Saturday, January 31, 2015

OCA Syncretic-Ecumenism, functioning at full speed, in New York City

*Obviously, this syncretic/ecumenist event, this 'jam session together for one love',  was held inside of the OCA's Holy Protection Cathedral. (!!!)
What is next???




  • Saturday, January 31, 2015

  • Finding common ground in sound; Religious groups jam together for one love

    January 29, 2015 | Filed under: Community | Posted by:
    It was an open-and-shut case: The Bhakti Center laid down a mesmerizing beat.It It was an open-and-shut case: The Bhakti Center laid down a mesmerizing beat.

    BY ZACH WILLIAMS  |  Religious groups agree that through the music of their respective faiths a certain harmony prevailed on Jan. 25 at the sixth annual Spiritual Sounds of the East Village.

    Buddhists, Protestants, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Hindus congregated that night
    at the (OCA) Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection on East Second Street, in New York City, to exhibit the sounds of their faiths, as well as tolerance for all people. Local Muslims had to cancel at the last moment, but 11 other ensembles performed music from persuasions as diverse as the Bhakti Center — Hare Krishnas — to The Catholic Worker with The Filthy Rotten System Band.
    A lama tooted his own horn at Spiritual Sounds.A lama tooted his own horn at Spiritual Sounds.

    The event exemplified the possibility for unity among all people just as terrorism and war threaten to further divide people of different religions worldwide, according to organizer Anthony Donovan, who began life as a Catholic but now identifies as nondemoninational.

    Though “Kumbaya” was heard at the event, the roughly 100 (actually closer to 200) people in attendance are not pining away about lofty ideals, he added in an interview.

    “This is not a naive notion that we have here,” Donovan explained. “This really is people standing up and saying, ‘No, we know another way.’”

    In recent years the event has inspired greater dialogue among the groups, resulting in other joint-community events, he added. Local Jews and Muslims celebrated the end of religious fasts together following the outbreak of war in Gaza last year. That idea came from the Holy Land itself; but in New York City a local imam and rabbi knew how to work together after meeting at Spiritual Sounds in prior years, according to Larry Sebert, the rabbi at Town & Village Synagogue.
    The Catholic Worker and The Filthy Rotten System Band got...filthy!   Photos by William Alatriste / NYC CouncilThe Catholic Worker and The Filthy Rotten System Band got…filthy! Photos by Zach Williams
    A Buddhist monk from the Tibetan Nechung Foundation at the Jan. 25 event displayed additional eagerness for affiliation as he took a selfie in front of the synagogue’s choir as they sang.

    Though each religion began in a different place, the East Village is a place where they must cooperate in order to ensure a livable neighborhood for all, especially with the ongoing economic revitalization there, said (OCA priest) Father Christopher Calin of Holy Virgin Protection.

    Like many longtime residents of the neighborhood, he has seen plenty of changes as the drug addicts and punks gave way to the forces of gentrification. Though his cathedral has had its ups and downs in attendance over the last two decades, he expressed confidence that religions of all types will remain a powerful influence in the local community in the 21st century, just as in centuries past.
    A flautist from the Sufi Center hit all the right notes.A flautist from the Sufi Center hit all the right notes.

    “We’re the constant,” he said. “We’re going to be here. We’ve been here. You know what I mean? And everything has changed around us.”

    Seven years ago a “weird” visitor — Donovan — came to the cathedral saying that he wanted to promote greater unity among religious groups in the area, Calin said. At first he seemed like just another character from the East Village. But once Calin listened more closely to Donovan, he grew more enthusiastic about the idea of an interfaith happening.

    But it took some thought to determine just what type of event would work for people of all religions. Dietary restrictions precluded a group meal, Calin noted. The idea of a religious-tinged event with no specific references to an individual religion seemed to him and others as inviting as a “bland stew,” he said. Then the notion arose to promote unity through music from people of each religion or no religion at all.

    It’s a space for humans rather than dogma, participants explained.

    Other groups performing at the event included Middle Collegiate Church, Most-Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, The Sufi Center, St. Mark’s In-the-Bowery, Iglesia Alianza Cristiana y Misionera, and Sixth St. Synagogue.

    As the crowd dispersed afterward, smiles were visible all around. Hearing the musical sounds of different religions also inspired a certain eagerness among some that there need to be more events such as Spiritual Sounds.

