Meeting of Sept. 7, 2017 at St, Sergius Church, Tolstoy Farm

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com>	Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:41 PM
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Sorry, as in my hurry to copy and to share this, on: http://www.rocana.org  I made some typo errors in what I just sent out. And this comment: I do not agree with anything that these rebellious and misguided people have proclaimed  here, as being factual, or feasible- NONE of it! Rd. Daniel Everiss in Oregon....100% loyal to our  honorable and much maligned Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel and to our ROCA Holy Synod of Bishops. They do not deserve any of these false slanderous accusations. May God bless and preserve them! Always! MANY YEARS!  MNOGAYA LETA to them!  RUSSIAN LANGUAGE VERSION:   8 Сентября 2016 Собрание с комиссией по  VI Все-зарубежному Собору закончилось 7 сентября, 2016 г следующим: Дорогие братья и сестры! Пастырское попечение о приходах нашей Русской Православной Зарубежной Церкви, множество насущных вопросов церковной жизни, делают необходимым созыв 6 – го Всезарубежного Собора, проведение которого намечено на первую половину 2017 г.  Для основательной подготовки к Собору создана комиссия с участием клира и мирян. Эта предсоборная комиссия определит точную дату и место проведения Собора, разработает повестку дня, которая будет включать следующие основные вопросы: 1. Оценка деяний митр.Агафангела (Пашковского) и его Синода в свете Слова Божия, Церковного Предания, устоев и традиций исторической РПЦЗ, при первоиераршестве блаженной памяти митрополитов Антония, Анастасия, Виталия и свт.Филарета. 2. Рассмотрение несправедливых прещений, принятых митр. Агафангелом и его Синодом, без должного разбирательства и судопроизводства, в отношении архипастырей, пастырей и мирян нашей Церкви. 3. Приглашение к диалогу всех частей Русской Православной Церкви Заграницей, для преодоления недоразумений и разделений, с целью возможного объединения в Евхаристии всех верных чад Церкви. 4. Восстановление духа Соборности в Церкви, обеспечение непредвзятой работы Церковного Суда, для справедливого разрешения всех спорных вопросов и жалоб на будущее. Так как митр. Агафангел и его Синод своими ошибочными решениями и злоупотреблением властью утратили авторитет и доверие, то для ограждения верных чад Церкви от подобного произвола, на время предсоборного периода, наши епархии переходят на административное самоуправление. При этом не создается новая церковная структура, какое – либо самочинное сборище или « парасинагога », как любят сейчас говорить некоторые, чтобы опорочить благое начинание. Решение о созыве 6 – го Всезарубежного Собора принимается не ради каких – либо амбиций или властолюбия, а ради нашей преданности и любви ко Христу и Его Святой Церкви, во исполнение духовного завещания святителя Филарета : « Держи что имеешь .» Предсоборная Комиссия ENGLISH VERSION:   September 8, 2016 A meeting with the Committee to the VI All-Diaspora Council concluded on September 7, 2016 with the following: Dear brothers and sisters!  Our pastoral concern for the parishes of our Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the many pressing issues facing our Church, have made necessary the convocation of the 6th All-Diaspora Council, which will be held in the first half of 2017. A committee of clergy and laypeople has been created to prepare for the Council.  This pre-council committee will determine the exact date and location of the Council and will develop the agenda, which will include the following main points: 1.      An assessment of the actions of Met. Agafangel (Pashkovskiy) and his Synod in light of the Word of God, the Traditions of the Church, and the principles and practices of the historic ROCA as it was led by Metropolitans Antony, Anastasiy, Vitaliy and St. Philaret of blessed memory. 2.     An examination of the unjust punishments imposed by Met. Agafangel and his Synod against the archpastors, pastors and laypeople of our Church, which were implemented without the required investigations and adherence to legal process. 3.     An invitation to all parts of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad to begin a dialogue to resolve any misunderstandings and divisions, with the goal of a possible uniting of all the faithful members of the Church in Eucharistic communion. 4.     A restoration of the spirit of Sobornost in the Church to guarantee the impartial functioning of the Spiritual Court to ensure a fair adjudication of all future disputes and accusations. As Met. Agafangel and his Synod, through their wrongful decisions and abuse of power, have forfeited their authority and our trust, our dioceses in order to guard the faithful of the Church from such lawlessness are exercising their inherent right to self-rule during the period before the Council.  Through this action, neither a new church body is being established nor is some unauthorized group or “parasynagogue” being created, as some are want to say in an effort to disgrace this noble undertaking.  The decision to convene the 6th All-Diaspora Council has been made not for the sake of ambition or a lust for power but rather out of our loyalty and love for Christ and His Holy Church, and in fulfillment of the spiritual bequest of St. Philaret: “Keep what you have.” The Pre-Council Committee

