PROTESTANTS ARE ALL PAPISTS INDULGING IN AUTHORITY AND INFALLIBILITY

PROTESTANTS ARE ALL PAPISTS

INDULGING IN AUTHORITY AND INFALLIBILITY

    The Protestants in many various sects  have one thing in common.  Each individual is free to divide from the other believing whatever he sees fit, and even worse,  using the Bible as his guide, interpreting it as he will,  thinking that their interpretation is infallible, disregarding tradition, the Holy Apostolic and Church Fathers and the Seven Ecumenical Synods.

    Protestants,  also known as the reformers were organized upon a great falsehood. The falsehood?  That the  Church founded by Christ, which they believed the Papacy to be, became corrupted and needed to be reformed. They believed a lie for Christ promised that the gates of Hades would not prevail over His church, which remains true. They took the Papacy to be the church but it was the Papacy which was corrupted. 

      The Papal Church in England, broke from the Papacy, becoming the Anglican Church, which the King Henry VIII formed when he abandoned the Papacy, because he couldn’t have his way.  He was an adulterer and murderer, and founder and head of the Anglican church! The  Episcopal Church is derived from the Anglican Church.

     The Roman Catholics or western church after apostasy from the mother Church evolved from  being a former church of Christ and became the extreme and worldly powerful Papacy, which enthusiastically utilized the powers of this world with her own organized  armies, killer crusades and terrible inquisitions.

THE PROPHECY OF ST. AGATHANGELOS

THE PROPHECY OF ST. AGATHANGELOS

He prophesies that Germany will be the instrument 

that brings holy Orthodoxy to the west.

“Constantine began and Constantine shall lose the Byzantine Kingdom of the East. Son of man, number from the first Constantine until the twelfth number of the same name, and you will find the number [year] in which it will happen.

God has decided and fixed the divine resolution, ascertained to be genuine, shall be irremovable. It will be fulfilled during the fourth hundred of years, from the fifty-second to the fifty-third, in which the vast kingdom shall fall into the hands of the Saracens; and the houses will be spoiled, the holy churches sullied, and the believers persecuted until the eighth century decisively; because God wants that the people should learn His justice and feel the weight of His omnipotent hand and return to Him, and then become spiritually able and well acceptable . . . .And in  the manner of the Jewish people were subjects of Nebuchadnezzar, so will this people be subject to the impious Hagarenes until the determined time, and they will remain captives under the yoke until the approximate completion of four hundred years”.  

The Byzantine Empire came to its end in 1453 A.D.!

AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL ACCURACY!

     St. Agathangelos wrote his prophecies in 1279 A. D. Thus he mentions only hundreds of years fro the beginning of the millennium [1000]. Constantinople’s fall would take place in the fourth hundred  [of years] from the 52nd to the 53rd year i.e. 1453.  While the liberation would occur after nearly four hundred [years] after 1453.  And so this happened. In 1828 the first government of the Greeks was formed; 1828 -1453 is 375 years or almost four hundred exactly as prophesied.

     Ieronymous Agathangelos flourished in 1279 A.D. He was a Priest-monk Confessor and lived in a Cenobitic Monastery for 51 years.  In his 79th year of age, as he says, at Messina in Sicily; and at dawn on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, he experienced a majestic vision by which was foretold to him:

a. The fall of Constantinople, including the date and time of the Hellenic liberation from the Turks.

b. The shaping of European history after the said fall.

c. Western Europe’s apostasy, through Martin Luther against the Pope.

d. Napolean’s action, his campaign and his doom in Russia, about which he says surprisingly: “O Frenchmen, where are you going? The new king leads you to the slaughterhouse, and you shall leave your lives upon the high mountains; and your enterprises shall be manifestly abandoned.”

e. Partition of Austria and Hungary and banishment of the Kaiser after World War 1.

f. The previous Soviet system of Russia. The defeat of Germany after World War I and its dismemberment into two Germanies after World War II. The Prophets said: Germany, Germany, why are you so proud? You will be divided into two.

CONCERNING GERMANY

“But know that one of your sons of the same blood shall return against you and detests of the Latin [papal] dogma, and become the head of the heretics [Martin Luther]. I see your friends alienated, and introducing as many novel heresies as there are colors on the wings of the white swan [which Agathangelos saw in his vision.  I see the holy days repelled, the faith lame, your church without a guide, a ship without a rudder//, and lacking a captain, and your faith is groundless.

Great is the corpse, O God!  But wonder, O son of man, because even from this heretical Germany and through her, truth and the veracious worship of the Orthodox faith shall rise.  She [Germany] shall most firmly and more than any other nations vindicate the Apostolic Truth, the eastern dogma shall again shine in her!”

St. ANDREW FOOL FOR CHRIST + 936 CONCERNING CONSTANTINOPLE:

St. ANDREW FOOL FOR CHRIST + 936

 CONCERNING CONSTANTINOPLE:

     This town (Constantinople) ruling over many nations will be unconquerable by the nations, and unsubdued, for God’s Mother has kept it from such a fate, through the protection of her own wings; and by her mediation it will be kept invulnerable. And there is a prophetic word saying that the Hagarene (Turk) nation will come into it and will slay large crowds of people with the sword.

