Date of holy day of remembrance
In 2021, the Orthodox Church will celebrate the Day of Remembrance of Matrona of Moscow, whose name is known to every person who waits, believes and hopes, on May 2.
Interesting!
People seeking support can turn to the saint in their own words when they need to express everything that has accumulated in their soul. They can offer fervent special prayer. In any case, the saint will hear, understand and help.
There are also other important dates that Orthodox people should definitely get acquainted with:
- March 8 (the day has already passed, but it’s also worth knowing about this) – the discovery of holy relics.
- September 1 – Cathedral of Moscow Saints.
- October 5 – Cathedral of Tula Saints.
- November 22 – Angel Day (birthday of Matrona of Moscow).
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These days, the believing part of the country certainly attends church or prays at home if it is not possible to go out. In temples and churches, ministers always conduct morning services, which are dedicated to the Holy Matrona of Moscow, liturgy, and illuminate the water.
How to get to Matronushka's grave
From the Shabolovskaya metro station you can get to the grave of Matrona Moskovskaya by tram route No. 26.
If you walk from this metro station to your destination, you need to ride in the last car. After exiting it, you need to turn left and go up, passing the exit located on the right side. Then you should go towards the overpass (3rd transport ring). Next there will be a transition, you need to go down into it, and at the first intersection turn right. Having reached the end of the tunnel, you need to climb up the stairs, which are located on the left side. Along the sidewalk located along the 3rd ring, you need to walk to the intersection of roads, and then cross the roadway. The entrance to the cemetery can be identified by the yellow fence. Before he gets jealous, you will have to walk about 300 m along Dukhovsky Lane.
You can also get to the grave of Matrona of Moscow by car. To do this, you need to get to Dukhovsky Lane through Malaya Tulskaya and Lyusinovskaya streets, Varshavskoye or Kashirskoye Shosse.
The story of the blessed one
Anyone who wants to know what date in 2021 is the day of remembrance of Matrona of Moscow among the Orthodox, probably wants to hear the amazing story of the saint, who had to go through many difficulties in life.
Note!
Matrona of Moscow helps not only those who ardently believe in God and often attend church, but also those who are far from churches and do not pray to the Almighty.
The saint was born on November 22, 1881 in the village of Sebino, Tula province. From birth, Matrona was doomed to complete blindness, as she was born without eyeballs. From the age of 8, the blessed one strongly and strongly believed in Jesus Christ, in his strength and help. At the same age, the girl realized that she had the ability to heal and foresee.
When Matrona turned seventeen, her legs became paralyzed. In the forties, the saint began to receive those in need and those asking. She helped everyone who turned to her. Matrona could receive people all day and pray at night.
Important!
Matrona predicted her death three days before her death, but did not stop accepting those in need.
On May 2, 1952, Matrona died. She was buried at the Danilovsky cemetery.
Russian Orthodox Church
Blessed Matrona (Matrona Dimitrievna Nikonova) was born in 1885 in the village of Sebino, Epifansky district, Tula region. Her parents, Dimitri and Natalia, peasants, were pious people, worked honestly, but lived poorly. The family had four children: two brothers - Ivan and Mikhail, and two sisters - Maria and Matrona. Matrona was the youngest.
Even before the girl was born, Matrona’s mother decided to send her unborn child to an orphanage, where the children of the poor were raised at the expense of benefactors, but she saw a prophetic dream. The unborn daughter appeared to Natalia in a dream in the form of a white bird with a human face and closed eyes and sat on her right hand. Taking the dream as a sign, the God-fearing woman gave up the idea of sending the child to an orphanage. The daughter was born blind, but the mother loved her “unfortunate child.”
At the baptism, when the priest lowered the child into the font, those present saw a column of fragrant light smoke above the baby. The priest, Father Vasily, whom the parishioners revered as righteous and blessed, was incredibly surprised: “I baptized a lot, but this is the first time I see this, and this baby will be holy.” Father Vasily also told Natalia: “If a girl asks for something, you will definitely contact me directly, go and say directly what is needed.”
