Each person comes to the monastery to solve his inner task, even if not always fully realized. For a TOURIST, first of all, it is important to have a comfortable rest, to get acquainted with the amazing northern nature. The PILGRIM dreams of bowing to the saints, taking part in the church services of unique beauty, receiving spiritual help and support from the monastery confessor, and praying. Some pilgrims want to combine participation in worship and excursions with feasible work for the benefit of the monastery.
In addition to pilgrims, WORKERS also work in the monastery for the Glory of God. The laborers are employed in various monastic obediences (works). Male laborers eat in the fraternal refectory. In fact, the worker becomes a member of the monastic family or monastic brotherhood for the duration of his stay in the monastery. Therefore, the requirements for workers, primarily for the purpose of his visit to the monastery, differ significantly from the requirements for pilgrims.
2.1. As workers accepted for a period of at least 2 weeks, the monastery is waiting for those people for whom the paramount and most urgent task is church life, namely the desire of a person to strengthen himself in the Christian way of life, to continue the process of his churching through participation in the Holy Sacraments and the entire way of monastic life, which, in turn, ascending through Humility, Obedience and Prayer, has as its ultimate goal the acquisition of Christian virtues and Gospel Perfection with God's help.
2.2. The worker must be an Orthodox Christian or sincerely wish to become one by being baptized in the Orthodox Church.
2.3. The worker must be churched, or before arriving at the monastery, regularly attending church services, confessing and partaking of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, begin the process of his churching.
2.4. Before turning to a monastery for a blessing for his work, the worker must first receive a verbal blessing for this trip from his confessor or from the priest with whom he predominantly confesses.
2.5. The age of the employee must be at least 18 years old and not exceed the retirement age.
2.6. The monastery's capacity to accommodate workers is limited. Since there is no inpatient hospital in the village with the appropriate medical staff, equipment and medicines, the monastery cannot accept those wishing to work with severe chronic diseases who may need inpatient medical care. The workers are engaged in strenuous physical labor. Therefore, the monastery primarily accepts workers who do not have physical limitations that prevent the fulfillment of monastic obediences.
2.7. The employee must have with him a valid civil passport, permanent registration at the place of residence, a policy of compulsory medical insurance valid in the Russian Federation, a valid certificate from the PND and CED. An employee who is not a citizen of the Russian Federation must also have a properly issued and valid visa or migration card.
2.8. Neither the monastery nor the village administration has premises, personnel, equipment and medicines for the treatment or rehabilitation of people suffering from drug addiction, alcoholism, mental illness. Therefore, the monastery cannot accept persons suffering from the noted ailments as laborers.
2.9. A worker can bring with him work clothes and footwear for working indoors and outdoors under any weather conditions (in Karelia it can be cool even in summer), the necessary hygiene products and medicines.
2.10. The worker must have with him an amount of money sufficient to pay for travel to the monastery and back.
2.11. A worker arriving for a period of more than 2 weeks must, upon arrival at the monastery, provide certificates of fluorography (for the absence of tuberculosis) and the results of blood tests for HIV and hepatitis, a certificate (extract) from the ATC.
2.12. A laborer who once left the monastery ahead of schedule due to violations of the monastery charter (arbitrarily or at the initiative of the monastery leadership) can be re-accepted as a laborer only if there is a written recommendation from another monastery about the impeccable passage of obedience in it for at least six months (in case of gross violations of the regime a longer period is set individually in each case). At the same time, no more than 2 weeks should pass from the date of issuing such a recommendation until the day the worker arrives at the monastery.
2.13. The priest's blessing is a necessary, but by no means a sufficient condition for a laborer to come to the monastery. It is also necessary to receive the blessing of the Abbot or the Reverend Monastery.
As already noted, the possibilities of the monastery to accommodate workers are limited. Therefore, a worker may be denied a stay in the monastery due to the lack of vacant places, if he did not coordinate his stay in advance with the hierarchy of the monastery.
4.1. Workers live in various monastic hotels in rooms (cells) for 2-6 people.
4.2. The choice of a specific room (cell) for the accommodation of the worker is carried out by the Dean of the monastery or the Gostinnik.
4.3. A weekly visit to the monastery bath is organized for the workers.
4.4. The use of monastery washing machines for washing is allowed only with the permission of the hierarchy and only by workers whose stay in the monastery exceeds two weeks.
5.1. The hostel helps the worker in observing the monastic regime. The worker must strictly and without wrangling fulfill the requirements of the Hotel.
