tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9796143479379029822024-03-25T05:50:17.178-07:00Reader Daniel SharingJoanna's selections from Reader Daniel's emailings.Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.comBlogger2505125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-12698496708402737432024-02-28T17:46:00.000-08:002024-02-28T17:46:29.423-08:00Pray for our Brothers in Haiti<span><a href="https://www.haitianorthodoxmission.org">https://www.haitianorthodoxmission.org</a></span><div><span><br /></span>
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<span><div>.</div></span></div>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-46285502425478959652024-01-21T17:39:00.000-08:002024-01-21T17:39:41.126-08:00Russia Yesterday – America Today<span><p style="color: #006882; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Russia Yesterday – America Today</span></p><p style="color: #006882; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Government Monitored Purchases tied to Trump & Christianity</span></p><p style="color: #852327; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="color: #852327; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">QUOTE</span><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #852327; font-family: Georgia; font-kerning: none; font-size: 11.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>"What began in Russia will end in America"</i></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Schema-hieromonk Elder Ignatius of Harbin Manchuria, </span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">August 3/16, 1958†)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Government Monitored Purchases Tied to ‘MAGA,’ Religious Books | Live With Josh</p><p style="font-family: "Avenir Next Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/government-monitored-purchases-tied-to-maga-religious-books-and-others-for-extremism-5568900">https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/government-monitored-purchases-tied-to-maga-religious-books-and-others-for-extremism-5568900</a></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">video is 1 hour, but the Government monitoring of purchases is the first 5 or 10 minutes</p><div><br /></div></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-72883357678584507642024-01-18T19:07:00.000-08:002024-01-18T19:39:52.071-08:00Memory Eternal Eugene Magerovsky 15th Memorial<p style="font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat Alternates;">In Memoriam: </span></p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat Alternates;">For the Fifteenth Anniversary of his passing: </span></p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat Alternates;">Professor EUGENE L'VOVICH MAGEROVSKY</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat Alternates;">Remembering: LEST WE FORGET!-In Memoriam on the 9th, Anniversary of his passing, 'White-Russian', Professor EUGENE L'VOVICH MAGEROVSKY : December 11, 1934-January 18, 2009, <span style="color: #2b00fe;">he died on the eve of Theophany 2009</span>, .... who with his illustrious father, was a life-long fighter against the Communists and a big promoter of our Continued ROCOR under our honorable and solidly Orthodox, Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel. He loved his real Russia, and he loved his adopted home, America, and he fought for both.</span></p>
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<span><p style="color: #073c52; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The above is a recycled post from a previous year </p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #073c52; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The below is also from the past, but it was not previously posted:</p><p style="color: #073c52; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">what Daniel wrote this about his friend Eugene back in 2015 when Peter Koltypin was still among the living:</p><div><br /></div></span>
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<span><div>.</div></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-15120960289262451092024-01-14T17:14:00.000-08:002024-01-16T08:20:32.346-08:00Nativity Photos and Message<span><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication: January 06, 2024. Category: Author's column.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Lord did not come to this world for earthly joy and happiness - He was born to endure suffering for the sake of redeeming people from the power of sin and death, and to open for us the path to eternity - the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Why suffering, why?</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because the evil will of people took them from Paradise to uncultivated land, to the kingdom of disease and death - that is, to the world around us. This is where the Lord came to save us. He, by His will, experienced the suffering to which people living on earth are subject. Since illness and death come from sins, Jesus Christ took them upon Himself, and, compassionate with each of us, moved by Divine Love, atoned for our sins (see Heb. 1.3). Therefore, each of us, in an effort to part with sins, must love God and our neighbors, must learn to sympathize with the earthly torment of our Savior. Otherwise, this is suffering only on one side - on His part - without mutual compassion necessary for our salvation. The Lord knows the initial incompatibility of the immortal soul of man with the earthly world, the crown of which is death. But for our salvation it is necessary that we, as people, be involved in the earthly, human suffering of the Lord, His death and Resurrection. Only then will we have a saving unity with Christ.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We are called by the Lord from non-existence not in order to live in this world and die in it, but to endure this temporary world and enter eternity together with Christ.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Star of Bethlehem led people to the born Christ, after which He Himself became a Guiding Star for people, leading us to the eternal Kingdom.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication: January 08, 2024. Category: ROCOR.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yesterday, on the Day of Nativity, in the city of Bergheim, near Cologne, Germany, in the home parish in honor of St. Paisius the Great, with the concelebration of the rector, Priest Anatoly Shchabelsky, the Divine Liturgy was led by His Eminence Bishop Nikon. With the blessing of the head of the Western European Diocese, Metropolitan Agafangel, during the reading of the hours the Bishop appointed Vladimir Kungurov and Alexey Glebov (Alexey from the Czech Republic) as readers and then as subdeacons. During the Divine Liturgy, Subdeacon Vladimir was ordained by Bishop Nikon to the rank of deacon.</p>
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<span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="576" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3FtAMp3UJFf6vPYZb1Rsc_drUY38POmvWqg0L_XN7kg1lqOpnyvKuIwxKTHHV7OHmA2qZRvI4FpI3gFQ9GXPL9eb-DjxipUnZk_KZ_2gRGy2nlVNzNgjNPqv4oR0v73JaPiiMKp_2urzFu8Qi_twsD4MOT9pd69tML-apWWxxpwgzao5zViJBFgWeWs/w640-h560/4%20240107_BerghaimDE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-58661337757828208202024-01-01T15:24:00.000-08:002024-01-01T15:24:24.837-08:00Damage to Met. Agafangel's cathedral in Odessa <span><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-size: 13px;">Fwd: Fw: Damage to Met. Agafangel's cathedral in Odesa </span><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-size: 13px;"> </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>From: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Holy Ascension Orthodox Church <holyascensionorthodoxchurch1@gmail.com> </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">name Beneficiary : Diocesan Administration of Odessa diocese of the ROCA</span></p>
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<span><div>.</div></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-82557789339645449182024-01-01T07:06:00.000-08:002024-01-01T19:14:20.441-08:00Great Signs of Our Times (1955)<span><p style="font-family: "Avenir Next Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/istoriya/rptsz/arkhiv-rptsz/mikhail-polskij-velikie-znameniya-nashego-vremeni">http://internetsobor.org/index.php/istoriya/rptsz/arkhiv-rptsz/mikhail-polskij-velikie-znameniya-nashego-vremeni</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2TFRG2c-U9_4C1MIBzYpoxBrHXHKCtB2Kd28vG4bv3WkMuni2Yt4UNLlEegXF1aAzk7MawHy1P999mHd4Y2hb9d1t4G-s0ggjW549W84NCS1_0OH_D6G6MeuyvmfhOr-Cn90_IqANkkKN_NXlqi8mn6WmpsM1I4goSO3j1tmzYjjH2nI6jZef_TL1sI/s315/mihail-polskiy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2TFRG2c-U9_4C1MIBzYpoxBrHXHKCtB2Kd28vG4bv3WkMuni2Yt4UNLlEegXF1aAzk7MawHy1P999mHd4Y2hb9d1t4G-s0ggjW549W84NCS1_0OH_D6G6MeuyvmfhOr-Cn90_IqANkkKN_NXlqi8mn6WmpsM1I4goSO3j1tmzYjjH2nI6jZef_TL1sI/s16000/mihail-polskiy.jpg" /></a></div><br />On October 25 (November 7), 1917, the Bolshevik-Communist Party seized supreme power in Russia with a revolutionary uprising. Now, 38 years later, the influence of this Russian power has reverberated throughout the world. Deception, violence and godlessness are the explicit and open principles of this power. The falsity of the Marxist theory of the common good is revealed wherever the theory is implemented by this power. However, because men "did not accept the love of the truth for their salvation, God sent them acts of delusion, so that they began to believe a lie." Terror, unbounded in scope and cruelty, accompanies everywhere and always the path of this party dictatorship, which seeks power over the whole world. The godlessness of this party has its last and final form of justification in absolute materialism, and endeavors to deprive every man of his exaltation over the world in God, making him the spiritual slave of its system as infallible.<p></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This world evil appeared from the West, primarily in the powerful Russian state, where Christianity, preserved in its pure, intact, authentic form of the Orthodox faith, merged with statehood into an organic whole. Great upheavals occurred primarily against the backdrop of Ecumenical Orthodoxy, and the main blow of the maturing world wickedness was struck precisely here.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was enough that in one Orthodox country in the world, where God’s faith was so supported by statehood in our era, it lost this principle that “restrained” evil from its predominance in the world, and the power there was captured by villainous atheism, just as this evil began to rage in all over the world. The “taking from the environment of the holding” of moral, Christian statehood suddenly opened up the basis for destructive world wickedness.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another event that deepens the evil and is terrible in its immorality and spiritual ugliness is the subordination of the Church to the Antichrist power and its service to the latter’s world seduction. Betrayal of the calling and purpose of the Church - to affirm the truth of God in the world, perversion of Christian service, betrayal of one's own, collaboration with the enemies of Christ, the Church and all faith is the worst of the falls that happened to the highest church authorities in Russia on July 16/29, 1927 (declaration M. Sergius), who led the Church there along this path to this day. Not all of us Russians are able to understand and appreciate this event. We repeat - not everyone, but they succeed. Those abroad fell even lower than in Russia who, in their freedom, through their short or long, nominal or actual submission to this church authority, threw their sacrifice on the altar of Satan. Other representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches fell into these networks, and some have not yet escaped from them. And heterodox Christians look at such a fall condescendingly or completely indifferently. This is the situation in which the enemy finds Christendom.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two great wars of global scope and significance: one (1914-1918) gave birth to Bolshevism in Russia, the other (1939-1945) brought it from Russia to the world stage. But at the end of the latter, humanity successfully entered a new, atomic age. On July 16, 1945, in the desert of the American state of New Mexico, with the explosion of an atomic device, humanity was notified that the most important secret of nature, the driving spring of the entire universe, had been revealed, and a new element, energy released by the splitting of atoms with a temperature of 50 million degrees, was at its disposal .</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The greatest happiness of mankind was that this element was not discovered by the Bolsheviks, otherwise the whole world would have already been brought to its knees by them, as Japan was brought to its knees a few days after its discovery. However, the Bolsheviks failed to be frightened by this bomb and after a while felt that the world had prepared its own means of suicide. A possible war is depicted as “fire from heaven” (the atom is crushed only in the sun), as the last cup of God’s wrath, which can destroy all life on the globe.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And after this, suddenly a new, extraordinary, immensely amazing historical event, showing that the world has an internal, spiritual and sacred history that continues from the time of the establishment of the Old and New Testaments to this day. On May 14, 1948, a Jewish state called Israel is established in Palestine. The 2,000-year-old dream of Jews to have their own state has come true. What does it mean? How do the Jews themselves think about this? “The Lord still heard the prayers of his people,” say the old Jews with tears in their eyes. Regarding the Day of Judgment, we are reminded of the synagogue prayer (NRSL. M. Graev September 18, 1955) “so that in the near future the prophecy of Isaiah will come true that the day will come, and swords will be beaten into plowshares and all the peoples of the world will reach for the mountains of Zion to listen to the word of God about peace and brotherhood of nations."</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">However, there is also a party of extreme clerics in Jerusalem (Naturei Karta - Guardians of the City Walls), which teaches that the Jewish state contradicts the messianic idea of Jewry. The State of Israel, in her opinion, has illegally appropriated to itself the prerogatives of the Messiah, who alone, upon his coming, will establish state order in the country. Poets compose poems in honor of the Messiah: - “What are you forging, stern blacksmith? - I turn tight strips into horseshoes. Yes, horseshoes for him, - Joy! joy! - for him. For the horse of the Messiah. Agile, quick-eyed weaver, what are you preparing? The cloak is wide, the Robes are dear. He himself will be clothed in them, - Joy! joy! - he himself, himself, the King of kings - the Messiah" (D. Frishman). Etc.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">With deep amazement we look at this phenomenon of our era and with timid joy we think: will the words of the Apostle Paul really soon come true that against Jesus of Nazareth “hardness happened in Israel in part, until the time when the full number of the pagans came in; and so the whole Israel will be saved... in relation to election, they are beloved of God for the sake of their fathers, for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable" (Rom 10.25-29)? What lies ahead for them in the hope of a new Messiah, other than disappointment? Tactile and bitter experiences of history itself are needed to be convinced of the truth of the first Messiah. The one faithful and immutable God, listening to the prayers of His people, gives them what they ask for and allows them to know good through the evil of trials, if they could not avoid it by the faith that the Pagans accepted. His trials were not over. And when they end, Israel will be with us, that is, together with us near our Lord Christ, Jesus of Nazareth. The other Messiah who is expected is a mistake, and they will understand it. Exactly, in this way, “all Israel will be saved.” This is his way. Such are the faith, hope, love and wisdom of our Christianity.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The last real task of our scientific and technological development is travel into interplanetary space. A way out of the earth, from its narrow confines. Freedom, certainly freedom from the matter of time and space. Higher and higher, from visible to invisible. This is an unconscious desire for the Heavenly Kingdom, which alone frees us from our matter, time, and space, about which “consciously,” that is, with omniscient Divine wisdom, the Gospel has been preached for almost two thousand years, as revealed to us by our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, where He, the Risen One, dwells in our new body at the right hand of the Throne of His Father and our God.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Humanity is slowly developing, but is already on the threshold of understanding the purpose and meaning of its life, which were given to its faith from the beginning. Faith, knowledge and experience of history speak of one thing. Therefore, we Christians do not lose heart. The triumph of Christ's truth and the eternal life of the Heavenly Kingdom will come, at least through the execution of the exodus from Egyptian slavery. Our preaching does not need guessing: when and how it will happen. Let it happen even through centuries, and the Lord will continue the life of the world for a long time for its eternal salvation. The more important is our standing in the truth, its preservation, and the increasing revelation of its light to humanity. In the face of the events of the world and even great signs, even sorrowful and even terrible, our face, illuminated by this light of eternal truth, should be like flint, being able to take all blows. “This is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith.” And we must pay even more attention to where in our era, in what remnant of the faithful, the strength is preserved in order to walk the path ahead with them. The Orthodox Church has been preserved by God. Orthodoxy or fidelity to the truth of Christ, in times of difficult trials, is present in her and nothing in the world can overcome it, even among many falls and apostasies. The consciousness of this is our great consolation in our strange, wonderful and threatening era.</p>
