MEET YOUR SISTER!

To Readers of this Blog,

I published  a series of these MEET YOUR SISTER articles 15 years ago and am republishing them on this blog, and see what was going on then, and what is going on today in the Orthodox World. If Orthodox Christians do not awaken, while sleeping heir faith will vanish, as they fall under the slipper of the Popes of Rome.  For our Faith is a living Faith and requires spiritually alive people to preserve everything that  was handed to  us, without additions or subtractions.

MEET YOUR SISTER!

Ralph J. Masterjohn                                                           Volume 1 Number 1

RMOrthodox@AOL.com                                                           October 1999

Following the Balamond Agreement the unionists have adopted new language. Patriarch Bartholomew has done the same. The papacy is no longer an enemy, but is now rewarded for her heresies, torture racks, inquisitions, bloody  crusades, sack of Constantinople, usurping the position of Jesus Christ. How is she rewarded?

Patriarch Bartholomew addresses the Roman Church our Sister Church

For Orthodox  who accept  this it would be  well  to  get  to meet and  know  your  sister.

Roman Church Today

   In Sacramento, CA, the RC Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament held an interfaith prayer service.  The ceremony included prayers to Buddha, Aztec Indian rituals, non-denominational Christian songs, candle and incense rituals, and the calling of names. It concluded with a procession to the nearby regency led by an Aztec princess bearing incense, accompanied by drums and feathered Aztec cultists, to view 700 panels of the AIDS Quilt.

   In Sacramento, CA,  RC Parish St. Francis hosted special homosexual Mardi Gras before Lent. 

THE GLORY OF CHRIST

THE GLORY OF CHRIST

Christ is All-knowing

Christ is All-powerful

Christ is the Alpha and Omega

Christ is the Amazement of Angels

Christ is the Apostle of the apostles

Christ Ascended in Glory

Christ is the Author of our Lives

Christ is the Beauty of All Creation

Christ is what we must become

Christ is Before the Ages

Christ is the Beginning and the End’

Christ is Born of the Virgin

Christ is the Bread from Heaven

Christ is our Breath

Christ is the Bridegroom

Christ is the Bridegroom of the Church

Christ is the Bright Morning Star

Christ is the First Cause

Christ is the Coeternal Logos

Christ is the Chief Cornerstone

Christ is the Conqueror

Christ is our Creator

Christ endured the Cross for us

Christ is the Crucified

Christ is the Deliverer

Christ Delivered us from Passions

Christ is the Deposer of the Devil

Christ destroyed the dominion of Death

Christ nullified the Devil’s Authority

Christ is the Divine Logos

Christ is the Downfall of Demons

Christ is our Drink

Christ is Emmanuel

Christ is the Enlightener of those in Darkness

Christ is Eternal

Christ is Eternally born of the Father

Christ is the Eucharist

Christ is the Everlasting Father

Christ is our Existence

Christ is our Exultation

Christ is in the Father

Christ has the Father in Him

Christ is the First and the Last

Christ is the Firstborn of Creation

Christ is our Food

Christ grants Forgiveness to all the World

Christ is the Foundation of the Church

Christ is the Fountain of Immortality

Christ Freed us From our Sins

Christ is our Future

Christ is God

Christ is the Good Samaritan

Christ is the Good Shepherd

Christ is the Source of Great Mercy

Christ is our Happiness

Christ is Head of the Church

Christ is the Healer of Souls

Christ is our High Priest

Christ is our Holiness

Christ is the Holy One

Christ is the Holy on of Israel

Christ is our Hope

Christ is the I exist ( I am)