Truly Matroa was God’s chosen one. The Lord taught her to fast even in infancy: her mother often complained to a friend: “What should I do? The girl doesn’t breastfeed on Wednesday and Friday, she sleeps for days on these days, it’s impossible to wake her up.” On the girl’s chest there was a bulge in the shape of a cross, a miraculous pectoral cross. Later, when she was already six years old, her mother once began to scold her: “Why are you taking off your cross?” “Mommy, I have my own cross on my chest,” the girl answered. “Dear daughter,” Natalia came to her senses, “forgive me!” And I keep scolding you..."
Other children often teased Matrona, even mocked her: the girls lashed her with nettles, knowing that she would not see who exactly was offending her. They put her in a hole and watched with curiosity as she groped her way out of there and wandered home. Matrona was not just blind - she had no eyes at all. The eye sockets were closed with tightly closed eyelids, like those of the white bird her mother had seen in her dream. But the Lord gave her spiritual sight. Even in infancy, at night, when her parents were sleeping, she would sneak into the holy corner, in some incomprehensible way take icons off the shelf, put them on the table and play with them in the silence of the night. Rejected by her peers, she found saints as companions in her childhood games.
From the age of seven or eight, Matrona discovered the gift of prediction and healing of the sick. One day the girl told her mother: “Mom, get ready, I’m going to have a wedding soon.” The mother was surprised and told the priest about this, he came and gave the girl communion. And suddenly, after a few days, one after another, carts began to drive up to their house, people were walking and walking with their troubles and sorrows, carrying the sick, and for some reason everyone was asking Matrona. She read prayers over them and healed many. “Matryushenka, what is this?” - asked her mother. And she answers: “I told you there will be a wedding.”
Thus, from an early age, the Lord noted Matrona with the gift of spiritual reasoning, insight and healing. The girl felt the approach of danger and foresaw natural and social disasters. Through her prayer, people received healing from illnesses and consolation in sorrows. They began to visit her more and more often and travel from everywhere. Suffering people came to her not only from surrounding villages and hamlets, but also from distant lands; they even brought bedridden patients, whom the girl raised to their feet. Wanting to thank Matrona, they left food and gifts for her parents. So the girl, instead of becoming a burden to the family, became its main breadwinner.
The Nikonovs' house was located near the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God. Matrona’s parents were distinguished by deep piety and loved to attend divine services together. Matrona literally grew up in church, going to services first with her mother, then alone, whenever possible. Not knowing where her daughter was, her mother usually found her in church. She had her usual place - on the left, behind the front door, where she stood motionless during the service. She knew church hymns well and often sang along with the singers. Apparently, even in childhood, Matrona acquired the gift of unceasing prayer.
When her mother, feeling sorry for her, said to Matronushka: “You are my unfortunate child!” - she was surprised: “Am I unhappy? You have Vanya, the unfortunate one, and Misha.” She foresaw the future apostasy of her brothers from God.
Despite her blindness, Matrona spoke about the world around her as if she saw it through her eyes. She once told her friend: “God once opened my eyes and showed me the world and His creation. And I saw the sun, and the stars in the sky, and everything on earth, the beauty of the earth: mountains, rivers, green grass, flowers, birds..."
But not only spiritually did Matrona want to visit distant lands. She really wanted to visit holy places, to venerate the shrines of the Russian land. The daughter of a local landowner, the pious and kind girl Lydia Yankova, helped her in this. She took Matrona with her on pilgrimages: to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, to St. Petersburg, other cities and holy places of Russia. Once in St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kronstadt, at the end of the service, Father John of Kronstadt asked the people to make way for the 14-year-old Matrona approaching the salt and said publicly: “Matronushka, come, come to me. Here comes my shift—the eighth pillar of Russia.” Mother did not explain the meaning of these words to anyone, but her loved ones guessed that Father John foresaw a special service for Matrona to Russia and the Russian people, as happened during the persecution of the Church.
At the age of 17, Matrona lost the ability to walk: her legs suddenly became paralyzed. Mother herself pointed to the spiritual cause of the disease. She walked through the temple after communion and knew that a woman would approach her and take away her ability to walk. And so it happened. “I didn’t avoid it—it was God’s will.”
Until the end of her days she was “sedentary.” And her stay in different houses and apartments, where she found shelter, continued for another 50 years. She never grumbled because of her illness, but humbly bore this heavy cross given to her by God.
