Time for a new attack on the veneration of False-saint Luke of Simferopol. I relish these the same way Cyprian must enjoy exposing the plots of the NWO ! Perhaps the 2 are not completely unrelated.
I was curious why Rocor-Mp's parish was named after the Pseudo-saint out of ALL choices on the planet.
Why not St Ambrose of Optina ? There is a Rocor parish in the South named for St Joseph of Optina, after all. Why not any other valid Optina Elder ?? Why not All Saints of Russia ? There are 2 Churches named thus in the Western diocese, but I don't think any in the Eastern American Diocese [ though I admit I haven't checked ! ]
All Saints of Russia would be so comprehensive that it would include ALL legitimate Russian Saints. Those supporters of Abp Luke's could imagine that he was included in this number.
All Saints of Russia would attract much more help and protection from Heaven thereby for the clergy, parishioners and their families.
To name one parish, albeit a small startup one, after a sidelined so-called saint ? Why did they have to single out Abp Luke of Simferopol this way ??
Here is the priest's explanation :
"The decision to name our church in honor of St. Luke took place on the very day that I served my first Liturgy in the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City," explains Fr. Demetrio Romeo. "The Liturgy was taking place in the presence of the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God, and that day, several of the servers all simultaneously had the idea to name our church in honor of St. Luke of Simferopol. With the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion, that was what we named our church. When I arrived and served the first Liturgy here, it was on March 18, 2013. As it turns out, it was that same day in 1996 when the holy relics of Archbishop Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) were uncovered."
http://eadiocese.org/News/2016/june/cocreek.en.htm
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To me, these reasons are so flimsy as to be ridiculous. Because a few altar servers SUPPOSEDLY 'had the same idea' on the same day, then that means God wants it that way ? Who are the altar servers and let's check with them to see if this is really true.
Note that Fr Demetrio Romeo did not say "a few of our most senior and conservative Bishops arrived and told me each had had the same idea ". Even if Fr Demetrio's words describe 100 % accurately what transpired at the Synod that day, for him and his superiors to rely on the spiritual condition of worldly altar servers for such a major decision of the patronage of the parish would seem highly unwise. Even immature.
The fact that the parish priest's first Liturgy occurred on the 17th anniversary of the uncovering the so - called 'relics' of Abp Luke is not compelling either.
Indeed, the command must have rung out from Chisty Pereulok for Rocor-Mp to name at least one parish after the darling of their propaganda machine. Rocor-MP's choice fell on this parish which had previously been named for St Luke the Evangelist, so the change was not much noticed and seemed more logical. Plus, the priest was just recently ordained, hence easily maneuvered.