The strange, sad case of the defrocked deacon, Lev Puhalo

[Kollyvas]

Evlogeite.

Being someone who has forebearers from Little Russia (THE Ukraine) and thoroughly immersed in the history of the region, I can tell you that "kyiv" isn't even their prefered spelling. ("Ukrainian" in and of itself evolves from Middle Ruthenian, ALSO the parent of modern LITERARY RUSSIAN and reflects a phonetic approach to spelling with grammar according to locale making it a point to use loan words from other languages to "derussify" itself. It is interesting to note that the standard of "derussification" is even applied to the linguistics of such regions as Galicia and Carpatho-Ruthenia which were never united to Imperial Russia. Hence it is an artificial language which does not reflect even the linguistic heritage of the provinces in question. St. Alexis Toth denounced it as "phonetika," for it was an unlettered attempt at portraying the ungrammatical speech of the SW Russian peasantry as a literary language. It is essentially, therefore, Russian ebonics, creole, patois, etc.) Now, the separatists have spelled "Kiev" "kiew," "kiiw," "kiyiw," "kieff," "kiyiff," "kiyiv," etc. all in the span of the last 80 years. It is precisely because "literary ukrainian" has undergone manifold and artificial morphisms in orthography, lexicon, grammar, even verb conjugation one day this, the next that, the third "depolonizing," the fourth "derussifying," the sixth "eliminating "slavinisms," etc. that the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) people have no confidence in the language, and 70% speak literary Russian as their first tongue, with over 50% (54%) not even knowing one word of it (ukrainian). It is insightful then to seek an accepted standard which bears indisputable weight. In that ukrainian ethnographers maintain a direct lineage of their "narid" from Kievan Rus', it is informative then to see how the city in question was pronounced and spelled in that period of Russian history. Moreover, it is even more appropriate in appelation to ecclesiastical titles which derive specifically from this era. Here we read in the Primary Chronicle "Kiev," never once one of the fanciful spellings even alluded to. Indeed, just as I don't intend to begin spelling the proper names of US cities according to the fatuous phoneticisms of ebonics (imagine: "Feeniks," "Nu Olens," " Dee-troyt," "Washin'ton," "Shikago," etc.), so. too, I spell the name of the mother of Russian cities according to the venerable and accepted spelling of antiquity surving in our modern day. To do otherwise is a concession not to enlightenment, but, rather, base ignorance. Ludicrous. I do expect this of mr. haler-puhalo, however.
In the LOVE of Christ,
Rostislav Mikhailovich Malleev-Pokrovsky
mr. denisenko's synodeia does indeed have some interesting types in it. I once met a "priest" from it in Jordanville who had a pronounced veneration of the Holy Royal Martyrs. However, any act they might take has no canonical force whatsoever. They would probably consider +Antony a "ukrainian," no matter what he considered himself or whether or not he knew how to spell.

[Kollyvas]

(Wonder if the OCA approves of one of its monasteries being the sponsor of a leftist symposium? Would they give equal time to people opposed to such politics? Why is a monastery involved in secular politics taking an especially leftist and fringe position?! Kyrie Eleison.--R)

...14. PEACE FORUM

SPONSORED BY ALL SAINTS MONASTERY AND THE ORTHODOX PEACE FELLOWSHIP.

Friday, 1 October
7-9 P.M.
SFU Harbour Centre

Speakers from several traditions will present definitions of what peace must really consist of. Peace without social justice and real ecological reform is not possible.

First hour: speakers offer their definitions of peace: both world peace and communal peace.
Second hour - dialogue with the audience. The audience will be invited to pose questions and offer ideas.

For more information, contact Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, synaxis@orthodoxcanada.org or (604) 826-9336.

From: "Archbishop Lazar" synaxis@orthodoxcanada.org

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(Examine the site linked yourselves and judge whether or not it's leftist and fringe. Someone once mentioned "compounds." HMMMM.)

[Kollyvas]

(What does ANY of this have to do with witnessing Orthodoxy, monasticism or the duties of an Orthodox "cleric"? --R)

http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/lists ... 00511.html

[OPIRG-EVENTS] Speakers Bios: Vigil for Nonviolence, Sat. Oct 6

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The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
has organized the following event:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, OTTAWA

1 p.m. Parliament Hill
a <SILENT PROCESSION> to

2 p.m. First United Church
(397 Kent St., at Florence St.)
for a <VIGIL FOR NONVIOLENCE> with
Speakers, Music, Discussion groups & workshops.