    “It’s just very beautiful. I can say, ‘moving, awe-inspiring,’ ” said Susan Schiffman, a member of the Town & Village choir. “The time goes so fast.”

    On Tuesday, Donovan reported that he went to talk to Imam AbuSufian of the Medina Masjid — whom, he noted has “never missed a gathering or event” in the past — to ask what happened Sunday.

    “He was sincerely shocked,” Donovan said. “He had misplaced the date and told his folks that it was the next Sunday. Recently returning from pilgrimage in Mecca, he turns his texting off some days. So he didn’t get my reminding texts till the following morning.

    “He deeply apologized to all. We are planning a lunch gathering of faith leaders soon, further discussing ways to gather our youth together. He’s onboard.”
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    About Ivan Mikhailovich Andreyevsky (Andreev)

    from a RocorMP parish website
    http://christthesavior.net/?p=550  
    • parish is in same town, Wayne, West Virginia, as RocorMP Holy Cross monastery
    • article is written by Matthew (Subdeacon Matthew Long), who has completed neo-Jordanville's Theology correspondence course 
    • article is part of a series on the transmission of the Royal Path through modern Church fathers, (from the Optina tradition, who were introduced to us by Fr. Seraphim Rose) 
    CAUTION: this website is infiltrated with subtle KGB propaganda (ex: Coffee with Sr. Vassa) and other poisons.  Royal Path series appears to be used both as bait and as cover-up.


    *Found on the open internet: shared with me:

    Modern Orthodox Saints and Holy Fathers & Mothers: Ivan Mikhailovich Andreyevsky

        
    “On December 30, 1976, reposed an outstanding churchman and statesman, doctor of psychiatry, pedagogue, lecturer, publicist and author of a series of theological textbooks,” states the introductory line in the Memoriam published in Orthodox Life, about Professor Ivan M. Andreyevsky. He is mentioned often as one of the shining lights of Orthodox theology. His name is often heard together with Archbishop Averky Taushev, Archbishop Vitaly Maximenko, the philosopher Archimandrite Constantine Zaitsev Professor I.M Kontzevitch, Nicholas Talberg, and the theologian Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky.[1]

        Ivan Mikhailovich Andreyevsky was born on March 14, 1894 in St. Petersburg. His father was of Russian descent and his mother, German.[2] He was one of five children, the oldest being his sister, the poetess Maria Shkapskaya. He was raised in a pious family who were poor but seemed to live in relative comfort. Ivan’s mother suffered from paralysis and his father retired early due to mental illness.[3] Ivan entered into a period of “rebellion” during his years of secondary schooling which began in St. Petersburg. It is said that in 1912 in the Wideman Gymnasia, which Ivan attended, a revolutionary group had been discovered and after this Ivan stopped attending that school. The participants of this group were taken under the protection of a millionaire and sent to study in Switzerland.[4] Later, his sister Maria was caught distributing illegal Socialist revolutionary literature when she was in medical school and was imprisoned. Fr. Seraphim (Rose) notes, “The beginning of [Andreyevsky’s] intellectual and spiritual path… is clear: he was an unchurchly, deadly-serious, revolutionary-minded youth…”[5]

    Henri-Luois Bergson, 1927
        Ivan finished secondary schooling in Switzerland and then went on to study at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1912 – 1914 where he completed his studies in the Department of Philosophy. Of this period he says, “In 1914 I was a young student of the Philosophy Department of the Sorbonne, and I had the right of attending lectures at the College-de-France. There I listened to Lalande and Bergson… Bergson lectured with inspiration, improvised, thought out loud, created on the lecture platform, and ruled the minds of the young generation, especially of Russians. I was among the latter.”[6]

        At this stage of Ivan’s intellectual development the editors of The Orthodox Word note that, “the philosophy of Bergson did not leave a deep trace on the mature world-view of Andreyevsky; it was, rather, an important stage in his assimilation of the best of modern ‘wisdom,’ which enabled him later to be a brilliant apologist for the higher wisdom of Orthodoxy.”[7] Andreyevsky admits that Bergson was responsible for drawing his attention to an even more mature philosopher. He says, “Once, after one of his inspired lectures, brilliant in form, Bergson asked those who surrounded him in the corridor: who, in their opinion, was the most remarkable thinker in the world at the present time? Seeing the perplexity of his listeners, he clearly and distinctly said: ‘It is a modest Russian philosopher, Askoldov by name.’ It was extremely flattering for me, a Russian student, to hear such an opinion about a Russian philosopher; but to my shame I had to acknowledge that I heard the name Askoldov then for the first time and knew absolutely nothing about him.”[8]

