Metropolitan Agathangel of Odessa and Izmail: “We are ready to walk this path to the end”

Agafangel (Savvin)
(born 1938), Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Doctor of Theology, honorary member of the Kiev Theological Academy, member of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church in the World Alexey Mikhailovich Savvin, born September 2, 1938 in village of Burdino, Terbunsky district, Kursk region [1] in a peasant family.

In 1956 he graduated from high school.

In 1958-1960 he studied at the Kiev Theological Seminary, in 1960-1962 - in Odessa, and between 1962-1966 - at the Moscow Theological Academy, from which he graduated with a candidate of theology degree for the essay “The Idea of ​​Redemption among the Ancient Pagan Peoples and Old Testament religion." Subsequently, on December 27, 1999, the academic council of the Kyiv Theological Academy awarded him the academic degree of Doctor of Theology.

In 1965, he entered the brethren of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. On April 2, 1965, he took monastic vows with the name Agathangel.

On April 18, 1965, Archbishop Sergius (Petrov) of Minsk and Belarus ordained him a hierodeacon, and on April 22, 1965, a hieromonk.

Since 1966 - senior assistant inspector and teacher at the Odessa Theological Seminary. At the same time, clerk of the Odessa diocesan administration.

On April 7, 1967 he was elevated to the rank of abbot.

From May 29, 1967 to November 1975 – rector of the Odessa Theological Seminary. On June 1, 1967, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

Since January 1968 - member of the diocesan council of the Odessa diocese.

In 1971 he was a member of the Local Council of the Russian Church from the Odessa Theological Seminary. On November 11, 1975, at a meeting of the Holy Synod, he was determined to be Bishop of Vinnitsa and Bratslav. Hirotonisan November 16, 1975.

From November 16, 1975 to 1990 – manager of the Khmelnytsky diocese.

On September 7, 1981 he was elevated to the rank of archbishop, and on March 10, 1989 - metropolitan.

People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 12th convocation (1990-1994). Member of the board and presidium of the Ukrainian Republican Peace Foundation, member of the Vinnytsia Regional Peace Committee, member of the board and presidium of the Ukrainian Republican Cultural Foundation, member of the board of the Odessa Regional Peace Council.

On August 7, 1991, he was transferred to the Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia Sees, but refused to go as a result of the lawless actions of the then Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Philaret (Denisenko).

On September 7, 1991, he was dismissed according to the submitted petition, but in April 1992 he was reinstated at the Vinnitsa department.

Since June 1992 - Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, Permanent Member of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
From 1993 to 1998 he again served as rector of the Odessa Theological Seminary.

During these critical years, the bishop was a constant participant in the Bishops' Councils of the Russian Orthodox Church - in 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1996.

From August 27, 1995 to May 8, 2008, he was the chairman of the Educational Committee of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Church.

Even before taking the episcopal rank, he actively participated in many international forums: in July 1969, he was a member of the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Conference of Representatives of All Religions in the USSR for Cooperation and Peace among Nations. In September 1969, he participated in four interviews with theologians of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Church in Germany (FRG). In 1987 and 1989 - member of the Soviet delegation in the international “World Cruises along the Dnieper”. In 1988, he was a member of the Soviet delegation on the “Peace Cruise” along the Mississippi River (USA). In 1992 - member of the international meeting “People and Religion”, which took place in Leuven, Belgium, under the motto “Europe and Religion”.

With a peace mission, at the head of delegations of religious figures, the USSR visited Canada, and also, as part of the delegation of the Soviet Peace Committee of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, visited the USA, Italy, Belgium three times, and Germany, France, Bulgaria, and Switzerland twice. At the head of the pilgrim delegation, he visited Holy Mount Athos, Jerusalem three times, and Cyprus.

During the period of Metropolitan Agafangel's stay at the Odessa See, the St. Panteleimon, St. Elias, St. Iveron, St. Constantine-Eleninsky monasteries, as well as St. Michael's and St. Transfiguration women's monasteries were opened. More than 300 churches have been opened in the diocese, about 20 new churches have been built in Odessa and the Odessa region and new ones are being built, the 3-story building of the St. Andrew's Metochion in Odessa has been returned to the Odessa Metropolis, all previously destroyed bell towers on city churches have been restored, the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral has been restored .

