MP Gets Spoils of War: St Philaret's Vestments + Crosier!

[尼古拉前执事]

Crosier and liturgical vestments of the former ROCOR head to be handed over to Russia as a sign of reconciliation

Moscow, November 13, Interfax - The crosier and liturgical vestments of the former first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Philaret (Voznesensky) are on their way from Boston to Moscow.

Rev. Roman, the rector of the church in Boston where the relics have been kept, read out the last will and testament of the former primate and remarked that this action would serve as a sign in the process of reunification of the two parts of the Russian Church.

The crosier and liturgical vestments will be handed over to Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, TV programme Vesti reports.

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2245

[Sean]

This is an outrage! St. Philaret was outspoken in his writings that the MP was without grace. This is just adding insult to injury, considering how his incorrupt relics were deliberately washed with wine, to discolor them, and then immediately re-interred; the laity being forbidden to venerate them. Now they give the saint's vestments to the Sergianists?! These turncoats have no shame!

[John Haluska]

WHY HASN'T METROPOLITAN PHILARET BEEN GLORIFIED?

John Haluska

[尼古拉前执事]

He has, just not by ROCOR.

[GOCTheophan]

He has, just not by ROCOR.

I know that Abbess Euphonia of Serbia and Fr Augustine both venerate St Philerat as a saint but has he actually been glorified by any Greek Jurisdiction?

[GOCTheophan]

This is an outrage! St. Philaret was outspoken in his writings that the MP was without grace. This is just adding insult to injury, considering how his incorrupt relics were deliberately washed with wine, to discolor them, and then immediately re-interred; the laity being forbidden to venerate them. Now they give the saint's vestments to the Sergianists?! These turncoats have no shame!

Sean I disagree with you about a lot but everything you have written there I totally support. This action of the Lavrites is truelly disgusting, they are worse much worse than Met Sergius himself!

Theophan.

[尼古拉前执事]

Generally speaking the Russians let the Greek Church glorify Greeks and the Greeks let the Russian Church glorify Russians, as these are the Churches that knew their people. The ROAC glorified Saint Philaret the Confessor of New York, and to many I know in the GOC, that is enough.

Earlier this year in ROAC there was a movement by some in a theological commission to glorify Abp Chrysostomos I, but out synod said to leave that to the GOC and when they glorify him, we will count him as a saint.

There are exceptions to the local church doing the glorifying first, but this is the usual order of things.