Even at an early age, Matrona predicted the revolution, how “they will rob, destroy churches and drive everyone away.” She figuratively showed how they would divide the land, grab plots of land greedily, just to grab more for themselves, and then everyone would abandon the land and run in all directions. Nobody will need the land.
One day Matrona asked her mother to tell the priest that in his library, in such and such a row, there was a book with the image of the icon “Recovery of the Lost.” Father was very surprised. They found an icon, and Matrona said: “Mom, I will write out such an icon.” The mother was sad: how can she pay for it? But Matrona said: “Mom, I keep dreaming about the icon “Recovery of the Dead.” The Mother of God asks to come to our church.” She blessed the women to collect money for the icon in all villages. People donated to the icon from the bottom of their hearts, with deep faith, only one man gave a ruble reluctantly, and his brother gave one kopeck to laugh. When the money was brought to Matronushka, she sorted through it, mysteriously found this ruble and a kopeck and said to her mother: “Mom, give it to them, they are ruining all my money.”
Matrona ordered the icon painter to repent of his sins, confess and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. Then she asked: “Do you know for sure that you will paint this icon?” He answered in the affirmative and began to paint the icon, but nothing worked for him. Then Matrona pointed out to him that there was still a sin that he had not repented of, and helped him realize it. He was shocked, went to the priest again, repented, took communion again, and asked Matrona for forgiveness. “Go, now you will paint the icon of the Queen of Heaven,” she told him.
With the money collected from the villages, with the blessing of Matrona, another icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” was commissioned in Bogoroditsk. When it was ready, it was carried in a procession with banners from Bogoroditsk to the church in Sebino. This image of the Mother of God became the main local shrine and became famous for many miracles. When there was a drought, they took him out to a meadow in the middle of the village and served a prayer service. After it, people had not yet managed to reach their homes when it began to rain.
Throughout her life, Blessed Matrona was surrounded by icons. In the room where she lived for a particularly long time, there were three red corners, and in them there were icons from top to bottom, with lamps burning in front of them.
In an incomprehensible way, the Lord revealed to His chosen one, who had never learned to read and write, even knowledge that is taught only in schools and institutes, if it was needed to help others. One of her friends, Zinaida Zhdanova, who revered her very much and helped her a lot, urgently needed to defend an architectural project. The authorities did everything to prevent this defense from taking place. Later Zhdanova said: “Mother listened to me and said: “Nothing, nothing, you’ll defend yourself! We’ll have tea in the evening and talk!” I could barely wait for the evening, and then my mother said: “You and I will go to Italy, to Florence, to Rome, and see the works of the great masters...” And she began to list the streets and buildings! She stopped: “Here is Palazzo Pitti, here is another palace with arches, do the same as there - the three lower floors of the building with large masonry and two entrance arches.” I was shocked by her behavior. In the morning I ran to the institute, put tracing paper on the project and made all the corrections with brown ink. At 10 o'clock the commission arrived. They looked at my project and said: “Well, the project turned out great, it looks great - defend yourself!”
Many people came to Matrona with their illnesses and sorrows. Having intercession before God, she helped many. Matrona prayed for the people, asking Him for miraculous help for the sick. She read a prayer over the water and gave it to those who came to her. Those who drank the water and sprinkled it with it got rid of various misfortunes. Only a priest can bless water according to church rites. Of course, Blessed Matrona, for whom the canons and institutions of the Church were an immutable spiritual law, did not dare to do anything like that, but we know that not only the water consecrated in the temple has blessed healing properties, but also the water of some reservoirs, springs, wells blessed with prayer the life of holy people near them, the appearance of miraculous icons.
After the 1917 revolution, both Matrona's brothers, Mikhail and Ivan, joined the Bolshevik party, Mikhail becoming a rural activist. They were ashamed of their sister. The presence in their home of the blessed one, who received people all day long, taught them in deed and word to preserve the Orthodox faith, became unbearable for the brothers. They feared reprisals. Feeling sorry for them, mother moved to Moscow, where she lived until the end of her days. In this huge capital city there were many unfortunate, lost, fallen from the faith, spiritually sick people with a confused consciousness, a soul poisoned by the poison of atheism. Her spiritual and prayerful ministry turned many away from death and led to salvation.