     And I myself say that also the blond nation [Russia] shall come into the town, the nation whose name is the 17th letter of the 24 letters recapitulated (Greek Rho); but it will come in and they will strew the ground with corpses of the sinners, and woe to them from the two branches whose swords moving like a breeze, and sharp scythes too, mowing wheat in summer, will not return to their places anymore, and neither will they stay here . . .  Because, in the last days God will raise a king, from poverty and he will reign in justice; and will abolish every war, and he will take cause that the poor become rich, and there will be peace the way it was in Noah’s days, because none will wage war.

     In those days men will become rich in peace, and in deep calmness, eating and drinking, getting married and making marriages, living in much freedom, unmindfully relying on earthly things; and owing to the lack of war on earth, they will cut up their swords and change them into scythes and agricultural tools.

     And after that he will turn toward the East and will humble the sons of Hagar; because the Lord will be angry with them because of their blasphemy, blaspheming our Lord Jesus Christ, and because of the sodomy  which they practice.

And many of them, receiving holy Baptism will become agreeable and will be honored by the devout king; as to the rest of them, the king will destroy and burn and put the rest to death.

     In those times all the planet will be restored; Also Illyricon of the kingdom of the Romans (Greeks); and Egypt will bring her treaties. And he will lay his right hand on the nations all around; and he will tame the blond nations; and will defeat those who hate him; for thirty and two years he will govern the kingdom.

     He will not impose taxes for twelve years and will not accept gifts. And he will raise the shattered altars and will have the Holy Churches rebuilt.

     There will not be lawsuits in those days, and neither wrongdoers or wronged people; because all the earth will shrink from before his face and he will, through fear, make the sons of men be prudent; and he will exterminate those magnates who will transgress the law.

     Saint Andrew through a heavenly revelation became a fool for Christ. He lived in Constantinople, also called Eptalophos,  being situated on seven hills. Inspired by God,  he reveals important events that will occur in the future, and have occurred just as he prophesied, thus he was a true prophet of God.. 

 He prophesies:

      Constantinople will not be subdued

The Hagarenes will enter the city and slay many

The blond nation ( Russia) will come into the city

Identifies that nation as beginning with the Greek rho or R for ROS or Russia

They will come in with strange weapons, swords like a breeze, meaning bullets, missiles, bombs, etc, not steel swords which return to their places or sheaths.

After horrific battles an era of peace will begin, “men will be rich in peace”.

A cessation to all war on earth.

Hagar refers to all Moslems who constantly blaspheme Jesus Christ. 

From their minarets the blasphemy that God is not the Holy Trinity and Mohammed alone spoke for God.

Hagarenes will be humbled and some will  accept the truth for the Saint says.

Many Moslems will accept Christ and be baptized.

After a  Devout king will reign and rule in peace, but first will come great destruction.

PROPHECIES FULFILLED AND TO BE FULFILLED

PROPHECIES FULFILLED AND TO BE FULFILLED

THE ANONYMOUS PROPHECY (1053 A.D.)

KOUTLOUMOUSIOU MONASTERY

MOUNT ATHOS, GREECE

ALREADY PARTIALLY FULFILLED,

SEE WHAT HAS AND HAS NOT BEEN FULFILLED

1. A Great European War

2. Defeat of German; the catastrophe of Russia and Austria

3. Defeat of the Turks by the Greeks

4. Reinforcement of Turks by the western nations and the defeat of the Greeks by Hagar

5. Slaughter of Orthodox peoples

6. And great anxiety for the Orthodox

7. Invasion of foreign troops from the Adriatic Sea. Woe to those on earth; Hades is ready!

8. The Hagarene (Turk) is great for a moment.

9. A New European War.

10. Union of Orthodox people with Germany.

11. Defeat of the French by the Germans.

12. Revolt in India and its separation from England.

13. England left to the Saxons alone.

14. Victory of the Orthodox peoples and general slaughter of the Turks by the Orthodox.

15. The world is in anxiety.

16. General despair on the earth.

17. A battle of seven states in Constantinople.  Slaughter for three days and nights. Victory of the largest state over the six states.

18. Alliance of six states over the seventh.  Slaughter for three days and three nights.

19. Cessation of the war by an angel (of God and of Christ), and delivery of the city to the Hellenes.

20. Submission of the Latins (Roman Catholics) to the faultless faith of the Orthodox believers.

21.  The Orthodox Faith shall move outward from East to West.

22. The barbarians fearing and trembling at it.

23. Discharge of the Pope and the proclamation of one patriarch for all of Europe.

24.  In five and fifty years, the end of afflictions, and in the seventh there is no miserable man, there is not a banished man, returning into the rejoicing Mother’s arms (the Church).  So shall it be and we wish it to be. Amen. Amen. Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last. The End, one flock and one shepherd shall there be, from the true Orthodox Faith. We wish it be done. Amen. Amen. Amen.  (A slave of the true God’s Christ)

VERSE  BY  VERSE   

OUR INTERPRETATION  OF  FULFILLED  PARTS

PROPHECY

1. A Great European War

FULFILLMENT

World War One Allies vs Germany and allies

THE PERFECT MANHOOD OF JESUS CHRIST

THE

PERFECT MANHOOD

OF JESUS CHRIST

 In the tenth Kontakion of the Akathist to the Theotokos is the following verse on which this article is based.

The Kontakion

    “Willing to save the world, the Ruler of all came to it spontaneously.  And though as God He is our Shepherd, for us He appeared to us as a Man; and having called mankind by His own perfect Manhood, as God he hears Alleluia!”

  “Called mankind by His own Perfect Manhood!”

