"We venerate Thy most pure image, O Good One, and we ask forgiveness of our transgressions , O Christ Our God.
For of Thine own good
will, Thou wast pleased to ascend the cross in the flesh, to deliver
from slavery to the enemy, those whom Thou hadst created.
Therefore we thankfully cry aloud to Thee:
Thou hast filled all things with joy, O Our Saviour, by coming to save the world!"
Note: Many years back, in
fact about in 1974 or so, this mountain forested land, in the Coastal
Mountains of south-western Oregon, was granted to me by Providence, and
as an answer to my many years of prayers,
and then gradually paid off by my many past years in hospital work in San Francisco, it was
then dedicated to Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
celebrated in Our Saviour's Icon, Not-Made-By-Human-Hands, as 'God's
Acre'. God has blessed me
to abide here in this beautiful place, since the start of 1984. From day
one here, my life has been a struggle. And now in my declining health
and age, @ age 74 presently, it is even more a daily battle, to simply
walk around and accomplish necessary physical
tasks, just to meet bills on my very low monthly social-security
income, and to feed and shelter & to take care of God's critters,
whom He has sent to me, so that I not be selfish and live only for
myself.
GOD MADE ALL THAT HE
MARVELOUSLY! CREATED...IN LOVE! And so, we to be His true servants, must also love and cherish His
sacred creation also.
At this time, just paying
the large monthly electric bills, to keep on the electric heaters, is a
big burden. Sometimes, I am delivered some firewood, - as I do have in
this shop a large woodstove, but not often
can I get it split and delivered here., which may run as high as $250.00
or more per winter season months.
Therefore, what I most
need, now, in this month of December, are some regular senders of aid,
mainly to cover this winter's extra bills, to keep myself and my indoor
animals warm and from freezing, and and to
buy food for the animals.
The miraculous Kursk-Root
Icon of the Mother of God was brought here, by my diocesan Archbishop of
San Francisco, Vladyka Anthony (Medvedev), and a Priest-monk assistant
from Jordanville, a Fr. Nikifor, [early,
many years ago, before the icon workshop here was built, in which
workshop building I now
must reside full time, as my old trailer, which is about 100 feet
from this shop-where I had resided in for about 33 years, has now, some
months ago, in this year of 2017, gradually begun to crumble and to fall
apart and it is,
ingloriously, returning to mother earth, ...as we all must, and
Vladyka Archbishop Anthony blessed this place and the water well with
the Kursk-Root Ikon. He conducted a molieben before it in my
former little old-trailer-home chapel that day. Before the Kursk
Root-Ikon of Our Lady, blessed the well, [and my abode and the
surrounding territory], my well was going dry and was yielding an
undrinkable muddy flow, but after the icon was bumped against
the compression tank in the well house, it then afterwards produced
much more water, and it has never gone dry. To me, it is blessed and
pure and delicious...holy water.... for my sustenance and for water to
share with God's creatures, the deer, the skunks,
the opossums, the raccoons, the bears, the wild turkeys, my refugee
kitties, the many dogs I used to rescue, and the many birds of the air,
..this holy water is an undeserved gift from Our Lord and Our Lady.
The designated feast-day of this abode,
which 132 acres, is called, OUR SAVIOUR'S PLACE -is.... 'Of the
All-Merciful Saviour', celebrated on the day of the liturgical
commemoration of the 'Translation of the Miraculous Image of Our Saviour
Not-Made-By-Human-Hands', transported from Edessa
to Constantinople.
God, not any unique personal nor
special insight of my own wisdom, has enlightened me and protected me
from that 2007 massive betrayal and apostasy of a large part of our old
formerly free Russian Orthodox Church Abroad,
to the still communist-KGB run, 1943 Stalin founded, uncanonical and
apostate 'Moscow Patriarchy', which I rejected and still do. I must
follow my conscience, and not try to please men, but only to always seek
to please God. Thus, I must live in an often
grinding material poverty, and despised rejection by almost all former
church friends and past...fellow Orthodox ROCOR/MP believers, most who
have gone along,
like mindless sheep to their slaughter,
so blindly and so very foolishly, with that foul End-Times union
with the devil....many with the excuse of 'obedience' to their trusted
priests and bishops, who have turned out to be wolves, not
shepherds....'The blind leading the blind, and they both
shall fall into the ditch'.
True Orthodox Christian OBEDIENCE is ,
to ALMIGHTY GOD and to SACRED ORTHODOX HOLY TRADITION, The Holy
Faith!...not in the end, to any mere men, whether they be ordained
clergy, priests or bishops, or laity, especially if
such ones openly and clearly betray the Faith to her enemies. Such
misguided guides, we dare not obey nor follow.
But, "He whom the Lord loveth,... He chastizeth!"...Psalm words which have strengthened me from my early childhood till now.
Had I gone along with that 2007
apostasy, I would not be materially poor and struggling now, in my
decrepit old age, as this Western American ROCOR/MP diocese would have
routinely aided me here,...and among them, I have
[had] many [former now], friends...all lost now. I am now a byword and a
mockery to them, a laughing stock.....'Daniel the fool'.
HOWEVER: "The love of this world..... is enmity to God!" and "No man can serve two masters!"
"In THEE O Lord, have I hoped, let me not,
then, be put to shame, in the age to come!"
This is my prayer.
In our Orthodox funeral there is the
declaration: (of the living speaking on behalf of the departed): "It was
good that Thou hast afflicted me, O Lord, that I might learn Thy
commandments, Alleluia!" i.e. ..It is GOD
Who orders all,.... HE IS ALWAYS IN COMMAND, and/or Who permits
all!...and in the end, for our betterment to bring us closer to Him here
in this life, so that we may FIT into Heaven later.....in His Heavenly
Eternal Kingdom.. "for He doeth... whatsoever....
He willith!"
"For all things of this earth, passes away!"
Retired Reader Daniel Everiss in Oregon
The holy prayers of all, I request,
even as I also raise up my unworthy prayers for others, the living and
the departed, to God's throne.
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