6/20/2023: ROCOR: JUST FOR THE SIMPLE TRUTH'S SAKE: MASS-GENERAL RE-SHARING: HISTORICAL Documents About the before & during and after: of the 1943 Stalin's Founding Of The Uncanonical "Moscow Patriarchy": PLEASE RE-SHARE!
Time: Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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TWO ROCOR ARTICLES ON PHILIPPINES: FW: ROCOR: Visit of OUR Bishop Christopher, IN AUSTRALIA, to the Philippines, 2023, AND SECOND UPDATED Indepth ARTICLE ON SAME SUBJECT.
Time: Sat, 17 Jun 2023
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Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:June 11, 2023. Category: ROCOR .
The Primate of the Free Serbian Orthodox Church as part of the ROCOR Synod of Bishops, Bishop Christopher, accompanied by Archimandrite Simeon, has been making an archpastoral visit to missionary parishes in the Philippines since June 8, which began with a visit to the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in the city of Isulan. At the beginning of the visit, a group baptism by full immersion and a group wedding were performed.
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Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:June 16, 2023. Category: ROCOR .
In continuation of the archpastoral visit, on the Sunday of All Saints, the primate of the Serbian Free Orthodox Church, His Grace Bishop Christopher, served in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Isulan in the Philippines.
Vladyka ordained Deacon Andrei to the rank of priest, and Subdeacon Peter to the rank of deacon. Archimandrite Simeon served with His Eminence.
The day before, on Saturday, June 10, at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in New Egan, Isulan in the Philippines, an All-Night Vigil was served. After the service, in the evening, Archimandrite Simeon tonsured brother Linus, the spiritual child of Bishop Christopher, with the name Flavian, in honor of the Monk Flavian of Carthage.
On another day, Bishop Christopher ordained Subdeacon John (Inochario Guanzon) to the rank of deacon.
Pictured with Bishop Christopher are the clerics of the ROCOR Philippine Mission: Archpriest Andrei, Archpriest Peter, Priest Jacob, Priest Bartholomew, Priest Thomas, Deacon John, and Reader Jeremy. Also in the photo are Archimandrite Dr. Simeon, secretary of Bishop Christopher, and monk Flavian.
During an archpastoral visit to Orthodox parishes in the Philippines, the Primate of the Serbian Free Orthodox Church, His Grace Bishop Christopher, ordained and corrected the ordinations of seven new priests, five deacons, two subdeacons, and three readers. One monk was also tonsured into the cassock.
Bishop Christopher, administrator of the parishes of the Serbian Free Orthodox Church, in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Isulan, Philippines, served Divine Liturgy on Thursday (June 15) and Friday (June 16). On June 15, at the Divine Liturgy, Vladyka ordained Deacon John to the rank of presbyter, and Subdeacon Monk Flavian to the rank of hierodeacon.
On June 16, Vladyka Christopher tonsured a reader and consecrated Matthew a subdeacon at the hours before the Liturgy, and ordained him a deacon at the Divine Liturgy. Vladyka was co-served by Archimandrite Simeon, Archpriests Andrei and Peter, Priests Jacob, Bartholomew, Thomas, John, and Hierodeacon Flavian.
See also about the ROCOR mission in the Philippines here:
ROCOR: Mission Visit to the Philippines
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English/Russian: (Prince) Archbishop John-(Shahovskoy) & his former powerful influence promoting the 1960's submission of his old North American "Metropolia" the Platonite Schism from ROCOR, to the Moscow Patriarchate: "SERMON OF SPIRITUAL DE...
Time: Thu, 8 Jun 2023
English/Russian: This below article is in imperfect and somewhat of a crude machine-English translation, so readers beware: I just do not have the all-day needed to correct the bad English or to improve it. The Russian original is below it.
Reader Daniel Everiss in Oregon
NOTE: Both the Paris jurisdiction of renegade schisms from ROCOR, of Paris Archbishop Evlogius -Gregorievsky and the North American schism from the ROCOR, founded by renegade bishop -connected to the Paris St. Sergius Seminary, Archbishop . Platon Roshdyesvensky, this North American Schism being nicknamed for a long time as: “The Russian Orthodox /Greek Catholic Church of North America”. Or as “The Metropolia” : were both in full co-communion with each other, and both in schismatic uncanonical rebellion from The Russian Orthodox Church - Synod In Exile, which Pat. Tikhon blessed as “The Sole Canonical Leadership of All Russian Orthodox living outside of Russia”…and that is THE FOUNDING CANONICAL AUTHORITY- FROM PATRIARCH TIKHON, THE LAST VALID RUSSIAN PATRIARCH…the transmission of Apostolic-Succession-i.e Legitimacy. All coming from Stalin’s bogus ‘church’, his 1943 creation in the dark of night, The Moscow Patriarchy, is fraud and graceless and invalid and has no spiritual authority over any Orthodox Christian believers . Those who imagine that it has, are living in gross spiritual delusion/PRELEST and are outside of The Universal ONE Holy Catholic Orthodox Apostolic Church. None of their supposed ‘sacraments’ or clerical orders could possibly be grace-conveying…and they are thus serving Anti-Christ, not God.
Archimandrite Konstantin: Sermon of Spiritual Death
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:June 08, 2023. Category: ROCOR archive .
