1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

1.1. Missionary - Catechizatorial courses of the Moscow Diocese (hereinafter referred to as the text - courses), operating on the basis of these Regulations, are the structural division of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and carry out their activities on the basis of the Kolomna Orthodox Church of the Orthodox Seminary.

1.2. The tasks of the courses include training, retraining and advanced training of missionaries-catechorators, teachers of church-parish schools, social, youth workers for parishes and monasteries of the Moscow Diocese.

1.3. In its activities, the courses are guided by the internal establishments of the Russian Orthodox Church, the charter of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, current legislation, other state regulations, as well as this Regulation.

1.4. Courses are not a legal entity and do not lead any economic activities.

1.5. The material support of the work of the courses is carried out at the expense of the funds of the Kolomna Orthodox spiritual seminary, the parishes and monasteries of the Moscow Diocese on an annual estimate, approved by the Moscow Diocese of the Moscow Diocese, on the representation of the rector of the Kolomna Orthodox spiritual seminary.

2. Currency management

2.1. The activities of courses are carried out under the general guidance of the rector of the Kolomna Orthodox spiritual seminary.

2.2. The current work of the courses is headed by the Chairman of the Missionary Catechizator Courses of the Moscow Diocese (hereinafter referred to as the Chairman of the courses), which is appointed by the order by the Moscow Diocese Manager.

2.3. The assistant chairman of the courses is the Secretary of the Missionary Catechizator Courses of the Moscow Diocese (hereinafter - the Secretary of Courtes), which is appointed by the order of the Rector of the Kolomna Orthodox Church of the Orthodox Seminary on the submission of the Chairman of the courses.

2.4. The training council of courses decides issues of their educational activities. The training council of courses is going at least once every half year.

2.5. Training Board of Courses:

• determines the procedure for the course of the courses;
• develops and approves training programs and plans;
• determines the procedure for admission, release, transfer to the next course and deductions of listeners;

2.6. Decisions of the training council of courses come into force after approval by their management of the Moscow Diocese.

2.7. The training council of courses includes:

• Rector of the Kolomna Orthodox Church of the Summary - Chairman of the educational council;
• Chairman of the Missionary Catechizatorial Courses of the Moscow Diocese - Deputy Chairman of the Curriculum;
• Chairman of the Missionary Department of the Moscow Diocese;
• Chairman of the Department of Religious Education and Catechization of the Moscow Diocese;
• Chairman of the Charity Department and the Social Service of the Moscow Diocese;
• Chairman of the Department of Youth Affairs of the Moscow Diocese;
• Secretary of the Missionary Catechizatorial Courses of the Moscow Diocese - Secretary of the Educational Council;

3. Reception, issue and deductions from courses

3.1. The courses are accepted by priests and laity of the Moscow Diocese, which have a complete secondary education, which will continue to fulfill obedience to katechizator missionaries, teachers of Sunday schools, social workers, youth workers.

3.2. For admission to courses, the candidate represents a petition, autobiography and written recommendation of the monastery of the monastery or parish, certified by the adolescent church district;

3.3. Reception for courses is carried out by order of the rector of the Kolomna Orthodox spiritual seminary on the basis of the decision of the course of the courses.

3.4. Course listeners can be deducted until the end of training on the following grounds:

• the informed written petition of the priest who gave recommendation for admission;
• behavior that does not meet the norms of Christian life;
• abuse;
• passive attitude to study.

3.5. The decision to deduct may receive the rector of the Kolomna Orthodox Church of the Orthodox Seminary or the educational council.

4. Organization of the educational process

4.1. Courses are implemented by a special professional religious education program.

4.2. The educational process on courses is carried out on the basis of curricula and plans developed by the training council of courses.

4.3. The educational process on courses is carried out by part-time education form, which involves reading installation lectures, home independent training on programs, intermediate and final certification.

4.4. Graduates of courses have passed the final certification issued a certificate of completion of courses, which makes it possible to occupy parish posts according to the specification.

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Diocesan missionary courses began work in Moscow. The organizers of the courses are the Missionary Commission at the Diocesan Council of Moscow with the support of the Orthodox Holy Tikhon University and the Foundation "Mission Kirill and Methodius".

The first lesson of courses was opened with a lecture of the famous Orthodox missionary - Protodiakon Andrei Kurayev. His speech, naturally, was devoted to the problems of the mission and became a kind of memo for beginner missionaries. We offer readers a lecture aspect about. Andrei Kurayeva.

