ORTHODOX NEWS & INFORMATION
6/12/08 - Anonymous Song of Lamentation for the Fall of Constantinople in 1453
Translated by Richard Stoneman
God rings the bells, earth rings the bells, the sky itself is ringing,
The Holy Wisdom, the great church, is ringing out the message,
Four hundred sounding boards sound out, and two and sixty bells,
For every bell there is a priest, for every priest a deacon.
To the left the emperor is singing, to the right the patriarch,
And all the columns tremble with the thunder of the chant.
And as the emperor began the hymns to the Cherubim,
A voice came down to them from the sky, from the archangel's mouth:
Cease the Cherubic hymn, and let the sacred objects bow;
Priests, take the holy things away, extinguish all the candles:
God's Will has made our city now into a Turkish city.
But send a message to the West (Frankia), and let them send three ships:
The first to take the cross, the second to remove the Gospel,
The third, the finest shall rescue for us our holy altar.
Lest it fall to those (Turkish) dogs, and they defile it and dishonour it.
The Holy Virgin was distressed, the very icons wept.
Be calm, beloved lady, be calm and do not weep for them.
Though years, though centuries shall pass, they shall be yours again.
5/2/08 - Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan KIRYKOS of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki (Ελληνικά)
Official synodal site: churchgoc.org (Ελληνικά/Русский/English)
5/2/08 - REVELATIONS OF HOLY MARTYR METHODIUS OF PATARA
Notice how today's "Jews" (Magog = Khazars, Achenaz = Ashke-NAZIS, etc.) are among the unclean races which Alexander the Great locked up in what is now Russia. Also notice how God allowed the Holy Byzantine Empire to fall to the Turks "not because he loves them, but because of the sin and iniquity committed by the Christians." And finally something to give us encouragement: At some point the last Orthodox world emperor will come on the scene and destroy all the enemies of Christ which are currently ruling our world, and peace will reign once again on earth, albeit for a short time. Then will come the final straw, which doesn't really need much explanation. All we have to do is keep the faith, and we will be OK.
3/22/08 - St. Symeon of Thessalonica
Dialogue in Christ, Chapter 23: That it is necessary to portray divine matters piously and righteously, and in accordance with tradition
2/12/08 - Feast Day of the Holy Three Fathers, Great Hierarchs and Ecumenical Teachers, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom
2/12/08 - Paisios (Pajsije) the Hegoumenos, Demetrios (Dimijtrije) His Brother, and Avvakoum (Avakum) the Deacon and Those Who Were Martyred With Them in Belgrade, Serbia
(+ December 17, 1814-January 27, 1815)
2/6/08 - THE F.O.J. SYNDROME: Brainwashing of Americans into a Special Neurosis, The Fear of the Jews, A Sociological and Political Study of Induced Pathology
by Ratibor-Ray M. Jurjevic
Note to the Venerable Bishops of the Orthodox Church
"I am sending this appeal to you as the leaders of our Church, not as purchasers of my book. Only a few of you have so far shown any interest in my books. I sent the information about them in 1985 and 1986. In the Lord's Army on earth, you are the colonels and generals, and I only a corporal or sergeant. Your responsibility is therefore far greater and more significant than mine, and your attitude can be beneficial or destructive of Christian interests. I plead with you to heed the warnings about the perilous situation in which Christianity is today. We are surrounded by powerful atheistic plotters. They are winning the masses and turning them away from Christ. In the leadership of the Enemy's forces are the veritable Pharisees who operate under many disguises. My books provide a detailed exposition of the Great Conspiracy. Please do not rely upon official historians, educators, media people, even liberal theologians, because they are enemies of Christ or are controlled by Christophobic secularists. They are feeding us lies and covering up their long-term designs in service of their lord, the Satan. Please alert your flock and utilize my books as well as similar treatises to mobilize the naive and otherwise doomed Christians. Satan never rests, and, therefore, we dare not rest in false security. Equip yourselves with information and use it vigorously to awake the slumbering Christians.
