Mother Fotiniya, FotinYa, Svetlana Robertovna Florova — a schema-abbess, the world's only self-appointed female Orthodox priest, owner of a personal church in Bolshaya Elnya. She became famous through the federal Media (in fact, earlier: by handing out her own newspapers on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya) for creating the syncretic church-monastery "Resurrecting Rus", for producing an icon of Vladimir Putin and for its myrrh-streaming.

A psychic.

Distributes printed spiritual lessons and free homemade icons, and successfully competes with the Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Diocese in the accessibility and affordability of its services. Carries out charitable work (deliveries to the children's sanatorium in Bolshaya Elnya) and organises bus pilgrimage tours.

Author of two dozen paperback books, such as Prophecies of the Guardian Angels about Names, Answers of an Orthodox Priest and a Folk Healer to Church and Everyday Questions, Protective Magic, sold on OZON.RU.

Previously known as Alexandra.

The name Fotinia ("Svetlana" in Greek) matches the name of a well-known Nizhny Novgorod saint, the eldress (nun of the great schema) Fotinia (Semenovsky District, 18th century).

Having opened a church named after herself in Bolshaya Elnya with donations from her followers, Frolova dresses in ritual Orthodox vestments and puts on a priest's cross, which is seen as especially blasphemous by the Russian Orthodox Church, which regards it as a parody of the Patriarch.

The essence of the phenomenon

The official slogan of Matushka Fotinia's work: "Orthodoxy is the right to glorify the LORD, and it is given to everyone!!!" [1]

In the cult of Fotinia the content, the order in which it is set out and any evidence base are unimportant. The abbess's behaviour induces altered states of consciousness, from which a considerable part of the congregation experiences relief of physical symptoms, while some sell their flats, settle in the small guesthouse at the convent, donate money to the development of the church and to the children in Fotinia's care, and so on.

Cases of alcoholism ceasing have been recorded.

Fotinia's activity has for many years been under observation by the anti-extremism centre for the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

A meme of federal significance.

The reason for the veneration of Putin

« Putin must prove himself as a true leader. When can the qualities of a warrior be shown? When there is a war. That is when he will be the true tsar of Russia. This is the great work he is doing now. He is leading along the appointed path. And then he will bring them up, turn around and lead them back. His spirit has been prepared for thousands of years. Either darkness will win, or light. Right now there are seven Christs on the planet — those who have been able to receive Christ within themselves. It will all begin here and they will all gather in this church.
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Services provided

Fotinia's church is open to visitors free of charge. On Mondays the church is closed.

Schedule of the main services and classes:

Baptism

  • Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday: baptism (by prior appointment).

Confession

  • Tuesday - Sunday, 9:00

Divine Liturgy; Spiritual School

  • Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00

Parastas for the departed

  • Wednesday, 12:00

The Great Supper; Exorcism

  • Saturday, 16:00

Unction

  • Sunday, 16:00

Charging of amulets, including for websites on the Internet

Matushka Fotinia is often asked to charge amulets, reports the official website of the "Voskreshayushchaya Rus" convent. A properly made and charged amulet possesses sufficient power. You can also place one of these amulets on your own website on the Internet.

It is charged with protection against viruses and the evil eye, an attracting energy has been placed in it, as well as an energy of protection and resistance.

Fotinia's books

Matushka Fotinia — author of numerous paperback books.

The books are sold by the OZON.RU website at prices from 68 to 202 roubles.

The most expensive are "Protective Magic" and "Prophecies of the Guardian Angels about Names"

Background

A graduate of a trade technical college.

In Soviet times Svetlana Frolova worked "in supply" at various "semi-restricted" organisations, including the Research Institute of Mechanics at UNN (Building 6).

From 1989 to 1994 she held the post of director of the trade and procurement depot of the Gorky Railway. Several episodes of misappropriation of property were proven against her. Three episodes were established: the appropriation of 750 Chinese tracksuits, of cosmetics and of a large consignment of knitwear.

"Thus… Frolova, by abusing her official position, repeatedly stole state property to the value of 41 930 253 roubles and committed official forgery," states the verdict of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court.

It is notable that only a very small part of this sum was confiscated from the defendant herself, along with the seizure of the property of her company with the sardonic name AOZT "We Wish You Happiness" (apparently even then Svetlana Robertovna believed in her "divine purpose").

Where the rest of the money went — a considerable sum for those times — remained a mystery for the investigation.

Probably it was invested in the construction of "New Diveyevo" on the outskirts of a village in the Kstovo district.

Having served a year and a half of her sentence, Svetlana took up extrasensory practice professionally, completed special courses and began receiving people in Nizhny Novgorod. Her first salon specialised in "cosmoenergetics".

Later Frolova sold her Nizhny Novgorod flat and bought a house in Bolshaya Elnya in order to found a "convent" there.

"We are aware of the existence of such a sect. We have received complaints from local residents. But we can do nothing about it. That would require facts of unlawful activity by this convent. And no such facts have been preserved," said Svetlana Medvedeva, a representative of the administration of the Kstovo District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

In turn, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov told the publication that he was hearing of the existence of such a religious group for the first time.

