A Kind Remembrance of Princess Irina by Abbess Alexandra-

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Abbess Alexandra: Memory of Princess Irina S. Bagration-Mukhrani

*May her good deeds and pure heart, follow her into the next world!  Vechnaya Pamyat!  Memory Eternal!

New York , eternal memory

July 10, 2015 departed to the Lord Irina S. Princess Bagration-Mukhrani.With deep sadness I write about it. Irina S. was a close friend and advisor. Over the years, she helped the monastery spiritually and financially.

Her support and special location I felt after leaving blagopluchnuyu life in America, I went to Russia, Ishim and became engaged in the device of the monastery. Just as our bishops Archbishop John of Shanghai and Bishop Filaret Ascension, Irina S. wholeheartedly believed in the Church Abroad and supported those who were in the truth. By nature Irina S. was a very sincere person, a stranger of all lies, no matter where it originates. It was an extremely demanding and spiritually to themselves and to others.

When in May 2007 the union of the Church Abroad with the Moscow Patriarchate, Irina S. tried to help those who have remained faithful to the Orthodox Church. Irina S. Lord helped Agafangel as the only bishop, did not accept the union. Her concern for the needs of the monastery has been dictated by the fact that it was very valuable that our sisters did not go to the union with the Moscow Patriarchate, as did Lord of Eutyches, which for many of them was the spiritual father. For the sake of truth sister monastery in Ishim left their homes and were forced to endure the difficulties in Ukraine, starting from scratch.

Although Irina S. was not a nun, but a spiritual guide to her was her mother-abbess of the Monastery of the Mt of Olives Tamara Bagration-Mukhrani, niece of Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II. There were moments when in a difficult situation regarding the monastic life, I asked for advice from Irina Alekseeva and she helped me, often while referring to examples from the life of Abbess Tamara. When communicating with Irina S. I always felt it a high spiritual mood, its ability to separate the important from the unimportant.

From Irina Alekseeva is a few relics. Abbess Tamara Irina S. gave two small icons Martyr Tatiana, whom the Emperor, the Emperor Nicholas II blessed it as a favorite niece. These icons Irina S. gave me a blessing to our monastery. Great value for our Church are sent photos Irina S. Romanov princes Martyrs (John, Igor and Constantine), Abbess Tamara brothers affected with the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna and Nun Varvara near Alapaevsk. These relics are evidence to me that we should cherish the spiritual traditions of the Orthodox Church, faithful child of that Irina S. has always been. Her name will be raised with love in my prayers. Eternal memory Irina Sergeevna.

Abbess Alexandra

Photo: EV Princess Vera Konstantinovna after the prayer service in the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh (in Tolstoy Farm) on the celebration of her 90th anniversary (24 April 1996). For Her Highness Princess Irina S. Bagration-Mukhrani. Right rector Archpriest Gregory Kotliaroff.

Public worship of Satan looms ahead

Another startling reminder to those who don't see the coming open worship of the Antichrist and Satan behind him:  In Detroit, Satanists plan unveiling of a huge public statue of Satan-

Comment:  While in America, the very public mention of Jesus Christ [or prayers to Him], or the reading or studying of the Bible or any Christian moral or ethical teachings, is forbidden in public schools, where the monuments to the Ten Commandments [upon which rests all of our historical American system of laws and justice and indeed, our fundamental culture], are removed from public places, and the Holy Cross is removed from military and public cemeteries and public monuments, [indeed from everywhere], and where prayers to Christ or mention of his Name, is forbidden in the US military.  Now we also have forced upon Christians here, this moral  abomination of the leftist judicial agenda, of their 'modernist progressive' attack upon us, of their onslaught on our Christian American mainstream historic culture, of their so-called, 'Same Sex Marriages', etc.... plus other abominations galore. In Putin's unfree and enslaved, 'Orthodox Russia', on the contrary, there is an open and public seeming government approval and encouragement and organizing, of honoring of Orthodox churches and  monasteries and holy shrines, and of MP religious activities, Christian crosses and icons and religious memorials, etc. ...BUT, where never-the-less, the entire nation is IN FACT!.... under the tyrannical  rule of a monsterous Christ-hating-atheist-ruling regime, KGB ruthless gangsters really, a war loving, prefiguration of Antichrist, whom we know, by their WORKS, – their  fruits, – not so much by their lying speech and false 'Orthodox' public expressions of piety – so as to fool the masses.... what Vladimir Putin & his fellow criminal oligarks are truly all about.   Putin's Russia also has the highest rate of abortions, [infanticide of RUSSIAN BABIES!], of any country in the world, while he is making a murderous unjust war upon neighboring Ukraine, and clearly – planning on seizing the entire country by an all-out war of further aggression, 'to restore Russian national pride'(!!!)  What 'pride'??? Both America and present day Russia, and indeed much of the rest of this sorry old world, are steadily becoming more openly evil, day by day. Look at what the bloodthirsty Muslims are doing, [indeed commanded to do by their wretched Koran] to Christians and to EACH OTHER too! Yet, the always optimistic secular humanist utopian leftist dreamers, world-wide, still want to see only what they in their unrealistic pro-socialist/Marxist fantacies  and ungodly leftist minds,  imagine – that all is becoming better and better – 'progress  through science', etc. yet progress without God!...  Is it? The hard evidence tells  us otherwise. May our souls be purified enough, so that we  may be counted worthy of the heavenly  kingdom, when this end comes. This world, anyway, is transient and passing.  Dust to dust and ashes to ashes.  Only God and our souls are immortal. "When all else is gone, there remains, ONLY GOD!"   "Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus, come quickly!" Reader Daniel May GOD SAVE US!...'for vain is the help of man'.  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/10/no-red-carpet-for-satanic-statue-slated-for-detroit-unveiling/?intcmp=obnetwork

