26 September 2015. Want God? Go to Liturgy… DON’T Go Online…

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God is where He’s always been… in the Holy Liturgy, not online, not in self-absorbed chat groups, narcissistic fora, or clueless Facebook pages. You have to go to the church, cross yourself, light a candle, and let the immortal words of the services wash over you. We’re not Proddies… we don’t go to church to listen to sermons… we’re not papists, who attend because of some compulsory diktat. We’re Orthodox Christians… we go to the Liturgy because that’s where Earth meets Heaven, it’s where the temporal meets the eternal, where God Comes Amongst Us in the Eucharist. We bow down, we kiss the icons and the cross, we smell the incense, we confess and receive absolution, and we receive the Holy Body and Blood… none of which can you do online!

Go to Liturgy… that’s where Christ is…

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7 November 2014. Some More Vids from Podkarpatskaya

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Podkarpatskaya is also under Galician Uniate occupation… how much longer?

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25 October 2014. Why is Moriak Gallivanting Around His Former Diocese?

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I got this from a Well-Placed Source:

Since his retirement and departure from Chicago, Matthias Moriak, the former bishop, has made number of appearances in the Midwest Diocese. In early summer, he presided at a Divine Liturgy in a Chicago Deanery parish, also being present for the wedding of a St Tikhon Seminary graduate. He spent time helping his good friend Fr Andrew Bartek to pack up from one deanery parish and move to another. Most recently, Fr John Adamcio, the Holy Trinity Cathedral dean, announced that Bishop Matthias would be present for the services commemorating the 20th anniversary of the canonisation of St Ioann Kochurov (who served in Chicago). Bartek, also announced in his parish bulletin that Bishop Matthias will preside at Vigil on 1 November at Christ the Saviour parish in Chicago. Matthias will serve Divine Liturgy at Holy Trinity Cathedral the next day and will bless “Sanctuary icons”. Very likely, he will be the guest of honour the banquet that‘ll follow.

On Tuesday, 7 October, a Special Nominating Assembly preceded the Midwest Diocese’s regular assembly. Gassios received 88 of 102 votes cast for nomination to bishop, but there were eight votes for Matthias. There’s little question that these votes were cast by Matthias’ hardcore supporters not yet willing to accept his retirement from the Diocese. Lest we forget, this retirement came about after revelations that Matthias had texted and entertained an impressionable young woman in the Diocese who afterwards made an official complaint about him. Even though retired under less than honourable conditions, Matthias seems to be pleased to respond to invitations to clergy who showed loyalty to him, to attend and preside at a variety of celebrations… to act, as it were, as a “shadow bishop”. Matthias may be pleased by this loyalty and attention, but it seems to others that his visits are imprudent… that he should spend more time adjusting to a prayerful and contemplative life. He should stay closer to home and give his newly elected successor an opportunity to take his place in the Diocese without having to wonder when and where his disgraced predecessor will next turn up.

Shouldn’t Paul Gassios impose order in his diocese? He doesn’t need backdoor attacks on his authority (for that is what it is)! He has to put the konvertsy brats in order, and right quickly. Moriak is acting like Fatso… both are swanning about, getting attaboys from their admirers. It’s time to make both of them act like the monks that they pretend to be. I’d send both of them to the Mountain… right smartly. That’d not only learn them… it’d learn their claques, too. The Church is NOT “Evangelicalism with a Liturgical Itch”… thank God!

It’s not boring covering Orthodoxy in the USA… no, siree…

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Metropolitan Onufry Berezovsky, the First Hierarch of the UOC/MP, Served Liturgy at St Nicholas Monastery in Khust Raion on the Feastday of Righteous St Aleksei Kabalyuk Confessor of Podkarpatskaya Rus

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On 21 October, on the feastday of the Righteous St Aleksei Kabalyuk Confessor of Podkarpatskaya Rus (2001), as part of an archpastoral visit to the Diocese of Khust, Metropolitan Onufry Berezovsky of Kiev and all the Ukraine, the First Hierarch of the UOC/MP, served Divine Liturgy at St Nicholas Monastery in Iza-Karpovtlash (Khust Raion) in Podkarpatskaya. Besides, this day was the 100th anniversary of the tragic Maramorosh-Sigotsky trial of Orthodox activists in 1913-14. The accused were on trial because they professed the Orthodox faith openly. The main defendant was Priest Aleksei Kabalyuk… an active partisan in the movement to revive Orthodoxy in Podkarpatskaya. On 21 October 2001, the late Metropolitan Vladimir Sabodan canonised St Aleksei at the St Nicholas Monastery.

