-For 2020: American Thanksgiving Day

X6--For 2020: American Thanksgiving Day: Orthodox Christian Services blessed by Holy Confessor Patriarch of Moscow, Tikhon (Belavin) of Thrice Blessed Memory, who loved America and its people.

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Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 1:10 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original ​Added note: And I give my solemn testimony and witness, that Blessed & Martyric Patriarch Tikhon (when he was THE canonical Orthodox Archbishop of all of North America & of all Orthodox people here), specially blessed these prayers and added his dispensation/suspension of that one day's fasting requirements, -"if it fell on a fast or Lenten day", in favor of the great importance of the national American feast of general thanksgiving to God for all of her blessings, saying: "We Orthodox in America should adopt as our own & encourage this soleAmerican national  religious  celebration, and I order that in all  Orthodox churches in America, on this day there be  served, IN ENGLISH, these Thanksgiving Prayers." (This I read personally, in San Francisco, many years ago in an English language early  falling apart tattered hard- printed first-edition & a now unavailable book, with Archbishop Tikhon's blessing). Retired Tonsured Psalm-Reader, Daniel Everiss in Oregon, USA.      Orthodox Service (and an appendaged added  general Akathist of Thanksgiving for all occasions) for American  Thanksgiving  Day: THANKSGIVING DAY Published in 1901 with the blessing of St. Tikhon of Moscow Fourth Thursday in November

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to Orthodox friends in San Francisco

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com>	Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:11 PM
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UPDATE: Nov. 23, 2020:   Dear beloved fellow Orthodox friends in San Francisco, GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST!  GLORY TO HIM FOREVER! Because of this current daily on-going unfolding of our national calamity, this  chaotic political situation, I am among the many millions in our nation, who are in shock and dismay -- and frankly, very pessimistic for our country's future.  And I know that you must also feel the same -- betrayed. As of today's best and most comprehensive ACCURATE information, it seems (but may events turn around, yet!) that Pres. Trump cannot be re-elected.  The corrupt political system will not allow him to be reelected, though  MOST of us Americans voted for him. AND, that the Left is about to take over the reins of our national government... which to me, indicates the end of our liberties and freedoms... and indeed, of our rapid decline economically too. Why is this happening? Of course there are many root causes which can be identified. First, we have before our eyes, as our central FIRST & MAIN PROOF of this fraud election, are these  past disgusting 4 years worth of DAILY outrageous and totally untrue slanders and personal malicious attacks on our president by the now very leftist and anti-American, corrupt Democrat political machine & by its slavish puppet leftist-captive propaganda news media -- which many DUMB! and totally ignorant & uninformed Americans BLINDLY & UNCRITICALLY/MORONICALLY depend on as their SOLE source for 'news' of what is going on -- of course their biggest first mistake.  They make their decisions upon lies, not upon the true facts.  It seems to be their life-long habit. The world-wide Left will: stop at nothing!... to remove our main defender of our American Constitutional  freedoms: Donald John Trump! And now, we have more than enough 'evidence' for those who seek the truth, of this falsified fake massively rigged election campaign. Clearly, Pres. Trump won this re-election by many millions of legitimate votes! We now cannot depend on 'the courts' or politically biased corrupt judges to give us our true electoral Trump victory, as they too are mostly controlled by leftists and/or are beholden to/captives of the anti-Trump leftist corrupt forces:    (Barack Hussein Obama:-as evidence  is coming out now, being a top and central long-term organizer/puppeteer of the many faceted long orchestrated general BEHIND THE SCENES,  smear campaign against President Trump, and also against our country),... so therefore, even our American justice system is largely corrupt and is rendered unable to give us the truth or to condemn the criminals.  Now we need our justice system to save us, even our Supreme Court, and where are they? In this national crisis, our American justice system is largely on the side of the criminal traitors to our country.  Such a massive stolen  national election as this is proving to be, in third world countries, would normally trigger bloody civil war, with the deaths of thousands. Will we follow that same path? Regardless, I daily add to my other prayers, that God stop these godless and pro-Marxist evil men from taking over our country and pushing us to the left... in favor of our international enemies, (basically, The International Communist Conspiracy), and that Almighty God will stop brain damaged and criminal Biden and his Leftist cohort, from taking power. The Left wants, in the end, the total destruction of our America. President Trump has been stopping them.  But.... as always, all is in God's hands: "Man proposes but God disposes!" Will many or ANY angry patriotic Americans now take up arms, (which weapons many  already possess), and actually physically attack this new leftist Marxist tyrannical regime? - I DO NOT KNOW, but I fear so...…. But regardless of developing DAILY ever-changing current events, you and I need to keep our personal balance and not lose our Christian principals... or go insane... as many others will for sure NOW do. EVERYONE who voted for Pres. Trump & thus for America, has to now be very very angry.... and that means many millions.  We have had our election and our country! ...stolen from us!  I am personally deeply hurt and very angry, and in daily depressed mourning for what seems as the death-throws of my native land and country -- which country was moving forward in these last 4 years, in so many positive directions under Pres. Trump's guidance. The evil leaders  of the new leftist regime, (about which we have evidence are being LONG TERM bribed and paid by American's international Communist and Moslem enemies) promise to undo EVERYTHING which wise and patriotic Pres. Trump initiated! But at this moment, I can say no more...…… as I am full to overflowing with emotion and anger. Retired Reader Daniel, in Oregon USA,  now in daily deep mourning for our country……... it truly seems that The Swamp in Washington D.C and over the whole nation, has won..... and now marks the start of the ending of what has been the best of our American culture and freedoms. May God turn this around, yet!