Yours in service to Christ,
Ray Jurjevich"
2/5/08 - Donate to the Taybeh Education Fund in order to help maintain the dwindling Christian presence in the Holy Land! Listen to NPR's show "On Point" with host Tom Ashbrook discussing the Christian exodus from the Middle East. (Notice how they refer to Orthodox Christians as "ancient" Christians and other similar things. The West is highly ignorant about Orthodoxy. When the average Westerner thinks of Christianity, Protestantism or Catholicism immediately comes to his mind. Unfortunately these are false Christian faiths and only true Orthodoxy is the correct one. Now of course the Jewish producers are well aware of Orthodoxy but they intentionally suppress it for obvious reasons.)
Dr. Maria Khoury is an author and educator who has written many articles dealing with the Christian presence in the Holy Land and the Palestinian struggle for independence and freedom. She is also the author of the Christina Childrens Books series. Her new book, "Witness in the Holy Land," is a reflection of life in the Occupied Territories since the outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising in September 2000. She is the wife of Mr. David C. Khoury, founder of the first brewery in the Middle East producing "Taybeh Beer." He is also the mayor of the only 100% Christian village left in Palestine, Taybeh, which is the Biblical city of Ephraim, where Jesus sought refuge after raising Lazarus from the dead:
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
John 11:54
Please lend your support to the Khourys and their commendable efforts to perpetuate the all important Christian presence in the Holy Land!
1/17/08 - Feast Day of the Eunuch of Queen Candace of Ethiopia
The Apostle Philip baptized this black man, a eunuch. Following his baptism the eunuch returned to his home and began to preach Christ. He was the first Apostle of Faith among the blacks in Ethiopia.
"Then the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route. So he got up and set out. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, that is, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, and was returning home. Seated in his chariot, he was reading the Prophet Isaiah. The Spirit said to Philip, `Go and join up with the chariot.' Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the Prophet and said, `Do you understand what you are reading?' He replied, `How can I, unless someone instructs me?" So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him. This was the scripture passage he was reading: `Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opened not his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who will tell of his posterity? For his life is taken from earth.' Then the eunuch said to Philip in reply, `I beg you, about whom is the prophet saying this? About himself, or about someone else?' Then Philip opened his mouth and, beginning with this scripture passage, he proclaimed Jesus to him. As they traveled along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, `Look, there is water. What is to prevent my being baptized?' Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water, and he baptized him. When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but continued on his way rejoicing. Philip came to Azotus, and went about preaching the good news to all the towns until he reached Caesarea."
Acts of the Apostles 8:26-40
The eunuch died a martyr and became worthy of the Kingdom of God.
Source: Prologue from Ohrid
1/14/08 - The Vision of our Holy Father John, Wonderworker of Kronstadt
1/14/08 - ΕΥΤΥΧΙΣΜΕΝΟΣ Ο ΚΑΙΝΟΥΡΙΟΣ ΧΡΟΝΟΣ! / С НОВЫМ ГОДОМ! / SRECNA NOVA GODINA! / HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Click here to see "Happy New Year" in different languages. Also, Happy Feast Day of the Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and of St. Basil the Great.
1/13/08 - Feast Day of St. Melania the Younger of Rome
1/7/08 - ΚΑΛΑ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΑ! / C РОЖДЕСТВОМ ХРИСТОВЫМ! / HRISTOS SE RODI! / MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Homily on the Nativity of the Lord by St. John Chrysostom. Also, click here to see "Merry Christmas" in different languages.
1/5/08 - Orthodox Christians face violence following contested presidential elections in Kenya
1/1/08 - Download Byzantine Music from Artopos Torrent. First download BitTorrent Software or other similar software to enable you to download Torrent files.