"The high assessment of what the prime minister has done is gratifying. But one would like to recall one of the chief commandments: 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.' When encountering displays of veneration — poems, paintings and the like dedicated to him — Vladimir Putin, as far as I have been able to observe, reacts rather reservedly. The prime minister has said so himself more than once," Peskov stated.

In his words, Putin has a positive attitude not so much towards admirers as towards like-minded people, "with whom he is connected by real deeds rather than by displays of idolatry".

Fotinia's title

Mother superior of the convent and founder of the Church in honour of the Most Holy Mother of God "Resurrecting Rus", the sinful servant of God, Matushka Fotinia.

A typical address by Matushka Fotinia

« Attention! From 9 June 2006 the Lord Almighty Himself has blessed a cross procession in glory of the Mother of God "Resurrecting Rus", for the salvation of Russia, of Matushka and of all mankind. The procession will go along the Golden Ring of Russia. All who wish to join us are awaited with joy at the convent of the Mother of God "Resurrecting Rus". And as King David asks: "Create in me a clean heart, O God," so must we too receive and cleanse our own heart and our Motherland, receive and bow down before the new coming of our Mother Mary, before her new incarnation named "Resurrecting Rus". Only listen closely to her name: "Resurrecting Rus"... In this name is everything: the hope of the existence of ourselves and our descendants, our happiness and theirs! Brothers and sisters! Prepare the paths for the Mother of God, let Her into your hearts, for She stands and knocks at the doors of our consciousness! And do not listen to those who say that this is heresy, for we do not even know ourselves. And how can we assert that one who rejects the Mother of God speaks the truth? Listen to your reason, to your hearts and Souls. Through them the Lord will speak to you. Look upon Her with eyes unclouded. There She is, the Most Pure One, coming and holding out to us Her kind maternal hands. Let us bow our heads before Her and ask for help: to deliver us sinners from pride and egoism. For today we are all mired in these sins. Let us call upon the Mother of God, "Resurrecting Rus": "Most Gracious Mother, save us!" Church in honour of the image of the Most Holy Mother of God "Resurrecting Rus" Address: 607651, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Kstovo District, village of B. Yelnya, Magistralnaya St., 58. Bus stop "Detsky Sanatoriy" Remember the history of Russia! Always, in all ages, when an enemy threatened Rus, Christians walked in a cross procession with prayer to the Most Holy Mother of God to save Orthodox Rus, and those who could not walk organised the collection of donations for the procession. And now such a moment has come, when everyone must decide: to be or not to be with Russia and for Russia, and also for our blue planet Mother Earth. All who wish to save Russia may send donations to the address of the convent. Bank details for the collection of funds for the cross procession in glory of the Mother of God "Resurrecting Rus": BANK: Kstovo OSB No. 4345, Structural subdivision No. 17 Postal address: 607651, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Kstovo, Lenin Square, 3 (location: Shkolnaya St., 14) NO 1445695 No. 42307810242194501712/39 Kamarova Nina Sergeyevna

Spiritual pastors, clergymen and apostles of the faith of Christ!

I address you all not for help, but with an urgent request.

Unite all your efforts, all the might of the pastoral word, cast aside all quarrels, all irreconcilability,

for a great sorrow is coming upon Rus!

And now, more than ever, unity is needed, to which the Lord Jesus Christ always called. You do not wish to acknowledge the Mother of God "Rus Resurrecting", you do not acknowledge Her church, you do not acknowledge me, the servant of the Lord and of the Mother of God, and thereby you bring sorrows upon Mother Rus. Do not repeat the mistakes of 1917. Take off the masks of pretence and hypocrisy. For he who honours Christ fulfils His Commandments: "judge not, that ye be not judged!", "love thy neighbour as thyself".

Yet you did not receive the Mother of God, and you condemned and did not love Her servant and handmaid.

The Lord has no more time to bring you to reason, you of little faith. And as the prophet Isaiah said:

"The hearts of the sons of this age have grown hard, they look and do not see, they hear and do not understand!"

And now much depends on your perception that all is from the Lord and that in all things is His great Will, and that the Lord is in each of us.

I cannot say what is coming, for you will not believe it anyway. But do not lament afterwards, do not cry out to the Lord for forgiveness. You will not be forgiven the misfortunes you have called down by your little faith, your pride and your self-will.

Pray to the Mother of God "Rus Resurrecting", that She may entreat the Lord to turn away these misfortunes.

Love Her with all your heart, as the Lord loved you who betrayed Him!

Do not gather coals upon your own heads with your own hands. For you are answerable for Orthodox Rus.

And nothing is from me, but all is from the Lord!

Mother superior of the Convent and of the Church in honour of the Most Radiant Image of the Mother of God "Resurrecting Rus", the sinful servant of God, Matushka Fotinia

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"Lesson 1"

There are no healthy people on Earth!

Everything is infected, polluted: the earth, the water, the air. Plants, birds, fish, animals and people themselves are at the stage of dying out.