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<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Михаил Польский: Великие знамения нашего времени</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Автор: Митрополит Агафангел. Дата публикации: 27 декабря 2023. Категория: Архив РПЦЗ.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 25 октября (7 ноября) 1917 г. революционным восстанием партия большевиков-коммунистов захватила верховную власть в России. Ныне, через 38 лет, влияние этой российской власти сказалось во всем мире. Обман, насилие и безбожие — явные и открытые принципы этой власти. Ложь марксистской теории всеобщего блага обнаруживается всюду, где теория осуществляется этою властью. Однако, за то, что люди "не приняли любви истины для своего спасения, послал им Бог действия заблуждения, так что они стали верить лжи". Безпредельный по масштабу и жестокости террор сопровождает всюду и всегда путь этой партийной диктатуры, добивающейся власти над всем миром. Безбожие этой партии носит последнюю и окончательную форму обоснования в абсолютном материализме и старается лишить всякого человека его возвышения над миром в Боге, делая его духовным рабом своей системы, как непогрешимой.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Это мировое зло явилось с запада прежде всего в могущественной Русской державе, где христианство, хранимое в его чистом, неповреждённом, подлинном виде Православной веры, срослось с государственностью в органическое целое. Великие потрясения произошли прежде всего на фоне Вселенского Православия и главный удар зревшего мирового нечестия нанесён именно сюда.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Достаточно было, чтобы в одной православной стране в мире, где Божия вера была в нашу эпоху так поддержана государственностью, лишилась этого начала, "удерживающего" зло от его преобладания в мире, и власть оказалась там захваченной злодейским безбожием, как это зло стало бушевать во всем мире. "Взятие от среды удерживающей" моральной, христианской государственности открыло вдруг и базу для губительного мирового нечестия.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Другое событие, углубляющее зло и ужасное по своей безнравственности и духовному безобразию, это — подчинение Церкви антихристовой власти и её служению мировому обольщению последней. Измена призванию и цели Церкви — утверждать правду Божию в мире, извращение христианского служения, предательство своих, сотрудничество с врагами Христа, Церкви и всякой веры есть худшее из падений, которое случилось с высшей церковной властью в России 16/29 июля 1927 г. (декларация М. Сергия), поведшей там Церковь по этому пути до нынешнего дня. Понять и оценить это событие даже нам русским не всем удаётся. Повторяем — не всем, но удаётся. Ещё ниже, чем в России, пали те заграницей, которые при своей свободе, своим кратким или длительным, номинальным или действительным подчинением этой церковной власти, бросили и свою жертву на алтарь сатаны. В эти сети впадали другие представители Поместных Православных Церквей, а некоторые до сего времени из них не выбрались. А инославные христиане смотрят на такое падение снисходительно или совсем безразлично. Вот в каком положении враг находит христианский мир.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Две великих войны, мирового охвата и значения: одна (1914-1918) породила большевизм в России, другая (1939-1945) вывела его из России на мировую арену. Но в конце последней человечество успешно вступило в новый, атомный век. 16 июля 1945 г. в пустыне американского штата Нью-Мексико взрывом атомного прибора человечество было оповещено, что важнейшая тайна природы, движущая пружина всего мироздания раскрыта, и новая стихия, энергия, освобождённая расщеплением атомов с температурой в 50 миллионов градусов, находится в его распоряжении.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Величайшим счастьем человечества явилось то, что стихия эта была открыта не большевиками, иначе бы весь мир был уже ими поставлен на колени, как была, через несколько дней после её открытия, поставлена Япония. Однако, большевиков не сумели испугать этой бомбой и через некоторое время почувствовали, что мир сам приготовил себе средства для самоубийства. Возможная война рисуется, как "огонь с неба" (атом раздробляется только на солнце), как последняя чаша гнева Божия, могущая уничтожить всю жизнь на земном шаре.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> И вслед за этим, вдруг новое, чрезвычайное, безмерно удивительное историческое событие, показывающее, что мир имеет внутреннюю, духовную и священную историю, которая продолжается от времён установления Ветхого и Нового Заветов по сей день. 14 мая 1948 года в Палестине учреждается еврейское государство, называемое Израиль. 2,000-летняя мечта евреев иметь своё государство осуществилось. Что это значит? Как думают об этом сами евреи? — "Господь всё-таки услышал молитвы своего народа" — говорят евреи-старики со слезами на глазах. По поводу Судного Дня нам напоминают синагогальную молитву (НРСл. М. Граев 18 сент. 1955 г.) "чтобы в ближайшее время сбылось пророчество Исаии о том, что наступит день, и мечи будут перекованы на орала и все народы мира потянутся к горам Сиона, чтобы выслушать слово Божие о мире и братстве народов".</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Однако, есть в Иерусалиме и партия крайних клерикалов ("Натурей Карта" — Стражи Городских Стен), которая учит, что еврейское государство противоречит мессианской идеи еврейства. Государство Израиль, — по её мнению, — незаконно присвоило себе прерогативы Мессии, который один, по его пришествии, установит государственный порядок в стране. Поэты в честь Мессии слагают стихи: — "Что куёшь, кузнец суровый? — Превращаю я в подковы полосы тугие. Да, подковы для него, — Радость! радость! — для него. Для коня Мессии. Ткач проворный, быстроокий, что готовишь? — Плащ широкий, Ризы дорогие. Облечётся в них он сам, — Радость! радость! — сам он, сам, Царь царей — Мессия" (Д. Фришман). И т.д.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> С глубоким изумлением всматриваемся мы в это явление нашей эпохи и с робкой радостью думаем: неужели же вскоре сбудутся слова Апостола Павла о том, что против Иисуса из Назарета "ожесточение произошло в Израиле отчасти, до времени, пока войдёт полное число язычников; и так весь Израиль спасётся... в отношение к избранию, они возлюбленные Божии ради отцов, ибо дары и призвание Божие непреложны" (Рим 10.25-29)? Что впереди у них в надежде на нового Мессию, кроме разочарования? Нужны осязательные и горькие опыты самой истории, чтобы убедиться в истинности первого Мессии. Единый верный и непреложный Бог, внимая молитвам Своего народа, даёт ему то, что он просит и попускает познать добро через зло испытаний, если он не мог миновать его верой, которую приняли Язычники. Испытания его не окончились. А когда кончатся, Израиль будет с нами, то есть, вместе с нами около Господа нашего Христа, Иисуса из Назарета. Другой Мессия, которого ждут, — ошибка, и это поймут. Так именно, таким образом "весь Израиль спасётся". Это его путь. Таковы вера, надежда, любовь и премудрость нашего христианства.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Последняя реальная задача нашего научно-технического развития — путешествия в междупланетное пространство. Выход из земли, из тесных её пределов. Свобода, непременно свобода от материи времени и пространства. Выше и выше, от видимого к невидимому. Это есть несознательное стремление к Небесному Царству, которое только и освобождает от нашей материи, и времени, и пространства, о котором "сознательно", то есть, всезнающей Божественной премудростью проповедует Евангелие почти две тысячи лет, как об открытом для нас Спасителем и Господом нашим Иисусом Христом, где Он, Воскресший, пребывает в новом нашем теле одесную Престола Отца Своего и Бога нашего.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Медленно развивается человечество, но уже стоит у порога познания тех цели и смысла своей жизни, которые даны его вере от начала. Вера, знание и опыт истории говорят об одном. Поэтому мы, христиане, не унываем. Торжество Христовой истины и жизнь вечная Небесного Царства придут, хотя бы через казни исхода из египетского рабства. Проповедь наша не нуждается в гаданиях: когда и как это будет. Пусть будет хотя ещё через века, и Господь продолжит надолго жизнь мира для его вечного спасения. Тем важнее наше стояние в истине, её хранение, и всё большее раскрытие её света человечеству. Пред лицом событий мира и ещё великих знамений, хотя бы скорбных и даже ужасных, наше лицо, озарённое этим светом вечной истины, должно быть как кремень, будучи способным принять все удары. "Сия есть победа, победившая мир, вера наша". И тем внимательнее мы должны следить — где же в нашу эпоху, в каком остатке верных хранится твёрдость, чтобы вместе с ним пройти предлежащий путь. Православная Церковь сохранена Богом. Православность или верность истине Христовой, в годину тяжких испытаний, имеется в ней и ничто в мире не поборет её, даже среди многих падений и отпадений. В сознании этого — наше великое утешение в нашу странную, и удивительную и угрожающую эпоху.</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Протопресвитер М. Польский</p>
<p style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Православная Русь-№21-1955г.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-92052327309974364682023-12-24T09:52:00.000-08:002023-12-24T09:52:56.433-08:00 BIDEN...?! ?! ?!<span>THE NEW AND IMPROVED JOE BIDEN 2024!</span><div><span><br /></span>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Meditation Room</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">https://www.un.org/ungifts/meditation-room</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> NWO Mural</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">https://www.un.org/ungifts/untitled-mural-peace</p>
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<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none;">Lucis Trust (aka Lucifer Publishing) based and created by on the writings of Alice Bailey. She’s a disciple of, and the successor of Helena Blavatsky, the founder of theosophy which is part of the New Age movement, and Luciferian worship. Alice Bailey started Lucifer Publishing in 1920 and in 1922 changed it to Lucis Trust. Today Lucis Trust shares an address that is in the same building as the UN in NYC.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-kerning: none;">If you can bear 12 minutes of excruciating background noise, then here is a narration of a Christian interpretation:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/PHiOnMdWveQ3/">https://www.bitchute.com/video/PHiOnMdWveQ3/</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-kerning: none;">Narration includes this:</span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>________________</b></span></p><p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Bailey's 10 strategies </b></span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>to establish a new world order</b></span></p>
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<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">1. Man says, “Push God out of the Schools, No reference to God then they will consider God irrelevant in day to day life”</span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">2. Man says, “Break the traditional judeo-Christian family concept so parents can’t push excessive spiritual values to their children”</span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">3. Man says, “remove restrictions on sex. Sex is the biggest joy and Christianity robs people of this. People must be free to enjoy it without restrictions it’s not just for married people it’s for everybody”</span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">4. Man says, “All forms of sex should be excepted”</span></p>
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<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">5. Man says, “People should be free to abort unwanted children a woman must have the right to abort an unwanted child”</span></p>
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<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">6. Man says, “Every person develops soul bonds so when a soul bond wears out a person must be free to divorce. When one starts to grow one must be free to get together with that person even if they are married.”</span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">7. Man says, “Diffuse religious radicalism. Christianity says Jesus is the only way. Diffuse this by a)silencing Christianity and b)promoting other faiths the creation of interfaith harmony.</span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">8. Man says, “Use the media to influence mass opinion. Create mass opinion that is receptive to these values by using tv, film, the press, etc.”</span></p>
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<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">9. Man says, “Debase art in all its forms corrupt music, painting, poetry and every expression of the heart and make it obscene, immoral and occultist. Debase the arts in every way possible.”</span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: Charter; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">10. Man says, “Get the church to endorse every one of these nine strategies. Get the church to accept these principles and to say they’re ok then legal ground is given for these values to get foothold.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-kerning: none;">Christian rebuttal, point by point:</span></p>
<p style="color: #3c3a3d; font-family: "Avenir Next Condensed"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://maishasoundoff.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/how-to-push-god-and-godliness-out-of-society-from-alice-bailey-circa-1940s-courtesy-of-forerunner777/">https://maishasoundoff.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/how-to-push-god-and-godliness-out-of-society-from-alice-bailey-circa-1940s-courtesy-of-forerunner777/</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The long-time rector of St. Nicholas Church in Lyon, France, Archpriest Hristo Petkov, was awarded the right to wear the Cross with decorations.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Your unchurchism, expressed in the fact that for more than ten years you deliberately did not resort to the Sacrament of Confession and refused to attend diocesan meetings, while avoiding concelebration and even oral communication with our other priests, led you to sectarianism and complete apostasy from the Church. Despite repeated exhortations to return to the Church, you chose to unite with the New Style Renovationist organization of the OCU, which confirmed your deep internal apostasy.</p>
<p style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Considering your actual stay outside the Church. You are prohibited from serving in the priesthood until you repent. You are prohibited from wearing a cassock and a priestly cross, as well as from performing any actions as a clergyman. If you violate this Decree, then, according to the Church Canons and Rules, you will be deprived of your rank.</p>
<p style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Ruling Bishop of the Odessa Diocese Archbishop of Tauride and Odessa</p>
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<p style="color: #640e2f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-ierej-aleksandr-leleka-zapreshchjon-v-svyashchennosluzhenii#comment-16304">#</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> </span><b>RE: ROCOR: Priest Alexander Leleka is banned from the priesthood and-</b><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Metropolitan Agathangel</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">12/16/2023 15:03</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Priest Alexander Leleka was accepted into the OCU with the rank of archpriest.</p>