Ukaz to Archb. Andronik from Metropolitan Agafangel

Sharing: The Full Official Ukaz: (in a careful human-English translation and the Russian original): to Archb. Andronik from Metropolitan Agafangel, President of The Hierarchal Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 12:37 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original *Please widely share this, for the benefit of the faithful, and so that they not follow this man or his fellow foolish  schismatics in their departure from canonical Orthodoxy. President  of the Hierarchal Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad 21 August/03 September 2016 Apostle Thaddaeus To: Archbishop Andronik (formerly of Syracuse and St. Nicholas, Canada and Ottawa) DIRECTIVE In connection with the fact that you have repudiated the signature on your Declaration, dated 3/16 August 2016, that you recognize the Directives and Enactments of the First Hierarch of the ROCA, of the Hierarchal Synods and Councils, which was made as a result of an agreement with the President of the Synod and its Secretary in the presence and with the approval of representatives of the GOC [Genuine Orthodox Church] of Greece, my directive of the same date, accordingly, is likewise rescinded. With regard to you, the Directive of the Hierarchal Synod, No. 197(238), dated 8/21 July 2016, continues to be operative, according to which you are retired with the right of serving in Mountain View. You may not perform any administrative functions, and likewise not serve on the territory of the Syracuse and Canadian Dioceses without special permission for this from the Right Reverend Gregory, to whom the pastoral care of the dioceses previously under your jurisdiction has been temporarily entrusted. President of the Hierarchal Synod of the ROCA + Metropolitan Agafangel Председатель  Архиерейского Синода Русской Православной Церкви Заграницей  21 августа/03 сентябрая 2016 г. Апостола Феллея Архиепископу Андронику (бывшему Сиракузскому и Никольскому, Канадскому и Оттавскому) УКАЗ В связи с тем, что Вы отказались от подписи под своим Заявлением от 3/16 августа 2016 года, о том, что Вы признаете Указы и Постановления Первоиерарха РПЦЗ, Архиерейских Синодов и Соборов, сделанном в результате договоренности с Председателем Синода и его Секретарем в присутствии и одобрении представителей ИПЦ Греции, мой Указ от этого же числа, соотвественно, также отменяется. Относительно Вас продолжает действовать Указ Архиерейского Синода №197(238) от 8/21 июля 2016 года, согласно которому Вы почисляетесь на покой с правом служения в Маунтен Вью. Вы не можете совершать никаких административных действий, и также служить на территории Сиракузской и  Канадской епархий без специального на то разрешения Преосвященного Епископа Григория, которому временно поручено окормление епархий, ранее бывших в Вашем ведении. Председатель Архиерейского Синода РПЦЗ + Митрополит Агафангел

