Holy Hieromartyr Pancratius
Dear Rocorrefugees,
Occasionally I meet someone who would like to get more involved in the Church, but I'm not sure what to do without any priest in the area. Any ideas?
In Christ,
[Guest 01]
Jul 24, 2009
Jul 22, 2009
Open Conspiracy Blue Prints
Guest 01 sends this:
1925 The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution by H.G. Welles
"The political world of the Open Conspiracy must weaken, efface, incorporate and supersede existing governments....The Open Conspiracy is the natural inheritor of socialist and communist enthusiasms; it may be in control of Moscow before it is in control of New York.... The character of the Open Conspiracy will now be plainly displayed.... It will be a world religion. This large loose assimilatory mass of groups and societies will be definitely and obviously attempting to swallow up the entire population of the world and become the new human community...."
RELATED BIOGRAPHY S.A. NILUS
1925 The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution by H.G. Welles
"The political world of the Open Conspiracy must weaken, efface, incorporate and supersede existing governments....The Open Conspiracy is the natural inheritor of socialist and communist enthusiasms; it may be in control of Moscow before it is in control of New York.... The character of the Open Conspiracy will now be plainly displayed.... It will be a world religion. This large loose assimilatory mass of groups and societies will be definitely and obviously attempting to swallow up the entire population of the world and become the new human community...."
RELATED BIOGRAPHY S.A. NILUS
Jul 8, 2009
Imaginary Canonical Independence
This is a Google translation of a clarifying timely explanation on an important subject composed by Fr. Victor Dobroff. Thank God for truth-tellers -jh
http://ruschurchabroad.com/080308.htm
In the V Vsezarubezhnogo Cathedral:
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On the imaginary kanonichnosti otkolkov RPTSZ,
About bezblagodatnosti Sacraments in the division after Vsezarubezhnogo V Cathedral and
The need for dialogue with Orthodox stray.
Priest Victor Dobrov.
Imaginary canonical independence, proclaimed by the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, like many other otkolkov Church Abroad, is based on the decision of bishops to withdraw from the subordination of foreign Synod by 15 th double of the Council Regulation... Read More ...
http://ruschurchabroad.com/080308.htm
In the V Vsezarubezhnogo Cathedral:
†
On the imaginary kanonichnosti otkolkov RPTSZ,
About bezblagodatnosti Sacraments in the division after Vsezarubezhnogo V Cathedral and
The need for dialogue with Orthodox stray.
Priest Victor Dobrov.
Imaginary canonical independence, proclaimed by the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, like many other otkolkov Church Abroad, is based on the decision of bishops to withdraw from the subordination of foreign Synod by 15 th double of the Council Regulation... Read More ...
Jul 7, 2009
Haiti Mission Update
Haitian Mission has 4 areas of financial need:
1. FEED THE STARVING CHILDREN
2. TUITION PLEDGES
3. CLASSROOM CONSTRUCTION
4. SPONSOR A CHILD
Read More ∞CLICK HERE∞
1. FEED THE STARVING CHILDREN
2. TUITION PLEDGES
3. CLASSROOM CONSTRUCTION
4. SPONSOR A CHILD
Read More ∞CLICK HERE∞
Jul 5, 2009
Video Interview Konstantin Preobrazhensky
IN ENGLISH
6/30
Konstantin Preobrezhensky - Author, describes his life as a former Lt. Colonel in the KGB who worked before, during, and after the fall of the Soviet Union. In his book, he describes Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), Russia and the Press, and his personal experiences. This is the first in a series. Look for more in the near future.
http://www.dailymotion.com/Gerard_Group/video/16349325
6/30
Konstantin Preobrezhensky - Author, describes his life as a former Lt. Colonel in the KGB who worked before, during, and after the fall of the Soviet Union. In his book, he describes Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), Russia and the Press, and his personal experiences. This is the first in a series. Look for more in the near future.
http://www.dailymotion.com/Gerard_Group/video/16349325
Fr. Elias Shares A Memory Today
Subject: St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:05:23 -0700
St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco (+1896-1966)
My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus!
May the Blessings of our Lord and the prayers of Saint John be with you!
I write on this day of great importance to us in the Church Abroad to relay a story that had a profound effect on me related to our Father among the Saints, St John.
I was visiting the San Francisco Cathedral as I had many times with the Holy Miraculous Icon of St. Nicholas. On Saturday afternoon they do a Molieben for the living and the reposed. I happen to be there that day and Vladyka, of thrice blessed memory, Anthony was doing the Molieben because the Icon was present.