The blessed one loved Moscow very much, she said that it was a holy city and the heart of Russia, although for Matrona herself, life in Moscow was a constant wandering around relatives and friends, in houses, apartments, basements... She became a homeless wanderer. The novices—hozhalki—lived with her and looked after her. Sometimes she had to live with people who were hostile to her. Housing in Moscow was difficult; there was no choice. Matrona left some places hastily, foreseeing impending troubles in spirit, always on the eve of the police coming to her, since she lived without registration. Times were hard, and people were afraid to register it. In this way, she saved not only herself, but also the owners who sheltered her from arrests and repression.
Zinaida Zhdanova told what hardships the blessed one sometimes had to endure. One day in the late autumn, during the war, she came to a small plywood house where Matrona lived at that time. There was thick, damp and dank steam in the house from some kind of stove. The blessed one lay on the bed, facing the wall, and could not turn around, because her hair was frozen to the wall and was forcibly torn off. She did not agree to move to a more convenient place: “God did not order it, so that you would not regret it later.”
Matrona lived in Moscow in different places, but for the longest time (from 1942 to 1949) she lived on Arbat, in Starokonyushenny Lane, with her mother Zinaida Zhdanova.
Many times they wanted to arrest Matrona; Most often, on the eve of a possible arrest, she moved to another place, but one day, knowing that they were going to come for her, she stayed in the house. When the policeman came to take Matrona away, she told him: “Go, go quickly, there is misfortune in your house! But the blind woman can’t get away from you: I sit on the bed and don’t go anywhere.” He obeyed, went home, and there was a fire in his house, and his wife was badly burned. He managed to get her to the hospital, thanks to which she remained alive. The next day, when he came to work, he was asked: “Well, did you take the blind woman?” “I will never pick up a blind one,” he replied. “If the blind woman hadn’t told me, I would have lost my wife.”
Outwardly, her life flowed monotonously: during the day - receiving people, at night - prayer. Like the ancient ascetics, she never really went to bed, but dozed, lying on her side, on her fist. Years passed like this.
Somehow in 1939 or 1940, Matrona said: “Now you are all quarreling, dividing, but the war is about to begin. Of course, many people will die, but our Russian people will win.” “Victory will be ours,” she said at the beginning of 1941. “The enemy will not touch Moscow, it will only burn a little.” There is no need to leave Moscow.”
Sometimes people could not understand the actions of the blessed one, but there was always some kind of spiritual meaning behind them. When the war began, mother asked everyone who came to her to bring willow branches. She broke them into sticks of equal length, peeled them from the bark and prayed. Her neighbors recalled that her fingers were covered in wounds. Matrona could be spiritually present in various places; for her spiritual gaze, space did not exist. She often said that she was invisible at the fronts, helping our soldiers. She told everyone that the Germans would not enter Tula. Her prophecy came true.
Matrona received up to 40 people a day. People came with their troubles, mental and physical pain. She refused to help anyone, except those who came with crafty intentions. Others saw in Mother a folk healer who had the power to remove damage or the evil eye, but after communicating with her they realized that this was a man of God, and they turned to the Church and its saving sacraments. Her help was selfless, she did not take anything from anyone, and everything that was brought to her was immediately given to those who lived next to her, and they distributed it to people. In fact, she had nothing of her own.
Mother always read her prayers loudly. Those who knew her closely say that these prayers were well-known, read in church and at home: “Our Father,” “May God rise again,” the ninetieth psalm, “Lord Almighty, God of hosts and all flesh” (from morning prayers) and others . She emphasized that it was not herself who helped, but God, through her prayers: “What, Matronushka is God, or what? God helps! - she said. Healing the sick, mother demanded that they believe in God and correct their sinful lives. “Do you believe,” she asked, “that the Lord is able to heal you?” She ordered everyone to wear a cross.
Sometimes, out of desperation to find help somewhere else, completely unbelieving people came to her. “I don’t know what it’s like to believe,” one woman told her. But mother helped everyone who was waiting for help, and through this their hearts warmed up and opened to faith and love for God. With her selfless service, the blessed one brought many souls to God.
