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Information spread on the Internet that a woman with an oncologically ill child was not allowed to attend the service in the Novodevichy Convent because of the stroller in which the child was.

Abbess Margaret. Photo by Yulia Makoveychuk, taday.ru

Abbess Margarita (Feoktistova) , the abbess of the Novodevichy Convent, explained what exactly happened in the temple:

“A woman entered the church with a child in a stroller (not a wheelchair) — a stroller. Usually parents leave strollers in the porch of the church, but for people in wheelchairs, access to the temple is, of course, open. At almost every Sunday service in our church, several parishioners in wheelchairs pray.

The sister turned to the woman and suggested that she leave the carriage in the porch of the temple, as is customary. The woman, in response, reacted inadequately, very emotionally, thus disrupting the course of the divine service. She rather noisily explained that her child was seriously ill and she and the child in the stroller remained in the church until the end of the service.”

December 27 by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church(Journal No. 113) the following decisions were made:

1. Mother Superior of Spaso-Borodino convent the village of Semenovskoye, Mozhaysky district, release nun Filareta (Grechin) from her post;
2. Abbess Seraphim (Isaeva) of the Moscow Novodevichy Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery to be appointed as the abbess of the Savior-Borodino convent in the village of Semenovskoye, Mozhaisk district, with dismissal from her post;
3. To appoint the abbess of the Kazan convent in the village of Kolychevo, Yegoryevsky district, nun Margarita (Feoktistova) to the post of abbess of the Moscow Novodevichy Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery with the elevation to the rank of abbess and dismissal from her post;
4. Appoint a nun Maria (Makarova) as abbess of the Kazan Convent in the village of Kolychevo, Yegoryevsky District, with the laying of a cross ex officio.

On December 28, in the Assumption Church of the Novodevichy Convent, Metropolitan Yuvenaly, in the presence of Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk, Bishop Roman of Serpukhov, the newly appointed abbesses and nuns of the Novodevichy Convent, announced the changes. The Secretary of the Diocesan Administration, Archpriest Alexander Ganaba, announced the decision of the Holy Synod. Then Metropolitan Yuvenaly elevated nun Margarita (Feoktistova) to the rank of abbess and laid a pectoral cross on nun Maria (Makarova). The abbesses were given appropriate decrees and certificates.

After that, His Eminence delivered a word of edification:

“Beloved in the Lord! You and I are living in such a responsible period of time when the Lord is entrusting us with obediences, which, perhaps, have never happened in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. After those terrible persecutions that the Church experienced in the 20th century, when monasteries were closed, and many, many of their inhabitants and nuns were martyred, now we are reviving monastic life and restoring desecrated and destroyed shrines. We, according to the instructions of our ascetics and ascetics, are recreating what was lost and physically destroyed. Each of us has learned from personal experience how difficult it is. But at the same time, the Lord does not send a person a cross that he is unable to bear. And with love for the Lord, we carry out archpastoral and pastoral obedience and monastic deeds.

Why did I say, in regard to our labors, that something unprecedented in history is happening? Because it is difficult to combine both monastic work, which provides for solitude, and the mission of enlightenment in our society, which is drawn to the Church with its soul, but, perhaps, does not know how to take a step in the Church. Therefore, each of us needs many gifts in order to fully, without a trace, devote ourselves to serving God.

What you have heard today from the decision of the Holy Synod is not explained by shortcomings or blunders in the management of the monasteries. Life is developing so rapidly that we must find ways to more dynamically resolve the issues that each of us faces, but at the same time we must take into account the inner state and abilities of each person so that the cross that is given to everyone is strong. This is the only reason that prompted me to ask His Holiness Patriarch and the Holy Synod to make these changes.

I remember with what boldness, hope, but also apprehension, the 80-year-old old woman, who had not passed the test of monastic life, began her work as abbess of the renewed Novodevichy Monastery of the Theotokos-Smolensk. Matushka Seraphim (Black) for five years, of course, created a miracle, zealously from day to day, until her last breath, carrying her abbot's cross. Without any living conditions, the first inhabitants passed obedience here. They tried to show an example of monastic obedience, humility and patience and did not disgrace my hope. I had to see to it that in all the monasteries under my jurisdiction prayer would be warm and monastic life revived, and at the same time, church buildings would be restored. After the death of Abbess Seraphim, I had to find a worthy replacement.