GOC Metropolitan's warnings in Greece

#2-Sharing: An Orthodox Metropolitan's warnings in Greece, on this pandemic and & government persecution of our Orthodox faithful    Inbox  Daniel Everiss

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:32 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original The Gadarenes of our Days An Article by His Eminence, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Attica and Boeotia (GOC) Monday November 9, 2020 It is obvious that we are living in unprecedented situations with rapidly changing developments worldwide, with the occasion given by the deadly pandemic – as they call it – of coronavirus. From the moment they imposed measures for the protection of the citizens, many things have been said, particularly by internet channels, creating in the minds of ordinary citizens only confusion because of the opposing views of the people of the so-called scientific community. I will not analyze any of the diametrically opposed views among scientists on the subject of the virus. Anyone interested can refer to the internet for a variety of information and be properly informed. With this absolute fear-mongering, which the media conveys to him who struggles just to earn a living, without leaving him a margin of thought, they direct him to roads where the objectives are fulfilled of people who have not tasted of LIFE Itself (that is, Christ). It goes without saying that we have understood that the coronavirus, especially in Greece, is completely allergic. Allergic to Pascha, allergic to August 15, allergic to December in anticipation of Christ’s Nativity. In the last few days, relative government Ministries have announced to the Greek territory that common prayer of the faithful inside the Holy Temples is not allowed. Specifically, only four people are allowed at the Divine Liturgy, in which the Liturgist and the Chanter are included. And in fact, if there are more inside the Temple, the responsible Liturgist will pay a fine of 1,500 euros. Not only that, but the Christian is not allowed to enter the Temple to pray even outside the Liturgy. These are measures which neither the Ottoman-Turks who had enslaved us for over four hundred years nor the Germans during their Occupation (1941-1944) imposed on us. These unfortunate ones do not know that whenever there were deadly pandemics, everyone united, clergy and laity, they made common vigils and prayers with processions that the evil might flee, which evil always fled if they had faith of heart. Where is that faith today? It has been replaced by the so-called rationalism of the Gadarenes, who, although they knew of Christ’s power to heal their souls and bodies, did not keep Him in their lives; they did not submit to Him the problems of their society to solve them as the only Able One. But rather… they expelled Him! I want to clarify and make it clear that we definitely want to have our health and in no case do we want the coronavirus in our life, nor to become a cause of its transmission. It is very funny, if not provocative when they come out and speak in the media with such passion, malice, and anger against Christians who want to be in common prayer inside the Holy Temples. We assure them that we are committed to the service of the spiritual and physical health of our fellow man because we believe in the love that is called Jesus Christ. By no means do we allow all these who have not tasted LIFE to teach lessons of humanity to true people of love; to conscientious Christians; to those people who are consumed with struggling sacrificially to alleviate the pain and suffering of our fellow man. Have all the problems in our pillaged Greece have been solved? The cannibalistic predators who have reduced it to being handicapped and bloodied? The 350,000 annual abortions of defenseless children? The poisonous fruits and vegetables we buy for our dinner tables, the polluted air we breathe in Western Attica from the refineries, which causes misery in several area hospitals full of patients who have suffered strokes lying on cots, the absence of police against the thieves who loot the hard-earned acquisitions of those who struggle just to earn a living, and so many, so many more? On the other hand, those in charge of our health ensure our protection by consuming the law enforcement agencies in the “policing of the country” with fines and penalties on ordinary citizens who struggle just to earn a living, who were suddenly banned from simple movement. We thank them for the protection they provide, but I have to say that we are now suffocating from such protection. Honestly, we can do without it. And I say this because I feel imprisoned and trapped as a Christian and a Liturgist. On the one hand to tell us “no crowds in the Church, no pilgrimage to the Temples”, and on the other hand popular places, supermarkets, and the means of public transportation are crowded with people. Two measures and two weights. This is not democracy; it is a mockery of democracy, it is also prejudice and discrimination against Christians in a 2,000 year-old Orthodox country which has spread Christianity around the world. Is this why the heroes fought whom next year, in 2021, we will honor as champions of the struggle for freedom during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution? Of course not. They fought for the Holy Faith of Christ, and for the Freedom of the Homeland. If these heroes lived and saw how they treat the Mother of the Nation: the Orthodox Church today, I believe they would be expelled from the country.  And let no one say that we do not respect the laws. On the contrary, so far we are law-abiding as we should be. But those who treat the Orthodox Christians so disparagingly, with so much irony and unjust behavior, should know that they will eventually write their own unfavorable history in the conscience of the Greek people and the Christians, just like every Nightmare and Judas who for some silver betrayed their Nation and their God. Translated from the Greek