A trip to Hieromonk Vladimir (Gusev) in Livny for a lecture
Nowadays, the influence of the devil on human minds is unusually great: after all, many temptations have increased that were unprecedented before. And it is through them that demons lead people away from God...
Carried away by worldly seduction, these unfortunate people sometimes do not understand what is happening to them. But the degree of possession can increase so much that evil spirits, having completely enslaved the will of a person, use his body for their actions, speaking through the lips of the possessed person.
Only a highly experienced priest who thoroughly knows the procedure for performing this rite—the procedure established and accepted by the Church—should reprimand (expel) “this race.”
Hieromonk Vladimir (Gusev), who performs this sacred act, has the blessing of the bishop of the Moscow diocese and confessor of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, Elder Elijah (Nozdrin), whose spiritual child Hieromonk Vladimir is. Also, the trip to Father Vladimir is blessed by Elder Afanasy (Kultinov) from the village of Kadoma, Ryazan region. Do not miss the opportunity to help loved ones suffering from damage and diseases caused by demons.
Pilgrims from all over Russia and the CIS countries come to him for help.
The distance of the pilgrimage to Livny is almost the same as to Diveevo, the road is good. We arrive immediately in the village of Navesnoye around 7 o’clock. morning to the Epiphany Church. At 8 o'clock Confession begins. Father Mikhail treats everyone very sensitively and carefully. Confession takes place slowly and with order. After confession, the Divine Liturgy (communion) begins. Then a short move to. Meal. At 12 o'clock The sermon of Father Vladimir (Gusev) begins. From this sermon we get answers to many pressing questions. How are illnesses allowed to us? How to get rid of them? About the curse of the family, etc. Then the fun begins. In the veil, the reprimand is called “prayer for the sick.” It seems that Father Vladimir has complete power over demons. One woman was screaming terribly in front of me, he came up and said, “Shut up, you bastard,” and the woman immediately fell silent. I was very surprised. When you see such a picture, of course it becomes scary, but for a while. Then you become established in Faith and understand that if there is a demonic force, then there is a force that tames it - God. The lecture lasts for about an hour, it’s very interesting. Next comes the water prayer service. All pilgrims place water in different containers and vegetable oil in the center. Then they take theirs apart. There are also huge containers for collecting illuminated water. After the prayer service, you can get some blessed water, they pour it there. The priest passes us all and sprinkles us with water from the prayer service. Water is poured onto the head, into the mouth, and, if you want, onto the body. In general, everyone is very happy.
At the end of our trip to Hieromonk Vladimir, the sacrament of “Unction” takes place; our group will be introduced to the sacrament during the days of fasting. Unction takes place decorously, anointing occurs as required 7x7. The hall in which the Unction takes place is very free and the sacrament occurs in a measured manner without any crowding. I think this is also very important, because often people gather together when they are weak and the crowd creates additional difficulties. What conclusions did I draw after the trip? There are Priests to whom the Lord gives the power to bind and cast out. Such a Priest, Father Vladimir (Gusev). Firstly, if you decide to go, you need to throw away all the obstacles that the evil one will throw at you. It is very important!!! Secondly, you need to be patient, because people want to get out of the power of Satan, and he does not forgive this so easily. So it will be a struggle, but it will be worth it. The trip was very rewarding. Please sign up for a pilgrimage trip to Livny, you won’t regret it!!!
May the power of God be with us!
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The Soporific Kingdom (Or what E. Erofeeva’s book “Easter Memory” teaches us)
The book about Diveyevo priest Vladimir Shikin is extremely popular in our diocese. It is read out loud and passed from hand to hand. She is admired and recommended to friends. What can you learn by reading this book?
Firstly, starting from the title page, we are taught to deceive. The third edition of the book was published in Moscow by the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God “with the blessing of His Grace Veniamin, Bishop of Vladivostok and Primorsky.” Although, it seems, it should be an axiom for everyone that books can be published in Moscow only with the blessing of the ruling bishop of the Moscow diocese - His Holiness Patriarch Alexy. But someone thinks differently...
Secondly, we are taught to believe dreams, our own and those of others, on the sole basis that there are many of them and they are “extraordinary.” Dreams about Father Vladimir make up 80–90% of the information in the book. Thus, the teaching of the Church that one cannot believe dreams is completely rejected, because one can fall into delusion.
