue was resolved, and Alexander was tonsured that same day. The hieromonk I knew just shrugged: “I didn’t ask you for any salt!” Currently, the failed Hero of the Soviet Union is the exorcist Father German. Sergiev Posad is the place of his permanent residence and ministry.
Our service is both dangerous and difficult
Every week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at noon in the Peter and Paul Church, next to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the rite of exorcism is performed. Previously, it took place in the gatehouse inside the monastery. Several hundred people wait tensely for the priest for 10-15 minutes. This delay is the beginning of preparation for a difficult service.
The appearance of the priest is accompanied by noise and murmur in the crowd, here and there they cry, somewhere they threaten, growling, meowing, crowing, barking are heard - everything reveals the presence of evil spirits. Father Herman's service begins with a long sermon. It lasts 1.5-2 hours, and some people leave already. The rest listen with bated breath, because everyone recognizes their own life story in the priest’s denunciations.
The reading of prayers to expel unclean spirits begins. services, and the demons begin to go berserk: they howl, growl, swear, and scream. In the temple there are the priest’s assistants, who, at his sign, bring out the “malingerers” - people playing for the public. According to Fr. Herman, he knows after what kind of prayer the demons come out.
Then follows anointing with myrrh, sprinkling with holy water - unclean spirits offer physical resistance to these actions; considerable effort is required for the shrine to touch the body of the raging person. “Go away, go away, Satan... We drive you out in the name of God!” At the end of the prayer, Fr. Herman reminds that it is advisable to attend the lecture three times, and then be sure to participate in the sacraments of unction, confession, and communion.
"Narrow is the way that leads to eternal life"
Possession and possession are a lesson given by God to a person who has gone too far along the wide path of sin. This is an opportunity to see already in earthly life whose will the sinner is fulfilling. Father Herman's reprimand is a chance to break free from demonic captivity and begin life according to God. Repentance, confession, communion, prayers and following the commandments are the path of personal struggle for one’s salvation.
In our troubled times, people often suffer from spiritual ailments, which can only be cured by fervent prayer. Unfortunately, all people violate God’s commandments, sin willingly or unwillingly, and do not repent, therefore the Lord calls them to Himself with the help of illnesses and various sorrows.
It’s good if a person comes to his senses, repents and turns to God with fervent prayer, then the illness will be taken away from him. But more often it happens that people do not want to repent of their sins until the last moment, and then disaster befalls them.
In such cases, the unfortunate begin to seek salvation everywhere, some go to grandmothers, sorcerers, psychics, and others go to church. For various mental and physical ailments, Father Herman’s reprimand sometimes helps. It’s worth talking about what this is in more detail.
Now many people talk about damage or possession, but few people know what it is. This phenomenon is often mentioned in the Gospel, for example, about a boy who was tormented by demons, threw himself into fire and water, and no one could heal him.
Or the story of a demoniac, in which there was a whole legion of demons, the unfortunate one was bound in chains. Christ healed them with one word, and He also cast out seven demons from Mary Magdalene. But many people are wondering whether such illnesses still happen today?
The lives of some saints also mention cases of demonic possession of people whom these saints healed. For example, Saint Tryphon healed the possessed daughter of a ruler, etc. This means that all this really happened, and such an ailment as demonic possession actually exists. How do the unfortunate people now recover from such terrible misfortunes?
Nowadays, of course, there are people possessed by demons, but finding those who will really help them is a big problem. Modern medicine tends to consider such people crazy. They are usually admitted to a psychiatric hospital and given injections of strong psychotropic drugs over a long period of time. Of course, this brings little benefit to poor people, quite the opposite.
Important! Possession is allowed by God to people who often sin, violating God’s commandments, but are in no hurry to repent and correct their lives.
Symptoms of demonic possession are usually the following:
- aversion from sacred things, fear of them, intolerance;
- terrible screams when approaching the church;
- obsessive actions;
- causing harm to yourself or loved ones;
- fainting or convulsions like epileptic seizures.