Returning Andronik Kotlaroff, back once again, to a 'Retired-bishop'- Status

A General Sharing: Official Decree of September 3, 2016 from our ROCA Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel: Returning Andronik Kotlaroff, back once again, to a 'Retired-bishop'- Status    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 10:43 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original *This found on:http://internetsobor.org Comment: In Orthodox canon law, [ which renegade  Andronik Kotlaroff and his fellow impious anti-Orthodox schismatics have clearly mocked and totally rejected most if not all Orthodox Sacred Tradition, of which our Sacred Canons Laws are an integral part], a retired bishop/ 'at rest',  basically has no  rights to do much of anything, except what little is permitted him by the ruling bishop, in this case, Met. Agafangel and our ROCA Synod. This retired status is, in his case, one short step before he has to be completely deposed/defrocked  as a bishop of the Orthodox Church. His fellow bishops have the total right, indeed their solemn DUTY to protect souls, to remove him, just as it was they who previously consecrated him as a fellow-bishop. He cannot take his episcopal consecration with him, when he leaves the church, or has to be ejected from the church. He goes as a defrocked shameful former bishop, a renegade, and if he still pretends to act as a bishop, then as a vagante/vagrant/wandering -former bishop. Clearly church dissembler and destroyer of our ROCA, pathetic unbalanced Andronik Kotlaroff needs to be defrocked, and soon, as does Sofrony Musienko also.. who likely is the main person 'guiding' and telling  him as to what to say and do....and what are his motives? And what about those clergy or mislead laity who now so foolishly admire and who follow him? STOP! and flee from this stupid and totally nonsensical  power-grab impious anti-Orthodox schism, for your own sakes and for the laity under obedience to you. What a deceitful and untrustworthy pathetic man is Andronik Kotlaroff. God save him from himself and from his controllers!.  His word and his honor, as with his signature, are worth zero! And the only kind excuse I can conjure up to defend him, [ as we need to pray for him in his sad state, that God deliver him from the demons now controlling him and his followers], is that he seems  to be losing  his reasoning and his mind..i.e. physical mental illness. And for sure, others are directing him and putting their prepared statements in front of him for his signatures, or ...they... are simply composing  statements and it is THEY who sign his name to them. Numerous indications  attest to this. Andronik Kotlaroff is not a free man. He cannot control himself.  He does what others tell him to do. By reneging, 'rescinding his signature', i.e.  going back on his own solemn word and signature, poor  Andronik has himself, UNBELIEVABLY!...nullified the much praised peace agreement  recently agreed upon, in the presence of GOC Met. Demetrios at his Monastery in New York, with Vladyka Agafangel and Archbishop George. In that agreement, the Metropolitan and Archbishop George, humbled themselves,  and our entire ROCA world-wide church, and signed that mutual very generous statement with Andronik, exactly to prevent and to heal this unwarranted lamebrain impious schism....i.e. TO SAVE SOULS FROM PERDITION! The true motives of these lawless schismatics is becoming more clear all the time: It has to do with THEIR POWER and THEIR PRESTIGE and their idolatrous and arrogant proud self-worship. It has nothing to do with Orthodox Christianity or saving souls. Such has been the main motivation of all previous schismatics and heretics in church history. And all Andronik's present actions, are also null and void. He has no right to do anything he is now doing. Below I have added, in blue, my few explanatory words to better clarify the rough machine-English translation, for English only readers. WAKE UP all who are becoming a  part of this schism!  It has zero legitimate basis to exist. It is one of many attacks on our ROCA to destroy it and us. The MP and its daughter, ROCOR/MP are viewing this with much expectation, and enjoyment. Rd. Daniel Everiss in Oregon   MANY YEARS!   MNOGAYA LETA!  to our solidly Orthodox and pious Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel and to our ROCA Holy Synod! And May God preserve them and us, from all assaults of the Devil and his servants!  Metropolitan Agafangel: Decree of 3 September 2016 Автор: Митрополит Агафангел вкл. Author: Metropolitan Agafangel incl. 03 Сентябрь 2016 September 3, 2016 . . Опубликовано в РПЦЗ (Просмотров: 66) Published in the ROCA (Views: 66) Таги: рпцз , синод , митрополит агафангел , архиепископ андроник Tags: ROCA , the Synod , Metropolitan Agafangel , Archbishop Andronicus В связи с тем, что Архиепископ Андроник отказался от своей подписи под Заявлением о восстановлении канонических отношений между ним и Архиерейским Собором РПЦЗ, что подтвердили и его сторонники 26 августа 2016 года, Митрополит Агафангел отменил действие своего Указа, восстанавливающего в правах Архиепископа Андроника. Due to the fact that  Archbishop Andronicus refused [ rescinded later] his signature under the statement on the restoration of canonical relations between himself  and the Council of Bishops, which was confirmed by himself and  his supporters, on  26 August, 2016, he has thus repealed the Metropolitan Agafangel's  Decree, which had thus, subsequent to that  agreement, removed the former reduction of the  the rights of Archbishop Andronicus. [i.e. thus Andronicus is returned now, to a 'retired-bishop' status]. Любые его административные действия, а также совершение богослужений (кроме богослужений в Маунтен Вью) и хиротоний являются самовольными и незаконными. Any of his administrative actions, as well as the commission of worship (except for worship in Mountain View) and ordinations are illegal and self-willed. Tags: Tags: рпцз ROCA синод synod митрополит агафангел Metropolitan Agafangel архиепископ андроник Archbishop