        After finishing his studies in Paris, Ivan returned to St. Petersburg to study psychiatry at the Psikhonevropatologicheskii Institute, now called the St. Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute, where he graduated in 1918. He had decided to study psychiatry after being “aroused by the depth of the human soul” through his reading of the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.[9]  He then went on to enroll at the University of St. Petersburg where he would study Literature and Philology and at the same time work as a doctor at the Nikolaevsky Military Hospital during the civil war.

    Sergei Alexeev Askoldov
        It was at the University of St. Petersburg was, it has been said, that Ivan had “the most important event in his intellectual life.”[10] Here he met up with S. A. Askoldov. Fr. Seraphim explains this influence and resulting impressions, saying, “The nature of the influence of Askoldov upon [Andreyevsky] cannot be understood by reference to the pitiable academic world of today, which is oriented to the passing down of fragmented knowledge and opinions and not a wholeness of world-view. ‘For the first time after Bergson,’ writes [Andreyevsky], ‘I experienced the spiritual awe of contact with a man of genius. I felt that I had found, at last, a real teacher.’ ‘I learned from him true philosophizing.’ Askoldov taught him much about philosophy and introduced him to his own philosopher friends… but more importantly, [Andreyevsky] absorbed from his teacher a whole attitude of mind and soul which was just what he needed for his own further intellectual and spiritual growth. ‘Everything I came to know of what Askoldov had written produced on me an exceptionally powerful impression, because it directly and clearly answered to the deepest questions of my spirit.’

    Ivan and Elena in Jordanville
        “Askoldov had a constant ‘will for righteousness and truth… Intellectual dishonesty always evoked in him an explosion of dissatisfaction.’ [Andreyevsky] himself inherited from his teacher this intellectual uprightness that could not tolerate the slightest dishonesty or fakery, whether in philosophy or church life.”[11] However, their relationship was not purely intellectual.Andreyevsky notes a very impressionable moment of their lives together during World War II when, “the two were together in a small wooden house and had nowhere to flee during a fierce bombardment. Andreyev was astonished when Askoldov, in the absence of a priest, asked permission to confess his sins to him in the face of death. ‘I will never forget this confession: a more sincere repentance would be difficult to imagine.’”[12]

        In 1922 Andreyevsky accepted a professorial position at the Petersburg University but was dismissed due to his conflict with the university’s Communist ideology. He then obtained a position as a teacher of literature at a local high school. In 1924, he was working as a psychiatrist at the Nikolaevsky Military Hospital and during this time he began to take pastoral theology courses that were offered in Petrograd under the tutelage of Father Theodore Andreyev. “After the martyric death of Fr. Theodore Andreyev, Ivan… took care of his wife and daughter Zoya, eventually marrying his best friend’s wife [Elena Sosnovskaya] and even taking his last name as a pseudonym… Thus he was able to help the widow and become a loving father to his stepdaughter [Maria Ivanovna, b. Dec. 19, 1936 d. June 25, 1985], who later in America became a scholar, [poet and writer] in her own right.”[13]

    St. Seraphim digging the canal
    around the Diveyevo Convent
        He studied in Petrograd from 1924 to 1928. In 1926, from the professors that he engaged with, as well as the students, the “Brotherhood of St. Seraphim” was formed. At this time his intellect was maturing. Where before he would write papers as requirements for his course work, now he was in a tight-knit group who had the same vision as he. Together they would now write and speak on those issue of the most pressing importance to the group. He notes: “Bergson, Lossky, Askoldov: these are the three stages of my philosophical development – philosophical, but not religious. On the latter path I had entirely different teachers: Bishop Theophan the Recluse, Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov, the Optina Elders, and the ever-memorable Father John of Kronstadt – and then the Philocalia, and, in general, Orthodox patristic literature. With Optina elder Nectarius I engaged in a long correspondence, and with Elder Dositheus I was in personal contact. Twice I had had personal contact with Father John of Kronstadt also. Being taught by them the strictly Orthodox spiritual method (if one can thus express oneself), I made it secure by means of unforgettable impressions of visits to remarkable Russian monasteries (Valaam, Solovki, the Kiev Caves Lavra, Sarov, Diveyevo, Optina Monastery, and others). As a result, the choice became clear to me between the conservative Orthodoxy of Father John of Kronstadt and the ‘modernized’ Orthodoxy of V. Soloviev and his school. Without wavering, I chose the former path.”[14]

