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Ep. Augustin (Anisimov)

Augustine (Anisimov)
(born 1945), Bishop of Gorodetsky and Vetluzhsky In the world Anatoly Ivanovich Anisimov, born January 14, 1945 in Moscow. Father, Ivan Ilyich Anisimov, belonged to a priestly family that came from the Oryol province.

He came to the Church around 1972-1973 [1]. Even then he took the path of a preacher, despite the difficulties he tried to talk with people about God, to help them come to the Church [2].

In 1977 he graduated from the Moscow All-Union Law Institute with a degree in jurisprudence. He worked as a consultant at the Inyurkollegium, as an instructor at the Moscow Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Education Workers, Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions; art inspector at the Art Fund of the RSFSR; Deputy Head of the Mechanization Department of the Mostransstroy Trust. Was married.

In 1987, he was accepted into the service of the housekeeper of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra, and took part in the preparation of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'.

On May 22, 1990, he was ordained deacon in Ivanovo by Archbishop Ambrose of Ivanovo and Kineshma.

On August 2 of the same year he was ordained a priest by the same Reverend.

On November 19, 1991, he was appointed rector of the Kazan Church in the city of Ivanovo.

From April 1993 to May 2007 he served in the Ivanovo Transfiguration Cathedral.

He taught dogmatic theology, church law, basic theology, apologetics and missiology at the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Theological Seminary, as well as basic theology at the Ivanovo Orthodox Theological Institute.

On September 5, 1993, he was tonsured a monk with the name in honor of Blessed Augustine, Bishop. Ipponian. The tonsure was performed by Archbishop of Ivanovo and Kineshma Ambrose (Shchurov).

Igum. Augustin (Anisimov). Photo ok. 2011

In 1995 he was elevated to the rank of abbot.
He was engaged in missionary activities in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese and beyond. In his activities he emphasized the revival of the Orthodox way of life through the community life of parishes and groups. At the competition of missionary projects within the framework of the XV Christmas educational readings, the Synodal Missionary Department awarded a diploma to the program “Orthodox community as a mission for introducing the Orthodox way of life in Russia.”

At one time he cared for Moscow Orthodox-oriented schools and associations of the Slavic Fund of Russia [3].

In 1995, I spent a month studying the types of educational institutions in Germany [4].

In 2001 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary.

In 2007, he became a member of the commission for canonization of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese. In 2008, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department, Archbishop of Belgorod and Stary Oskol Ioann, he participated in a workshop on developing the concept of a textbook and methodology for teaching the subject “Missiology”.

On October 15, 2008, he was assigned to the staff with the right to transfer to the Nizhny Novgorod diocese.

In December of the same year, he was appointed builder of the restored Feodorovsky Monastery in the city of Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod region.

On May 27, 2009, he was appointed abbot of the Feodorovsky Monastery [5].

As a missionary, by 2010 he had gained extensive experience speaking to a variety of spiritual, educational, scientific and political audiences. Been to different parts of Russia; in Ukraine - in Crimea, Sevastopol, Kyiv; in other former Soviet republics; in Europe and the Middle East. In the educational environment, he passed audiences from preschool education to academies and universities. He spoke in ministries. Been in various circumstances in the army; in prisons, zones, women's colonies; confessed to those sentenced to death [6].

On March 29, 2012 he was named [7], and on April 8 of the same year he was consecrated Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga. The ordination in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow was led by Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill (Gundyaev). Concelebrating with him were: Metropolitans of Krutitsa Yuvenaly (Poyarkov) and Nizhny Novgorod Georgy (Danilov); Archbishop of Vitebsk Dimitry (Drozdov); bishops of Dmitrov Theophylact (Moiseev), Kemerovo Aristarkh (Smirnov), Solnechnogorsk Sergius (Chashin) [8].

