Thursday, May 30, 2013

Soviet and Modern Civilization

(Russian and English): Fr. George Edelstein "Soviet and Modern Civilization" – of the ROC-MP

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Священник Георгий Эдельштейн. СОВЕТСКАЯ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯ И СОВРЕМЕННАЯ РПЦ МП. Доклад на круглом столе ИНИОН РАН и редакции журнала "Посев"

1. Мы живём в мире политических шулеров и напёрсточников, в мире всевозможных видов обмана, в мире лжеименных сущностей, где слова не соответствуют именуемой действительности.
Семьдесят лет назад коммунистический агитпроп возродил в Совдепии атрибутику императорской России. Армейские командиры и комиссары в пыльных шлемах были переодеты в мундиры с золотыми погонами. Переодеты были прокуроры, железнодорожники, пожарные, лесничие, учащиеся средних школ. Наркоматы переименовали в министерства, наркомов в министров, а комкоров и комдивов – в генералов.
Естественно, Сталин, Берия, Каганович, Жуков, Вышинский остались теми же коммуняками в тех же должностных креслах, но государственники, "патриоты России", не только в Совдепии, но и в эмиграции увидели в переодевании и переименовании "подлинное возрождение Великой России". Таким же декоративным, естественно, было и "возрождение" Православной Церкви в сентябре 1943 г. (правда, тоже переименованной). Но и здесь смена декораций приветствовалась "патриотами" с энтузиазмом.
Трюки фокусников советского цирка успешно продолжаются и в XXI веке. Мы добровольно приняли навязанный нам нынешним агитпропом язык Нового Волшебного Изумрудного Города. Теперь у нас есть "губернаторы", "Государственная Дума", "сенат" и "сенаторы", "многопартийная система", а "Церковь отделена от государства". Нетрудно понять, что всё это – слова-обманки, не соответствующие именуемой реальности, но "тьмы низких истин нам дороже нас возвышающий обман". И, главное, совесть меньше беспокоит: не мы себе лгали, а они нас обманули. Значит, и не виноваты, значит, и каяться не в чем. Ни вчера, ни сегодня.
2. Таким же лжеименным термином является "советская цивилизация": она никогда не была советской, она всегда была анти-цивилизацией в общепринятом значении слова.Слово "советский" весь ХХ век являлось политкорректным эквивалентом слова "коммунистический" ("большевистский"). "Вся власть Советам!" было точно таким же лживым лозунгом, как "Мир народам!", "Земля крестьянам!", "Фабрики рабочим!", "Хлеб голодным!"
Термин "Советское информбюро" всегда обозначал "Агентство коммунистической агитации и пропаганды". То же самое - "советская власть", "СССР", "совхоз" и т.д. Единицами Новояза были "борьба за мир", "народная демократия", "дружба народов", "газета "Правда" и т.п.
Советская цивилизация единосущна цивилизации национал-социалистической (в просторечии – фашистской, гитлеровской). Известно, что русские эмигранты-фашисты (А. Вонсяцкий, К. Родзиевский) единодушно приветствовали систему Совдепии, созданную И. Сталиным (Кстати, именно по той системе, по той "стабильности", "морали" и "порядку", тоскуют нынче все наши государственники, именующие себя "христианами", "патриотами" и т.д.): "Сталинизм и есть то самое, что мы ошибочно назвали российским фашизмом. Это наш Российский фашизм, очищенный от крайностей, иллюзий и заблуждений".
Советская цивилизация (равно как и фашистская) противостоит христианской цивилизации по всему фронту.
Советская цивилизация – это цивилизация вечного и неизменного триумфализма. Это огромный оркестр, который состоит из одних только барабанов, литавр, фанфар (Наш мудрый (великий) Ленин, Сталин, Фюрер, Мао, Партия etc, etc нас от победы к победе ведёт. Или "к торжеству коммунизма, или ещё в какой-то рай на земле ведёт).Советская (фашистская) цивилизация не знает сомнений, ибо не совершает ошибок (исповедает догмат партийной безошибочности, чаще именуемый догматом непогрешимости Партии или Фюрера). Как писал А.К. Толстой, "знай прёт вперёд, напролом идёт, давит встречного-поперечного".
В лексиконе советской (фашистсткой) цивилизации нет слова "прости" или каких-либо его эквивалентов, она не ведает ни раскаяния, ни покаяния. Советскому человеку (равно как и его родной Коммунистической Партии) никогда не было и никогда не будет стыдно ни за что: ни за Катынь, ни за Голодомор, ни за пакт с Гитлером, ни за сталинскую войну на уничтожение, ни за Северную Корею.
Советская цивилизация построена на постулате: "Если враг не сдаётся – его уничтожают" (впрочем, если сдаётся, тоже желательно уничтожить чуть погодя: ведь – враг).
