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Akathist to the Mother of God of Walsingham

Countess Edith the Fair (c. 1025 – c. 1086), called the Gentle Swan, was the wife of Harold Godwinson, Earl of East Anglia. He later became Earl of Wessex, then the last English King of England, and was killed at Hastings by the invaders of 1066. Edith had six children by him, including Gytha, who married Vladimir Monomakh, the future Saint and Grand Duke of Kievan Rus. In her vision of 1061, Edith was instructed by the Mother of God to build a replica of the house of the Annunciation in Nazareth in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England. This was all on the eve of the ravaging of England by the last Vikings on 14 October 1066.  It is said that when England returns to Walsingham, the Mother of God will return to England. Therefore, this heavenly vision is commemorated by Orthodox on 15 October, together with St Andrew the Fool, who in Constantinople in the tenth century saw the Mother of God praying for the whole world beneath Her Protecting Veil.

With the Blessing of His Eminence Atanasie, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

 

Kontakion 1

By revelation from on high to the noble Countess Edith the Fair, Thy Holy House was raised up in holy Norfolk. This betokened comfort before the coming misfortune, after which pilgrims all flocked along the Walsingham Way, seeking consolation. Then, O Most Pure Maiden Mary and Mother of our God, in times of darkness and impiety, Thy holy veneration was forsaken and Walsingham wept. But now as Thou art honoured anew in the vision of Thy graceful handmaid Edith, Queen to Godwin and mother to Gytha of the Rus, the spouse of Monomakh, intercede for us with Thy Son, Christ our Saviour, that we may cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Ikos 1

Angels and men alike marvelled at the grace of the Holy Spirit which was announced from Thy Holy House, England’s Nazareth, on the eve of England’s misfortune. Gabriel’s voice announced anew comfort for those oppressed in forthcoming dark and wicked times by foreign men, when holiness was denied. And now we too marvel, for Thou art come again like a quiet but constant flame to our green land to comfort us once more in these latter times. Therefore, we cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, O Virgin Who in exceeding humility didst accept the words of the Archangel Gabriel.        Rejoice, Mother of the Church and Mother of all Christians.
Rejoice, O grace-bearing Lady, forgiveness for our foolish ways.
Rejoice, consolation for the faint-hearted.
Rejoice, comfort for the sick and weary.
Rejoice, warmth for the hearts of the forsaken.
Rejoice, bringer of sailors to safe havens.
Rejoice, strength for the weak in faith.
Rejoice, sweetness for the broken-hearted.
Rejoice, guide of those who have lost the way.
Rejoice, gatherer of the faithful in the last times.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost ready us to enter from the earthly Walsingham into the Heavenly Jerusalem.                                                                                                                                            Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 2

O Sovereign Lady, Queen of these Isles, we have known and we have continually beheld Thy meekness and consolation. Many dead have been brought back to life, sick healed by Thy love, lame made whole, blind restored to sight and possessed made whole at Thy Holy Shrine, the New Nazareth. We confess Thy mild-heartedness and we know Thy tender mercy, therefore we cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 2

Who can understand the mysterious workings of the Three Persons bound by Love? Who can speak of God’s blessings? Who is privy to His counsel? For He raises up and He casts down, He humbles and He exalts, He afflicts and He heals. Therefore, He humbled us on account of our sins and cast down our land, taking away the ancient love of the Orthodox Faith. To Whom then shall we flee in our sorrow, to Whom then shall we stretch out our hands, if not to Thee, O Most Pure Lady of Walsingham? Therefore, with repentant hearts we cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, Thou Who dost intercede with Thy Son for us.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost protect us from anger.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost cleanse us from our sins.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost pray for the forgiveness of all.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost lighten the way of hope for us.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost comfort broken hearts.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost gather together the scattered faithful.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost quell the divisions and tumults of those who have lost the Faith.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost set at naught the councils of the ungodly.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost pilot those who sail through the sea of life.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost forsake none in Thy care.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost cover us all with Thy most Precious Veil.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 3

Mighty works have appeared through Thee and grace has poured forth the silvery dew from heaven over Walsingham, O Most Blessed Virgin. Pious pilgrims to Thy Holy House from near and far have heard anew the announcing voice of the Holy Archangel and been moved to cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 3

As Thou dost possess love beyond words, O Most Good Lady, Thou dost make the light of Thy grace to shine forth in places of darkness and sorrow. Therefore, Thou hast not forsaken us as orphans, but through Thine Image Thou hast come to us who glorify Thy tender-heartedness and cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, ocean of wonders.
Rejoice, abyss of mercy.
Rejoice, ever-flowing wellspring of grace.
Rejoice, unquenchable source of healing.
Rejoice, warmth and comfort of the meek.
Rejoice, Thou Who hast surpassed the laws of nature.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost turn our gloom into bliss.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost change our tears and sorrow into joy and gladness.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost turn persecution into victory to the wonder of all.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost defend us who are oppressed.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost shame the hopes of our enemies.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost make glad the hearts of those who sing to Thee.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 4