1/1/08 - Neomartyr Catherine Routti
(+ 15 November 1927)
(Ελληνικά / Français / English)
12/31/07 - Hieromartyr Andronik of Perm (1870-1918)
"A special word concerning the Jews: we did not accept them in our land and did not even conquer them. We cannot and will not give them equal rights, in accordance with the prophetic word of warning of the great writer of the Russian land, F.M. Dostoyevsky: 'The Jews will destroy Russia.' They do not want to use our tolerating them in our midst - so let them go wherever they want: we will not detain them at the gates; and we can live freely and prosperously without them. But if they remain among us, they will be as foreigners for us, not having the right to participate in the building of the people and the state."
-St. Andronik of Perm
"It is not a question of the struggle between two administrative regimes, but of a struggle between faith and unbelief, between Christianity and antichristianity. The ancient antichristian plot, which was begun by those who shouted furiously to Pilate about Jesus Christ: 'Crucify Him, crucify Him: His blood be on us and on our children' - continued in various branches and secret societies. In the 16th century it poured into the special secret antichristian order of the Templars, and in the 18th century it became more definite in the Illuminati, the Rosencrucians and, finally, in Freemasonry it merged into a universal Jewish organization. And now, having gathered strength to the point where France is completely in the hands of the Masons, it - Masonry - already openly persecutes Christianity out of life there. In the end Masonry will be poured out into one man of iniquity, the son of destruction - the Antichrist (II Thessalonians 2). In this resides the solution of the riddle of our most recent freedoms: their aim is the destruction of Christianity in Rus'. That is why what used to be the French word 'liberal', which meant among the Masons a 'generous' contributor to the Masonic aims, and then received the meaning of 'freedom-loving' with regard to questions of faith, has now already passed openly over to antichristianity. In this resides the solution of the riddle of that stubborn battle for control of the school, which is being waged in the zemstvo and the State Duma: if the liberal tendency gains control of the school, the success of antichristianity is guaranteed. In this resides the solution of the riddle of the sympathy of liberals for all kinds of sects in Christianity and non- Christian religions. And the sectarians have not been slumbering - they have now set about attacking the little children... And when your children grow up and enter university - there Milyukov and co. will juggle with the facts and deceive them, teaching them that science has proved man's origin from the apes. And they will really make our children into beasts, with just this difference, that the ape is a humble and obedient animal whereas these men-beasts will be proud, bold, cruel and unclean."
-St. Andronik of Perm
12/29/07 - Order free spiritual homilies from Orthodox Heritage
12/21/07 - There's a war on today, a holy war...
"The Zionists want to rule the world", warned holy monk of Mt. Athos Elder Paissios before his death in 1994.
12/21/07 - Very rough translation of what Elder Joseph of Vatoped stated in a tape-recorded message on 26 October 2001 in Mount Athos:
"Now there are the beginning of this events, hard events, military events. The motive power of this harm are Jews. Devil compels them for begin this, for destroy the seed of the Orthodoxy in Greece and in Russia. It will be for them the main obstacle on the way towards world supremacy. And they will compel Turks nevertheless to come here into Greece to begin their actions, and Greece, although it has a government, but on real it has not the government as such. It has not a force, and Turks will come here. It will be a moment when Russia also will move its forces to throw Turks off. The events will develop so: when Russia will come for the help to Greece, Americans and NATO will try to prevent it, that there will not be a reunion, merging of two Orthodox peoples."
Original Russian here. America, Nato, and the West in general are the arch enemies of Greece, Russia, and Serbia - and more importantly - of Orthodoxy. Any Orthodox who does not come to terms with this painful fact is in a delusion. They are doing their best to marginalize us and keep us apart. They support the Turks against the Greeks. They support the Albanians and Skopjians against the Greeks. They distort Greek history by focusing only on the pagan Greek culture and never the Byzantine Orthodox, and in the rare occasion that they do, they do it in a disparaging way. This hypocrisy and calumniation has even made its way into the dictionaries. In Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, a definition for the word "Byzantine" is: of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation. They support the Albanian KLA terrorists against the Serbs. They support an independent Kosovo. The ungrateful Jew and U.S. Secretary of State at the time, Madeleine Albright, whose family the Serbs helped protect during the Holocaust®, along with Jewish "thief, liar, and overall low-life" Sandy Berger, and Jewish General Wesley Clark, led the attack against Serbia in 1999 for their supposed ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians. They supported the Bolsheviks against Russia. They initiated the Cold War against Russia. They do everything in their power to distort Russian history and brainwash the English speaking world against Russia. What more proof do you want?