But the atmosphere of the psychic world is polluted even more than that of the physical one; it is equally unfit for breathing. People complain about the exhaust fumes of cars, about factory chimneys throwing tons of poisons into the air and the water — but what about themselves? People themselves do nothing but poison the atmosphere with toxic gases: with their thoughts and feelings, full of hatred, malice and envy. Everything in a person that rots, moulders and decomposes creates a suffocating atmosphere around him.

We blame cars, but what are cars compared with 6 billion ignorant creatures who have never learned to govern their inner life? When a person's psychic side is healthy, he is able to neutralise external poisons and toxins; the body defends itself.

The Gospel of Luke, ch. 11, v. 39

Illness arises within, and only then manifests itself outwardly"

Look at a person who has an immense faith and very pure blood — he can live among the infectious sick: lepers, tuberculosis patients, cancer patients, and he is not infected, while those who have rot within serve as good food for microbes.

If evil has penetrated a person on the mental plane, then it has also opened a little door onto the physical plane. There are people who can poison you without even touching you; even small animals die around them. And on the contrary, there are people whose emanations radiate a beneficial energy that heals, cleanses and fills, and everyone rejoices at their presence: plants, stones, animals, people. These are selfless people, filled with love, peace and light. Thanks to them there is still life on Earth. (Example – the 2nd floor – intensive care for flowers and birds).

Nature is a living organism of which we are a part. Every person is a cell in an enormous cosmic organism (example – the organs of our body). It is necessary to live in harmony with nature.

Thoughts are visible, they are real. Our thoughts are the rays of the sun that is our Spirit. By the law of correspondence, thoughts are transmitted at a distance to those people who possess the same structure and mood, and they can carry out what you have conceived (kill, steal, etc.). every thought and feeling is a force which, leaving a person, sets off into space to work good or evil. Be watchful – this means be attentive to what is happening inside you and always be on your guard.

The law of thought – every thought must be regarded as an individual entity. Some thoughts do not live long, but there are thoughts that have lived since the times of Atlantis, Ancient Egypt and Babylon, and they are so malicious and poisonous that they are destructive to this day; and on the contrary, others continue to remain a source of great blessings.

Yes! Thoughts have not only form, they have smells. Each of us is also a thought, but a thought of the Lord. And each of us thinks to the degree that he has drawn near to the Lord and identified himself with His Spirit.

Until we are filled with the Divine Spirit, other beings, that is, those who dispose of us, think through us.

A state of inconstancy: now joy, now sadness, now laughter, now tears, now wisdom, now folly, and so on (guests: whatever state you are ready for (thoughts, feelings), such spirits visit you).

Our servants: these are thoughts and feelings – they are separate entities. That is why bright and reasonable entities do not linger long as guests with you. Why? Because they cannot bear ugliness, filth, smells, rot, fermentation and mould, and they leave.

Example: How many people of genius have lost their gift (talent): doctors, artists, singers, musicians, healers, clairvoyants.

Entities constantly enter and leave us. inside us there is a constant bustle of moving house, for we are like a multi-storey building where the master of the house, poor thing, lives in some little closet (a punishment cell) and no one listens to him and no one obeys him (the hare, the fox, the rooster).

Matthew 26:4

«Watch and pray» – do not sleep on the spiritual plane.

Humanity is on the verge of a lethargic sleep. One cannot live with one's eyes closed, one must constantly give oneself an account of what is happening inside you. "To watch" means not to let the enemies seize you and ruin your house. "To pray" – to connect your mind to heaven. Connection with the Lord, with Peace, with Joy, Light, Love, Truth, Wisdom.

The commandment "Watch and pray" is very important for the spiritual life. The physical body must rest, but your Spirit must never sleep. "This night I shall leave my body in order to go and study in the invisible world and to help people.

John 14:30

«The prince of this world comes, and he will find nothing in me»

This means that the prince of this world possesses riches which he distributes to those who place themselves at his disposal. Jesus took nothing from him and therefore owed him nothing (freedom, will)

And so! Be careful!

On healings

« In the Church, unique cases of healing from the gravest illnesses have been attested: CANCER, CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER, ASTHMA, TUBERCULOSIS, LEUKAEMIA, DIABETES MELLITUS, BRAIN TUMOUR, MASSIVE HEART ATTACK, HYPERTENSION, ALLERGY, DISEASES OF THE SKIN AND OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM, INFERTILITY, DRUG ADDICTION, ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE AND SO ON.
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On the church

An address to the representatives of other confessions:

"Love – that is what religion means. And not fawning and crawling before the powerful of this world, who for the sake of their own mercenary interests are ready to subject everything to themselves at any price. Even to change all the laws of religion. To set us against one another, using our weak side – lack of understanding!

And yet everyone is the same. Each of us has one head, two arms, two legs, one heart and one soul. And we are all equal and alike before the LORD, however and wherever we may pray. To HIM it makes no difference at all in which churches and in what form a person's true repentance takes place. If only our heart be pure – that is what matters to HIM!

Enough of dividing the faith, enough of tearing it apart and fighting like beasts over a fatter piece of meat. We are all HIS children!