        The benefits of this “securing” of Orthodoxy he speaks of later on in life in an article entitled The Psychology and Psychopathology of Old Age saying, “A great consolation in all sorrows of life in mature years, and especially in old age, is the religious feeling that has been preserved. This consolation can give a quiet, calm old age and help one to calmly accept death as a sleep in the hope that eternal life exists in another better world.”[15]

        To what he had been learning Ivan began to “secure” this by making his first pilgrimage: to Diveyevo. There was a “rule” at the Diveyevo Convent, given by St. Seraphim himself, which was to be performed by the pilgrims who visited. The canal around the Convent was to be walked around, with prayer rope in hand, and the prayers to be said were “Virgin Theotokos” one hundred and fifty times, the “Our Father” one hundred and fifty times, then one was to pray for all of one’s relatives and acquaintances, both living and dead. After this, one was to state one’s most heartfelt, most necessary desire which would then be fulfilled without fail.[16]

        With prayer rope in hand, Ivan walked around the canal, performing the St. Seraphim “rule.” He recalls, “I intended to ask for many things, both material and spiritual, but when, at the end of the third circuit of the ditch, I had performed the entire rule and wanted to express my heartfelt desires, something miraculous took place, obviously through the great mercy of St. Seraphim. I was suddenly seized by a very special, spiritual, quiet, warm and fragrant joy; an undoubting conviction of my whole being of God’s existence, and of an absolutely real, prayerful communion with Him. It became completely obvious and clear to me that a petition for anything earthly would be tantamount to the prayer: ‘Lord, leave me and deprive me of Thy wondrous gift…’

        “And within me, I fervently said to the Lord, ‘Lord, do not give me anything; take away from me all my earthly prosperity, only do not deprive me of the joy of communion with Thee, or, if it is possible to preserve it forever in one’s life, then give me a heartfelt memory, give me the means of preserving till death the memory of this present blessed moment of awareness of thy Holy Spirit.’”[17]

    Sarov Monastery, 1910

    Summarizing his pilgrimage to Sarov, Ivan says, “My whole life changed after my pilgrimage to Sarov Monastery. The Lord took from me, in accordance with my prayer at the [canal], all earthly goods, but preserved forever within me, the memory of that moment when, by His limitless mercy, by the mercy of the Most Holy Mother of God and by the prayers of St. Seraphim, I, a sinner, had the completely undeserved honor to experience within me the quiet, joyful, good, and fragrant breathing of the Lord’s Holy Spirit.’[18] And so, in 1926, we see Ivan at the height of his intellectual as well as spiritual maturity and in the following year the trials began. He even noted this development of himself, in describing his life to his students, saying, “these years of his intellectual and spiritual formation as his full growth from “body” (science, medicine) to “soul” (literature, philosophy) to “spirit” (theology, true Orthodoxy), using the three-fold division of the human personality discussed by St. Seraphim, Bishop Theophan the Recluse and many other Father’s, on the basis of St. Paul (I Cor. 2:14-15, etc.)[19]

    Solovki Monastery
        In 1927 Metropolitan Sergius issued his infamous “Declaration.” Andreyev was one of many to be chosen to be part of a delegation in order to persuade Metropolitan Sergius to abandon the Declaration. He noted, “The Metropolitan received us out of order. Finding the reason why we had come, he reaffirmed everything written in the Declaration, and in answer to our convictions called us ‘counter-revolutionaries’ and ‘schismatics.’ Not taking his blessing, we left without obtaining anything.”[20] Soon after, those who did not accept the Declaration saw their churches closed and were imprisoned. Andreyev too was imprisoned, and spent three of his five years of imprisonment at Solovki, from 1929-1931. There is much written about his work at Solovki as a doctor for the inmates treating epidemics of typhoid and scurvy. Many are the stories of the priests and bishops he met and with whom he participated in the Divine services secretly. He writes about the “churches” that were established in the prison camp by the inmates who knew that if they were caught that would be tortured and shot.