Bishop Augustine (Anisimov)

Augustin (Anisimov)

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Bishop of Gorodetsky and Vetluzhsky (born 1945) - Russian church and public figure, missionary, theologian, lawyer, art critic.
Builder, restorer and abbot of the Feodorovsky Gorodets Monastery in the Nizhny Novgorod diocese. Since 2012, bishop of the newly formed Gorodets diocese. Permanent member of the Izborsk Club. In the world Anatoly Ivanovich Anisimov, born on January 14, 1945 in Moscow. The father belonged to a priestly family that came from the Oryol province.

Came to the Church around 1972-1973. Even then he took the path of a preacher, despite the difficulties he tried to talk with people about God and help them come to the Church.

In 1987, he was accepted into the service of the housekeeper of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra, and took part in the preparation of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'.

On May 22, 1990, he was ordained deacon in Ivanovo by Archbishop Ambrose of Ivanovo and Kineshma. On August 2 of the same year he was ordained a priest by the same Reverend. On November 19, 1991, he was appointed rector of the Kazan Church in the city of Ivanovo. From April 1993 to May 2007 he served in the Ivanovo Transfiguration Cathedral. He taught dogmatic theology, church law, basic theology, apologetics and missiology at the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Theological Seminary, as well as basic theology at the Ivanovo Orthodox Theological Institute.

On September 5, 1993, he was tonsured a monk with the name in honor of Blessed Augustine, Bishop. Ipponian. The tonsure was performed by Archbishop of Ivanovo and Kineshma Ambrose (Shchurov). In 1995 he was elevated to the rank of abbot. He was engaged in missionary activities in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese and beyond. In his activities he emphasized the revival of the Orthodox way of life through the community life of parishes and groups. At the competition of missionary projects within the framework of the XV Christmas educational readings, the Synodal Missionary Department awarded a diploma to the program “Orthodox community as a mission for introducing the Orthodox way of life in Russia.” At one time he cared for Moscow Orthodox-oriented schools and associations of the Slavic Fund of Russia.

In 1995, I studied the types of educational institutions in Germany.

In 2001 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary.

In 2007, he became a member of the commission for canonization of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese. In 2008, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department, Archbishop of Belgorod and Stary Oskol Ioann, he participated in a seminar on developing the concept of a textbook and methodology for teaching the subject “Missiology”.

On October 15, 2008, he was assigned to the staff with the right to transfer to the Nizhny Novgorod diocese. In December of the same year, he was appointed builder of the restored Feodorovsky Monastery in the city of Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod region. On May 27, 2009, he was appointed abbot of the Feodorovsky Monastery.

On March 15, 2012, he was elected bishop of the newly established Gorodets diocese. On March 18, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior. On March 29, 2012, he was named, and on April 8 of the same year, he was consecrated Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga. The ordination in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow was led by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus').

Bibliography

Notes of a missionary, N. Novgorod: Publishing house. Yu. A. Nikolaev, 2003.

Education as a system-forming category. State educational policy: history and modernity. M.: IIET RAS named after. S.I. Vavilova, 2007.

Articles and interviews

Bishop Augustine (Anisimov). Without God you can’t reach the threshold // Tomorrow 05/05/2016

We still incorrectly assess the experience of the USSR // newspaper “Zavtra” No. 15 (1167) dated 04/14/2016

Our justice does not despise anyone and does not remember evil // Izborsky Club magazine No. 6 (30) 2015.

Russia and Serbia made an atoning sacrifice // Izborsk Club website 03.24.2015

The election campaign has reached a dead end // RNL 11/25/2011

“There has been a real unification of our people and the rulers of the Russian state.” Hegumen Augustine (Anisimov) shared his impressions of the presence of the Belt of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Nizhny Novgorod diocese // RNL 08.11.2011

We are reaping the benefits of the “free regime” that appeared in 1991 // RNL 09.29.2011

I have not yet observed an outflow of believers from our Church // RNL 04/13/2011

The concept of “emotional burnout” is not applicable to a priest // RNL 03.03.2011