Then I saw how Matushka Seraphim successfully carried out her abbot's obedience in the Spaso-Borodino Monastery. Literally, I tore this monastery from her heart, calling her to serve in the Novodevichy Convent. Mother Seraphim then, of course, moved here without desire, but she fully accepted the decision of His Holiness the Patriarch and the Holy Synod as the will of God. And all these years, she diligently carried out her obedience, taking care of both the monastic revival and the beautification of this temple, where we carry out prayer feat from morning to evening. And today I would like to express to you, dear mother Seraphim, my personal gratitude for your obedience and for the years in which you managed this holy monastery here.

Returning you to the Spaso-Borodino Monastery, I know that you have a lot of work to do. Firstly, the conditions there are cramped, maybe they got a little better after you left there. There are no such excellent living conditions that are created here, in this holy monastery. But I think there are opportunities for building a new home for the sisters. Now the Government of Russia has a favorable attitude towards the return of the Church of the holy monasteries, temples, land - everything that belonged to the monasteries. Ahead of you is a further creative feat, which is carried out by all our abbots and abbesses of monasteries.

As a blessing to you, dear mother Seraphim, I want to present the image of the Nativity of Christ, because we meet during the Nativity fast and on the eve of the Nativity of Christ. May the Lord, who brought peace to earth, give peace to your soul, blessing, strength and love! With these thoughts direct your steps to your beloved monastery and continue your monastic work there.

I imagine that it is not so easy for Matushka Margarita to take over the management of this monastery today for two reasons. Firstly, I think, in her heart is anxiety about the fate of the Kazan monastery, where she was the first to start the construction of this monastery upon the resumption of monastic life. On the other hand, she knows what kind of work awaits her. But, with the help of God, dear mother Margarita, I think the Lord will direct your ministry, and as you showed yourself during the revival of the Kazan monastery, you will continue here those zealous labors that both the blessedly reposed abbess Seraphim and mother abbess Seraphim, who today transfers to you the management of this monastery.

Of course, as a human being it is very difficult to leave, to get used to changes. But I only want to say one thing: we are a single brotherhood and sisterhood of our diocese, and regardless of where this obedience takes place, we are bound by holy obedience and monastic work. And each, not according to his own character, not according to his customs, governs the monastery, but according to the charter, according to established traditions and with the blessing of the Ruling Bishop. Therefore, I would like to tell the sisters that nothing has changed and will not change in the monastery with the replacement of the abbess. Each remains with its obediences. Humanly, of course, our relationship will be preserved, and we will communicate in prayer. We have the custom of pilgrimage, we have the custom of visiting each other for holidays, and all this will continue.

I really hope, dear mother abbess Margarita, that the position that obliges us to engage in restorative, social, and educational activities in this holy place will help to revive what was before the closing of the monastery. You will have to take into account the new opportunities that the Lord opens before us.

I think that we need to increase the number of inhabitants in this monastery, because the sisters, although meekly and with great zeal, carry out obediences, which I always note, but I think that it is sometimes necessary to give indulgences and rest. You have a wonderful courtyard where you can stay from time to time when your soul and body are tired, and here, of course, you can relax your obedience when the number of nuns increases in the monastery. I think that active sisters should be accepted here, who will not only make prayer rule and worship, but also to participate in restoration work, and, especially, in the enlightenment of those who come here both as a tourist, and as a pilgrim, and as a person seeking God.

When people are appointed, they talk about responsibility, about big tasks, and the person who accepts these obediences reminds of his unworthiness and his poverty. The fact that you, dear mother Margarita, have gone the way of building the Kazan monastery, indicates that you will transfer the accumulated experience to this monastery. And if you treated every sister there with love, then here we expect the same from you, because in any monastery the abbess and the abbess live according to the principle of a family, and the abbess is a mother for the sisters.

Today, one of the young nuns takes on the feat of managing the Kazan Monastery. This monastery is remote from the center, from the city of Moscow, it is located in rural silence, but there is no end to the work, because only part of the bell tower and a small new building are occupied by nuns, the rest of the territory is occupied by a psycho-neurological boarding school where sick people are treated. I think that the complete transfer of this monastery will take place soon, and there will be great work to restore the monastery. Relations between the monastery and the hospital administration have now been established, providing for the spiritual care of patients, this is an exorbitant work and feat.

I also hope that the number of nuns in the Kazan Monastery will increase, that you will continue the heroic labors that Mother Margarita carried from the first day of the resumption of monastic life there. I think that we will all try to help you, pray for you, take care of the revival of the monastery, and you do not lose heart in your labors. Do not be discouraged by failures, because not everything depends on us. Sometimes the Lord sends trials to us, and then, when we solve some problems, fills our hearts with indescribable joy, and we see that the Lord and the Queen of Heaven never leave us!”