Marxist version of Crucifixion

Marxist ('Hammer and Sickle') version of Crucifixion? -a gift to Pope (!!)

In this case it is leftist-Marxists using the Roman Catholic church for its own purposes, similar as to the MP using Orthodoxy for its own purposes. What blasphemy! The communists have indeed re-crucified Christ, along with many millions of Christians, so in that sense, to place His suffering image on the hammer of their satanic symbol, ( under which banner they have murdered many millions), is not totally illogical,  though it is ironic, and it is still blasphemous.  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33476140

Vechnaya Pamyat! Princess Irina S. Bagration

Memory Eternal! Vechnaya Pamyat! to (Princess) Irina S. Bagration

*Please pray for her soul. She was a great benefactress to our church.

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And The Notice From Internetsobor.org:  Princess Irina S. Bagration-Mukhrani Departed to the Lord

She was a great supporter and benefactress of the Russian Church Abroad, all her life, and especially of our continued ROCA under our Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel. May she indeed rest with the Saints!  Eternal memory! For to the Lord departed, Princess Irina S. Bagration-Mukhrani Author: Metropolitan Agafangel, July 9, 2015 . . Princess Irina S. Bagration with her mother-in-law, Mother Tamata, Abbess of the Mount of Olives Convent in Jerusalem.  Mother Tamara was born Princess Tatiana Constantinova of Russia (1890-1979), the third child and oldest daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Sonstantinovich of Russia and his wife, Elisabeth Mavrikievna, née Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg.  She took the veil at Geneva in 1946.  NEWS @ www.royalrussia.org http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1468725 July 9 at 2 am from Wednesday to Thursday in New York (USA), went to the Lord Princess Irina S. Bagration-Mukhrani. The funeral service will be held on Saturday, July 11, at 10:00 at the Holy Trinity Church in Astoria. Irina S. will be  buried in the cemetery of Novo-Diveevo.  Kingdom Of Heaven!  Photo: Irina S. with the abbess of the monastery on the Mount of Olives in the Holy Land, Tamara (Duchess Romanova, the daughter of Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich).

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American and Romanian pilgrims visit Bulgaria

Orthodox Pilgrims from America and Romania visited the Bulgarian Old Calendar Church

Our sister churches to our ROCA: *article found on: http://internetsobor.org/bolgarskaia-starostilnaia-tcerkov/tcerkovnye-novosti/starostilnye-tcerkvi/bolgarskaia-starostilnaia-tcerkov/pravoslavnye-palomniki-iz-ameriki-i-rumynii-posetili-starostilnuiu-bolgariiu  Orthodox pilgrims from America and Romania visited the Old Calendar Church, Bulgaria

Since July 1, (n. C.) 2015 with the blessing of His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens Callinicus (CPI Greece), a group of Orthodox America, headed by His Eminence, Metropolitan Dimitri (CPI Greece in the US), visited the Old Calendar Orthodox Church in Bulgaria .

Guests arrived here after a few days in Romania. The main purpose of the pilgrimage was the Feast of St. Glyceria in Romania (15/28 June) at Transfiguration Monastery Sloatiara. Pilgrims arrived from Bucharest to Sofia in the afternoon on July 1. They were joined by guests from the Romanian Orthodox Old Calendar Church - Bishop Dionysius Galati, Archimandrite Niphon of the Dormition Monastery in Bucharest and the priest Sebastian Mogartsan from Suceava. 

On the morning of July 2, when the Church celebrates the memory of St. Jude the Apostle, one of the 70 apostles of Christ, as well as the patron saint of the Orthodox of America - St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker, group of pilgrims attended the service at the Assumption Cathedral of St. Sophia church. At the end of the Divine Liturgy, His Grace Bishop Photios Triaditsky addressed the guests with a short welcoming speech.

Our brothers and sisters from the United States and Canada visited Knyazhev Monastery of the Holy Virgin. In the monastery of His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrios and Bishop Dionysius turned to the nuns a pastoral word. Spiritual conversation continued over lunch at the monastery living. After the meal, the guests bowed monastic sanctuary and departed in two different directions: the pilgrims from America to the south, and the clergy from Romania - to the north, to their homeland.