Metropolitan Agafangel's Appeal

Second sending, with one correction-(a missing signature on the Russian original of this): And Plus A General Informational Sharing: (a more precise human-English translation), with the Russian Original Text Below it: Metropolitan Agafangel's Appeal    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:48 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original                                     *To all who receive this: PLEASE WIDELY SHARE THIS APPEAL WITH  AS MANY  AS YOU CAN!   AN APPEAL TO THOSE WHO ARE DEPARTING A new wave of disorders has befallen our Church. Two from among the bishops have declared that they are withdrawing from subordination to the First Hierarch, the Hierarchal Synod and the Council, that is, from the conciliar life of our Church. They declare that they are speaking out, for conciliarity, and they allege that in our Church there is no conciliarity. Yet they do not cite one actual fact of a violation or distortion of the conciliar order of our Church, inasmuch as the very existence of the God-established ecclesiastical order, the very fact that the Hierarchal Synods and Councils issue decrees and enactments, is in their understanding a violation of conciliarity.  Thus, they themselves strive for an imaginary “conciliarity” by unconciliar methods: by ignoring the opinion of other hierarchs and the opinion of their own flock, by pushing aside those who displease them and by uncanonically convening diocesan meetings (without elections of representatives from parishes at parish meetings), at which, declarations are adopted ostensibly in the name of the whole diocese, and along with all this, by boycotting the plea of the First Hierarch and the Secretary of the Synod to meet and to discuss the prevailing situation.  By his declaration of non-subordination to the Hierarchal Council and the Synod, contrary to the agreement reached in the presence of representatives of the TOC [True Orthodox Church] of Greece, and likewise by his announcement concerning the convening of an unauthorized assembly (under the name of an “All-Diaspora Council”), Archbishop Andronik, together with those not desiring to be subordinate to the ecclesiastical canons and the traditions of the Russian Church Abroad, has in fact, according to Basil the Great’s definition, announced the creation of a parasynagogue under his leadership.* According to the instructions of the Holy Fathers, an unauthorized assembly, standing a step away from schism, is just the same as a schism, a falling away from the Church and her saving grace. Moreover, a parasynagogue cannot convene an All-Diaspora Council since, in accordance with Paragraph 12 of the Regulations of the ROCA, “In case of special need, the First Hierarch, together with the Hierarchal Synod, may convene an All-Diaspora Church Council, consisting of bishops and representatives of the clergy and laity. The enactments of such All-Diaspora Councils take legal effect and are carried out only upon their ratification by the Council of Bishops under the presidency of the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, which takes place at the same time or immediately after the conclusion of the All-Diaspora Church Council.” By no other way may an All-Diaspora Council be convened and its decisions take effect. The question remains open as to what namely is guiding the new schismatics: the realization of their lust for power by any means, or only the coercion of other hierarchs with the aim of obtaining their agreement for the formation of a new “schism” under their leadership. Most likely both – whichever succeeds. There is no doubt that the work of destroying the Russian Church Abroad continues without interruption for even a minute, which work began at the moment of her founding in 1920, the main stages of which were the Platonite (1926), Eulogian (1927) and Sergian (2007) schisms, as well as a multitude of petty – if one may speak thus – individual schisms. That which is occurring today before our eyes is, without a doubt, the devil’s ongoing warfare with the Church of Christ. Therefore, I would like for the clergy and parishioners whom they are now attempting by falsehood to lead into schism,  to hear me. Stop! Do not participate in a schism of the Russian Church! Our confession and the faithfulness of each one of us to Christ now consists namely in this. If you do not see heresy – do not follow the schismatics who are drawing your souls into perdition! My duty, as First Hierarch, is to warn the flock of danger. “Who hath ears to hear, let him hear” (Matthew 13:43). First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad + Metropolitan Agafangel 17/30 August 2016, Martyr Myron the Presbyter ____________ * A parasynagogue (Greek, παρασυναγωγή – an unauthorized assembly) is a form of deviation from Orthodoxy, differing from schism and heresy in