The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, after hearing and taking note of the material presented to it by the Synod of Bishops on the development of the ecumenical movement and the wide participation in it of the Moscow Patriarchate, which completely submits to atheistic anti-christ authority, as well as the report on the growth of anti-christ principles in the world, defines:
1. In accordance with the prophecies of the Holy Scriptures and the interpretation of the Holy Fathers of the Church, it is certain that we are entering one of the apocalyptic periods of human history.In it, the forces of evil threaten to seize leadership around the world.Only repentance and the rebirth of the Orthodox Church in Russia can stop this process.The true Church is already in an undoubted minority, becoming the "little flock" predicted by the Savior.However, He also told Christians not to lose heart even when they survive to the last years of the existence of the world.
2. The destructive forces in the world are trying to cause general chaos and there may be a general world-war.In this case, for each diocese, the instructions of the Decree of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon and the Holy Synod of November 7/20, 1920, with the obligatory commemoration of the name of our First Hierarch, would come into force.
3. Preserving the purity of Orthodoxy, we cannot have any fellowship with the Moscow Patriarchate, which is in full service of the atheist government, even if even some of its ministers are going to serve not onlyBelial-(the Devil) but also Christ, which is incompatible according to the Apostle Paul.On the other hand, an expanding ecumenical communion between representatives of a number of Orthodox Churches with the Vatican in a so-called 'dialogue' is observed with alarm.With the goal of establishing full communion between them in the sacraments at all costs, the two sides of these negotiators, have actually entered into prayer communion with each other without accepting Orthodox teaching by the other side.This 'mutual communication' is set as a goal, regardless of the absence of dogmatic consensus.Such an approach to the issue is Protestant, not Orthodox, and therefore cannot be assimilated by our Church.
4. If, meanwhile, we are informed that genuine faith is again awakening in different sections of the Russian population, then we do not have enough data to pray for those who are involved in this process when we offer prayers for the enlightenment and strengthening of those who join it.At the same time, we call upon God's blessing on those who, with fear of persecution, are removing themselves from any compromise with the policy of godlessness embodied in the Moscow Patriarchate, which, like all its acts, we recognize as non-canonical and invalid.
CHAIRMAN of the Sobor: + Metropolitan Filaret.
MEMBERS of the Sobor: + Archbishop Seraphim;+ Archbishop Athanasius;+ Archbishop Vitaliy;+ Archbishop Anthony of Los Angeles;+ Archbishop Anthony of Geneva;+ Archbishop Anthony of Western America and and San Francisco .;+ Archbishop Seraphim;+ Bishop Nectarios;+ Bishop Constantine;+ Bishop Laurus;+ Bishop Alipius.
Note: This is not an exact, word-for word 'translation' it is a rendition with added explanatory words, to make the essential meaning clearer for English-speaking Orthodox people..
Reader Daniel in Oregon Subject: #1 A Mournful Day: May 17, 2007: The Tragic Signing of 'The Act of Canonical Communion' of Met. Laurus with the MP
Archpriest Victor Dobrov: A Mournful day on both the Russian and the Orthodox calendars
Author: Internet Cathedral. Publication Date: . Category: History of ROCOR .
On May 17, 2007, in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the 'Canonical Communion Act' was solemnly signed, which resulted in the premature unification of most of the Russian Church Abroad and the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
This illegal, anti-conciliar act (committed in violation of the earlier Resolution of the All-Diaspora Council of 2006 and the corresponding Decree of the Council of Bishops) act of the bishop synod of Metropolitan Laurus, is the result of many years of subversive activities by an active group of traitors-Uniates and MP agents, within the Russian Church Abroad.
The All-Diaspora Council of the ROCOR in 2006 determined by its Resolution, and the Bishops' Council of the ROCOR, which was held there (in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.,) at the same time, approved and confirmed the conditions under which the Moscow Patriarchate could positively help the restorative-process with it, by the ROCOR and which 'restoration of communion' was projected to be finally completed, at a future common Council, between the two.
For the MP, the Church Abroad's preliminary condition/demand for its future projected possible, co-communion with the MP, was put forward: that the MP make a complete cessation of its ecumenical activities: - the heresy anathematized in ROCOR in 1983, and in the Council Resolution which called it, "a temptation, i.e. an obstacle to the salvation of souls."
“... From the discussions at the 2006 ROCOR Council, it is clear that the participation of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the World Council of Churches, is embarrassing among our Church Abroad clergy and flock. With heartache we asked the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to heed the plea of our flock for the speedy elimination of this temptation."
Since for the clergy and children of the ROCA, entering into communion with the heretical MP was not only a rejection of their own spiritual heritage and which act would put them under their own anathema-curse, but it was also a betrayal of Truth itself, as happened to Christ (with the betrayal and kiss of Christ by Judas), once before in Gethsemane, so it also happened again on May 17, 2007 by the 'Act on Canonical Communion' of ROCOR's Metropolitan Laurus and MP Patriarch Alexy II, which act was immortalized by a mutual kiss.