Советская цивилизация считает себя (правда, иными словами) "тысячелетним Рейхом", венцом многовекового поступательного развития всей человеческой истории.И необходимо ясно осознать, советская цивилизация неизменно представляла и представляет смертельную угрозу христианской цивилизации. Ибо коммунизм и национал-социализм - движения сатанинские. В своей знаменитой "Фултонской речи" в марте 1946 г. Уинстон Черчилль предостерегал весь цивилизованный мир: "Далеко от России действует пятая колонна коммунизма, представляющая растущую угрозу для мира и всей христианской цивилизации".
К сожалению, даже Черчилль вольно или невольно принял Совдепию за Россию. Бессмысленно доказывать, что за всю свою 1000-летнюю историю Россия никогда не представляла угрозы для христианской цивилизации: она была её неотъемлемой частью, она приняла христианство как иудео-эллинское, византийское, а не иудео-римское, католическое, наследие. Но это две части единого целого ("И будут два в плоть едину", - как свидетельствует Писание по другому поводу).
Теория и практика ленинского комсомола, китайских хунвейбинов, камбоджийских красных кхмеров, молодёжных формирований Северной Кореи (равно как и теория и практика формирований СС и отрядов "Гитлерюгенд") служит неопровержимым доказательством их антихристианской сущности.
Одним из лучших символов советской цивилизации, мне кажется, является картина Кустодиева "Большевик": тупой, злобный пролетарий с огромным кроваво-красным знаменем в руках, сметая и растаптывая всё на своём пути, прёт, словно танк, на Церковь. В данном конкретном случае – православную.
3. Всероссийская Смута, которая началась в 1917 г. и которая породила "советскую цивилизацию", поставила своей главнейшей целью погубить дело Христа. Желательно – во всём мире, но для начала можно в одной отдельно взятой стране.
Уже в самом начале 1918 г. отцами Поместного Собора во всеуслышание было сказано, что Смуту затеяли и осуществляют изверги рода человеческого, что задача их – сатанинская, что явные и тайные враги истины Христовой воздвигли гонение на эту истину.
Мы не изжили ту большевицкую смуту и сегодня, в 2013 г. Страна, в которой мы живём, уже не Совдепия, но она ещё далеко и не Россия. И мы все, люди, живущие в ней, далеко не христиане. Коммуняки убили выстрелом в затылок то ли миллион, то ли два, то ли три. Но они убили своей агитацией и пропагандой ещё сто пятьдесят, двести или триста миллионов. Все мы причастились сего сатанинского агнца, он вошёл в нашу плоть и кровь, в наши души, сердца, разум ("И вот, наглотавшись татарщины всласть, вы Русью её назовёте"). 80 лет назад Г. Федотов писал в статье "О национальном покаянии": "Восстановление России, мыслимой как национальное и культурное единство, невозможно без восстановления в ней христианства, без возвращения её к христианству как основе её душевно-духовного мира… Без религии – это не нация, а человеческое месиво, глина, из которой можно лепить всё, что угодно. Почему Россия – христианская Россия – забыла о покаянии? Я говорю о покаянии национальном, конечно. Были ли когда-нибудь христианское поколение, христианский народ, которые бы перед лицом исторических катастроф не видели в них карающей руки, не сводили счёты со своей совестью? На другой день после татарского погрома русские проповедники и книжники, оплакивая погибшую Русь, обличали её грехи… Жозеф де Местр видел в революции суд Божий. А в православной России не нашлось пророческого обличающего голоса, который показал бы нашу вину в нашей гибели. Это бесчувствие национальной совести само по себе является самым сильным симптомом болезни".
Советская (т.е. коммунистическая) цивилизация и христианская цивилизация диаметрально противоположны друг другу. Об этом недвусмысленно было сказано ещё в 1927 году в "Соловецком послании": "При таком глубоком расхождении в самых основах миросозерцания между Церковью и государством не может быть никакого внутреннего сближения или примирения, как невозможно примирение между положением и отрицанием, между да и нет, потому что душою Церкви, условием её бытия и смыслом её существования является то самое, что категорически отрицает коммунизм".
Митрополит Сергий (Страгородский) и его сторонники сознательно пошли по пути сближения противоположностей, да и нет, света и тьмы, положения и отрицания. "Декларация о радостях" была неправдой, не отвечающей достоинству Церкви и при том бесцельной и ни для кого не убедительной. Как, впрочем, и всё остальное, что сказал, написал (или только подписал) митрополит Сергий в последующие годы своей жизни.
