Yes, I'm a little late today. It’s time to return home, but I’m just going to the monastery. For a long time I couldn’t decide whether to go to Matronushka’s Epiphany or go to the local church. In addition, on January 19 at 14.30 in the city, according to the plan, it is planned to immerse myself in water in an ice hole at Black Lake. Would like to watch. If you like it, then you could paint a picture on the topic.

However, I was in one local church yesterday, on Epiphany Eve. And this means that today it would be possible to visit Matronushka. That’s how I decided to visit the Intercession Monastery. Assuming that there would be huge queues there that day, having bought a bouquet, I immediately decided that if I didn’t have the strength to wait in line, I would hand over the flowers through the security guard and leave.

On the way, I stopped at a church shop near St. Nicholas Church. I bought candles that were surprisingly cheap, but how pleasant they are, exuding a honey aroma and quite large!
While I was buying candles, a woman came into the shop and asked where she could get holy water. She was cordially told how to get to the temple doors.

I had been meaning to go there for a long time to take a look, but for some reason something kept stopping me.
“It would be nice to enter this temple today,” I daydreamed, paying for the candles.
However, upon leaving the shop I immediately went to Matronushka. It was noticeably getting dark, so we should hurry up.

Entering the territory of the new building of the Intercession Monastery, I noticed a long line.
- This line, of course, is several times smaller than the one in which I once joined the relics of St. Spyridon of Trimythous or Salamis.
Then I never got to the monastery to venerate his relics. Health did not allow it and time indicated that the metro would end its work, and even more so, buses would stop running between Moscow and Zelenograd.

This time everything was simpler. As it turned out, at the Intercession Monastery the longest line led to Epiphany water.
Of course, the most important thing for me in the monastery is my Matronushka. That’s why I went straight to her, to her relics.
After standing in line, and the line moved quickly enough and was not a burden to me, I venerated the relics.
Having visited Matronushka, she approached those selling water dishes. Having paid for the purchase, I left the gates of the main monastery. The line to get to the water has become much shorter.
Having settled down in her tail, she began to think:
- Will I have time, will I not have time to get water?
But my fears that I might not make it in time turned out to be in vain.
Very soon I was standing in a glass gallery, and very polite and friendly men were pouring water into my two jars.

Thank you, Matronushka! Thank you!

After leaving the monastery, she quickly headed to the metro.
“We have to be in time,” the main thought drilled into my brain.
And then I remembered the wonderful candles I bought in the shop on the way to Matronushka.
I should buy more. Let these wonderful candles be in my home.
Entering the shop, I was surprised by the other candles. They were so big that I probably would never have bought them in other churches. These are very expensive.
But my gaze fell on the price - 35 rubles.
“There can’t be such a price,” she was perplexed, standing in front of the candles.

Story

The Pokrovsky Monastery was founded in 1635 by Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in memory of his father, Patriarch Philaret, who died on the Feast of the Intercession Holy Mother of God. The monastery was located on the site of the so-called Poor (God's) houses, where the poor and those caught in sudden death were buried. The main church of the monastery was the wooden Church of the Intercession, next to which there was a five-domed church in the name of All Saints. Several times a year, on Semik (the seventh Thursday after Easter) and on the Feast of the Intercession, cathedral religious processions from Moscow churches and monasteries were held here to celebrate a general memorial service and bury the dead. On Easter days, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his son Theodore visited the Intercession monastery, as usual, they celebrated Christ with the brethren and left donations for the benefit of the monastery and the poor people it cared for.

From 1680 to 1731, the monastery was listed as attached to the Zaikonospassky Monastery. From 1751 to 1776 the Theological Seminary was located here. Under Catherine II, the monastery was taken out of state and was in great need of funds.

At this time, the monastery received significant help from Moscow merchants. At the end of the 18th century, major construction began in the monastery: a stone church in the name of All Saints was built on the site of a wooden one, a stone three-tier bell tower, walls, and an almshouse were erected.