     The Lord would not appear before men unless He humbled himself to become like us, and became incarnate.  Being the highest God, he lowered himself, took on our nature and  became one of us, who originally came from the earth. This very close humble and wonderful intimacy of God with man was not only to set him free and bring him to salvation. This because the Lord’s will must be fulfilled which occurs when His purpose is accomplished.  In the beginning of the Bible  He clearly stated His final purpose  when He proclaimed the reason for creation, saying: “Let us create man in our own image according to our likeness.”

     Jesus Christ, Son of  the Perfect Woman, the Virgin Mary, is that Perfect Man in the image and likeness of God. God’s desire is that all men become His perfect image and likeness.  He began with the creation of the first man Adam, in His own image but having the potential to also become His likeness.

L I G H T

      Light is  necessary, so much that without it there would be no life.  Light helps us to move about in an orderly fashion, walking or in a vehicle.  Light enables us to buy and sell, to study and learn.  Light enables us to work and accomplish many tasks. It is beyond our ability to estimate light’s great value.  But the light that we see with our eyes is one kind of light. There are actually three types of light, physical, metaphysical, and moral.  We are all familiar with the first type of light, the second can best be understood thinking of our individual existence, for we are each conscious of who we are and have remained. This is metaphysical light the light of consciousness and awareness.

     The least known and understood light is moral light. It shines forth into men’s souls through their consciences, and enters through awareness of their conscience as well as through the Bible, other people in the school system, government and church. All that we contact directly or indirectly are sources of knowledge.

     The moral light of the world is Jesus Christ, promised to the Jews and accepted by many nations, His light is also unique in that it is a light that is immaterial, lighting up the mind and heart of man. A blind men derives no benefit from physical light which evades him. A spiritually blind man derives no benefit from the moral light which always seeks to shine in him.

     Before Christ came into the world the nations were in deep darkness and often behaved more like beasts than men. They had the inner light of conscience but instead of seeking it, they responded with idolatry. There exists in  man the desire for something higher, better, superior, having knowledge which man lacks. Instead of using right reason, and seeking the true invisible God, by just addressing Him, they used their sinful imaginations and designed gods out of wood and stone. Then they bowed to their manufactured goods  and worshiped them as true gods.

     But men did not do this alone, they responded to the invisible Devil and demonic powers who fooled men in this way. When they went to their manufactured gods and sought answers, demons would  speak and provide an answer, which caused delight to men and increased their belief in their gods. These gods who were actually demons, successfully drew them into fornication, adultery, lying, stealing, and every vice. And this satanic authority made imprisoned men, spreading misery and injustice to prevail everywhere.   

     After thousands of years, suddenly the following event took place  as expressed in this hymn:

From on high did you descend, 

                        O Compassionate One; 

And you did submit to the three-day burial;

That you might deliver us from passions,

O Lord our Life and Resurrection, glory to you!

  Brighter than millions of suns, the Godman dwelled in the Virgin’s womb, was born and grew up, standing before men who saw him as: The true God who descended to free us from prison and save our souls. Other men who were evil and servants of the evil one, saw him as a malefactor not worthy of life and constantly sought every opportunity to extinguish this eternal who is God himself.

     They slaughtered him by nailing Him to the Cross; the fools had no comprehension of  the enormity of the crime they were committing. They rejoiced at His suffering, mocked His apparent powerlessness, urging Him, if He were truly the Christ, to come down from the Cross and save himself. They knew what they were doing and every malicious bone in their bodies was energized to fulfill their evil intent. Again they did not see the trap that the Cross really was, and that this trap would snatch all authority from their cohorts the demons and their father the Devil. What did they accomplish by their work, of what gain was it to them?  They permanently cut themselves of from the Light of mankind, from the Fount of goodness and will inherit eternal death.

“I am the Light of the world, whoever follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

EVERYONE THAT DIES GOES TO HEAVEN!     WHY WORRY?

      Concerning this title – this is a most important subject in our days for the idea that everyone goes to heaven was condemned as an  ancient heresy espoused by Origen, and condemned  by the Church Fathers at the Fifth Ecumenical Synod. Today this heresy is very much alive and permeates our society  and its advocates are often Patriarchs, Popes. Metropolitans,  Bishops and their followers, found especially among the ecumenists and philopapists. This heresy was known as the apokatasasis, or restoration. It advocates, it including Origen imagined salvation could not be found in terms of the rejoicing of the saved in heaven while those condemned were  suffering in Gehenna or Hell. How could we enjoy ourselves surrounded by so much misery? So, contradicting Jesus Christ, overthrowing His Gospel,  they embraced the false doctrine which establishes that in the end every creature will be restored and no one anywhere will be condemned to suffering; some went so far as to claim that this included the devil and demons. Simply, said, everyone that dies goes to heaven.   So why worry?.  

     Their false reasoning is their assertion that God being good can do no evil. The kindness and mercy of God is so great that He cannot stand to see anyone suffer. That this reasoning is wrong can be seen by the fact that God is not the villain who makes men evil.  For God is the source of everything good and only good can come from Him. The villain is the devil and his demons, who inspire men who become the suffering victims who did their will. Man is free and can choose what he wants, good or bad, virtue or vice. The freedom of man places full responsibility for evils squarely upon his shoulders. 

Today in our “everything goes” societies, all agree that you must die, but no one knows of or remembers the teachings of the Fathers of the Church or Jesus Christ, and they are both ignored. So we hear when someone dies, may his or her soul rest in peace,  Indeed in our present society belief doesn’t  matter nor does sin offer a barrier to the kingdom of heaven , in people’s minds . Baptism is unnecessary and the church shows no useful purpose to  people. For everyone that dies goes to heaven.