Пример митрополита Сергия, казалось, подтверждал доктрину коммунистов, что кадры решают всё. Шаг за шагом сатанисты добивались возможности назначать в Русской Православной Церкви всех – от Верховного (по их мнению) Главнокомандующего (Святейшего Патриарха) до любого старшины и даже ефрейтора. Последний акт о безоговорочной капитуляции РПЦ МП единогласно и единодушно подписан всеми нашими епископами – участниками Архиерейского совещания, именуемого даже Собором, в день памяти игумена всея Руси преподобного Сергия в июле 1961 года.Сатанисты ликовали. Победа казалась им совсем близкой, стоит только руку протянуть. Поражение врага, чего безуспешно добивались много веков – неизбежным. Их тогдашний главарь торжественно объявил urbi et orbi, что вот-вот покажет по телевизору последнего попа. Главарь был человеком невежественным, он, полагаю, никогда не читал Ю. Самарина, писавшего, что Церковь есть Тело Христово, а не тело духовенства или России. Извести всех попов, допускаю, можно, но одолеть Христа и Его Церковь – руки коротки.
4. Существующая сегодня в РПЦ МП ситуация на первый взгляд кажется парадоксальной. Все без исключения ныне здравствующие епископы – беззаветные сергианцы. Они, пожалуй, верны заветам Отца-Основателя твёрже, чем сам митрополит Сергий. "Мы с нашим народом и нашим Правительством". Каким бы этот народ и это правительство ни были.
Советский народ – народ-победитель, народ-триумфатор, ему не в чем каяться. И советскому правительству – не в чем. И советским священнослужителям-сергианцам абсолютно не в чем.
Благодаря мудрому руководству И. Сталина советский народ 68 лет назад одержал историческую Победу в Великой Отечественной войне.
Торжества, парады и салюты в день Победы 9 мая из года в год становятся всё грандиознее, всё помпезнее.
Благодаря мудрому руководству Великого Кормчего митрополита Сергия корабль РПЦ МП благополучно миновал и Сциллу, и Харибду "70-летнего Вавилонского пленения". В чём прикажете каяться?
Фотографии Его Святейшества в ежегодных календарях Московской патриархии всё многочисленнее, всё красочнее, всё торжественнее. Но со дня окончания пресловутого "Вавилонского пленения" прошло не менее 25 лет (1988-2013), четверть века, но ни один епископ РПЦ МП не сказал за все годы ни одного живого слова ни на одном Поместном или Архиерейском соборе. Как бедные семинаристы будут сдавать экзамены по истории этих безликих "соборов"? Сессии Верховного Совета и пленумы Коммунистической Партии были, пожалуй, живее.
Юридически Церковь у нас отделена от государства. Поэтому в Богослужении даже красных попов-обновленцев не было молений за гражданскую власть. Но митрополит Сергий, естественно, был краснее всех красных. Со дня опубликования "Декларации о радостях" и по сей день, по май 2013 г., мы игнорируем "Соловецкое послание", мы игнорируем требование всех Новомучеников и Исповедников Российских антисергианцев – "отменить распоряжение о возношении за Богослужением молений за гражданскую власть". Никто сегодня не заикнётся.
Даже вопрос о названии нашей Церкви, даже вопрос о титуле первоиерарха никогда нигде не обсуждался. Святитель Тихон был Патриархом всея России, а Сергий стал "всея Руси". Мы не тихоновцы, мы все – сергиане.
Многолетний оппонент Георгия Федотова И.А. Ильин ещё более однозначно и настойчиво требовал отказаться от любой формы соучастия в дьявольской цивилизации: "Итак, русский народ нуждается в покаянии и очищении. Десятки лет суще-диавольского большевизма – уже очистили одних и затоптали в гряз других. И вот, очистившиеся должны помочь неочистившимся восстановить в себе живую христианскую совесть, веру в силу добра, верное чутьё ко злу, чувство чести и способность к верности. Без этого Россию не возродить и величия её не воссоздать. Без этого русское государство, после неминуемого падения большевизма, расползётся в хлябь и в грязь. И напрасно кто-нибудь стал бы утверждать, что этот процесс стал возможным и даже уже начался после предательского конкордата между большевиками и так называемой "патриаршей церковью". Этот конкордат мог только запереть те священные двери, которые ведут в глубину души к слезному покаянию и волевому очищению. Чудовищно предлагать русскому человеку доверие к чекистам и получекистам! Растленно думать и говорить о том, что таинство покаяния может совершаться перед антихристом. Бессмысленно тешить себя иллюзиями нравственного очищения перед "предстоящим" и победоносным диаволом. Покаяние есть установление священной и чистой связи с Господом, а не с сатаною и его (безразлично верными или неверными) слугами".
Без покаяния ни Церковь, ни Россию не возродить. Барабаны, парады и салюты только усугубляют духовное растление.