Christ is the Illuminator of Souls
Christ is the Image of the Father

Christ is the Image and Likeness of God

Christ is Invincible

Christ is infinite

Christ brought Joy into the World

Christ is our Judge

Christ is the King of Glory

Christ is the King of Israel

Christ is our King

Christ is the King of Angels

Christ is King of the Jews

Christ is King of kings

Christ is the Lamb of God

Christ is the Last Adam

Christ is the Law

Christ is the Lawgiver

Christ is the Legislator

Christ bestowed Life to Those in the Tombs

Christ is our Life

Christ is the Lifegiver

Christ is the Light of the World

Christ lives forever

Christ is the Lion of Judah

Christ is the Living Truth

Christ is the Lover of Man

Christ is the Lord of All

Christ is Lord of lords

Christ is Man

Christ is the Messiah

Christ is the Mighty God

Christ is a Nazarene

Christ is the New Adam

Christ is the Offering

Christ is the Offspring of David

Christ is the Holy of the Holy

Christ is One with the Father

Christ is the Only Godman

Christ is the Only-begotten

Christ and the Father are One

Christ is One of the Trinity

Christ is the Opener of Paradise

Christ is our Peace

Christ is the Peace of the World

Christ is the Pearl beyond Price

Christ is Our Perpetual Sacrifice

Christ is the Physician of Souls and Bodies

Christ is the Prince of Peace

Christ is our Propitiation

Christ is Rabboni

Christ is our Ransom

Christ is the Redeemer

Christ is the Resurrection

Christ is risen from the dead

Christ is the Rock of Life

Christ is the Sacrificial Lamb

Christ is our Savior

Christ is the Second Adam

Christ is Son of David

Christ is the Son of God

Christ is the Son of Man

Christ is the Son of Mary

Christ is the Son of the Virgin

Christ is the Source of Knowledge

Christ is the Sun of Justice

Christ is the Sunrise from on High

Christ is our Sweetness

Christ is our Teacher

Christ is True God

Christ is the True Light

Christ is the Unwaning Light

Christ is the True Vine

Christ is Vanquisher of Hades

Christ is the Victor

Christ is the Way the Truth and the Life

Christ is Wealth

Christ is our Wedding Garment

Christ is Wisdom

Christ is the Wisdom of God

Christ is the Wonder of the World

Christ is the Wonderful Counselor

Christ is the Word

Christ is the Word of God

Christ is the Word of Life

This is a partial List. If anyone will add to it by notifying me I will expand and 

republish it again RJM.

THE BRIDEGROOM AND HIS BEAUTIFUL BRIDE

THE BRIDEGROOM AND 
HIS BEAUTIFUL BRIDE

     There exists many beautiful stories, both true and novel, which have been written and many historical accounts exist, concerning noble  and gentle bridegrooms and their betrothal and marriage to  gracious brides.  Those who remember such happy marriages, appreciate reading about the bride and groom’s mutual love and fidelity and happily observe  its continuity through the years.  

Such most fond memories are even more appreciated among those who  themselves  experience the same sweetness in their own betrothal and marriage, and who through faith and hope in Christ, have remained faithful and true to each other, with harmonious years in happiness  and eventually growing old together.    For them their sharing and mutual love is a foretaste of Paradise which was lost and the eternal Paradise.  However, no matter how wonderful and worthy it may be, even this marriage is inferior and is a type of another more beautiful marriage. 

     The most beautiful betrothal and marriage story of all,  is even now being written, and does not concern a  marriage of man and woman, which even when enhanced by offspring,  always ends in death – not exactly a happy ending, but inevitable, with only nice memories remaining.  Even the secular  saying “till death do us part” has a hollow ring, and sounds more like a threat than a promise.

THE DIVINE GLORIOUS CHAMPION OF THE FAITH AND GUARDIAN OF ORTHODOXY ST. MARK OF EPHESUS

       THE DIVINE GLORIOUS CHAMPION OF THE FAITH AND 

GUARDIAN OF ORTHODOXY

ST. MARK OF EPHESUS

January 19, 2014

    St. Mark of Ephesus, defended Orthodox truths single-handed prevented the Orthodox from being swallowed up by the Pope of Rome. 

     Mark was born in 1392 in Constantinople and from his youth yearned for monastic life which he embraced at the age of twenty-six, having abandoned a budding secular career that would have elevated him highly in the government of the Emperor. His name had been Manuel, but after becoming a monk he took the name Mark, which one of the Apostles is called,  symbolized by a lion.  Mark, like a roaring lion, dispersed all the unionists along with the papists. He prevented the union which would have destroyed the entire Church of Constantinople by placing it under the slipper of the Pope. The Orthodox were much like Esau, ready to sell out the truths of Orthodoxy not for lentils, but to save the City.

   It is not beneficial or lifegiving but is suicidal to harbor a desire to surrender Orthodoxy, abandon Christ and choose the Pope as head of the Church. Orthodoxy stands with the whole truths handed down to her from Christ and the Apostles, and the Holy Fathers which are safely secured in the Church by the Holy Spirit. Christ does not desire the union of His Church with anyone, rather He calls all mankind to “Come unto me . . .”, that is, unite yourselves to me, for I am your Head, your Teacher and your only Hope. The Papacy does not seek unity with Christ but chose to substitute a vicar in place of the Godman. 

   Returning to Mark’s background, he reluctantly accepted ordination out of obedience to the Patriarch, and was elevated to Metropolitan at the age of forty-six.  When preparations were made to meet with the Latins to attempt a reunion, Mark held high hopes that such a union would take place. At his time in history, the Byzantine Empire had been reduced to the City of Constantinople, and the enemy was making preparations to grab that prize.  The Turkish threat was a serious menace, and many knew that  it was only a matter of time before the city fell into the hands of the Moslems.