12/19/07 - The Catacomb Church in the Soviet Union
Reprinted from "Orthodox Life," Vol. 2, Number 2, March-April 1951, by Professor Ivan Andreyev.
12/19/07 - A History of the Orthodox Church: The Orthodox Churches in the 19th Century
12/17/07 - Great Martyr, the Emperor Blessed Constantine XI Paleologos (1405-1453)
Last emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Just as the Byzantine Empire was falling to the Moslems, the seeds of the coming Russian Empire were beginning to take root in Moscow. In 1472, the Muscovite prince Ivan III the Great married Constantine XI's niece Sophia Paleologos and accepted the title of Tsar and the symbol of the double-headed eagle. The ideology of Moscow as the "Third Rome" after Constantinople was being born.
12/17/07 - The Trouble With Conservative New-Calendarism
Speech by monk of Holy Ascension Monastery of HOTCA synod in Woodstock, New York
12/16/07 - "Sbn" or "Br" Nathanael Kapner, a Jewish "convert" to Orthodox Christianity, who operates three websites (livejournal, Real Jew News, Brother Nathanael), is currently character assassinating Bishop Christodoulos of the HOTCA synod. See here to get an idea of what the accusations consist of. Click on "Bishop Christodoulos about accusations against him" here to see his defense. He has also repeatedly calumniated Bishop Gregory of Colorado. See here. More recently however, he has mysteriously altered his position on Bishop Gregory and now apparently views him in a more favorable light - even naming him "bishop of the week" here. Nathanael Kapner's sole purpose is to spread gossip and false rumors, create scandal, and give a bad image to Orthodoxy. Anybody who takes him seriously is a fool. At least he is honest about his Jewishness. I respect him (to the extent possible) for that. Much worse are the numerous crypto Jews / κρυπτοεβραίοι who are lurking in our midst, who follow a systematic program which consists of infiltrating and attempting to take control (and thus destroy) the Orthodox Church. They have been quite successful, due to the indifference of most Orthodox Christians, but unfortunately for them, "the gates of hell shall not prevail" against the true Orthodox Church, which means they tire in vain and in the end will fail.
12/16/07 - Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene of Lesvos (+ 1463)
Here is a book by Constantine Cavarnos depicting an account of their life, character, message, and miracles.
12/16/07 - Οι Τρείς Σπετσιώτες Νεομάρτυρες - Νικόλαος, Σταμάτιος, και Ιωάννης (+ 1822) / The Three Neomartyrs of Spetses - Nicholas, Stamatios, and John (+ 1822)
(Ελληνικά/English)
This site has a book in Greek about them
(Ελληνικά / English). Just click on "narrative biographies" or "αφηγηματικές βιογραφίες" to find it. I am honored to be related to Neomartyrs Stamatios and John. The greatest enemy of the Greeks is not the Jews or Americans or the British, but the Greek traitors.
12/13/07 - Happy Feast Day of Apostle Andrew the First Called (+ 62 AD)!
Represents Church of the East. Holds unique distinction of having taught in both Byzantium and Russia. Foretold of the greatness of Kiev as a city and a stronghold of Christianity. Patron saint of Russia, Scotland, and Romania.
12/11/07 - St. Maxim the Greek (1475-1556) - sixteenth century Greek missionary monk to Russia
12/8/07 - Happy Feast Day of Holy Great Martyr and Most Wise Katherine of Alexandria (251-305 AD)!
12/7/07 - Prophecy of Liberation of Constantinople
12/5/07 - Possible Schism in the Moscow Patriarchate
11/27/07 - Download Orthodox Audio Files Torrent. First download BitTorrent Software or other similar software to enable you to download Torrent files.