The time that has come – the New Era, the New Age, the very one spoken of in the revelations of John the Theologian. When evil must depart, and Light and Good must flourish. So the beast has bared its jaws. And it acts upon weak minds, forcing them to manifest its filthy, aggressive will. Can it really be that we have lived only to yield so stupidly and slavishly to this evil will of the enemy of mankind? The time has come for unions, not only in words, amid the flashes of cameras. The clergy of all religions must declare their union and are obliged to go out into the world, to the people, and preach to everyone, crying out directly: «We are all Children of GOD»

And humanity must have one single teaching – the teaching of Love! One prayer alone – the prayer of Love!

To the LORD all are the same, all are loved by HIM, regardless of how and where a person lays his heart upon the Altar. And HE wishes to save everyone, but to save not your bodies but your Souls. And so HE created this miracle, this Church in honour of the Most Radiant image of the MOTHER OF GOD «Resurrecting Rus», which HE HIMSELF named – «My New Church, House of love, House of knowing ME». This is an extraordinary Church. Here the Mother of God herself has hallowed everything by her presence!

This is not simply a Church, this is a miracle of the 21st century, a New Diveyevo. And whatever those who disagree with this may say, it is an accomplished fact. Our own beloved Father Seraphim himself said: «And a miracle shall be revealed from the Virgin and a new Church shall be created, a new Diveyevo, by the border with Pechery and by Mount Athos».

Many have tried to join these two geographical points, situated a thousand kilometres from one another. And they could not even imagine that somewhere, in an unknown little village, near the Pechery microdistrict and by the Afoninskaya hill, in the Nizhny Novgorod Province, this miracle would take place. And however we may strive, however we may resist, the LORD nonetheless works through His chosen children what HE has conceived. And there was nothing from me, for in everything there was the will of the HEAVENLY FATHER. HE created a New Ark of salvation at the juncture of two epochs. The Optina elders wrote of this as well:

  • Saint Nektary of Optina: «The days of Noah are a prefiguration of our days. The Ark is the New Church – only those who are in it shall be saved».
  • Saint Anatoly of Optina: «There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be shattered. Yes, this will happen, but people are saved even on splinters and wreckage. Not all, not all will perish… A great miracle of GOD will be revealed… And all the splinters and wreckage will, by the will of GOD and by HIS power, be gathered and joined together, and the Ship will be recreated in all its beauty and will go its own way, appointed by GOD. So it shall be, a miracle revealed to all»

And the LORD created under His roof a Great Spiritual School. A School in which at last the tainted are opened to the simple person – the mysteries of Divine consciousness, from the eternal I Am. At last a person can learn to know himself, and already in the process of this knowledge he comes to know who the LORD is! Do you wish to know all this? Do you wish at last to know the LORD? Then let HIM into your heart. Open up your house, clear it of rubbish, sweep out all the filth and let the LORD and the Mother of God in there. For the time of great trials has come. That is why the Most Holy Virgin «Resurrecting Rus» has come – to save us all from perdition. Not the body, but the Soul, for a person's death begins with the death of the Soul and the Spirit.

Look into one another's eyes and ask: «Where has the LORD settled within us? In which organ? Where is the MOTHER OF GOD? Am I living as the LORD commanded – in love?»

And do we know what Love is? Not our everyday or passionate love, whose name is egoism. But that Love – exalted, beautiful, Divine. Those who consider themselves shepherds will tell you that Divine Love is beyond a person's powers. Yes, the Love of the LORD itself is unattainable for us. And while a person lives on Earth and is attached to the material, or to relatives and those close to him, it is beyond his powers to know it. But if a person is able to renounce everything material that hinders communion with the LORD, to tear out of his heart what hinders him from going to the LORD, if he gives his whole self, down to the cell, down to the atom, all his life and his death, into the hands of the LORD, and says: «Here I am, FATHER, a stinking thing and decay, I am aware of this and repent before THEE, but from this day on I no longer wish to serve the darkness, or myself, but wish to serve only THEE, FATHER!

I give everything into THY hands, govern me, lead me, FATHER!» Then a part of Divine Love will enter the heart and Soul, will resurrect the Spirit within you that was granted us by the FATHER, and then you will hear HIS voice through this Spirit, and then your consciousness will understand and be reconciled to the fact that we are a nothing, and the LORD is Everything, and that without HIM we are dead. Then the LORD will give you all blessings, but only so that you may forget your own self, and remember that there is the LORD and the people living beside you, created in the likeness of the LORD, but who have forgotten this and gone astray.

You will understand that it is no longer you who live, but the LORD in you, as the Apostle Paul said. That everything GOD has given belongs to HIM alone, that we have nothing of our own. Only the FATHER can give, and can also take away. And if everything HE has given you do not lay up in your own heart, but give away with joy to those living with you, not only to relatives and those close to you but to completely unknown people. Then your cup will always be full, the LORD is never in debt. But HE replenishes this cup with His Love, protection, patronage, His Fatherly care, of which only HE is capable.

This is what Divine Love is!