At the end of the service Vladyka Anthony came up to me and asked in a pleading tone if St. John could venerate the Holy Icon. He barked something in Russian as he was sometimes known to do and sub-deacons, a deacon and two priests appeared, as did the faithful and the choir there gathered around. We went to the reliquary. Vladyka ordered it opened and he removed the cover from St. John’s face. I removed the Holy Icon from the kiot and handed it to Vladyka who then turned the Icon upside down placing it face to face with the Holy Relics, singing the Tropar of St. Nicholas, joined in by all there.
He then took the Holy Icon from the reliquary and handed it to me, it was pouring Holy Myrrh which was streaming everywhere as I hurried to return it to its kiot. Vladyka once again snapped something in Russian and red cloth napkins appeared from behind the Iconostasis and were use to soak up the Holy Myrrh.
Vladyka Anthony then turned to me with those eyes of a child that pierced your heart and said: “Isn’t the Lord Wondrous in His Saints?”
May the prayers of our Holy Father St. John intercede for us with our Gracious Lord!
In Christ Jesus,
V. Rev. Fr. Elias Warnke
Mission of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:05:23 -0700
St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco (+1896-1966)
My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus!
May the Blessings of our Lord and the prayers of Saint John be with you!
I write on this day of great importance to us in the Church Abroad to relay a story that had a profound effect on me related to our Father among the Saints, St John.
I was visiting the San Francisco Cathedral as I had many times with the Holy Miraculous Icon of St. Nicholas. On Saturday afternoon they do a Molieben for the living and the reposed. I happen to be there that day and Vladyka, of thrice blessed memory, Anthony was doing the Molieben because the Icon was present.
At the end of the service Vladyka Anthony came up to me and asked in a pleading tone if St. John could venerate the Holy Icon. He barked something in Russian as he was sometimes known to do and sub-deacons, a deacon and two priests appeared, as did the faithful and the choir there gathered around. We went to the reliquary. Vladyka ordered it opened and he removed the cover from St. John’s face. I removed the Holy Icon from the kiot and handed it to Vladyka who then turned the Icon upside down placing it face to face with the Holy Relics, singing the Tropar of St. Nicholas, joined in by all there.
He then took the Holy Icon from the reliquary and handed it to me, it was pouring Holy Myrrh which was streaming everywhere as I hurried to return it to its kiot. Vladyka once again snapped something in Russian and red cloth napkins appeared from behind the Iconostasis and were use to soak up the Holy Myrrh.
Vladyka Anthony then turned to me with those eyes of a child that pierced your heart and said: “Isn’t the Lord Wondrous in His Saints?”
May the prayers of our Holy Father St. John intercede for us with our Gracious Lord!
In Christ Jesus,
V. Rev. Fr. Elias Warnke
Mission of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Jul 4, 2009
Fearless Champion Of True Orthodoxy
The Inner Life of Christian asceticism and virtue must needs, in God's own time, be put to outward test, both so that the genuineness of the ascetic's spirituaity may be proved, and so that the Orthodox faithful may be benefited. Such a test came to Archbishop John at the end of the Second World War. In 1944 and 1945 the tyrant Stalin, both in order to pacify his subjects at home and to destroy the free Russian Church abroad and thus subjugate the Russian exiles, commanded the election of a "Patriarch" of his puppet church, and then sent his emissaries throughout the world to gain recognition for him. Nowhere was his campaign more thorough than in the Far East. A film was shown of the election of the "Patriarch" Alexy; glorious tales were spread of the completely changed situation in the USSR, especially as regards religious freedom; Russian patriotism was fully played upon; and full advantage was taken of the remoteness of Metropolitan Anastassy and the Synod of Bishops Abroad [in Western Europe], with whom the Far East had had no contact during all the war years. And so it was that many thousands of ordinary Russians and, sad to say, five out of the six hierarchs of the Russian Church Abroad in the Far East, were caught on Stalin's hook: they submitted to the Moscow Patriarchate and applied for Soviet Passports; a great many [including four of the hierarchs] returned to the Soviet Union and few were ever heard of again.