A well-known pastor does not agree with psychologist D. Novikov that priests need prevention of “mental exhaustion”

The Soviet period is the cross of our people // RNL 02/18/2011

Orthodoxy, patriotism and professionalism // RNL 02/03/2011

We will not change anything until we return to God and the Church // RNL 01/13/2011

“This year has been very significant.” According to the priest, the outgoing year is “the end of some very important stage in the life of our country” // RNL 12/13/2010

What traditions should we live in? // RNL 08/31/2010

The current disaster cannot be accidental // RNL 08/03/2010

“His Patriarchal ministry prepared a completely new period.” The abbot of the Gorodetsky Feodorovsky Monastery about Patriarch Pimen, whose centenary of birth we are celebrating today // RNL 07/23/2010

I haven’t seen feedback anywhere in any audience // RNL 06/30/2010

It is extremely important to show people how to approach fasting // RNL 05/31/2010

Russian Orthodox Church

Born on January 14, 1945 in Moscow, baptized in infancy. Father, Anisimov Ivan Ilyich, belonged to a priestly family that came from the Oryol province.

After graduating from school, he served in the Armed Forces.

In 1977 he graduated from the All-Union Legal Correspondence Institute with a degree in jurisprudence. He worked as a consultant at the Inyurkollegium, as an instructor at the Moscow Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Education Workers, Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions; art inspector at the Art Fund of the RSFSR; Deputy Head of the Mechanization Department of the Mostransstroy Trust.

In 1987, he was accepted into the service of the housekeeper of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra, and took part in the preparation of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'.

In 1990, in the city of Ivanovo, Archbishop Ambrose of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma ordained him a deacon (May 22) and a presbyter (August 2).

On November 19, 1991, he was appointed rector of the Kazan Church in Ivanovo.

From April 1993 to May 2007 he served in the Transfiguration Cathedral in Ivanovo. He taught dogmatic theology, church law, basic theology, apologetics and missiology at the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Theological Seminary, as well as basic theology at the Ivanovo Orthodox Theological Institute.

On September 5, 1993, Archbishop Ambrose of Ivanovo-Voznesensk tonsured him as a monk with the name Augustine in honor of Blessed Augustine, bishop. Ipponian.

In 1995 he was elevated to the rank of abbot.

In 2001 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary.

He was engaged in missionary activities in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese and beyond. In his activities he emphasized the revival of the Orthodox way of life through the community life of parishes and groups. At the competition of missionary projects within the framework of the XV Christmas educational readings, the Synodal Missionary Department awarded a diploma to the program “Orthodox community as a mission for introducing the Orthodox way of life in Russia.”

In 1995-2002 taught the subject “Missiology” at the catechist courses of the Alexander Nevsky Brotherhood in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1995, at the invitation of the government and the Lutheran Church of Lower Saxony (Germany), he was on an official business trip to Hannover to study the education system and interaction between the Church and the state in the social sphere. In 1996, he spoke in the State Duma of the Russian Federation at parliamentary hearings on the topic “Education and National Security of Russia.” In 2001, at the request of the head of Ivanovo, he gave a course of lectures “The Orthodox way of life. Fundamentals of Orthodoxy" for the staff of the city administration of Ivanovo. He taught at Ivanovo State University, in particular, he taught his own course “Phenomenology of Religion” at the Faculty of History. In 2007-2008 taught at the Ivanovo Institute for Advanced Training of Teachers to prepare them to teach the course “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture.” For 8 years he was the chairman of the organizing committee for the “Christmas Gift” and “Bright Holiday” holidays, the purpose of which was to attract students from music and art schools and colleges, secondary schools to Orthodox values. He took part in the 6th Golden Knight Film Festival as a jury member.

In 2002, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, he was included in the working group of the Socio-Political Expert Council for the development of the Educational Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In May 2006, at the invitation of the directorate of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Warsaw, he participated in the opening ceremony of the Year of Russian Culture in Poland in Lodz.