Here are a few biographical details on the co-chairs, speakers and
musicians who will make presentations at the church beginning at 2 pm. Oct. 6.

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Co-chairs:

· Marion Dewar, former Mayor of Ottawa; former President of the NDP; former
NDP MP for Hamilton Mountain; Chair of Oxfam Canada. She is a long-time
supporter, activist with the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade since it's
inception and is a mentor of COAT.

· Jean-Claude Parrot, executive Vice President of the Canadian Labour
Congress. He was re-elected for his third three-year term to the Governing
Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO). He is vice-president
of one of the most important tripartite committees of the ILO, the
Committee on Legal Issues and International Labour Standards. He was the
National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for 15 years.
He is also a long-time supporter and mentor of the Coalition to Oppose the
Arms Trade.

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On the Speaker Phone:
(the following two speakers will address the crowd though a phone hooked up
to our sound system)

· Dr. Helen Caldicott, is now running for the Senate in Australia. Many
are familiar with her from the classic NFB film that was banned in the
United States, called "If You Love this Planet. She will speak to the
crowd by phone from Sydney, Australia.

· Arun Gandhi, cofounder and director of the MKGandhi Institute of
Nonviolence. Through that institute, Arun is carrying on the tradition of
nonviolence that was taught to the world by his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi.

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Speakers at First United Church:

· Richard Sanders, is the founder and coordinator of the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade. He is the editor of COAT's quarterly magazine,
Press for Conversion! He has worked as a full-time peace movement
organizer since 1984 and is a researcher and writer. He produced a
fortnightly radio program called Voice for Peace on CKCU FM for 13 years.

· Carolyn Langdon, is the co-chair of the Canadian Voice of Women for
Peace, a feminist peace organization that formed in the early 1960s.
Carolyn is also the Executive Coordinator of another cross-Canada peace
organization, namely, Science for Peace.

· Laurel Smith, is an organizer with Homes Not Bombs, an Ontario-wide
network that among other things, organizes nonviolent civil disobedience
actions. Laurel is also the Artistic Producer and Director of Burning
Passions Theatre in Toronto.

· Mel Watkins, is a political economist. Many know him as a founder of the
Waffle which was a radical movement within the NDP back in the late 1960s
and 70s. He is currently the President of Science for Peace and is
professor emeritus of economics at the University of Toronto.

· Theresa Wolfwood is a Board Member of the Vancouver Island Public
Interest Research Group and is involved in numerous social justice, peace
and feminist activities. Thanks to grass roots activists like Theresa from
Victoria, BC, the NATO PA meetings were kicked out of that city and moved
to Ottawa.

· Lazar Puhalo, is the Archbishop of the Canadian Orthodox Archdiocese of
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He is a social philosopher, an ardent
Canadian nationalist and editor of the Red Tory Journal. He has authored
42 books, the latest of which is on Orthodox Christian Existentialism.

· Michel Chossudovsky, is a Professor of Economics at the University of
Ottawa. He is the author of The Globalization of Poverty: Impact of IMF
and World Bank Reforms. He has written extensively on the War in
Yugoslavia. His forthcoming book is entitled War and Globalisation, the
Balkans and Beyond. He will lead one of our discussion groups on the
theme: "America at War."

· Moraima Rivera is a native actvist from the coffee mountains of Puerto
Rico, business woman, former journalist and a small organic farmer. She
works with the groups that oppose the US and NATO bombardment of Vieques,
an island off Puerto Rico. She works with the Hostosiano Congress, the
Comittee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, Mayaguezanos for Peace
and the Enviroment, Every Puerto Rican with Vieques, Vieques Paz and the
Hostosiano camp in the restricted area on Vieques. Moraima travels
regularly to Europe and is co-founder of Vrede voor Vieques Committee in
the Netherlands

· Radmila Swann, is a retired federal public servant. She is a founding
member and current President of the Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society. As a
member of Ottawa's Serbian community, Radmila has been an active and
outspoken proponent of peace.

· Jen Anthony, is co-chair of the Canadian Federation of Students. The CFS
is a federation of over 60 college and university student unions across
Canada, it has a combined membership of more than 400,000 students.

· Rev. Fred Cappuccino, is a Unitarian Minister, and the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade mentor who has been active in the peace movement for
several decades. He is well-known as a co-founder of Child Haven
International, a Canadian NGO with four orphanages in India and Nepal.

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Musicians:

· Ian Tamblyn, is a musician, songwriter, playwright, music producer and
environmentalist. He has 18 albums of original music and has created
soundtracks for 50 plays and films.