"Soviet Church". An unspeakable human tragedy lurks behind these ominous words. We deliberately do not touch it. Mystery covered the insidethe content of this terrible, unprecedented in the history of mankind, phenomenon. Only the eyes of God penetrate into all its unknown to us, shrouded in satanic darkness, diversity. On the other hand, we speak with a full voice about that spiritually unambiguous external side, which is the only one addressed to us by the "Soviet Church" - as a TOOL OF SATAN. Outwardly, the "Soviet Church" reveals itself only in this way. And this is the Church that showed itself to the world as a comrade-in-arms of the Orthodox Tsars! Where the Orthodox Russian Tsars previously acted as the Anointed of God, serving the Church, she, the same in her appearance, the Church now acts as a companion and servant of the Satanic power. Is this not a contrast capable of shocking any spiritually sighted consciousness!
This contrast is removed by Ep. John Shakhovsky*. Everything is ordinary, just under his pen. Nothing essentially new happened in the world with the accession of Soviet power in Rus'. This is just another change, against the background of infinitely many previous ones, in that fabric of History that shows us the constantly changing relationship between the "church" (in general!) and "authority" (in general!). Evil and good in this fabric are intertwined indistinguishably. And yet history moves on. In a fundamentally ambiguous way, humanity is moving towards something that has no end, but prosperous ... under all conditions.
Such arguments are not unusual in the composition of religious journalism, which finds a place for itself on the columns of the New Russian Word, which is far from the Church. But, as a declaration of the Orthodox "prince" of the Church, two extensive articles by Bishop. John, which appeared on June 20 and 21 in this newspaper, take on the meaning of some event that cannot be ignored.
We will not find anything ecclesiastical in the statements of the Orthodox bishop. Church problems - as if it had never happened. Christ and Belial? They "coexist" peacefully in History. Martyrdom? The fact that it must be "legal" in order to be pleased by the Church is out of the question. An equal sign is placed between the martyrdom of the confessors of Christ's Truth, who did not renounce It in the face of satanic power, and the sufferings that the servants of the Church were subjected to, who surrendered to this power, but did not please it. Moreover, the seal of "martyrdom" is placed on that state of mind, which, of course, cannot be easy, which is experienced by the servants of the Church during their performance of the work of spiritual decomposition, carried out on behalf of the satanic authorities.
The anathema proclaimed by the Church of satanic power, and the blood that washed the Russian Land, which did not accept this power? That is the pain of growing up, which can now be looked at with a pitiful smile of indulgence. People did not understand the gravity of the situation! But now the life of sober and wise people who have risen to the height of the historical task of the time has advanced - and, naturally, it was they who became the masters of the situation. Their life is not easy. But the future is theirs. And don't bother them. They are the ones who lead the Church to prosperity. An essential stage in their further journey is foreseen by Bishop. John and, as it were, prompts him: this is the canonization by the Soviet Church of Fr. John of Kronstadt...
I will not hide: when I finished reading the article by Bishop. John to this point, my breath stopped. It was hard to read the general reasoning of the author, in its iridescence gave rise to the idea of snake scales in the rays of some kind of gloomy light. But this blasphemy stunned me with its concreteness. But it's no better either.
The Church tells us of a time when the most bloodthirsty beasts will peacefully graze alongside lambs. We know that these beasts licked the hands of the holy martyrs, refusing to fulfill the purpose for which they were released. But we also know that the martyrs, responding to the affection of the animals, continued to denounce those who released these animals against them. For ep. John, there is no difference between the dumb wild beasts, the tools of the tormentors, subjugated by Christ's Truth, and the tormentors themselves, seeking to uproot this Truth. "Love" ep. Joanna embraces both. Bishop abolishes the assurance. John lack of commonality between Christ and Belial. And now he says it in full voice.
Merciless Ep. John. Not only to yourself, but also to your associates. Is there no reason now to classify all Orthodox people belonging to the so-called Leontief Church as one of them ? Spiritually ep. John belongs to the Soviet church. And he loudly declares this. For dissidents, he retains irony, ridicule - at best, a condescending smile, even if they testified to the Church's loyalty to the flow of blood.
Every clarity has its advantages. This is the useful side of the speeches of Bishop. John.
Complete clarity has been introduced into the personality of Bishop himself. John. Its meaning can be determined by his own words, spoken about the "evil shepherd" at a time when Bishop was different. John. “Having made his way to the sacred pulpit, the enemy can cause greater devastation in the flock than by fighting in the camp of militant atheists or through the decrees of a godless government. To destroy inside is his goal ... And so he approaches not only the sleeping, but also the dormant shepherds and takes possession their feelings, words and actions, gives them its spirit, the spirit from which people spiritually perish, ceasing to believe in the sacred. That is why St. John Chrysostom wrote: "I am not afraid of anyone as much as Bishops, except for a few" (From a letter to St. Olympias)".
Clarity has been introduced into the problem of the future. For like-minded ep. John, the question of the overthrow of the Soviet power disappears, since it itself, on the path of salvific evolution, in communion with the Soviet Church, opens up a worthy future for us.
Clarity has been added to the evaluation of the past. Compromise saved Russia—nothing else: as a pitiful victim of its own ignorance, the Catacomb Church must be discounted.
Clarity has also been introduced into the "church" consciousness. The Last Judgment has been eliminated from the problems of the Church, since the conflict between the followers of Christ and the "world" lying in evil has been abolished: the sober truth of true Christianity is giving way to the sugary ideal of the "ecumenical" well-being of mankind.
Merciless both to himself and to his like-minded people, Bishop. John. Thus, as never before, the question of solidarity with him arises. It's a matter of saving souls, no more, no less. Let Bishop already act as some kind of doomed. John - perhaps not even feeling the objective meaning of his words and actions. Perhaps those who continue to be under the spell of his personality are also losing this ability, or have traveled a path similar to his path - which is scary even to look for a worthy name of his. But how does the "neutral environment" think? She is able to continue to remain "neutral", thereby dooming herself to a common fate with Bishop. John? In this regard, the personality of ep. John - the more sinister, the higher it is estimated in the past.
