Elder Gabriel Kareian biography

A factor called "time" is present only in our life with you. He is not in heaven. Military Medical Academy, Surgical Department. My wife is issued home to die: oncology. Doctors did everything they could. I am next to my wife in the ward. A sudden call from Athos from the elder Gabriel. The blessing of Svetlana: Take tonsure in the nun with the name of John in honor of John the Baptist.

The blessing to me: go to the Voskresensky Novodevichy Monastery, buy complete monastic vestments and the first Hieromonk who met me to transfer the order of the Holy Mountain about Svetlana's tonsure in the nun. Not the slightest doubt we had to disobey the commandments of the first confessor of Athos. I immediately called the rector of our parish Fr. Andrei with a request to find out how the petition is written.

Andrey dictated to me on the phone. Having taken paper and pen from the nurse on duty, I wrote, and Svetlana signed this statement. She herself could not write, as the last month could afford only a few sips of water per day. And no food due to intestinal obstruction. Taking a statement, we and I and I Andrei ran to the reception to Metropolitan Barsanophy. He was away, in Moscow.

And none of the bishops could solve this issue without him. Meanwhile, I went to the Voskresensky Novodevichy Monastery for vestments. After praying, I bought the necessary. But, since the wife lost 20 kg, he was not sure of the amount of vestments. Prayer helped. When he brought everything home, the vestment had time for his wife. On the way back from the monastery, the hieromonk did not meet me.

The wife, although she suffered very much from pain, forbade me to knock out an anesthetic medicine from the Ministry of Health. But I still turned to the district hospital. I was met by a very cool reception, although the doctors promised to send their employee the next day to check if my wife really bad. When the doctor came the next day, she did not find a pulse from her wife and was amazed at her self -control.

In horror, I immediately wrote the right conclusion, and I ran with him to the district hospital. The wife called Hieromonk Ignatius at the monastery to her confessor. She took a blessing from him and said goodbye to him. I am sitting on the bed next to my wife, and she says: “I have to die tomorrow, my mother came, warned. And the metropolitan will come on Monday. Tomorrow is only Friday.

Give it, Sasha, my vestment of some nun. ” Only she said this, a call from Athos, from the elder Gabriel. Again, the order, already to me: “In the morgue, cover the body of the wife with monastic robes, on top of the usual worldly coating. Super in the church like a layman. It will be tonsured in heaven by angels. ” Having communed three hours before the outcome of the terrible holy secrets, his wife went to the Lord ...

After his wife left me, the elder Gabriel called me and said that her soul flew all the ordeals, without touching, I then read it from the Holy Fathers, this is given only to the martyrs, took tonsure with the name of John and received the right of prayer for people. Her soul went at 16 o’clock in the afternoon, and on the first night the angel of John showed two miracles. In the morgue, on the third day in the Assumption, they gave me half an hour to say goodbye to my wife alone.

She lay in a coffin like a sleeping person. I kissed her goodbye on her lips, and her cilia flinked. Her soul was nearby. So that no one tells me that it seemed to me, I can add that, being a car driver and the owner of firearms, I regularly pass the necessary examinations, and in general, neurasthenians do not take at the nuclear boats. Shortly before Svetlana, the icon of the Savior in our iconostasis was pouring.

Archpriest Andrei Shcherban was a witness. It poured from the icon for three years. When they celebrated three years from the date of the departure of our Svetochka, I let everyone who came to remember her to attach to the icon. After this incident, the flow of the world ceased. After the installation of the monument to Svetlana, she reflected on the surface of the cross in a light-octing-lining vestigation in the first photograph.

About the trip with the icon to the old man, the Anzersky icon of the Holy Tsar’s Great Martyrs and Martyrs, was written in Gatchina by order of a group of lanes from the village of Zasitsa on the initiative of the nun Tikhona. We, the inhabitants of the Veritsa, have long known each other, lived in one spiritual life. A lot of icons were written from our orders for different temples, including for the Solovetsky monastery.

There, on the island of Anzer, there is Golgofo-Raspytsky monastery, which stands on the same longitude with Jerusalem, where our Savior was crucified. A large icon was taken there. Then a small copy of this icon was written for the elder Gabriel, which was instructed to take me. Miracles with the icon began immediately. When I, taking the icon from the nun Tikhona, returned to my house in Vyritsa, the Monk Serafim Varitsky from his icon met me with a blessing gesture, as priests do.

It was a miracle. Overwhelmed by his blessing, I set off. I was on Athos many times, rose three times to its top and even spent the night there once. A lot of temptations occurred on the road, but with the help of God I overcame them.Officially, the entrance to Athos was closed in connection with the approaching arrival of high persons from Russia. But with the help of the mistress of the mountain, the queen of heaven, I drove.

In Karya, he could not find a translator for three days who would lead me to the old man. And only praying well to the mistress of the mountain, the Queen of Heaven, I found a guide. The elder met me affectionately, overturned and kissed everything. I immediately led to his cell. I was glad and slightly embarrassed. He understood that he, as an earthly angel, knew all my questions and only expected answers from him.

He gave him an icon that he kissed and accepted with gratitude.

At the same time, already on his own initiative, he gave him the icon of St. Seraphim, the Vyritsky miracle worker. The elder handed me several icons prp. Porfiry Kavsookalivita, Equal -to -the -Apostles Cosmas of the Etholian. I asked the translator to take a picture of both of us. The elder blessed. He sat down and delved into a prayer. I showed him a photograph of the reflection of the nun John on her cross.

He confirmed that it was she, and said: “This is a great miracle! Moreover, on the second channel, I received much more information than on the first. When the conversation ended, we said goodbye and went out with the translator, unusually inspired. With earthly angels, on the one hand, it is unusually easy, and on the other, it is difficult. It is difficult because they often speak the conditional language in which the Bible is written.

Often the meaning of what they said do not immediately reveal. In my life I had to meet with twelve earthly angels. Some of them are open to people, others do not open to everyone. They are united by the fact that they do nothing and do not speak of their own free will, but only according to God's blessing. This was said by the Monk Seraphim Sarov, and Joseph Isihast and many others.

But communication with them, regardless of whether you understand them immediately or not, is very gracious. On some of my questions, the elder did not answer what I regretted. Then he realized what he answered, but in a conditional mental language. I will give an example. Whoever understands is good, who does not understand, then he does not need it.

Leaving the old man, we, inspired by a conversation with him, decided to go to one monastery where it was impossible to ride.