This is JP concelebrating with Benjamin Peterson, who didn’t receive the white hat at the last OCA Sobor due to rumours of him being a closeted gay, and Izzy Brittain, a man suspended by the OCA Holy Synod for suspicion of being the gay paramour of Nikolai Soraich (who’s in close contact with JP). It makes JP’s whole statement below utter balderdash.
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Here’s a hypocritical pronouncement by El Gordo (don’t hurl… the pietistic hypocrite expects you to take him at face value):
ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON {a massive group of 12 parishes: editor}
ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
3500 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington DC 20007
Phone (202) 333-5060
Fax (202) 965-3788
28 July 2011
Beloved Fathers, brothers and sisters in Christ,
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 1.6-10
In our own lifetimes, we were blessed by an act of prophetic witness in July 1992, when the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America issued the magnificent “Affirmations on Marriage, Family, Sexuality, and the Sanctity of Life” {issued under the gay blade Feodosy: editor}. Two decades later, we Orthodox who live in the diocese that includes our nation’s capital city need to be reminded of some of the moral verities contained in the Affirmations. It should be obvious to any attentive observer that those verities are under increasing assault by the intellectual, social, and cultural elites in this country… and even by many of our public officials, particularly in the federal government headquartered here in Washington DC. More alarming is the erosion of those moral verities within some of our Orthodox congregations {what about Storheim, Velencia, Hermie, and Feodosy?: editor}.
The dire need to preserve and protect the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception has been the focus of the annual encyclical of the OCA primate for Sanctity of Life Sunday each January for many years. I wish to remind you, in the prophetic spirit of the apostles, that the Holy Mystery of Matrimony and the moral limits of human sexuality are ancient traditions of the Church not subject to whatever winds of change may be blowing through our society at the moment {then, why did Fathausen smile at Feodosy, Pierre, Soraich, BP, Izzy Brittain, and his long-time sodomite guru Podmoshensky?: editor}. The 1992 Affirmations enunciated clearly and forcefully the following principles and guidelines among others:
- God wills that men and women marry, becoming husbands and wives. He commands them to increase and multiply in the procreation of children, being joined into “one flesh” by His divine grace and love. He wills that human beings live within families (Genesis 1.27; 2.21-24; Orthodox Marriage Service).
- The Lord went even further to declare that people who look at others in order to lust after them in their hearts have “committed adultery” (cf. Matthew 5:27-30).
- Christ’s apostles repeat the teachings of their Master, likening the unique marriage between one man and one woman to the union between Christ and His Church which they experience as the Lord’s very body and His bride (Ephesians 5.21-33; 2 Corinthians 11.2).
- Marriage and family life are to be defended and protected against every open and subtle attack and ridicule {such as Izzy Brittain and Nikolai Soraich… Hermie and his boyfriend…. oh, yes, El Gordo serving openly with Hermie and Feodosy last year: editor}.
- Sexual intercourse is to be protected as a sacred expression of love within the community of heterosexual monogamous marriage in which alone it can be that for which God has given it to human beings for their sanctification.
- Homosexuality is to be approached as the result of humanity’s rebellion against God, and so against its own nature and well-being. It is not to be taken as a way of living and acting for men and women made in God’s image and likeness {except when it’s found within the hierarchy of the OCA or in the life of JP’s guru Podmoshensky: editor}.
- Men and women with homosexual feelings and emotions are to be treated with the understanding, acceptance, love, justice, and mercy due to all human beings {that’s why he concelebrated with BP and Izzy Brittain, you nasty critics: editor}.
- People with homosexual tendencies are to be helped to admit these feelings to themselves and to others who will not reject or harm them. They are to seek assistance in discovering the specific causes of their homosexual orientation, and to work toward overcoming its harmful effects in their lives {after all, he served openly with Hermie and Feodosy… that’s what he means, kids: editor}.
- Persons struggling with homosexuality who accept the Orthodox faith and strive to fulfil the Orthodox way of life may be communicants of the Church with everyone else who believes and struggles. Those instructed and counselled (sic) in Orthodox Christian doctrine and ascetical life who still want to justify their behaviour may not participate in the Church’s sacramental mysteries, since to do so would not help, but harm them {and if we keep complaining of his past association with the known sodomite Podmoshensky, we’re to shut up, for JP says he’s OK: editor}.