Thirdly, it turns out that only women have the authority of the word in the Church, because, again, 90–95% of the “sleeping pills” of information comes from “spiritual daughters.” Despite the advice of the Apostle Paul to “turn away from women’s fables.”
Fourthly, a fantastic image of a “real” priest is created, possessing the main grace-filled qualities: Love, insight and healing.
The reader is instilled with the insidious thought that “there is little gold in nature and in the human race.” (1.322) That is, ordinary priests, not old seers, seem to have no right to exist... “It’s cold. It's the priests' turn. Confession is formal. Do not replace! An irreplaceable person" (about Father Vladimir). (1.322)
This idea became very widespread: a careless, rude attitude towards the priest became the norm. The parishioners teach their pastor that, they say, my friend, you don’t have enough love; Why don’t you pierce me with the light of your grace! You don’t make it, no...
Fifthly, a similar arrogant attitude is instilled in the bishops: “the priest said: “You will live to see the second fulfillment of the prophecy of St. Seraphim, in which he tries to intercede before the Lord on behalf of the bishops.” (1.131) Today is an apostatic time, the bishops are “red”, corrupt, envious...
Sixthly, we are taught that our Church is led by elders, not bishops. The revelations of the elders, their visions, are elevated to the rank of the highest church authority. Even direct disobedience to the bishop is only welcomed: “Father Vladimir had the blessing of three elders to reprimand the sick. And a ban from Metropolitan Nicholas, to whom he repented that he had violated his bans.” (1.174) The contrast between the elders and the clergy is a deep-seated problem that requires a separate discussion.
Seventh, we are forbidden to take a tax identification number, since the elders and Fr. Vladimir had “revelations” about this. “To the question of how to live for people left without the necessary things, the answer was the story of priest I. in the priest’s house: “Recently I found my distant relative in a remote village. She is almost a hundred years old. She did not take the first Soviet passport. And she lived her whole life in her dilapidated house without salaries or pensions. “How did you survive?” – I asked her. “I’ll babysit other people’s children – they’ll feed them and give me milk and bread. I read the Psalter for the deceased - I’m full again. Yes, and the grass in the field is free. If you know herbs, you can live on herbs alone. The Monk Seraphim lived on one dream for three years. So, my dear, I haven’t been hungry for a single day.” - “How did you spend the winter without firewood?” “And dry quinoa burns painfully hot,” Natalya answered, not suspecting that she was already remembering a miracle here.” (1,135–136)
But which of the INN employees is going to live like this?!
By the way, elementary logic teaches that if you can’t take a tax identification number, you won’t be saved, but the Russian Orthodox Church, all dioceses and all parishes took the tax identification number, then, therefore, in order to be saved, you need to leave the Russian Orthodox Church and create your own, true, tax-free Church... And although many INN people don’t do this, but in reality they have been in splits for a long time. And they actively preach their schism in parishes.
Eighth, the openly heretical idea of the “Tsar-Redeemer” is preached: “Whoever prays correctly to the King will himself be saved and will help others in this. We will worship Him as the Redeemer of the sins of the Russian people. They say that we have one Redeemer - Christ. We know this, of course. Our Sovereign Nicholas has his own Book. Just as the Lord has the Book of Life, in which the names of all those who are saved are written, so the Tsar has His Own Book, where His loyal subjects are written.(..) And these INNs will never be accepted - all loyal Russian, Orthodox people. The Tsar is the image of God, a living icon of the Heavenly King. An exceptional ministry was granted to Him by God on earth. Exceptional - incomparable to anything, His feat... Only with the Calvary Sacrifice of Christ! (1,290)
As our “tsar-worshipers” say: “You won’t always understand who is yours and who is a stranger. And now, at first glance, it is clear: those who do not glorify the Tsar, categorically do not want to accept him - everything is clear with them.” (1.287) Got it?..
Thus, “true” Orthodoxy comes down to the veneration of Father Vladimir, the deification of Tsar Nicholas and the non-acceptance of the INN. This is what dreams teach us...
Erofeeva’s book is a medical record that records the diagnoses of the diseases that plague our church society. Only doctors must read medical records in order to know how to treat. Patients are supposed to read prescriptions for recovery that are prescribed to them by doctors (and not other patients).