One day, a believing woman who revered Matrona, on the way to her, met a general and his wife, who had just taken their daughter from a psychiatric hospital, but the doctors could not help her. Suddenly this girl (she was 18 years old) started barking. The woman said to her mother: “I feel sorry for you, let’s take our daughter to Matronushka...” This girl’s father, the general, at first didn’t want to hear anything, he said that it was all fiction. But his wife insisted, and they went to Matronushka. When the girl was brought to Matronushka, she was at first dumbfounded, then she began to spit on Matrona and struggled. “Leave her,” said Matrona, “now she won’t do anything.” The girl was released. She fell, began to thrash and spin around on the floor, and began vomiting blood. Then the girl fell asleep and slept for three days. They looked after her. When she woke up and saw her mother, she asked: “Mom, where are we?” “We, daughter, are with a visionary man,” she answered and told everything that happened to her. From that time on, the girl was completely healed.
Mother Matrona fought all her life for every soul that came to her. She never lamented or complained about the difficulties of her feat. “I can’t forgive myself for never feeling sorry for Mother, even though I saw how difficult it was for her, how she was rooting for each of us,” Zinaida Zhdanova later recalled. — The light of those days still warms us. In the house, lamps glowed in front of the images; mother’s love and her silence enveloped the soul. There was holiness, joy, peace, and gracious warmth in the house. There was a war going on, and we lived like in heaven.”
Matrona consoled, calmed the sick, stroked their heads, made the sign of the cross, sometimes joked, sometimes sternly rebuked and instructed. She was not strict, she was tolerant of human weaknesses, compassionate, warm, sympathetic, always joyful, and never complained about her illnesses and suffering. Mother did not preach, did not teach, she was generally taciturn. She gave specific advice on what to do in a given situation, prayed and blessed.
Matrona taught to surrender oneself to the will of God, to live with prayer, and to often make the sign of the cross on oneself and surrounding objects: “By the power of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross, save yourself and defend yourself!” She advised me to partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ more often. She taught to love and forgive the old and infirm: “If the old, the sick, or those who have lost their minds say something unpleasant or offensive to you, then do not listen, but simply help them.” My mother did not dissuade me from seeking treatment from doctors; I even advised that it was necessary to undergo treatment. She said that the body is a house given by God, and if necessary, it needs to be repaired.
Mother said that when a person uses decorative cosmetics, he spoils and distorts the image of human nature, creates fake beauty, which leads to the corruption of the soul.
Matrona often confessed and received communion. Continuous prayer and communion helped the blessed one to bear the cross of serving people. Scolding the possessed, praying for everyone, sharing people’s sorrows in her soul, mother was so tired that by the end of the day she could not even talk to her loved ones and only moaned quietly, lying on her fist.
The inner, spiritual life of the blessed one remained a mystery even to those close to her. Like a true ascetic, the blessed one taught not with words, but with her whole life. Unable to walk, she taught and teaches people to follow the difficult path of salvation. Matrona often repeated: “If a people loses faith in God, then disasters befall them, and if they do not repent, they perish and disappear from the face of the earth. How many peoples have disappeared, but Russia existed and will exist. Pray, ask, repent! The Lord will not leave you and will preserve our land!”
Matrona found her last earthly refuge in a house near the Skhodnya station near Moscow, where she settled with a distant relative. Only just before her death, mother, already quite weak, limited the reception, but people still came, and she could not refuse help to some. The time of her death was revealed to her by the Lord three days in advance, and she made all the necessary orders. She ordered no wreaths or plastic flowers to be brought to the funeral.
Before her death, a priest came to confess her. Matronushka looked excited. “Are you really afraid of death too?” - asked the priest. “I’m afraid,” mother answered, out of her humility, for she saw herself as an ordinary sinful person.
On May 2, 1952, she died. On May 3 at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, a note about the repose of the newly deceased blessed Matrona was submitted for a memorial service. Among many others, she attracted the attention of the serving hieromonk. “Who submitted the note? he asked excitedly. - What, she died? (many Moscow priests and inhabitants of the Lavra knew and revered Matrona well). The old woman and her daughter, who came from Moscow, confirmed: the day before mother died, and this evening the coffin with the body will be placed in the Moscow Church of the Deposition of the Robe on Donskaya Street. This is how the Lavra monks learned about the death of Matrona and were able to come to her burial.