Orthodox Yunnat or Scout

There are two main options for the behavior of a missionary in a new audience for him. The first way is the path of Senkevich, the leading program "Around the World": I come and stupidly talking about what I wonder. Did you want to go to Turkey? FIG. I, I am talking about Tibet today. I have a great post on the calendar, and I will talk about it today. Here, of course, it is necessary to say so that it was interesting to your audience. So, you must at least imitate the thought process.

Indeed, there are a lot of people who have never been to Tibet and are not going to go there, listen with interest what features of the Tibetan monks what they do in the evenings and so on. Similarly, in the framework of some Orthodox exotic, let's tell about those Orthodox, which are still found in our jungle.

The second way is to go to the "alien" thematic field - a field, more interesting for non-church people. When I talk with adolescents on the topic of Harry Potter or "Matrix", my task is to give the guys to understand that wearing my glasses are interesting. Their favorite things may be unusual if you look at my eyes. My Christian eye is not a horizontal limitation, but on the contrary, expansion. I'm trying to show that this film, this book, this plot is much more interesting than it seemed to at first.

The mistake of total apology

In church reflection, in church theology, it is time to revise it for a long time, for which it is necessary to die in Orthodoxy, and for what to sneeze. In Orthodoxy, there are all - the great truths, spiritual gospel dogmas, and there is something quite folklore, but for what they now kick most. So, it is not necessary to strive to justify everything that was in church life.

The tradition of Orthodoxy in our country was broken. We now apply to Orthodox Russia as well as modern rebellious Greece to Alexander Macedonsky. It seems to be the geography of the same, there is some genetic and phonetic relationship, but culture, of course, is different.

Spengler proposed the concept of pseudomorphosis - when old breeds were washed in the lands, emptiness is formed, and the fresh magma is influencing there, where the new breed takes the shape of the old. This also applies to Russian Old Believers - it only seemed to them that they stored ancient, but their pathos was completely special. The same thing happens with us today. The threads of many traditions were ruthlessly chopped. And it gives us a certain freedom - we can decide which threads to pull in the 21st century, and with some kind of parting.

The most important question in church life: "What did we learn for the most terrible age in the history of the church? For what, Lord, did you punish us so? Will it not work that by reviving the estimation of the 18-19th century, will we revive and revolutionize? What did you save us from? What sores we had, what did we have to be calendic gland? What should you revive what not? Is it worth a house-building to drag in the 21st century? " It is a missionary for all this to answer.

On national diseases

Our national disease is dried heresy. Symptom - ideological installation: "I know how it is necessary!" Like, let us go, and in 48 hours we will do everyone happy, because we know what book you need to live! The first attack is an Avvakum mug piety with a typicon book, which entailed a split and a Petrovsky riot against all this piety. The next attempt is Peter Alekseevich and the Dutch-German Charters. Then the Bolsheviks with Marx. Then - 500 days or, there, 100 days with books of Western economists. And now we have already allergies - we are afraid of people with burning eyes. As A. Galich's wonderful wrote:

Do not be afraid of prison, do not be afraid of suma,

Do not be afraid of Mora and Glad,

And be afraid of the only one

Who will say: "I know how it is necessary!"

And, scattering a small demon,

And swallowing you all in love

It will take place on the ground with iron

And floods it in the blood.

And he will athlete such enemies

And such a story will move,

That more than once the story in the barrack

You will live in the bitter hour.

Therefore, one of the most dangerous poses of the missionary is the pose of Gorlopan-Raster. And one of the antids of such intonation is a clear permit to yourself not to engage in total apology.

Do not pretend that everything is fine

The great mistake of missionaries is to pretend that people know nothing about the shadow side of the church life. Sometimes it seems to me that it was easier to be the missionaries of the first centuries, the missionaries in the pagans, because in the eyes of the Nevers, the word apostle about the church and the church itself were identical. You are your personality, your eyes, your words are the same thing. If it was a real apostle and a preacher, then this identity acted great. And today, our centuries-old history not only helps, but also harms pretty. So, in the Far East, the main enemies of the mission were not the pagan shamans, but Russian merchants and officials who did not receive the commandments with people.

So today - people and sidelines see some closer situations of church life. And you as missionaries got those ulcers and problems that are so fully solved in church life, in church thought: church and power, church and wealth, church and state.

What school are you in?