And whoever does not agree with me, let him say so now. But it is unlikely that such bold souls will be found. And if the walls of the Church were raised – it was the will of my FATHER!

HE sent His Daughter to Earth, as once He sent His Son. And He cries out: «Build a Church in your Soul, where I might live and create through the Holy Spirit».

I too was a sinner, and remain one. For while a person is on Earth, even one hundredth part of sin is there, however righteous he may be. But the FATHER, seeing my great fall, led me to HIMSELF through the betrayal of those close to me, of friends, deprived me even of shelter and a roof over my head, and even through death itself.

And there are witnesses to this, not only among my relatives but also among the doctors, that my body lay for 17 days in the morgue, in a cold chamber, and then rose again. For my Spirit and my Soul were alive then and were at judgement before the FATHER. And much did I learn then, much did the FATHER reveal to me. He revealed that on earth I have thousands of children bound to me by Spirit and Soul, but they have gone astray and are waiting for me. And I cried out to the FATHER: «Let me go to them, and I will carry out all that THOU commandest, FATHER, THY will is my life!»

And this Church arose not from a sick imagination and not from spiritual delusion, as many believe. So the FATHER willed it, and I merely carried out HIS will.

They have forgotten the Gospel, when they said of Christ that a demon was in him and Beelzebub himself. And He answered them: «Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand. And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then shall his kingdom stand?»

Does the darkness need the Image of the Mother of God, answer me! Do darkness and evil need a Church?

Those who reject good deeds, who reject the merciful, who raised a hand – and were not afraid to – against the Image of the Most Holy Mother of God, they are the very evil made flesh. Still more terrible is that this evil is in the spiritual shepherds. They condemn suicide bombers and fanatics, while they themselves zombify simple folk, pushing them into sin, saying : «Go, do harm to her, to the woman who is building a Church». Where are the shepherds?

Where are the true shepherds, I ask you? If they saw (as they suppose) that I had gone astray, why did they not come to save me, but like cowardly, mangy dogs, which are capable of barking from under a fence and biting at the heel instead of rendering effective help, busied themselves with inciting the local inhabitants and commissioning dirty articles in the newspapers. Thus did they too set upon me, and upon those who accepted the Image of the Mother of God «Resurrecting Rus», people who are so small and blind, so ignorant, for they have already for more than 2000 years been led not to GOD but away from GOD, taking cover behind a cassock. With their lips glorifying the LORD, and with their deeds serving Satan. And I am not afraid to say it. Where are you, shepherds? Where are you? Many among you are tormented by this question. So let us seek the answers together!

Let us, children, look back into your past, into the history of humanity. How many mistakes have been made. The talk will be of the mistakes of the Clergy, for very much depends precisely on their way of thinking, since they are shepherds. Once they cried out to Copernicus and Bruno: «Heresy!», and even burned one at the stake, because they asserted that the Earth is round and revolves around the Sun. But now you all know this.

Once they cried «heresy» and «witch» at the Maid of Orleans – Joan, and burned her. And now she is numbered among the Saints. A monstrous mistake was committed towards her, and only after so many centuries did they acknowledge that it was a mistake.

Now let us take the Diveyevo Convent. Now it is a Holy Place, but when it was only being founded, the clergy cried out: «Heresy, madness, Mother Alexandra lives in delusion!» But they did acknowledge it – yet when? Sixty years later. A monstrous mistake.

And whose?

The Clergy's!

And they cried out to inventors: «Madmen, heretics, man cannot soar through the air», – yet man does soar, he soars!

How many monstrous mistakes, which brought with them so many victims! But all those who offered themselves in sacrifice are now in the Kingdom of our FATHER, whereas those who took upon themselves the insolence of judging by an earthly judgement, while they themselves vegetated in ignorance and darkness, are now all in the transitional worlds and in the nether regions!

Has this really taught you nothing?! Again you take upon yourselves the insolence of crying: «Heresy!». So what sort of Faith is in you, if you have utterly forgotten that everything is from the LORD! Everything! Everything! Everything!

The new is always born in torment, while the old struggles and does not wish to give way.

And everyone understands everything, but the fear of losing something makes them bury their heads in the sand.

The teaching that the Son of the LORD, Jesus, brought was not understood or accepted back then either. And though the Apostles explained it, the powers of this world did not agree with it. For them, to be deprived of power is like death. So they dissembled - gradually remaking the Church and the Priests to suit themselves. And everyone knows this. And if a clergyman has even once, even in his thoughts, said to himself: "My Temple, my flock... and so on", he is already no servant of GOD. For they have nothing of their own; they have forgotten that everything belongs to the LORD, their lives included. If they will not serve conscientiously, they will lose everything, and it does not matter what rank they hold!

The time has come for all of us servants of the LORD to think about our contribution. About whether we are doing, saying, thinking and dreaming the right things. To unite all our good, to cut off, without pity, all the bad, and at last to take a step forward. For everything moves and changes, and only the spirituality of humankind still marks time in the Old. To this day the "Spiritual shepherds" live by the Gospel with their lips only, and by the Old Testament in their deeds.