Along the way, visitors from the United States and Canada attended the Rila Monastery - Bulgarian resort for every faithful heart. They were impressed by the splendor of the monastery and a beautiful view of the surroundings from the top of the hill ...

Photos from Monastery in Thebes GOC

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Sharing: Monastery of St. Nikita in Thebes, Greece

NOTE: Let us remember in our prayers the many much-suffering poor in Greece. Many people there have already been starving and destitute, but now it is getting even worse. Church and various other aid agencies and organizations, [ national and international], are not able to adequately cope. "O Lord, hear the God-fearing and hear us!".  "In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he answered me!"   *Article found on  http://internetsobor.org/iptc-gretcii/tcerkovnye-novosti/starostilnye-tcerkvi/iptc-gretcii/iptc-gretcii-sluzhba-v-monastyre-sv-nikity-v-fivakh-foto  GOC- Greece: service in the monastery of St.. Nikita in Thebes. ФОТО PHOTOSАвтор: Монахиня Вера вкл. Author: Vera nun

Antiochian Church breaks communion with the JP

Antiochian Church breaks communion with the Jerusalem Patriarchate

Internet Sobor: http://internetsobor.org/world-orthodoxy/tcerkovnye-novosti/world-orthodoxy/antiokhiiskaia-pravoslavnaia-tcerkov-razorvala-evkharisticheskoe-obshchenie-s-ierusalimskim-patriarkhatom My only comment on this story: Regardless of all other issues, [driving Orthodox today, world-wide] temporary schisms and splits between different local Orthodox churches, have been common through the past centuries, and often the cause has been, as this one seems to be: one church being perceived as infringing into the other's canonical territory.  Later, such breaks are usually healed, one way or another.  But if one looks at our Orthodox canon laws,  – that is why there are so many canons defining such local-church's prerogatives, [including the rights of their ruling bishops]  and the punishments  for those who try to usurp  them.  In past times, too, when we had Orthodox emperors, such disputes were often decided by them. To our traditionalist Orthodox perspective: We see both the current administrations of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and also of the Antiochean Patriarchate, both guilty of many canonical infractions, indeed of preaching and practicing many.. gross  heresies, – breaking of the canons.  Both are part of this world-wide end times mass Apostasy.  So, this current flap  about territorial rights being stolen, seems to be "the pot calling the kettle black."  It is nothing but crass worldly power politics, infringing into church life – quite disgusting in the end.  But, sadly this is really nothing new. And if 'ISIS" totally takes over the territory of where these Antiochean bishops reside, they will murder them and most of their flocks all off, anyway.  Then what? Just my views-Rd. Daniel Everiss in Oregon

June 29, 2015

In ended June 26, 2015 in Balamand Monastery in Lebanon under the chairmanship of the Patriarch John X session of the Synod of the Antiochian Orthodox Church adopted a special statement on the jurisdictional conflict between Antioch and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Qatar.  The statement was published in Arabic, Greek and French on the website orthodoxie.com .

The statement noted that violations of the Jerusalem Patriarchate canonical geographical boundaries of the Patriarchate of Antioch took place in connection with the creation of the Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem in Qatar and her appointment to the archbishop.

"Antioch Church tried to find a solution for peace, based on cooperation and coordination between the Orthodox sister Churches," - said in a statement that emphasizes the commitment of the Patriarchate of Antioch "dodge to undermine the unity of Orthodoxy."

At the same time the declaration indicates that the Antiochian Church used to date all possible means to reach a compromise, "including the mediation undertaken by the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the other sister Churches, as well as the Greek government", but it has not led to the decision problem.

The statement stated that "the Patriarchate of Jerusalem recently tears agreement concluded in the presence of representatives of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the promises given to the Primates of the sister Churches, which has offered to mediate." Patriarchate of Jerusalem continues to qualify regions, who are in the canonical jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Antioch, and rejects any attempt to overcome differences, sums up the Synod of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

"All initiatives to resolve the deadlocked," - said in a statement. At the same time, everyone who has made ​​this initiative, recognized the indisputable right of the Patriarchate of Antioch jurisdiction over Arabia, and including - all the countries of the Persian Gulf, said the hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Antioch.

In connection with the foregoing, the Holy Synod of the Antiochian Orthodox Church took the following decisions:

1) To break communion with the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

2) Recognize that any decision should be based on the differences agreement concluded in Athens in June 2013

3) Antioch Church insists on the principle of unanimity on all pan-Orthodox meeting in addressing the presence of the sister Churches on the canonical territory of the other jurisdiction.

4) The provisions of this resolution shall come into force immediately, after which it becomes impossible for all the clergy of the Church of Antioch to participate in any worship service, held under the chairmanship of the clergy of the Jerusalem Patriarchate or with their participation.