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THOUGHTS: Rev. George Edelstein. SOVIET AND MODERN CIVILIZATION ROC. Presentation at the roundtable INION and the magazine "Sowing"

1. We live in a world of political cheats and thimblerigger, in the world of all kinds of deception in the world of what is falsely called entities, where the words do not match called reality.

Seventy years ago, the communist agitprop revived in the Land of Soviets attributes of imperial Russia. Army commanders and commissars in dusty helmets were disguised in uniforms with gold epaulets. Prosecutors were disguised, railroad workers, firefighters, foresters, students of secondary schools. Commissariats renamed the Ministry of People's Commissars to the ministers, and corps commanders and division commanders - in the generals.

Of course, Stalin, Beria, Kaganovich, Zhukov, Wyszynski commies have remained the same for the same job chairs, but statesmen, "Patriots of Russia", not only in the Land of Soviets, but also in exile in disguise and saw the renaming of "genuine revival of Great Russia." In the same decorative, of course, was and "rebirth" of the Orthodox Church in September 1943 (but also renamed). But here, a change of scenery was welcomed by "patriots" with enthusiasm.

Tricks of the Soviet circus jugglers successfully continue in the XXI century. We volunteered to take us to the imposed current agitprop language of the New Magic of Oz. Now we have a "governor", "Duma", "Senate" and "senators", "party system" and "the Church is separated from the state." It is not difficult to understand that all of this - the word-l'oeil not meeting called reality, but "the darkness of low truths dearer to us than our uplifting deception." And, most importantly, the conscience less concerned: we do not currently have lied and they cheated us. Hence, not guilty, hence, nothing to repent. Either yesterday or today.

2. The same term is what is falsely called "Soviet civilization": it has never been Soviet, it has always been anti-civilization in the conventional sense of the word. 

word "Soviet" the whole of the twentieth century was the politically correct equivalent of the word "communist" ("Bolshevik"). "All power to the Soviets!" it was exactly the same false slogan like "World peoples," "Land to the Peasants," "Factory workers," "Bread hungry!"

The term "Soviet Information Bureau" has always meant "Agency communist agitation and propaganda." The same thing - "Soviet power", "USSR", "farm", etc. The units of Newspeak had been "fighting for peace", "people's democracy", "friendship of peoples", "newspaper" Pravda ", etc.
Soviet Civilization consubstantial civilization of the National Socialist (colloquially - Nazi, Hitler). It is known that Russian emigre fascists (A. Vonsiatsky K. Rodzievsky) Council of Deputies unanimously welcomed the system created by Stalin (By the way, on that system, for the "stability", "morality" and "order" yearn now all our statesmen, who call themselves "Christians" and "patriotic", etc.), "Stalinism is the very thing that we mistakenly called Russian fascism. This is our Russian Fascism cleansed of extremes, illusions and delusions."

Soviet civilization (and fascist) confronts Christian civilization across the front.
Soviet civilization - a civilization that is eternal and unchanging triumphalism. This is a huge orchestra, which consists of nothing but drums, timpani, trumpets (Our wise (the great), Lenin, Stalin, Fuhrer, Mao, Party etc, etc us from victory to victory leads. Or "the triumph of communism, or even in what- it is a paradise on earth). 