And so the LORD gives us a chance to come to know one another. To unite Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam and other faiths. And to create one single Faith - Faith in the HEAVENLY FATHER, Faith in HIS Love, in HIS Mercy, in HIS Justice. To learn to accept everyone as they are, to live by GOD's laws!

It is for this that the Temple in honour of the MOTHER of GOD "Resurrecting Rus" was created. From this Temple a new Epoch will begin, a new wave of Revival.

Orthodoxy is the right to glorify the LORD, and it is given to all!!!

It is time to unite all the people to whom this right is given, and it is given to everyone, regardless of nationality.

Unification means that from each faith one must take the foundation of foundations:

  • Orthodoxy - asceticism.
  • Catholicism - mercy.
  • Protestantism - good breeding.
  • Islam - morality
  • Judaism and Buddhism - Karma and incarnation.

Here it is, the True new Church, for Jesus Christ is a cosmic principle - the Love of GOD THE MOST HIGH.

And HE has been coming to earth since the day the world was created, under different faces and names. To each people, bringing what was necessary for them in that period.

Now the time has come for HIS new image and face, bringing the word to all the inhabitants of the planet!"

An address from the administrator of the official website, the sinful servant of God Amvrosy

"Brothers and Sisters ! Such attention to the temple's new website came as a surprise to us. All manner of apostates, revilers and persecutors are heaping curses upon us.

But there are many devout People as well.!

We have been sent many questions. About how one can hand in a note for good health at the icon of Vladimir, how to pray properly, how to obtain a personal amulet, how to make donations, and others.

With the mother superior's blessing I ask for advice. To my shame, I am not well educated in technical matters. If there are internet technicians among you, give me a hint on how to arrange the submission of questions, notes and so on through the website?

And most importantly, how to give an answer to the revilers and the persecutors and wreckers?

Please write to me by e-mail fotiniya2000@yandex.ru

the sinful servant of God Amvrosy [2]

Cultural aspects of the cult of Fotinia

The article "The gates of hell are securely sealed".

«Нижегородские хроники» published several surveys of the syncretic temple in Bolshaya Yelnya, which drew a great response from readers - who asked a multitude of questions both of a quasi-esoteric and of an everyday nature, for example about the reason for the pink colour of the outer walls. The broad public interest sent us to the already familiar Bolshaya Elnya for a personal meeting with the head of the cloister.

The enigmatic cult, about whose nature much that is contradictory has been written, has with charming efficiency absorbed practically all the currents of the world religions and secular beliefs, their well-promoted characters and egregores. One wants to speak simply about the teaching of the temple "Resurrecting Rus", because there is nothing complicated in it; it is perceived as mysterious because of the habit of mixing various components of the world religions in the simplified form in which they are traditionally available to the masses, not infrequently giving the basic terms and properties a new interpretation.

Thus, the faith professed in the cloister is called Orthodox and includes, as its load-bearing structure, hope in Patriarch Alexy II as the principal leader of the spiritual forces, in the divine anointing of sacred power, in the miracle-working role of icons, in the veneration of Orthodox saints (Seraphim of Sarov himself, meanwhile, comes forward with topical messages in the colour newspaper officially registered as a mass medium, with a print run of 5000 copies, which the cloister publishes), and in general in the traditional attributes of Orthodox services.

At the same time, the cornerstone of the practice is that mercy is borrowed from Catholicism and actively put into practice, and from Islam and Buddhism - certain other matters (see the official website). All this leads to the temple, which soothes stray souls, and the optional monastic life on the local campus being open to everyone. Besides, one can gather that nobody is held in the cloister by force.

At first we noticed the non-working bell button on the imposing gates, behind which a KamAZ truck could be seen, and the unlocked door. Before entering the building we were asked to put on rubber galoshes in chemical colours. All in all we managed to note that there were about 12 pairs of such footwear in the entrance hall. (A Sunday school operates at the temple).

Having chosen orange and lettuce-green galoshes, we were led through an underground passage into a room evidently used for meetings and conversations.

After a rather lengthy censing of us with candles, during which we had every opportunity to examine the interior decoration of the room, Svetlana Robertovna Frolova - Mother Maria, formerly Fotinya - came out to the authors of the “Хроники” from the direction of the temple hall: an affectionate, enthusiastic woman with kind eyebrows, dressed in well-fitting clothes and white shoes, who held before us throughout the whole conversation a massive cross, used, as could be judged by the state of its central part, for the service and the kisses of the faithful that accompany it.

The conversation began with an exchange of views on the differences between inquisitiveness and curiosity, in the course of which Svetlana Robertovna pleasantly surprised us with her melodious, distinct voice. At first there was nothing to talk about. Fotinia (we use this name here as the one best known to the audience - as her activity develops, the prioress changes her spiritual names, and now she is called Abbess Maria, which is most likely also not the final result) was waiting for a field of conversation to be announced, while we tried to begin now with Putin, now with the galoshes, now with the old woman with whom we had had a talk the day before, when we spoke with the prioress's assistant about the visit (an elderly independent woman, met in the yard next to a large cat - a relative of one of the nuns, she was memorable for her comparison of the nature of Avtozavod with that of this cloister, and also for her repeated mentions of the two meals a day that people here receive, in her opinion undeservedly - “just for praying”).