In 1995-1997, upon the proposal of Metropolitan Agafangel, by decision of the Ukrainian Holy Synod, the Venerables Kuksha of Odessa, Gabriel of Athos, Jonah of Odessa, St. Archbishop Innocent (Borisov), Hieromartyr and Confessor Anatoly (Grisyuk), Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa were canonized.

In 1992, in Zhitomir, under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Agafangel, a meeting of bishops, clergy, monastics, representatives of church fraternities and laity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was held, which condemned the anti-Orthodox schismatic plans and actions of the then Metropolitan of Kyiv Philaret (Denisenko).

Honorary citizen of the cities of Greenville (Mississippi) and Baton Rouge (Louisiana), USA.

Since 2000, on behalf of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Agafangel has represented the Ukrainian Church in negotiations between the Russian and Constantinople Orthodox Churches on healing the schism in Ukraine.

From July 27, 2009 to October 23, 2014, he was a member of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church.

From December 23, 2011 to May 8, 2012, on the basis of clause 17 of Section IV of the Charter on the governance of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, as the oldest permanent member of the Holy Synod of the UOC by consecration, he presided over the meetings of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (presided on December 23, 2011, 26 January and February 21, 2012) for the period of illness of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Vladimir (Sabodan) [2]. On February 24, 2014, he again chaired a meeting of the Synod of the UOC, at which, due to health reasons, Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan) of Kyiv and All Ukraine was unable to govern the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the locum tenens of the Kyiv Metropolitan See, Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky) of Chernivtsi and Bukovina, was elected by secret ballot.

Since October 15, 2021, he has been included in the membership of the Commission on Church Law of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church [3].

Metropolitan Agafangel has 4-volume printed works: holiday Easter and Christmas messages, addresses, greetings, reports, words on various topics, speeches, sermons, abstracts, etc., many of which are placed on the pages of the “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate”, in “Theological Works" and "Orthodox Herald".

Awards

• Church:
• Order of St. blgv. book Vladimir 3rd degree (1968)
• Order of St. blgv. book Vladimir 2nd degree (1969)
• Order of St. ap. and Evangelist Mark 2nd degree (from the Alexandrian Orthodox Church, 1969)
• Order of St. ap. and Evangelist Mark 1st degree (from the Alexandrian Orthodox Church, 1981)
• Order of the Holy Cross (from the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, 1981)
• Order of St. equal to Nina 2nd degree (from the Georgian Orthodox Church, 1981)
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 2nd degree (1985)
• Order of St. blgv. book Vladimir 1st degree (1988)
• Order of St. Prince Daniil of Moscow 2nd degree (1998)
• the right to wear a second panagia (1998)
• Order of St. Innocent of Moscow, 2nd degree (2000)
• Jubilee Order "Nativity of Christ - 2000" 1st degree (2000)
• Order of St. Innocent of Moscow 2nd degree (2000)
• Order of St. Nestor the Chronicler, 2nd degree (2001, UOC)
• Order of St. Nestor the Chronicler, 1st degree (2003, UOC)
• Order of St. Alexia, Metropolitan Moscow 2nd degree (2008, in connection with the 70th anniversary of his birth) [4]
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 1st degree (2013, in connection with the 75th anniversary of his birth) [5]
• honorary badge of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2013, for special services to the UOC and in connection with the 75th anniversary of his birth) [6]
• Order "For Church Merit" (2013, Metropolitanate of Moldova)
• Order of Stephen the Great, 2nd degree (Metropolis of Moldova)
• Order of the Church of Antioch and medals of other Churches