In times of trouble when temptations assail us, when sorrow and pain visit us, when patience and love fail us, we hasten to Thine Image and pouring forth our tears before Thee, we cry out from the depths of our hearts: Stretch out Thy God-bearing hands, speak to us counsels of wisdom, lead us up out of evil, that with thankful hearts we may cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

In times of old, pilgrims heard of Thy glory and, followed by kings and queens, wended their way to Thy Holy House along the Palmers’ Path, from south through Exning and Thetford, from east through Norwich along the Walsingham Way, from west and north through Lynn, crying aloud before England’s Nazareth: How is it that this is granted to us, that the Mother of the King of kings is come even to our home at the very ends of the earth? And beholding Thine Image, O Lady, they began to sing and cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, O most pure Lily of Nazareth scenting the whole world.
Rejoice, New Eve, giving birth to the salvation of Old Adam.
Rejoice, O Star of Bethlehem, Who gavest birth to the Tree of Life.
Rejoice, O Garden of Paradise, Who gavest birth to the Church.
Rejoice, O Tree of the Cross, granting the Providence of God.
Rejoice, O Cypress of Zion, shading all mankind.
Rejoice, O Rose of Jericho making fragrant all England.
Rejoice, O Vine of Cana, slaking the thirst of all.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost cut off the roots of all our passions.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost sow a meadow of virtue.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost plant prayer in our hearts.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost vouchsafe us to partake of Paradise.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 5

Like unto a star guided by God through the night sky, Thy precious Image has returned to us as of old. In times past the great and mighty bowed down before Thee, but now it is for us Thy humble and thankful servants to keep festival and cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 5

Beholding the plans of the ungodly to destroy veneration for Thee, Thou wast hidden for many years. Now in Orthodox wise Thou art restored to Thy Holy Dowry, and the mystery of our story turns full circle. Therefore, beholding this blessing, with fear and love we cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, invincible fortress of mercy, peace and love.                                                                 Rejoice, unshakeable stronghold of beauty, goodness and truth.
Rejoice, Thou Who hast escaped the wiles of wicked and foolish men.
Rejoice, Thou Who hast put to shame the new Herods who have no love for infants.
Rejoice, Thou Who hast rendered vain the schemings of the enemies of the Orthodox Faith.
Rejoice, Thou Who hast stopped the mouths of blasphemers.
Rejoice, Thou Who hast restored Thy Presence to the English land.
Rejoice, Thou Who hast preserved Thine Image undistorted.                                                    Rejoice, Thou Who dost avert thy gaze from the evil deeds of men.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost not turn away Thy most pure countenance from us sinners.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost shine forth forgiveness to the repentant.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost open the doors of the Mercy of God to all.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 6

All through the English land the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel proclaims to us Thy tender humility, O Queen of Heaven! For since Thou first didst come to Thine Isles, we have been saved again and again from the righteous chastisement for our manifold sins. Therefore, as by Thy mercy Thou hast saved us in times past, so now save us once more, that in thanksgiving we may cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

Shine forth on us the light of hope before the end, O Most Pure Mother of God, who by Thy birthgiving hast proclaimed the splendour of salvation to the whole world. Forsake us not to the hands of the Enemy, and forgive us the time of unfaithfulness when the foolish were led into error. May the English land once more become Mary’s Dowry as of old, may the love of God flower here in these latter times, may churches and monasteries be raised up once more. May the people, delivered from cruel errors, celebrate with joy and gladness, confessing the Holy Trinity in truth, knowing the Holy Spirit from the Father, according to the words of the Saviour, and cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, Mother of God and Mother of all Christians.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost enlighten all human minds with Thy love.
Rejoice, Thou Who didst adopt mankind at the words of Thy Son.
Rejoice, taking away every sickness and healing every disease.
Rejoice, bringing to safe haven the tempest-tossed.                                                                   Rejoice, unwaning comfort of those in captivity.
Rejoice, unending protection of those persecuted for righteousness’ sake.
Rejoice, patience of those who suffer for the faith.
Rejoice, crown of martyrs.
Rejoice, retribution of tormentors.
Rejoice, loosing of the bonds of those who are bound.
Rejoice, freedom of those captive in body and soul.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 7

Wishing to admonish those who had forsaken Him, God the Righteous Judge permitted the English land to be stolen away from the Orthodox Faith on account of our sins. The nations of the West have been in turmoil, error has abounded for nigh on a thousand years, but now the end is not far. All who set their hope in Thee, O Lady of these Isles, swiftly flee to Thee, awaiting the Saviour. From beneath the ruins, He has given Thee to the faithful as a sure and steadfast hope before the end. Therefore we cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 7