The soul-destroying "clarity" of Bishop. John, let us contrast the soul-saving evidence of the Church:
There is no historical future for mankind without the overthrow of Soviet power.
The historical lesson of the revolutionary past testifies to the fatal perniciousness of ecclesiastical conciliation ("Sergianism"), which handed over the "legalized" Church to the flood and plunder of the Bolsheviks and established their dominance over Russia.
The fear of God in the face of the approaching end of the world, seduced by false Christs and false prophets, is where the only salvation of modern Christians lies. And in saving their souls, Christians follow the only path that opens up the possibility of further historical existence of the world, if Christians are not a completely dying out tribe.
Is a modern person, even if carried away by the elements of the world, able to be afraid of the appearance of Bishop. John Shakhovsky, now fully revealed. Or, on the contrary, will he be reassured by his flattering speeches? This question, the significance of which is determined by what has just been said, was posed by the latest speech of Bishop. John in full growth. Is the ecclesiastical consciousness of the “neutral” mass really so dulled already that they will not even notice this speech? We do not rule out this possibility, all the more considering ourselves compelled to raise our warning voice. After all, let us repeat again the words once spoken by Bishop. John in those times when he was different: "... the kingdom of the 'second death' (i.e. spiritual - Rev. 20.14) proselytes just as much as the Kingdom of Life - even much more insistently, because it is rude and bold.
Archimandrite KONSTANTIN
Orthodox Rus', No. 13, 1956
* John (Shakhovskoy) - Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America in the Orthodox Church in America, WHO TOOK THE SIDE OF THE SOVIET CHURCH!”.
** The Orthodox Church in America (NOW: the OCA/MP, Orthodox Church in America - OCA) was created as an alternative to ROCOR-NOW-a large part of it, The ROCOR/MP now in unity with the Stalin created in 1943, Moscow Patriarchate.
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Some side history:
https://www.oca.org/news/headline-news/remembering-archbishop-john-of-san-francisco-1902-1989 The OCA/MP’s-THEIR overly-laudatory (semi-truthful) official version of his life.
To myself, when he was MY diocesan bishop, I eventually came to understand him, as a conceted self-congratulatory deluded terrible heretic, a destroyer of Orthodoxy, and a big ecumenist, especially when he was in Europe. He harmed and thwarted & persecuted the struggling impoverished monastics in his diocese, and he was totally against traditional genuine Orthodox monasticism…(as also was Alexander Schemmann) but he was enthusiastically active in many ecumenical activities, especially in his frequent lengthy stays in Europe. His western USA diocese, he neglected. During his many and long abbsences from his diocese, many of his married parish clergy said: “The diocese is better off, when he is gone, because when he is present, he only stops all parish progress, he says NO! to all of our appeals, for his blessing.”. Vladyka John Shahovskoy was a central figure in the1962 betrayal of his North American “Metropolia”(which was in fact, itself originally in the 1920’s, a schism, AT ITS highest Episcopal LEVEL, from the Karlovtsy, founded ROCOR-blessed by Patriarch Tikhon to administer to ALL Russian Orthodox outside of Russia, IN spirit & working with, the European schism created by renegade from ROCOR Paris-France Evlogie, to Moscow, with (later on, in the late 1950’s and 1960’s) Paris-trained, Estonian-Russian Fr. Alexander Schmemman and other highly placed leaders of their church. After that “glorious” 1962 AUTOCEPHALOUS union with the MP, Vladyka John warned: “All those who oppose this re-union: ”MAY THEY- BURN IN HELL Everlasting!” I cannot have much respect for him or his memory, but may God have mercy on his soul. He seemed to be a man in total self-love with himself, self-adulating, a prince of the old Russian aristocracy..but not loyal to what was good in Old Orthodox Russia..
A large part of why he held such a big authoritative prominent position, was that he came from an old famous Russian high noble family….Shahovskoy or Shakhovskoy. He had the born title, “Prince/Knaz” before his bishop’s name, which fact he always seemed to desire that everyone remember. I know of a number of struggling monastics, monks and nuns, (most of them, also from Old Russia, and THEY suffered from the communists, which he did not) who also suffered from his authority, his active persecution…and outright deliberate neglect…especially of those who openly or privately dared to repremind him for his shameless ecumenism. He had the ‘holy look” of a real Russian Orthodox Bishop, but the heart and mind of a heretic and an enemy of the Orthodox Faith….all facts which it took me awhile- in fact years, to correlate and put together in my mind. To meet him in person, he was a refined European gentleman.