5.2. Rise - 30 minutes before the start of the morning service (on Sunday or vigil holidays), on other days - at 7:00.
5.3. The worker must participate in temple worship and the sacraments of the Church.
Minimum participation level for a male worker:
- Saturday and on the eve of the Twelfth Feasts - Vespers (Little Vespers) from 16:45 until the holidays;
- Sunday and Twelve Feasts - Matins (All-Night Vigil) from the beginning to the dismissal and Liturgy from 9:30 to the dismissal;
- the first and last weeks of Great Lent - all temple services in full (taking into account the schedule of obedience);
5.4. The worker must participate in joint morning and evening prayers in the church of St. John of Kronstadt. Prayer times are 07:30 and 19:30.
5.5. The worker must at least once every two weeks confess and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, unless otherwise determined by the confessor. Workers can confess more often as needed.
5.6. End - at 23:00. During the period from lights out to wake up, the worker should be in his cell, observing silence. Eating, washing things, talking, reading aloud during this period is not blessed.
5.7. It is not blessed for a worker to visit someone else's cell, in which other workers, pilgrims, and lay workers of the monastery live.
5.8. Visits by workers to fraternal cells are not allowed.
5.9. In the hotels of the monastery, the self-preparation of food by the workers, except for tea, is not blessed. It is not blessed to take food from the refectory to the cells, except for a reasonable amount of bread.
5.10. In the hotels of the monastery, playing any musical instruments, using computers, any devices for playing video materials is not blessed, playing any games, including chess and checkers, is not blessed.
5.11. In the hotels of the monastery, without the permission of the Hostel, the transfer of furniture, inventory from one room of the hotel to another, the performance of repair work, the replacement of electrical wiring, light bulbs, etc. is not blessed.
5.12. During the stay of the worker in the monastery, the following are not blessed:
- the employee's use of alcoholic beverages, incl. low alcohol, drugs, other substances that cause a state of intoxication;
- use of obscene language by the employee;
- the use by the employee of physical force to resolve conflicts;
- intimate contact with other persons;
- storage of any, including legally issued firearms and / or edged weapons.
5.13. Smoking is not blessed while the workers are on the territory of the monastery, in any monastic premises, as well as while they are performing monastic obediences.
5.14. Swimming, sunbathing, making fires in any place of the monastery is prohibited; visiting the monastery skete, natural objects (forest) is allowed only with the blessing of the Abbot or the Dean's monastery. At the same time, the worker must notify the Gostinnik about receiving the appropriate blessing and the estimated time of returning to the monastery.
5.15. The assignment of a worker to a specific obedience, the change of obedience, the appointment of workers to additional general obediences is carried out by the Contractor in accordance with the current needs of the monastery. Relevant information about the place, start time, leader of the obedience is brought to the attention of the worker personally by the Contractor. Independent change by the worker of obedience, incl. in agreement with the leaders of the obediences, is not blessed.
5.16. The laborers begin their obedience work the day after they arrive at the monastery.
5.17. Worker Obedience Schedule:
— weekdays: from 9:00 to 13:30, from 14:30 to 17:30;
- the time of smoking breaks should not exceed 10 minutes, the number - once per hour; smoking is allowed in a designated area; in addition to the need for smoking, it is forbidden to leave the place of obedience;
- Saturday and the days before Vigil holidays: from 9:00 to 13:30;
— Sunday and vigil holidays: day off;
- a number of monastic obediences are carried out according to a special schedule drawn up by the Contractor and approved by the Abbot or Dean of the monastery.
5.18. If, due to his physical condition, the worker is not able to fulfill the regime in terms of obedience and / or attendance of worship, he must notify the Gostinnik about this.
5.19. If a worker needs to make a short trip somewhere during his stay in a monastery, the worker must receive a blessing for such a trip from the Abbot or the Dean's Monastery.
5.20. In all cases of early departure of the worker from the hotel of the monastery, incl. and for short-term trips, the employee must notify the Gostinnik and the Blagochinny Monastery in advance of the desire to extend the period of his stay in the monastery.
6.1. In the event of a single violation by the employee of the provisions of paragraphs 5.12 and 5.19 of the Worker's stay regime, or if the employee commits any unlawful act, qualified in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation as administratively or criminally punishable, or if the employee reveals the fact that the employee conceals information about his ailments specified in paragraph 2.8 of the Requirements to the workers, the worker will be asked to leave the monastery and the village as soon as possible.
6.2. In case of repeated violation by the worker of the provisions of clauses 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.10, 5.13, 5.17, 5.20 of the Worker’s Stay Mode, the worker will be asked during a conversation with the Dean of the monastery to state the reasons that prompted him to violate the requirements of the Regime.
6.3. In all other cases, the degree of responsibility of the worker for violation of the Worker's Stay Mode is determined by the Dean of the monastery based on the results of a conversation with the violating worker.
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