Sovetskaya (fascist) civilization knows no doubt, because they do not make mistakes (confess dogma of infallibility of the party, often referred to as the dogma of the infallibility of the Party or the Fuhrer.) AK Tolstoy wrote, "Know rushing forward, go ahead , pushing the counter-cross. "

In the lexicon of the Soviet (fashiststkoy) civilization, not the word "sorry" or any of its equivalents, she knows neither remorse nor repentance. Soviet man (and his own Communist Party) has never been and will never be ashamed for anything, neither for Katyn, nor for the Holodomor, not for the pact with Hitler or Stalin for a war of annihilation, not for North Korea.

The Soviet civilization is built on the premise: "If the enemy does not give up - he must be destroyed" (however, if the rent, too, it is desirable to destroy a little later: after all - the enemy).
Soviet civilization finds itself (though, in other words) "thousand-year Reich", the crown of the centuries-old progressive development of human history.

And we need to clearly understand that the Soviet civilization has always represented and represents a mortal threat to Christian civilization. For Communism and National Socialism - the satanic movement. In his famous "Fulton speech" in March 1946, Winston Churchill warned the entire civilized world: "Far from acting Russian fifth column of communism, represents a growing threat to the world and the Christian civilization."

Unfortunately, even Churchill wittingly or unwittingly adopted the Council of Deputies of Russia. It makes no sense to argue that their entire 1000 year old Russian has never posed a threat to Christian civilization: it was an integral part of it, she was baptized as a Judeo-Hellenistic, Byzantine, not the Judeo-Roman, Catholic, a legacy. But these are two parts of a whole ("And the two will become one flesh" - as Scripture testifies on another occasion).

Theory and practice of the Leninist Young Communist League, the Chinese Red Guards, the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, youth formations of North Korea (as well as the theory and practice of formations and units of the SS "Hitler Youth") serves as irrefutable proof of their anti-Christian spirit.
One of the best symbols of Soviet civilization, it seems to me, is a painting by Kustodiev "Bolshevik": dumb, angry proletarian with a huge blood-red flag in his hands, sweeping and trampling everything in their path, rushing like a tank, at the church. In this particular case - the Orthodox.

3. National Troubles, which began in 1917 and which gave rise to the "Soviet civilization" has put its chief aim to destroy the work of Christ. Desirable - all over the world, but for now you can in a single country.

Already at the beginning of 1918 the fathers of the Local Council has publicly stated that the Troubles have started and carried monsters of the human race that their task - Satan that overt and covert enemies of the truth of Christ and raised persecution against this truth.

We have not got rid of the other Bolshevik turmoil today, in 2013 Country in which we live is not Sovdepiia, but it is still far away and not Russia. And we, the people living in it, not Christians. Commies shot in the back of the head whether a million, or two, or three. But they killed their agitation and propaganda of a hundred and fifty, two hundred or three hundred million. We all partook of this satanic lamb, he came into our flesh and blood, our soul, heart, mind ("And now, having swallowed Tatarism heart's content, you call her Rus"). 80 years ago Fedotov wrote in the article "On the national repentance": "Restoration of Russia, conceivable as a national and cultural unity is impossible without the restoration in it of Christianity, without returning it to Christianity as the basis of her soul and spirit of the world ... without religion - is not a nation, and the human mess, clay, from which you can sculpt anything. Why Russia - Russian Christian - forget about repentance? I'm talking about national repentance, of course. Were there ever a Christian generation, the Christian people who would face face of historic disasters have not seen them in avenging hand, do not settle scores with his conscience? On the day after the massacre of the Tatar Russian preachers and teachers of the law, mourning the dead Russ, denounced her sins ... Joseph de Maistre saw a revolution in the judgment of God. And in Orthodox Russia is not there was a prophetic voice condemning that would show our guilt in our demise. Indifference is the national conscience itself is the strongest symptom of the disease. "

Soviet (ie Communist) civilization and the Christian civilization diametrically opposed to each other. This was clearly stated in 1927 in the "Solovki message": "With such deep differences in outlook between the very foundations of the Church and the State can not be any internal convergence or reconciliation is possible reconciliation between the state and denial, between yes and no, because the soul of the Church, the condition of its existence and the meaning of its existence is the very thing that categorically rejects communism. "

Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) and his supporters deliberately opted for convergence of opposites, yes and no, light and darkness, regulations and denial. "Declaration of the joys" was not true, not worthy of the dignity of the Church and with the aimless and it is no convincing. As, however, and everything else that is said to have written (or just signed), Metropolitan Sergius in later years of his life.