The Gospel describes the case of a demon-possessed youth who, as Christ approached, fell and began to shake with a convulsive attack. The Savior told His disciples that “this generation is driven out only by prayer and fasting.”
Corruption is also a spiritual disease, but it comes to a person from other people, usually unkindly disposed. It also helps against this disease. Symptoms of damage are slightly different, they appear suddenly:
- unreasonable fear, severe anxiety;
- long-term incurable physical illness;
- distortion of true things, hallucinations;
- sudden death.
Some are skeptical about this phenomenon, saying that in our time of scientific development there should not be such prejudices. Orthodox Christians also often deny this fact, saying that Grace protects believers and praying people from everything bad.
However, even saints write that corruption can be allowed by God as punishment for unrepentant sins, for persistence in a passionate life. Consequently, only the Lord Himself can deliver from this. Reprimanding from damage through prayers can be done with the help of a clergyman.
Important! If you suspect damage or possession, you should under no circumstances turn to grandmothers, sorcerers, witches, or psychics because this can only aggravate the condition. For a while a person will be able to get relief, but then it will get even worse.
The Lord Himself said that it is impossible to cast out demons by demonic power. This illness can only be overcome by fasting, prayer, repentance and correction. The true way out of such a deplorable situation is a reprimand in church. It’s worth telling in more detail what it is.
The rite of exorcism
The question of what a reprimand is is answered in the Gospel. Christ cast out demons with just His word. The Gospel says: “this race is driven out only by prayer and fasting.” Of course, rarely does anyone cope with this illness on their own, even if they pray diligently. We need prayer from outside from a righteous person, preferably a priest.
There is a special prayer in the breviary, it is called “the prohibitory prayer of St. Basil over those suffering from demons.” But many believe that not all priests, but only highly spiritual people can read it. Most often, reprimanding the possessed is the prerogative of monastics, because the demon, once released, can harm unspiritual priests.
A similar incident was described in the Acts of the Apostles, when someone decided to try to cast out an evil spirit from a possessed man. In response, the demon said: “I know Christ, Paul too, but who are you?!” and, pouncing, began to strangle the newly minted exorcist.
That is why not all priests undertake the exorcism of demons, but only those who are enlightened, prepared and have a blessing from above. In addition, there is another problem: it can be very difficult to bring demoniacs to church, much less to reprimand them.
For this purpose, ropes and even chains are often used to tie up the possessed person and bring him to the temple for reprimand.
During the process of expelling spirits, the possessed behave extremely restlessly and even aggressively, often performing obsessive and monotonous actions. They emit terrible screams (often not human, but animal), throw themselves on the floor, on the walls, and sometimes even jump to the ceiling.
Demons often speak in the voices of the possessed, uttering curses on clergy and various curses. And sometimes the possessed spin around in place and cannot stand still, telling those standing next to them that they are bothering them. Some possessed people run away from the prayer service, hide, and it is simply impossible to find them anywhere. They listen to demons who “save” them from this rank.
Due to the fact that some people simply cannot be brought to church (there have been cases where even four healthy men could not restrain a possessed woman), you can order a correspondence procedure for reporting to the church.
Alcohol addiction also refers to obsession, because a person cannot independently give up this passion. Some drunkards even see demons forcing them to drink. And during the exorcism of a demon, in some cases “green snakes” were physically visible. Therefore, such unfortunate people also need to be told off from drunkenness.
Important! After completing the rite of expelling demons from a person, repentance for a previous sinful life and correction must necessarily follow. The former possessed person must become a church person, begin to pray in the mornings and evenings, and often begin the Sacraments of repentance and Communion of the Holy Mysteries. Otherwise, the disease may return, but in a more terrible form.
Christ warns about this in the Gospel, saying that when a demon comes from a person, wanders through deserted places, and then sees its place in the person unoccupied. Then he returns to the unfortunate man, taking with him seven fierce demons.