Among those things that were in the history of the Church and who should not approve, are all sorts of inquisition sweeps, punitive theology. On the Internet, there are entire lists of quotes from the holy fathers about the deleteralness of the burning of heretics, starting with the words of me by Ioanna Zlatoust. Yes, the fathers have such quotes. But I specifically collected other quotes from the holy fathers, and from the same Zlatoust - completely opposite.
This one is the case of gap - the world of Orthodoxy is diverse. You can make an appointment of theology of theology of love, and you can go to the school of theology of hatred. Depends on you, what kind of string will continue.

Problems of taste

Another problem of missionary ministry is the problem of taste: the inappropriate border between irrational and rational. There are beautiful words of John Damaskin: "Not everyone in God is known, but not everything is unrecognizable, not everyone knows, but not all unrecognizable inexpressible." That is, there is in God what I can know and express my words, there is in divine life what I can learn, but I don't have enough words, but there will be something that will remain hidden for the twear mind. Sometimes we continue to rationalize where it's time to stop, and sometimes on the contrary - we are too early by capitula. The church is not a ghetto where people hide from headaches. The head is useful, it must be used for its intended purpose.

Scylla and Haribda Missionar

The eternal problem of the missionary is the problem of passing between Scylla and Charibda. Szillla is a narcissist self-identity when I stand in the form of a living monument to my San and his church, when I come to people, but I do not do anything to get born in their situation. It's one thing when a person who survived a lot of pain and suffering, and when he is a glamorous graduate of the Spiritual Academy.

Another extreme is Haribda - to become your own on the board. And there is no typicon, there is no rule, the norms that would say how to avoid it and until what point you can make concessions to your non-church interlocutor. A person who is too jealous will be fruitless, will be a fluger. Which is closed in the cocoon of his status - too will be infertile.

Another missionary error is an overestimated requirement for your listeners. A teacher who is looking for ideal disciples will remain alone, as well as a young man who is looking for an ideal wife. But the same applies to students and listeners. When and how, and how seriously you have to be angry with those Vukhov, who do not understand you and everything is translated, and they do not embody those precious advice that you have already gave them - again there is no definite answer. Do we have to endure this virtue of church life and within us, and the variegatic of our interlocutors and victims of our pedagogical efforts?

After breakfast - the theosis of space

The missionary must understand the limitations of his efforts, be able to set limited tasks. Unfortunately, there is an official textbook published in Belgorod, which contains stunning, very beautiful phrases: the task of the church mission is the theosis of space. Only I am a little fool when I read such beautiful words. And I do not understand what they are, and most importantly - I'm here with what? Now I wake up, I'll have breakfast and in five minutes I will begin to engage in the theosis of space.

It is important to understand that the words "Church" and "Mission" are not synonyms. There are many such things in the church that it does not have the slightest attitude to the mission. For example, liturgy. And the session of the Synod is what? Missionary work or not? It is important to understand the boundaries of the mission. The mission ends where shepherds begins. The task of the missionary is to make a person to ask the questions of the Church. As soon as a person begins to ask the church, he becomes a member of the Church, Pasom, and further work with him - the task of pastor. Mission's success indicator: from "You" your interlocutor Transition to "We", from "Your priests" to "Why will our Church of this Putin support". All, you said "Our" is a great victory for a missionary!

Accordingly, so as not to fall into the charm, do not deceive yourself and not to stop in the loud words, it is important to understand the certain understatement of the goals of missionary work. When I go to some university audience, or to high school students, or to soldiers, I understand that they look at me as Lenin on the world bourgeoisie - yes who are you? Today it is necessary to pull out the attitude to the church from the minus. Do not expect that I will enter in the clouds of incense, and everyone will immediately say "Alullyy". My task number one is to prove your right to presence in this non-church audience.

I have my workpieces for this and your experience, but they are quite personal. But I will tell one thing - this is the problem of the first phrase, conversation conversations in an indiscer audience. For example, I had such a case: the rector of the Bryansk University represented me with listeners: "Meet, this is the father of Andrei - he is Dr. Russian Orthodox Church." I say: "This is not true, I am not a doctor, I am her patient, but partly the victim." The joke is good. And the second, no less good tool is self-irony.

About missionary charity

One of the most serious mistakes that awaits you is a missionary narrowness. When I studied in the seminary, I felt that after the disputes with the Nevers, I was irritated.

Then I realized what's the thing: I was angry with my interlocutors, I was so convinced of my wrong thing that it seemed to me that if you close me with a person in one room for three days, then on the third day he shines directly into the arms of the Father, Monastic Towing will ask.

And then I realized that I do not know God's idea about a person. And why did I take that this person should come to God through me, why now? Or maybe not through me, not now, and not through books?

