Several ROCOR Articles including Trinity Sunday and Vl. Agafangel on the Calendar

  6/4/2023: Several ROCOR Articles: including: Trinity Sunday, 2023, in some of our world-wide parish churches  

  Time:  Sun, 4 Jun 2023    

  From: Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com>

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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

https://youtu.be/DsZWdmlyiEs 

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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