HOCNA Priest rejects Name-Worship, joins GOC-K parish home

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HOCNA Priest rejects Name-Worship, joins GOC-K parish home

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Video which unfolds the story of a 100-year old St Peter and Paul Church built by Russian and other immigrants in Mt Union Pennsylvania.

After thriving as a parish for many years, somehow it came under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate in the 1960s. A woman parishioner interviewed in the clip recalls that a priest sent to their Church by the MP totally destroyed it ! How telling.
This is the kind of information which usually gets lost over the decades. [ How many more parish situations were there like that, one wonders ? ]

Finally, by Divine Providence, a former Hocna priest who had rejected Name-Worshipping as a heresy and was staying home rather than serving, was fortuitously found in 2013 to become the new priest which had come under the GOC-K jurisdiction.
Fr Christos tells his story toward the end of the 30 minute video. Scenic pictures of the Church and reminiscences of the history of the parish are interwoven with scenes of the festive celebration of the 100th anniversary Liturgy by Met Demetrios of GOC-K.

This inspiring journey offers hope for a safe exit out of the Name-Worshipping web, as well as hope for Heavenly solutions for parishes in World Orthodoxy and/ or in difficulty to find their way to a new blossoming in True Orthodoxy.

The parish is unique in that it was the LAST one EVER funded by a Russian Tsar ! Tsar Nicholas II donated the chandelier and apparently sent money as well to finance the construction.

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