from two persecuted flocks

Two (English translated) Statements from our ROCA flocks under persecution: in Udmurtia and Pal'niki Village: 

(Kindly translated by our Bulgarian brother in Sofia, Vladimir Djambov):

Category: Unending persecutions against Orthodox Russians, who are fleeing the Stalin created KGB run, 'Moscow Patriarchia', by both the Russian Federation authorities and in conjunction with the employees of the Moscow Patriarchia:

On Holy and Great Wednesday , HOLY WEEK, 2013

First Situation: 

((Our brothers and sisters, under persecution, but full of faith and hope. )) 

Palm Sunday in the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas Church in Udmurtia (PHOTOS) 

Correspondent: priestmikhail incl. April 30, 2013. Published in the ROCA (Views: 10) 

Tags: ROCOR, Russia, Udmurtia

Palm Sunday Sermon to their flock, of our Udmurtia priests: 

“Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are” [John 17:11]. 

With these words our Lord Jesus Christ prayed before the onset of His sufferings on the cross. 

How wonderful unity is! This is a great power! But it is important that we are united not by a[ny] ghostly earthly wisdom but by the Divine Truth. 

How pleasant to look at faces, bearing the stamp of faith, hope and love! This here is what should unite true Orthodox Christians in the apostatic XXI century. 

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Second Situation: 

Statement vis-à-vis the situation around the parish in the village Pal’niki orthodoxy_news 

April 30th, 0:14 The original has been sourced from priest_mikhail in: Statement vis-à-vis the situation around the parish in the village of Pal’niki 

On Lazarus Saturday, April 27, 2013, members of the Orthodox community of the house of worship in honor of the [Holy] Protection of the Mother of God, [in the] village of Pal’niki, Zavyalovo District, Udmurt Republic, addressed in writing the First Hierarch of the Russian [Orthodox] Church Abroad, Metropolitan Agafangel with the following words: 

“Your Eminence, Most eminent Vladyka, we humbly ask you to take our parish under your omophorion and to write down [attribute] the parish of the [Holy] Protection prayer house with the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas Church, in [s. – district?] Zavyalovo. 

We want in purity to confess Holy Orthodoxy in a true Orthodox Church. This decision has been taken unanimously at a meeting of our community.” 

With the blessing of the First Hierarch of ROCA church life in the community of the faithful in the village of Pal’niki has began to revive. 

However, immediately after the decision of the parish meeting there began a strong pressurizing by Sergianist clergy, who had earlier refused to minister to this community bearing no tangible income. 

Parishioners started receiving various kinds of threats, warnings and promises for retaliation acts on the part of organizations [which are] quite distant from religion, in case they dare celebrate Pascha [Easter] together with the ROCA clergy. 

We believe that such [course of] action on the part of our opponents is illegal and contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. But we hope that secular leaders shall not take the path on which they are being pushed by obscurantists persevering in Sergianism. 

We would like to note that we do not interfere in the life of the Moscow Patriarchia and of other confessions, we are not calling on anyone to [make] hurt our opponents. On the contrary, we respect the freedom of will of every man. We would like to see such tolerance also in relation to our faithful. It is with words [that] one has to fight words, and not resorting to the cudgel of violence. 

The members of the new community [congregation] of our Church are honest working men and women, law-abiding citizens, and no one has the right to rape their conscience. 

Metropolitan Agafangel conveyed in a phone conversation his words of encouragement and blessing to the [Holy] Protection community of the village of Pal’niki, reminding the Savior’s admonition: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all 

manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you” (Matt. 5. 11-12). 

Archpriest Sergei Kondakov, Archpriest Michael Karpeev, Priest Alexander Malyh and members of the parish council of the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas Church.