In 1812, the monastery was devastated by the French, all wooden buildings were burned, and churches were desecrated. Through the efforts of the abbot, Archimandrite Jonah, the monastery was restored over the course of several years. The Church of All Saints was re-consecrated in 1815, and the two-story Church of the Intercession - in 1825 by Moscow Metropolitan Philaret. At the same time, the monastery was unexpectedly visited by Emperor Alexander I, who found Father Jonah in his cell praying, which the abbot, according to custom, performed in only a hair shirt. The elder said: “Sovereign, what you found him in, judge him in that.” To which the emperor replied: “I would like to always catch the monks doing such an activity” - and then talked for a long time with the abbot and examined the monastery.

In the middle of the 19th century, the All Saints Church, which had become cramped, was rebuilt according to the design of the architect M.D. Bykovsky and took on the appearance of a majestic spacious five-domed church with three altars: in honor of the Resurrection of the Holy One, the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God and the martyr Queen Alexandra (the latter is now consecrated in honor of the blessed Matrona of Moscow). Thus, the total number of thrones in the monastery reached 9, according to the number of 9 ranks of Angels.

In 1870, Saint Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, gave the monastery missionary status. Here clergy and monks were trained to preach about Christ to distant Siberia. Former missionaries lived in the Intercession Monastery in retirement. Many of them found their final refuge in the vast monastery cemetery, where Georgian hierarchs, clergy and monastics of Moscow churches and monasteries, and prominent representatives of merchant families also rested. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the necropolis of the cemetery of the Intercession Monastery numbered up to three thousand tombstones.

In 1893, with the blessing of the Holy Synod, “on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the blessed death of St. Sergius Hegumen of Radonezh the Wonderworker,” a parochial school for boys for 30 people was opened at the monastery. At the same time, under the rector Archimandrite Sergius, the construction of a monastery hotel for missionaries began (restored in 2015).

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, the monastery reached its peak. By 1917, 30 monks and about 20 novices labored here. There was a shelter for boys and a women's almshouse for 80 people, located outside the monastery fence. The monastery buildings hosted classes for the Moscow Pastoral Courses, where by 1916 400 people were studying. Future clergy underwent liturgical practice in monastery churches (5-6 liturgies were performed on Sundays and holidays). During the First World War, the monastery cared for the infirmary of the Meat Exchange, located nearby, where up to 500 wounded soldiers were simultaneously located. Two chapels were assigned to the monastery: in honor of the Bogolyubsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos at the Varvarsky Gate, near the Kremlin, and St. Nicholas on Upper Taganskaya Square, in which the brethren regularly served prayer services to the Mother of God and St. Nicholas.

Surprisingly, just before the revolution, the monastery turned out to be connected with Athos: in 1913–1915, by decision of the Holy Synod, about 30 Athonite “Imyaslavtsy” monks, former inhabitants of the St. Panteleimon Monastery, were sent here, the supervision of whom was entrusted to the rector of the monastery, the vicar of the Moscow diocese .

After the revolution, the authorities planned to open a concentration camp in the monastery, but for some unknown reason they never carried out their plans. The buildings were used as a dormitory for tram depot workers; the cemetery was gradually razed to the ground and turned into a recreation park for them. Services until the last day were performed in the Church of the Resurrection, although since 1923 the authorities have made active attempts to completely close the monastery: they took away the Intercession Church, and in 1926 the bell tower was completely demolished. Thanks to the support of parishioners, the monastery operated until October 1929. This was largely the merit of the last rector, Archimandrite Veniamin (Milov), later Bishop of Saratov.

The fate of the last monastery inhabitants was tragic: repressions, exiles, executions... Now six monks and one parishioner of the Intercession Monastery have been canonized as saints: hieromonks Danakt (Kalashnikov), Methodius (Ivanov), Hilarion (Tsurikov), John (Laba) , Sergiy (Bukashkin); a pupil of the monastery orphanage, novice Sergius (Krestnikov) and parishioner martyr Vasily (Ivanov). Four of them were shot at the Butovo training ground, and three entered the Cathedral of Athos Saints.