Our life in Christ is constituted by repentance. If we are to be faithful Christians, we must be constantly turning toward God, away from our sins and passions, realising the seriousness of our sin in a spirit of repentance, and striving to change our lives. We cannot approach the Holy Mysteries without living a life of repentance, and examining our consciences and confessing our sins {like serving with Hermie and Feodosy at St Tikhon’s: editor}. When we have fallen, we repent, and try to stop our sinful behaviour. Otherwise, we risk communing unto judgement and condemnation. This discipline of the Christian life leads to salvation, enlightenment and the healing of our souls. We must be faithful to that discipline of life, if we are to call ourselves Orthodox Christians {except for those people he likes, such as Peterson, Mel Webber, and David Brum: editor}.
In light of the above, what Orthodox Christian in good conscience would dare to approach the chalice containing the life-giving Holy Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, while refusing to acknowledge, confess, and eradicate from his or her life sins against authentic Christian marriage, including fornication, homosexual activity, or adultery {or lying about his past and his intimate involvement with Podmoshensky: editor}? Which sexually active couples co-habiting without the Orthodox sacrament of marriage can expect the Church to bless their unholy union and welcome them to the lifegiving Holy Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, unless they find separate accommodations and cease their fornication and get married in the Church {except for gay bishops, who get a general exemption: editor}?
We are all called as Christians to live a life of chastity, pleasing to the Lord, married or single. If we are Christians we are all called, whatever our attractions or past habits, to the same saving discipline that will heal our souls {except in the case of clerical sodomites, whom he gives a dispensation to: editor}. Otherwise we are living in hypocrisy, a living death {what about JP’s unrepentant association with Podmoshensky?: editor}; just as when we judge others struggling with their sins. This has been delivered to us from the Apostles and Holy Fathers, and remains unchanged to this day. The Orthodox teaching on chastity and Christian marriage is a fundamental element in Christian life and discipline {except in the case of Peterson, Webber, et al: editor}. We are called to conform our lives to the Church and its disciplines, not alter the teachings of the Church to fit either a cultural fad or our own passions {except where Podmoshensky or Soraich is involved: editor}. Where we stand against the prevailing cultural trends, we must stand fast, because we know that obedience to the Church’s teaching leads us to communion with God and eternal life; and disobedience leads to alienation from God, spiritual death {then, JP’s spiritually dead, as his concelebration with Izzy Brittain proved: editor}.
As the Lord proclaims in the Gospel of St. Luke, “Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required. . .” (Luke 12.48, RSV). We Orthodox Christians have been granted eternal life as a free, unmerited divine gift. Virtuous struggle against sexual temptations is hardly too much for the Lord to ask of us {except in the case of Peterson, Storheim, Soraich, and Swaiko: editor}. The Lord honours the genuine intent of those who, with humility and repentance, so struggle, even as He judges those who, moved by a spirit of pride and defiance, persist in the spiritual delusion that unnatural or unholy sexual activity can be blessed {what about Podmoshensky, JP?: editor}. I have already instructed the clergy of our Archdiocese to honour their ordinations by acting in full accordance with our uncompromising Orthodox moral tradition {is that why JP acted in an equivocal manner with Ray Velencia?: editor}. I expect all of us faithful to honour our baptism and unique calling as Christians {except for the people he gives a pass to, such as Peterson and Brittain: editor}.
These teachings are not onerous, but rather, part of the light yoke and easy burden of being a faithful follower of Jesus Christ.
With love in Christ,
Jonah
Archbishop of Washington
Metropolitan of All America and Canada (sic)
Editor’s Afterword:
This needs no commentary… the Great Oz has spoken! Well… if the above is to be taken literally, the only question that we have is, “When are you going to resign for going against your own pronouncement, JP?” Note well that this wasn’t posted on oca.org or on Stokoe’s site. It probably shall be, tout suite, as I’ve just posted on it. This is too much. This guy’s nutters, and everything he says is bollocks on stilts. This is dated YESTERDAY, and it’s not up on oca.org, yet. This dumb-as-dirt bozo doesn’t know when to shut up.
God preserve us all.
BMD
Editor’s Update:
A friend sent me the following:
It’s a classic attempt at misdirection. I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts this blurb of Republican bluster is predicated by the Wood event. This makes the latter that much more interesting! It’s so pathetic, so transparent. He’s some kind of rank idiot. “They’ll never suspect my friends if I say this! Yeah!” Let’s chip in together to mail this moron a new drool bucket.
This is serious, guys; he’s making Christ’s Holy Church look like a combination of the Keystone Kops, Gilligan’s Island, and the classic Russian comedy, Samogonshchiki (The Moonshiners)… only it’s not funny… it’s blasphemous. Won’t His Holiness act? When I reflect on the fact that this gibbering poseur supports the people who denied my Nicky Medicaid… it’s almost too much to bear. I’d say to His Holiness, “Ну, так что же?” (Nu, tak chto zhe?: Well, what about it?) The people suffer, sir… DO SOMETHING.
BMD
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Voices from Russia 
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