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<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication: December 08, 2023. Category: ROCOR.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On Wednesday, December 6, the Moscow Patriarchate, with the help of the Land Committee in Kazakhstan, took away from our Peter and Paul parish (rector Archpriest Gennady Subbotin) a plot of land on which the previously taken away temple is located. The court predictably ruled in favor of MP.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On the one hand, representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate are indignant that their property is being taken away from them in Ukraine, but on the other hand, they have always and everywhere done exactly the same thing - starting from abroad (Nicholas Cathedral on 98th Street in New York, Intercession Church in Ottawa - in Canada, monasteries in the Holy Land, etc.), and ending with the confiscation of property in Ukraine, not to mention the Russian Federation. Now also in Kazakhstan. Moreover, in all post-Soviet countries this arbitrariness is accompanied by strict pro-patriarchal administrative resources, which do not allow other believers to receive any property. But, it is possible to take away from them, but it is impossible from them - such is the essence of heretics and apostates and, in truth, devilish - “justice”.</p>
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<p style="color: #640e2f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>More materials about the Peter and Paul Parish in Kazakhstan:</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ROCOR: The persecution of MP against our parish in Kazakhstan continues</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In Kazakhstan, the MP took away the temple, now it’s taking away the land</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Forum 18 about our parish in Kazakhstan</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ROCOR: In Kazakhstan, the MP took away our temple</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ROCOR: Patronal feast day in Kazakhstan 2022</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ROCOR: In Kazakhstan, the MP does not give up attempts to take temple from us</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ROCOR: In Kazakhstan, the court decided to take away the property of our parish</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ROCOR: Trial in Kazakhstan postponed</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ROCOR: Raider seizure of property by the MP in Kazakhstan</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another attempt at raider seizure of ROCOR church (in Kazakhstan, Kustanai) by MP </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">MP raider seizes the ROCOR church in Kazakhstan (PHOTO, VIDEO)</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #6b0001; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Ещё материалы о Петропавловском приходе в Казахстане:</b></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-prodolzhayutsya-goneniya-na-nash-prikhod-v-kazakhstane">РПЦЗ: Продолжаются гонения МП на наш приход в Казахстане<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-v-kazakhstane-mp-otnyala-khram-teper-otnimaet-zemlyu">В Казахстане МП отняла храм, теперь отнимает землю<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/18">Форум 18 о нашем приходе в Казахстане<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-v-kazakhstane-mp-otnyala-u-nas-khram">РПЦЗ: В Казахстане МП отняла у нас храм<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/2022-25">РПЦЗ: Престольный праздник в Казахстане 2022<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-v-kazakhstane-mp-ne-ostavlyaet-popytok-otnyat-u-nas-khram">РПЦЗ: В Казахстане МП не оставляет попыток отнять у нас храм<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-v-kazakhstane-sud-postanovil-otnyat-imushchestvo-nashego-prikhoda">РПЦЗ: В Казахстане суд постановил отнять имущество нашего прихода<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-sudebnoe-razbiratelstvo-v-kazakhstane-otlozheno">РПЦЗ: Судебное разбирательство в Казахстане отложено<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-rejderskij-zakhvat-imushchestva-so-storony-mp-v-kazakhstane">РПЦЗ: Рейдерский захват имущества со стороны МП в Казахстане<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/ocherednaya-popytka-rejderskogo-zakhvata-khrama-rptsz-v-kazakhstane-g-kustanaj-funktsionerami-mp-video">Очередная попытка рейдерского захвата храма РПЦЗ ( в Казахстане, г. Кустанай ) функционерами МП<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/mirovoe-pravoslavie/moskovskaya-patriarkhiya/mp-rejderskim-putem-zakhvatyvaet-khram-rptsz-v-kazakhstane-foto-video">МП рейдерским путем захватывает храм РПЦЗ в Казахстане (ФОТО, ВИДЕО)<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date: December 07, 2023. Category: Society.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Compiled by Colonel I.S. Alexandrov. Ed. 4th, E.I. Fesenko in Odessa.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Prayer before battle.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My savior! You laid down Your life for us to save us; You commanded us to lay down our souls for our friends, for those close to us. I joyfully go to fulfill Your holy will and lay down my life for the Tsar and the Fatherland. Arm me with strength and courage to defeat our enemies, and grant me to die with firm faith and hope of eternal blissful life in Your Kingdom.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">TO THE WARRIOR BEFORE THE BATTLE.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Every warrior must firmly grasp the following general principles for battle:</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 1. Perish yourself, but help your comrade.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 2. Climb forward, even if those in front are beaten.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 3. Do not be afraid of death, no matter how difficult it may be; you'll probably beat me.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 4. If it’s difficult for you, then it’s not easier for the enemy, and maybe even more difficult than yours. You only see your own difficulty, but you don’t see the enemy’s, but it’s certainly there. And therefore never despondency, but always audacity and perseverance.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 5. When defending, you need to hit, and not just fight back. The best way to defend yourself is to attack yourself.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 6. In battle, whoever hits harder and braver, not whoever is stronger and more skillful. Victory is not given immediately; the enemy can also be persistent; sometimes it is not possible to take it from two or three times; then we need to climb into the fourth and further until we achieve our goal.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 7. More or less skilful arrangements make it easier to achieve the goal with less loss, but only make it easier; only those who decide to perish rather than not achieve their goal achieve it.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 8. No matter what unexpected obstacles you encounter on the way to your goal, you need to think about how to overcome them, and not about the fact that things are bad.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 9. A decent part has neither a rear nor flanks, but everywhere the front is where the enemy is from.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 10. No matter how unexpectedly the enemy appears, one must not forget one thing: that he can be beaten either with a bayonet or with fire. Of the two, the choice is not difficult, but the structure is a secondary matter. If the enemy is close, always use bayonets; if further away - first fire, and then bayonets.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 11. There is no situation from which it would be impossible to get out of it with honor.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 12. There is no change in battle. Once you get into battle, you will remain in it until the end: there will be support, but never change.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 13. While you are fighting, help the healthy; Only after beating the enemy, remember the wounded. Whoever worries about them during battle and leaves the ranks is a coward, not a compassionate person. There are always special teams to select the wounded.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 14. As a boss, do not meddle in the affairs of a junior when you see that he is being handled intelligently; in battle, your own will be enough. Whoever chases after what others should do will miss his own. Every rank must have its own circle of independence and responsibility. Without recognizing the first, you remove the second. But the boss must ensure that everyone does their job, and not let them get away with it.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">to the lower ranks of the Russian army about the laws and customs of land war.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 1. You are fighting with enemy troops, and not with civilians. Residents of an enemy country can also be enemies, but only when you see them with weapons in their hands.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 2. Do not hit an unarmed enemy asking for mercy.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 3. Respect other people's faith and its temples.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 4. Do not offend the peaceful inhabitants of the enemy’s land, do not spoil or take away their property, and keep your comrades from doing this. Cruelty to ordinary people only increases the number of our enemies. Remember that a soldier is a warrior of Christ and the Sovereign, and therefore must act as a Christ-loving warrior.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 5. When the battle is over, feel sorry for the wounded man and try to help him as best you can, without discerning whether he is your own or the enemy. The wounded is no longer your enemy.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 6. Treat the prisoner humanely and do not mock his faith; don't oppress him.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 7. The collection of prisoners, and even worse, the wounded and killed, is the greatest shame for an honest soldier; Anyone tempted by such an action faces the most severe punishment, as for robbery.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 8. If you are assigned to prisoners, protect them from the harassment of strangers. If a prisoner tries to escape, detain him, call for help, or, in extreme cases, use weapons.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 9. Tents and houses where the wounded and sick are located are always marked with a white flag with a red cross - do not shoot or break into these places.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 10. Do not touch people, even in enemy uniform, who have a white bandage with a red cross on their sleeves - they care for the sick and wounded and treat them.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> 11. If you see an enemy with a white flag - do not shoot at him, but send him to the authorities - this is a negotiator - an inviolable person.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nun Varvara died on December 3, 2021 in St. Petersburg on the feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I knew her for about 20 years. It turned out that it is difficult to write about those people whose life history you know well, especially since the life of sister Varvara does not fit into a standard framework. How to write about this succinctly, briefly, highlighting the main thing so that the reader gets an idea of how her soul changed and transformed over time. I will try to cope with this difficult task.</p><p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Each person has his own path to faith. Elena's was not even and smooth. She was born in 1967 in Leningrad into the most ordinary Soviet family. Her father was a military pilot who participated in World War II. After the war, he worked in Leningrad as head of the department for combating organized crime. My mother also worked in the police. Elena was a late child; she had two older sisters and a brother.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Elena's father died suddenly when she was 5 years old, and she lost her mother at the age of 16. From that time on, a different life began for Elena. Left without a mother, she seemed to have lost her life's direction, found herself in the company of drug addicts and went down a dangerous path. All the efforts of the relatives were in vain. For seventeen years, Elena, as she herself said, “slept in a narcotic dope.” Many of her company had already passed away when a similar story happened to her. Elena was dying in the hospital from blood poisoning. The doctors were sure of the fatal outcome and told the relatives to come and say goodbye. However, contrary to predictions, a miracle happened - Elena survived.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Obviously, the shock she suffered became a turning point for Elena. She consciously decided to get rid of drugs and start a new life. It was difficult to do this in St. Petersburg, and the Lord arranged it so that Elena ended up in Zhabory, in the community of the Church Abroad.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I met Elena, she no longer smoked, drank or injected drugs. We lived with her in the same cell. Her character was difficult: emotional, hot-tempered. Although she was kind, sympathetic and sociable by nature, her previous way of life left a strong imprint. She had an internal struggle with passions both day and night. God has spared me from such addictions. For the first time, I saw with my own eyes how a person suffers while struggling with demonic temptations. When I arrived in Zhabory, I first worked in the cattle yard, so I had to get up early. I went to bed no later than 10 o’clock, when Elena was still awake. She didn’t turn off the lights until 2 a.m., minding her own business, but that didn’t bother me. I fell asleep instantly from exhaustion. Sometimes in the middle of the night I heard moans. "Hail Mary! Hail Mary!" - Elena called to the Mother of God for help in a dream.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">About 70 km from Zhabor in the village of Vyshegorod, Father Sophrony had a monastery, where he spent most of his time. He sometimes came to us to serve. The services were a consolation for us. When the priest was not there, we served in the secular rank. Deacon Alexy and charterer Sergiy led the service. Elena and I sang in the choir as best we could. I had hearing, but a weak voice. Elena has the opposite: a strong voice and insufficient hearing. Valentina Mikhailovna sang with us in the choir; she was already over seventy. She was originally from the Voronezh region, sang in church all her life, and came to the community when she was retired. When Mikhailovna heard falsehood, she winced as if she had eaten something sour. Leaning on the stick with both hands, at that moment she even squatted slightly, her eyebrows crawled downwards. She seemed to want to protect herself from the cacophony. On the choir, Elena stood next to Mikhailovna, and when she was out of tune, Mikhailovna, wincing, pointed to her ear with her index finger, and Elena fell silent.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Elena was very jealous of everything related to church services. To compensate for her lack of hearing, she decided to learn to sing. The small town of Porkhov was 20 km from our village. In Porkhov, Elena found a music teacher and began going to her for classes. A year later she sang much better.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">About six months after my arrival in Zhabory, Father Sophrony blessed Elena and me to take turns working in the refectory. Because Elena lived such an unusual life, she had few practical skills. As she said to herself: “I used to think that buns grew on trees.” At first she didn’t know how to cook, but she quickly learned, and I had to do all the preparations alone, which embarrassed me. Our meal was meager; we had to economize on everything, which Elena was not used to. From time to time there were clashes between us, and we expressed to each other everything that was painful. Elena was vulnerable and very hot-tempered, but at the same time easy-going. I, in turn, began to reproach myself for demanding too much from her. “If you lived such a life, you would probably be much worse than her,” I told myself. In general, we quickly made up, and life moved on.