• Secular:
• UN Peace Medal (1988)
• Certificate of Honor from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (1988)
• Certificate of honor from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR (1989)
• insignia of the Odessa Regional State Administration and Certificate of Honor (1990)
• Certificate of Honor and Medal of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (1998)
• Order of Merit, 2nd degree - insignia of the President of Ukraine (1999)
• Order of Honor (2000, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic)
• Order of Merit, 1st degree - insignia of the President of Ukraine (2003)
• Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation (2003)
• Order of the Chernobyl Cross (2003, award of the All-Ukrainian public organization "Union of Chernobyl Survivors of Ukraine")
• Order of Suvorov (2003, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic)
• Order of St. George the Victorious, 1st degree (2004, award of the Russian Chamber of Personality under the President of the Russian Federation)
• Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (07/11/2013, Russian Federation, for services in strengthening the spiritual ties of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine) [7]
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th degree (2013, Ukraine)
• “For spiritual asceticism” (2013, award from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation)
• Honorary badge of the Odessa mayor named after. G.G. Marazli 1st degree (2013)
• memorial sign of the National University "Odessa Law Academy" (2013)
• honorary citizen of Odessa, Ilyichevsk (2013), Belgorod-Dnestrovsk (2013)
• Order badge “Glory for Loyalty to the Fatherland”, 3rd degree, for high labor achievements and services to the Ukrainian people
• silver medal “10 years of independence of Ukraine” 2nd degree
• Order of Cossack Glory, 1st degree
• commemorative medal of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR
• honorary medal “Fighter for Peace” of the Soviet Peace Committee
• gold medal of the Soviet Peace Fund
• Medal of Honor of the Soviet Peace Committee
• certificate of honor, medal of honor and badge of honor of the Soviet Peace Fund
• six Certificates of Honor of the Ukrainian Peace Council with the presentation of commemorative medals
• Certificate of honor from the society “Ukraine”
• Certificates of honor from the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regional branches of the Peace Fund
• Certificates of honor from the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regional organizations of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments
• Order of G. Marazli, 3rd degree (award of the Odessa City Hall)
• insignia of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

HISTORY OF SECTS SCHIMS HERESIES FALSE TEACHINGS

ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agafangel_(Pashkovsky) Agafangel (in the world Mikhail Ivanovich Pashkovsky; November 22, 1956, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) is a former bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, since November 2008 the first hierarch of the non-canonical church organization “Russian Orthodox Church” abroad" (the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Agafangel),[1] with the title "Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, Archbishop of Taurida and Odessa"[2].

In 2007, he opposed the Act on Canonical Communion of the ROCOR and the ROC MP and ceased to submit to the Synod of the ROCOR, together with a number of clergy who supported him, he formed the “Temporary Higher Church Administration of the ROCOR” and was elected its chairman. For schismatic activities he was deprived of the priesthood by the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR in 2009[3][4]. He did not recognize the ban. He considers his jurisdiction to be the real ROCOR, and the bishops, clergy and laity who recognized the “Act of Canonical Communion” as having gone into schism[4].

Contents [remove] 1 Biography 1.1 Before the bishopric 1.2 The bishopric 1.3 Opposition to the Act of Canonical Communion of the ROCOR and the Russian Orthodox Church 1.4 The First Hierarchy 2 Notes 3 Links Biography[edit | edit wiki text] Before the bishopric[edit | edit wiki text] Member of the Komsomol. Graduated from Odessa Pedagogical Institute. Was married. Worked as an artist. Has a daughter born in 1984. Later he divorced his wife, who left for permanent residence in Israel[5][6].

Metropolitan Agafangel (Savvin) of Odessa and Izmail wrote about that period of his life:

“In the late 80s - early 90s. former active Komsomol worker Mikhail Pashkovsky visited the Assumption Patriarchal Monastery and other Odessa churches. The clergy treated him very warily because of some of his provocative proposals and political calls to the clergy, for example, to speak out in defense of the “persecuted” Jews in the USSR. After Pashkovsky’s wife left for permanent residence in Israel, he began to look for the possibility of ordination and made a similar request to my predecessor in the department, Archbishop Lazar (Shvets)”[7]. In the early 1990s, after unsuccessful attempts to become ordained in the MP, he joined the ROCOR[8].