For about seventy years, trusts, offices, banks, a gym, and a billiard room were located in the buildings of churches and monasteries.

In 1994, by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, the monastery was revived as a women's monastery. His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II appointed nun Olga (Miskina), who took monastic vows with the name Feofaniya, as abbess of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery. In 1998, the thrones of the Intercession Church of the monastery were consecrated again, and the abbess was elevated to the rank of abbess. In 2002, three chapels of the Church of the Resurrection were consecrated with a great ceremony, and the bell tower was recreated on the previous foundation.

Since 1998, the monastery has housed the relics of the holy and righteous blessed Matrona of Moscow. A confessor and ascetic of the twentieth century, she was glorified as a locally revered saint on May 2, 1999. At the Council of Bishops in 2004, church-wide veneration of Blessed Matronushka was established. And today, in an endless stream of people, people go to the Intercession Monastery to venerate the healing relics of the holy old woman, they ask - and they receive what they ask for.

The monastery also contains revered shrines: icons with particles of the relics of St. Neil of Stolobensky, St. Innocent of Moscow, the right hand of the blessed Queen Theophania, particles of the relics of the Kiev-Pechersk saints, St. Luke of Crimea, as well as other ascetics. In the Church of the Intercession there is an icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” - the cell image of the blessed Matrona of Moscow.

Since 1998, there has been a monastery compound at the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Markovo, Ramensky district, Moscow region. In 2004, a shelter for girls was opened, where 40 children are raised. In 2010, at the intersection of the Warsaw highway and the Moscow Ring Road, the first church in Moscow of the Blessed Matrona of Moscow, which is also the courtyard of the monastery, was consecrated.

With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', in 2013 the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Trinity-Lykovo was transferred to the monastery as a metochion, where there is also an Orthodox gymnasium for 100 students.

On July 23, 2015, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated the recreated monastery hotel for pilgrims. The complex with the hotel includes the Church of Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom. As in all courtyards of the monastery, the Sacraments of Baptism and Marriage are performed here.

The main patronal holidays of the monastery are the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (October 14) and the days of memory of the blessed Matrona of Moscow (March 8, May 2, November 22).

Directions:

Art. m. "Marksistskaya", exit to the street. Taganskaya, then by any transport to the stop. B. Andronevskaya st.

Saints and devotees of piety

Temples and Worships

According to the inventory of 1763, the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God was stone, single-domed, with a chapel of St. John of Damascus. In 1806, the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God was dismantled. The two-story stone, cruciform, single-domed Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God, founded in 1806, was completed in 1810, thanks to the support of willing donors and the diligence of the builder Jonah. Here are the thrones: at the top of the Intercession of the Mother of God, on the right side of St. Apostles Peter and Paul, on the left St. Nicholas, below St. Jonah, on the sides are chapels in the name of St. Hilarion the Great and Nil Stolobensky. Thus, the churches of this monastery contain, according to the order of the nine ranks of angels, nine thrones. In the upper Church of the Intercession, the throne restored and decorated with Jonah was consecrated in 1825 by Moscow Archbishop Philaret.

On April 4, 1998, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated the 1st floor of the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God and the crosses of the Resurrection and Intercession Churches.

On November 22, 1999, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II performed the Great Consecration of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos.