Example of Metropolitan Sergius, seemed to confirm the doctrine of the communists, that personnel matters. Step-by-step Satanists sought to nominate a Russian Orthodox Church all - from the Supreme (in their opinion) Commander (Patriarch) to any officers and even corporal. The last act of unconditional surrender of ROC unanimously and signed unanimously by all our bishops - Bishops meeting participants, even referred to as the Cathedral, the feast of All Russia, abbot of St. Sergius in July 1961. 

Satanists jubilant. Victory seemed quite close to them, one has only to lend a hand. The defeat of the enemy, which unsuccessfully sought for many centuries - inevitable. Their leader then solemnly announced urbi et orbi, that is about to show on TV last priest. The ringleader was a man ignorant, he, I think, never read Samarin, who wrote that the Church is the Body of Christ, not the body of the clergy or Russia. Lime all priests, I suppose you can, but to defeat Christ and His Church - the hands are short.

4. The existing today in the MP situation at first glance seems paradoxical. Without exception, all the bishops still alive - selfless sergiantsy. They are, perhaps, the true legacy of the founding father firmer than the Metropolitan Sergius. "We are with our people and our government." How would this nation and this government are.

The Soviet people - the people-winner, the people, the victor, he is not to repent. And the Soviet government - not for anything. And the Soviet-sergiantsam clergy is not the thing.
Thanks to the wise leadership of Stalin's Soviet nation 68 years ago, won a historic victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Celebrations, parades and fireworks in the May 9 Victory Day each year becoming grander Pomp.
Thanks to the wise leadership of the Great Helmsman of Metropolitan Sergius ship ROC safely escape the Scylla and Charybdis of "70 years of the Babylonian exile." What do you want to repent?
Pictures of His Holiness in the annual calendar of the Moscow Patriarchate, more numerous, all colorful, all solemn. But since the end of the notorious "Babylonian captivity" was not less than 25 years (1988-2013), a quarter-century, but no bishop ROC did not say in all the years no one living on any word or the Local Council of Bishops. How can poor seminarians will take exams on the history of these faceless "cathedrals"? Session of the Supreme Council and the Plenum of the Communist Party were probably alive.

Legally, we have separated the church from the state. Therefore, in worship, even the red priests Renovationists no prayer for the civil power. But Metropolitan Sergius, of course, was redder than all red. From the date of publication of the "Declaration of the joys" and to this day, in May 2013, we ignore the "Solovki message," we ignore the requirement of the New Martyrs and Confessors Russian antisergiantsev - "to cancel the order of exposition of the prayers of the Divine Service for the civil power." No one today zaiknetsya.

Even the question of the name of the Church, even the question of the title of the First Hierarch never never discussed. St. Tikhon was the Patriarch of All Russia, and Sergei became the "All Russia". We do not Tikhonites, we all - Sergianists.

The long-term supporter of George Fedotov, IA Ilyin more clearly and insistently demanded to reject any form of participation in the devil's civilization, "So, the Russian people in need of repentance and purification. Decades there-the devil's Bolshevism - already cleared some and trampled in the mud of others. So, cleansed should help neochistivshimsya restore a living Christian conscience, belief in the power of good, true sense of evil, a sense of honor and capacity for faithfulness. Without that Russia does not revive and recreate the grandeur of it is not. Without this Russian state after the imminent fall of Bolshevism, will spread into the abyss and dirt. And in vain anyone would argue that the process has become possible and even already started after the treacherous concordat between the Bolsheviks and the so-called "patriarchal church." This concordat could just lock up those sacred doors that lead into the depths of the soul to a tearful repentance strong-willed and purification. monstrously offer Russian man confidence and security officers poluchekistam! molestation to think and talk about what the sacrament of penance can be committed to the Antichrist. pointless illusions of moral purification before the "upcoming" and conquering the devil. Repentance is the establishment of the sacred and pure communication with the Lord, not Satan and his (regardless of whether correct or incorrect) servants. "

Without repentance, neither the Church nor Russia is not revived. Drums, parades and fireworks only exacerbate the spiritual decay.

Epistle and Gospel Readings June 2

The Epistle and Gospel Readings-June 2/May 20-5th Sunday of Pascha-Sunday of the Samaritan Woman-Tone 4 
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Troparion of the Sunday, Fourth Tone
Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting to the world great mercy. 