Vladyka Metropolitan also presented a blessing to both Abbess Margaret and Nun Maria the icons of the Nativity of Christ with prayerful wishes.

Biography of Abbess Margarita (Feoktistova, 0),
abbess of the Mother of God of Smolensk
Novodevichy Convent

Nun Margarita (Feoktistova Elena Yurievna) was born in 1963 in the city of Yegorievsk, Moscow Region, in a family of employees. Father Feoktistov Yuri Fedorovich, born 1939, mother Feoktistova Lidia Georgievna, born 1939

From 1971 to 1981 studied at secondary school No. 10 of the city of Yegoryevsk. In 1982, she married Boris Ivanovich Kokenov, born in 1956. Divorced in 1996. Has two children: son Feoktistov Sergey Borisovich, born in 1983, daughter Victoria Borisovna Kokenova, born in 1989.

In 1981 she entered, and in 1987 she graduated from the sanitary and hygienic faculty of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute. I.M. Sechenov.

After graduating from I MMI them. I.M. Sechenov from 1987 to 1992. worked in the laboratory of legionellosis of the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after. N.F.Gamalei of the Ministry of Health of the USSR in Moscow.

From 1994 to 1995 worked as the head of the clinical diagnostic laboratory of the complex of childhood and obstetrics of the Yegorievsk regional territorial medical association.

From 1995 to 1997 Physician of the Rapid Diagnostics Laboratory of the Research Institute of Urology in Moscow.

From 1997 to 1999 Doctor of the Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, AIDS Laboratory at the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs in Moscow.

From 1999 to 2004 doctor of the virus diagnostic laboratory of the Medical Center of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

Since 2002, she has been the chairman of the parish council of the Kazan Church in the village of Kolychevo, Yegoryevsky district, Moscow region.

On August 27, 2003, in the Trinity Church in the city of Yegoryevsk, Moscow Region, she was tonsured a cassock with the name Elena, in honor of the Monk Elena of Moscow (Girl). With the blessing of Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna, the dean of the churches of the Yegoryevsk District, Hieromonk Nikodim (Lunev), was tonsured.

On September 13, 2005, with the blessing of Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna, she was tonsured into the robes by Hieromonk Nikodim (Lunev, 0), dean of the churches of the Yegoryevsk District, with the name Margarita in honor of the Great Martyr Margaret of Antioch.

On October 6, 2005, by the decision of the Holy Synod, the parish of the Kazan Church in the village of Kolycheva was transformed into the Kazan Monastery, the nun Margarita (Feoktistova) was appointed superior of the monastery with the laying of the pectoral cross ex officio. On December 12, 2007, she was awarded the governor's sign "Thank you."

Biography of nun Maria (Makarova, 0),
abbess of the Kazan convent

Nun Maria (Veronika Sergeevna Makarova) was born on December 16, 1980 in the city of Yegorievsk, Moscow Region. Mother Makarova Lyubov Nikolaevna, born in 1953, father Sergey Mikhailovich Makarov, born in 1951, doctor. In 1996 she graduated from a secondary school in the city of Yegorievsk. During her studies in secondary school, she also studied at the Children's School of Arts in the music department in the piano class. In 1996, she entered the Moscow Regional Music and Pedagogical College, from which she graduated in 2000 with a degree in music teacher. In 2000, she came to the Trinity Church in the city of Yegorievsk as a singer, and since 2003, in addition to singing on the kliros, she carried obedience in prosphora.

In 2001, she entered the correspondence department of the Moscow State Open Pedagogical University named after M. Sholokhov (Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, 0), which she graduated in 2006. In 2005, she entered the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University at the missionary faculty of the correspondence sector. She was not married.

During the autumn and spring months of 20012002. worked in the Holy Trinity New Golutvin Monastery. In 2005, for three months she carried the obedience of a chorister in the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem in the Gornensky Monastery.

On February 15, 2006, she took monastic vows and was given the name Vera. Hieromonk Nikodim (Lunev) was tonsured by the dean of the churches of the Yegoryevsky District.

On December 18, 2007, she was accepted as a sister of the Kazan convent in the village of Kolycheva, Yegoryevsky district, Moscow region.

On December 19, 2007, she took monastic vows with the name Maria, in honor of the Holy Martyr Mary (Mamontova-Shashina) (Comm. September 19 / October 2). Hegumen Nikodim (Lunev) was tonsured by the dean of the churches of the Yegoryevsk district.