that it does not touch on matters of doctrine, but is the result of a violation of ecclesiastical and hierarchal discipline – disobedience to the God-established hierarchy. “The ancients…called unauthorized assemblies those meetings consisting of insubordinate presbyters or bishops and uneducated laity. For example, someone who, having been accused of a sin and having been removed from the sacred ministry, did not submit to the canons, but himself held on to his position and the sacred ministry, and certain others who deviated with him” (First Canonical Epistle of St. Basil the Great to Amphilochius of Iconium). ОБРАЩЕНИЕ К ОТСТУПАЮЩИМ Новая волна нестроений обрушилась на нашу Церковь. Двое из числа епископов заявили, что выходят из подчинения Первоиерарху, Архиерейскому Синоду и Собору, то есть, из соборной жизни нашей Церкви. Они заявляют, что выступают за соборность и утверждают, что в нашей Церкви соборности нет. При этом не приводят ни одного действительного факта нарушения или искажения соборного строя нашей Церкви, поскольку в их понимании нарушением соборности является само наличие Богоустановленного церковного строя, сам факт того, что Архиерейские Синоды и Соборы издают Указы и Постановления. При этом сами они добиваться мнимой «соборности» несоборными методами. Игнорируя мнение других архиереев и мнение собственной паствы, отстраняя неугодных и некононически созывая епархиальные собрания (без выборов представителей от приходов на приходских собраниях), на которых принимаются заявления, якобы, от имени всей епархии. При этом организуя бойкот призыву Первоиерарха и Секретаря Синода встретиться и обсудить сложившееся положение.  Своим заявлением о неподчинении Архиерейскому Собору и Синоду, вопреки достигнутому соглашению в присутствии представителей ИПЦ Греции, а также объявлением о созыве самочинного сборища (под именем «Всезарубежного Собора»), Архиепископ Андроник, вместе с нежелающими подчиняться церковным правилам и традициям Русской Зарубежной Церкви, по определению Василия Великого, фактически заявил о создании парасинагоги под своим возглавлением.* По указанию Святых Отцов самочинное сборище, стоящее в шаге от раскола, есть такое же, как и раскол, отпадение от Церкви и ее спасительной благодати. К тому же, парасинагога не может созывать Всезарубежный Собор, поскольку, в соответствие с Параграфом 12, Положения о РПЦЗ: «В случае особой надобности Первоиерарх вместе с Архиерейским Синодом созывают Всезарубежный Церковный Собор, состоящий из епископов и представителей клира и мирян. Постановления таких Всезарубежных Церковных Соборов имеют законную силу и приводятся в исполнение только по утверждении их Собором Епископов под председательством Первоиерарха Русской Православной Церкви Заграницей, происходящим одновременно или непосредственно по окончании Всезарубежного Церковного Собора». Никаким иным способом Всезарубежный Собор не созывается и его решения не вступают в силу. Остается открытым вопрос, что именно руководит новыми раскольниками: реализация своего властолюбия любым способом, или только шантаж других архиереев с целью добиться их согласия на образование нового «расколка» под их возглавлением? Скорее всего, то и другое – как удастся. Не вызывает сомнений то, что продолжается непрерываемое ни на минуту дело разрушения Русской Зарубежной Церкви, начатое с момента ее основания в 1920 году, этапами которого были расколы Платоновский (1926г.), Евлогианский (1927г.), Сергианский (2007г.), а также множество мелких, если так можно сказать, частных расколов. То, что происходит сегодня на наших глазах, без сомнений, есть продолжающаяся война диавола с Церковью Христовой. Поэтому, я желал бы, чтобы меня услышали священнослужители и прихожане, которых сейчас неправдой пытаются увести в раскол. Остановитесь, не участвуйте в расколе Русской Церкви! Именно в этом сейчас исповедничество и верность Христу каждого из нас. Если вы не видите ереси – не идите за раскольниками, увлекающими в погибель вашу душу! Мой долг, как Первоиерарха, предупредить паству об опасности. «Кто имеет уши слышать, да слышит!» (Мф 25.30).   Первоиерарх Русской Православной Церкви Заграницей + Митрополит Агафангел 17/30 августа 2016 года, муч. Мирона, пресвитера   ____________ * Парасинаго́га (греч. παρασυναγωγή – самочинное сборище) – форма отступления от Православия, отличная от раскола и ереси тем, что она совсем не касается вероисповедных вопросов, а есть результат нарушения церковной иерархической дисциплины – неповиновение Богоучрежденному священноначалию. «Древние… назвали самочинными сборищами – собрания, составляемые непокорными пресвитерами или епископами и ненаученным народом. Например, если кто, быв обличен во грехе, удален от священнослужения, не покорился правилам, а сам удержал за собою предстояние и священнослужение, и с ним отступили некоторые другие». (Свт. Василий Великий Первое Каноническое Послание к Амфилохию Иконийскому).