According to the inventory of 1763, the Cathedral is stone, five-domed, in the name of All Saints (now the Resurrection of the Word), with one throne, with a porch and two tents. Its roof was covered with planks, and its heads were covered with painted tin. In its four-band altar iconostasis, the images were decorated with silver crowns and vestments, and some with pearls and precious stones. In 1792, the Church of All Saints was dismantled. In the middle of the monastery, a one-domed stone church in honor of All Saints, built by the support of the Moscow merchant Diomid Meshchaninov, was consecrated by Moscow Metropolitan Plato, and its side chapels: in memory of the renovation of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the Tikhvin Mother of God were consecrated back in 1772. In 1814 and 1815, Archbishop Augustine consecrated the restored churches in memory of All Saints, who are now the Sorority of the Resurrection and the Tikhvin Mother of God. The cathedral church turned out to be cramped; then the skilled architect M.D. Bykovsky in 1853 built a vast building with five domes, which contained part of the old one, which was later dismantled: in the middle of it, under the dome, the original four pillars, or pylons, connected by arches remained, as well as the eastern wall of the main altar. Attached to the large middle dome are four octagonal side domes with domes, covered with white tin and topped with gilded crosses. Around the middle tribune, under the arches of the temple, there is a sacristy, illuminated by windows from the side domes.

Slender and majestic, this building is in the Romanesque style, suitable for the Greek; the ornaments of its external walls, windows, doors and domes are in the same style. The interior of the cathedral corresponds to the exterior itself. From the main temple, or the so-called ship, under the dome of the tribune, two side altars are separated by light arches on the pillars. In the middle part there is a throne in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, a northern one in the name of the Tikhvin Mother of God, a southern one in memory of St. Martyr Alexandra, celebrated on November 6. The three parts of the temple, its three branches, three thrones and three entrances express its symbolic triplicity. The spaciousness in the temple is combined with its full illumination from the wall windows and the tribune, with the variety of parts the harmonious unity of the whole, manifesting the idea of ​​the temple. The altar iconostases of the main and side altars, placed on a three-degree sola, are decorated with skillful carvings and rich gilding; Some of the images in them are ancient Greek style from the previous iconostasis, others were again painted in the Fryazhsky style. Of these, the luxuriously decorated ancient and venerable icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God is especially remarkable. The main altar, although not extensive, is distinguished by its splendor, its iconostasis in five tiers. The vault above the throne in the form of a canopy rests on six pillars, marbled, which separate the southern and northern pre-altariums on both sides. On the walls and vaults of the altar, temple and meal, acts from the earthly life of the Savior and the faces of the Saints are personified by the experienced brush of Artari, Myagkov and Tiveisky. In decent places the corresponding sayings of St. The scriptures were inscribed by the Church Slavonic calligrapher Leonty Lepeshkin. The spacious and bright meal is adjacent to the spacious vestibule of the temple.

In 1929, a decree was issued to close the monastery. After 66 years of devastation and desolation, in 1995, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', the Intercession Stavropegic Convent was restored here with the appointment of nun Feofania (Miskina) as the abbess of the monastery.

On April 4, 1998, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II performed the Great Consecration of the crosses of the Church of the Resurrection of the Word.

On November 22, 2001, three chapels of the Church of the Resurrection of the Word were consecrated in full on the day of the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the blessed Elder Matrona. The great consecration was performed by His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II.

Bell tower

According to the inventory of 1763, the bell tower of the Intercession Monastery was made of stone, tented, with eight bells and a German fighting clock.

In 1799 it was rebuilt into a three-tier building in the German style, 15 fathoms high with a spire and cross.

The old bells, cast by the once famous master Slizov, are remarkable, as can be seen from the following inscriptions on the polyline: “On the 28th day of March 1750, this bell was poured into the monastery of the Intercession of the Most Holy Father, which is near Moscow in poor houses, under the power of the most pious and autocratic great city of the empress Elisaveta Petrovna, the autocrats of All Russia and under the successor of her grandson Peter the First, the blessed one and Grand Duke Peter Feodorovich and his wife, the blessed one and the great princess Ekaterina Alekseevna, with the contribution of the former master of the builder of the hieromonk of Strength henceforth for commemoration; it weighs 130 pounds, master Konstantin Mikhailov and Slizov.” In everyday life: “On the 12th day of April 1747, this bell was poured into the monastery of the Intercession of the Most Holy Fathers, which is in a wretched house, through the efforts of the builder, Hieromonk Silas; contributor Danila Yakovlev of the dream of Zemskovo and other Christ-loving donors, weight 66 poods, 27 lbs. lil master Kostantin Mikhailov sn Slizov.”