Therefore, so that there is no this missionary charity, it is very important to clearly set themselves the tasks and have criteria for missionary work. This is the most serious problem of church life. It is believed that only one self-esteem is allowed in Orthodoxy - negative. And this is not true, it is some stylization.

Inherent part of the male constitution, I will not say about women, - the man should have some professional self-satisfaction, the feeling of a well-made thing - where luck, where there. The teacher can say: in 4a I managed a lesson, and I failed this topic in 4b. And the children did not notice this, but I have self-satisfaction, because I am a professional. A monk on prayer can say: "Thank God, today at the evening managed to pray. For the first time in the year. " So, it is necessary to distinguish with personal self-esteem and professional self-esteem. In a personal sense, I am a bad Christian, and in a professional - something is possible. When it comes to the execution of a complex multi-step work, there must be positioning, which part of the work I will fulfill and whether I achieved some success or not.

There are concrete, intermediate, small goals - managed or not. The audience did not fall asleep - ambitious success! They did not run away - Hallelujah! Wonder Wonder - they have three questions at the end! The next success is if someone stayed and suitable alone, someone came again if there were questions later, and more and so on.

In fact, most of what I said, you can read in my book "My mistakes" or in print in the book "Perestroika to Church", or in its reincarnation in the form of five volumes "Conversation with your".

Our task is not to attract, but to push

The first your task is not to attract, but to push as many people from the church as possible. I am not kidding. Prevent people be baptized by superstitious motives, make it difficult to enter the church. So that man insisters. In the audiences, I usually say so: "Guys, if there are adult people among you, but not baptized, then you are late, because an adult can ask for christening only in one case - if you have become sick of yourself, and you want to change Your life, then yes. And not so - the girlfriend said, grandma commanded. "

Missionary - Who to be?

Missionary must be schizophrenic himself - when you say, you must hear yourself with the ears of whom you are saying. The schizophrenicity of the missionary also is that it is necessary to be able to keep in itself a feeling of love in Orthodoxy. Outdoor Orthodoxy again and again and rejoice that the reality of Orthodoxy deeper, more interesting and more beautiful than I can imagine. Head to collect the little things of church life and enjoy them.

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Help: About missionary courses

Listeners diocesan missionary courses of the Missionary Commission at the Diocesan Council of Moscowselected from more than a hundred applicants. People became students - young and not very - having theological education and intending to devote themselves missionary activities. For the organizers of the courses it was important that the listeners were interested in classes, therefore, precisely those people who really want to engage in missionary work and develop educational activities at the parish level were selected, and also possess a sufficient science of theological knowledge and experience of church life.

As noted in the comment portal " Orthodoxy and Mir»Biblical teacher, editor-in-chief of the portal www.predanie.ru, head of courses, the main task of courses - the formation, equipment and support of teams for missionary and social service of young people to various target audiences:

"The most important thing is to overcome the fragmentation of those people who make something at the parishes, in deliciousness, at the Moscow level. It is necessary that people see each other, learned to interact. One of our practical tasks is to teach people command work. The program of courses will have several blocks: the first is a meeting with famous missionaries who will share their experience. Here will be A.L. Dvorkin, Archpriest Alexy Uminsky, Diakon Pavel Sergeants. We plan to show professional psychologists here, for example, the author of the textbooks on the common and social and age psychology L. Pershin, the father of Georgy Kazantsev and some others.

Lectures will be a bit, they will occupy one third of what we will give. Now we do not accidentally delete people with groups - so that they can meet, and then work together. That is, the second block is practical skills: work in groups, communication skills with the audience, the skills of organizing events. The most recent unit, conditionally called "to think": how to combine these skills on the arrival, how to make missionary activities not simultaneous.

The courses will operate a whole team - on the one hand, those who have great practical experience, and others with whom we have already worked: this is. Chairman of the Missionary Commission of Moscow by Jeromona Dimitri Pershin, deputy. Dean Missionary Faculty of PSTU, secretary of the missionary commission Artem Sharafutdinov, a specialist in prison ministry, Missionary Faculty of Missionary Faculty, curator of the course of courses Natalia Ponomareva, President of the Charitable Foundation "Mission Kirill and Methodius" Svetlana Rudnev and others. "

The idea of \u200b\u200bcourses appeared and was implemented thanks to the joint work of employees of advanced missionary sites: the camps "Brotherhood of Orthodox Paths", the All-Russian Youth Camp "Theodore town", Orthodox shift of the Seliger Youth Camp. A large preparatory work was carried out within the framework of the youth movement "Mission is possible". Courses will work until May 28 of this year.

