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Update on 22 January 2014:
The link works for now. Shall Potapov post the image on his parish website, too? It DOES need updating, after all. Shall this link continue to work in future, after the brouhaha dies down? Perspirin’ minds wanna know…
By the way… the nave at St John the Baptist isn’t large… you can fill it with a couple hundred people… and Paffso’s got that in his claque. Again… this didn’t merit a mention on the ROCOR website, so, bear in mind that it’s a probably an unauthorised private deal between Paffso and Potapov. To speak frankly, the OCA should kick Paffso out of the District and send him back to his monastery… he’s a monk, after all. The canons DO state that we should take monks who layabout in the City by force back to their monastic abode (I wonder why the konvertsy toddlers NEVER mention THAT canon?).
BMD
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A Cabineteer sent me a link on Facebook for Paffso Blessing the Waters at Potapov’s parish in the District. I got the following message:
The page you requested cannot be displayed at the moment. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you may not have permission to view this page.
OK, let’s try the parish website. Well, that’s way out of date… the last thing on the photo gallery was almost four years ago. Things are getting curiouser and curiouser…
In short, Paffso and Potapov had a roll-your-own ceremony; it might not have had permission from higher-ups. Don’t read too much into this… Paffso and Potapov suck up to the same scabrous crowd on K Street; it just may be a case of “shitbirds of a feather flock together” and nothing more. However, that’s “out there”… and it proves that Potapov’s still ploughing his own furrow. After all, he’s a First Families apparatchik.
As I said, don’t read too much into this… if it were official, it’d have more publicity than this. How low the mighty have fallen…
BMD
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