On August 31, 1991, he accepted monasticism with the name Agafangel in honor of the new confessor St. Agathangel (Preobrazhensky), Metropolitan of Yaroslavl (memory: October 3 according to the Julian calendar).

On September 1, 1991 he was ordained to the rank of deacon; September 8 - priest in Moscow in the catacomb house church of St. New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by Archbishop Lazar of Tambov and Morshansk (Zhurbenko).

He cared for the community in Ivano-Frankivsk. In 1992 he became rector of the Church of Sts. Nicholas and Ariadne (now the right of John of Kronstadt) in Odessa.

Bishopric[edit | edit wiki text] On March 27, 1994, in the Cathedral of Tsar Constantine in Suzdal, without the consent of the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR, he was consecrated Bishop of Simferopol by two ROCOR bishops who were retired for going into schism: Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko), Bishops Valentin (Rusantsov) and their ordained Theodore ( Gineevsky)[9]. By the decision of the Synod of the ROCOR on February 11/24, 1995, Hieromonk Agathangel, along with other organizers of the schism, was banned from the priesthood. Agafangel's consecration was not initially recognized by the ROCOR. To certify their trustworthiness, Agafangel and other people ordained without the consent of the ROCOR synod were asked to recognize the conviction of Lazar (Zhurbenko) and Valentin (Rusantsov) as fair, and also to live in the United States for a long probationary period under the control of the ROCOR bishops. Agafangel (Pashkovsky), the only one who agreed to these conditions, lived in the United States for nine months. On December 9, 1995, he took the oath at the Synodal Cathedral in New York and received a Charter with the title “Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea”[10][11].

In 2001, when some laity and clergy did not recognize the legitimacy of Metropolitan Vitaly’s retirement and went into schism, after some hesitation he took the side of Metropolitan Laurus.

Since December 17, 2003 - Bishop of Odessa and Taurida, governor of the Zaporozhye diocese of the ROCOR.

On July 1, 2005, he accepted into the clergy of his diocese Archpriest John Grudnitsky, who was defrocked by the Synod of the BOC for his second marriage[12].

On October 25, 2005 in Odessa, under the leadership of Bishop Agafangel, the diocesan meeting approved the US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst and Priest Leonid Plyats from Belarus as delegates from the diocese to the IV All-Diaspora Council of the ROCOR. The Pre-Conciliar Commission of the ROCOR refused to approve these candidacies, but Bishop Agafangel insisted on their participation in the IV All-Diaspora Council of the ROCOR[13].

At the end of 2006, part of the clergy from under the omophorion of Agafangel moved to the non-canonical Russian Orthodox Church[14]

In December 2006, Bishop Agafangel was accused by his former cleric Archimandrite Veniamin (Trepalyuk) of working for the CIA: according to Archimandrite Veniamin, Agafangel has “antagonistic hatred of Russia, its authorities, its people,” but considers the CIA “the most humane organization in the world.” , which “cares about the welfare of its people”[15][16]. The chairman of the Union of Orthodox Citizens of Ukraine, Valeriy Kaurov, also stated that Bishop Agafangel was closely cooperating with American intelligence services[17].

Opposition to the Act on Canonical Communion between the ROCOR and the Russian Orthodox Church[edit | edit wiki text] In October 2006, Bishop Agafangel, according to some media reports, allegedly said: “I do not recognize the document signed by the Synod approving the Act of Canonical Communion”[18]; On October 16, Bishop Agafangelom denied the rumors that had appeared that he intended to separate from the Synod of Bishops: “We are not separating from the Synod of Bishops, headed by our First Hierarch, Metropolitan Laurus... Only in order for our voice to be heard, we took extreme measures - until the time comes refrain from raising the name of the First Hierarch at divine services"[19]

On April 19, 2007, by decree of the Synod of Bishops, the ROCOR was banned from the priesthood (with a delay).[3]

On May 4/17, 2007, on the day of signing in Moscow the Act on Canonical Communion between the ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate, Bishop Agafangel spoke out against the Act[20][21]. It was supported by clergy and laity of the Church Abroad who did not want to accept the Act[22][23]. By May 21, 2007, there were already 55 clergy who came under the omophorion of Bishop Agafangel (including 22 clergy of the Odessa diocese of the ROCOR, which remained in its entirety under the leadership of Bishop Agafangel)[24].