At the early FIRST formative session in about 1963 or 1964?, of a Yearly Western-American Diocesan Meeting, which I, postlushnik/novice Daniel attended with my spiritual father, Igumen Dimitri Egoroff, held in Christ The Saviour Church, San Francisco, he made the loud public statement: “I think that the diocese does better, when I am absent from it”..to which, NONE of his clergy responded with either Yes, or No, Vladyka.. But all there did agree with what he said-that they were better off with him gone far-away, but out of respect for his authority, and/or fearful of it, they KEPT DEAD SILENCE. A large part of each year, he was in Europe, with his ADORING FLATTERING fellow top level ecumenists-mostly Catholics or Protestants, -who FAWNED OVER HIM, (not in general, most Russian Orthodox-except the Paris group under, pro-on /off to the MP, betrayer to the Synod in Exile, Paris, France Met. Yevlogie Gregorievsky), and his huge far-flung American diocese (geographically covering much of the western USA) had to run itself. All monastics, non-parish priests- men, married clergy or the few lay-monastics, or women nuns, were on their own to somehow survive. He seemed to do everything that he could to hamper or end our St. Eugene’s Hermitage *(The St. Eugene’s Pustinka, near Point Reyes, Marin County, northern California), and gave order after order to poor Fr. Igumen Dimitry (Egoroff)-ALWAYS OBEDIENT TO HIS BISHOP, Fr. Dimitry who suffered from Stalin’s torturers, and who had to flee Russia for France, his bishop-not allowing him to LIVE IN PEACE IN HIS MONASTIC HERMITAGE, & to stop him from doing or building anything or from accepting monetary help from laity, or even from making church candles to help support his monastery)…yet at that San Fransiscan First Diocesan Meeting, Prince and Vladyka Archbishop John, openly patted Fr. Dimitry on the head, (as one might do to one’s favorite dog) and the bishop said: “This is my ONLY obedient priest!” ..And so he was, till death.-MEMORY ETERNAL Igumen Dimitry!-who told me one day: “This (persecution, of his fellow clergy and from This own bishop) is GOOD FOR MY SOUL!”-the words of a true monastic.
For much of poor often attacked and wrongfully accused, Fr. Dimitry’s life, his bishop placed him in far away parishes, as Santa Barbara, so that he could not develope his monastic community…which forested rural property thus, lay vacant and subject to local vandals for long periods, without even any lay caretaker to guard it.
Reader Daniel Everiss ADDED SOURCE MATERIALS: A LONG BUT SUPER VALUABLE HISTORICAL READ, NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND: Where WE Orthodox Christians in North America, ARE AT TODAY: AND WHY WE GOT TO THIS POINT:
AND, LONG very complicated in PDF-form: history of Orthodoxy, especially of Russian Orthodoxy, in North America, -and of the 1920’s creation of the Platon-Roshdyonvesky Metropolia-Schism, from then till now & from 1962, named, “The Orthodox Church In America”/IN FACT: Of the Moscow Patriarchy: The OCA/MP…in submission to Stalin’s 1943 uncanonical creation, his Moscow Patriarchy…a department of the Kremlin gang that runs present day Russia..under dictator Vlad Putin and his ‘patriarch’, KGB agent, Kyrill Gundaev.
But this history does not cover our more recent old ROCOR…a large part of it- betraying to Moscow in June 1972, lead by confused/deceived Met. Laurus Skurla,thyat schism now named ROCOR/MP
PDF TEXT: Overlook the many spelling errors, but I cannot correct this pdf format:.
This is also in printed form, but not easy to obtain: “The History of The Russian Orthodox Church In Exile In The United States”, Holy Transfiguration Monastery.
https://app.box.com/s/fare5dzeqrnqmtg8j057ky6m7layu0fu
Retired Reader in Oregon, Daniel Everiss
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THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE!
Russian original text:
Архимандрит Константин: Проповедь духовной смерти
Автор: Митрополит Агафангел. Дата публикации: 08 июня 2023. Категория: Архив РПЦЗ.
"Советская Церковь". Несказанная человеческая трагедия таится за этими зловещими словами. Её сознательно мы не касаемся. Тайной покрыто внутреннее содержание этого жуткого, безпримерного в истории человечества, явления. Только очи Божии проникают во всё её для нас недоведомое, сатанинской мглой окутанное, многообразие. Зато полным голосом говорим мы о той духовно-однозначной внешней стороне, которой единственно к нам обращена "Советская Церковь", — как ОРУДИЕ САТАНЫ. Вовне обнаруживает себя "Советская Церковь" только так. И это та Церковь, которая являла себя миру, как соратница Православных Царей! Там, где ранее выступали Православные Русские Цари, как Помазанники Божии, служившие Церкви — она, эта же по своей видимости, Церковь выступает ныне, как соратница и слуга Сатанинской власти. Это ли не контраст, способный потрясти всякое духовно-зрячее сознание!
Этот контраст снимается еп. Иоанном Шаховским*. Всё обыденно-просто под его пером. Ничего существенно нового не произошло в мире с воцарением на Руси Советской власти. Это лишь очередное изменение, на фоне бесконечно многих ранее бывших, — в той ткани Истории, которая являет нам постоянно меняющиеся взаимоотношения "церкви" (вообще!) и "власти" (вообще!). Зло с добром в этой ткани переплетаются неразличимо. И всё же движется История. Принципиально двусмысленным путём идёт человечество к чему-то, не имеющему конца, но благополучному ... при всех условиях.
Подобные рассуждения не являют ничего необычного в составе религиозной публицистики, находящей себе место на столбцах далёкого от Церкви "Нового Русского Слова". Но, как декларация православного "князя" Церкви, две обширные статьи еп. Иоанна, появившиеся 20-го и 21-го июня в этой газете, получают значение некоего события, не могущего быть не отмеченным.
Ничего церковного не найдём мы в высказываниях православного архиерея. Церковной проблематики — как не бывало. Христос и Велиар? Мирно "сосуществуют" они в Истории. Мученичество? То, что оно должно быть "законным", чтобы ублажаться Церковью, об этом и речи нет. Знак равенства поставлен между мученичеством исповедников Христовой Истины, не отрекавшихся от Неё пред лицом сатанинской власти, и теми страданиями, которым подвергались служители Церкви, сдавшиеся этой власти, но ей не угодившие. Больше того, печать "мученичества" возложена и на то душевное состояние, не могущее, конечно, быть лёгким, которое испытывается служителями Церкви во время исполнения ими работы духовного разложения, осуществляемого по поручению сатанинской власти.