Dread signs and wonders have been shown forth in these latter days, O Mother of God. Blood has filled all the earth, pestilence has struck the world, locusts have filled the airs, fire has fallen from the skies, kingdoms have fallen, yet the Orthodox Faith has remained among us who for long were orphaned. True worship of the Trinity, true confession of the Holy Spirit and the times and the seasons of the Saints are kept, the Faith is preached unto all the ends of the earth. Gathering together the faithful remnant from Thine Island-Dowry and conquering our enemies, Thou art come anew to Eastern shores, O Queen of all. Beholding this new wonder, we all pray with hearts and minds repenting and cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, O mighty Sovereign Lady, Whose glorious light shines from the East to the West.
Rejoice, pillar and confirmation of the Church.
Rejoice, defence and protection of every shrine.
Rejoice, victory vanquishing the world.
Rejoice, help of the helpless and hope of the hopeless.
Rejoice, Thou in Whom all peoples set their hope.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost save those who had lost hope.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost hearken to heartfelt prayer.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost protect us from enemies.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost strengthen us through Thy presence.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost trample Satan beneath our feet.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost shield us beneath Thy Protecting Veil.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 8

Thou hast revealed a wondrous sight, O Most Holy Virgin, in returning to English shores and becoming Queen of Norfolk in threefold vision to Edith the Gentle Swan, keen and wise in her understanding. Nigh on one thousand years have passed and yet the memory of Thee has not died in these Isles. May true veneration of Thee be restored through Thy Son our Saviour Christ. Beholding the righting of age-old wrong, we receive Thy mysterious blessing with fear and trembling and in awe we cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 8

Thou dost enfold the whole world in the arms of Thy love, O Ever-Virgin Mary. Thy journey has been from the East even unto the West, that all might bow down before Thee in godliness. Therefore, as the Light from the East, shine down upon us, forget not Thy Dowry of old, forsake not Thine Isles and their sinful peoples, O Lady, that from the depths of repentant hearts we may cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, O joy of all joys.
Rejoice, O unending cup of tender love.
Rejoice, O consolation of the latter times.
Rejoice, O sweet delight of the age to come.
Rejoice, O bringer of blessings and secret hopes.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost mercifully look down from heaven to earth.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost forsake the joys of heaven for our salvation.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost enter with grace into the hearts of all.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost hallow our hearts with Thine Image.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost make the homes of the poor more splendid than royal palaces.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost make glorious the churches of God with thy lowly countenance.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost dwell in the homes and hearts of all who honour Thee.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 9

Folk of every age and position in life hasten in pilgrimage to Thy Royal Shrine, O Bride of God. Thy hands once held God, but now hold us instead. Thou dost enlighten and console all, warming the broken-hearted in Thy God-bearing hands, O Queen of Heaven. Therefore, making glad, we cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia!

Ikos 9

The eloquence of men is thwarted, their flowing streams of words run dry, they are powerless to find words to praise Thee, O Virgin Mary, for no mouth can praise Thee as is meet. Yet, should we altogether fall silent, then the very stones of the earth will cry out to praise Thee. Therefore, unworthy though we are, our earthen lips cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, inspired sayings of the Apostles.
Rejoice, heartfelt songs of the Martyrs.
Rejoice, fiery words of the Prophets.
Rejoice, golden speech of the Fathers.
Rejoice, bold confession of righteous.
Rejoice, mystic strength of unceasing prayer.
Rejoice, reward of those who struggle against the passions.
Rejoice, indomitable protection of the persecuted.
Rejoice, guide of the young and rest of the aged.
Rejoice, boast of maidens and glory of mothers.
Rejoice, shining with the glory of which words cannot speak.
Rejoice, O Daughter of Adam and Mother of our God.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 10

O Most Holy Mother of God, we call on Thee again, pray that the world may yet be saved. The plots and snares of the Evil One are spread over all the face of the earth, nations rage and storms of worldly temptations rise up against the Church of God, though She will prevail even against the gates of Hell. Therefore, as in Cana of Galilee of old, only say a word to Thy Son and our God, that He may change the water of temptation and human sorrow into the wine of repentance and divine gladness, that we may unceasingly cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

O Most Holy Bearer of God, be for us an invincible rampart against the legions of enemies, seen and unseen, who so sorely persecute us. For thou dost fight staunchly and unfailingly for us, who cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, Thou Who dost stretch out Thy God-bearing hands above us.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost trample the spirits of malice beneath our feet.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost shame the plans of the demons, accepted by deluded men.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost make evil to flee away at the thought of God.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost drive the illusions of despair from us.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost still the surging sea of life.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost command the storms of temptation to cease.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost pilot the tempest-tossed.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost deliver us from the depths of sorrow.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost stretch forth Thy hands to those who perish.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost set our feet on the path of salvation.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost strengthen our hearts for battle.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 11

