The angels weep… what have we become? It’s time to shut up the mewling children and to go home…
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As of 23.55 EDT Monday 30 May 2011, Memorial Day, there’s absolutely nothing posted on oca.org concerning the Memorial Day Pilgrimage at St Tikhon Monastery in South Canaan PA. This is in sharp contrast to the way that the ACROD handled the events surrounding the funeral and burial of Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko. Posts went up expeditiously, with images, on the same day as the event… modern technology allows for this. Reflect on this… the ACROD had no paid staff to speak of, yet, it had the news up immediately. The OCA has paid staff, including a Communications Director… and it’s laggardly in the extreme on getting out the word. I do believe that there’s something VERY wrong here. Fathausen said at the Pittsburgh Sobor, “Everything’s changed”… indeed, it has… for the WORST.
ACROD, with no staff, got out the word… the Mother Church gets out the word quickly, too, Vladimir Romanovich and his staff are worthy of their pay-packets. Meanwhile, John Matusiak sits idly under the cork tree, smelling the roses… “There’s always tomorrow… we’ll tell you when we get around to it… or, maybe, we won’t”. Modern computer technology allows for the instantaneous diffusion of the news… I seem to think that the OCA is spending a good chunk of change on those claiming to be IT specialists. Well… it sure didn’t result in a hill of beans.
FOR SHAME!
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Monday 30 May 2011
Memorial Day
Albany NY
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As of 13.45 EDT 30 May 2011, Memorial Day in the USA, there is NOTHING on oca.org marking the holiday; there is NOTHING to remind us of our religious obligation to pray for fallen Orthodox warriors and to offer Pannikhida for the repose of their souls. Paffhausen struts about as a moraliser and rightwing “patriot”… and look at what he does! He says NOTHING about the fallen… NOTHING. I can assure you that His Nibs posted remarks on the sacrifices of the brave veterans of the VOV on Victory Day. God save us… JP and the set about him are revealed as self-centred, juvenile, hubrisic, and nasty-minded children (especially his HOOMie pals and the rest of the scurvy konvertsy).
THIS IS SHAMEFUL AND WITHOUT WARRANT.
If this doesn’t tell you that the OCA and the cabal running it is crank and without a shred of human decency and decorum (let alone Christianity), nothing will. It’s time to go home… it’s time to shoot this spavined nag and get on with things. We’ve a Church to rebuild… and that’ll be the task of a generation, at least. Pray for the fallen, especially for those of our Orthodox faith… but pray for them all, without exception, of all faiths, or no faith at all. That’s our OBLIGATION as decent people… that’s our DUTY as servants of God.
WE THANK OUR VETERANS. WE BOW BEFORE THE GRAVES OF THE FALLEN. WE SUPPORT THE GRIEVING…
God expects that of us.
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Monday 30 May 2011
Memorial Day
Albany NY
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“The patriots we memorialise today sacrificed not only all they had but all they’d ever know. They gave of themselves until they had nothing more to give. It’s natural when we lose someone we care about to ask why it had to be them. ‘Why my son? Why my sister? Why my friend? Why not me?’ These are questions that can’t be answered by us. But on this day, we remember that it’s on our behalf that they gave their lives. We remember it’s their courage, their unselfishness, their devotion to duty that’s sustained this country through all its trials, and will sustain it through all the trials to come. We remember that the blessings we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our presence in a free society bears testimony to their enduring legacy. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay. But we can honour their sacrifice, and we must. We must honour it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set”.
“To many of us, our beliefs are of fundamental importance. For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ’s words and example”.
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What did you see, soldier? What did you see at the war?
I saw such glory and horror as I’ve never seen before,
I saw men’s hearts burned naked in red crucibles of pain;
I saw such Godlike courage as I’ll never see again.
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What did you hear, soldier? What did you hear at war?
I heard prayers on lips of men who had never prayed before;
I heard the men utter thoughts they will never think again;
I heard the sacred things they will not speak again.
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What did you eat soldier? What did you eat at war?
I ate sour bread of fear, the acrid salt of gore, my lips burned with
wine of hate, the scalding drink of Cain. My tongue has known a
bitter taste I would not taste again.
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What did you think, soldier? What did you think at war?
I thought, how strange we have not learned from wars that raged
before, except new ways for killing, new multiples of pain.
Is all the blood that men have shed but blood shed in vain?
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What did you learn, soldier? What did you learn at war?
I learned we must learn sometime what was not learned before;
that victories won on battlefields are victories won in vain.
Unless in peace we kill the germs that breed new wars again.
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What did you pray, soldier? What did you pray at war?
I prayed that we might do the thing we have not done before;
that we might mobilise for peace… nor mobilise in vain, lest Christ
“Dear veterans, through your tremendous endeavours, you vanquished Fascism and brought freedom to millions of people. After the Victory was won, you toiled heroically to raise towns and villages from the ruins and rebuild peaceful life. We bow low before you and express our gratitude to all who fought for and deserved this Victory. We cherish the eternal memory of all who gave their lives, all who fought to bring us peace. Russia will always remember this great Victory and the great deeds of our fathers and grandfathers. Like them, we will selflessly defend the interests of our Motherland. We will work together to build a prosperous and peaceful future for Russia. Glory to you, soldiers of the Great Patriotic War! Glory to the victorious people!”
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With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
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Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
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They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England’s foam.
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But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
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As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
It’s the veterans… say “Thank You” today… it’s the decent thing to do!
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American vets tell the truth about the Nazi scummers… the concentration camps existed… the Nazis DID murder “subhumans”… ask the vets… they’ll tell ya the REAL DEAL…
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Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
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