By decree of Bishop Joseph of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma dated October 15, 2008, he was assigned to the staff with the right to transfer to the Nizhny Novgorod diocese. In December 2008, he was appointed builder of the restored Feodorovsky Monastery.

By the determination of the Holy Synod of May 27, 2009 (magazine No. 45), he was appointed abbot of the Feodorovsky Monastery in the city of Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod region.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of March 15, 2012 (magazine No. 7), he was elected Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga.

On March 18, 2012, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

Named on March 29, 2012. Consecrated during the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on April 8. The services were led by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of March 7, 2021 (journal No. 13), he was confirmed as the Holy Archimandrite of the Gorodets Feodorovsky Monastery in the city of Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Region.

Bishop Augustin Anisimov Anatoly Ivanovich

Russian clergyman. Bishop of Gorodetsky and Vetluzhsky. Holy Archimandrite of the Gorodets Feodorovsky Monastery in the city of Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod region.

Anatoly Anisimov was born on January 14, 1945 in Moscow. Baptized in infancy. After graduating from school, he served in the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces. Then, in 1977, he graduated from the All-Union Legal Correspondence Institute with a degree in jurisprudence.

Anisimov began his career as a consultant at the Inyurcollegium. He held the position of instructor in the Moscow Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Education Workers, Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions. He was an art inspector at the Art Fund of the RSFSR. He worked as deputy head of the Mechanization Department of the Mostransstroy trust.

In 1987, Anatoly Anisimov was accepted into the service of the housekeeper of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra. He took a direct part in preparing the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. In May 1990, in the city of Ivanovo, Archbishop Ambrose of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma ordained him a deacon, and subsequently, on August 2 of the same year, a presbyter.

On November 19, 1991, he took the position of rector of the Kazan Church, located in the city of Ivanovo. In the period from April 1993 to May 2007, the clergyman served in the Transfiguration Cathedral in the city of Ivanovo. He taught dogmatic theology, church law, basic theology, apologetics and missiology at the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Theological Seminary, as well as basic theology at the Ivanovo Orthodox Theological Institute.

In early September 1993, Archbishop Ambrose of Ivanovo-Voznesensk tonsured Anatoly Anisimov into monasticism with the name Augustine in honor of Blessed Augustine. Further, in 1995, the church minister was elevated to the rank of abbot. In 2001, the clergyman received additional education, successfully graduating from the Moscow Theological Seminary.

After graduating from the seminary, he was engaged in missionary work in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese and beyond. In the process of his activity, Augustine focused on the revival of the Orthodox way of life through the community life of parishes and groups. At the competition of missionary projects, as part of the XV Christmas educational readings, the Synodal Missionary Department awarded the program with a diploma.

In 2002, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II. included in the working group of the Socio-Political Expert Council for the development of the Educational Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2007, Augustine became a member of the commission for canonization of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese. Later, in 2008, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department, Archbishop of Belgorod and Stary Oskol Ioann, he participated in a workshop on developing the concept of a textbook and methodology for teaching the subject “Missiology”.

By decree of Bishop Joseph of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma, dated October 15, 2008, he was included in the staff with the right to transfer to the Nizhny Novgorod diocese. In December 2008, the clergyman was appointed builder of the restored Feodorovsky Monastery. By the determination of the Holy Synod of May 27, 2009, he was appointed abbot of the Feodorovsky Monastery in the city of Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod region.

He was the confessor of the St. Elizabeth's Department of the Sisters of Charity of the Nizhny Novgorod Medical College; spiritual trustee, lecturer-consultant at the Department of International Political Communications, Faculty of International Relations, Nizhny Novgorod State University named after Lobachevsky. By the decision of the Holy Synod of March 15, 2012, he was elected Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluzh, and on March 18 of the same year he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

He was named Hirotonisan on March 29, 2012, during the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on April 8. The services were led by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. By the decision of the Holy Synod of March 7, 2021, Augustine was confirmed as the holy archimandrite of the Gorodets Feodorovsky Monastery, located in the city of Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod region.
12.01.2019

Hegumen Augustin (Zayarny): other forms of education need to be developed

The catechist of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, Abbot Augustine (Zayarny), is a teacher of the elective “Fundamentals of Russian Culture” at the gymnasium of the city of Pechora. He showed participants of the XIII Orthodox Corniliev educational readings a lesson with high school students on the topic: “Christian understanding of cinema” and told Blagovest-info about his teaching practice.