In 1926 it was blown up. On May 2, 1999, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II consecrated the foundation stone of the new monastery bell tower on the site of the destroyed one. Twelve bells were cast at the famous Tutaevsky Bell Factory of Nikolai Shuvalov (Italmas LLC), which preserved more than 300 years of Russian tradition of casting bells “in clay.” These bells are distinguished by their durability, euphony and extraordinary power of sound.

On October 4, 2002, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated the bell tower and bells.

Temple of the Holy Princes Peter and Fevronia

Based on historical photographs in 2012 - 2014. The chapel with the prayer house, located behind the monastery fence on Taganskaya Street (formerly Semenovskaya Street), was completely recreated.

Based on historical photographs in 2012 - 2014. the chapel with the prayer house was completely recreated,

Located behind the monastery fence on Taganskaya Street (formerly Semenovskaya Street). During the hard times the building was completely destroyed. A new building was built on the remains of the old foundation. Walls - brickwork, outside on the walls there are mosaic icons of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the holy apostles. On the altar wall there is a mosaic icon of the holy saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom.

Inside the building, in addition to the temple itself, there is a baptismal font with a large font for the baptism of adults (the walls of the font are lined with blue mosaics), as well as a small font for the baptism of infants; on the walls of the baptismal wall there are paintings - the Symbol of Faith and “Our Father”, as well as icons of the Baptism of the Lord and the Guardian Angel. There is a candle box in the building (everything for baptisms and weddings, you can order services, buy candles, icons, spiritual literature).

On February 27, 2014, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad, performed the rite of minor consecration of the first church in Moscow in honor of the holy saints Peter and Fevronia and the first Divine Liturgy in the newly consecrated church.

On June 6, 2016, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', the chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, the vicar of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad, performed the great consecration of the temple in honor of the holy saints Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia.

Divine service in the monastery

Every day

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, holidays

By: Sat., holidays

To: Sun., holidays

Service

Monastery Hotel

St. Taganskaya, 58 building 12 Moscow, 109147 Russian Federation

The nuns of the Intercession Stauropegial Convent cordially welcome you to the page dedicated to the recreated monastery hotel.

Today, like a hundred years ago, we again have the opportunity to receive pilgrims who want to venerate the shrines of the ancient Moscow monastery.

The Intercession Monastery is located in the very center of the capital and today is known throughout the Orthodox world as the place where the multi-healing relics of the holy and righteous blessed Matrona of Moscow rest. Every day hundreds of people come here to pray, receive spiritual support, and think about the eternal in our hectic age.

Now pilgrims and tourists have the opportunity to stay in a wonderful hotel, equipped to the most modern standards.

For pilgrims who specially came to Blessed Matronushka, it will be comfortable here, a real rest for the soul. Even an unchurched person, living at a monastery, will be able to feel all the beauty of Orthodoxy, and the opportunity to attend monastic services every day, confess and receive communion will enrich the spiritual experience of anyone.

The director of the hotel is Abbess Feofania of the Intercession Convent. All the main positions in the hotel are occupied by the sisters of the monastery, for whom this is just another obedience, which they try to fulfill with prayer, diligence and love. All hotel staff are believers and are happy to serve their neighbors.

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Publishing house of the Pokrovsky convent

Books, videos and audiobooks published by the publishing house of the Pokrovsky Stauropegial Convent

Audio play Prince Vladimir and Akathist to the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir

Audio play Princess Olga and Akathist to the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duchess Olga

Booklet "Pokrovsky stauropegial convent at the Pokrovskaya outpost". 20th anniversary of the revival of the monastery. 380 years since the founding of the monastery. 1635 - 2015
Archival and bibliographic research for the project of restoration of the lost monastery cemetery

Booklet "Pupils of Saint Matronushka!"
About the orphanage of the Pokrovsky Convent

Booklet "Trinity - Lykovo" about the metochion of the Pokrovsky stauropegial convent in the Strogino region.