On May 4, the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, the burial of Blessed Matrona took place in front of a large crowd of people. At her request, she was buried in the Danilovsky cemetery in order to “hear the service” (one of the few functioning Moscow churches was located there). The funeral service and burial of the blessed one were the beginning of her glorification among the people as a servant of God.
Before her death, the blessed one said: “Everyone, everyone, come to me and tell me, as if alive, about your sorrows, I will see you, and hear you, and help you.” People came to her grave at the Danilovskoye cemetery not only from all over Russia, but also from abroad with their troubles and illnesses.
The nature of the feat of Blessed Matrona is rooted in the centuries-old traditions of popular piety, therefore the help that people receive by prayerfully turning to the righteous woman brings spiritual fruits: people are confirmed in the Orthodox faith, filled with hope and love, and are introduced to everyday prayer life.
Matrona is known to hundreds of thousands of Orthodox people. “Matronushka” is how many affectionately call her. She, just like during her earthly life, helps people. This is felt by all those who with faith and love ask her for intercession and intercession before the Lord, towards whom the blessed old woman has great boldness.
On May 2, 1999, Blessed Elder Matrona was glorified as a locally revered saint, and in 2004 - for church-wide veneration. Her holy relics rest in the Intercession Convent in Moscow.
Based on materials from the book “Saints of the Russian Land”
Life of Matrona of Moscow under the Bolsheviks
It is certainly worth saying that the life of Matrona of Moscow fell on one of the most difficult and bloody pages in the history of Russia. It survived two revolutions, a change of power, two world wars and a civil war.
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Of course, one of the most difficult turns of fate for the blessed one was the coming to power of the Bolsheviks. They rejected the church and religion as such. Therefore, Matrona of Moscow, who sincerely believes in Jesus Christ and heals people with her natural gift, had a very difficult time.
It is also worth noting that the brothers of the blessed one were true communists, so they were very afraid of being caught in what their sister was doing. Despite the fact that the new government denied the church and religion, people still continued to go to the saint and ask her for help. One can guess how the brothers of Matrona of Moscow reacted to this. The blessed one understood this, but she never held a grudge against anyone, since love and sincere understanding lived in her heart.
She had to leave her native village and move to Moscow (perhaps it was from that moment that the saint began to be called Matrona of Moscow). There she experienced many hardships, hardships and persecutions. She could predict police raids, so she managed to avoid meetings with employees of this body. But even in Moscow, she continued to accept people and share with them her gift, love and understanding. Now every Orthodox person wants to know when is the Day of Remembrance of the Matrona of Moscow.
What to contact Matrona of Moscow with
The saint helps people who have lost their way to solve many of their problems. It gives them the strength to cope with life's difficulties that accumulate and break the human spirit.
What problems does the blessed one help to cope with:
- If a person is seriously ill, he asks the saint for healing or reduction of pain and suffering.
- Those who want to start their own family ask for children - the most important joy of life.
- Lonely souls ask for a husband or wife. They turn to Matrona of Moscow, wanting their marriage to be strong and lasting.
- Those for whom family is the main value pray to the blessed one for their family and friends, for their well-being and health.
- When a bad streak comes in life and money simply flows away, those suffering also turn to Matrona of Moscow for help in a difficult financial situation.
- Caring and loving parents ask for their children to be happy and healthy.
The main thing to remember is that Matrona also helps those who are far from the church.
Where to ask for help from the great saint
It is very interesting that Matrona of Moscow can hear you anywhere. She hears everyone who turns to her and helps those who need her. However, there are also special places where people come specifically to pray and make requests.
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Where to come to pray to Matrona:
- To any church or temple that is located in the city where the person asking lives.
- Anyone who truly believes in her power can pray right at home, placing an icon of the saint in front of him.
- Anyone who wants to come to the holy place can go to her relics in the Intercession Monastery.
- As you know, the blessed one is buried at the Danilovsky cemetery, so you can pray right at her grave.
Matrona will hear you from wherever you are.
How to get to the Intercession Stavropegic Monastery
The monastery is located at: st. Taganskaya, 58 (Moscow). The closest metro stations to it are Proletarskaya and Marksistskaya.