May 6, 2012 the oldest list of the Iberian image in Russia Mother of God, brought from Athos in 1648, c. Abbess Margarita (Feoktistova), abbess of the Novodevichy Convent, tells how it became possible to return the icon from the State Historical Museum to the monastery.

- Mother Margarita, how did you manage to agree on the transfer of the Iberian icon?

- No one agreed on anything, it was a one-man decision. Of course, the issue of the possibility of transferring the icon was discussed in the media, but we did not conduct any targeted negotiations regarding its return to the monastery.

For several recent years Vladimir Putin has repeatedly met with. Vladyka told him about the history of the monastery and its shrines, and perhaps then Vladimir Vladimirovich remembered that the icon of the Mother of God "Iberian" was in our monastery and that this is such a great shrine that must certainly be returned. And the other day he made the appropriate decision. For all of us, this news came as a big surprise, and before the icon was brought to the monastery, I could not believe that it was really being returned to us.

— Has the icon always been in the monastery?

- Yes, since Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich placed her in the Smolensk Cathedral of the monastery, she has always been here. Only once, in 1913, on the occasion of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, it was taken out for general worship in the Metropolitan Chambers of the Chudov Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin.

What about after the revolution?

– The icon, along with other monastic values, was transferred to the branch of the State Historical Museum, which was located right there.

- After the revival of monastic life, were the nuns of the monastery allowed to come to her?

—Not! It was simply in museum collections. AT recent times, already when I became abbess, the icon was transferred twice a year for veneration to believers in the Dormition Church of the Novodevichy Convent. And since she was in the museum in the most ordinary conditions, and not in some special museum climate, during the transfer to the temple, the conditions of her detention practically did not change.

— And when was the museum removed from the monastery premises?

– It was very paradoxical: on the one hand, the buildings were returned to us, on the other hand, our shrine, the Iverskaya icon of the Mother of God, which even as a museum item always remained in the monastery buildings, was taken to the State Historical Museum on Red Square! We were all very worried, it seemed that it was simply unrealistic to return her to the monastery in this situation. The incredible happened!

— But how?

What is impossible for man is possible for God. The only thing that can be said here is that Holy Mother of God She herself wanted Her image to return to our monastery, and so quickly arranged everything through Vladimir Vladimirovich. Why, who can say? God knows.

- Will the icon be kept, as before, in the Smolensk Cathedral?

- Not. First, it will be brought to the Smolensk Cathedral, and Patriarch Kirill, together with Vladyka Yuvenaly, concelebrated by the clergy, will perform a prayer service before the icon, and then the priests will transfer it to the Assumption Cathedral of our monastery, and the Iberian icon will remain there forever. On the same day, an all-night vigil will be held in honor of this holy image, and in the morning - Divine Liturgy.

– The icon was painted in the 17th century, and the climate in the cathedral is not at all museum-like. Are you not afraid that the icon will be destroyed?

– The Moscow diocese will be responsible for the preservation of this icon, as well as the icons from the iconostases that were transferred to the monastery earlier, and the Ministry of Culture will assist in the restoration work and ensure its safety. The Iberian icon will be placed in a special ark with a climate control system, and specialists will monitor its condition.

— What does this return of the icon mean to you?

- When you enter the Smolensk Cathedral and look up, you see the inscription: "My House." And tomorrow She returns to Her house. Thank God!

Interviewed by Olga Bogdanova

"Tatyana's Day" / Patriarchy.ru

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Moscow, December 8 - AiF-Moscow. Information that a woman with an oncologically ill child was not allowed to attend the service in the Novodevichy Convent spread on the Internet.

Allegedly, the woman was asked to leave because of the stroller in which the child was.

The abbess of the Novodevichy Convent, Abbess Margarita (Feoktistova), explained that a woman with a child in a stroller, not a wheelchair, actually entered the temple.

“The sister turned to the woman and suggested that she leave the stroller in the porch of the temple, as is customary. The woman, in response, reacted inadequately, very emotionally, thus disrupting the course of the divine service. She rather noisily explained that her child was seriously ill and she and the child in the stroller remained in the church until the end of the service, ”Abbess Margarita quotes Orthodoxy and the World.

The media reported that the girl had cancer.

Bloggers claim that the incident in the Novodevichy Convent took place.