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There was a forest around the village like a solid wall, but Elena never went to pick mushrooms, explaining that she didn’t know which mushrooms were edible. It so happened that out of the entire community (about 15 people), except for Larisa’s mother, who worked in the barnyard, and me, no one went for mushrooms, but everyone ate mushrooms. Once Elena and I had an argument about the preparations, and I said in my hearts: “You can only eat and eat! And how much work: collecting, cleaning, salting, pickling - someone has to do all this! If you don’t know how, learn! I only hear excuses from you." The conversation took place during the day. I was working in the refectory and in the midst of my worries I forgot about him. Arriving at the cell in the evening and not finding Elena there, I was not surprised. Being very sociable, Elena could sit with one of the community members talking. Then, going out to get water, at the well I met Maria, our singer, who told me that in the afternoon, at 2 o’clock, she saw Elena walking towards the forest. A terrible guess, like a shock wave, covered me. I realized that under the influence of our conversation, Elena went into the forest to pick mushrooms. One! It was already getting dark, but she was still not there. It was clear that she was lost.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our forest was lascivious. Mother Larisa, who had lived in these places for a long time, got lost and was twice forced to spend the night in the forest. That’s why I never risked going into the forest alone. “Poor Lenka,” I thought, “where is she now? Where can I look for her? Well, why did I attack her like that.” After talking about all this with Maria, we decided to wait a little longer and then raise people to search. Of course, I really reproached myself and regretted that I spoke so harshly to Elena, but the word is not a sparrow, if it flies out, you won’t catch it. “Lord! Help! It’s already getting dark,” I thought, sitting on our porch. As a response to my thoughts, I suddenly saw Elena walking towards our house, in her hand she had a plastic bucket in which there were two mushrooms. A mountain has been lifted off my shoulders! God bless!</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It turned out that she was really lost. She got lost and got lost, and then she prayed: “Lord! Bring me out!” As soon as she mentally said this, she suddenly noticed a bird flying up from a nearby tree. Elena understood this as a sign from God, went in the direction where the bird flew, and went out onto the forest road that led her to the house. Subsequently, the story with the preparations ended with Elena finally starting to help me - making jam. Mushroom business was not her thing.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At the end of June 2006, Abbess Alexandra (Chernyavskaya) came to our community. Father Sophrony brought her. Even then it was clear that in the foreseeable future there would be a union of part of the Church Abroad with the MP, and Mother decided that the monastery should leave Ishim. Abbess Alexandra was looking for a place for a monastery and came to the Pskov region for this. Father Sophrony took her around for several days, offering different options, but these places were not suitable for mother. The house in Zhabory where Elena and I lived could, at best, accommodate a few more people, but there was no room for 15 sisters. As a result, the monastery moved to Odessa in the fall of 2006.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, for the first time in our lives, Elena and I saw the abbess and could communicate with her. I remember Elena asked my mother: “If two sisters come to you and have an argument, how will you judge them? Will you tell them who is right and who is wrong?” To this, mother replied that she would not do that, but would tell the sisters to pray until they were reconciled with each other.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mother invited Elena and me to the monastery. This was an event of great importance for us! I knew that such an opportunity comes once in a lifetime, and I had to take advantage of it. And although it seemed to me that I was not suitable for the monastery, since I had little experience in church life, I still decided to try.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In September 2007, I left for a monastery. It was a pity to part with our community grandmothers. Our housekeeper Lidiya Grigoryevna was already ill then; she was diagnosed with cancer, and Elena looked after her. Lidia Grigorievna died in January 2008. After that, Elena came to the monastery.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Elena had a living, almost childlike, spontaneous faith, which manifested itself in simple, everyday situations. Elena told me about this incident upon arrival at the monastery.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After the death of Lydia Grigorievna, Elena went to Porkhov on business. There was only one bus service from Porkhov to Zhabor, every 3 days. If you’re late, there won’t be another flight, and Elena saw that she was late. Usually in such cases, Elena turned with prayer to the Lord, the Mother of God or the saints. And then suddenly, unexpectedly for herself, she burst out: “Grigorievna! If you please God, delay the bus! I’m late!” Imagine her surprise when she ran to the stop 10 minutes later and saw a standing bus. Elena had traveled this familiar route many times and knew that the bus always left exactly on schedule. “So, Grigorievna did please God,” Elena finished the story, smiling.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was not easy for Elena in the monastery. She had a good relationship with her mother and sisters, but she was not used to the harsh regime. In Zhabory, Elena could get up whenever she wanted, there were days off, the opportunity to leave on business, and the monastery demanded discipline. In addition, two years before leaving for the monastery, Elena managed to become disabled, so she needed regular medical care.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the Pskov region, every year she was given a free trip to a sanatorium, and she had benefits for the purchase of medicines. As a Russian citizen in Ukraine, she could not receive any of this. According to the rules of the monastery, it was allowed to travel once a year so that one could be absent for no more than a month. For Elena, all these conditions were difficult to fulfill, so in 2013, with the blessing of Mother Alexandra, she left for St. Petersburg.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Elena did not have her own home. In St. Petersburg she lived at the parish of the Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. The parish was located in a 1-room apartment on the 1st floor. Elena cleaned the apartment, prepared the church for services, and sang in the choir. This apartment was once converted from a janitor's room. The convenience was that the entrance to the apartment was separate, directly from the arch. However, this apartment was unsuitable for living: it was cold there. In addition, the bathroom, which required major renovation, was in a terrible state and there was no hot water. The peculiarity of this apartment was that there were no windows. There was a strange feeling in the apartment of isolation from the outside world: no windows, no neighbors. Walking into the apartment and smelling the aroma of incense, I felt like I was entering another dimension, as if in the times of the first Christians. It was impossible to imagine that there was a huge city seething outside the doors, with a metro nearby.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There was no sofa or bed in the apartment, so Elena had to sleep on a board, which she spread on stools at night. I had the opportunity to stop at the parish and spend the night with Elena. There is very little comfort, but it’s not just about everyday difficulties. Every person needs personal space so that he can at least have his own nook, if there is no possibility for a separate apartment or room. Elena did not have such a nook. She lived like a homeless wanderer and endured it without complaint, which surprised me.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Elena loved the monastery, mother and sisters very much. Every summer she tried to come to us. While in Odessa, she met new people and brought them as pilgrims to the monastery. Elena had one exceptional quality that I have not noticed in anyone else. She could speak to any person in his language, be it a child, an old man, a criminal or a museum worker. Communicating was as natural to her as breathing. Elena always easily mastered the entire space around her. For example, while in Zhabory, she traveled throughout the Pskov region, knew where what shrines, temples, and priests were. Unlike Elena, I went somewhere only on occasion with one of my friends or guests, which happened rarely. Elena could simply, unobtrusively, in a fleeting conversation, “open the eyes” of a random fellow traveler so that he would think about the meaning of life. To idle questions “Have you seen God?” Elena answered: “I saw the demon and I know how smelly and disgusting he is.” She was like a witness whom God raised up, brought to light, and with her life she testified to the power of God. Through great suffering, she came to God and led her family to faith, everyone became church people. Elena had many little godchildren. She very quickly became friends with children, who usually called her only by name, while most often a child, addressing an adult, says “uncle” or “aunt”.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Although Elena had a lot of negative experiences in her life, the Lord gave her the opportunity to later correct her mistakes, turning vice into virtue. In St. Petersburg, Elena began to care for sick people. She gave injections well, could put in an IV, learned to cope with bedsores, and give massage. Being disabled herself, Elena naturally had great physical strength, which allowed her to care for bedridden patients. An important factor for Elena was communication. She loved all her patients and spoke about them very touchingly and with humor. She tried to cheer them up, console them, and lift their spirits. 8 years passed in such labors and troubles. Caring for sick people became Elena’s life’s work. She found herself. Every person strives to establish himself in some activity. For Elena, this was necessary because, due to life circumstances, she did not have to obtain education and work experience. Her irrepressible energy finally found an outlet, and a calm confidence appeared in her that I had not observed before.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It's 2021. In the fall, Elena was diagnosed with cancer; nothing could be done. At this time, Bishop Afanasy of Vologda and Veliky Ustyug arrived from Vologda to St. Petersburg. On October 27, 2021, he tonsured Elena into monasticism with the name Varvara in honor of the sister of the cross of the Venerable Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna.</p>
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<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Инокиня Варвара скончалась 3 декабря 2021 г. в Санкт-Петербурге под праздник Введения во храм Пресвятой Богородицы. Я её знала около 20 лет. Оказалось, что трудно писать о тех людях, историю жизни которых хорошо знаешь, тем более, что жизнь сестры Варвары в стандартные рамки не помещается. Как написать об этом ёмко, кратко, выделив главное, чтобы читатель получил представление, как изменялась, как преображалась её душа с течением времени. Попытаюсь справиться с этой трудной задачей.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Знакомство моё с Еленой Ерофеевой (таково было её мирское имя) произошло в 2003 г. в деревне Жаборы Псковской области. В этой деревне находилась община Зарубежной Церкви, которую окормлял иеромонах Софроний (Мусиенко). В этой общине я прожила 4 года — с 2003 по 2007 г, а Елена приехала в Жаборы на 2 года раньше меня.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> У каждого человека свой путь к вере. У Елены был он не ровный и не гладкий. Родилась она в 1967 г. в Ленинграде в самой обычной советской семье. Отец её был военным летчиком, участвовал в Второй мировой войне. После войны работал в Ленинграде начальником отдела по борьбе с организованной преступностью. Мать тоже работала в милиции. Елена была поздним ребенком, у неё были две старшие сестры и брат.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Отец Елены скоропостижно скончался, когда ей было 5 лет, а мать она потеряла в 16-летнем возрасте. С этого времени для Елены началась другая жизнь. Оставшись без матери, она как будто лишилась жизненного ориентира, попала в компанию наркоманов и пошла по опасной дорожке. Все усилия родных были напрасны. Семнадцать лет Елена, как она сама говорила, "проспала в наркотическом дурмане". Многие из её компании уже ушли из жизни, когда и с ней произошла подобная история. Елена умирала в больнице от заражения крови. Врачи были уверены в летальном исходе, сообщили родственникам, чтобы пришли проститься. Однако вопреки прогнозам произошло чудо — Елена выжила.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Очевидно, перенесенное потрясение стало для Елены поворотным пунктом. Она сознательно решила избавиться от наркотиков и начать новую жизнь. В Санкт-Петербурге сделать это было сложно, и Господь устроил так, что Елена оказалась в Жаборах, в общине Зарубежной Церкви.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Когда я познакомилась с Еленой, она уже не курила, не пила и не кололась. Мы жили с ней в одной келье. Характер у неё был непростой: эмоциональный, вспыльчивый. Хотя по натуре она была добрая, отзывчивая и общительная, но прежний образ жизни наложил сильный отпечаток. Внутренняя борьба со страстями у неё шла и днём, и ночью. Меня от подобных зависимостей Бог миловал. Впервые я воочию видела, как мучается человек, борясь с бесовскими искушениями. Приехав в Жаборы, я сначала работала на скотном дворе, поэтому приходилось рано вставать. Спать я ложилась не позже 10 часов, когда Елена ещё бодрствовала. Часов до 2-х ночи она не выключала свет, занималась своими делами, но меня это не смущало. От усталости я мгновенно засыпала. Иногда среди ночи я слышала стоны. "Богородица! Богородица!" — звала Елена во сне Божью Матерь на помощь.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Примерно в 70 км от Жабор в деревне Вышегород у отца Софрония был мужской монастырь, где он проводил большую часть времени. К нам он приезжал иногда послужить. Службы являлись для нас утешением. Когда батюшки не было, мы служили мирским чином. Дьякон Алексий и уставщик Сергий вели службу. Мы с Еленой пели на клиросе как могли. У меня был слух, но слабый голос. У Елены наоборот: сильный голос и недостаточный слух. С нами на клиросе пела Валентина Михайловна, ей было уже за семдесят. Родом она была с Воронежской области, всю жизнь пела в церкви, уже будучи на пенсии приехала в общину. Когда Михайловна слышала фальшь, она так морщилась, будто съела что-то кислое. Опираясь на палку обеими руками, она в этот момент даже чуть приседала, её брови "домиком" ползли вниз. Она, казалось, хотела защититься от неблагозвучия. На клиросе Елена стояла возле Михайловны и когда она фальшивила, Михайловна, морщась, указательным пальцем показывала на свое ухо, и Елена замолкала.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Конечно, пел наш клирос непрофессионально. Как сказала про нас гостившая в общине монахиня: "Поют ужасно, а службы прекрасные". Однако все клиросные старались. Чем труднее была жизнь и суровее будни, тем большую отраду доставляли нам службы, пусть часто и мирским чином.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Ко всему, что касалось церковной службы, Елена имела большую ревность. Чтобы восполнить недостаток слуха, она решила учиться пению. Небольшой город Порхов находился в 20 км от нашей деревни. В Порхове Елена нашла учительницу музыки и стала ездить к ней на занятия. Через год она пела уже гораздо лучше.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Примерно через полгода после моего приезда в Жаборы отец Софроний благословил нас с Еленой работать по очереди в трапезной. Поскольку Елена прожила такую необычную жизнь, практических навыков у неё было мало. Как она сама про себя говорила: "Раньше я думала, что булки на деревьях растут". Поначалу готовить она не умела, но быстро научилась, а все заготовки приходилось делать мне одной, что меня смущало. Трапеза у нас была скудная, приходилось во всём экономить, к чему Елена не привыкла. Время от времени случались между нами стычки, и мы друг другу высказывали всё наболевшее. Елена была ранимой и очень вспыльчивой, но в тоже время и отходчивой. Я же в свою очередь начинала корить себя, что требую от неё слишком много. "Если бы ты прожила подобную жизнь, то наверное была бы гораздо хуже, чем она", — говорила я себе. В общем, мы быстро мирились, и жизнь продолжалась дальше.