        “At Solovki we had several secret Catacomb ‘churches,’ but our ‘favorites’ were two: the ‘Cathedral Church’ of the Holy Trinity, and the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The first was a small clearing in the midst of a dense forest in the direction of the ‘Savvaty’ Assignment area. The dome of this church was the sky. The walls were the birch forest. The church of St. Nicholas was located in the deep forest towards the ‘Muksolm’ Assignment area. It was a thicket naturally formed by seven large spruces. Most frequently the secret services were conducted here, in the church of St. Nicholas. In the ‘Holy Trinity Cathedral’ services were conducted only in the summer, on great feasts and, with special solemnity, on the Day of Pentecost. But sometimes, depending on circumstances, doubly secret services were also celebrated in other places. Thus, for example, on Great Thursday of 1929, the service of the reading of the Twelve Gospels was celebrated in our physicians’ cell in the 10th company. Vladika Victor and Fr. Nicholas came to us, as if for disinfection. Then, catacomb-style, they served the church service with the door bolted.”[21]

    New Martyr Alexander Jacobson (+1930)
    commemorated on September 8
        Of his work at Solovki, he writes, “In the year 1929, in the frightful concentration camp of Solovki, beginning with the end of winter there was a great increase of scurvy, and towards spring out of 18,000 prisoners of the fourth division of the camp (the division that occupied the island of Solovki itself), the number of those afflicted reached 5000. I, as an imprisoned physician, was offered, apart from my usual work, to take upon myself the supervision of one of the new scurvy barracks for 300 prisoners.

        “When I came to this barracks I was met by a young Jewish orderly with a very handsome, lively face. He turned out to be a 4th-year medical student. To have such a qualified helper was a great rarity and an immense help.


    Alexander Yakovlevich Jacobson (such was his name) went around the whole barracks with me and showed me all the patients. Concerning each one, he told me in detail his diagnosis and the characteristic traits of the disease. The patients were all in a very serious condition. Rotting and pussing gums afflicted with the sores of scurvy gangrene, an immense swelling of the joints, bleeding from scurvy in the form of blue spots in the extremities – were what came first to the eyes at a hasty examination. At a more thorough examination many of them turned out to have serious complications in the inner organs: hemorrhagic nephritis, pleuritis and pericarditis, serious afflictions of the eyes, and so forth. From the explanations of the orderly I understood that he knew precisely what was what in the symptomatology of diseases, and he made correct diagnoses and prognoses.”[22]

        After serving his time Ivan was deprived of the right to work and had to find employment in various psychiatric clinics in small cities which lasted until the beginning of World War II. During this time he was also a member of the Catacomb Church whose members and hierarchy he had met while at Solovki. In 1944, after the War he moved to Germany where he made contact with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and regarded Metropolitan Anastassy as a friend and instructor.
    Ivan in the seminary classroom, 1950′s

        In 1950 he moved to Jordanville where he accepted a professorial position at Holy Trinity Seminary where he was to teach for the next twenty-one years. While there he not only lectured, but wrote several books including: A Short Survey of the History of the Russian Church from the Revolution to the Present Times (1952), A Short Conspectus for a Course of Lectures in Psychology (1960), Orthodox Christian Apologetics (1965), Orthodox-Christian Moral Theology (1966), and A Survey of the History of Russian Literature of the 19th Century (1968).[23] Apart from these books he also authored numerous articles.

        Ivan was also active outside of the church in scholarly and scientific societies. He was director and lecturer on medical subjects at the Pirogov Society which was an organization for Russian physician in the United States. He also gave lectures at the Pushkin literary society. But his most beloved work was with the St. Vladimir Society which aimed at building St. Vladimir’s Memorial Church in Cassville, New Jersey. He was also editor for the St. Vladimir calendar which printed many philosophical and theological articles in defense of true Orthodoxy and documented the origin and history of the Catacomb Church in Russia.[24]

        The end of his life was to come from a cruel blow from the modern world. As he was riding in an elevator in New York City, he was attacked. The injuries he suffered during the attack proved fatal and he remained mostly unconscious for a month before reposing on December 30, 1976.

