Наталья Мильченко - Протоиерей Владимир Воробьев - Отец Арсений - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Description: "Father Arseny" is a collection of literary evidence of eyewitnesses about the life of a modern confessor - their spiritual father, as well as their stories about their life. The first publications spread throughout Russia and beyond and made the book "Father Arseny" of one of the most beloved in the Orthodox world. The book was translated and published in English and Greek. She showed an example of a saint, internally identical to the Orthodox holiness of all time, but having the unique features of the ascetic of the New Age. The real publication of this book is dedicated to the memory of the new martyrs and confessors of Russian.

Additional information: All materials of the Internet portal of the Yekaterinburg diocese (texts, photographs, audio, video) can be freely distributed by any means without any restrictions on volume and deadlines provided that the source is referred to (“Orthodox newspaper”, “Radio“ Resurrection ”,“ Radio ”, “Soyuz TV channel). No additional approval for a reproduction or other reproduction is required.

Biography

Father Arseny was born in Moscow in 1894. In 1911 he graduated from a gymnasium and entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow Imperial University. In 1916 he graduated from the university, and was ill with endocarditis for more than eight months. At this time, he wrote his first works on art - the ancient Russian architecture. In early 1917, after a period of spiritual searches, he left for Optina deserts, where he was a novice of two elders - Anatoly and Nectaria. His monastic tonsure took place here, then he was ordained a hieromonk. In 1919, Father Arseny, with the blessing of the elders, returned to Moscow and was determined by the third priest in one of the Moscow temples. For this, a special resolution of St. Patriarch Tikhon, because The ministry of the Hieromonks on parishes was usually not allowed. At the beginning of 1921 about. Arseny became the second priest, and at the end of 1921, when the rector of the temple Father Paul was transferred and soon arrested, Father Arseny became the abbot. For eight years of service, he gathered a significant community in his temple, for which he became a favorite pastoral and confessor. In 1927, at the end of December, Father Arseny was the first time arrested and sent to the Arkhangelsk region for two years. After the end of the exile, Father Arseny served in the church near Moscow (outside the stock zone). In 1931 - he was again arrested and exiled to the Vologda region for five years. Now Father Arseny has received permission to live in the Vologda, Arkhangelsk and Vladimir regions. It was impossible to serve in the temple, he served at home. Several times he secretly came to Moscow, met with Vladyka Afanasy (Sakharov), asked him to ordain several of his spiritual children in the Holy Sad, to which the Vladyka Athanasius received the consent of. Secretly nourished his spiritual community. Then - the third arrest in 1939, a new link to Siberia, then to the Urals. About a year, Father Arseny stayed in exile in the village. Troitskoye Arkhangelsk region. In May 1940, he was again arrested and imprisoned in the Ural camp. In March 1941, he was transferred to the strengthened regime camp, correspondence and arrival of spiritual children almost stopped, and in 1942 to the special regime camp, where correspondence and visits were finally prohibited. Only in the spring of 1958, Father Arseny was released from the special regime camp and settled in Rostov the Great with Nadezhda Petrovna. Father Arseny died in 1975 and was buried in the cemetery of the city of Rostov. On his grave, a granite stone with the inscription was laid: Father Arseny.