The text and photo of Anna Halperina.

Diocesan missionary courses in Moscow

On doubtful techniques in the diocesan missionary courses of Moscow

From February 20, 2012, diocesan missionary courses began in Moscow, the organizers of which are the missionary commission at the Diocesan Council of Moscow, with the support of the Orthodox Holy Tikhonian University and the Cyril and Methodius Mission Foundation. For the blessing of my abbot of Archpriest Sergius Kulikova, I went to these courses.

At the beginning, we usually read a lecture, and then a certain strange action begins: listeners are divided into groups, searched in a circle, and give a sheet, where the positive and negative senses of man are listed, and everyone, guided by this list, must tell everyone in detail that he At the moment feels. When this sheet reached me, I asked me in bewilderment: "Sorry, I came here to learn to be a missionary, but is this statement of my positive or negative feelings, what has a common with the mission? In general, why all this? " In response, Natalia Ponomareva, courses coordinator, explained: "Maybe you have some negative feelings, then we will help you with them to figure out," what I said that I have a confessor, which I reveal to God, Then Ms. Ponomareva asked a nearby person to explain to me again.

I was still struck by how Ms. Ponomareva said that if someone is angry, he needs to throw out that negative, who has gathered after anger, you need to do something, just not to leave this negative in myself - all This, to put it mildly, is very far from how the holy fathers were taught about the passion of anger and about the fight against her.

Next was the performance of the Watching courses Vladimir Gerrov, who painted the way on the board, how to help a person to enter the church. In the first place he had: "Entertainment", after which, after several stages, a person (according to him), it is necessary to slowly attach to church life. One of the listeners got up and reminded the first words of the Savior and John the Baptist: "Open, for the kingdom of heaven approached," that is, not from entertainment, and with repentance they began a call, and we are not at all necessary with entertainment. Church of people. In response, hot discussions began.

I was also surprised that Mr. Arovov believes that "Isicham is not the only way as an increase in the Orthodox Church." What is the other, equodular alternative to spiritual increase? What could be higher contemplation of non-light light?

Themes were then distributed in groups, I joined the group with the topic "Reading the Gospel at the Temple." Everyone could express his considerations. I recalled that, according to 19, the VI of the Ecumenical Cathedral should be understood by Scripture not otherwise, as his holy fathers of the church interpreted, but somehow stopped me quickly. Then another participant suggested that the gospel's places where the "sharply" talk about something, to reheat softly, so as not to scare away a person. I told him that such principle was alien to Orthodoxy, and suddenly our coordinator interrupted me with the words: "You, apparently, beginner, and you don't know the rules, it is impossible to criticize anyone." At the end there was another "confession" - a story before everyone about his positive and negative feelings, some participants were unhappy with my statements. I just said that we should not depart from the Orthodox tradition, in which everything is in order to engage in the mission, and we should not replace it with surrogates.

When I came to these courses next time, I was asked to leave the room.

Unfortunately, it seems that the organizers of the courses decided to use such an important topic as the training of the Orthodox Mission as a means for self-expression, to impose the Church of their private opinions and innovative practices that are not directly related to the mission.

If they want to engage in psychological trend, and if they have psychological education and work experience, they can agree with some kind of organization to have time and place for regular meetings with people who have psychological problems, and they would advise them, may To be, it would be beneficial to someone, at least, in this case, the name would have answered its content. But here people from the face of the church are invited to learn the Orthodox Mission, and instead arrange group psychological games.

For me, it remains completely incomprehensible, who and when approved in the Russian Orthodox Church, such a technique as the main and generally binding, if it is teaching it in diocesan courses? Was she tested in practice wide scales, and what independent experts confirmed its effectiveness as a missionary technique? It seems that not only nothing of it is, but, moreover, these forms and methods are trying on these courses, which already in the recent past caused a negative reaction of many Orthodox and caused the temptation in the church environment.

It seems to me that in general diocesan courses it is advisable to provide first of all information about the patricual and traditionally Orthodox forms of the Mission, and the controversial and insurgent technological reception of the methodology, as well as private opinions, should be presented and discussed at specialized seminars or conferences of experienced missionaries. Something controversial and new can be discussed and offered when well studied and tested already known and traditional. However, it seems that the traditional patristic methods and the principles of the mission are not known and are not tested in the case not only by listeners of courses (which naturally), but also by curators.

I believe that when people who came to learn about the basics of the Orthodox mission, they offer psychological trenders and subjective opinions instead, that is, a big danger that such training will not only be useless, but can even bring harm.