On May 20, 2007, the Conference of Bishops of the ROCOR announced that the decree on the ban came into force.[3]

At an extraordinary meeting of the ROCOR Synod of Bishops, held on June 28-29, 2007, under the chairmanship of the First Hierarch of the ROCOR, Metropolitan Laurus, “a report was heard on the activities of Bishop Agafangel, who was banned from serving, and on the clergy who went into schism with him. A letter from Bishop Agafangel addressed to His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus was read out, in which he asks for advice and instructions on what to do. The Synod of Bishops decided to address Bishop Agafangel with a final letter of exhortation.”[25][26]

On July 11, 2007, the schismatic “Provisional Supreme Church Administration of the ROCOR” was formed, headed by Bishop Agathangel, which declared its main task to be “preparing for the holding of the V All-Diaspora Council, as well as establishing and organizing the life of our dioceses, monasteries and parishes in the current conditions”[ 27]. The gathered representatives of the ROCOR parishes expressed “their grief and concern in connection with the decision of part of our Church to join the Moscow Patriarchate, despite the fact that it continues to be in ecumenism and sergianism”[27].

From November 28 to December 3, 2007, Bishop Agafangel was in Greece, in the Old Calendar monastery of the Holy Martyr Cyprian and the Martyr Justina, where he took part in the work of the Synod of those opposing the True Orthodox Church of Greece and signed the joint “Act on the basic principles of joint work of Greek and Russian anti- ecumenists"[28].

On December 7 and 8, 2007, in Odessa, with the participation of the bishops of the “Synod of Opposing”, he consecrated two new bishops of the All-Russian Orthodox Church of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad: Andronik (Kotlyarov) - to manage parishes in foreign countries, and Sophrony (Musienko) - to manage parishes in Russia.

On September 2 - 4, 2008, at the St. Archangel Michael Diocesan House in Odessa, a regular meeting of the All-Russian Orthodox Church of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad was held under the chairmanship of Bishop Agafangel, at which Bishops John (Zaitsev) and Athanasius (Savitsky) from the church were admitted into communion “on the basis of autonomy”[29]. groups of “Sekachevites” (Seraphim-Gennadievites), challenging their succession from the Catacomb Church, but not recognized by the Russian Church Abroad due to their lack of apostolic succession and sectarian ideology[30]. At the meeting of the All-Diaspora Council, the agenda of the V All-Diaspora Council, scheduled for November 18-20, 2008, was approved, and the Conference of Russian Eminences was restored[29].

On September 1, 2009, the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR MP was deprived of the priesthood in connection with the illegal performance of divine services and ordinations; All ceremonies, consecrations and ordinations performed by Bishop Agathangel since the ban on April 19, 2007, were declared invalid by the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR MP.[4]

Bishop Agafangel himself does not consider the reprimands coming from the synod (and the synod itself) of the ROCOR MP to be legitimate. Since, in his opinion, the bishops of the synod of the ROCOR MP, having agreed to unite with the Moscow Patriarchate, violated the decisions of the IV All-Diaspora Council, which decided such a unification was premature until the issues of “Sergianism”, “heresy of ecumenism” and other canonical violations in the life of the Russian Orthodox Church MP.

First Hierarchy[edit | edit wiki text] Main article: ROCOR (A) From November 18 to November 20, 2008, a meeting was held on the territory of the Tolstoy Foundation farm in New York State (USA), which its participants called the “V All-Diaspora Council of the ROCOR.” At this meeting, Bishop Agafangel was elected First Hierarch of the ROCOR(A) and elevated to the rank of metropolitan[31]. One of the participants in the council, not recognizing the legality of this construction, shouted “Anaxios” during the table, but the table ceremony was not interrupted[32].