        Recalling the value of the life and work of Ivan Andreyev, Fr. Seraphim (Rose) notes, we must “strive to understand these giants who have now all but departed, leaving all would-be defenders of Orthodoxy in a very precarious position against the increasingly subtle temptations of an anti-Christian age. Without a broadening and deepening of our Orthodox world-view, without absorbing at least something of the genuine Orthodox teaching of the great men who have handed down Orthodoxy to us – we will scarcely survive.”[25]

    [1] See Hieromonk Damascene, Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works (Platina: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2003), 181, 252 and 855.
    [2] Neil Cornwell, Reference Guide to Russian Literature (London: Fritz Dearborn Publishers, 1998), 730.
    [3] Ibid.
    [4] I.M. Andreyev, 57.
    [5] Ibid.
    [6] “The Path of Prof. S. A. Askoldov,” Orthodox Way (1955) as translated in I.M. Andreyev, 57.
    [7] I.M. Andreyev, 58.
    [8] “The Path of Askoldov,” 58.
    [9] I.M. Andreyev, 59.
    [10] Ibid.
    [11] Ibid.
    [12] “The Path of Askoldov,” 61.
    [13] I.M. Andreyev, Orthodox Apologetic Theology (Platina: St. herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1995), 25n. For a short biography on Maria Ivanovna see http://www.st-tatiana.ru/text/32422.html.
    [14] Ibid., 62.
    [15] I.M. Andreyev, 103.
    [16] Ivan M. Andreyev, “A Journey to Sarov and Diveyevo,” trans. Seraphim F. Englehardt, Orthodox Life (March-April, 1982): 30-31.
    [17] Ibid., 31.
    [18] Ibid., 34.
    [19] I.M. Andreyev, 63. Fr. Seraphim clarifies this expression of Ivan’s saying, “By ‘spirit,’ of course, is not meant a separate component of man’s nature, as some heretics have taught, but only the higher part of the soul, where contact with God and the spiritual world is opened up, as opposed to the lower part of the soul, which is occupied with the normal human pursuits of art and science, philosophy and culture. The awareness – in first-hand experience – of this critical distinction between soul and spirit was later to give to his teaching a depth and preciseness which few philosophers and thinkers attain. Ibid., 63-64.
    [20] Ivan Anderyev, Russia’s Catacomb Saints: Lives of the New Martyrs (Platina, Saint Herman of Alaska Press, 1982).48.
    [21] Ibid., 65.
    [22] Ibid., 69.
    [23] R. Polchaninov, “In Memoriam: Prof. Ivan M. Andreyevsky,” Orthodox Life (March-April, 1977): 49.
    [24] I.M. Andreyev, 97.
    [25] I.M. Andreyev, 67.
    Ivan and Fr. Adrian (Rymarenko) Spring, 1960
    Ivan and Fr. Adrian (Rymarenko) Spring, 1960
    Articles by Ivan Andreyev
    “On the Principles of Orthodox Monarchy.” Orthodox Way (1951) in Russian.
    “Christianity and Bolshevism.” St. Vladimir Calendar (1955) in Russian.
    “The Path of Prof. A.S. Askoldov.” Orthodox Way (1955) in Russian.
    “On the Character of Scientific-Athiestic Propaganda in Soviet Russia.” Orthodox Way (1956) in Russian.
    “On St. John of Kronstadt.” Orthodox Way (1958) in Russian.
    “On the Orthodox Christian Moral Upbringing of Pre-school Children.” Orthodox Way (1959) in Russian.
    “The Excommunication of Leo Tolstoy from the Orthodox Church.” Orthodox Life (May-June, 1961): 17-32.
    “Concerning the Revelation of the Ikon of the Reigning Mother of God.” Orthodox Life (July-August, 1962): 4-8.
    “Documents of the Catacomb Church: The Catacomb Church.” The Orthodox Word (May-June, 1970): 144-149.
    “Martyrology of the Communist Yoke: Bishop Maxim of Serpukhov.” The Orthodox Word (May-June, 1970): 150-164.
    “The Psychology and Psychopathology of Old Age.” St. Vladimir’s Calendar (1970). in Russian.
    “On the Imperial Martyrs and the need for the Russian People to Repent for their Regicide and Apostasy.” St. Vladimir Calendar (1972) in Russian.
    “A Jewish Confessor of the Orthodox Christian Faith.” Orthodox Life (January-February, 1977): 13-18.
    “The Cross of Christ, 3rd Sunday in Lent” @ http://www.hermitage-journal.org/2011/03/cross-of-christ-3rd-sunday-in-lent.html
    “St. Seraphim of Sarov: Teacher of Compunction and Joy.” Orthodox Life (March-April, 1982): 7-16.
    “A Journey to Sarov and Diveyevo in 1926.” Orthodox Life (March-April): 25-34.
    “Christian Truth and Scientific Knowledge.” Orthodox Way (1961) in Russian.
    “Weep!” Orthodox Life (March-April, 1993): 38-42.
    Prof. Andreyev and Archimandrite Constantine (Zaitsev), 1959
    Ivan Andreyev