As Thy Son accepted the widow’s mite, accept also our song, O All-Holy Lady, and grant that we may ever offer up our prayers to Thee, Who dost guide our life through the shadows of this deathly world to bright places. Grant us forgiveness of our sins, that we may enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

O Most Good Lady, stretch out Thy Protecting Veil, which Andrew saw in the Great City, over all the earth. Shine forth from lowly Norfolk, like the full moon in the dark night of ungodliness and blasphemy. Enlighten our Isles once more with the splendour of Thy purity, that our voices may rise up in Walsingham and in all places and cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, sunrise driving away the demon hordes of the night.
Rejoice, brightness fairer than the morning star.
Rejoice, warmth dearer than the Sun.
Rejoice, ray of hope from the age to come.
Rejoice, unfading light of angels and men.                                                                                    Rejoice, Thou Who art beauty resplendent beyond all speech to tell.
Rejoice, Thou Who art in truth clothed with the Sun of Righteousness.
Rejoice, Thou Who art crowned with the stars of Faith.
Rejoice, Thou Who art adorned with a raiment woven with the gold of Mercy.
Rejoice, Thou Who art scented with the roses of virtue.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost enlighten the darkness of unbelief.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost clothe us with the armour of light.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 12

Grace upon grace we have received through Thee, O Most Pure Maiden Mary. Those who call on Thee with faith go not empty away, for all receive the gift of God according to their need and are crowned with joy. Therefore we cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

We hymn Thee, we magnify Thee, we bow down before Thee, O Most Pure Lady. Unable to praise Thee as is meet, we fall down before Thy precious Image and in repentance we cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, sweet dawn of our souls.
Rejoice, bright daybreak of our hearts.
Rejoice, blessed morning of our lives.
Rejoice, height beyond our understanding.
Rejoice, unfading glory.
Rejoice, unceasing bliss.
Rejoice, unending goodness.
Rejoice, gladness beyond words.
Rejoice, Thou Who alone art truly Blessed.
Rejoice, Thou Who art exalted above all Creation.
Rejoice, Thou Who art with the faithful at the hour of death.
Rejoice, Thou Who even at the Dread Judgement dost save those who hope in Thee.
Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 13

O Lady praised by all, Mother of the Church and of all Christians, emulating Thy Son and our Saviour in Thy tender mercy, Thou dost cry to us: Fear not, little flock! I am with you and none is against you! Therefore, falling down before Thee with love and giving thanks with tears, we cry out to Thee with faith: Alleluia.

This Kontakion is read three times. And again Ikos 1 and Kontakion 1

Ikos 1

Angels and men alike marvelled at the grace of the Holy Spirit which was announced from Thy Holy House, England’s Nazareth, on the eve of England’s misfortune. Gabriel’s voice announced anew comfort for those oppressed in forthcoming dark and wicked times by foreign men, when holiness was denied. And now we too marvel, for Thou art come again as a quiet but constant flame to our green land to comfort us once more in these latter times. Therefore, we cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, O Virgin Who didst in exceeding humility accept the words of the Archangel Gabriel.        Rejoice, Mother of the Church and Mother of all Christians.
Rejoice, O grace-bearing Lady, forgiveness for our foolish ways.
Rejoice, consolation for the faint-hearted.
Rejoice, comfort for the sick and weary.
Rejoice, warmth for the hearts of the forsaken.
Rejoice, bringer of sailors to safe havens.
Rejoice, strength for the weak in faith.
Rejoice, sweetness for the broken-hearted.
Rejoice, guide of those who have lost the way.
Rejoice, gatherer of the faithful in the last times.
Rejoice, Thou Who dost ready us to enter from the earthly Walsingham into the Heavenly Jerusalem.                                                                                                                                            Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Kontakion 1

By revelation from on high to the noble Countess Edith the Fair, Thy Holy House was raised up in holy Norfolk. This betokened comfort before the coming misfortune, after which pilgrims all flocked along the Walsingham Way, seeking consolation. Then, O Most Pure Maiden Mary and Mother of our God, in times of darkness and impiety, Thy holy veneration was forsaken and Walsingham wept. But now as Thou art honoured anew in the vision of Thy graceful handmaid Edith, Queen to Godwin and mother to Gytha of the Rus, the spouse of Monomakh, intercede for us with Thy Son, Christ our Saviour, that we may cry out to Thee with faith:

Rejoice, O Lady of the Holy House, Who dost ever comfort those who pray to Thee with faith.