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Вокруг деревни сплошной стеной стоял лес, но за грибами Елена никогда не ходила, объясняя, что не знает, какие грибы съедобные. Так получалось, что из всей общины (примерно 15 человек) кроме матери Ларисы, работавшей на скотном дворе, и меня, за грибами никто не ходил, а ели грибы все. Как-то раз мы с Еленой повздорили на тему заготовок, и я в сердцах произнесла: "Ты только есть и можешь! А сколько работы: собирать, чистить, солить, мариновать — всё это кто-то должен делать! Не умеешь — учись! Всё только отговорки от тебя слышу". Разговор происходил днем. Я работала в трапезной и за хлопотами забыла про него. Придя к вечеру в келью и не застав там Елену, я не удивилась. Будучи очень общительной, Елена могла за разговорами засидеться у кого-то из общинских. Затем выйдя за водой, у колодца я встретила Марию, нашу певчую, которая мне сказала, что днём, часа в 2 она видела Елену, которая шла в направлении к лесу. Страшная догадка, как ударная волна, накрыла меня. Я поняла, что под влиянием нашего разговора Елена ушла в лес за грибами. Одна! Уже темнело, а её всё не было. Было ясно, что она заблудилась.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Лес наш был блудливый. Мать Лариса, которая давно жила в этих местах, заблудившись, дважды вынуждена была проводить ночь в лесу. Поэтому одна в лес ходить я никогда не рисковала. "Бедная Ленка, — думала я, — где она сейчас? Где её искать? Ну что я так на неё напустилась". Поговорив обо всём этом с Марией, мы решили ещё немного подождать, а потом поднимать людей на поиски. Конечно, я очень корила себя и сожалела, что так сурово разговаривала с Еленой, но слово не воробей, вылетит — не поймаешь. "Господи! Помоги! Уже темнеет", — думала я, сидя у нашего крыльца. Как ответ на мои мысли вдруг я увидела Елену, идущую к нашему дому, в руке у неё было пластиковое ведро, в котором лежали два гриба. Гора свалилась с плеч! Слава Богу!</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Оказалось, что она действительно заблудилась. Плутала, плутала, а потом взмолилась: "Господи! Выведи меня!" Как только она это мысленно произнесла, вдруг заметила, как с ближайшего дерева взлетела птица. Елена поняла это как Божий знак, пошла в направлении, куда полетела птица, — и вышла на лесную дорогу, которая привела её к дому. Впоследствии история с заготовками кончилась тем, что Елена всё-таки стала мне помогать — варила варенье. Грибные дела — это была не её стихия.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> В конце июня 2006 г. к нам в общину приехала игумения Александра (Чернявская). Ее привез отец Софроний. Уже тогда было понятно, что в обозримом будущем произойдет соединение части Зарубежной Церкви с МП, и матушка решила, что монастырь должен уехать из Ишима. Игумения Александра искала место для монастыря и за этим приехала в Псковскую область. Отец Софроний возил её в течение нескольких дней, предлагая разные варианты, но для матушки эти места не подходили. Дом в Жаборах, где мы жили с Еленой, в лучшем случае мог вместить ещё несколько человек, но для 15 сестер места не было. В итоге монастырь осенью 2006 г. переехал под Одессу.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Итак, в первый раз в жизни мы с Еленой видели игумению и могли с ней общаться. Помню, Елена спросила матушку: "Если к Вам придут две сестры, которые поспорили, то как Вы их рассудите? Скажете, кто прав, а кто виноват?" На это матушка ответила, что она так поступать не будет, а скажет, чтобы сестры молились до тех пор, пока не примиряться друг с другом.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Матушка пригласила нас с Еленой в монастырь. Для нас это было событие огромной важности! Я знала, что такой случай бывает раз в жизни, и надо им воспользоваться. И хотя мне казалось, что я не подхожу для монастыря, так как у меня мало опыта церковной жизни, но всё-таки я решила попробовать.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> В сентябре 2007 г. я уехала в монастырь. Жалко было расставаться с нашими общинскими бабушками. Наш эконом Лидия Григорьевна тогда уже болела, у неё обнаружили рак, и Елена за ней ухаживала. Скончалась Лидия Григорьевна в январе 2008 г. После этого и Елена приехала в монастырь.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> У Елены была живая, почти детская, непосредственная вера, которая проявлялась в простых, бытовых ситуациях. Об этом случае Елена мне рассказала по приезду в монастырь.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> После смерти Лидии Григорьевны Елена по делам поехала в Порхов. Из Порхова до Жабор был единственный автобусный рейс часа в 3 дня. Если опоздаешь, другого рейса не будет, а Елена видела, что опаздывает. Обычно в подобных случаях Елена обращалась с молитвой к Господу, Божией Матери или святым. А тут вдруг неожиданно для себя у неё вырвалось: "Григорьевна! Если ты угодила Богу, задержи автобус! Я опаздываю!" Каково же было её удивление, когда она прибежав на остановку на 10 минут позже, увидела стоящий автобус. Елена много раз ездила этим привычным маршрутом и знала, что автобус всегда уходил точно по расписанию. "Значит, Григорьевна таки угодила Богу", — улыбаясь, закончила рассказ Елена.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> В монастыре Елене было непросто. С матушкой и сестрами у неё были хорошие отношения, но она не привыкла к жесткому режиму. В Жаборах Елена могла вставать, когда хотела, там были выходные дни, возможность уезжать по делам, а монастырь требовал дисциплины. Кроме того года за два до отъезда в монастырь Елене удалось получить инвалидность, поэтому она нуждалась в регулярной медицинской помощи.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> В Псковской области ей каждый год выделяли бесплатную путевку в санаторий, она имела льготы на приобретение лекарств. Как гражданка России в Украине она ничего этого получить не могла. По уставу монастыря ездить разрешалось 1 раз в году так, чтобы отсутствовать не более месяца. Для Елены все эти условия было сложно выполнить, поэтому в 2013 г она с благословения матушки Александры уехала в Санкт-Петербург.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Своего жилья у Елены не было. В Санкт-Петербурге она жила на приходе Святой преподобномученицы Великой княгини Елизаветы Феодоровны. Приход располагался в 1-комнатной квартире на 1-м этаже. Елена убиралась в квартире, готовила храм к службе, пела на клиросе. Эта квартира в своё время была переделана из дворницкой. Удобством являлось то, что вход в квартиру был отдельный, прямо из арки. Однако для жилья эта квартира являлась мало пригодной: там было холодно. Кроме того требовавшая капитального ремонта ванная находилась в жутком состоянии, и там не было горячей воды. Особенностью этой квартиры являлось то, что там отсутствовали окна. В квартире возникало странное ощущение изолированности от внешнего мира: ни окон, ни соседей. Заходя в квартиру и ощущая аромат ладана, я чувствовала, что попадаю в другое измерение, как будто во времена первых христиан. Невозможно было представить, что там, за дверями бурлит огромный город, недалеко находится метро.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Ни дивана, ни кровати в квартире не было, поэтому спать Елене приходилось на щите, которой она на ночь постилала на табуретки. Мне доводилось останавливаться на приходе и ночевать вместе с Еленой. Комфорта весьма немного, но дело не только в бытовых сложностях. Каждый человек нуждается в личном пространстве, чтобы у него был хотя бы свой закуток, если нет возможности для отдельной квартиры или комнаты. Елена такого закутка не имела. Она жила как бездомная странница и переносила это безропотно, что меня удивляло.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Елена очень любила монастырь, матушку и сестёр. Каждое лето она старалась приехать к нам. Находясь в Одессе, она знакомилась с новыми людьми и привозила их как паломников в монастырь. Было у Елены одно исключительное качество, которого я не замечала ни у кого. Она могла говорить с любым человеком на его языке, будь то ребёнок, старик, уголовник или музейный работник. Общаться для неё было также естественно, как дышать. Елена всегда легко осваивала всё пространство вокруг. Например, находясь в Жаборах, она объездила всю Псковскую область, знала, где какие святыни, храмы, батюшки. В отличие от Елены, я ездила куда-то только по случаю с кем-то из знакомых или гостей, что случалось редко. Елена могла просто, ненавязчиво в мимолётной беседе "открыть глаза" случайному попутчику, чтобы тот задумался о смысле жизни. На досужие вопросы "А Вы Бога видели?" Елена отвечала: "Я беса видела и знаю, какой он вонючий и мерзкий". Она была как свидетель, которого Бог восставил, вывел на свет, и своей жизнью она свидетельствовала о силе Божией. Через великие страдания она пришла к Богу и родных своих привела к вере, все стали церковными людьми. Много у Елены было маленьких крестников. Она очень быстро сходилась с детьми, которые обычно называли её только по имени, в то время как чаще всего ребёнок, обращаясь к взрослому, говорит "дядя" или "тетя".</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Хотя в жизни Елена имела большой негативный опыт, однако Господь дал ей возможность потом исправить ошибки, обратив порок в добродетель. В Санкт-Петербурге Елена стала ухаживать за больными людьми. Она хорошо делала уколы, могла поставить капельницу, научилась справляться с пролежнями, делать массаж. Являясь сама инвалидом, Елена от природы обладала большой физической силой, что позволяло ей ухаживать за лежачими больными. Немаловажным фактором для Елены являлось общение. Она любила всех своих пациентов, очень трогательно, с юмором о них рассказывала. Она старалась их развеселить, утешить, поднять настроение. В таких трудах и хлопотах прошло 8 лет. Уход за больными людьми стал для Елены делом её жизни. Она нашла себя. Каждый человек стремится утвердиться в какой-то деятельности. Для Елены это было необходимо, поскольку в силу жизненных обстоятельств ей не пришлось получить образование и опыт работы. Её неуёмная энергия, наконец, нашла выход, и в ней появилась спокойная уверенность, которой раньше я не наблюдала.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Наступил 2021 год. Осенью у Елены обнаружили онкологическое заболевание, сделать уже ничего было нельзя. В это время из Вологды в Санкт-Петеребург приехал Епископ Вологодский и Великоустюжский Афанасий. 27 октября 2021 г. он постриг Елену в иночество с именем Варвара в честь крестовой сестры преподобномученицы Великой княгини Елизаветы Феодоровны.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Когда Елена жила у нас в монастыре как послушница, она очень хотела принять иночество, но обстоятельства не позволили это сделать. По сути дела, в миру она жила как инокиня: была всё время при храме, ухаживала за тяжёлыми больными, не имела своего угла. Мне вспоминается последний наш телефонный разговор. Физически сестре Варваре было уже очень тяжело, а говорили мы с ней о молитве Иисусовой...</p>
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<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Метки: рпцз, монахиня филарета Печать E-mail</p></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-65748545355319029642023-12-01T09:10:00.000-08:002023-12-03T09:11:08.087-08:00Synod Library, Table of Contents includes Prayer for Captives<span><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-moleben-o-plenennykh</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the Library section http://sinod.ruschurchabroad.org/bib0.html on the Synodal website there is a prayer for the release of prisoners. A prayer service should be served to Orthodox soldiers and civilians held captive by Russian-Soviet invaders. May God protect and save them, and grant them victory over their adversaries!</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">02.06 Service of St. blessed in Christ, Ksenia, the homeless wanderer of Petrovograd.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">02.07 Service of St. New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">05.09 Service of St. Anastasius, First Hierarch of the ROCOR</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">06.19 Service of St. Ioann Maksimovich</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">07.17 Service of St. Royal Martyrs</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">08.10 Service of St. Anthony, First Hierarch of the ROCOR</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">09.25 Service of St. Vitaly, First Hierarch of the ROCOR</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">10.23 Service to the Optina Elders</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">11.01 Service of St. right John of Kronstadt</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">11.10 Service of St. Philaret (to find the relics)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">11.21 Service to the First Hierarchs</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">11.21 Service of St. Philaret Voznesensky</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">12.10 Service of the Most Holy Theotokos before the Icon of Her, also known as the Kursk Root</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">12.25 Service to St. Herman, Alaskan Wonderworker</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Prayer service for Orthodox soldiers going on campaign</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #ffff0a;">Prayer service for the release of prisoners</span> <span style="color: #fb0207;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://sinod.ruschurchabroad.org/bib_mol-o-plennih.pdf</span></p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Litia's rites.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rules for the Blessing of Water Prayer Service on Bright Week</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Sequence of prayer singing for the conversion of the lost</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Canon of the Annunciation sung on Bright Week (sheet music)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The rite of consecration of the premises for serving the Liturgy</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The rite of replenishment of baptism, for those who have not been baptized by full immersion (recommended)</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">About the Catacomb Church</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Belgorodskaya A.V. Hidden Russia. About the life of the Catacomb Church. (3)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hieromonk Seraphim. About the Kharkov catacomb priest who died in 1955. (5)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Monk Zacharias. Gift of tongues. The story of the life of secret church members. Behind the story, clothed in the form of a story, the true events are hidden (6)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Monk Zechariah. Seeking Mother. (7)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Monk Zechariah. Essays on the Catacomb Church. (eleven)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was from Me (the Lord Jesus Christ). Manuscript taken from the Catacomb Church in Russia in 1942. (1)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Letters from Catacomb Bishop A. to F.M. The letters were kept in St. Petersburg in the catacomb community of Fr. Mikhail Rozhdestvensky. The letters were typed on a typewriter and bound into a separate book. (2)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Professor Ivan Andreev. Is the Soviet Church blessed? (12)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Professor Ivan Andreev. Memories of Bishop Victor (Ostrovidov). Memories of the bishop who cared for the Catacomb Church. (9)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Professor Ivan Andreev. Notes on the catacomb church in the USSR. (8)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Professor Ivan Andreev. Catacomb services in the Solovetsky concentration camp. (10)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Saint Innocent of Irkutsk. Directions on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven. (14)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Priest Mikhail Rozhdestvensky. About the St. Petersburg catacomb priest who died in 1988. (4)</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Khomyakov A.S. There is only one church. (13)</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On Sunday, November 26, with the blessing of Metropolitan Agafangel, Bishop Ambrose of Kolomna accepted Priest Leonid Loshitsky into communion. He will serve in the Church of the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Novye Vody, Korablinsky district, Ryazan region.</p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></span>
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<p style="color: #5686c3; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> ROCOR: Archimandrite Benjamin and Abbess Juliana joined our Church</p>
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<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication:<span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> November 6, 2023</span>. Category: ROCOR.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Memorial Day. John of Kronstadt, Archbishop Gregory of South America served in Chile in the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God at the convent and school for girls that existed under the leadership of Abbess Juliana (who was tested during the capture of the ROCOR monastery in Hebron in the Holy Land in 1997). On this day, Archimandrite Veniamin (Voznyuk), faithful assistant to Bishop Leontius of Chile, prayed and received Holy Communion at the Divine Liturgy, and they, together with Abbess Juliania, joined the South American Diocese of our Church.</p>