· Carolyn Briggs and Terry Tufts, are highly respected local folk musicians
who are well known across Canada for their live performances and recordings
as well as for their dedication to peace and human rights issues.

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Why we will walk in silence this Saturday, October 6

The following is the text of a flier which we will distribute on Saturday
October 6 to participants in our walk from:

• Parliament Hill (1 pm.) to
• First United Church (2 pm.):

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               ... SILENCE ...
        No more               Non à la
                  VIOLENCE

We walk in silence, to express our respect and solidarity for all those
whose lives have been silenced by terrorism, war, repression and poverty.

We remember that millions of innocents have died in war, during the past
fifty years alone. Millions more have died for lack of food, water, health
care and housing.

Our message of peace and justice is also silenced by cries for revenge and
the propaganda of war in the daily news.

After the silence of this walk, we shall work together to strengthen our
collective voice for peace. We shall be heard.

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Nous marchons en silence pour exprimer notre respect et solidarité envers
tous ceux dont la vie a été coupée court par le terrorisme, la guerre, la
répression et la pauvreté.
Nous nous souvenons que des millions d'innocents sont morts dans une
guerre lors des cinquantes dernières années. Plusieurs millions d'autres
personnes sont mortes par manque de nourriture, d'eau, de services médicaux
ou d'abris.
Notre message de paix et de justice a aussi été étouffé jour après jour
par les cris de vengeance et la propagande militaire dans les medias.
Après le silence de cette marche, nous travaillerons ensemble à consolider
notre voix collective envers la paix. Nous nous ferons entendre.

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                      Richard Sanders
   Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)

A network of individuals and NGOs across Canada and around the world

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      541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2  Canada
        Tel.:  613-231-3076      Fax: 613-231-2614
 Email: <ad207@ncf.ca>   Web site: <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>

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[costaswright]

SERMON ON THE SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY, 2006.
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

Today, brothers and sisters, we celebrate the triumph of faith, the
victory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Today, the darkness of
falsehood and error are eclipsed by the luminous grace of the Holy
Spirit. On this, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, as we enter into preparation
for the Resurrection, the holy Church proclaims the Incarnation. Today,
we proclaim to all that God the Word may be portrayed in icons,
together with His saints, because He has truly appeared in the flesh.
We declare also that the material world, created by that same Word of
God, is good and able to be grace-bearing.

While commemorating this victory and proclaiming these truths, however,
there is no place for triumphalism, self-satisfaction or smugness.
Rather, this is an occasion for re-commitment to the truth we claim to
uphold. It is of no value for us to proclaim it with our lips if it is
not manifested in our lives. It avails us nothing to hold the sound
doctrines of the faith intellectually and not have that faith as a
living flame burning in our hearts.

The faith of Christ is manifested in love, compassion and forgiveness.
This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that being redeemed from the fear
of death with which Satan holds us in bondage, and forgiven for our
sins, we might have the Kingdom of God abiding in us in this life, and
the object of our sure hope in the next. We are not freed from one
bondage only to be placed in another. The dawning of grace within us is
not a constraint, but an opening up of our hearts. We are not redeemed
from our alienation simply to observe conventions and words, but to
follow a path of liberation from the prison of egoism, self-centredness
and self-love.

The true calling of the faithful is to become a point of unity in the
universe. This is the "mark" or "goal" which we continually miss and
fall short of through our illusions and egoism. The Church binds
together both heaven and earth in faith and worship of the Holy
Trinity, and calls upon us to fulfil the same and no longer "miss the
mark." Nevertheless, while confessing these things in words, we must
also confess them in deeds, in life, in all of our interhuman
relationships. The faith is not an ethnic identity, and it is not ours
to hoard or preserve like some exhibit in a museum. Orthodoxy - the
truth of the Gospel - seeks to embrace all mankind with God's love and
with redemption in Christ Jesus.

To be truly Orthodox, our hearts must be open to all with unselfish
love. Such love cannot be expressed in condescending triumphalism, but
in sincere compassion and a desire to understand everyone and to judge
and condemn no one. It is in this manner that we can confess and
proclaim Orthodoxy to the world. Nor can this openness relate only to
humanity. We were created as a microcosm of the universe, uniting in
ourselves the material, the spiritual and the intellectual. With all
these, we are to glorify our God and Creator not in vain words, but in
love for him, and love and care for one another and for the earth upon
which we walk, and the universe which we inhabit. When, with God's
help, we able to encompass all this through the conquest of egoism and
self-love, we will become truly Orthodox and proclaim the faith in
spirit and in Truth.

Amen!