Анафема, провозглашённая Церковью сатанинской власти, и та кровь, которая омыла Русскую Землю, эту власть не принимавшую? То — болезнь роста, на которую можно смотреть ныне с жалостливой улыбкой снисхождения. Не понимали люди серьёзности положения! Но вот выдвинула жизнь людей трезвых и мудрых, которые оказались на высоте исторического задания времени — и, естественно, стали именно они хозяевами положения. Жизнь их нелегка. Но будущее за ними. И не надо им мешать. Именно они ведут Церковь к благополучию. Существенный этап их дальнейшего пути предвидит еп. Иоанн и как бы подсказывает его: это канонизация Советской Церковью о. Иоанна Кронштадтского ...
Не скрою: когда я дочитал статью еп. Иоанна до этого места — у меня дыхание остановилось. Тяжко было читать общие рассуждения автора, в своей переливчатости рождавшие мысль о змеиной чешуе в лучах какого-то мрачного света. Но это кощунство своей конкретностью ошеломило меня. Но и дальше не лучше.
Церковь говорит нам о времени, когда самые кровожадные звери будут мирно пастись рядом с ягнятами. Знаем мы, что эти звери лизали руки святым мученикам, отказываясь выполнять то назначение, для которого их выпускали. Но знаем мы и то, что мученики, отвечая на ласку зверей, продолжали обличать тех, кто этих зверей против них выпускали. Для еп. Иоанна нет различия между бессловесными дикими зверями, орудиями мучителей, покоряемыми Христовой Правдой, и самими мучителями, стремящимися эту Правду вырвать с корнем. "Любовь" еп. Иоанна обнимает и тех и других. Уверению упраздняет еп. Иоанн отсутствие общности между Христом и Велиаром. И это уже полным голосом говорит сейчас он.
Беспощаден еп. Иоанн. Не только к себе, но и к своим единомышленникам. Нет ли основания ныне к ним отнести всех православных людей, принадлежащих к так называемой Леонтьевской церкви?** Все ведь точки публично поставлены над i. Духовно еп. Иоанн принадлежит к Советской церкви. И об этом громогласно заявляет. Для инакомыслящих остаются у него ирония, насмешки — в лучшем случае снисходительная улыбка, пусть даже и потоками крови засвидетельствована была ими верность Церкви.
Всякая ясность имеет свои преимущества. В этом полезная сторона и выступления еп. Иоанна.
Полная ясность внесена в личность самого еп. Иоанна. Смысл её можно определить его же словами, сказанными о "злом пастырстве" в то время, когда иным был еп. Иоанн. "Пробравшись на священную кафедру, враг может произвести в стаде большее опустошение, чем воинствуя в стане воинствующих безбожников или чрез декреты безбожного правительства. Развалить внутри — его цель... И вот он подбирается не только к спящим, но и к дремлющим пастырям и овладевает их чувствами, словами и действиями, даёт им свой дух, дух, от которого духовно погибают люди, переставая верить в святое. Вот отчего св. Иоанн Златоуст писал: "Никого я так не боюсь, как Епископов, исключая немногих" (Из письма к Св. Олимпиаде)".
Ясность внесена в проблему будущего. Для единомышленников еп. Иоанна отпадает вопрос свержения Советской власти, раз она сама на путях спасительной эволюции, в общении с Советской Церковью, открывает нам достойное будущее.
Ясность внесена в оценку прошлого. Соглашательство спасло Россию — не что иное: как жалкая жертва своего неведения сброшена должна быть со счетов Катакомбная Церковь.
Ясность внесена и в "церковное" сознание. Страшный Суд устранён из проблематики церковной, раз упразднён конфликт между последователями Христа и "миром", во зле лежащим: трезвая правда истинного христианства уступает место слащавому идеалу "экуменического" благополучия человечества.
Беспощаден и к себе, и к своим единомышленникам, еп. Иоанн. Тем самым, как никогда раньше, встаёт вопрос о солидарности с ним. Это ведь вопрос спасения душ — не больше, не меньше. Пусть каким-то обречённым выступает уже еп. Иоанн — быть может, даже и не чувствуя объективного значения своих слов и действий. Быть может, утрачивают эту способность и те, кто продолжают быть и сейчас под обаянием его личности или прошли путь, аналогичный его пути — которому страшно даже подыскивать достойное его имя. Но как думает "нейтральная среда"? Способна она и впредь оставаться "нейтральной", тем самым обрекая себя на общую судьбу с еп. Иоанном? В этом плане сугубую значительность приобретает в церковной "икономии" современности личность еп. Иоанна — тем более зловещую, чем выше его оценивать в прошлом.
Душегубительным "ясностям" еп. Иоанна противопоставим душеспасительные очевидности церковные:
Нет человечеству исторического будущего вне низвержения Советской власти.
Исторический урок революционного прошлого свидетельствует о роковой губительности церковного соглашательства ("сергианства"), отдавшего "легализованную" Церковь на поток и разграбление большевикам и утвердившего их господство над Россией.
Страх Божий перед лицом близящегося конца мира, соблазнённого лжехристами и лжепророками, вот где единственное спасение современных христиан. А спасая свои души, христиане идут тем единственным путём, который открывает возможность дальнейшего исторического бытия мира, если не окончательно вымирающим племенем являются христиане.