    Books by Ivan Andreyev
    Catacomb Church in Soviet Russia. 1947.
    Icon of All Saints Who Shone Forth in the Russian Land. Munich, 1948.
    The Position of the Church in Soviet Russia. New York, 1951 (publishing house unknown).
    A Brief Review of the History of the Russian Church from the Revolution to the Present Day. New York, 1952 (publishing house unknown).
    A Brief Summary of Lectures on Psychology. Jordanville: Holy Trinity Monastery, 1960.
    Psychiatric Expertism in Soviet Russia. Jordanville: Holy Trinity Monastery, 1960.
    Orthodox Christian Moral Theology. Jordanville: Holy Trinity Monastery, 1966.
    Outlines of the History of Russian Literature in the 19th Century. Jordanville: Holy Trinity Monastery, 1968.
    Russia’s Catacomb Saints. Platina: St. Herman of Alaska Press, 1982. (Prof. Andreyev did not write the whole book but only the first 104 pages [six chapters]. Much of the rest he contributed with his own personal records or verifying others’ accounts).
    Orthodox Apologetic Theology. Platina: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1995.
    Is the Grace of God Present in the Soviet Church? Wildwood: Monastery Press, 2000.

    Articles about Ivan Andreyev
    Polchaninov, R. “In Memoriam: Prof. Ivan M. Andreyevsky.” Orthodox Life (March-April, 1977): 48-50.
    Editors. “I.M. Andreyev, 1894 – December 17-30, 1976: True Orthodox Convert from the Russian Intelligentsia.” The Orthodox Word (March-April, 1977): 55-67 97-103. (This article is the same one that was used to introduce the author in “Russia’s Catacomb Saints” and “Orthodox Apologetic Theology,” with minor changes.

    Friday, January 30, 2015

    Ivan Andreev's 1926 pilgrimage to Diveevo


    A Journey to Sarvo and Diveyevo in 1926
    St. Seraphim of Sarov: Teacher of Compunction and Joy
    https://app.box.com/s/xu639xwkcwbmorhjv7ur4ixx3dle9nd3
    http://orthodoxlifemagazines.blogspot.com  See issue 1982 (#2 Mar/Apr)
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    This article by Andreev was previously published in English in Orthodox Life, in the March-April 1982 number, pages 25-34. The translation was done by Subdeacon Seraphim Englehardt.

    "How wonderful is God in His saints!"


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    (Russian original text): 1926 Pilgrimage of Ivan Andreev to St. Seraphim's Sarov and Diveevo

    Иван Андреев. Путешествие в Саров и Дивеево в 1926

    Автор: Монахиня Вера вкл. 30 Январь 2015. Опубликовано в Российская Православная Церковь (Просмотров: 10)

    Иван АНДРЕЕВ
    Православная Русь № 16, 1947 г.
    Странник в Серафимо-Дивеевском женском монастыре. Фото М.П. Дмитриева. 1904 г.
    Странник в Серафимо-Дивеевском женском монастыре. Фото М.П. Дмитриева. 1904 г.
    Богомолки-мордовки, направляющиеся в Серафимо-Дивеевский женский монастырь
    1904

    World is silent as 45 churches are burned by Moslem mobs in Niger, Africa


    And such things, 'peaceful' Moslems, following their dark religion's teachings,  which St. John of Damascus labeled, "The godless Hagarenes", -and a  'Christian heresy,' have been doing to Orthodox Christians, ..under various Moslem tyrants  in many lands,  since false-prophet and false-messiah Muhammad  of Thrice Cursed Memory, walked this earth.  

    Still today, Moslems, 'IN SUBMISSION TO' and following the dark and confused and contradictory teachings of their 'beautiful' Koran and their 'holy' mullahs, continue to mindlessly rampage, kill, and destroy, but usually they murder more fellow Moslems than anyone else....through the long past centuries and even now.