Prayer

O Most Holy Maiden Mary and Mother of our God, Who in humility accepted the Good News of Christ from the Archangel Gabriel in lowly Nazareth, our sure hope and calm haven, blessing of our lives, joy of those who grieve, healing of the sick, wisdom of the darkened, reward of the wronged, Thou seest our misfortune, Thou seest our sorrow, help us for we are weak, guide us for we wander, Thou knowest our sins, may they be forgiven as the Lord deigns. O Lady Who announced England’s Nazareth in Walsingham, deliver the land where we live from its errors, restore the Orthodox Faith to Thine Isles and shine forth like an unwavering candle flame in our hearts, making us once more to be Thy Dowry. Save and preserve Thy servants (NN) and all of us here present who pray to Thee with tears. Comfort and protect us who stand beneath Thy Precious Veil, for we have none other than Thee, O Birthgiver of God, to comfort and protect us unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Robert the Devil, the Dismemberment of the US Empire, the Dismantlement of the US Vassal States, and the Dewesternisation of the West, of Russia and of the Church

Foreword: Robert the Devil, the Grandfather of the Anglosphere: 1066-2026

Every year I go past the ruins of the castle of Robert the Devil (Robert le Diable), just outside Rouen in Normandy, France. This Robert is the main character in a medieval legend about a wicked man who was the offspring of Satan and a woman. Most historians identify this mythical figure with a real, evil man – Robert I of Normandy (1000-1035), the father of William the Bastard by his mistress, who was a tanner’s daughter. William (1028-1087) was the Norman mass murderer, who invaded England with some 750 Viking ships in 1066 and has ever since been known as ‘The Conqueror’. It was he who in 1067 transferred his Zionist financial backers from Rouen to his new capital of London, thus founding the City of London. He went on with his barbaric warriors to plunder England (his record is called the Domesday Book – the Book of the Day of Judgement), genociding England and greedily eyeing Wales, Scotland and Ireland for the future.

The 1066 Invasion was not an isolated or disconnected incident. It was only part of the whole process of imposing the new racist ideology of plunder, justified by the Divine superiority of ‘Europe’ or the ’West’, and implemented after the Germanic takeover of the Roman Papacy. There are many dates in this takeover, stretching between 1000 and 1100, marking events which would have been unthinkable in 1000, but which had become normal by 1100. These include the murderous heresy-hunting in the 1020s in France, military campaigns in Spain and Italy from the 1030s, which saw the Popes blessing massacres by their mainly Norman mercenaries, the cutting off of the West from the Church in 1054, the ‘Papal Dictation’ of Hildebrand in 1075, claiming that the Popes are infallible, and the First Crusade in 1095-1096, with its massacres of Jews in the Rhineland and of Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land, where both had been living in peace for centuries.

Like the rest of the European elite, the Bastard’s Viking-descended Norman aristocrats, who plundered England and then formed the ‘British’ ruling class together with English traitors, later took part in the looting of the Capital of the Christian Empire, New Rome, in 1204, and then attacked Russia in more ‘crusades’. That looting was to lead to the permanent occupation of New Rome by the Ottomans in 1453. In the nineteenth century, the Norman-founded British (the word ‘British’ marked the revival of pagan Roman Imperialism) Establishment sided with the Ottomans again. This was its full-scale, unprovoked invasion of Russia, known as the Crimean War, which left half a million dead. Later it supported the Muslim ethnic cleansing of Christian Bulgaria. Although, ironically, William the Bastard spoke no English, his father had founded the Anglosphere, whose centre was to go from Venice and Amsterdam to London in 1688 and then from London to Washington in 1941.

Meanwhile, in the Ukraine: 2014-2026

In 2014 the democratically-elected government of the Ukraine in Kiev was toppled by a violent US-organised and EU-backed coup using snipers, which cost the US $5 billion, according to the Europe-hating Nuland. The new regime, composed largely of extremist Neo-Nazis from the far west of the Ukraine, set about genociding the Ukrainians who did not agree with their Fascist ideology, especially in southern and eastern Ukraine, parts of Russia transferred to the Ukraine in 1922 by the sadistic Western-backed monster Lenin. After the peaceful and spontaneous self-transfer of Crimea (95% Russian) which joined Russia, few in the south and east of the Ukraine, terrified and intimidated, accepted their lot. Some rose up and formed peoples’ militias for armed resistance. And over three million fled Kiev’s genocide and oppression to live in freedom in Russia. To the frustration of the genocided Ukrainians, the weak Russian government did nothing, except engage in diplomatic talks.

The resulting diplomatic agreements, called the Minsk Accords, were never implemented by the Western Powers and its proxy in Kiev. Finally, at the end of 2021, huge Kiev forces, NATO-trained, equipped and financed, massed in the east of the Ukraine despite the Minsk Accords and stepped up their genocide. At this, Russia gathered a force of about 120,000 troops to protect the Ukrainians in the far east of the country and also to threaten Kiev from the north in order to pressure the regime into serious negotiations. After only one day, on 25 February 2022, Kiev agreed to talks in Minsk and Istanbul, after eight years of refusing them. However, at the start of April 2022, the regime reneged on its peace agreement under pressure from the Collective West – the US, the EU and the UK, through their emissary Johnson. Unexpectedly the Russians found themselves in a very weak situation. Their forces were too small to liberate even the east of the Ukraine.