     Orthodox bishops go to funerals of prominent heretical bishops and pray that their souls be among the righteous, and so they pray for them. But they never approach theses false bishops to tell them the saving truths of Orthodoxy, and the necessity of them abandoning error and coming into the true Church, instead why worry?

What does this doctrine do? It overthrows all the teaching of Christ and calls the truth a lie. Jesus’ teaching is crystal clear, but the evil one always seeks to muddy the water so as to promote his own poisonous lies.

AFTER DEATH,

WHAT HAPPENS?

\Whether there is life after death, whether there is a judgment of innocence or guilt, and who will be the Judge of all men, these things have in our days, even among nominal Christians, been reduced to simply a sharing of opinions which disagree with one another.  Many teach that death is the end of everything asserting that each of us merely go out of existence, saying: When your’e dead your’e dead; others  teach that death enables their particular group of believers to enter Paradise The Papacy teaches that most Roman Catholics will go to purgatory to be purified of their remaining sins.

     Many simply deny the existence of a Creator and Judge. These people have no infallible guide acceptable to all of them that could lead them truth and escape falsehood. Think of this! It is the most important subject in our entire lives, for if there is eternal life after death it is well worth, and even necessary to learn about it now.

It is good to start at the beginning: “In the beginning God made heaven and earth,” begins the account of the Old Testament in the book of Genesis. “In the beginning was the Logos and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God.”  begins the Gospel of John in the New Testament. God calls  us first through our conscience then through Holy Scripture.

   It is impossible that the material  universe is also its Creator, thus confusing the Creator with creation. It is no different than saying, that this car is a man, when we know the car is not man but was made by man. The sun did not establish itself did not set itself in the heavens, nor was it set in place by a fictional mother nature, but by the Lord God who placed it in a  precisely perfect position to sustain life and provide heat and light for creatures. Grass did not just appear out of nowhere, and then multiply itself, but was formed by the Creator, who established the means of propagation of all plants, animals and men. Man did not create himself for he is a creature formed by the hand of God, from whom He received life, intellect and ability to feel pain and pleasure, love and hate.

THE FALLACY OF PURGATORIAL FIRE

THE FALLACY OF 

PURGATORIAL FIRE

   It is the official teaching of the Papacy that faithful souls must endure the burning flames of purgatorial fire after death to purge their souls of any remaining sins , and this would render them pure and fit for paradise. To begin with there is absolutely nothing, not purgatorial fire or any other substance that can cleanse the souls of men in the entire universe, except, the only thing that can cleanse souls and render them sinless is the blood of Christ, a single drop of which can1 can purify the entire world, for it makes the spirits of men divine and thoroughly cleanse their souls.  If the papacy believed this they would never dream up a fictional purgatorial fire.

Only the blood of Christ’s sacrifice and His blood is the only remedy to purge anyone’s sins for He is the living sacrifice for all of us.  Protestants simply reject this thinking they are following the Bible. Followers of the Pope do not believe it or they would not be selecting another way – purgatorial fire, which even if it did exist could not cleanse the human being from sins.

The sinful man, according to papal teaching has his soul purified in purgatorial fire, but his body who helped him to sin and is therefore sinful as well as his spirit. So the man is not purified at all, even if this teaching was true. However, the sinful man is not cleansed, hence there is no possibility for this doctrine to be true.  These are important facts.  The soul of man is not the whole man. The body is not the whole man. The soul and body together with a spirit from God constitute the whole man, which can only be purified and deified by the Blood of Christ. These facts St. Paul affirms: “I pray God that your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 5:23).

This biblical testimony from St. Paul completely destroys any idea of improvement after death in a fictional purgatory. 

1. It describes the whole man as being body, soul and spirit not one or the other

2. Being blameless means being without any defects or sins, guilty of  nothing, but this process must take place before death and not after death.  Upon death we must already be totally purified, for after death comes judgment and its too late.

3. Man is not one of these three but the three together constitute man.

Further, who is going to control the fiery flames of purgatory, the demons? But they have not been given such authority by God.  The angels? but they would never1 burn people with fire to improve them, for they know well that only the blood of Christ can cure.

Numberless people have died over the centuries, believing the popes of Rome who promised them his fictional purgatorial fire and when they departed they found something they did not expect.

The only thing that happens after death, according to St. Paul.

“And as it is appointed unto men to die, but after death is the judgment.”  St. Paul, speaking truthfully does not allow for a purging purgatorial fire, only judgment.

Further, the idea of purgatorial fire degrades the sacrifice of Christ, who alone endured the suffering meant from each of us. Or are we better than He that we should undergo suffering in place of Him? Insanity! Absolutely nothing untouched by Christ’s sacrifice, can be purified, for this is the only sacrifice acceptable to God. Any other suffering is inferior and of no benefit to anyone, for Christ did it all as the God-man. Jesus Christ says: “I am the bread which came down from heaven, and if a man eat this bread he shall never die. For my flesh is food and my blood is drink.":

WHY DO WE PLACE VIGIL LAMPS 

BEFORE HOLY ICONS

First – because our faith is light . . .  Christ says: “I am the light of the world, Whoever follows me shall not walk in darkness” (John 8:12).