– Father Augustine, in Pechory a unique situation has arisen of close cooperation between the monastery and the school on the issue of spiritual and moral education of children. Tell us how it all began.

– I have been working with children since 1996, serving as a catechist. At some point I realized that I couldn’t do much on my own: there are now four schools in Pechory, but at that time there were five. I realized that I could only reach a very small proportion of children, and something had to be done about it. Then I began to gather teachers and conduct classes with them on the basics of Orthodoxy.

– Was it some kind of unplowed virgin soil?

- Yes, completely unplowed. About 40 teachers attended these Wednesday classes for three years. A core of Pechora teachers has formed, who are still working, and in their lessons in basic disciplines they try to instill Christian values in children. After all, you can do this in different ways: when teaching mathematics, stop and tell a story with some kind of aftertaste for the child.

The teacher sessions were a good start. Still, I think that a priest should not go to school. Let everyone mind their own business. It’s just necessary, on the one hand, to somehow work with teachers, and on the other hand, someone should develop additional education for schoolchildren.

In my opinion, the more promising thing in terms of educating children is not “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” in school, but additional education: clubs, sections, children’s movements, and especially camps, hikes, because children really like it. The problem is that there are very few people who could work professionally with teenagers and at the same time convey something important to them. For example, there are many carpenters and joiners who could open a children's carpentry workshop, but the set of necessary conditions - that the leader of the circle is Orthodox, knows how to interest him, so that nothing in children irritates him - is very rare.

In any case, it seems to me that engaging in additional education: camps, sections is a promising business, but for some reason they hardly talk about it. Everyone rushed to “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture.” How this subject will be taught, what it will consist of - these are actually controversial things. There is a special situation in Pechory - there is a monastery here and, as a result, there are more churchgoers. What will happen in other big and small cities is completely unclear.

Therefore, it seems to me that there is no need to completely rush to the defense industry: yes, they introduced it, and, probably, it won’t get any worse. There is a higher will, church and state - let it exist. But you shouldn’t think that with the introduction of the defense industry everything will immediately improve, children and adults will become better. None of this will happen. It is necessary, along with the defense industry, to look for some ways, forms, methods in order to attract children to a normal lifestyle. We are losing to television, bad movies, bad music, the street, the stereotypes that are imposed on children. But we need to fight this and win. The Church has all the means for this, they just need to be conveyed to the child.

– What do you think you have won over the years?

– A children’s Orthodox movement “Messengers” was created in Pechory; many children passed through its ranks. Not all of them are church members. We do not set a goal for a child to become a church member within a year. We have Muslim children, there are not many of them - it happens, we don’t kick anyone out. If a child wants to walk, let him walk. But at the same time, it seems to me that we are trying to create an atmosphere in which a teenager could join the faith.

– What is the attitude of parents, which is talked about so much in the context of spiritual and moral education?

- Parents' attitude is good. We have wonderful teachers, and therefore parents, even non-church ones, just welcome our activities. There were practically no cases when they were against it. Because they see the result: the child is constantly involved somewhere, he works, he studies something. Plus children's camps - we have it all free, the costs are borne by the monastery.

– How do you structure the course that you teach at the gymnasium?

– A lot depends on the children. The entire program is compiled at the beginning of the year after about a month of communication with a specific class - I teach only high school students. The guys come, I start communicating with them, and within a month I draw up a plan.

There is no compulsion to study. For many years in a row I had a zero lesson, at eight in the morning on Monday. Frost is not frost, children come. For me it was amazing.