Indeed, its main force was composed of the Wagner Group, a private army of mercenaries and ex-convicts, led by a corrupt, power-seeking oligarch, Prigozhin, and local militias. The small Russian Army itself was weakened by corruption and disorganisation. And the lawyer-led Russian political leadership, always acting according to international law, unlike Kiev, did not know what to do. The Russian chaos of the start resembled the same chaos there at the start of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in June 1941. Moreover, they naively realised that the conflict was not between Russia and the Ukraine, which was a mere proxy, but between Russia and the Collective West, represented by the Nazi-founded NATO. This wanted every last Ukrainian to die for it. The Russians of February 2022 had not at all been prepared for this. And so today the Western-created conflict in the Ukraine is in its fifth year and has left about 2,000,000 dead and wounded soldiers, the vast majority of them Ukrainians, outmatched by the very cautious Russian forces, who have lost about 120,000.

Defeat and Dismemberment: 2026 –

Despite military escalation, caused by hubris, that is, the arrogant overestimation of self and underestimation of rivals, the US Empire, formed in 1941, has now lost free access to the grain corridor of the blockaded Black Sea ports, which has become a Russian Lake. Elsewhere, and for exactly the same reasons in another conflict that it needlessly started, the US is losing free access to the oil corridors of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Through further hubris, it may yet lose free access to the Baltic Sea. The US thought it could defeat Iran in a weekend and so repeated Hitler’s hubris of 1941, when he thought he could defeat the USSR in two months. US forces have already been forced to flee West Asia, where Iran has destroyed US bases as far as the Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. The US will probably have to flee these and all the feudal puppet Gulf States, as Iranian missiles can reach them, and then quit its Crusader fortress, Zionist-occupied Palestine, where the people are in revolt.

The US also intends to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany. Will this lead to the US abandoning all its European vassals, its NATO and EU puppets, especially the minute Baltic States, occupied and held like an unloaded gun to the head of Russia? Withdrawal from Europe, from Italy, Britain and the rest of Germany? All is possible – the US is bankrupt to the tune of $40 trillion and has few arms left. What will happen to its Asian vassals, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines, where many also want an end to the US occupation? As for Latin America, with Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Nicaragua and Cuba, the US is hated by all there, except by the rich oligarchs and their puppets, corrupt politicians and journalists. The US is going to be left to concentrate on itself. Here, dealing with its bankruptcy and the collapse of its infrastructure, its hopeless public school and health systems, mass poverty, drug-addiction and much else, will keep it busy for decades.

The US-led West has behaved like a bully, whose victims have at last been technologically, militarily and economically strong enough to band together in solidarity because of the bully. Western aggressiveness has achieved the once unthinkable. It has allied the vastly diverse and once divided Russia, Iran and China (RIC), which have weapons far in advance of those of the now backward US. And it has also won them the sympathy of 90% of the oppressed, Non-Western world. After all, this is the third invasion by the Collective West of Non-Western Russia in just over 200 years, Napoleon’s, Hitler’s and NATO’s. Those invasions, although always led by one country, France, Germany or the US, were all multinational and all ended in the same way, catastrophically. This is a racist and imperialist war, for the West was trying to extend the border of its blocked ‘Europe’ to the whole Ukraine and so cut off the ‘racially inferior Asiatics’ in Moscow. 85% of the Ukraine is not Europe’s, but Russia’s.

Dismantlement and Freedom: 2026 –

As for that western end of the North-West peninsula of Asia, called Western Europe, two straitjacket organisations, both centred in Brussels, positioned between the Germanic north and the Latin south, are being dismantled. Both are ruled by nuncios, trained by the successor to the Papacy in Washington. The US-led NATO and the EU, that have held Western Europe together for over 75 years, are splintering. Their European administrative elite is irrationally destroying its own countries, cutting off its nose to spite its face, blowing up Nordstream and even refusing to use Russian aircraft to stop forest fires. The largely Orthodox south-east of Western Europe has had to be repressed by undemocratically-elected Germanic EU leaders, just as it was by the German princelings who were appointed to rule Romania, Greece and Bulgaria in the nineteenth century. All want to leave the EU straitjacket and NATO aggression. This is also visible in Catholic Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – see below.

For many in the ex-Catholic south of Western Europe too, in Frexit France, pro-Russian Italy, anti-Israeli Spain and little Portugal, never at ease with the US-imposed and desacralising Protestantisation of Catholicism in the 1960s, want out. Their peoples want their sovereignty back. This leaves only the largely Germanic and highly Americanised north-west of Western Europe. But even here there are voices, especially on the left, that dissent from US imperialism in Gaza, on the West Bank, in the Lebanon, Iran and the Ukraine. And on the right, many also want their countries back. Sovereignist Parties are taking over, whether they are the AfD in Germany, the National Rally in France, or Reform in the UK. Once the parasitic, US-trained and appointed elites of Europe, from London through Scandinavia and Germany to the Baltics, who only ever implement ‘Daddy’s’ policies, are gone, with or without their pay, the people could take over. Goodbye, EU and NATO.

