Moderator: Mark Templet
http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/01n ... stiv75.htm
...During minor entrance at Divine Liturgy, the Cathedral's Rector, Protopriest Alexander Lebedeff, was awarded the mitre for his exceptionally zealous service...
"Zealous" in what?! Promoting schisms, discord, and undoing the Holy work of Blessed +Metropolitan Philaret?! Setting back Traditionalists in the MP?! SHAMELESS!!! ANAXIOS! ANAXIOS! ANAXIOS!
ORTHODOXIA I THANATOS!
Rostislav Mikhailovich Malleev-Pokrovsky
Well, I'm glad you have voiced your opinion as I have voiced mine for a variety of legitimate reasons. Fr. Komarovsky is a political opportunist and malefactor who has corrupted what I consider Holy and True--the legacy of Blessed +Metropolitan Philaret, which he consistently and BOORISHLY dilutes, misrepresents or trivializes. Therefore, I am comfortable in my opposition to him and his policies and the damage he has done and is doing...
R
Kollyvas, you are certainly welcomed to have an opposition. I believe without a shadow of a doubt that Blessed Met Philaret if still with us would be doing the same things as our leader today Met Laurus is doing now. If those that don't believe this, take a look back at what Met. Philaret set in motion. We are living his legacy. Those who opposed it back then are the ones opposed now. I don't mean to offend, but stop for a second and think. Did we just wake up this morning and say oh I think we will change courses all together, of course not. Our legacy is a continuum of what was set before us. I for one don't think it was boorishly diluted.
Very well put S.O., I too feel the same way, and well always have felt that way. Rocor has always taken things to the Ethinic level, and allowing those in families or close to Priests country a piece of info on what is going on..If there were to be dialogue from clergy to people, with representatives to talk too and shephard those in disgust things would have been different...I am sick and tired of people always saying you are american you dont care or know anything..in my 3 years of Orthodox Ive learned a great deal of not counting on Human power for guidance(Priest,Bishop,Nun)..my FAITH in CHRIST is my only SALVATION from this cruel world... I dont mean to sound nasty, but russians tend to be very outspoken in there own language and could care less who understands. Some how it has become a Russian thing, instead of where it was when they evangelized Russia 1000 years ago...
the things that happened in russia during communist Yoke and the slaughter of Orthodox ,Catholics,Protestants is sad and cant ever be forgotten, but those that were Martyed have forgiven and forgotten, and when we constantly argue and cause schism within the church of God, we spread that Blood even further, for it was the evil ones work and it is the evil ones work that has caused soo many schism in the russian church...it is almost rediculous that I have to be told which church i can enter and pray at and if I receive Holy communion from one Orthodox church, I cant be part of the other, or even worse my Soul is in great danger..again i see the connection there with protestants, they the protestants have so many schism`s and one day they decide to just start a home chapel to pray,cause they are so paranoid and have basically fallen off from the Church of GOD..
i would simply allude to the anathemas against ecumenism and Blessed +Metroplitan Philaret's conviction that ecumenism is heresy...Fr. Komarovsky not only rejects this but makes it a point to try and rewrite ROCOR history to somehow illustrate this was a sectarian anomaly. That is boorish dilution. Moreover, this is impacting Traditionalist trends which have moved for anathemas and pullout from the wcc--this ROCOR is selling out Orthodoxy, and it's not the ROCOR that formed me. The course +laurus has pursued with the MP has placed ROCOR under its own anathemas against sergianism and ecumenism and that is why it is not the course of Blessed +Metropolitan Philaret. In this the position of +Metropolitan Vitaly is quite consistent and a continuance with the true position of ROCOR. Moreover, the fact that one day Fr. Komarovsky was saying that his diocese of S. CA had the "most grace" and others "were falling into the heresy of ecumenism" to now maintaining that ecumenism is no heresy at all shows not conviction but political gamesmanship...This man left the OCA to advance his personal agenda, came through the ranks to poise himself to do so and now is constructing his own cult of personality, sickening.
R
Christ also railed against the scribes and pharisees for taking the hope of the Kingdom away from the people while not entering it themselves, calling them "whitened sepulchres" and "blind guides." He chased the moneychargers out of the temple with a whip. Similarly, political adventurers who have distorted Truth, seduced believers and seek to advance their OWN political agendas IN DEFIANCE OF THE FATHERS, CANONS, THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE THEM may be forgiven for their grave sins, but only when they repent or at least are REMOVED from doing further harm to the People of God. Such is the example of the Fathers. Moreover, when one places oneself under ones OWN anathemas, the modes of forgiveness are quite clear: REPENTANCE TO ONES OWN SYNODEIA. Of course, they'll probably rescind the anathemas before too long, but the fact that they are self-anathemizers really calls into question their legitimacy (rationality, competence)as a body and interlocutor in the great endeavour they have BUNGLED in fealty to personal politics and the furtherance of their cliques...In regard to hollow calls for forgiveness, the emperor has no clothes.
ORTHODOXIA I THANATOS!
R M Malleev-Pokrovsky