The misfortune for the MP itself was in this act, this crime, sealed by the Kiss of Judas. ROCOR was almost completely destroyed; and later, the small remnant of grace under the omophorion of Metropolitan Agafangel (Pashkovsky) experienced a further diminution, (by our unfortunate "Mountain View-Andronik Schism"), and the voice of truth was drowned out, which at least for almost a century appealed to the conscience throughout the entire Orthodox world and gave at least some hope for the future, to the best among the believers of the MP in the Russian Fatherland.
It is remarkable that the betrayal by the foreign bishops of the ROCOR (and if you think about it, the MP was betrayed by its own bishops, who, in the process of finding/inventing a supposed common denominator/comparison/equivocation of their own MP's heresies and betrayals, with the, in fact... canonical and pure doctrines of the ROCOR, which could potentially have ....IF IT HAD HAPPENED IN TRUTH AND REPENTANCE AND SINCERITY - which it did not, have really cleansed and renewed for the better, beyond recognition, their MP, even via this 're-union act',..... but this, unfortunately, didn’t! turn out to be an event spiritually so large-scale that it can even be labeled as eschatological, perhaps it even marked the beginning of the approaching End Times.
At the exact time of the signing of the 'Act on the Canonical Communion of the ROCA with the ROC MP', on May 17, 2007, in the holy city of Jerusalem in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, from Golgotha, on the other side where the head of Adam rests on a stone, (exactly where Christ died on His cross, and His blood had flowed unto it), blood was witnessed trickling out of that stone, which was observed by those in the Holy Sepulcher. After that miraculous event, so that none of the pilgrims would touch the Divine Blood, the brethren installed a transparent protective partition there, and that miracle does not continue beyond that event till now.
Протоиерей Виктор Добров: Скорбный день и в русском и в православной календареАвтор: Интернет Собор. Дата публикации: . Категория: История РПЦЗ.
17 Мая 2007 г. в московском храме Христа Спасителя состоялось торжественное подписание Акта о Каноническом Общении, в результате которого произошло преждевременное соединение большей части Русской Зарубежной Церкви и Русской Православной Церкви Московского Патриархата.
Этот незаконное, антисоборное ( совершенное в нарушение Резолюции Всезарубежного Собора 2006 г. и соответствующего Определения Архиерейского Собора ) деяние архиерейского синода митр. Лавра - результат многолетней подрывной деятельности активной группы предателей-униатов и агентов МП.
Всезарубежный Собор РПЦЗ 2006 г. своей Резолюцией определил, а Архиерейский Собор РПЦЗ, там и тогда же проходивший, одобрил и подтвердил условие при выполнени которого Московской Патриархией процесс восстановления с нею может быть в РПЦЗ начат и окончательно завершен на общем уже Соборе.
Условием объединения с Зарубежной Церковью для МП было выдвинуто полное прекращение ею экуменической деятельности - анафематствованной в РПЦЗ ереси в 1983 г., а в Соборной Резолюции названной соблазном, т. е. препятствием для спасения души:
“…Из обсуждений на Соборе видно, что участие Русской Православной Церкви Московского Патриархата во Всемирном совете церквей вызывает смущение в среде нашего клира и паствы. Мы с сердечной болью просим священноначалие Русской Православной Церкви Московского Патриархата внять мольбе нашей паствы о скорейшем устранении этого соблазна”.
Поскольку для духовенства и чад РПЦЗ вступление в общение с еретической еще МП оказалось не только отказом от собственного духовного наследия и подпадением под свою же анафему-проклятие, но и предательством Самой Истины, как это произошло уже однажды в Гефсимании, так случилось и 17 мая 2007 г.: Акт о Каноническом Общении митр. Лавр и патр. Алексий II увековечили взаимным поцелуем.
Бедой и для самой МП оказалось это злодеяние. Почти полностью разрушилась РПЦЗ; маленький и без того остаток благодати под омофором митр. Агафангела пережил дальнейшее умаление и так заглушился голос правды, который худо-бедно, но почти столет взывал к совести во всем православном мiре и давал хоть какую-то надежду на лучшее у верующих МП во Отечестве сущих.
Замечательно то, что предательство зарубежными архиереями РПЦЗ (а если вдуматься, то и МП была предана своими архиереями, которые в процессе поиска общего знаменателя с каноничной и чистой от ересей РПЦЗ могли действительно очистить и обновить свою МП до неузнаваемости, но этого, к великому сожалению, не сделали!) оказалось событием духовно столь масштабным, что его можно назвать даже эсхатологическим, возможно даже началом уже приближающегося конца:
В момент подписания Акта о Каноническом Общении РПЦЗ с РПЦ МП, 17 мая 2007 года, во святом граде Иерусалиме в Храме Гроба Господня из Голгофы, с той стороны где покоится глава Адама, несколькими струйками из камня брызнула Кровь, чему свидетели - святогробское братство. С тех пор, чтобы никто из паломников не прикоснулся до Божественной Крови, братия установили там прозрачную перегородку, а на тему случившегося чуда не распространяются...
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