Forwarded by

[Kollyvas]

A sermon by a deposed deacon with heretical views...through the looking glass. makrakis gave alot of sermons too. Did this come from a trekkie convention? Is there a klingon translation?
R
I wonder if mar melchisedek has any sermons. benny hinn has been paraphrasing Fr. Schmemann of late, perhaps?

[Kollyvas]

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AA in O writes:

When a idiosyncratic or vagantes or uncanonical bishop or community
approaches the Church, seeking reconciliation, the Church has the
pastoral
duty to determine (1) the sincerity of their desire, (2) whether
there is
any stability, (3) the best means of reconciliation to achieve the
pastoral
goal of bringing these people into the grace-filled life of the
Church.

JRS: Regarding the above--

(1) Sincerity of desire: But one also has to ask what the desire in
the given instance really is! Does this person "sincerely desire
reconciliation with the Church" -- or is he simply seeking to "get
canonical credentials"?

(2) Stability: Lev Puhalo has been in a string of jurisdictions. Each
time he made a switch, he was able to go a step up the hierarchical
ladder: defrocked when a deacon in ROCOR, he joined the Free Serbs, who
at that time were not recognized by anyone else, and became a
priestmonk. He later left them, or rather they got to know him and
washed their hands of him; and one would need a scorecard to follow his
jurisdictional vagaries from there. It may have been in the
jurisdiction of Philaret Denisenko, "Patriarch" of Kiev, that he was
made either a bishop or an archbishop. Joining the OCA would bring him
into SCOBA, even as a "retired" bishop (for now).

Part of the stability question also involves whether or not someone can
be trusted.

Thus, for example, some 20 years or so ago, I had the following
experience involving Lev Puhalo.

A young man named Victor, who at that time attended our cathedral in
Chicago, called me and said that he and his fiancee wanted to be
married. But they would like to have the ceremony at the Greek church
in a Chicago suburb, for various practical reasons.

The priest at that church was the late Fr. George Scoulas, whom I had
known for many years, and he was willing to allow us to "borrow" the
church. Therefore I asked Vl. Alypy for permission, and the permission
was granted.

As the date for the wedding drew near, the choir wanted to know if they
would be needed at the ceremony. I asked Victor about this, and he
said, in a strange offhand manner, "Oh, no, and we won't be needing you
either. Someone from the monastery is coming down to officiate".

This seemed a terribly strange remark, so I asked who this was and what
monastery. It turned out to be "Fr. Lazarus" Puhalo, who was then at
the Free Serbian monastery in Third Lake. When I told Victor that Lev
Puhalo was not a clergyman of the Church Abroad anymore, that he had
been defrocked, and that we could not recognize any Mysteries performed
by him, Victor became belligerent and insisted that he wanted Puhalo to
officiate.

I felt that I had been "used"--that the Greek priest had been misled
into thinking that I would be the celebrant, that Vl. Alypy had
been "used", because his authority had been invoked on false pretenses,
and of course, the Greek church was being "used".

So I phoned Fr. George and told him what I had discovered. Fr. George
then said he had been told that "Fr. Lazarus" was a ROCOR priest, and
that this was why permission to use the church had been given. He had
not realized he had been tricked into letting a defrocked clergyman
use his church building.

In the end, the wedding took place, but after consulting Bishop
Iakovos, Fr. George himself officiated.

(3) The best means to achieve the goal: Of course, accepting Lev Puhalo
as an Orthodox bishop is the best means for him. But if he were
accepted only as a layman, it would avoid driving a wedge to block
any future normalization of relations with the Church Abroad. Having a
defrocked ROCOR deacon serving as an OCA bishop, seems to be anything
but a posisitive step in that direction.

In Christ
Fr. John R. Shaw

[Kollyvas]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orthodox- ... sage/79390

Rd. Constantine wrote:

Why is it necessary to bring up the etymological origin of
his last name?

JRS: 1) Because our bishops used to comment on it;

2) Because it may be a name of his own creation; he has used several others, for
example
"Buehler", and that also was an issue for the Synod.

Ca. 1972, Fr. George Grabbe had me translate a document on the subject of Lev
Puhalo and
his various names (I have now forgotten the others).

What is the etymological origin of yours?

JRS: "Shaw"? It is said to come from Anglo-Saxon "skaga", and to mean "a
thicket, or grove".

GBS wrote that "the Shaws, like so many of the 'Irish', originally came from
Yorkshire".

In Christ
Fr. John R. Shaw

...Lev Puhalo (the surname "Puhalo"
means
"scarecrow" BTW)...