From 'MY LIFE IN CHRIST'  - Saint John of Kronstadt - Originally published in 1897

'Faith gives rest and joy; unbelief, troubles and wounds.'

pg 481 as published by Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY 1984 558 pages - available at Holy Trinity Church 25-36 37th Street, Astoria, NY - see Matushka Irina

**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**
The Reading is from the Acts of the Holy Apostles: 

Acts 11:19-26; 29-30

King James Version (KJV 1611)
19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
22 Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:

30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
The Holy Gospel according to: 

Saint John 4:5-42

King James Version (KJV 1611)
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

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for the Sleepy-Heads:
Turn this up to blasting level, to help wake up in the morning!

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Christians killed over faith

Some 100,000 Christians killed per year over faith, Vatican says

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Published May 29, 2013
FoxNews.com



Christians Targeted in Deadly Egypt Blast
A car exploded last November in front of a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, as worshipers emerge from a New Year's Mass, killing more than 20 people and prompting a clash with Muslims at a nearby mosque
A staggering 100,000 Christians are killed annually because of their faith, according to the Vatican -- and several human rights groups claim such anti-Christian violence is on the rise in countries like Pakistan, Nigeria and Egypt.
"Credible research has reached the shocking conclusion that an estimate of more than 100,000 Christians are violently killed because of some relation to their faith every year," Vatican spokesman Monsieur Silvano Maria Tomassi said Tuesday in a radio address to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
"Other Christians and other believers are subjected to forced displacement, to the destruction of their places of worship, to rape and to the abduction of their leaders, as it recently happened in the case of Bishops Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yaziji, in Aleppo [Syria]," Tomassi said.
While several human rights groups could not comment specifically on the Vatican's number, organizations, like Persecution.Org, said the persecutions of Christians have been on the rise in places like Africa and the Middle East over the last decade.
"Two-hundred million Christians currently live under persecution. It’s absolutely on the rise," Jeff King, the group's president, told FoxNews.com.
"It’s easing in the old Communist world and it's rising in the Islamic world," King said, noting in particular countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Nigeria. King said that the first major killing spree in recent years happened between 1998 and 2003, when he claims 10,000 Christians were murdered in Indonesia alone during those years.
Last March, a Nigerian Christian leader was killed when suspected Muslim militants burst into his home and shot him. Two members of Islamic militant group Boko Haram shot Faye Pama Mysa, a Pentecostal pastor and secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, in his home Wednesday, according to multiple reports. The killing happened just after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency because of ongoing attacks in Africa's most populous nation.
King spoke of another example in which young Christian girls were forced into sex slavery in Bangladesh. More than 140 children were rescued from Islamic training centers over the last year -- with the majority of girls being targeted because of their religion, according to King.
"Two-hundred million Christians currently live under persecution. It’s absolutely on the rise."
- Jeff King, president of Persecution.Org

John Eibner, CEO of Christian Solidarity International, has raised grave concerns over what he calls "religious cleansing" in Syria.
"Religious minorities are under constant threat in Syria," Eibner told FoxNews.com. "If things continue as they have been for the past two years in Syria, with an increase in religious cleansing, it's reasonable to think that there will be no more Christian communities or other religious minorities in the near future."
"Anti-Christian violence is on the increase throughout the world, especially throughout North Africa and the Middle East," he added. "It's hard for me to say with precision what the numbers are, but without doubt anti-Christian violence is on the increase."
Dinah Pokempner, general counsel for Human Rights Watch, was not able to independently verify the Vatican's figure, but said, "I think there’s little doubt that every week, every day, someone in the world is being persecuted – even to the point of losing their life – based on their religion."
"Persecution is a daily event on the basis of religion," Pokempner said. "This persecution affects Christians just as it does Muslims, Jews, Bahá'ís and people of other faiths."
A spokesman with the Vatican could not be immediately reached for comment.
Jane Zimmerman, the U.S. State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, said in a statement that: "While I’m unfamiliar with the methodology that was used to reach that number, we have certainly followed numerous cases in recent years in which Christians and others of many faiths have been attacked or killed on account of their religious beliefs."
"Whatever the numbers, no one should die for professing or practicing their faith, whatever that faith is," Zimmerman told FoxNews.com. "The United States firmly supports the freedom to profess and practice one’s faith, to believe or not to believe, and to change one’s beliefs. As Secretary Kerry said on May 20, religious freedom 'is a birthright of every human being.'"