Vladyka John, however, despite intense pressures, threats of violence, and attempts to poison him, alone refused to take any decisive step until he had heard from Metropolitan Anastassy. Late in 1945 he did hear from him, learned that the Synod of Bishops Abroad still existed, and saw for himself the film on the election of "Pariarch" Alexy. As a result, he announced his faithfulness to the Synod to which he had given his oath of loyalty as bishop, and declared the "election" as presented in the film to be clearly uncanonical. With this Vladyka's situation became even more tense, causing the Orthodox youth to form a special guard which secretly followed Vladyka everywhere and frustrated the known plans the Soviets to kidnap him and place him aboard a Soviet ship. Finally, in the spring of 1946, Vladyka's immediate superior, Archbishop Victor of Peking, "removed" him from the See of Shanghai and forbade him to serve. Undaunted, upon hearing of his "interdiction" Vladyka John went to the Shanghai Cathedral, mounted the ambo, and announced: "I will obey this ukase only in case I be shown by Holy Scripture and by the laws of any country, that oath-breaking is a virtue and faithfulness to one's oath is a terrible sin;" and he served the Divine Liturgy in defiance of the interdiction of the uncanonical authority. The faithful rallied behind him, and thus, proving by his confession the genuineness of his personal sanctity, he singlehandedly saved 6000 believers from Soviet concentration camps and from the subtle deceit and soul-destroying error of "Sergianism." Thus he earned the bitter hatred of the Moscow Patriarchate, whose "Journal" labelled his courageous stand for truth "the schism of vicar John Maximovitch" -- thus placing him in the glorious line of Metr. Joseph and the confessors of 127!
from:
Blessed John
St. Herman Press
1979
Chapter 7 pp. 76, 77
Vladyka John, however, despite intense pressures, threats of violence, and attempts to poison him, alone refused to take any decisive step until he had heard from Metropolitan Anastassy. Late in 1945 he did hear from him, learned that the Synod of Bishops Abroad still existed, and saw for himself the film on the election of "Pariarch" Alexy. As a result, he announced his faithfulness to the Synod to which he had given his oath of loyalty as bishop, and declared the "election" as presented in the film to be clearly uncanonical. With this Vladyka's situation became even more tense, causing the Orthodox youth to form a special guard which secretly followed Vladyka everywhere and frustrated the known plans the Soviets to kidnap him and place him aboard a Soviet ship. Finally, in the spring of 1946, Vladyka's immediate superior, Archbishop Victor of Peking, "removed" him from the See of Shanghai and forbade him to serve. Undaunted, upon hearing of his "interdiction" Vladyka John went to the Shanghai Cathedral, mounted the ambo, and announced: "I will obey this ukase only in case I be shown by Holy Scripture and by the laws of any country, that oath-breaking is a virtue and faithfulness to one's oath is a terrible sin;" and he served the Divine Liturgy in defiance of the interdiction of the uncanonical authority. The faithful rallied behind him, and thus, proving by his confession the genuineness of his personal sanctity, he singlehandedly saved 6000 believers from Soviet concentration camps and from the subtle deceit and soul-destroying error of "Sergianism." Thus he earned the bitter hatred of the Moscow Patriarchate, whose "Journal" labelled his courageous stand for truth "the schism of vicar John Maximovitch" -- thus placing him in the glorious line of Metr. Joseph and the confessors of 127!
from:
Blessed John
St. Herman Press
1979
Chapter 7 pp. 76, 77
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Jul 3, 2009
ROCIE Was Started By Agents
In a recent comment on Vladyka Agafangel's blog I see for the first time confirmation of my suspicion that ROCIE was created by agents. The purpose was to first draw out those who would oppose the union, and then to render them ineffective at persuading others by labeling them as fanatics and schismatics. The Google translation is very rough, but the meaning still comes through. -jh
IEROM. Dionis Alferova suffered ...
(Anonymous)
2009-06-19 09:53 am UTC (link)
... In order to finally defeat RPTSZ, the KGB conducted an excellent operation in two stages.
The first phase - the creation in 2001, a front Mansovnivilskogo Synod, led by the patients and inadequate Metropolitan. Vitali, where they must go all the opponents of the Moscow Patriarchate. And then they push it in Mansonville lbami that subsequently occurred. It was a step in the neutralization RPTSZ, that opponents of Grizlov between themselves and not to hinder the church ship on reefs, where there was a Soviet «Mother of the Church». Inadequate Metropolitan. Vitali has successfully done for years with the help of appropriate medicines. Then, many with their own eyes could see the sad result of such a mountain of treatment.
The second phase - that is, with the Moscow Patriarchate in 2007.
The third stage, the final will be in 2012, which expire 5 years of IP data. After that it will be a totally different conversation with those who are in zarubezhnikami patriarhiynyh paws. A few parishes in the Russian Federation RPTSZ outlaw and destroy, as it was already in the history of the Soviet Union more than once. ...