We decided to ask about Fotinia's teaching, seeing in it the source of all the things, artefacts and testimonies we had seen. Consciousness in this case is primary, and matter secondary.

Having examined the portraits of gods and enlightened heroes hung on the walls of the reception room, we were given the explanation that the mother superior's religion includes all the best that exists in the world. At this point we asked in bewilderment what Putin had to do with it. It turned out that Putin is the first Human being in the post of President of Russia and balances the spiritual leader of Russians - Patriarch Alexy II. The secular pulls downwards, the spiritual upwards. One cannot live in Russia and hate one's president.

- He has had a great many incarnations, he came to earth many times. Afanasy Nikitin, a wonderful spirit, was another incarnation of Putin. He led Russia out to the Indian Ocean. The Patriarch is supposed to lead spirituality upwards, but he leads it downwards. Along the path of technical progress. He is fulfilling his task as president. These are two opposite poles. Spirituality is now at zero. The number of monasteries is growing, and spirituality falls with every day. Two enormous egregores have met.

Renunciation of material prosperity leads to disharmony, to powerlessness (Later, in the booklets, we saw pilgrims in amphitheatre tour buses. Indeed, this is far better than the traditionally rickety vehicles used for cult and ritual purposes in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The cloister building itself, built, by the mother superior's testimony, five years ago, is notable for its tidiness and its adherence to European standards). Putin represents the opposite vector of development with respect to spirituality, fulfilling his destiny: to become a warrior and to lead the struggle against the world crisis that will shake Russia and will precede its revival. The soul of the world is in Russia, the heart of Russia is in the Nizhny Novgorod region, in Bolshaya Yelnya. The gates of hell are in the same place.

- There were monasteries here in the 13th century. And the gates to hell are here as well. This cloister is like a lock, it seals the gates of hell. Hell too must be known; without knowing hell, you will not know paradise either. Now souls are waking up. Humanity has a chance not to perish. But that does not mean that we shall avoid cataclysms. The fall has not yet reached its extreme point. When we hit the wall with our foreheads, we shall understand. And who will destroy us? Technical progress. The gates are already ajar, evil has seeped through. The Lord showed them to us for 2000 years. But he did not hold it against us, for the execution of Jesus. Now the spirit is gathering strength again, and the whole of the nether world will rise against it.

Thus, Putin is that awaited hero who is identified with large-scale events not only of a military but also of an apocalyptic kind, for the completeness of this turn of the historical process. Because of this, Putin's role is in many ways sacrificial. There is of course no icon of Putin, nor is one expected.

- Putin in the form of an icon? A man, while he lives on earth, cannot even call himself a saint. God is sheer, bare altruism, he is the sun, which needs nothing.

Putin is simply respected, and his portrait is displayed in the bedchamber.

- Look at how Putin came to power. Did anyone really elect him? The Lord himself brought him. The Lord turned Saul around and set him to serve here. Besides, this is Tsar Nicholas, who was deprived of his crown. He has come to get it back. Ancient incarnations - King Solomon, Prince Vladimir. Putin is in his rightful place, but we have no icons at all, there is only a portrait. It hangs in my office. Though "office" is not the right word. My chambers.

Incorrect, too, is his identification with an incarnation of Andrew the First-Called, presented earlier in publications on the subject of the monastery in Bolshaya Yelnya. It is the great spirit known as the Apostle Paul, and later as Nicholas II, that dwells in Putin.

- Putin is the incarnation of the spirit of the Apostle Paul.

In the cloister almost all the icons stream myrrh, especially those that have to do with Russia. We were shown several photocopies of the icon most venerated in the temple, the central place among them being occupied by an image capturing the special little string for offerings on the icon, on which various valuables are strung, mostly of a jewellery kind.

Spirits come to the temple from all over the world. Even from the whole galaxy.

- Spirits came here, spirits built all this. They entered the shells of people, then departed. Then other people came, who are not capable of creating, and they make use of everything that was created. God can place a programme in your heart, and you will come and do what we need.

Sometimes repentant sinners come to the services and to the Sunday school classes, driven by the sufferings of the spirit, by an awareness of their sins. The mother superior explains that many people are an instrument of God, committing acts that society regards as sin but that are not such in their essence. Cutting Gordian knots by their actions, people receive information about the true value of what they have done only after a certain time. And instead of reproaching themselves, they need to look at the situation as a whole, and in this a mentor led by God can help - in essence an ordinary person, but one through whom God, living in the heart, is vividly manifested. This is precisely the purpose of the spiritual centre in Bolshaya Yelnya.

- These residents - they are not capable of religious processions. They are not capable of anything by themselves. One would have to kindle such hatred in them. A swamp is a terrible thing, it is death.

Having led people out of the big city, having given them the chance to take stock of life, attending the Sunday school and the exorcism sessions - and every ordinary person needs them to one degree or another - to prepare for the conscious battle of the forces of light under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.