From Proletarskaya station you can get here by taking a tram and getting off at the Abelmanovskaya Zastava stop.
From Marksistskaya station you can go to the street. Taganskaya, and then by trolleybus No. 16, 26 or 63, or by bus route No. 51, get to the Abelmanovskaya Zastava stop.
You can also get to this stop by tram from the Ploshchad Ilyich metro station.
The longest way to get to the monastery is from the Ryazansky Prospekt metro station. From the street You can get from Papernik to Abelmanovskaya Zastava by bus route No. 51 or trolleybus route No. 63.
The Intercession Monastery is located at the intersection of Taganskaya, Abelmanovskaya, Nizhegorodskaya, and Rogozhsky Val streets, which make up the Abelmanovskaya Zastava (square). In any place you can see the monastery fence.
Traditions on the Day of Remembrance of Matrona of Moscow
Of course, the Day of Remembrance of the Great Saint Matrona of Moscow in 2019 should not be in vain. Every Orthodox person who believes in her power and help should honor her gift, generosity and endless mercy. Despite the fact that Matrona’s life was very difficult (the girl was born blind, at the age of 17 her lower limbs became numb, life was difficult for her parents, since the family had a difficult financial situation), she never lost heart and instilled faith in the hearts of people who despaired and lost all guidance in life.
What you can do on the big day:
- The simplest thing an Orthodox person can do to honor the memory of Matrona of Moscow is to decorate her icon with fresh flowers. Those who believe in her love for people have an icon in their home. Getting fresh flowers in early May will not be difficult.
- Matrona of Moscow herself will be much more pleased if a person does a good deed, namely, helps a beggar or homeless person, or feeds a needy street animal. Such an act will bring much more benefit to the world.
- Also, donating to temples or churches is considered a good deed on the great day. Mostly people donate food.
- Attend the liturgy, which is held every year in every city, as a memory of the great saint.
- Go to the Danilovskoye cemetery, where Matrona of Moscow is buried, and bring flowers to her grave.
Everything you do for the blessed one on this day, she sees and hears.
How to win over Matrona of Moscow
Of course, people do not go every day to the Danilovskoye cemetery to the grave of the Matrona of Moscow, do not decorate her icons with flowers and do not conduct (or attend) liturgies in honor of the blessed one. But there are some good deeds that anyone can do every day or every week.
Anyone who wants to gain the saint's favor and do something pleasant with all his heart can feed homeless animals and birds (especially pigeons). And, of course, a person must help a person. Helping a beggar or homeless person is a very good and kind deed that will fill your heart with love, understanding and compassion.
Thus, in 2021, the Day of Remembrance of Matrona of Moscow for Orthodox Christians will be May 2. On this day, Orthodox Christians pray, ask for themselves and for their loved ones, do good deeds and visit the grave of Matrona of Moscow. Her soul is always close to those who believe in her. It is best to put up an icon of the blessed one on May 2 and decorate it with beautiful fresh flowers, visit a temple or church.
In any way we must honor the memory of the one who overcame difficult obstacles all her life, faced enormous troubles and still did not lose her sense of love for people, compassion, mercy and endless desire to help those who need her, her gift and her boundless help .
How to ask Matrona about the health of yourself and your loved ones?
You can pray to Matrona not only for your health, but also for the health of a loved one. Arriving at the temple, you need to give a note about your health, and then light candles under the face of Matrona of Moscow and read the prayer:
Prayer to Matrona for health:
Blessed Elder, Matrona of Moscow. I pray for the health of the servant of God/servant of God (name of your loved one) and healing from sinful thoughts. Thy will be done. Amen
Then you need to cross yourself, and when leaving the church, buy three candles and draw holy water. At home you need to light candles, placing them near holy water. Imagining the person for whom the prayer is being read is in good health, you need to say the prayer many times:
Prayer to Matrona for the health of loved ones:
Blessed Elder Matrona of Moscow. I pray for your loved one named (call him). Rid him/her of bodily scabs and cleanse the soul of accumulated soot. Give him/her grace in the form of good health and forgive all sins committed so far. Thy will be done. Amen
You need to pray alone, and holy water should be added to drinks that are drunk by the one for whom you prayed. This must be done secretly.