The future is at stake. How new politicians of left and right can co-operate, and they will have to, in Western Europe, remains to be seen. In any case, it seems clear that the old Globalist/Zionist/American ‘centrist’ elite, which bet everything like a crazed gambler on the Zionist US, Ukraine and Israel, is doomed, rejected by left and right alike. It is doomed not only because of the popular opposition to it and its attempts to repress that opposition, but because it has bankrupted its countries. They cannot even afford the elite’s proposed absurd remilitarisation, which the people neither want nor need. New governments will emerge, faced with facing up to the horrific imperialist past of Western Europe. They will be forced to make peace with the first, third and fourth largest economies of the world, those of China, India and Russia, and with their ex-colonies. China for manufactures, India for labour, Russia for energy, and ex-colonies for justice. Here is the future.

Afterword: The Fall of the West, a Dewesternised Russia and a Dewesternised Church

With the defeat in 2026 of the US by technologically advanced Iran and the coming collapse of the US-imposed Kiev regime in the Ukraine and the advance of Russia to the western Ukraine, the delusional dreams of the West are over. Already many even very secular people are talking about ‘The Post-West’, what happens now that 500 years of supremacy based on a mythical racist ideology backed only by a now lost military superiority, are over. In fact, as we said at the beginning of this article, it has been going on not for 500 years, but for 1,000 years, headed by Robert the Devil. The criminal dreams of such as Kaja Kallas to destroy and then fragment Russia, plundering its vast natural resources, are over. The virtual reality of a Crimea occupied by the UK, as in 1854-56, a Belarus and Western Ukraine occupied by Poland as in 1920, a southern Ukraine, Baltic and White Sea, and eastern Siberia occupied by Italians, British, Americans, French, has remained virtual.

It means that Russia can at last free itself from the Western ideology of Communism, imported from German Jewry, and from the Western ideology of the Imperial period that began with Peter I, just over 300 years ago. This meant enslaving the Church under a Protestant Oberprokuror bureaucrat and Anglophile sadistic aristocrats enslaving in blind imitation peasants (as in the Enclosures and Highland Clearances in England and Scotland), as portrayed by Pushkin, Gogol, Saltykov-Shchedrin and many other 19th century Russian writers. A Russian Church would surely decentralise, at long last liberated, as it would begin behaving as a pastoral, and not as a political, arrangement. Its politics, whether under the Soviet, post-Soviet or Imperial periods are a 300-year hangover from Westernisation. The Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople has to do the same, ridding itself of its Westernisation, now evident in the fact that its administration is little more than a CIA front.

Although a dying, totally Amercanised and very right-wing sect of the Russian Church in the USA is now desperately clutching on to totalitarian censorship through dictatorial methods, imitating the autocratic Trump, the rest of the Russian Church is freeing itself. Dictatorship will be resisted in the Church in Western countries. Decentralisation after 300 years of Western centralisation means the return of both the Russian Church and of the Greek Patriarchate to Conciliarity. That is, to Catholicity in the Orthodox sense of the world, to the practices of a Church based on Councils, concelebration and the consultation between clergy and people working together in freedom. This Conciliarity is what in the secular world lies behind the developing economic Alliance of BRICS. However, its origin, however forgotten by decadent Westernised bishops, is in the Church. And there are plenty of real Orthodox bishops in the 16 Local Churches who have not forgotten the meaning of Conciliarity.

 

 

 

Q and A: On the Suicidal Path Taken by ROCOR since 2007

Nobody goes to heaven by sending others to hell.

Q: Looking back twenty years after the 2006 Church Council on the relics of St John of Shanghai, what do you think that the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) should have done after its reconciliation with the Moscow Patriarchate in 2007?

A: ROCOR played a very important role in the last half of the last century. Do not forget that from 1950 until 1966, it had a saint in its midst, Archbishop John of Shanghai and Western Europe. Then it witnessed to the Western world of the persecution of the Church by the Soviet atheist State, the inherent worldliness of KGB-manipulated ecumenism and modernism, it spoke in spiritual freedom in the place of its brothers and sisters in the Patriarchal Church, who were enslaved as hostages inside Russia. Having sent representatives to the Second Vatican Council, ROCOR’S greatest moment came in 1981, when, although sixty-four years late, it began the work of canonising the New Martyrs and Confessors. This work is not complete, as archives open, as we see from the July 2026 Synod in Moscow, where new names of New Martyrs and Confessors have entered the Church calendar.