“The hospice is located next to the Novodevichy Convent, and Sonya and her mother went there to serve. Quite quickly, a nun approached them in the church and said that children in the church should not be in a wheelchair, the wheelchair must be left behind the fence, and the child must be held in her arms. Sonina's mother did not listen to this nonsense and remained in the service (I would have left). Then two nuns came up to her at once and escorted her out more harshly: “You can’t with a stroller!”. The story about the fact that Sonya has cancer and maybe it's her last days didn’t help,” Lydia Moniava, manager of the children’s program of the Vera Hospice Fund, writes on her Facebook page.

Other bloggers believe that there was a misunderstanding, and not malicious intent - the girl was in an ordinary stroller, the sisters did not immediately understand that the child was sick. Usually monasteries and temples ask their parishioners to leave prams in the porch, this is a generally accepted rule related to how the space is organized during the service. This version is supported by the fact that after the explanations, the nuns accepted the situation and there were no more comments about the mother. The woman herself writes about this, as well as the volunteer Lydia Moniava, at whose suggestion an information scandal erupted.

Prior to taking the vows, Abbess Margarita worked as a doctor at the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, as well as in children's intensive care. Abbess Margarita is a candidate of medical sciences, and before becoming the abbess of the Novodevichy Convent, for many years she raised a monastery in the Moscow region from the ruins, which shared the territory with a psychiatric hospital. Mother Margarita and several sisters took care of seriously mentally ill people.

the 6th of May oldest list icon of the Mother of God "Iverskaya" will be returned to the Novodevichy Convent. The decision to transfer the image of Vladimir Putin took the other day. Abbess Margarita (Feoktistova), abbess of the Novodevichy Convent, tells how it became possible to return the icon from the State Historical Museum to the monastery.

No one agreed on anything, it was the sole decision of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

Of course, the issue of the possibility of transferring the icon was discussed in the media, but we did not conduct any targeted negotiations regarding its return to the monastery.

Over the past few years, Vladimir Putin has repeatedly met with Metropolitan Juvenaly. Vladyka told him about the history of the monastery and its shrines, and perhaps then Vladimir Vladimirovich remembered that the icon of the Mother of God "Iberian" was in our monastery and that this is such a great shrine that must certainly be returned. And the other day he made the appropriate decision. For all of us, this news came as a big surprise, and before the icon was brought to the monastery, I could not believe that it was really being returned to us.

Has the icon always been in the monastery?

Yes, since Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich placed her in the Smolensk Cathedral of the monastery, she has always been here. Only once - in 1913, on the occasion of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, she was taken out for general worship in the Metropolitan Chambers of the Chudov Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin.

And after the revolution?

The icon, along with other monastic values, was transferred to the branch of the State Historical Museum, which was located right there.

After the revival of monastic life, were the inhabitants of the monastery allowed to come to her?

Not! It was simply in museum collections. Recently, when I became abbess, the icon was handed over twice a year for veneration to believers in the Dormition Church of the Novodevichy Convent. And since she was in the museum in the most ordinary conditions, and not in some special museum climate, during the transfer to the temple, the conditions of her detention practically did not change.

And when was the museum removed from the monastery premises?

It was very paradoxical: on the one hand, the buildings were returned to us, on the other hand, our shrine, the Iverskaya icon of the Mother of God, which even as a museum item always remained in the monastery buildings, was taken to the State Historical Museum on Red Square! We were all very worried, it seemed that it was simply unrealistic to return her to the monastery in this situation. The incredible happened!

But how?

What is impossible for man is possible for God. The only thing that can be said here is that the Most Holy Theotokos Herself wanted Her image to return to our monastery, and so quickly arranged everything through Vladimir Vladimirovich. And why - who from people can say? God knows.

Will the icon be kept, as before, in the Smolensk Cathedral?

No. First, it will be brought to the Smolensk Cathedral, and Patriarch Kirill, together with Vladyka Yuvenaly, concelebrated by the clergy, will perform a prayer service before the icon, and then the priests will transfer it to the Assumption Cathedral of our monastery, and the Iberian icon will remain there forever. On the same day, an all-night vigil will be held in honor of this holy image, and in the morning - the Divine Liturgy.

The icon was painted in the 17th century, and the climate in the cathedral is not at all like a museum. Are you not afraid that the icon will be destroyed?

The Moscow diocese will be responsible for the preservation of this icon, as well as the icons from the iconostases that were previously transferred to the monastery, and the Ministry of Culture will assist in the restoration work and ensure its safety. The Iberian icon will be placed in a special ark with a climate control system, and specialists will monitor its condition.

What does this return of the icon mean to you?

When you enter the Smolensk Cathedral and look up, you see the inscription - "My House". And tomorrow She returns to Her house. Thank God!