***HOW BIZARRE!~ AND VERY OFF-BALANCED, AND SELF-RIGHTEOUS!
There is no possible connection between Stalin's dupe, Sergius Stragorodsky and our Met. Agafangel!
These
people are truly both ignorant and hate-filled and insane!.. and the
more they post their unbalanced accusations and justifications for their ignoble break, the more we can see this fact about them.
They have entirely abandoned the Orthodox Faith and Church.
Yet, how tragic and pitiful.
Rd. Daniel in Oregon
P.S. Nothing in this historic statement by Holy New Martyr Joseph, could possibly apply to our Vladyka Agafangel, NOT ONE WORD!
Yet
clearly they are indeed trying to compare Sergius Stragorodsky to our
Vladyka Agafangel!...and to thus throw these pious and rightful
admonitions AT HIM!...when they were meant solely for Stragorodsky.
What
a deceitful and twisted and ignorant joke these people are!....these
self-educated experts on all things Orthodox, these creators of their
new 'church'.
Rather it does apply,
however, to all those, even as with these modern Kotlaroff
schismatics, who usurp/seize illegally church governance, and replace
that legitimate episcopal authority with their false rebel
pseudo-bishops, as indeed did usurper Pat. Sergius and all of the MP
'patriarchs' and 'bishops; after him, to this very day.
Now.... we also have the current panoply of other...ill-legitimate
usurpers, among whom are: Vl. Andronik Kotlaroff and Vl. Sofrony
Musienko!...plus the other non-canonical and ill-legitimate Russian
'fragments'....all schisms from schisms, and all illegitimate.
Vladyka
Metropolitan Agafangel is the SOLE legitimate canonical and REAL
successor of the old free Russian Church Abroad's episcopate, and none
other than he.
P.S.
At at this time, Mr. George (Yury) Lukin is reported to be in South
America, running around, seeking to drum up support for this schism,
among our ROCA Russian faithful clergy and laity down there.
My information is that he is not being very successful.
Most there are loyal to Vladyka Gregory and to Vladyka Agafangel.
Mr.
George Lukin, a Russian man originally from Uruguay, is the wealthy
purchaser and contractor/builder developer and total legal property
owner of the entire 'Mountain View', New York property, which was
previously an abandoned & in bad condition, former Roman Catholic
nursing home. Now that property is becoming the seat and very center of
this Kotlaroff schism. He has been and is now a big promoter and
organizer of this hatred for our Vladyka Agafangel, and to push forward
this destruction of our world-wide ROCA.
WHY?
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Absurd Posting today on the schismatic's rocana site:
From
the letters of Holy New Martyr Joseph, Metropolitan of Petrograd (St.
Joseph severed relations with Met. Sergey (Stragorodskiy) because of the
latter’s policy of subservience of the Church to the Soviet
government.)
1.
I am not at all a schismatic, and I do not call for a schism, but for
the purification of the Church from those who sow real schism and
provoke it.
2.
Pointing out the errors and wrongs of another person to him is not
schism, but, plainly speaking, it is putting an unbridled horse back
into its harness.
3. The refusal to accept sound reproaches and directives is in reality a schism and a trampling on the truth.
4.
In the establishment of ecclesiastical life, the participants are not
only those at the head, but the whole body of the Church, and a
schismatic is he who assumes rights to himself which exceed his
authority and presumes to say in the name of the Church that which is
not shared by his colleagues.
5.
Metropolitan Sergius has shown himself to be such a schismatic, for he
has far exceeded his authority and has rejected and scorned the voice of
many hierarchs, in whose midst the pure truth has been preserved.
3. The refusal to accept sound reproaches and directives is in reality a schism and a trampling on the truth.
ReplyDeleteIn this the Kotlaroff schism is unwittingly confessing the truth about themselves . They have refused to accept sound reproach, and this refusal is already a schism in spirit, long before it is a schism in fact. Let it be so as the Lord allows.