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/29/vatican-spokesman-claims-100000-christians-killed-annually-because-faith/#ixzz2UilFNsT0

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Fr. Ephraim tonsure

 28.05.13. В одесском Архангело-Михайловском храме Архиепископ Софроний постриг в мантию Евгения Барановского с именем Ефрем, в честь преподобного Ефрема Перекомского, Новгородского чудотворца.

28.05.13 In the Odessa Church of St. Michael, Archbishop Sofrony tonsures as a monastic, Eugene Baranowsky,
with his new monastic name of, Ephraim, in honour of St. Ephraim-Perekomskogo, the Wonderworker of Novgorod.

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 28.05.13. В Одесском Синодальном представительстве открылось очередное заседание Священного Синода.

28.05.13 At the Odessa Synodal Center, has been opened the newest meeting of our ROCA Holy Synod.

The Joy of Pascha at the St. Nicholas Women's Monastery (New York)-

Abbess:Mother Agapia (Stephanopoulos).
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 В Свято-Николаевском женском монастыре (Нью-Йорк, РПЦЗ) радостно праздновали Пасху Христову 2013 г. В Светлую Среду службу возглавил архиепископ Андроник. At St. Nicholas Convent (New York, ROCOR) joyously celebrated the Passover of Christ, 2013 On Bright Wednesday service led by Archbishop Andronicus.Прекрасная весенняя погода способствовала радостной молитве. Beautiful spring weather contributed to a joyful prayer.
Весь путь Христа, начиная со Входа в Иерусалим и заканчивая Пасхальным торжеством, духом прошли все молящиеся в обители. All the way of Christ, starting from the entry into Jerusalem and ending with the celebration of Easter, the spirit were all praying in the monastery. Этому помогли соответствующие богослужения в течение двух седмиц: Страстной и Светлой. This helped the appropriate services for two Weeks: Holy and Bright.








Odessa Women's Monastery of St. John in the Spring-time

With a mixture of the original Russian text, 
combined with machine-English translations- 
(sorry for this rough English):



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Одесский Свято-Иоанновский монастырь в весенних красках. Odessa St. John Monastery in spring colors.

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Одесский Свято-Иоанновский женский монастырь (РПЦЗ) находится в с. Odessa St. John Convent (ROCA) is in seconds.Егоровке Одесской области, в холмистой местности с небольшими лесками и островками лимана. Egorovka Odessa region, in a hilly area with small fishing lines and islands of the estuary. Наиболее красиво это место выглядит весной, когда пробуждается природа, начинают цвести сады, разнося повсюду свои благоухания и радуя глаз бело-розовыми оттенками распустившихся деревьев, стараниями сестер пестреют клумбы... The most beautiful is the place looks like in the spring, when nature awakens, gardens begin to bloom, spreading their fragrance everywhere and delighting the eye with white and pink shades of blossoming trees, flower beds pestreyut efforts sisters ... На этом фоне белой невестой смотрится монастырский храм в честь Рождества Божией Матери. Against this background, the white bride looks monastery church of the Nativity of the Mother of God. Разноголосье птичьего гама дополняет собой всю эту гармонию. Discordant din of bird complements the whole harmony.
На фотографиях мы можем увидеть лишь маленькую частичку благолепного мирка, но даже эта малая часть радует сердце и согревает душу, являясь в нашем воображении неким отражением Божественной красоты Горнего мира. In the photos we can see only a little part of the beauty of little world, but even this small part of the happy heart and warms the soul, as in our imagination a certain reflection of the divine beauty of the mountain world. Ибо все, что сотворил Господь, - прекрасно. For all that the Lord has made - fine.

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Продолжение следует... To be continued ... 

Monday, May 27, 2013

History: King Edward VII


For History: A frank account: King Edward VII, parts 1 and 2


Category: A brief view, of some of the long history of the British monarchy.

Part One: 
30 minutes

Son of  Queen Victoria (and successor to her on the British  royal throne),
 and   of his father, Prince Albert, the Royal Consort.
He died at age 69, on May 10, 1910.

Part Two:
30 minutes

Community in Tyumen, RF

XB!  Christ Is Risen!
 ow. Никон в Тюменской общине Nikon in Tyumen community 



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25-26 мая преосвященный Никон , епископ Ишимский и Сибирский придиаконе Александре Смирнове служил в Тюменской общине в честь Иверско-Монреальской иконы Божией Матери.

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