Способен ли современный человек, пусть и увлечённый стихиями мира, испугаться явления еп. Иоанна Шаховского, ныне уже вполне раскрывшегося. Или, напротив, окажется он успокоенным его льстивыми речами? Этот вопрос, значение которого определяется только что сказанным, поставлен новейшим выступлением еп. Иоанна во весь рост. Неужели настолько уже притуплено церковное сознание "нейтральной" массы, что она и не заметит этого выступления? Мы не исключаем и этой возможности, тем более считая себя вынужденными поднять свой предостерегающий голос. Ведь — повторим опять слова, некогда сказанные еп. Иоанном в те времена, когда он был иным: "... царство 'второй смерти' (т.е. духовной — Откр 20.14) так же прозелитирует, как и Царство Жизни — даже гораздо более настойчиво, поскольку грубо и дерзко. Вторая смерть имеет множество слуг в мире, сознательных и бессознательных".
Архимандрит КОНСТАНТИН
Православная Русь, №13, 1956г.
* Иоанн (Шаховской) — архиепископ Сан-Францисский и Западно-Американский в Православной церкви в Америке, принявший сторону советской церкви.
** Православная Церковь в Америке (ПЦА, Orthodox Church in America — OCA) — создана как альтернатива РПЦЗ, ныне в единстве с Московской патриархией.
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# RE: Архимандрит Константин: Проповедь духовной смерти — Митрополит Агафангел 08.06.2023 14:08
"Нет человечеству исторического будущего вне низвержения Советской власти"
- совершенно справедливые слова. Эта недобитая советская власть остаётся в РФ, и именно из этой советской власти происходит нынешняя война в Украине. Но настоящая трагедия в том, что эта советская власть расползается сейчас по всему миру - она поглощает правительства главных ведущих стран, она же поглотила и бо́льшую часть РПЦЗ.
Поэтому, уверенно можно говорить, что нет у человечества исторического будущего.
Vl Agafangel's comment machine English
"There is no historical future for mankind without the overthrow of Soviet power" - absolutely fair words. This unfinished Soviet power remains in the Russian Federation, and it is from this Soviet power that the current war in Ukraine originates. But the real tragedy is that this Soviet power is now spreading all over the world - it is swallowing up the governments of the main leading countries, it has also swallowed up most of ROCOR. Therefore, we can confidently say that humanity has no historical future.
SHARING!, Video/Photo & textual reports from SOME of our ROCOR PARISHES, Lead by our Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel (Pashkovsky), in South America, & photos of a few of our parishes in Ukraine, & in Russia, etc.-more videos may be added, "ongoing"
Time: Mon, 5 Jun 2023
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GREETINGS WITH PENTECOST! & The Feast Of The Most Holy Trinity!
Subject: x1: Fascinating! Video/Photo, & textual reports from many of our ROCOR PARISHES -Lead by our Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel (Pashkovsky), in South American countries
1)“From Trinity to Trinity”- Some of Our ROCOR parishes in South America:-country by country, videos and some photos.
2) “FEAST OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY IN SOME OF OUR ROCOR PARISHES” in Ukraine & Europe/Russia & Elsewhere (viewer should be able to choose English or Russian text)
http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/2023-8
(THIS LINK, may be ADDED TOO, with more parishes, little by little, as their reports are collected)
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:04 June 2023. Category: ROCOR .
Divine services on Trinity 2023 in the church in honor of St. John Maskimovich in Kamenskoye, Ukraine, was served by the rector, mitered archpriest Alexander Martynenko, under Deacon Sergiy Kovalev.
Divine services on the Trinity in the Odessa Archangel and Mikhailovsky Church were led by Metropolitan Agafangel, co-served by Archpriest Vitaly Morozov, with Deacons Maxim Sheremet and Georgy Kucherenko.
In the Church of the Intercession in Malin, Ukraine, services were led by rector Archpriest Georgy Storozhitsky.
Feast of the Holy Trinity in the Church of All Saints Chernomorka, Mykolaiv region, Ukraine. Rector Archpriest Alexy Sereda.
Patronal feast of the Holy Trinity Church in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The service was led by Bishop Gregory of Sao Paulo and South America, co-served by Archpriests Konstantin Busygin and Vladimir Petrenko, with Deacon Evgeny Braga.
Patronal feast of the Trinity Church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rector Archpriest Alexander Ivashevich.
Feast of the Holy Trinity in the Cathedral of Vladivostok. Rector Bishop of Vladivostok and Far East Anastasy.
On the day of the Holy Spirit, June 05/May 23, 2023, in the parish of the Intercession with. Congaz in Moldova, a festive conciliar service of the Holy Divine Liturgy was heldclergy of the Moldavian diocese of ROCOR. The service of the Holy Liturgy was led by the rector of the parish, Archpriest Vasily Ikizli, with the service of Hegumen Alexy (Kaloev), Archpriest Simeon Kaloev, Hieromonk Glykerius (Sulo), Hieromonk Sophronius (Kalpak) under Protodeacon Michael Torba.
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Some Observations: "Autocephaly" and "Autonomy" as BLESSINGS/GIFTS 'graciously' granted by Stalin's1943 founded, his uncanonical and graceless "Moscow Patriarchy", which is still today unrepentant and unreformed and a tool of the Kremlin, not of God
Time: Mon, 5 Jun 2023
Greetings WITH The HOLY PENTECOST!
“By their fruits (what they DO) shall you know them!”, not by what they SAY.
And, “The Blessing of a heretic is a curse!” i.e. and not a blessing at all.
Well, “autochephaly” or “autonomy” as studied as some isolated intellectual or historical/canonical subject is truly not the real central issue in our current troubled times, but rather WHO OR WHAT LOCAL valid-truly canonical grace-filled ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH HAS THE RIGHT to bestow it….and who does not!
