Sunday, January 25, 2015

Repose of good monk

A Memorial Sharing: The passage from this world of a good man - our loss, but Heaven's gain: Burial service for Monk Adrian (Baleva), in Sofia's Holy Dormition Cathedral

Burial service Adrian Monk (Balewa) in the Old Calendar Bulgarian

6/19 January 2015, the day of the Epiphany, after a serious illness passed into eternity Monk Adrian Monk (Balev) (Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church). Adrian Monk was born on September 8 ...

Funeral photos

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6/19 January 2015 , On the day of the Theophany, after a serious illness, has passed into eternity Monk Adrian (Baleva) in the Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Monk Adrian was born on September 8, 1968. As a young man, in the world he was named Romain, and he loved monasticism. At first he became a novice in the Shablonsky Monastery of St. John the Baptist, and then was tonsured a monk with the name Adrian. In life's circumstances where it provides a path for spiritual growth and builds the foundation of the human person, Monk Adrian showed a great conscientiousness and integrity. He served God and neighbor, and with compassion, as to him, it was the natural thing so to do. Monk Adrian daily cared for his spiritual brother - a monk Basil, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and who from his youth was confined to a wheelchair.

Two years ago, Father Adrian became terminally ill with cancer. He accepted this last earthly test of the monastic, the test which was to prepare him for his entry to eternal life. Holding constant prayer, Adrian Monk continued with hot love to take care of his first task, his neighbor, and then to care about himself.

May the Gracious God forgive the sins, voluntary and involuntary of the newly departed monk Adrian, and give rest to his soul in His heavenly abode - where there is no pain, no sorrow, but life everlasting.

Memory Eternal!

Thursday, January 22, 2015

ROCA bishop visits Sister Romania Church

ROCA: His Grace, Bishop Anthimus, Bishop of Cimislia in Moldova, visits our sister Romanian Old Calendar Church
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ROCA: His Grace, Anthimus , Bishop of Cimislia, visited the Old Calendar Romania Church. PHOTO SHOOT Author: Vera nun incl. January 22, 2015. Posted in Romanian Strarostilnaya Church

The visit of His Eminence Bishop Anthimus, Bishop of Cimislia, and Vicar of the Diocese of the ROCOR diocese of Kishinev, to the monastery of Slatioara of the Old Calendar Church of Romania.

Vladyka Glycerius met him.

The relics of Saint Glycerius the Confessor

At the meal

At the Nunnery of the Trinity, Metropolia of Slatioary

Abbess Feofania

At the holy relics of the Venerable, Paisius Velichkovsky:

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Winston Churchill on Islam

An excerpt from Winston Churchill’s book, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899):

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Funeral Photos Archpriest Vasily

The Burial of a Righteous Sufferer For Christ and Genuine Orthodoxy: MEMORY ETERNAL! Beloved Archpriest Vasily Demchenko!

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"Blessed is the man, who sits not in the council of the ungodly!"

"In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me not then be put to shame in the age to come!"

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ROCA: The Funeral and Burial of Archpriest Basil Demchenko (PHOTOS) at His Holy Virgin Protection, Malin Ukraine Church-

Archpriest Basil's funeral service began on January 21 at 12 pm. His burial was celebrated by Archpriest Nikolai Kovtach and Priests Andrei Trachuk and George Storozhitsky with a large crowd. Father Basil was buried in the churchyard, near his Pokrovsky temple, whose construction and adornment, he devoted a large part of his life and all of his resources. and which is close to his [ recently arson-burned] house. The local authorities and representatives of the MP decided not to prevent this burial, despite the fact that the authorization for it on the premises of the of the church, had not been received.
Eternal memory to the deceased Archpriest Basil!

P H O T O S ⬇

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