Exorcism of demons in the Lavra
Crowds of people flock to the Holy Trinity Lavra of Sergius every day in order to attend a lecture from Fr. Herman. Who is Father Herman? This is a hieromonk, the most famous exorcist in Russia. Father German Chesnokov has been driving out demons from people for a long time. People from all over the country come to Father Herman for a prayer service, bring their loved ones, and ask him for advice and spiritual help. And this holy man has never refused anyone! He listens to everyone, consoles them, gives advice, they leave only positive reviews about him. How to get to Father Herman?
Any person in the monastery will tell you how to get to Father Herman for a lecture. The Holy Trinity Lavra of Sergius is located in Sergiev Posad near Moscow. Father Herman conducts a reprimand for the possessed in the gateway church of St. John the Baptist. Finding this temple is very easy - you need to climb into the arch above the entrance to the monastery.
All the locals know Father German’s lecture schedule – this procedure begins at one o’clock in the afternoon every day. Father Herman's prayer service always has a constant schedule, seven days a week.
Absolutely everyone is allowed to see Father Herman for the rite of expelling evil spirits; there are no restrictions for anyone. This procedure is free, they only ask you to donate to the temple, as much as you wish.
Before the ceremony begins, it is necessary to leave the names of those reporting in the shop: the priest will remember them in prayer. There is a video on the Internet filmed during this prayer service.
The service begins with the priest's sermon. It is always approximately the same; there are brochures and audio recordings of this sermon. On it, he says that those possessed are often to blame for their misfortune, and tells what sins this scourge is sent from above. Father tirelessly repeats that we need to go to church, take communion more often, avoid mortal sins, and improve our lives. After all, without this it is impossible to get rid of obsession.
Father Herman's lecture lasts about two hours, the sermon before that lasts about half an hour. He himself is a very kind, bright person, has a subtle sense of humor and philanthropy. Reviews about Father Herman are only positive.
Many thank him for healing themselves or their loved ones and ask for advice on the Internet. But it is clear that the priest does not use websites or social networks, so he cannot answer.
Father Herman’s reprimand (this can be seen in the video) consists of:
- preliminary sermon;
- water blessing prayer;
- reading a prohibitory prayer from demons;
- sprinkling with holy water;
- anointing with consecrated oil;
- kissing the cross.
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Let's sum it up
You can also order a lecture in absentia, at a distance, from the Lavra. In addition to the rite of exorcism in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, there are similar procedures in other monasteries and churches in the country. In the Sanaksar monastery they also cast out demons, and you can also inquire in nearby parishes and monasteries, where they perform the rites of reprimanding the possessed.
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Exorcism is a ritual that is performed in order to drive out evil forces from a person. At first glance, demonic possession seems to be something completely implausible. But such cases do exist in reality. To solve such problems, there is a church report from Father Herman. Not only people suffering from obsession turn to her, but also those who have been damaged or damaged by the evil eye, and who have serious illnesses.
History of exorcism
Exorcism is part of church science. In modern times, it is possible to become a professional exorcist by graduating from a Catholic university.
The expulsion of demons from a person is a very ancient rite, its origins go back to the emergence of Christian culture. The first exorcist in history was Jesus Christ himself. The Bible tells that the son of God cast out evil spirits from a man and put them in pigs. Then the pigs, bewitched by demons, rushed into the abyss.
Initially, only Jesus Christ had the ability to deliver from evil spirits. This ability was then given to his students. This happened when the Holy Spirit came upon them. It is believed that modern monks, endowed with the gift of exorcism, are followers of Christ and his apostles.
There have always been very few people who know how to cast out the devil. Reprimands from evil spirits were very common in the Middle Ages, when it was popular Martyr Marina of Antioch. There are several known cases of exorcism rituals with a tragic end - the death of the possessed or the priest; they are even used as the basis for films.
In the 14th century, the first literature with advice on exorcizing demons appeared in Rus'. Its author was Metropolitan Peter Mohyla. Centuries later, exorcism is no less relevant than in the past, cases of possession by evil spirits still exist.