Thus, this seemingly beneficent/generous act (supposidly to unite and strengthen and -better preach THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, and to better spread Orthodoxy) & its being granted by Stalin’s Moscow Patriarchate (or by in heresy Constantinople either), to ANYONE, in our life-time, by Stalin’s bogus pretend and utterly uncanonical 1943 created “Moscow Patriarchy” …but a slavish tool of the Kremlin Theomachists..is totally a fraud and graceless and..who does it fool?-certainly not God…..but yes, many gulible overly trusting fools.
And also the humour in it is that far from them being granted self-governing genuine independence or autonomy from whatever “mother local Orthodox Church”, this MP fraudulent travesty ..to both the OCA/MP and to the ROCOR/MP is really only.. enslaving the giddy celebrating happy spiritually-innebriated recipients of it, to the Kremlin and its pagan global plans for world domination…Putin’s “Russian World” scenario.
Yes, to the old North American Russian Metropolia (actually the Platonite early schism from ROCOR) their’s was MISS-labeled, them “being granted AUTOCEPHALY” , while to the betraying group, lead by Met. Laurus-Skurla, from our old ROCOR, it was miss-labeled as “being granted AUTONOMY”,-but both official choices of misnomer labels actually MEANS only one thing: that both of them, are NOT FREE OR SELF-GOVERNING, BUT MORE-SO!....-ENSLAVED UNDER THE Kremlin’s controled MP false Orthodox church IN MOSCOW..its octopus tenacles…and nothing more.
AND, that so called Mother Russian Church in Moscow is itself utterly illegal and graceless by many Orthodox canons..and by the blood of the many martyrs which it has caused to be tortured and put to death.
YET!..most members of both of those religious entities are frequently seen or heard foolishly celebrating their IMAGINARY “FREEDOM”…rejoicing over “Fools’ Gold”.
Isn’t that sort of like: “those who were re-arranging the deck chairs on the ill-fated Titanic, as it started to sink”?..and “As the band played on”?
By their calculated but deliberately misapplied bogus manipulative MISS-USE of Orthodox canons and mis-quotes from Holy Scripture, the Communist Stalin’s 1943 founded..in the dark of night, the MP “Mother Church”-? & its current “Most Holy”-? “Patriarch”-? Kyrill” have the HIGHEST “CANONICAL-FINAL/LAST SAY-SO, WORD/Power ” over both the OCA/MP & their also captured sister local church, the ROCOR/MP:-THAT?... IS: “FREEDOM/SELF-RULE”???..what a sad sad joke and a traversty! It is like singing: “Thank God we are slaves now!”
KGB Actor-“RELIGIOUS” SPECIAL-AGENT, Kyrill Gundayev…rules them both..and as proof in our faces: we ask the question: just how many clerical or lay members of either of those two captured, AMERICAN-BASED!!!... church entities EVER publically express any critical or CHRISTIAN …censuring moral sentiments against what UNHOLY GODLESS ATROCITIES of that MP, “Mother Church” or psychotic mad Hitler/Stalin like, dictator Putin-its true demonic boss OVER IT, are currently BLESSING OR doing IN THE HOLY NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY GOOD GOD! on the slautered Ukrainians?....And daily threatening to NUKE US ALL…HOW MANY?..publically? I have heard about very very few, and they were not clergy.
But the non-Orthodox heterodox Christian and pagan world, MOCKS ALL OF US! ORTHODOX because of what atrocities THEY are doing…really in the name of OUR ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN RELIGION!
“Free as a bird…. in a gilded cage”?..and that is not freedom!
Speechless/wordless, mild-mannered, Retired Taciturn & Bucholic Reader Daniel..once again, instigated & prodded to open my mouth because of all the terrible terrible things going on in our sorry old estranged from God, world, many committed by Putin’s “Sincere Orthodox Christians”- as Putin’s hypnotized devotees speak of him, as. Putin’s vile merciless anti-human orders are all blessed by his actor KGB patriarch Kyrill…his spirituall advisor and confessor.
Our Saviour, however, said: “If you love me, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS!”
Christ God, SAVE US!
Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly- Come Quickly!
6/4/2023: Several ROCOR Articles: including: Trinity Sunday, 2023, in some of our world-wide parish churches
Time: Sun, 4 Jun 2023
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ROCOR: Trinity 2023 in our churches
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:04 June 2023. Category: ROCOR .
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Divine services on Trinity 2023 in the church in honor of St. John Maskimovich in Kamenskoye, Ukraine, was served by the rector, mitered archpriest Alexander Martynenko, under Deacon Sergiy Kovalev.
Divine services on the Trinity in the Odessa Archangel and Mikhailovsky Church were led by Metropolitan Agafangel, co-served by Archpriest Vitaly Morozov, with Deacons Maxim Sheremet and Georgy Kucherenko.
In the Church of the Intercession in Malin, Ukraine, services were led by rector Archpriest Georgy Storozhitsky.
Video Sermon in Russian language:
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Metropolitan Agafangel: The Holy Spirit in the Church forgives sins
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:04 June 2023. Category: Author's column .
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:04 June 2023. Category: Author's column .
Only God in Heaven and only the Church on earth have the power to forgive sins. Sermon by Metropolitan Agafangel on the Feast of the Holy Trinity. Archangel Michael Church, Odessa, May 22 (old style) / June 4 (new style), 2023.
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Metropolitan Agafangel: On the transition to a new style
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:01 June 2023. Category: Author's column .