Fraud and Lying in ROCIE
This is a letter that Fr. Spyridon Schneider wrote to a Fr. Deacon John in November 2007. It is a glimpse into a living nightmare. -jh
From: frdeaconjohn@earthlink.net [mailto:frdeaconjohn@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 7:06 PM
To: Fr Spyridon Schneider; Fr John Somers
Subject: Concerning recent posts
Fr Spyridon, Bless.
Fr Dcn John,
Dear Fathers,
It is my Holy Obedience, given by Bp Vladimir, to remove the both of you from participating anymore on the ROCElaity list. Bp Vladimir was concerned that the both of you have been addressing your concerns and beliefs to the ROCElaity group and not to him. He said that there has not been any recent communication from the both of you with these concerns that needed to be addressed by him.
Fr Spyridon. Bp Vladimir told me that upon your receiving into ROCE last year, he verbally asked you not to write anything about the Church, and that you had agreed to abide with that obedience.
If either of you have any questions, please address them to Bp Vladimir.
In Christ,
Fr Dcn John Kochergin
PS - Mat Nina and Fr Andrew, as co-owner and moderator, respectively, will be made aware of this change.
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October 26/November 8, 2007
Dear in Christ, Fr. Deacon John,
May God Bless you! It is very important for you to know that I am not offended or hurt in any way by your participation in this matter.
Instead, my heart goes out to you with deep sympathy and love knowing that you have been unwittingly drawn into efforts to block honest communication between faithful Orthodox Christians who love the Holy Church with all their heart and who also believe that ROCiE has embarked on a dangerous course of canonical anarchy and isolation.
However, what is most disturbing of all, is that you have been unknowingly drawn into blocking my participation on the ROCiE Laity list on the basis of false pretense.
Bishop Vladimir received Father Christopher Johnson and me into ROCiE at the same time without any conditions whatsoever. Bishop Vladimir never asked me to “not to write anything about the Church”, he never gave me an obedience “not to write anything about the Church” and I never agreed to abide by such an obedience. These are facts and Holy Obedience to the bishop cannot cover them. ... READ MORE ...
About Fr. Spirydon Schneider: http://news-nftu.blogspot.com/2008/06/fr-spyridon-schneider-finds-home-again.html
From: frdeaconjohn@earthlink.net [mailto:frdeaconjohn@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 7:06 PM
To: Fr Spyridon Schneider; Fr John Somers
Subject: Concerning recent posts
Fr Spyridon, Bless.
Fr Dcn John,
Dear Fathers,
It is my Holy Obedience, given by Bp Vladimir, to remove the both of you from participating anymore on the ROCElaity list. Bp Vladimir was concerned that the both of you have been addressing your concerns and beliefs to the ROCElaity group and not to him. He said that there has not been any recent communication from the both of you with these concerns that needed to be addressed by him.
Fr Spyridon. Bp Vladimir told me that upon your receiving into ROCE last year, he verbally asked you not to write anything about the Church, and that you had agreed to abide with that obedience.
If either of you have any questions, please address them to Bp Vladimir.
In Christ,
Fr Dcn John Kochergin
PS - Mat Nina and Fr Andrew, as co-owner and moderator, respectively, will be made aware of this change.
*
October 26/November 8, 2007
Dear in Christ, Fr. Deacon John,
May God Bless you! It is very important for you to know that I am not offended or hurt in any way by your participation in this matter.
Instead, my heart goes out to you with deep sympathy and love knowing that you have been unwittingly drawn into efforts to block honest communication between faithful Orthodox Christians who love the Holy Church with all their heart and who also believe that ROCiE has embarked on a dangerous course of canonical anarchy and isolation.
However, what is most disturbing of all, is that you have been unknowingly drawn into blocking my participation on the ROCiE Laity list on the basis of false pretense.
Bishop Vladimir received Father Christopher Johnson and me into ROCiE at the same time without any conditions whatsoever. Bishop Vladimir never asked me to “not to write anything about the Church”, he never gave me an obedience “not to write anything about the Church” and I never agreed to abide by such an obedience. These are facts and Holy Obedience to the bishop cannot cover them. ... READ MORE ...
About Fr. Spirydon Schneider: http://news-nftu.blogspot.com/2008/06/fr-spyridon-schneider-finds-home-again.html
Jul 2, 2009
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The Kremlin's Religious Crusade
By: Ion Mihai Pacepa
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, June 30, 2009
http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35388
By: Ion Mihai Pacepa
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, June 30, 2009
http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35388
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