Second – in order to remind us of the radiant character of the Saint before whose icon we light the vigil lamp. For Saints are called  “sons of light” (John 12:36;  Luke 16:8.

Third – in order to serve as a reproach to us for our dark deeds, for our evil thoughts and desires, and in order to call us to evangelical light; and so that we would more zealously try to fulfill the commandments of the Savior:  “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matt 5:16).

Fourth – so that the vigil lamp may be our small sacrifice to God, who gave himself completely as a sacrifice for us, and as a small sign of our great gratitude and radiant love for Him from whom we ask in prayer for life and health, and salvation and everything that only boundless heavenly love can bestow.

Fifth – so that terror would strike the evil powers who sometimes assail us even at the time of prayer and lead away our thoughts from the Creator.  The evil powers love the darkness and tremble at every light, especially at that which belongs to God and to those who please Him.

Sixth – so that this light will arouse us to selflessness.  Just as the oil and wick burn in the vigil lamp, submissive to our will, so let our souls also burn with the flame of love in all our sufferings, always being submissive to  God’s will.

Seventh – in order to teach us that just as the vigil lamp cannot be lit without our hand, so too, our heart, our inward vigil lamp, cannot be lit without the holy fire of God’s grace, even if it were filled with all virtues.  All these virtues of ours, are, after all, like a combustible material, but the fire which ignites them proceeds from God.

Eighth – in order to remind us before anything else the Creator of the world created light, and after that everything else in order: “And God said, let there be light; and there was light ” (Gen. 1:3).  And it must be so also at the beginning of our spiritual life, so that before anything else the light of Christ’s truth would shine within us.  From this light of Christ’s truth subsequently every good deed is created, springs up and grows within us. 

May the Light of Christ illumine you as well: St. Nicloai Velimirovich

WHY WE ARE LIVING?

THE TRUE LIFE

       Life continues on and children are constantly being born.  With or without love and marriage children are born and without a father and mother not one of us would be living this present life. The process for a man and his wife to reproduce children has been around from the beginning but it has changed drastically and this is an essential factor in answering the question raise, why are we living? What is our purpose here on this earth that we live a very temporary life?

      Today the truth of what a family is has been greatly distorted and this distortion may increase even more in the future. The traditional family of the not too distant past was unlike today’s substitute. There was the father, who was a worker and organizer, a businessman, manufacturer, engaged in various pursuits. He was the provider and head of the group called a family. The father was usually stricter than the mother which gave a wonderful balance to the happy family. The mother prepared meals,   fed her family, helped her husband get off to work and the children to school. She not only cooked, but she cleaned the house and made the beds and did countless other things. A loving and industrious father and a sweet mother produced children that enjoyed the best environment for their ascent to adulthood, where they would carry on the traditions which they had experienced in their family life, and the bonds formed in such a family remained until death and after death in memories..

     World War II, accompanied a masculine labor shortage, then came economic situations, and other factors which destructured much of the family unit. Working mother flooded the factories and babysitters, contributed to the gradual fracturing of the family. Economic conditions often caused the fractured family to lack the joyous atmosphere except in rare cases. 

THE ORTHODOX TRUTH OF THE VIRGIN MARY FALSE PAPAL DOGMA “THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

THE ORTHODOX TRUTH 

OF THE VIRGIN MARY

FALSE PAPAL DOGMA  

“THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION”

 The Orthodox Church honors with great exaltation and glory the Holy Virgin Theotokos because she is beloved, and having willingly contributed everything, especially her Son  for our salvation. The Church has always praises her ascetic and hesychastic life in the temple from three years of age to puberty. She never committed any sin nor did she ever stray from the Lord’s commandments, for she was sinless in all her actions. However, we do not attempt to honor her popishly with false declarations regarding her birth, for she was born from a father and mother as all men are born, not without sin as the Popes falsely dogmatized. It is through birthgiving that the propatorical (not original)  sin is transmitted from generation to generation.  The only one who did not inherit the propatorical sin was Jesus Christ, for He was born without seed of man. However it is a fact that  the Virgin’s father is Joachim. Whom no one can deny, carried the propatorical sin. The Church has never dogmatized or considered her to have been conceived without sin like her Son Jesus Christ, the only sinless one,  for she was born naturally of Joachim and Anna whom God had joined together in matrimony, and He gave them Mary as an only child in their elderly years, and they in turn gave her to God according to their vow.

     The Roman Catholic Church before it tumbled into the papacy never dogmatized that the Virgin Mary was sinless, and even after it became the papacy, all the way to the year 1853 they never  claimed that Mary was conceived of Anna sinlessly. Yet they did this in 1854.  Not knowing what they were doing, they declared her to be freed of original sin while in her mother’s womb, with the fabricated claim that this was a doctrine revealed by God. This took place during the reign of Pope Pius IX, the same Pope who through clever manipulation  established another papal dogma, that popes were infallible. Both of these dogmas are not Christian but papal for they are untrue..

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH 

IS THE BODY OF CHRIST

      In the make believe nether realm of ecumenism, there is a great deal of  talk about the churches and what needs to be corrected in the churches. Topics include repairing the divisions of the churches, the great need for unity of the churches and ridding the churches of the evil of  division. Promised for these corrective efforts  are the arrival of the happy day when Christ’s will shall be fulfilled, that they may  “all be one as we are one.”