The Church of Christ leads its being from Christ and His disciples. All Church Tradition is consistently passed down from generation to generation, we accept it from our fathers in order to pass it on to our descendants - as our fathers believed, so we believe that our fathers accepted, then we accept what they rejected, we reject And we. “Keep what you have,” says the Revelation of John the Theologian (3.11), and these same words were left as his testament by our Saint Philaret, the third First Hierarch of ROCOR. Tradition is consistent and monolithic in its development; cardinal, "revolutionary" innovations are completely excluded in it, to which ecclesiastical modernism and the "new style" accompanying it are directed.
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The Decree of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (see also the 7th Apostolic Canon, the 1st Canon of the Council of Antioch) orders all Christians to celebrate Easter (naturally, this also applies to other significant holidays) on the same day. Later, the 7th canon of the II Ecumenical Council and the 95th canon of the Council of Trulli directly called the fourteeners who did not fulfill this rule (celebrating Easter with the Jews, Nisan 14), heretics. That is, those who reject the calendar adopted by the Church, according to the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, are heretics.
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Catholics fell away from the Church of Christ in 1054, from that time to the present day they have accepted and continue to accept many innovations that remove them further and further from the Church of the Holy Fathers. One of these heretical innovations was the "correction" in 1582 of the church calendar on the initiative of Pope Gregory XIII. Thanks to this "reform", the heretics celebrated the Passover with the Jews on Nisan 14 (and even before them), many times.
The new calendar adopted by the papists in the very year of its appearance (1582) was rejected by the Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremiah II, and then condemned by three Pan-Orthodox Councils (1583, 1587, 1593) "as a pernicious papal innovation." These conciliar decrees remain in force to this day and directly excommunicate all "New Calendarists" from the Church.
The very introduction of the "new calendar" initially served to deepen the division between the Orthodox and the papists.
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Unfortunately, after the fall of the Orthodox Russian Empire, the Eastern Local Churches, having lost material support from the Empire, looked for other financial sources of their usual comfortable existence. Initially, some of them, in the hope of continued funding, even supported the Soviet government and the Renovationist Church it created. But, realizing that they would not receive money from there, they turned to the Masons and various associations they created (similar to the current World Council of Churches). Those agreed to help, but demanded certain concessions. It is obvious that one of these concessions, aimed at splitting the Church of Christ, was the transition of the Local Orthodox Churches under their control to the "new style".
Despite the obvious perniciousness, the reform of the church calendar was carried out in 1924 in the Constantinople, Greek and Romanian Churches, and then in some other Local Churches. This apostasy took place after 19 centuries of the life of the entire Orthodox Church according to the single Julian calendar for all. The very fact that a certain group, and not the entire Church, adopted the "new style" contradicts the Dogma of the catholicity of the Orthodox Church, as well as the Dogma of the Unity of the Church, the visible form of which is always a common calendar.
It is obvious that the new calendar was adopted within the framework of the pan-heresy of ecumenism with the aim of destroying the Church of Christ and creating instead of it a worldwide global mega-church. Thus, those who accepted the "new calendar" for the sake of unity with heretics and infidels fell away from Holy Tradition and the Holy Fathers and went after the papist heretics.
The Church has its own boundaries, and the destruction of these boundaries means falling away from the Church—Truth mixed with lies ceases to be Truth.
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The transition to a new style means a loss of connection with one's past - starting from believing parents and grandparents, and further, with all one's Christian ancestors, and, thus, with Holy Tradition and with the Church founded by Christ.
Of course, unbelieving people who are used to celebrating two Christmases of Christ (as New and Old Years) do not care. But believing people will face a dangerous temptation, before choosing one of two paths - to remain in unity with their pious ancestors and the Church in which they lived, or to go the way of a world free from faith in God.
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It must be admitted that the Moscow Patriarchate is not only its leaders, but also millions of ordinary believers who, unfortunately, blindly follow the depraved caste of false shepherds, selected and appointed by the Soviet special services. Ordinary people are deluded by Soviet propaganda, which for many years inspired them that the leadership of the MP is the real and legitimate hierarchy. But this is not so at all - the current leadership of the MP is an analogue of the Evangelical Pharisees, whom Christ denounced, and who initiated His crucifixion. Today, the Orthodox Church must definitely leave the Pharisees and follow Christ, as she once did two thousand years ago.
In Ukraine, the Orthodox Church needs not reform, but a return to catholicity, established by the Ecumenical Councils and the Holy Fathers, to the loss of which the Church, unfortunately, went from the reforms of Peter I, to the formation of the Soviet Moscow Patriarchate by Stalin in 1943, when the catholicity was finally destroyed by the God-fighting authorities together with traitors from the pure hierarchy of the MP. After that, ALL bishops and abbots of the largest churches and monasteries of the MP were appointed not by the Church itself, but by its enemies, from among the faithful supporters of satanic power. Which, unfortunately, continues to this day.
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Now a reform is planned in Ukraine, aimed at the destruction of Orthodoxy already in our country. Unfortunately, it has so happened on our land in the last century that the issues of the Church are solved by distant and hostile people - and to the question of who to be with - with Christ , His Church and our pious ancestors, or with the world lying in evil - they quite definitely answer - we must keep pace with the world that has rejected Christ.
Of course, this new reform will cut off the majority of believers from the currently created "official" Ukrainian Church. Will there be those who will replace them? I think not.
One can only hope that those who carry out these reforms in Ukraine do it out of ignorance and really strive, as they think, to benefit our fatherland. God grant that their eyes will be opened to the fact that there is only one way to Christ and Eternal Life, and every other way is the road leading to Hell. Genuine Christians will not follow this path, and they will not wish it on others.
+ Metropolitan Agafangel
May 19/June 1, 2023
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