Therefore, reading this book is harmful, because we have more sick people than doctors and healthy people. But, unfortunately, few people consider themselves sick...
priest Alexy
Quote literature:
1. Easter memory. Memories of Hieromonk Vladimir (Shikin). Author-compiler Erofeeva E.V. Third edition. M., Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, 2003.
Carefully! Manipulation of holiness!
(About the book by E. Erofeeva “Easter Memory”)
The life and death of every pious Christian, especially a priest, is instructive. It does not need verbosity, ornate embellishments, unreliable miracles and prophecies, all of which E. Erofeeva’s book “Easter Memory” is filled with, dedicated to Father Vladimir Shikin (fourth edition, supplemented, LLC “Publishing Group “Favor XXI”). In external terms, the book amazes, first of all, with its tedious verbosity and leafiness. There is no sense of proportion, no sense of taste. An abundance of quotes known to every more or less educated person. Many extracts from the holy fathers. But the main problem of this work is not artistic helplessness and graphomaniacal lengths. And not even in exaltation and sweetness. And in a claim to some kind of revelation, the conductor of which “higher powers” chose the author of the story. The book mainly consists of a retelling of dreams about Father Vladimir. A person who has already left cannot be responsible for the words attributed to him, especially for other people’s dreams, in which he allegedly urged not to accept the TIN.
In this charismatic ministry, Father Vladimir is imposed as a saint. He is credited with absolute clairvoyance. “I hear everyone who turns to me, no matter in what corner they are.” Photocopies of the portrait of Father Vladimir, made by the artist L. Besednov, are streaming myrrh. “People, listening on the phone about the abundance of Father’s grace poured out on others, began to cry at the other end of the line.” “They felt Father’s prayer coming to them through the narrator.” All the time “everyone is crying, tears are pouring like hail” (during Father Vladimir’s sermon). “I believe, oh. Vladimir will not leave or abandon any of those who love him - neither in this life nor in the future.” Father Vladimir is credited with the properties of a super-holy, equal to God Himself. He knows the thoughts and destinies of everyone. (No one even wrote about St. Seraphim of Sarov.) And also the fate of the world.
Portal "Wonderful Diveevo"
Hieromonk Vladimir - Shikin Vladimir Nikolaevich was born on June 25, 1947 in the village of Nizhnyaya Yaroslavna, Tambov region, into a family of teachers. After graduating from high school, he entered the Voronezh Assembly College; upon completion, after several attempts, he went to Moscow State University to study journalism. During his studies, he was interested in studying foreign and Russian philosophers; he wrote his thesis on the works of F.M. Dostoevsky.
After graduating from university, he worked as an employee for the Trud newspaper and other periodicals, but after some time he quit his journalistic job and got a job as a janitor on Moscow’s Sretenka Street. Here, in one of the houses, on the ground floor, in his small room, the gifted creative youth of Moscow gathered, and this time was the heyday of his writing, although the stories and the novel went “to the table.” In terms of the metaphorical and figurative language, his prose was close to the style of Andrei Platonov.
Gradually he comes to the realization of Orthodoxy as the only possible true religion. And he leaves the bustle of Moscow for his homeland, where he teaches history, literature, and Russian language at school for two years. Then the longing for communication with like-minded people makes itself felt, and he returns to Moscow.
In the spring of 1984, he met his future wife, famous violinist and teacher at the Moscow Conservatory Irina Vasilyeva, and in September of the same year they got married. In 1985, a son, Arseny, was born, and in 1989, a daughter, Lydia. During these years, Vladimir was a freelance employee of the editorial office of the Soviet Encyclopedia and the magazine Nature and Man, writing articles on ecology and religious topics.
In the spring of 1992, the family moved to Diveevo, Vladimir worked on restoring the temple in the village of Bolshoye Cherevatovo and prepared for the priesthood. On May 2, 1993, in the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery, he was ordained a deacon, and on October 31, 1993, in the Arzamas Cathedral, he was ordained a priest.
In the fall of 1999, Vladimir’s father was diagnosed with cancer; treatment and surgery did not bring any results. His condition was deteriorating, and Father Vladimir, with the blessing of the elders, took monastic vows on January 20, 2000 in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Seraphim-Diveevo Monastery.
On the morning of March 23, 2000, in a military hospital near Moscow, Hieromonk Vladimir peacefully reposed in the Lord.