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<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">РПЦЗ: Архимандрит Вениамин и игумения Иулиания присоединились к нашей Церкви</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Автор: Митрополит Агафангел. Дата публикации: 06 ноября 2023. Категория: РПЦЗ.</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> В среду, 1 ноября 2023 года, в день памяти прав. Иоанна Кронштадтского, архиепископ Южно-Американский Григорий служил в Чили в храме Успения Божией Матери при женской обители и школе для девочек, существующей под началом игумении Иулиании (подвергшейся испытаниям при захвате монастыря РПЦЗ в Хевроне в Святой Земле в 1997 году). В этот день архимандрит Вениамин (Вознюк), верный помощник епископа Леонтия Чилийского, молился и причастился Св. Даров за Божественной Литургией, и они, вместе и игуменией Иулианией, присоединились к Южно-Американской епархии нашей Церкви.</p><div><br /></div></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-60345640389328808062023-11-21T09:29:00.000-08:002023-12-03T09:47:58.472-08:00Meeting of the Odessa Diocese<span><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/2023-20">http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/2023-20</a></p>
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<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication: November 21, 2023. Category: ROCOR.</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From November 7/20 to November 8/21, on the day of the feast of the Archangel Michael of God and other disembodied Heavenly Powers, a conciliar service of the clergy of the Odessa Diocese of the ROCOR was held in Odessa. The service was led by the Ruling Bishop, Metropolitan Agafangel. All those who arrived (including the nuns of the St. John's Convent) confessed and received Holy Communion of Christ. After the Divine Liturgy and a common meal, a general meeting of the clergy of the diocese took place.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1382" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-fTKdXh1DZlnnTlNTm8enfq7ovVYQoyFZ_cU9Tzom4UbhmplIVZtqLv8O3Gh44RsZMf8x-jQMFCFKmlg8YjUeywlKO307QPZwZ6GDtQFAlsWbfZAZTQJsxRHN3na3SXOvMuiBEeSnAe7ZPI704dDHgZuQPb-lwileez85JnVF2msGOPs8EJ-bF2Of1I/w640-h484/231121od2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At the meeting, the priests shared events from the life of their parishes during the ongoing war in Ukraine. Everyone agreed that these days we need to pray especially and every day for the Orthodox soldiers, the defenders of Ukraine. Metropolitan Agafangel has compiled a special prayer service for our defenders, which will be read in every parish of the Odessa diocese. The following Resolution was also adopted:</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Due to the fact that there is a war on the territory of Ukraine and there are war-related difficulties in movement, and these difficulties are increasing every day, so it is definitely unknown whether in the future it will be possible to hold diocesan assemblies in Ukraine</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Resolved: If it is impossible for representatives of a particular parish to attend a meeting, contact them via the Internet during the meeting and/or send them a short report on the life of their parish. Find an opportunity to create a website for the Odessa Diocese of the ROCOR.</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Members of the meeting</b>: archpriests: Alexander Martynenko, Vasily Zaburyany, Sergiy Begashov, Vitaly Morozov, Sergiy Smorygo, Alexy Sereda; Abbot Alexy (Petrenko); Hieromonk Jacob; priests: Dionysius Pavlovsky, Maxim Sheremet, Sergius Kovalev; Deacon Georgy Kucherenko; reader Vyacheslav Goldweber.</p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1303" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF8MAVDcce5347-nWBy0T0SfLu6UxsXSlAkBOAyNC0kNVrtolq0ypCNHR9idrJ9a7fd763QpqEOwqYFXksCOcCRAarxnqNHOWmMrUrAr-ReZL175cCxf53Lkzwma-wboi-tp_PrRZmwktop4r7Zx34srv0SuoirBp-WXiZvJKFg05g3DQip53o0hj_iOg/w640-h448/231121od1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-35347065116970383132023-11-15T12:56:00.000-08:002023-11-19T13:07:51.281-08:00more MP Persecution our Kazakhstan parish<span><p style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-prodolzhayutsya-goneniya-na-nash-prikhod-v-kazakhstane">http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-prodolzhayutsya-goneniya-na-nash-prikhod-v-kazakhstane</a></p>
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<p style="color: #5686c3; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ROCOR: The persecution of the MP against our parish in Kazakhstan continues</p>
<p style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication: November 15, 2023. Category: ROCOR.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From our parish in Kazakhstan this year, on the eve of Trinity, the Moscow Patriarchate, with the help of the Kazakh authorities, took away the Church of Peter and Paul, in which our community had prayed for more than 30 years. The temple was taken away without any legal grounds, allegedly because in 1992 it was generally wrong to conclude an agreement with us. Now, in the same manner, the Moscow Patriarchate is trying to terminate the land lease agreement. It is not known for what reason (perhaps because the community is directly subordinate to the Synod of the ROCOR, which is registered in the USA, in the state of New York), but on August 7 the court refused to transfer our plot of land to the MP. Now the land committee has filed a lawsuit to terminate the land lease agreement with us for 48 years. The court hearing is scheduled for December 6, 2023.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We need a professional lawyer in Kazakhstan to protect our rights. We will find out how much his services cost and will raise money to pay for it. We have no other choice.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #6b0001; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Ещё материалы о Петропавловском приходе в Казахстане:</b></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-v-kazakhstane-mp-otnyala-khram-teper-otnimaet-zemlyu">В Казахстане МП отняла храм, теперь отнимает землю<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/18">Форум 18 о нашем приходе в Казахстане</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-v-kazakhstane-mp-otnyala-u-nas-khram">РПЦЗ: В Казахстане МП отняла у нас храм</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/2022-25">РПЦЗ: Престольный праздник в Казахстане 2022</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-v-kazakhstane-mp-ne-ostavlyaet-popytok-otnyat-u-nas-khram">РПЦЗ: В Казахстане МП не оставляет попыток отнять у нас храм</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-v-kazakhstane-sud-postanovil-otnyat-imushchestvo-nashego-prikhoda">РПЦЗ: В Казахстане суд постановил отнять имущество нашего прихода<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-sudebnoe-razbiratelstvo-v-kazakhstane-otlozheno">РПЦЗ: Судебное разбирательство в Казахстане отложено<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-rejderskij-zakhvat-imushchestva-so-storony-mp-v-kazakhstane">РПЦЗ: Рейдерский захват имущества со стороны МП в Казахстане<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/ocherednaya-popytka-rejderskogo-zakhvata-khrama-rptsz-v-kazakhstane-g-kustanaj-funktsionerami-mp-video">Очередная попытка рейдерского захвата храма РПЦЗ ( в Казахстане, г. Кустанай ) функционерами МП<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/mirovoe-pravoslavie/moskovskaya-patriarkhiya/mp-rejderskim-putem-zakhvatyvaet-khram-rptsz-v-kazakhstane-foto-video">МП рейдерским путем захватывает храм РПЦЗ в Казахстане (ФОТО, ВИДЕО)<span style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In Kazakhstan, a professional lawyer, a former city prosecutor, took on our case. God bless!</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Let's write and call?</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Gundyaevites captured (t.me/solidarno strussia/1989) the Church of St. in the village of Oktyabrsky in Kazakhstan. Peter and Paul of our Church Abroad (ROCOR under the omophorion of Metropolitan Agafangel) and expelled the community to the streets. This temple has nothing to do with the Moscow Patriarchate, it has belonged to the community since 1992 and was maintained with the money of the community - those people who were thrown out into the street along with the priest, our leader, Fr. Gennady (Subbotin). This was done with the help of forgery (internetsobor.org/.../...) of documents, which was carried out by the Moscow Patriarchal diocese. The Russian Orthodox Church MP has been engaged in raider seizures of other people's property for many years, which we have written about several times.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Let's demand that the Kazakh authorities intervene in the situation and stop this persecution, and that the Moscow Patriarchate return the temple to its rightful owners - the community. Throughout this year, ROCOR has been under constant pressure from Gundyaev and his superiors. We must protect real Christians.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">> Akimat of Lisakovsk, a city subordinate to which is the village of Oktyabrsky, where the temple was captured: lisakovsk@kostanay.gov.kz</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">> Kostanay diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate, which is seizing the temple with demands to return the temple to the community and stop the persecution of believers: eparhiya@mail.ru and kep.inform@mail.ru (better to two addresses at once)</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Be sure to call the diocese's public phone number to verbally express your demands:</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">8(7142) 542-253 (office, reception)</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Telegram: https://t.me/eparhiyakst</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">VK: https://vk.com/public168127535</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">> To the office of the Metropolitan MP, who governs the Kostanay diocese: </p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">https://mitropolia.kz/contacts/office.html</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Call: +7 (727) 229 - 86 - 38, +7 (727) 273-39-52 - </p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Office, +7 (727) 273-72-91</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">VK: https://vk.com/mitropolia_kz</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">> Citizens of Kazakhstan have the right to submit an appeal to the President of the Republic: </p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">https://www.akorda.kz/ru/executive_office/contacts</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And also to the akim of Kostanay region:</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/kostanai-kostanai-audany-akimat/activities/population</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In your appeal, indicate the address of the parish (Shkolnaya St., 7. Oktyabrsky village, Kostanay district, Kazakhstan) and its affiliation with the ROCOR. Demand that the temple be returned to the community and the persecution stop. If one phone doesn't answer, call another. Write several appeals, call more than once, ask your family and friends to help you, involve other caring people in the problem.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We write, call, demand.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On Sunday, November 12/October 30, 2023, the memory of St. Philaret was celebrated (the discovery of his holy relics). In the city of Kamenskoye in Ukraine, where the rector is mitred Archpriest Alexander Martynenko, in the Church of St. John Maksimovich also has a separate Throne, consecrated in honor of St. Philaret. Metropolitan Agafangel served on this day in the territory of St. Philaret and at the Divine Liturgy ordained the deacon of this church, Sergius Kovalev, to the rank of priest.</p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-khirotoniya-v-den-pamyati-svt-filareta#comment-16297">#</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #9e001c; font-family: Verdana; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>RE:</b></span> ROCOR: Ordination on the day of remembrance of St. Philareta - Protodeacon German 11/13/2023 00:14</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Help, Lord, Father Sergius Kovalev to follow in the footsteps of our great father, Saint Philaret of New York.</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Many years !</p><div><br /></div></span>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000679422093371576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979614347937902982.post-17060074982166280782023-11-08T14:04:00.000-08:002023-11-19T14:08:49.070-08:00ROCOR: Patronal feast of Demetrius Church 2023<span><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/2023-19">http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/2023-19</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the Odessa Church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica (rector Archpriest Vasily Zaburyany) on the patronal feast day, the Divine Liturgy was led by the Ruling Bishop, Metropolitan Agafangel.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Russian person is not a “loner”. He was used to feeling like he was in the bosom of a huge family, thousands of years old. Her name is Holy Rus'. Even if he belonged, in everyday life, to everyday associations, be it a family hearth, a rural world, a military unit, an artel, etc. - all these associations, even if they were closed, were part of something more. A common spirit embraced them, all-pervading, making everyone related. That was the spirit of Christ, that was the community of the Orthodox Church, the consciousness of belonging to the Body of Christ - the Church, entrusted to the care of Russia. That is why Rus' could be called Holy. That is why the Mother of God recognized it as Her House...</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Russian person is pitiful, having lost this “Russianness”: he becomes an invertebrate creature, in the spiritual sense, with all his, even if sometimes aggravated, abilities and talents. And that holy gentleness, that friendly pliability, that compliant humility, which constituted the “conquering” force of Russia, which lovingly and motherly accepted into its bosom, as equals and loved ones, both the human masses and individual strangers encountered on its historical path, then turns into into “defeatist” pliability, which allows the Russian person to weakly merge into any environment, identifying with it. Whether such a person becomes a prey to various forms of communism, even militant, or becomes a victim of denationalization, and thereby “de-churching” - it’s all the same: he falls out of the Russian Holy Whole. Even if he is not a malicious deserter, not a conscious renegade, not a crafty defector, not an unprincipled compromiser - under all conditions, the most morally favorable, he is already a creature with a broken spiritual backbone. In practice, it can be very useful as part of other social organisms - spiritually and alien to them, it becomes even more alien to the Russian Holy Whole. In spiritual terms, he is a kind of subjectless “Ivan who does not remember his kinship.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They will tell us: why don’t you regard circumstances as important? Try to find yourself in the USSR as a child of the Russian Holy Whole! Try to do this even in the conditions of our “free” foreign existence - is it so simple, and is it even possible?</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It's difficult - no doubt about it. Requires struggle. It is not necessary that this struggle be demonstratively expressed externally. There are no firm rules for this struggle, just as there are no exact limits of compliance beyond which capitulation lies. But there is a mystical line, with the transition of which occurs what can be called loss of face, loss of personality. It is as if a “seal” is placed on the “inner man.” It is difficult to wash it off: a miracle is needed!</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One should not think that violence is the main means that forces one to cross this line. On the contrary, violence can give rise to a saving reaction. From this point of view, the saving role of Bolshevism is invaluable. Russia, for all its gigantic successes before the Revolution, was spiritually devastated en masse. This destructive process was disrupted by a catastrophe allowed by the Lord: under the blows of violence, a massive return of people to the Holy Whole of Russia took place, unimaginable under the conditions of the old regime, especially the false-idyllic “February”. It was “October” that struck stagnant hearts, and then it was discovered that Holy Rus' was alive - to such an extent and to such a strength as her conscious children had never dreamed of, tears coming out in the face of the spiritual decay of Imperial Russia.