"WHITE CHURCH LOSES MONASTERY TO RED CHURCH," writes Zionist
Reporter Jerrold Kessel, deputy bureau chief for CNN in the
network's Jerusalem Bureau. Here's what a Jewish Zionist Reporter
knows that the ROCOR PRO-MP Bishops refuse to know:
July 9. 1997
HEBRON, West Bank (CNN)- The Monastery of Abraham's Oak in Hebron,
a 130-year-old Russian church has become the centerpiece in a
struggle between two factions of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The monastery was recently taken from the control of the so-called
White Russian Church, [ROCOR] which traces its lineage back to the
Czars, to monks and nuns loyal to Moscow's so-called Red Patriarchy,
[The MP], which has been the official Russian church since the
Bolshevik revolution 80 years ago.
"We were told you have to leave because this man[His Holiness Alexy
II],has to come here," says Mother Superior Juliana. "This man was
from the red church."
Patriarch Alexy II attended a meeting recently with Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat asking for help in recovering church properties
like the Monastery of Abraham's Oak. "As the responsible authority
in Hebron and all parts of the West Bank," Rijoub of the Palestine
Authority said, "we have the right to do our best to help them."
[THE FOLLOWING IS from an official report dated July 7, 1997 from
Archimandrite Bartholomew of the Hebron Monastery Mission]:
To the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR,
"At approx. 10:30 A.M. July 5, police drove onto the territory of
our monastery in Hebron, and began to demand that we leave the
monastery leave within 24 hours.
The police were told that we would not abandon the property of our
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
Events began to take on a cruel character: They started to drag all
of us out into the street and they began to beat us.
The Abbess Juliana was dragged along the floor by policewomen. Her
head was hit a few times upon stone steps. She is now in a hospital.
Thus was accomplished "a gift-giving" to the Moscow Patriarchate by
the leadership of the Palestinian Autonomy."
ARCHIMANDRITE BARTHOLOMEW
Chief of the RUSSIAN ECCLESlASTICAL MISSION IN JERUSALEM
The Church Historian, Vladimir Moss wrote a telling comment with
regard to this this species of MP TREACHERY in his article, "The
Sergianist Takeover of Jerusalem:"
"If the idea that Archbishop Mark might be planning to hand
over the remaining properties of the Church Abroad to the MP seems
far-fetched, the following remark by his close assistant in this
affair, Protopriest Victor Potapov, should convince people
otherwise, "We declare outright," Potopov said in an interview with
Nezavisimaya Gazeta -July 24, 1997), "that we consider the Church
Abroad to be an inalienable part of Russian Orthodoxy and that we
would like to give over to Russia everything that we have available,
and in particular also here in the Holy Land."
What can I Subdeacon Nathaniel Kapner say to all of these things?
I fear that the ROCOR hierarchy will continue giving up their
kingdom unto the beast until it is fully signed sealed and delivered
by them on that fateful day in May of 2006. We all watch with fear
and trembling.
For the the New Confessors Mother Juliana and Archimandrite
Bartholomew,
Subdeacon Nathaniel Kapner
The Eleventh Hour
October 30 2005
St Andrew of "The Judgment"