    This quest is fictional and tragical and stems from the minds of unfaithful Orthodox leaders, unfaithful papists, and confused Protestants. None of these have any idea about the church established by Christ  and its true nature, so the blind are leading the blind and will all fall into the ditch of a new religion positioning itself as the true church. The true Church is perfect and will always be the true Body of Christ its Head, and it never needs anything or lacks anything.  It is the people who need to be corrected and conform to the Church’s guidance unto the fulness of Christ. It is the people who need to be united to the Church and thus to each other/

     The Church is the Body of Christ its Head and the Foundation Stone upon whom the Church is built. It is a divine human institution, pure and blameless, indivisible  and not subject to  anything or anybody. Rather, everyone needs to be subject to the Church. Its doctrine and discipline and through such attachment to the Body of Christ, they will have Christ as their Head, for the Church, gets its life and light constantly and directly from Christ and is never subject to division or error. “I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church. It is one, with one Head and one Body. It remains the Church, welcoming those who enter, and casting out those who are heretics, she is catholic having everything needful for our salvation and sanctification. She remains  pure and undefiled like her head, for she is divine and human. She sanctifies her members, with divine power and grace.

The Church is One, is not subject to division, nor can there be any real dialogue  between the Church and heresy, which is always outcast, and  it is the Church who keeps the heretics outside the Church. They will remain outside until thy repent and renounce their heresy and embrace and confess the truth, enabling them to enter the Church again. Many others have voluntarily embraced heresy which always appears as an easier path to salvation. Another important thing is that those outside the Church, teach and preach against the Church numbering themselves her enemies. 

     The true Church becomes highly visible to those seeking it, First, it cannot be identified as the Papacy. For they have firmly established  a different head who is not divine and human and is called the Pope of Rome. 

BAPTISM BY TRIUNE IMMERSION – COMMAND FROM THE KING OF ALL! ONLY ONE BAPTISM

BAPTISM BY TRIUNE IMMERSION – COMMAND FROM THE KING OF ALL!

     ONLY ONE BAPTISM

     After His glorious victory and Resurrection, Christ appeared to His disciples as the conquering King of heaven and earth, and He gave His disciples their “marching orders, to save all men who responded to their call for faith and entrance into the saving waters of triune  baptism. The Apostles listened intensively and then responded:  “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit; teaching them whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you to the close of the age” (Mat. 23:18-20).  They did just that as they taught them, and baptized them by three immersions in the name of each of the Holy Trinity, Father Son and Holy Spirit.

1. Teach all the nations      

2.Baptize them    

3. Christ never leaves us

     The Apostles, doing as they were instructed and taught this to those who came after them. The Gospel became like a roaring fire, consuming the old world of idolatry and the gates of Hades gave way. The Apostles also passed on to them, that which they received,  the gift of the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands.  Only in the original Church founded by Christ, is this triune immersion baptism preserved.  And no other baptism is a triune baptism.  The Apostles, who understood Christ’s teaching left the following Canon: The presence of the Holy Spirit in Orthodoxy is well known to both Orthodox and many heterodox.

HOLY APOSTOLIC CANON 50

     “If any Bishop or Priest does not perform three immersions (baptisms) in making one baptism, but only a single immersion (baptism) that given into the death of the Lord, let him be deposed. For the Lord did not say, Baptize into my death, but, ‘Go you and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’” (Matthew 28:19).

THE GREAT INVITATION

THE GREAT INVITATION

I published this over 60 years ago and it has even more pertinence today.

   “Behold I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone hear my voice, and open the door, I will come unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Rev. 3:20.)

SICKNESS OF THE BODY

There are many minor and major sicknesses of the body. Major sicknesses or accidental injury can cause the greatest pain and make our lives gloomy, which motivates us to do something about it. Before undergoing examination, diagnosis and treatment  by a doctor, the prudent  patient knows that he must disclose everything to him about his condition, leaving nothing out.  The wise physician, after diligent investigation, usually arrives at a diagnosis and method of treatment.  The physician also seeks to determine how the sickness or illness was contracted.  Sometimes the patient harms himself by overindulging or bad actions. Eating, drinking, carelessly as well as  lack of diligent care of his body. 

The good physician hides nothing, but tells the patient the truth, and prescribes proper remedies, so that he can start on the path of recovery. This may involve avoiding some activities or foods and drinks that may prove harmful. The patient who follows the doctor’s instruction rejoices as he walks on the path of recovery.

SICKNESS OF THE SOUL

 While sickness of the body is apparent and the body is visible, sickness of the soul is not so apparent, and many are they who are in complete denial of sickness of the soul, not acknowledging that man is more than just a body. The human soul or ego is subject to many sicknesses, affecting body and soul. Various types of misconduct and vices, disregard of God’s commandments, breaking His laws, which are called sins. As bodily pain induces pain in the heart, so sickness of the soul causes grief and misery to the soul of the one suffering. Added to the grief felt is the fear of eventual punishment for the illicit actions contrary to God’s laws.  If we keep the laws of God and fear His just judgment, all other fears will evaporate before our eyes.

THE FRUITS OF SIN

The health of the soul is beneficial not only to the soul but also to the body. The Bible says: “Piety  is of benefit to everyone affording as it does the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come” (1 Tim. 4:8).  Beyond any doubt, most sicknesses and diseases are due to sins. The Lord points this our saying to the paralytic whom He had cured:  “Behold you are made well; sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you” (1 John 5:14). Living a godless life of iniquity affects the health and the countenance of a man. It leaves him susceptible to many diseases and ailments and darkens his mind and intellect.