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A person’s “will” is what saves or destroys him. The direction of the will is EVERYTHING. Let us remember the fate of our Church in the initial period of Bolshevism: its lot was hard, but did not church life blossom! This era is legendary. The struggle against rapists was multifaceted, often taking the form of concessions. But that was forced maneuvering. Obviously for everyone, the Church shone next to the Enemy, internally free. The power of Light did not sacrifice anything to the alien force of Darkness that embraced her. At first glance, little has changed under Sergiev’s concordat. Essentially, EVERYTHING has changed. Because the direction of the will has changed. The forced endurance of someone else's power was replaced by: internally accepted, willing, coexistence with a dark force that ceased to be alien. An ominous shift began, which has not yet reached its limit: the replacement of violence with temptation.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Violence, in itself, does not change the inner person, even if he were turned into a living corpse and artificially brought to any confession. Satanists combine violence with temptation: by free will a person must cross the fatal line. It is difficult for us to judge from here how violence is now reconciled in the USSR with temptation in order to break people’s spiritual backbones. Hatred of the regime shows that it is not temptation, but violence that keeps Russia in line. One might even think that temptation is increasingly being replaced by violence. Until now, the Soviet government has found more and more “handouts” and “bribes” with which it bought “recognition.” She is ready to follow this path now. It's a dangerous game if the power of temptation really gives in. But with obvious and growing success, she uses temptation in relation to the outside world. This is where the center of gravity shifts. And if “Satanocracy” persists in Russia, is it not mainly due to the support that the so widely free world now gives it?</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Antichrist can be gentle. The Holy Fathers revealed this to us. While the “Satanocracy” acted only through terror, it was not yet the last stage of approaching the last times. And we can say with confidence: the blood of the martyrs, which washed the Russian soil, testified to the defeat experienced by the Enemy. The worst thing is happening now. Does the “Russian Holy Whole” live under the cover of Sovietism - for the time being and only without revealing itself? A terrible struggle for souls is taking place there. But, we repeat, the center of gravity has already been shifted outside.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the American illustrated press one could see a large image of the entire Soviet Geneva delegation. It is difficult to imagine anything more disgustingly creepy: a whole collection of smiles, brazenly false and cheekily defiant, in their multiplicity revealing a kind of collective smile - the smile of the Antichrist. So you ask yourself a question: if a feeling of pity, which cannot find words for its expression, is born towards those who are forced by force to “get along” with the bearers of such smiles; if a feeling of pity cannot, to some extent, not arise even for those who, not by ill will, but in the process of terrible Soviet training, saw themselves forced to play active roles in the “smiling” temptation of the universal - then what can be said about those who freely “get along” and smile with these monsters? Of course, there is some compulsion here too. But this is not violence, not terror. This is something different, where free will is not eliminated from the game, but is a voluntary and responsible participant to the greatest extent. And here the question arises: are these not signs of the world maturing towards accepting the subjection of the Antichrist? If the servants of the Antichrist were brought to us in a sealed carriage from the West, then the return visit is made in the form of an openly solemn one on behalf of the “Great Power,” victoriously entering the world under the sign of the Antichrist.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In what forms will the further mastery of the Antichrist principle of the world, still free, take place Will there be a spiritual resistance to it that is strong enough? Only the Lord knows. But it is hard to realize that the charm of the “Antichrist smile” also extends to our fellow humans, who, it would seem, are able to recognize through it the grin of the Beast that has already been revealed to them.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What can act here to the detriment, in conditions of spiritual molting, is that very sense of “shoulder,” that very need to feel oneself as part of the Russian whole, which we talked about: the illusion is born that this Whole can be revealed even under the Bolsheviks. There were fits of obsession when, contrary to reason, free Russian people spontaneously rushed into the mouth of the Beast. I personally had to observe this in the D. East. With the transition East. Whale. Railways to the Japanese, whole trains, crowded with people in heated cars, loaded with the richest belongings, one by one, left Harbin, so that upon crossing the border it would all be turned into a herd of dispossessed slaves. The pitiful fate of these returnees did not remain a secret. This did not prevent the same madness from repeating itself ten years later in Beijing, Shanghai and other centers. Miraculously, one young man managed to return, having left Beijing with a group of youth: “there” the youth greeted them with amazement at the madness they had committed, and, having come to his senses, he managed to slip back. In Shanghai, one jumped from a ship into the water and was saved: he was brought to his senses by the transformation of everyone, right there on the ship, into a general mass of slaves, with numbers, dressed in “robes.” But the most striking manifestation of madness, it seems, was Harbin, when the Japanese government was ready to be replaced by the Soviet one: it was greeted as a deliverer, the USSR was perceived as Russia. The Japanese, saving the anti-communists who were closer to them in their joint work, almost took them out by force. And what? Others returned, believing the false promises of their advisers more than the sober voice of their brethren.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All these naive people, led by delusion into the mouth of the Beast, were the best. When parting, they had to say: “You are going to a terrible fate, but, perhaps, for the salvation of your soul, for here, remaining Soviet seducers, you would probably destroy it, and “there” you will see Sovietism not imaginary, but real. ..” And what can we say about those who are “seduced” here, deliberately remaining in conditions of freedom and prosperity and becoming not only a source of temptation, but, not so rarely, also active participants in the modern “co-smiling” at Soviet successes? This is already free service to the Antichrist. There is no violence here. Free will here is in its purest form.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The temptation is strong and its approaches are varied: the environment draws us into it. Only holy intransigence can save you from the effect of the “Antichrist smile.” We emphasize the word “holy.” Not hatred of individuals, living or dead, on the basis of their “guilt”; not a passionate rejection of certain forms of government; not a malicious alienation from dissenters, born of partial enthusiasm for one’s own, individual or group, speculations, but that sober, judicious, spiritually meaningful intransigence that can only be born from the consciousness of one’s responsible belonging to the Holy Whole of Russia. Let this irreconcilability be associated, as a living experience, with one or another everyday-comradely or ideological-programmatic private association - such social phenomena deserve respect, support, and all kinds of encouragement. But such private associations should not lead away from the consciousness of their belonging to some higher principle, which should be the Holy Russian Whole. Only a firm consciousness of our spiritual allegiance, not only not removed, but further strengthened by our stay in freedom, is capable of placing us on solid ground of such irreconcilability, which, in its known truth, is ensured that, even if in a roundabout way, it will still lead us to compromise with the Soviets: “smiling” forms of this compromise can, as we know well, become ecclesiastical and seductive. Holy intransigence is the other side of fidelity, which receives its best expression, in the conditions of our foreign existence, in conscious belonging to the Church Abroad. For only in this way, formally and externally, can our spiritual citizenship of Holy Rus' be revealed today.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Who would dare to assert with confidence about anyone that he has crossed the fatal line beyond which a spiritually invertebrate existence begins, dooming him to helplessness in the face of the “Antichrist smile?” - This is the secret of the human soul. But to designate arrows indicating the path of salvation and destruction - isn’t it our irrevocable duty? And here it is impossible not to repeat, again and again, with persistence, with the course of events only growing: the Russian person must return to the True Church. It is not enough not to reject the Church. It’s not even enough to give it a place in your understanding of things, even if it’s an honorable one. We must enter into Her, into the True Church, which successively ascends to the origins of our spiritual existence, without bringing anything of our own, enter with all our being.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Otherwise, you won’t find holy intransigence! If it doesn’t exist, there is a form of temptation for everyone, and no one is protected from crossing the fatal line. And then - don’t expect any ceremonies!</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And everyone must remember: God’s selection is underway. You won't leave him. One way or another, the choice will confront you. Show “intransigence”, otherwise...</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And we need to think about what kind of “seal” the practice of “reconciliation” that has been practiced for too long is preparing for us. And you won’t notice how the ominous reflection of the “smile of the Antichrist” will play on your face.</p>
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<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Архимандрит Константин: "Антихристова улыбка" и святая непримиримость (Ко дню непримиримости)</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Автор: чтецъ Мартинъ. Дата публикации: 07 ноября 2023. Категория: Архив РПЦЗ.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Русский человек не «одиночка». Он привык ощущать себя в лоне огромной семьи, тысячелетней давности. Имя ей — Святая Русь. Пусть принадлежал он, в житейской обыденности, к бытовым объединениям, будь то семейный очаг, сельский мир, воинская часть, артель и т. д. — все эти объединения, пусть и замкнуты были они, во что-то большее входили. Общий дух обнимал их, всепроникающий, всех роднящий. То был дух Христов, то была общность церковно-православная, сознание принадлежности своей к Телу Христову — Церкви, хранению России вверенной. Потому и могла Русь именоваться Святой. Потому признала ее Своим Домом Богородица...</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Русский человек не «одиночка». Он привык ощущать себя в лоне огромной семьи, тысячелетней давности. Имя ей — Святая Русь. Пусть принадлежал он, в житейской обыденности, к бытовым объединениям, будь то семейный очаг, сельский мир, воинская часть, артель и т. д. — все эти объединения, пусть и замкнуты были они, во что-то большее входили. Общий дух обнимал их, всепроникающий, всех роднящий. То был дух Христов, то была общность церковно-православная, сознание принадлежности своей к Телу Христову — Церкви, хранению России вверенной. Потому и могла Русь именоваться Святой. Потому признала ее Своим Домом Богородица...</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Жалок русский человек, эту «русскость» утративший: беспозвоночным существом, в духовном смысле, становится он, при всех своих, пусть иногда даже обостряющихся, способностях и дарованиях. И та мягкость святая, та податливость дружелюбная, та смиренность уступчивая, которая составляла «завоевательную» силу России, любовно-матерински воспринимавшей в свое лоно, как равных и близких, и людские массы, и отдельных пришельцев, на ее историческом пути встречавшихся, превращается тогда в «пораженческую» податливость, позволяющую русскому человеку безвольно вливаться в любую среду, с ней отожествляясь. Становится ли такой человек добычей разных форм коммунизма, вплоть до воинствующего, или делается жертвой денационализации, а тем самым и «расцерковления» — все одно: выпадает он из Русского Святаго Целого. Пусть он не злостный дезертир, не сознательный ренегат, не лукавый перебежчик, не беспринципный соглашатель, — при всех условиях, самых морально-благоприятных, он уже существо с переломанным духовным хребтом. Практически полезен он может быть очень в составе других общественных организмов, — духовно и им чуждый, он тем более чужд становится Русскому Святому Целому. В духовном плане он — некий бесподданный «Иван не помнящий родства».</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Нам скажут: что же вы — обстоятельства ни во что ставите? Попробуй-ка себя в СССР обнаружить чадом Русского Святого Целого! Попробуй делать это даже в условиях нашего «свободного» зарубежного бытия — так-ли это просто, да и возможно ли даже?</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Трудно — не спорим. Борьбы требует. Не обязательно, чтобы эта борьба была демонстративно выражаема во-вне. Нет твердых правил для этой борьбы, как нет точных пределов уступчивости, за которыми лежит капитуляция. Но есть мистическая черта, с переходом которой происходит то, что можно назвать потерей лица, утратой личности. Точно «печать» накладывается на «внутреннего человека». Ее смыть трудно: чудо надо!</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Не надо думать, будто насилие есть основное средство, которое вынуждает перейти эту черту. Напротив, насилие способно рождать спасительную реакцию. Неоценима под этим углом зрения спасительная роль большевизма. Россия, при всех своих, до Революции, гигантских успехах, духовноопустошалась повально. Этот процесс губительный был сорван попущенной Господом катастрофой: под ударами насилия совершалось массовое возвращение людей к Святому Целому России, непредставимое в условиях старого режима, тем более, — фальшиво-идиллического «февраля». Именно «октябрь» ударил по застоявшимся сердцам, и тут обнаружилось, что жива Святая Русь — в такой мере и такой силе, как это и не снилось ее сознательным чадам, слезами исходившим пред лицом духовного разложения Императорской России.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">«Изволение» человека — вот, что спасает или губит его. В направленности воли — ВСЕ. Вспомним судьбы Церкви нашей в начальный период большевизма: тяжек был ее удел, а не цвела ли церковная жизнь! Легендарна эта эпоха. Многозначна была борьба против насильников, принимая нередко форму уступок. Но вымученным маневрированием было то. Явно для всех, сияла Церковь рядом с Врагом, внутренне- свободная. Ничем не поступалась чуждой обнимавшей ее силе Тьмы сила Света. Мало что изменилось, на первый взгляд, при конкордате Сергиевом. По существу изменилось — ВСЕ. Ибо изменилась направленность воли. Вынужденное претерпевание чужой силы сменилось: внутренне-приятым, доброхотным, сосуществованием с темной силой, которая переставала быть чужой. Начался зловещий сдвиг, и посейчас своего предела не достигший: смены насилия соблазном.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Насилие, само по себе, не меняет внутреннего человека, хотя бы он превращаем был в живой труп и доводим искусственно до любых признаний. Комбинируется сатанистами насилие с соблазном: свободным изволением должен перейти человек роковую черту. Трудно судить нам отсюда, как согласуют сейчас в СССР насилие с соблазном, чтобы ломать людям духовные хребты. Ненависть к режиму свидетельствует, что не соблазн, а насилие держит Россию в узде. Можно даже думать, что соблазн все больше вытесняется насилием. До сих пор находила Советская власть все новые «подачки» и «взятки», которыми покупала «признание». Готова она идти по этому пути и сейчас. Опасная то игра, если, действительно, сдала сила соблазна. Но с явным зато и все растущим успехом употребляет она соблазн в отношении к внешнему миру. Вот куда переносится центр тяжести. И если держится «сатанократия» в России, то не в силу ли, главным образом, той поддержки, которую теперь оказывает ей так широко свободный мир?