Exorcism in modern times
Casting out demons is not a thing of the past. ABOUT modern rituals deliverance from an unclean spirit, the following is known:
- Some critics claim that the work of Father Herman is a real simulation and there are guest actors in the roles of the possessed. This opinion also developed due to the fact that most often several exorcism rituals are necessary to achieve results. And at the reports Hieromonk German Chesnokov people are healed immediately, even those who have been bedridden for a long time;
- In Ukraine the most popular exorcist was Vasily Voronovsky from the Church of St. Michael in the city of Lviv. Unfortunately, he has already gone to God;
- Exorcisms of the devil are carried out in many monasteries in Ukraine. The church in the village of Kolodievka, Ternopil region, is extremely famous. In rural areas there are also local exorcists who work for nothing. They consider this their sacred duty, but they do not answer questions about the rituals, just like those who were healed by them;
- TO Abbot of the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Father Varlaam, many people come not only from Russia and Ukraine, but also from abroad. For over 30 years, he has been providing personal and group sessions. Father Varlaam believes that reprimand is necessary only for those possessed by demons, but not for those subject to damage and curses;
- According to Father Varlaam, there were cases when a child became possessed a week after birth. Thus, children pay for the sins of their parents;
How does the report work?
Priests do not have the right to invent anything new in exorcism rituals. The reprimand occurs in the same way as The ritual that Jesus performed:
- A personal conversation is also required to determine obsession. If the confessor is convinced of the presence of evil spirits and permission for the ritual is obtained, witnesses for the ritual are selected from close relatives;
- Before the ceremony, witnesses need to go through confession and receive a blessing. A person with weak nerves cannot be an eyewitness. The witnesses are not only present during the reprimand, but also continuously say the necessary prayers;
- It may take several sessions to exorcise evil spirits. After the ritual, the patient and his relatives need to fast and read prayers, order prayer services and magpies. The priest himself will tell you what needs to be done, which list of psalms is worth reading, etc. If the healed person does not change his life in accordance with the Christian faith, demons may visit him again;
The opinion of the priests
There is no consensus on the rites of exorcism. There are two points of view among clergy:
Critics say that mass reprimands are a direct violation of rank. The priest should perform the ritual only with a blessing, for one person in the presence of close relatives. This means you can’t just go into a church and watch the process of casting out demons.
Moreover, they are far from being able to become witnesses. You need good psychological health, the absence of serious sins, and, of course, a close relationship with the possessed. Therefore, Father Herman’s reprimands lend themselves to multiple criticisms.
Mass reprimands, according to critics, do more harm than good. Only those who are extremely possessed need exorcism rituals. But many people simply want to get rid of damage with the help of a church ceremony. It also happened that those suffering from drunkenness believed that these were attacks of the devil and thought that they should be reprimanded. Of course, no one will stone people for such attempts. But this is fundamentally wrong.
In addition, while attending a mass ceremony you can “pick up” someone else’s negative energy. If there is a real demoniac in the room, it is unknown who may be possessed by the evil force later. Therefore, the selection of witnesses is very strict; people around them should not become weapons of the devil.
Help from Father Herman
No matter what the critics say, there are not so many reviews about any clergyman as about Father Herman. , whose biography is widely known to many believers, has been chastising the possessed for many years. He is the only one who received the blessing for this.
Help is available to all people who want to get to Father German from Sergiev Posad for a lecture. Schedule, phone number and address can be found at official website of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. You cannot sign up in advance, and there is no such need. You just need to check your reception hours. Anyone who wants to convert can come to the Orthodox church.
People who personally attended proofreading with German Chesnokov leave their reviews online to help others make the right decision:
Father Herman's reprimand in exorcism
There is no need to be afraid. God will definitely help. I was at the service, and now I’m very glad that I decided to come there. There was something that was a little shocking, screams, etc. She crossed herself, prayed to Jesus and stood through the service calmly. Father said that we need to come one more time. And I'm already much better. According to his schedule, he reports on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
I came to report to the Holy Father. in outskirts of Moscow. He receives in Sergiev Posad. I express my gratitude to him. Listening to what he says in the sermon and doing it helps a lot.
Thanks to German Chesnokov and the clergy who help him: Father Oleg and another priest, whose name I don’t remember, unfortunately. I couldn’t have done it without them, that’s how it was then.