Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Photo Archive



True Orthodox Church of Greece, 
SYNOD "HRIZOSTOMOVTSEV" 


Metropolitan Gabriel Cyclades, Metropolitan Petros Astoriysky, Bishop Laurus (formerly the parishes, and then converted to MP), Metropolitan Akaki Diavleysky, Metropolitan Chrysostomos Salonikiysky. 



1.Mitropolit Paisios of Aegina. 2. (Unknown). 3.Mitropolit Chrysostom of Florina. 4.Arhimandrit Gordios (Axion Estin monastery). 5.Arhimandrit Mercurius Kaloskamnis (later Metropolitan of Knossos). 6. (Unknown)

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Kallistos Ware in St. John's Cathedral


Comment: And this!, an arch-ecumenist, EP 'Met. Kallistos'-Ware!, serving Divine Liturgy! and teaching!, in the cathedral built by St. John Maximovitch!

*Notice found on: http://www.wadiocese.com ..ROCOR/MP's Western American Diocese under archb. Kyrill Dmitrieff

Institute for Orthodox Studies to Hold Second Symposium on February 16-17

[February 10, 2013] The Saints Cyril & Athanasius Institute for Orthodox Studies will hold it's Second regional Symposium on February 16-17 at the Old Holy Virgin Cathedral (Fulton Street) in San Francisco. The theme of the symposium is "Prayer in the Church Fathers," and will feature Metropolitan Kallistos-Ware, as the main speaker. For additional information on the Institute and to register for the symposium, please visit the Institute's web page. 

On the Feast of the Meeting of Our Lord, Friday, February 15, Metropolitan Kallistos-Ware,  will celebrate the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Virgin Cathedral (6210 Geary Boulevard). Liturgy begins at 9:30 am.

Orthodox Pastor with his flock

VIDEO: (all in the Bulgarian language,) but we SEE, a loving Orthodox Pastor & Bishop, at home with, & one with, his flock of his beloved children


Found on: Vladimir Djambov's blog: http://pra-blah.blogspot.com 


  Here, we see Bulgarian Old Calendar Bishop Photius (Foti) in Sophia, Bulgaria, among his beloved and adoring children, as they present to him, readings and their handmade artistic greetings for the Nativity of Our Lord festivities.  Bishop Foti, seems to be...just one of the children..

  So too, did our Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel show himself, at his Odessa Nativity celebrations with his flock of children, a child amongst children.

"Unless ye become as the little children, ye cannot enter the Kingdom of God".


Monday, February 11, 2013

Another OCA Tipping Point


Comment, This is the unofficial view (yes, his private perspectives), of his own OCA, to which this  George Michalopoulos, is indeed loyal and committed to, but whose higher administration, he is very unhappy with, as apparently also, so are a sizeable portion of other OCA members.

He is a total idolizer, (I think, a blind & unrealistic idolizer), of the OCA's recently forced-to-retire, Met. Jonah-Paffhausen, who himself has well proven his long term profound admiration for and loyalty to, the KGB run, Moscow Patriarchia.

Also, George here, also considers highly, that KGB run organization, 'The Mother Church', and which he too, expresses much and unbounded  respect for.

Such is the typical befuddled mindset, of many who are ensnared in 'World-Orthodoxy', so-called.

Is it any wonder, that this OCA is undergoing so many internal and external tribulations? indeed, perhaps it is on it's road to a total disintegration/or, it's absorption into ROCOR/MP?

Truly, the OCA's  clerical leadership, (& their laity as well), are the blind leading the blind.  Behold! what happens when trust is put in a false-church, as is the Stalin founded in 1943, & STILL!...enslaved Sergianist MP?

What sort of ...'children'?, can such a 'mother' as that, produce??? let alone, give guidance to?

The OCA is, in reality, expecting spiritual sustenance and direction, from the KGB/FSB!!!!

But such is the hopeless state of this OCA.
Rd. Daniel

Sharings



√ Pope Benedict XVI's Resignation Explained
POPE TO RESIGN


√ prominent Putin opposer Sergei Udaltsov arrested and charged
     http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21396480#story_continues_1


√ The 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov
Thursday, Feb 14
Conference
The 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov
Columbia University, Butler Library
535 W. 114th St., Rm. 203  NY NY
1-212-854-4623.  5:00PM, free
The two-day conference opens on with a keynote address by Richard Wortman, James Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History, and winner of the 2006 Efim Etkind prize of the St. Petersburg European University for the best western work on Russian culture and literature.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

What about the relics?

What will the MP do with the relics of this, 'decononized' Martyr???


St. Basil Kineshma

http://inokinya-fakel.livejournal.com 
 Moscow Patriarchate dekanoniziroval 36 martyrs, of which the most famous was the Martyr Basil Kineshemsky. His relics are at the Monastery of Ivanovo. Now their fate is unknown. "Senior Specialist" on the new martyrs of the MP, Abbot Damascene (Orlovsky), which at one time under his own name gave the stolen life of St. ROCOR. Basil with cuts, arrived in Ivanovo and the bag took away the power of the saint in an unknown
direction.  We are concerned about the fate of these relics, as representatives of the MP can simply destroy.