Gluttony is forbidden by God’s law and is punishable, and we see that those who are slaves to their stomachs with diets of rich foods, cause the upset of the entire organism. Sin is the underlying cause of many ailments and causes grief, pain and death. Obesity is causes by a person who fails to respect both his soul and body, and is curable by the Lord. 

   We can  witness in our own souls the fruits of sin. The drunkard see liquor destroying  him yet he will not leave the bottle alone. The gambler sees that he is squandering his money by card playing, and will not give up the game. The man living in debauchery continuously suffers from certain diseases and much pain, yet he will not cease his vice.  That is why the Lord says: “Amen, amen, I say unto you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.

PROPHECY WE UTTER TOGETHER SURELY WILL BE FULFILLED

PROPHECY WE  UTTER TOGETHER

SURELY WILL BE FULFILLED

       In the Holy Orthodox Church, we not only are exposed to many prophecies but, on a regular basis,  we even utter them ourselves, often without being aware.  Speaking of the future, the following prophecy is spoken by all of us when we say the Sacred Creed.  “An He (Christ) shall come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”  Christ being the Logos of God is perfect God and became perfect man,  and He will be the Judge of the entire race of man, and who is  able to escape this judgment? Fulfillment of this prophecy is unescapable and should be very important to us.

But when? It doesn’t matter, for with each of us,  our own death is the first step toward our judgment by the Lord. This brings the final  judgment very close to us, about a hundred years or so. The important thing when this day comes will be ourselves and our conscience. Do I have complete faith in the Lord? Did I keep His commandments? Do I pray to Him? In the morning? In the evening?

     If we had no real communication with God while in this world, we certainly will find our souls naked and destitute on that fearful day, resulting in our being cast into outer darkness as the Lord has warned us.

     However, our Lord Jesus Christ is compassionate and merciful and filled with forbearance toward man. So let us look a t a good judgment from Him that would cause us to enjoy the beauty and majesty of the kingdom of heaven forever. How can we achieve eternal life and the kingdom as we escape the judgment that can cast us into outer darkness.

     Christ makes the difficult easy and the impossible possible.”Come uno me all you that labor and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light " ``(Mat.11:29-30

WHY UNITY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IS IMPOSSIBLE! TIME, MONEY RESOURCES WASTED

WHY UNITY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IS IMPOSSIBLE!

TIME, MONEY RESOURCES WASTED

  Efforts to unite Holy Orthodoxy with other Christians will never happen for the Guide of the Church, the Holy Spirit, and the Head of the Church, Jesus Christ together with the laos to Theo (the people  of God) all reject any such unity and will expose its true nature, which is nothing other than a modern attempt to corrupt the ancient and true Church, by mixing unmixable truth with falsehood.

     Behold, how many years have passed since the ecumenists and philopapists started their work in 1954.  Spending millions of dollars of the Church member’s money on futile missions, airplane fare, hotels and restaurant, this waste will go on and on. Even worse, they do not  attempt to bring anyone into the Church and holy Baptism as Christ commands.  “Go forth and preach this Gospel, baptizing in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit. This is the main purpose of work outside the Church.  If we leave the heretics to their false beliefs, we prove a lack of love for them, not caring that they  die in their sins, which is cruel and is certainly against the will of Jesus Christ, who desires that men be saved and come to knowledge of truth.

From “Be Reconciled to Your Brother:”

ARTICLE 1954

“THE PATRIARCHAL DELEGATION AT GENEVA AND ITS WORK 

      The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate anointed the establishment of the office and the appointment of its director on December 17th 1954, and began to function March 1 of 1955 under the direction of Archbishop of North and South America, Iakovos, then bishop of Malta. (P 7)

  The ecumenists proclaim their efforts  as having lasted almost 60 years!  Yet they have not settled a single dogmatic difference. They are not bringing members into the Church. They have not challenged papal supremacy and infallibility, nor has he offered to abandon his blasphemous claims to be the vicar of Jesus Christ. Catholics and Protestants alike have not left their errors and poured into the true Church. Why are there no discussions on the great differences that separate the true Church from heretical churches?

“BLESSED IS THE KINGDOM 

OF THE FATHER SON AND HOLY SPIRIT 

NOW AND FOR EVER AND UNTO THE AGES OF AGES. AMEN.”

       This priestly proclamation heralds the most important event ever to occur in the history of the human race/ With great glory and majesty the Orthodox faithful are introduced to their homeland, which is the blessed kingdom of God. We must firmly believe the truth about our kingdom for basically there are but two kingdoms in existence. The first is the kingdom of God and the second is the kingdom of this world, headed by the ruler of this world.  Those who belong to the Kingdom of God are duty bound, to be true to the heavenly kingdom and not be overly-involved with the kingdom of this world, for the world is not our kingdom, and we must use it for the needs of our sustenance and maintenance.

   When separated from the Church, we are also separated from our destination. Union with the Church is our great hope. In the Church we are churched as infants, baptized and chrismated, married and eventually are buried. The Church indeed is the central part of our kingdom.

     Few are those who comprehend the beauty and glory of the Divine Liturgy, which is the Kingdom of God acting in this world. When the Church is celebrating, there are angelic hosts everywhere although invisible to our eyes. There are also the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones. Supporting the Priests are many angels and the whole area of the Church is now the kingdom of God, hence the proclamation:”Blessed is the Kingdom . . .”