"15th anniversary of the canonization of the holy righteous blessed Matrona of Moscow"
Documentary video.

"Pupils of Saint Matronushka!"
About the orphanage of the Intercession Convent.Documentary video.

Documentary video "Under the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary."
Testimonies of contemporary events, people and miracles

Documentary video film "The Monastery at the Pokrovskaya Outpost".
15th anniversary of the revival of the monastery. 375 years since the founding of the monastery

Audio program "Matronushka Help"!
Testimonies about modern events, people and miracles.

The audio program is based on stories and letters from people who received wonderful help according to the prayers of St. right blzh. Matrona of Moscow.
Speech by the abbess of the Intercession Stavropegic Convent, Abbess Feofaniya. Volume I, part 1

• The audio program is based on stories and letters from people who received miraculous help through the prayers of St. right blzh. Matrona of Moscow. Volume I, part 2
  The audio program is based on stories and letters from people who received miraculous help through the prayers of St. right blzh. Matrona of Moscow. Volume III
  The audio program is based on stories and letters from people who received miraculous help through the prayers of St. right blzh. Matrona of Moscow. Volume III

Audio program "The Life and Miracles of the Blessed Elder Matrona."
Stories from contemporaries

Life and Akathist of the Holy Righteous Blessed Matrona of Moscow

• The Life and Miracles of the Holy Righteous Blessed Matrona of Moscow. Volume I
  The Life and Miracles of the Holy Righteous Blessed Matrona of Moscow. Volume II
  The Life and Miracles of the Holy Righteous Blessed Matrona of Moscow. Volume III

Akathist to the Holy Righteous Blessed Matrona of Moscow

Akathist to the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Life and Miracles of the Blessed Elder Matrona
Stories of contemporaries. Compiled by Zinaida Vladimirovna Zhdanova

Holy Righteous Blessed Matrona of Moscow.
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Holy Gospel

Orthodox prayer book

Road prayer book

Psalter

Monastic cell rule

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Children's shelter of the Pokrovsky convent at the Pokrovskaya outpost

With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', an Orthodox orphanage of mercy for girls was opened at the Intercession Monastery in 2004. The official name of the shelter is the Social Rehabilitation Center "Children's Shelter of the Intercession Convent at the Intercession Gate of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)."

The monastery shelter houses 27 children aged 6 to 18 years. The fate of these girls is difficult - most are orphans with living parents - alcoholics or drug addicts. The monastery sisters, who have special pedagogical education and extensive experience working with children, work with the pupils.

Children study at an Orthodox gymnasium in Trinity-Lykovo, and also receive additional educational services within the walls of the monastery and study at a music school. Classes on advanced study of school subjects and homework are taught by Orthodox professional subject teachers who also have experience in Orthodox education of children.

The life of the shelter is scheduled almost minute by minute; In addition to regular activities, in the morning and evening a general reading of prayers, the Epistles of the Apostles, and the Gospel is obligatory. All girls from the age of 7-8 already read them aloud on their own: the youngest in Russian, the older ones in Church Slavonic.

The meal is always shared, with prayer. The older girls fast in the same way as the sisters of the monastery, and even during fasting the younger girls are given dairy products from the monastery farmstead to strengthen their growing bodies.
All girls are taught to work: keep their cell and classroom clean, help clean the corridors, and the refectory; sew, knit, embroider, cook.

The pupils of the orphanage certainly participate in divine services - on Saturdays, Sundays, twelfths and patronal holidays, the girls sing at the all-night vigil and for Divine Liturgy.

