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

[moschonisi]

I had no idea he was a widower... May God rest her soul!

Now things are even making even more and more sense -- I dare say the presence of his Matuska might have prevented his fall to a great extent. Women have a tendency and the distinct ability to most definately balance us loud, obnoxious men, and bring us down to earth...

Checking out the "monastery" it looks like a Little House in the Canadian Praire -- how many monks does he have? Is his own son a monk there? And if it is a monastery, I guess he is the Elder?

Hey, wait, is that not a guru-ism term (per mr Puhalo's own writings?

[CorpusChristi]

well there are about 4-6 monks there, and Vladyka Varlaam is most likely the Elder there, as he has to be in his early to mid eighties by now...but yes all of these Bishops and simple monks have one thing in common, they have suffered there matushka`s loss and it was very difficult for them and this monastery was dedicated in helping these men...Strange as this may sound, the monks there are proobally unaware of the AIRWAVES Vladyka Lazar has stirred with his Eclesiology

[moschonisi]

The twin malignancies, as I consider them to be, of Fundamentalism and moralism are the foremost causes of the de-Christianisation of society in Canada and America and, I am certain, in Europe as well. They are harboured also in elements within the Orthodox Church, especially in the monasteries and "lay brotherhoods."

By the Deposed Deacon (and self-declared hierarch) Lev Puhalo, from hisw 2005 paper "Approaching The Educated Person in the Post Christian Era"

This guy is truly smoking some funny tobacco or is completely blind! The Orthodox monasteries in the West are filling up with young, educate people and he is trying to claim that monastics are the cause for de-Christianisation? He is truly NUTS! Look at the GOA monks in Elder Ephraim's monasteries... Oh wait, perhaps it is his jealousy for Elder Ephraim's success that he is saying this garbage! The monasteries are THE centers for spiritual renewal, NOT puhalo and his kind... And he claims to be a monk himself?

And here he is, also within the same paper, the infamous "look at me and what kind of a great expert I am" advertisement by Puhalo:

"I teach and lecture regularly at a number of universities in both Canada and America; including two or three Protestant institutions. I am also director of the Orthodox Christian Clubs at two universities in Vancouver, Canada. During any given year, I will have an opportunity to speak to thousands of students, and to actually have conversations with hundreds of them..."

Some kind of a monk and monastery elder he is...

KIRIE ELEISON!

[хорист]

I note on "Ab" Puhalo's website a link re "St." Anthony Khrapovitsky of Kiev.

So, does the OCA really recognize ROCOR's first First Hierarch as a saint, or is that just a local thingy?

[costaswright]

I note on "Ab" Puhalo's website a link re "St." Anthony Khrapovitsky of Kiev.

So, does the OCA really recognize ROCOR's first First Hierarch as a saint, or is that just a local thingy?

It's a local glorification by the New Ostrog Monastery and metochia, permitted by Abp. Seraphim of the OCA, though of course there are certainly others in jurisdictions outside the OCA who venerate him.

Holy St. Met. Anthony of Kyiv pray unto God for us!
Rd. David-Constantine

[Kollyvas]

No, the OCA does not recognize bl. +Metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky) as a Saint. In order for +Seraphim's local glorification to have force, there would have to be an ACT of local glorification, services written, a day of commemoration established (ALL LACKING), at least for that monastery--indeed, a "local glorification" limited to only one monastery and not even the rest of a diocese is highly irregular. There isn't even a record of bl. +Metropolitan Antony's cultus. No, he is not a Saint recognized by the Church or even the OCA diocese of Canada. That he may have been a Saint, I don't doubt, but let's at least assemble a record of incorruption, intercessions, etc. BTW, it's K-I-E-V: a glance at the Russian Primary Chronicle and a bit of transliteration would indeed help. ebonics, even of the Russian sort, is not a sign of literacy.
R
The original aspects of +Antony's theology are what mr. haler-puhalo reveres and it is here where the story unfolds. Thankfully, Vladyka Antony had the good sense to not insist on any of his "original" works as bearing dogmatic authority. Innovation, whether from the right or the left, is still innovation...More hocnaism.

[尼古拉前执事]

Kyiv is actually the Ukrainian spelling of that city known in Russian and most everywhere else as Kiev. I wonder if that means he was 'glorified' by the UAOC/KP guys he was with for a while?