At the service, which took place outdoors to accommodate a crowd of thousands of believers, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry served along with Metropolitan Mark Petrovtsy of Khust and Vinogradov, Metropolitan Fyodor Gayun of Kamenets and Gorodok, Metropolitan Sergei Gensitsky of Ternopol and Kremenetsk, Metropolitan Vladimir Moroz of Pochaev, Metropolitan Antony Pakanich of Borispol and Brovary (UOC/MP Chancellor), Archbishop Ioann Siopko of Kherson and the Tauride, Archbishop Fyodor Mamasuev of Mukačevo and Užgorod, Archbishop Melety Egorenko of Chernovtsy and Bukovina, Bishop Antony Borovik of Ugolsk, Bishop Efrem Yarinko of Berdyansk and the Primorsky, Bishop Kliment Vecherya of Irpensk, Bishop Paisjusz Martyniuk of Gorlice (Orthodox Church of Poland), Archimandrite Iov Stec (Secretary of the Diocese of Khust), governor Monastery Archimandrite Adrian Maleta (Superior of St Nicholas Monastery), the clergy of the monastery, and many clergy from the Diocese of Khust, the Orthodox Church of Czechia and Slovakia, and the Orthodox Church of Poland. Local officials came to the liturgy, including Vasili Gubal, the head of the Podkarpatskaya Oblast OGA, Podkarpatskaya Oblast Soviet Chairman Ivan Balogh, and Mayor of Khust Vladimir Kashchuk.

In his sermon to the assembled believers, Metropolitan Onufry described the tragic events of a century ago, and noted the example of courage and resilience in the faith shown by St Aleksei, along with all the other confessors with him. During the Liturgy, Metropolitan Onufry prayed for peace in the Ukraine. He also lifted up prayers for the repose of the souls of all those who fought for the Orthodox faith in Podkarpatskaya. After the end of the festive Liturgy, in gratitude for the archpastoral visit, the thousands of believers sang Many Years for Vladyki Onufry, along with the choir.

21 October 2014

Media Service of the UOC/MP

http://news.church.ua/2014/10/21/zakarpattya-v-den-proslavlennya-prepodobnogo-oleksiya-karpatoruskogo-predstoyatel-ukrajinskoji-pravoslavnoji-cerkvi-zvershiv-bozhestvennu-liturgiyu-u-svyato-mikolajivskomu-cholovichomu-monastiri/

Editor:

The Uniate pig who is the “Governor” of Podkarpatskaya Oblast refused to show up at the Liturgy. The head of the OGA (Oblast State Administration… the administrative apparat of the oblast) DID show. Note well that I I Balogh (the brother of V I Balogh) was at the Liturgy… that means that Vladyki Onufry confabbed with him. No one knows what went down… but it sure looks like Onufry is deep into plotting. The Balogh brothers (“Clan Balogh”… Viktor, Ivan, and Pavel) are the “bosses of Podkarpatskaya”. Nothing goes down without their say-so. Some say that V I Balogh (the most powerful brother) is in Hungary now (or has gone and has returned), for what, no one knows, although people have reported that he’s confabbed with both government and Jobbik figures. The Triumvirate shitcanned Geletei… Geletei was a major pal of the Baloghs. There’s no doubt that the Baloghs believe that they’re next on the shit list. There’s also no doubt that Vladyki Onufry believes that the junta isn’t long for this world and he’s gathering intel personally.

The Uniates are taking “stupid pills” big-time. They should have gone to this affair… but they didn’t… or the UOC/MP didn’t report it. The Uniates rant that they’re “Orthodox in Union with the See of Rome”. Until they recognise Ss Maksim Sandovich and Aleksei Kabalyuk… they aren’t. They’re peddling utter horseshit. These bodies have become nothing but Roman Catholics with a funny liturgy… as institutions, they’re NOT very Orthodox at all (note well that the “Byzantine Catholic” clergy and hierarchy kiss the junta’s ass, whilst the people don’t). God willing, “Byzantine Catholic” believers will see this… and do something of it. Your place at table IS waiting for you in the Last Homely Home…

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