Children also regularly attend Patriarchal services, for example, the Annunciation in the Kremlin. According to the holiday tradition, together with the pupils of the orphanage, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill releases doves into the sky.
The orphanage's pupils spend a lot of time preparing for the holidays, especially Easter, the Nativity of Christ and the days of remembrance of Blessed Matronushka. The girls perform performances, prepare musical performances, sing songs dedicated to the holiday, and carols at Christmas. Children love these holidays very much and happily show their knowledge and skills to all sisters and guests.

They also have free time: every day the pupils can play, run around on the street or in a special playroom, watch Orthodox films or cartoons, read their favorite book, and play in the gym.
Excursions and pilgrimage trips to cultural and natural reserves are conducted, entertaining and educational trips to the zoo, cultural and recreation parks, and boat trips are organized.

The monastery shelter lives like one big family, where everyone feels needed and loved. Angel days and birthdays are celebrated by everyone together. All the joys and sorrows of children are common. During her lifetime, Matronushka loved orphans very much, and today, under her wing, the pupils of the monastery orphanage are growing up, learning to fulfill the commandments of Christ about love for God and neighbors, to be “light” and “salt” for the world.

The shelter of the Intercession Monastery accepts children from disadvantaged, single-parent families from 6 to 11 years old.

For questions regarding admission to an orphanage, please contact the monastery office at 8-495-911-81-66, [email protected]

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Those who baptized children from Matrona did not find the relics anywhere, but in the temple nearby. I know they baptize there, but there is little information on the internet, but I’m interested in how things go there, the conversations, the cost and the baptism process itself.🚼🙏

Comments

I'll listen

We baptized! You buy a baptism reminder at the store of the Church of Peter and Fevronia, come to two interviews and then the baptism itself. We had individual baptisms, Father Andrey did the baptism, we liked him very much. Beautiful silver font, everything went very well!

- @shanti, where did you go about baptism, to someone in the temple? Do parents or only godparents come to interviews? What are these individual ones, how do they differ from ordinary ones?

- @dashenka777, we came just to the Temple where they are baptized, straight to the shop, there the woman will tell you everything and choose the name and fill out the memo, I went with our godmother, in general I think godparents should. Father talks and signs for the first conversation. Then for the second. Individual ones differ in that only your child is baptized and only your relatives are present; there are no strangers in this room at the time of baptism

- @dashenka777, well, choose the time that is convenient for you

- @shanti, I understood everything, thank you.

- @shanti, sorry to intrude, but what is the cost of a christening?

- @kat6ka, 500 to the cash register, father at your discretion

- @shanti, thank you

- @shanti, please forgive me, we are going to baptize our baby in the same church, can you tell me the procedures for confession and communion are mandatory for both godparents and parents? And what are the interviews? Thank you very much🙏

- @karakum, no, they are not required. Come to the shop in the Church of Peter and Fevronia, where they baptize. You buy a memo, and then go to the priest with this memo, he talks with you: either he tells you or asks about the sacrament of baptism, you need to go through two conversations, only our godmother went with me. Well, then you agree on the time and the rest.

- @karakum, we did not confess or receive communion. We had individual christenings, the priest sent us a video of conversations and on the day of baptism the godparents had a conversation 15 minutes before the start. During the interview they ask for prayers and various questions about the church and religion.

- @shanti, please tell us in more detail. How much do individual christenings cost? And on what days are they baptized there?

- @i.s.forsh, 500₽ was in 2015, you need to come to the shop there and the Church of Peter and Fevronia, it’s next to the matron. Sign up, go through interviews and set a day.

- @daryaandeva, what about individual christenings?

- @i.s.forsh, 500₽

- @shanti, please tell me, and at your own discretion this is approximately how much?? So as not to offend the priest. Otherwise you’ll give it, but it’s not enough.

- @daryaandeva, tell me, were you baptized by Matrona? How much did they give for an individual baptism??

- @i.s.forsh, we baptized 2.5 years ago, I don’t even remember how much they gave, in my opinion three thousand or 4 thousand

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