The Divine Liturgy is not about something new or old but about something always present. It is the continuation of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross an event to which we offer thanksgiving and glorify continuously. Every Divine Liturgy is not the remembrance but the continuation of that which Jesus Christ established as confirmed by St. Paul in his epistle to the Hebrews. 

“And every priest stands daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, but He (Christ), after He had offered one continuous sacrifice sat down at the right hand of the God, from henceforth expecting till His enemies are made the footstool of His feet. For by one offering He has perfected, continuously sanctifying then that are sanctified” (Heb. 10:12 - 10:14).  Special note: These verses are badly mistranslated in Protestant and Roman Catholic Bible.  They translate the word continuous as forever (Greek di-inekes or continuous) These correct words properly identify the sacrifice as being continuous.

   The Divine Liturgy is filled with rare and divine beauty, and is the communion of believers, with the smell of incense and we see on the icons  the Living Lord and His Mother, John the Forerunner and many other Saints, who are the best company we can ever find.

 The Divine Liturgy is a sacrifice, but bloodless, for Christ established it on the night when He was betrayed when He took bread and blessed it and gave it to them, saying: Take, eat this is my body . . .  He told us: “Do this in remembrance of me.”

     Respect for the Church is respect and reverence for the Kingdom of God, which should inspire very good church behavior on our part. We should stand with fear and trembling before the awesome God who we often have sinned against us, and obtained forgiveness, from His great mercy; 

      Bad habits are difficult to change and good ones are difficult to acquire, but we can certainly make an effort.  Why arrive at Church any old time, when we do not do this for school, college, business, or a job. Let us get to the Church before the service begins and we will feel much better and help to restore better order. What can be our excuse for being late, but only for Church?  

     We should avoid sitting in Church after the consecration of the divine gifts, which is shortly after the   Cherubic Hymn. This also hold true  especially during the time when people are communicating., and, giving it some thought this practice approaches rudeness. We should avoid unnecessary talking in Church. We are receiving through Communion the Creator of heaven and earth, the King of glory, the Immortal Logos of God. Let us honor Him by standing at attention bowing reverently in prayer

   

     Let us remember who we are the very  next time we hear: “Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen. 

  

THE ONLY TRUE FREEDOM

THE ONLY TRUE FREEDOM

Freedom was bestowed upon human beings and angels who  have unrestricted freedom within their allotted powers,   that is, freedom of choice and freedom over their actions. Freedom is shown to be most desirable and is craved by many. Americans in particular tout the many virtues and boons of freedom, for our country in particular was founded with this fundament: “My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing . . .  Let freedom ring!”  “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!” But this is not the freedom that fills hearts with happiness and it ids only unto death.   

     Whatever a man may be bound by, after denouncing sin, if placed in jail, is much freer than a person outside.  A drunkard or glutton may be free in body but remains a prisoner.  The same is true of an alcoholic or drug addict. Any sin in which we indulge imprisons us and  arouses fear in men’s souls, for they cannot escape their  conscience which bears witness of  right and wrong and unnatural.

  No man wants to be cheated, but many are willing to cheat others. No man wants another man to take his wife, but many are willing to take another man’s life. No man desires to be defrauded but man often think as nothing defrauding others in business and governmental transactions.

       Lacking the teaching and the blessing of Christ man will walk blindly in darkness failing to recognize what is beneficial or detrimental in his life. Not knowing where he is going, he wanders as if drunk, lacking direction or guidance.  This is occurring in our present day, where there are fewer people interested in the important destiny to which we are all heading. The many promises and threats of Jesus Christ are clearly recorded in Holy Scripture.  “Whoever believes in me has eternal life!”  “They shall be cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.”  No threat or danger is greater than spending eternity in outer darkness and misery and in the company of demonic powers.  No promise can be greater than the promise of eternal life with continual joy, dancing and singing with the angels and saints, for all eternity.

Lack of proper use of freedom defrauds us of the greatest treasure ever made available to man. The freedom and free will of man distinguish him from every other creature, for not the animals and birds, but man is in charge. What would be the advantage of an imprisoned human race of zombies? It would not have even been recorded!

     How very sad that we are already headed toward this immoral end, for without morality man evolves into a beast.  The restraints of immorality are not really restraints but an introduction to freedom, for to restrain of immortality reduces many evils among men.  Though we  believe we are free because we make choices, but to a great degree. As the restraints of immortality come down, we are headed towards loss of freedom and are on the fast road to  becoming moral zombies.  Take   away the moral law from man and he is no longer man, for he wanders  about lacking a moral compass, and moral law is gradually disappearing from the realm of man’s vision. 

     Good and evil certainly exists, but modern man in general closes his eyes to evil, to demons and to the Devil. There is only one who can extract us from this deep slimy pit. Christ is the brilliant light shining on the world, a light we must follow toward our Lord Jesus Christ and learn from Him.   

     Freedom in Christ enables mercy and love to  soothes the wounds of our souls, it also warms our hearts and strengthen our wills  Without freedom it is impossible to love God for no one but the free are capable of  love. 

       God formed man according to His image with the divine perfection known only to him.  For He gave man all that he needed for his purpose.   Love is not possible without freedom, and this freedom was given to the first created pair bearing full responsibility for their decisions. Freedom is essential to a person, rendering him able to decide on choosing good or evil and right or wrong. Without such freedom there would be no responsibility and consequently no possibility of love, for only a free person can accept love and return love that is extended to them. Brethren, as St. John says: “Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God. He that does not love, does not know God; for God is love.