- Putin must show himself as a true leader. When can the qualities of a warrior be shown? When there is a war. That is when he will be the true Russian tsar. It is a great work that he is doing now. He is leading along the intended path. And then he will bring them to the point, turn around and lead them back.

His spirit has been preparing for millennia. Either darkness will win, or light. There are seven Christs on the planet at present - those who have been able to receive Christ into themselves. Everything will begin here, and they will all gather in this temple.

Expert commentary

Boris Nikolayevich, timber industrialist :

I have known Fotinia since the times when she coordinated and supervised various property transactions, for which she went to prison. Barter deals were popular in the management of the Gorky Railway. She is a precise person and knows her business. I myself was once offered the chance to head a sect: the beard, the general appearance and the voice all fit. There are clear business plans on this score. Miracles are made simply. After all, a person comes to a guru more than once.. First they are asked their surname and first name, they are talked to about their problem and an appointment is set for a few days later.

In that time the person is "checked out". They may be warned about certain events, and those events may be arranged. It is inexpensive: for instance, a person dressed in accordance with the prediction walks up to the client and starts a conversation on the right topic. That is how faith in the spiritual leader grows stronger. All the more so since the benefits of drawing in an important person make it worth staging a whole performance with a trained group involved, that is, the main work is not with the masses but targeted. The idea is that five people should sell two specific flats, not that a hundred old ladies should each bring a rouble.

Olga Peresypkina (first name and surname changed), security guard :

« You should have seen her in the detention centre. She was a sane person, of a very practical turn of mind. Her main quality – power-hungry, and not very successful. »


The official spokesman of the Russian Orthodox Church

« I would like to explain to uninformed citizens the matter of our president being canonised by the sect from Bolshaya Elnya. By all the canons of the Orthodox Church, a person is numbered among the saints only after his death.

Moreover, from that moment a sufficient time must pass for a study to be made of all the miracles associated with that person. For example, it is established whether specific miraculous healings actually took place and whether they were not an invention. These studies are carried out by the canonical commission of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the final decision to number a given person among the saints is taken by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was in this way, for example, that Seraphim of Sarov was canonised.

The painting of icons from a living person and the veneration of them contradicts all Orthodox canons. This, by the way, exists neither in Catholicism nor in Protestantism. It contradicts even common sense. From my point of view, in this case it is simply a publicity stunt.

I believe that such actions by sectarians led by a person previously convicted of fraud defame the honour and dignity of the president of Russia. I think that the presidential administration should put a stop to them using its instruments of non-forceful influence. Possibly the presidential administration is simply not yet aware of it, but I think that as soon as it learns of this, the ending of the "services" before Putin's portrait, and the closing down of the sect itself, will be a matter of time.
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That very terem by the turn-off to Mega

User Ser.V.Us 22 January 2012 at 08:32:59, City forum NNRU:

"Ah, so that's the terem standing by the turn-off to Mega. I always wondered who got it into their head to build themselves a dwelling like that, and here's what it turns out to be. And anyway Shantsyf drives past it every day, he could take an interest, help shut the shop down, if he's not in on it himself of course))))"

"That very Svetlana Robertovna who in the late 1990s ran the most fashionable shop in Dzerzhinsk"

User Collins 22 January 2012 at 07:58:36, City forum NNRU:

"Wild! Is this that very Svetlana Robertovna who in the late 1990s ran the most fashionable shop in Dzerzhinsk, took up fortune-telling after it closed, and now she's gone and invented a religion? Honestly, I was already marvelling at her talent fifteen years ago, you don't come across con artists like that every year. This one won't let her chance slip :))

I read the comments and weep: I have two theories about the icon with PUTIN's face:

  • 1. The icon is weeping with shame
  • 2. The icon has been spat on

wild)) we need to hurry along the appearance of the holy relics

The Botox is leaking out..."

Interesting facts

  • Putin, according to Fotiniya's teaching, is the reincarnation of the Apostle Paul, the traveller Afanasy Nikitin, Emperor Paul I and many other positive characters.
  • According to Fotiniya, her body lay for 17 days in the morgue, in a cold chamber, and then rose again (archive) . "The Spirit and the Soul were then alive and stood before the judgement of the FATHER. And much did I come to know then, much did the FATHER reveal to me. He revealed that on earth I have thousands of children bound to me by Spirit and Soul, but they have gone astray and are waiting for me. And I cried out to the FATHER: «Let me go to them, and I will do all that THOU commandest, FATHER, THY will is my life!». Therefore her temple arose not out of a sick imagination and not out of spiritual delusion, as many believe: "Thus did the FATHER wish it, and I merely carried out HIS will".
  • One of the main components of Matushka Fotiniya's teaching is that her temple closes the entrance to Hell. "This cloister is like a lock, it seals the gates of hell. Hell too must be known; without knowing hell, you will not know paradise either. Souls are awakening now" [3] (archive)
  • The "security service" of Matushka Fotiniya's church is headed by a former military pilot, a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Army (data as of December 2007)

Official website

Email

Address of the "Resurrecting Rus" cloister

Resources on the Internet

See also