On April 27, 2010 in Odessa, at a meeting of the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR(A), a new composition of the Synod of Bishops was formed, headed by Metropolitan Agafangel[33]. At the same time, Dionysius (Alferov) was accepted into the episcopate of the ROCOR(A) from the RTOC.

On June 16, 2010, it was announced that Bishop Irenaeus (Klipenstein), the temporary administrator of the Western European Diocese of the RTOC, had been accepted into the jurisdiction of the ROCOR(A)[34].

On May 14/27, 2011, at a meeting of the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR(A) in the parish house at the Voronezh Church in honor of All Saints who shone in the Russian land, Bishop Nikolai (Modebadze) was received from the TOC(R) through reordination, determined to be a suffragan bishop with the title “Bishop of Potino”[35]. At the same meeting, it was decided to accept three clergy who broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church: Sergius Kondakov, Mikhail Karpeev and Alexander Malykh and two parishes in Udmurtia and as “parishes from the Moscow Patriarchate within the Russian Church Abroad, temporarily under the direct subordination of the First Hierarch”[ 36].

In 2012, he accepted into the ranks of his organization Nadezhda Antonenko, the leader of a pseudo-healing sect, convicted under Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of Russia “Fraud”. It is noteworthy that the Russian Orthodox Church declared that Antonenko’s teachings did not correspond to the Orthodox doctrine[37], after which Antonenko forbade her adherents from visiting the churches of the Moscow Patriarchate[38].

Myths about famine in the Russian Empire and the causes of famine in the USSR

Discussion: 4 comments

1. Beekeeper:
   11/28/2020 at 06:14

   Circus with horses! Some supposedly independent Trump, who is concerned about the “well-being” of the Americans without the knowledge of the Jewish kahal, who himself, from head to toe, is permeated with this kahal, having his own daughter as a Jew! Who will give him this independence? And this has never happened in American history! And whoever tried to break out of this mutual responsibility was removed, like Lincoln, who planned to put an end to the Rothschilds’ financing of the armies of the south and north at the same time and thereby continue the slaughter that was beneficial to the Jewish clans! And like the same Kennedy, who planned to put an end to the printing press in private hands alone! It’s amazing how naive and how unwise the reasoning of a man who is 82 years old is! However, in our reality of serving Satan at all levels, this is natural! It is better for the metropolitan, who has lived from head to toe, to remain silent!

2. Alexey Lebedev:

   29.11.2020 at 13:36

   One hundred percent correct, Mikhail Viktorovich, very good!

3. Pavel Marchenko:

   29.11.2020 at 16:42

   The position of the Russian Church, regardless of jurisdiction, is now such that it cannot nominate worthy bishops and priests from its ranks. When you start discussing questions of faith with one or another cleric, you run into a wall. It is impossible to discuss anything with them. In this state of affairs, all that remains is to watch how the Russian Church goes to the bottom. What can stop this voluntary flooding? I'm afraid of nothing! There are no good teachers who could teach the true Faith. Although, of course, there are books from which you can learn everything yourself. But no one reads these books anymore.

4. IN:

   11/30/2020 at 11:06 am

   Pavel Marchenko: “When you start discussing questions of faith with this or that cleric, you run into a wall. " Gold words. It’s just like in the Jewish joke: “Do you pray at the Western Wall? - Yes, rabbi. Every day I ask for peace for Israel, for my family! - So how is it? - ABOUT! It feels like I’m talking to the Wall!” The most pressing issues of politics or eschatology are discussed correctly and without any fear of the Jews, but where does fearlessness come from regarding the fulfillment of the Canons written under the guidance of the Holy Spirit? Above all, one’s own opinion or the private theological opinions of others is placed. Apparently, St. Ignatius Brianchaninov correctly called “suspiciousness” the disease of the age and already in his time called for being guided primarily by Scripture and the Tradition of the Holy Fathers.