</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Антихрист может быть ласков. Это нам открыли святые отцы. Пока «сатанократия» действовала только террором, то была еще не последняя стадия приближения к последним временам. И можно с уверенностью сказать: кровь мучеников, омывшая русскую землю, свидетельствовала опоражении, испытанном Врагом. Самое страшное происходит сейчас. Живет-ли «Русское Святое Целое» под покровом советчины — до времени и лишь себя не обнаруживая? Страшная борьба за души происходит там. Но, повторяем, центр тяжести перенесен уж во-вне.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> В американской иллюстрированной прессе можно было видеть большое изображение всей в целом советской женевской делегации. Трудно вообразить что-либо, более омерзительно-жуткое: целая коллекция улыбок, нагло-фальшивых и развязно-вызывающих, в своей множественности являющих некую собирательную улыбку, — улыбку антихристову. Вот и ставишь себе вопрос: если чувство жалости, слов не находящей для своего выражения, рождается к тем, кто насилием вынужден «ладить» с носителями таких улыбок; если чувство жалости не может, в какой-то мере, не рождаться даже к тем, кто, не по злой воле, а в процессе страшной советской дрессуры, увидели себя вынужденными играть активные роли в «улыбочном» соблазне вселенском — то что сказать о тех, кто свободным изволением «ладят» и со-улыбаются с этими страшилищами? Конечно, — доля вынужденности есть и тут. Но это не насилие, не террор. Это — нечто иное, где свободная воля не устранена из игры, а является участником добровольным и ответственным в сильнейшей степени. И тут встает вопрос: не признаки ли то созревания мира к принятию подданничества антихристова? Если к нам в запломбированном вагоне везлись с Запада антихристовы слуги, то ответный визит делается уже в форме открыто-торжественной от лица «Великой Державы», победоносно входящей в мир под знаком Антихристовым.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> В каких формах пойдет дальше овладение антихристовым началом мира, еще свободного? Родится ли сопротивление ему духовное, достаточно сильное? То одному Господу известно. Но тяжко сознавать, что обаяние «антихристовой улыбки» распространяется и на наших собратьев, казалось бы, способных сквозь нее распознавать им открытый уже оскал Зверя.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Способно тут действовать во вред, в условиях духовного линяния, самое то чувство «плеча», самая та потребность ощущать себя в составе Русского целого, о которых мы говорили: иллюзия рождается, будто и под большевиками может быть явлено это Целое. Бывали припадки одержимости, когда, рассудку вопреки, стихийно устремлялись свободные русские люди в пасть к Зверю. Мне лично приходилось наблюдать это на Д. Востоке. С переходом Вост. Кит. Ж. Д. к японцам, целые поезда, переполненные людьми в теплушках, нагруженных богатейшим скарбом, один за одним, уходили из Харбина, чтобы с переходом границы превращено было это все в стадо обездоленных рабов. Не оставалась тайной жалкая судьба этих возвращенцев. Это не помешало десять лет спустя повторению такого же безумия в Пекине, Шанхае и других центрах. Чудом удалось возвратиться одному молодому человеку, ушедшему из Пекина с группой молодежи: «там» молодежь встретила их изумлением пред совершенным ими безумием, и, опамятовавшись, сумел он проскользнуть назад. В Шанхае с корабля бросился в воду один — и спасся: его привело в чувство превращение всех, тут же на корабле, в общую массу рабов, под номерами, переодетую в «робы». Но самым ярким проявлением безумия был, кажется, Харбин, когда японскую власть готова была сменить советская: ее встречали как избавительницу, СССР воспринимая, как Россию. Японцы, спасая антикоммунистов, им более близких по совместной работе, чуть не силой вывезли их. И что-же? Иные возвратились, веря лживым посулам советчиков больше, чем трезвому голосу собратий.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Все эти наивные люди, заблуждением ведомые в пасть к Зверю, были лучшими. Им при прощании доводилось говорить: «идете вы на страшную долю, но, быть может, во спасение то вашей души, ибо здесь, оставаясь советизанами-соблазнителями, вы наверное бы ее погубили, а «там» увидите советчину не воображаемую, а реальную...» А что говорить о тех, кто «соблазняются» здесь, намеренно оставаясь в условиях свободы и благосостояния и становясь не только источником соблазна, а, не так уже редко, и активными участниками современного «соулыбательства» советским успехам? То ведь уже вольная служба Антихристу. Насилия тут нет. Свободное тут изволение — в чистом виде.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Силен соблазн и многообразны его подходы: втягивает нас среда в него. Спасти от действия «антихристовой улыбки» может только святая непримиримость. Подчеркиваем мы слово «святая». Не ненависть к отдельным людям, живущим или умершим, по признаку их «виновности»; не страстное отвержение тех или иных форм правления; не злобствующее отчуждение от инакомыслящих, рождаемое пристрастным увлечением своими, единоличными или групповыми, домыслами, а та трезвая, рассудительная, духовно-осмысленная непримиримость, которая способна быть рождаемой только сознанием своей ответственной принадлежности к Святому Целому России. Пусть эта непримиримость приурочивается, как живое переживание, к тем или иным житейски-товарищеским или идейно-программным частным объединениям — такие общественные явления заслуживают и уважения, и поддержки, и всяческого поощрения. Но подобные частные объединения не должны уводить от сознания своей принадлежности к некоему высшему началу, каким и должно быть Святое Русское Целое. Только твердое сознание своего духовного подданства, не только не снятого, а повышенно укрепленного нашим пребыванием на свободе, способно поставить нас на твердую почву такой непримиримости, которая, в своей заведомой истинности, обеспечена от того, чтобы, пусть кружным путем, а все же привести нас к соглашательству с советчиной: «улыбчатые» формы этого соглашательства могут, как мы знаем хорошо, становиться и церковно-соблазнительными. Святая непримиримость есть оборотная сторона верности, лучшее выражение получающей, в условиях нашего зарубежного существования, в сознательной принадлежности к Зарубежной Церкви. Ибо только так, формально и во-вне, может быть обнаруживаемо ныне наше духовное подданство Святой Руси.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Кто решится с уверенностью о ком бы то ни было утверждать, что перешел тот роковую черту, за которой начинается уже духовно-беспозвоночное существование, обрекающее на беспомощность пред лицом «антихристовой улыбки?» — То тайна души человеческой. Но обозначать стрелки, указующие путь спасения и гибели — не наша ли то обязанность неотменимая? И тут нельзя не повторять, снова и снова, с настойчивостью, с ходом событий лишь нарастающей: возвращаться надо русскому человеку в Истинную Церковь. Мало не отвергать Церковь. Мало даже отводить ей место в своем понимании вещей — пусть и почетное. Надо войти в Нее, в Истинную Церковь, преемственно восходящую к истокам нашего духовного бытия, ничего своего не привнося, войти — всем своим существом.</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Иначе — святой непримиримости не обретешь! А нет ее — найдется для каждого форма соблазна, и никто не обеспечен от того, чтобы не перейти роковой черты. А там уж — церемоний не жди!</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> И помнить должен каждый: идет отбор Божий. Не уйдешь ты от него. Так-ли, иначе-ли — а выбор встанет перед тобою. Проявляй «непримиримость», а иначе...</p>
<p style="color: #676767; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> И задуматься надо: какую «печать» готовит нам слишком долго практикуемая «примиримость». И не заметишь, как и на твоем лице заиграет зловещий отблеск «улыбки антихристовой».</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On October 29, Sunday, when our parishioners, members of the Congregation, came to the meeting (a total of 16 people - who could not come - transferred their votes by proxy), they were simply not allowed in (!). There were police and four hired private security guards at the entrance. Two women, justice inspectors invited by Berzins from the authorities, were allowed inside. After being inside for some time, they acted as intermediaries - having received information inside the room, they conveyed it to those standing outside and brought back the answers. In particular, they reported that John Berzins, who is inside, does not recognize the rights of membership in the Congregation of those standing outside (parishioners of the ROCOR) - they, allegedly, are not parishioners, since they do not recognize John Berzins. As a result, after an hour and a half of standing, the inspector who came out stated that even if the parishioners of the ROCOR recognize the rights of the Chairman of the Congregation given by Argentine law to Ioann Berzins, Berzins himself does not recognize them as members of the Congregation, since they are not parishioners of the Moscow Patriarchate (the temple where he serves), and therefore, they do not have the right to vote. Members of the Congregation stated that this was not in accordance with the Constitution of the Congregation. The inspector said that it was not for her to decide - her job was only to attend the meeting, following her own instructions, and the final decision would then be made by the head of justice.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At the request of the representatives of justice, our parishioners gave them for safekeeping the Book with the registration of members of the Congregation. The inspector said that she would report everything to her superiors and said that our parishioners could submit a letter of protest that they were not accepted and were not allowed into the Congregation meeting. As the inspector promised, the authorities will carefully consider everything.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What happened inside, where there were quite a lot of people, and what actions Berzins took, is unknown - representatives of the “other side” did not communicate with our parishioners.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Before this, John Berzins captured the ROCOR Trinity Church in Chile:</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At a time when Orthodox Christians are concentrated in prayer for the salvation of their souls, when they are trampled and oppressed on all sides of this world, the Moscow Patriarchate, in mind-blowing agony, is engaged in a raider-like redistribution of property and cash flows. With knowledge of the matter, I have to state that this is their classic style. The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, controlled by the MP, is actively engaged in such “Sharikovism”.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Initially, one of the main tasks of the MP was the destruction of the Catacomb Church in the USSR. Nowadays they no longer remember the Catacomb Church. Nowadays, in addition to other “hellish work,” the MP is engaged in the ROCOR. It is quite possible that in 10-20 years everyone will also forget about ROCOR - its entire past and all its hierarchs will become the property of the MP. It turns out that rewriting history in our “evil times” is not at all difficult.</p>
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<p style="color: #5686c3; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">Eternal memory: Hieromonk Sophrony</span></p>
<p style="color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">Автор: Митрополит Агафангел. Дата публикации: 26 октября 2023. Категория: <a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz"><span style="color: #535353; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">РПЦЗ</span></a>.</span></p><p style="color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="401" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwQh527DnOd5Au29ORrZiUSeCH0wBJ1ov22CXni4i7vTU4wVl_9qsWzdi5qdnu0blnXQYe9Z9A8VkdTI7MkYK21Djj_z2pS2X9_0dyfKShbMMO930Es4NLTAlsplEabTGD-ntGzfkDMIYP_E6jL2117ecx-FQ3uchuHTJFoLSwGprRigbIUVbYkK-ks5Q/s320/o_sofronyKalpak.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">On October 26, 2023, a resident of the Resurrection Monastery of the ROCOR in Moldova died in a car accident at night</span></p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">Everlasting memory!</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The funeral service will be served at 12:00 after the funeral Liturgy in the Church of the Intercession in the village of Kongaz, Comrat region of the Republic of Moldova, on Saturday, October 28.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">On October 28, in the Church of the Intercession, the funeral service for the newly deceased Hieromonk Sophrony was served by clergy of the Moldavian diocese: Archpriests Vasily Ikezli and Simeon Kaloev, Abbots Alexy (Kaloev), Nikolai (Zavyalov) and Glikeriy (Sula). With a large crowd of people, Fr. Sophrony was buried in the family plot of the cemetery.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="954" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzQklTIHpKnDzr18saj7JS26DVVCh-tMvc-nlFCv8girpPz0quKpwhlUVpbOo1r22ONsYAGqZlowjUjEUcPhxpE_ez6mEx9EPbY2qY_lS1d3VH3WVTqtpEgBy8Mlx08LbnTav3wvDOxumvfCP1MqxuRyO6ZkZhXQf4I1VxlWQ0hQBXA8GKrfIJ0jB3eZ0/w400-h326/231028kongaz.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p>
<p style="color: #434343; font-family: "PT Sans Narrow"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Ко</span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">мментарии <a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/component/jcomments/feed/com_content/10855"><span style="color: #728a8e; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #728a8e; font-kerning: none;"> </span></p>
<p style="color: #9e001c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/vechnaya-pamyat-ieromonakh-sofronij#comment-16290">#</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><b>RE: Вечная память: Иеромонах Софроний</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> — </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2e3622; font-kerning: none;"><b>Митрополит Агафангел</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> 29.10.2023 17:22</span></p>
<p style="color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">Added a photo from the funeral of Fr. Sophronia. Everlasting memory!</span></p>
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<p style="color: #9e001c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/vechnaya-pamyat-ieromonakh-sofronij#comment-16289">#</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><b>RE: Вечная память: Иеромонах Софроний</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> — </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2e3622; font-kerning: none;"><b>Протодиакон Герман</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> 28.10.2023 22:54</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">I just can’t believe it, some kind of black streak...</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The promising, talented Bishop Vladyka Anfim died prematurely from the notorious Covid.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Then, through a fraudulent maneuver, the “relatives” intercepted the magnificent monastery he had built and kindly provided it to the Moscow Patriarchate. People don't fear God...</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A week ago, we learned the good news: a site was found and a decision was made to build a new monastery, and now one of the monks, Hieromonk Sophrony, was killed in a car accident.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">22 ! I can't believe it...</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Naturally, I didn’t know him, but I heard about him from our wonderful driver John.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The kingdom of heaven to the young Father!</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Our sincere sympathy to the family and everyone who knew him.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Peace be to your ashes, honest Father Sophrony!</span></p>
<p style="color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">Protod. Hermann</span></p>
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<p style="color: #9e001c; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/vechnaya-pamyat-ieromonakh-sofronij#comment-16288">#</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><b>RE: Вечная память: Иеромонах Софроний</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> — </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2e3622; font-kerning: none;"><b>Митрополит Агафангел</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> 26.10.2023 05:31</span></p>
<p style="color: #646464; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">He was 22 years old - from early childhood, from the age of 4, he was at the temple - first at the Intercession Church of the ROCOR in Kongaz (he himself was from Comrat, Gagauzia), and then at the Resurrection Monastery. A hard worker and a man of prayer, despite his young years. Kingdom of heaven!</span></p>
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