    Islam, is anti-human, oppressive to the mind and soul and heart,  and is of the Devil, the enemy of mankind. "By their works shall ye know them!"

    Just view the numerous you-tube video testimonies of former born Moslems, and why they are leaving it  in large numbers, and have become some kind of Christians: either Orthodox or Protestant or Catholic or Monophosite, or even have become total atheists-rather than stay Moslem.
    We Orthodox Christians [ and indeed any variety of Christians], ...and Moslems, DO NOT WORSHIP OR FOLLOW THE SAME..... GOD!


    Mysteries of the coffins of the great, in the Kremlin

    Russian original text of this article, found on Internet Sobor

    Machine-English translation:
     Mysteries of the Great, discovered now, in their  coffins in the Kremlin Author: i-sobor incl. January 29, 2015. Posted in Monitoring (Views: 34)
    What is revealed to us about the saved relics, kept  at the Ascension Monastery-
    How they painted themselves, - their cosmetics,  and how they died, the  "First Ladies" of Russia:

    Thursday, January 29, 2015

    Theophany at St. Edwards

    Chertsey Blessing
    Dear Brothers,
    Thank you so much for coming again to this mutual sacred site! God bless you all in kind friendship. Hope you can make use of these photos……. ! Robin and Mary liked them! See you next year on the 19th January!  …….!

    Jon Taylor

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    Publican and Pharisee

     Ikon of the Parable of the Publican and Pharisee

    Monday, January 26, 2015

    Russian Spy Ring in New York


    Is The 'Cold War' really over? - "Russians in New York charged in spy ring"


    Posted: Jan 26, 2015



    By TOM HAYS | AP

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Three Russian citizens were charged Monday in connection with a Cold War-style Russian spy ring that tried to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources, authorities said. 

    The defendants were directed by Russian authorities "to gather intelligence on, among other subjects, potential United States sanctions against Russian banks and the United States' efforts to develop alternative energy resources," according to a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan.

    The case was announced Monday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and FBI officials.

    The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Foreign Intelligence Service could not immediately be reached for comment on the case.

    Prosecutors say one of the defendants, Yevgeny Buryakov, posed as an employee in the Manhattan office of a Russian bank. The others, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy, held low-level diplomatic positions.

    Buryakov, who is in the U.S. on a work visa, was arrested Monday in the Bronx. The two other suspects are at large.

    The names of their lawyers were not immediately available.

    The three men "regularly met and communicated using clandestine methods and coded messages, in order to exhange intelligence-related information while shielding their associations with one another as (foreign intelligence) agents," the complaint said.

    The investigation was an offshoot of a 2010 case resulting in the arrest of 10 covert agents who infiltrated suburban America. All 10 pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to conspiracy charges and were ordered out of the country as part of a spy swap for four people convicted of betraying Moscow to the West.

    The new case demonstrates "our firm commitment to combating attempts by covert agents to illegally gather intelligence and recruit spies within the United States," Holder said in a statement.

    Bharara added that the charges "make it clear that -- more than two decades after the presumptive end of the Cold War -- Russian spies continue to seek to operate in our midst."

    Anglican Church makes mockery of episcopate


    As King Henry the Eighth's Impious Schism from the Latin Schism, continues to further separate itself from historic, patristic, Orthodoxy Christianity: Protestant Church of England Consecrates Its First Female Bishop



    *This latest anti-biblical and anti-sacred tradition, modernist/ecumenist outrage, will lead to even more mass  conservative defections and schisms from this church, in their world-wide communion.

    This, pathetic state controlled,  'Anglican Protestant Church of England', [whose actual legal head is the Queen of England], and its American  daughter church, The Episcopal Church of America, will make any change or violation of historic Christian norms and sacred traditions and canons,  in order to please the current popular secular whims and often anti-Christian moods of ...any and all... worldly people, even of atheists.  And they do all this impious spiritual mischief, while their numerous and often huge churches become more and more empty of believers or worshippers.... and as the dedicated Moslems in the UK are taking over the whole, 'post-Christian', spiritually bankrupt  country.  Is general mainstream American Protestantism much better?

    In front of every Episcopal church in America, the happy front sign reads: 'The Episcopal Church Welcomes You!"

    I respond, NO THANKS!

     I prefer Apostolic and Orthodox Christianity, the real Church of Christ!