Transfiguration of the Lord, by Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

  BE AWARE:

  This item is a (deceitfully) modified world-orthodox version taken from a pro-MP website: 

http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/38739.htm

  The original sermon published in Orthodox Word issue #``117 July-August 1984:

http://startingontheroyalpath.blogspot.com/2011/05/transfiguration-of-our-lord-and-savior.html

  Eugene's lay sermons were written at the request of St. John S&SF who published them (in English) in the Joy of All Who Sorrow Church bulletin.  Later Platina collected them and published them in their Orthodox Word magazine (still claiming they had St. John's continued blessing to publish the magazine even after they left ROCOR).  Also, Platina collected the original sermons and published them in a book, Heavenly Realm, in 1984.  The book is, not surprisingly, out of print.  jh

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Sharing: Transfiguration of the Lord, by Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:51 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original   Forty days before He was delivered to an ignominious death for our sins, our Lord revealed to three of His disciples the glory of His Divinity. “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart; and was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light” (Matt. 17:1-2). This was the event to which our Lord was referring when He said, “There be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom” (Matt. 16:28). By this means the faith of the disciples was strengthened and prepared for the trial of our Lord’s approaching passion and death; and they were able to see in it not mere human suffering, but the entirely voluntary passion of the Son of God. The disciples saw also Moses and Elijah talking with our Lord, and thereby they understood that He was not Himself Elijah or another of the prophets, as some thought, but someone much greater: He Who could call upon the Law and the Prophets to be His witnesses, since He was the fulfillment of both. The three parables of the feast concern the appearance of God to Moses and Elijah on Mount Sinai, and it is indeed appropriate that the greatest God-seers of the Old Testament should be present at the glorification of the Lord in His New Testament, seeing for the first time His humanity, even as the disciples were seeing for the first time His Divinity. Orthodox theology sees in the Transfiguration a prefigurement of our Lord’s Resurrection and His Second Coming, and more than this—since every event of the Church calendar has an application to the individual spiritual life—of the transformed state in which Christians shall appear at the end of the world, and in some measure even before then. In the foreshadowing of future glory which is celebrated in this Feast, the Holy Church comforts her children by showing them that after the temporary sorrows and deprivations with which this earthly life is filled, the glory of eternal blessedness will shine forth; and in it even the body of the righteous will participate. It is a pious Orthodox custom to offer fruits to be blessed at this feast; and this offering of thanksgiving to God contains a spiritual sign, too. Just as fruits ripen and are transformed under the action of the summer sun, so is man called to a spiritual transfiguration through the light of God’s word by means of the Sacraments. Some saints, (for example - Saint Seraphim of Sarov), under the action of this life-giving grace, have shone bodily before men even in life with this same uncreated Light of God’s glory; and that is another sign to us of the heights to which we, as Christians, are called and the state that awaits us - to be transformed in the image of Him Who was transfigured on Mount Tabor.

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Another side of this suffering fallen creation: Animals helping other animals, and related videos-animals saving humans, etc.    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:10 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAk89nvLR8#t=275.7504351

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Readings for Sun Aug. 8/21,

General Sharing: Readings for Sun Aug. 8/21, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Tone 8 Afterfeast of the Transfiguration    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:35 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original The Tolga Mother of God Icon   From: Sbn. Ilarion Marr Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 07:47:06 -0400 Subject: Readings Sun Aug 21 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Tone 8 Afterfeast of the Transfiguration To: Prayer Before Reading Scripture:  O Lord Jesus Christ, open Thou the eyes of my heart, that I may hear Thy word and understand and do Thy will, for I am a sojourner upon the earth.  Hide not Thy commandments from me, but open mine eyes, that I may receive the wonders of Thy law.  Speak unto me the hidden and secret things of Thy wisdom.  On Thee do I set my hope, O my God, that Thou shalt enlighten my mind and understanding with the light of Thy knowledge, not only to cherish those things which are written, but to do them; that in reading the lives and sayings of the saints I may not sin, but that such may serve for my restoration, enlightenment and sanctification, for the salvation of my soul, and the inheritance of life everlasting.  For Thou art the enlightenment of those who lie in darkness, and from Thee cometh every good deed and every gift. Amen Saint John Chrysostom Troparion of the Resurrection. Eighth Tone . From on high didst Thou descend, O Compassionate One; to burial of three days hast Thou submitted that Thou mightest free us from our passions. O our Life and Resurrection, O Lord, glory be to Thee. Kontakion of the Resurrection. Eighth Tone. Having arisen from the tomb, Thou didst raise up the dead and didst resurrect Adam. Eve also danceth at Thy Resurrection, and the ends of the world celebrate Thine arising from the dead, O Greatly-merciful One. The Reading from the Epistle of Saint Paul to the :  I Corinthians 3:9-17   King James Version (KJV 1611) 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. The Holy Gospel according to: Saint Matthew 14:22-34 King James Version (KJV 1611) 22 And straightway Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship, and to go before Him unto the other side, while He sent the multitudes away. 23 And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, He was there alone. 24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. 25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. 27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. 28 And Peter answered Him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. 29 And He said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. 31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? 32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased. 33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped Him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God. 34 And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.