11/26/07 - Download Early Church Fathers Software Torrent. First download BitTorrent Software or other similar software to enable you to download Torrent files.
11/26/07 - Happy Feast Day of St. John Chrysostom (347-407 AD)!
11/25/07 - FLASHBACK: The appearance of the Sign of the Cross over the Church of St. John the Theologian on Mt. Hymettos, outside of Athens, on the eve of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious Cross on September 14, 1925 (old style).
This particular church was under the omophorion of Bp. Matthew of Bresthena (+ 1950), whom the Greek Old Calendarist "Matthewite" synod is named after. This appearance of the Cross occurred again on September 14, 1937 over the Church of the Exaltation of the Precious Cross, on Mt. Kophinas, Crete. These signs from God are widely believed to indicate that God's grace lies with the (true) Old Calendarists.
11/21/07 - Synaxis of the Archangels and other Bodiless Powers
"...hold that fast which thou hast..." (Rev. 3:11) [The last words found in Metropolitan Philaret's typewriter]
The repose in the Lord of Metropolitan Philaret of Blessed Memory (1903-1985), who supposedly "reposed peacefully in his sleep," but is widely believed to have been poisoned to death. Here is an account of his life. Read his Three Sorrowful Epistles to the hierarchs of world Orthodoxy. Also read an informal account from a believer of the translation of the remains of Metropolitan Philaret.
11/20/07 - Russian and Greek End Times Prophecies - Do they Really Contradict Each Other?
11/20/07 - The Third Rome in History and in Prophecy
11/15/07 - Download Russian Patriotic Songs (zip file - 18MB)
11/15/07 - Byzantine Music at OramaWorld
Download 10 Byzantine Chants by Mount Athos monks for free at bottom of page. Or just click here to download them all (zip file - 51MB).
11//13/07 - Download Photos of the Romanovs (zip file - 4.3MB)
09/17/07 - Prophecy of 9/11 - Updated
09/10/07 - Spiritual Conversations and Instructions of Elder Anthony
09/10/07 - Prophecies Concerning the End Times
09/06/07 - Εορτασμός του αγίου μάρτυρα και Ισαπόστολου Κοσμά Αιτολού (1714-1779) / Commemoration of Holy Martyr and Equal to the Apostles Kosmas Aitolos (1714-1779)
(Ελληνικά / English)
"Ten thousand Christians love me, and maybe one hates me. A thousand Turks respect and love me, and perhaps one not too much. But you should know that a thousand Jews already bear hatred towards me, and maybe one does not want my death."
-St. Kosmas Aitolos
09/05/07 - Commemoration of Holy New Martyr of Russia Иоанн Восторгов / John Vostorgov (1864-1918)
(Русский / English)
01/19/07 - Happy Theophany! Sermon on the Theophany by Metropolitan Philaret (+ 1985).
01/07/07 - Merry Christmas! Metropolitan Anthony's Nativity epistle
(Русский / English).
Позор и Предательство
Shame and Treachery (Русский)
12/30/06 - An open letter from the Sketes, Kellia and Monastery fathers and monks who up to now had commemorated Patriarch Bartholomew. Now demand cessation of his commemoration and all bishops worldwide who are silent about what has happened with the Pope in Constantinople on November 30th 2006.
12/30/06 - Press release from twenty sacred monasteries of the Holy Mountain Athos
(Ελληνικά / English).
12/20/06 - Esphigmenou monks attacked, hospitalized. Click here for latest information.
11/06 - РПЦЗ И МП: СВЕТ МАЯКА / ROCOR and MP: The Beacon of Light
History of MP and ROCOR, by Fr. Nikita Grigoriev of St. John of Kronstadt Parish, Utica, NY.
11/06 - Black Cloud Over Moscow
Personal thoughts on impending ROCOR-MP unification, by Deacon Nicholas Chernjavsky of The Protection of the Mother of God Parish, Rochester, NY.