– You showed us a lesson on cinematography. Does this have anything to do with your personal preferences?

– We need to touch on everything that interests children. Go not from what is interesting to you, but from the concept of “target audience”. It is worth understanding how children think, what is important to them at a certain age. At one time, cinema played a fairly large role in my life, and I still love this art form. I studied at the Voronezh Theater University in the acting department, but gradually came to the Church and entered the seminary.

Interviewed by Irina Stovbyra – BLAGOVEST-INFO

Reference. Hegumen Augustin (Andrey Aleksandrovich Zayarny) was born in 1964 in the city of Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. He graduated from the Voronezh State Institute of Arts and entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary. In 1994, he joined the brethren of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery and was tonsured a monk. In 1995 he was ordained a hierodeacon, and then a hieromonk. Editor-in-chief of the educational portal “Slovo” and the magazine for parents “Vinograd”.

No. 39 (744) / October 14 '13

Interviewed by Mikhail Kudryavtsev Archpastor
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The topic you outlined became the most important thing for me. Out of some naivety of mine, I put it on my heart to become the ruler of the Soviet Union. And he began to study. I have always had books, and today my library is somewhere around 10 thousand books - I don’t buy anything in my life except books. So, reading about wonderful people - politicians, military leaders, I often noticed that they had a legal education. I also wanted to be a politician and decided to get a law degree. I graduated from law school and was supposed to teach at the Higher Police School, but I was not going to devote my life to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then I worked with young people, did a lot of work in education, and had to work at different levels of the government system. He worked in the Foreign Legal Collegium, in the regional committee of trade unions of educators, as deputy head of the department of the Ministry of Transport Construction, and as a representative of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. Then I had to travel around the entire Soviet Union. But until I was 28 years old, my life was just a search for the truth, for what the life of our people should be like in general. I couldn’t find the answer, although I studied everything – economics, finance, philosophy. Of course, in Soviet times there were no books that I have today. Those teachers and professors were not there...

By the way, I must say that my life has developed in such a way that I have never had good teachers - neither in music nor in science. I do a lot of science, but somehow I never had good teachers. I had to look for teachers myself in books (including ancient ones), find examples to follow, a standard, and I found them. Naturally, I had to read a lot of authors who became famous abroad. For example, I was literally shocked (we are talking about the state today) by the entry in John Kennedy’s diary: “When in the future each of us appears before the highest court of history, which will determine whether we have fulfilled our duty to the Motherland, then what will we do?” no matter what we do in the past, our successes and our failures will be judged by the answers to four questions. Were we truly brave people? Were we people of scrupulous integrity? Were we sober-minded people? Were we people selflessly devoted to our work?

This is how life went until I was 28 years old. But at the age of 28, I met my future confessor - my friend brought me to him, he came to the Church before me, although from childhood I was immersed in the atmosphere of family Orthodox life - my father was the grandson of a priest. My mother had amazing faith, and her name was Vera. During the war, she took on the blame of her mother, who heated the bathhouse for the partisans, and the Germans wanted to shoot her, but she remained alive and out of five brothers and sisters, none of them had children - she only gave birth to me.

In this atmosphere, the thought of what to do for our people did not leave day and night. Precisely for the people. I know for sure: in order for the life of the people to change, the life of the state and the Church must be changed. The church as an apparatus, as a church hierarchy, state power and the apparatus of state power - officials, departments - all this should create conditions for the normal life of the people.

The life of a people responds to what is in nature. What are the conditions in our nature? It’s one thing to live in the north, another thing to live in Africa. And the second point is the quality of state power and the quality of the religion that exists. And in our case it is the Church of God! When I say Church, I always imagine the word: Church of God - we have the Church of God.

When I came to Pochaev for the first time, I was 29 years old, I had to be in the cell of a hieromonk, and I saw books... I immediately looked at what kind of books they were, and, having opened the first one, I immediately saw that there were a lot of answers to my questions. questions. And from that time on (I am now 68 years old) I never left the Church for a single day of my life, looked for answers and plunged into the church treasury.

I immersed myself in the lives of people who were from different classes, but who connected their lives with the Church. I knew that many kings abandoned the throne and went to the Church, many important nobles left. I am happy that I came to Church! Because it is simply impossible to imagine what kind of truth this is and what it is! And Christ Himself says: “I am the way, the truth and the life,” which means this is the path to true life, this is the truth of God, the one that should exist for planet Earth. I always associate the quality of human behavior with planet Earth: will planet Earth support us if we don’t behave exactly like this? Judging by today's natural disasters, it doesn't seem to want to withstand us.

I always connect the state with the body, and I always connect the Church with the soul. What is the most valuable thing in a person? Soul. Because the soul, translated into our language, is life, and Christ says: “I am the way, the truth and the life.” We say that the most valuable and significant thing for us is the soul, and how can our soul exist without God, the Creator of our humanity and everything that we see, all the beauty, harmony, unique objective laws of physics, chemistry, biology, heredity.

I'm just shocked that I was born at all. And when I entered the Church, I think that’s when everything fell into place. This was the way. After meeting with my confessor, I still had to live in the world, but, while still working in a leadership position, I really wanted to get to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and ended up in the service of the housekeeper. This was just before the millennium of the Baptism of Rus'.

I witnessed how God’s grace fell on Russia, on our Orthodox peoples and, probably, on our entire space. I witnessed this! What a great hope there was, what an amazing state of people there was, that today a new life begins!

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Hegumen Augustin (Nevodnichek Sergey Vasilievich), was born on December 5, 1973 in the city of Volgograd, into a family of employees.

In 1988, he was baptized with the name Sergius, in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh, by Archpriest Vyacheslav Zhebelev, cleric of the All Saints Cathedral in Tula.

From 1980 to 1990 he studied at high school, after graduating from which he worked for one year as an altar boy in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin in Tula.

In 1991, he entered the 1st year of the Moscow Theological Seminary. After 3 years, in 1994, he completed its full course and, according to the distribution of the Educational Committee, was sent to the disposal of His Eminence Serapion, Metropolitan of Tula and Belevsky, who appointed him as a reader at the Church of St. Nicholas in Tula.

On August 20, 1997, with the blessing of His Eminence Serapion, Metropolitan of Tula and Belevsky, Archimandrite Laurus, abbot of the Holy Dormition Monastery in Novomoskovsk, was tonsured into the mantle with the name Augustine in honor of Blessed Augustine of Ippona in the Holy Dormition Cathedral of the monastery.

On September 9, 1997, Metropolitan Serapion ordained him as a hierodeacon at the Holy Dormition Monastery in Novomoskovsk.

On September 18, 1997, Metropolitan Serapion ordained him as a hieromonk at the Holy Dormition Monastery in Novomoskovsk.

On January 6, 1998 he was awarded the gaiter.

Since January 2003, he has been assigned obedience to teaching the History of the Russian Church at the Tula Theological Seminary.

On April 27, 2003 he was awarded the pectoral cross.

From 2003 to 2007 studied at the correspondence department of the Moscow Theological Academy, which he graduated with a thesis on the topic: “Experience in theological illumination of ethical-family relations for young people.”

On March 26, 2007, at the recommendation of His Eminence Alexy, Archbishop of Tula and Belevsky, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy was awarded the rank of abbot.

On August 30, 2007, he was appointed to the position of assistant vice-rector for educational work at the Tula Theological Seminary.

On December 14, 2009, His Eminence Kirill, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, was accepted into the clergy of the Yaroslavl Diocese and appointed vice-rector for academic affairs of the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary.

On March 23, 2011, by order of His Eminence Kirill, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, he was appointed acting abbot of the Spaso-Yakovlevsky Dimitriev Monastery in Rostov the Great without being relieved of his positions.

On April 9, 2011 he was awarded the Patriarchal award - the right to carry a club.

By a resolution of the Holy Synod of May 30, 2011, at the request of His Eminence Archbishop Kirill of Yaroslavl and Rostov, he was appointed to the position of abbot of the Spaso-Yakovlevsky Dimitriev Monastery in the city of Rostov the Great.

Achilles

The YouTube channel of the Gorodets Diocese of the Nizhny Novgorod Metropolis posted a video recording of the sermon of Bishop Augustine (Anisimov) of Gorodets, which he said last year, between Easter and Trinity, after the liturgy in the Church of the Intercession in the village of Krasnye Baki.

This sermon is interesting because the bishop devoted it to a rare topic for preachers—dietology. With specific advice to parishioners on how to eat healthy:

Chew at least 25 times.

Drink water before meals. In general, drink a lot of water.

Eating potatoes is harmful; at most you can eat them until November, then you shouldn’t. You need to eat turnips, “to overeat on turnips” - Peter I is to blame, who replaced healthy turnips with useless potatoes.

After eating, you should not drink tea immediately. You should drink tea with currant and rowan leaves, and drink herbs. “Tea is not water, the body needs clean water, ideally from a spring, slightly warmed up.”

“For me, eating one meal a day is ideal. At four o'clock. In the summer I don’t even eat fish—I haven’t eaten meat for 45 years.”

“You have to eat what is growing now. They picked it and ate it."

"Don't eat after six o'clock if you're overweight."

“You have to walk, no need to run. When we walk, the heart and blood vessels work. ... Why do blood vessels become clogged? Because we don’t walk, we even go to the store by car.”

“Every food in the store contains preservatives. My body doesn’t need preservatives, so my blood vessels become clogged.”

“Breakfast is tomorrow, dinner is already eaten, lunch is a glutton.”

“Eat a lot of beets, young garlic, strawberries - gorge yourself. Be sure to eat five or six glasses of strawberries. Everything will be wonderful from this food.”

In Soviet times, Bishop Augustine, according to him, was very ill, and then, on the advice of an experienced person, he was treated by sucking vegetable oil, many times a day. He was never in the hospital again; he is 74.

“Horses don’t eat meat - they have such strength because they eat oats! Eat oats in all forms, drink jelly - you will run like stallions, then you will come and say: give me a husband!

“If someone swears, you will get sick. Watch a movie - there are betrayals, drugs - everything is displayed for you. I don't even know how the computer turns on. I only use the phone to make calls. They carry a phone over their hearts, men in their pockets... (throws up his hands with understanding and regret about the lost masculine strength) What will happen to them then?..”

“If we could see the air now - it is all permeated with electronic waves, we are walking in an eerie space.”

“You have to eat food that is within a 50 km radius; all other food is foreign. ... Pick up some porridge - pearl barley is excellent. Rice - be careful."

“We need alkaline, alkaline food.”

To get rid of all the parasites, you need to eat ginger with honey.

Bishop Augustine was given a glass of oatmeal jelly from the altar, and he promised to drink it and not eat again that day.

After discussing nutrition, the bishop called on everyone to pray for the president:

“He took on a very difficult cross. After Yeltsin, everything was destroyed to the ground, in 2000. And he took on such a cross - how alive he is, poor, how alive he is! ... And pray for Patriarch Kirill - to survive what they did to our Church in Ukraine...”

Finally, the bishop called on parishioners to stop judging each other, to do this they need to “stop watching TV”:

“I don’t look - my soul is calm. And if we look, everything is just bad: it burned down, was robbed, the entrance collapsed - what do we mean, “the entrance collapsed”? Let the builders or housing and communal services work on it - why should we talk about it? And they only give us negative information so that we are upset all the time, angry, nervous, and condemn each other all the time.

I wish you to rejoice, now I’ll drink jelly and go to the holiday!..” Bishop Augustine cheerfully concluded his speech.

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