Indeed, from the Year 2000 on, ROCOR no longer served a purpose, since the Church inside Russia had been freed from the State, as proved by the fact that it too had at last begun to canonise even more New Martyrs and Confessors. Since the generation of those who had been adults before the Revolution of 1917 had all but died out by 2000, ROCOR’s destiny was to become four autonomous Metropolias, part of the Mother Church, taking over its Diaspora, as its title of ‘Russian’ was already becoming mythical. If it had joined in with Moscow, it could have spearheaded Russian Orthodox missionary work and witness in the Diaspora, co-operating with others, separating out into four regional Diaspora Metropolias. It would not have become the Moscow Patriarchate, but simply the Russian Orthodox Metropolias of Northern America, Latin America, Western Europe and Oceania.

This is exactly what I worked for after 2007, the event of unity for which we had patiently been waiting since the repentance of Moscow at its Jubilee Council in August 2000. But ROCOR did not work for this after 2007. In May 2006, standing at the Fourth ROCOR Council in San Francisco, where I was one of the ten speakers, I heard the former US ambassador to Kiev, John Herbst, whispering behind me to the then Bishop Agafangel from Odessa, saying: ‘This looks bad. We shall have to work against it from inside’. He was talking about ROCOR’s Conciliar decision (by over 95% to under 5%) to merge with Moscow. He meant that since the decision had been taken, ROCOR would have to be sabotaged from inside, its infiltrated key assets, jealous narcissistic psychopaths, would be activated. And that is exactly what they did, using their agents, who had long ago been planted inside ROCOR for future promotion.

The Moscow Patriarchate? How naïve they are, just like the Russian State, outwitted, as usual, by the infiltration of the CIA! The first indication came immediately in May 2007, when directly after the service in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, where I had concelebrated, one of the most senior CIA-asset priests in ROCOR (he is still alive) turned to me and said in English: ‘We’ve done it’. I knew what he meant by that, though he thought that I did not. I was not a recruit. In May 2007, after the Act had been signed, one ROCOR bishop returned to his country to be greeted by his colleague, the local Moscow bishop, with a smile and the words: ‘Now we are one, we can work together as one’. The ROCOR bishop, a CIA asset since the 1960s, answered him shockingly, that nothing of the sort was going to happen. And herein lies the sin of ROCOR – it did not merge and so lead the way in the Diaspora.

At best it became a museum Church, a relic of the past, turning in on itself, and claiming exclusivity before the outside world as an ideological ghetto, all financed by you know who. Incredibly enough, some extreme right-wingers, later schismatics, in ROCOR before 2007 had actually predicted that Moscow would take over and destroy ROCOR, once the Act of Canonical Communion had been signed in 2007. This was a lie born of the paranoia of elderly pharisees, who were afraid of losing power. In fact, as we have said, it was just the opposite, it was ROCOR which deceived naïve Moscow, using its newly-obtained paper unity with Moscow in order to claim canonicity and so destroy itself. In reality, the small but poisonous American faction gradually destroyed the ROCOR of St John of Shanghai, whom it had already persecuted, suspended and effectively killed in 1966, now hypocritically claiming him as their own!

It denied that he had ever given his shoes away to the barefoot poor, saying that he did not wear shoes because he found them uncomfortable! (I quote a ROCOR bishop). ROCOR sent its control freaks outside the USA to impose its unexportable, Protestant-based, US imperialism on other countries, so ‘draining the swamp’, in fact, however, creating the swamp. It set up the new ROCOR as a sect, that was de facto in communion with no-one, because it considered that all other Orthodox were hated heretics and needed rebaptising. This was to reject the Catholicity and communion of the Church, as is typical of all sects. All it could do from this moment on, as the Russians and Russophiles of the Tradition left ROCOR or were even openly expelled from it, as we were, was to recruit young, naïve, male Protestant converts of the Zionist Evangelical type to replace the people and refill their ranks.

The old ROCOR was killed and the new ROCOR of ignorance of history and Russia, pharisaic condemnation and right-wing fanaticism (the same playbook as had been tried by the Grabbe faction in the 1960s and 1970s) and podcasts for incels, was substituted for it. The new ROCOR flattered their pride, telling neophytes that they had at last found ‘the One True Church’, hypnotising them into spiritual illusion (in Russian ‘prelest’). It was spiritual corn syrup for naïve Americans and a pool of votes for the desperate Republican Party, openly and naively supported by the then ROCOR Metropolitan. ‘You see’, he said, ‘we must vote Trump, as he took part in the anti-abortion march for life in Washington’. Astounded by his naivety, I thought, does he not understand that some politicians will do anything for votes? Does he not know about the misogyny of this man? Does he not know about his Epstein connections?

One day, after this nightmare is over, Moscow will wake up, ceasing to be distracted by the tragedy in the Ukraine, by the Greek invasion of its canonical territory there and in the Baltics, by nationalist centralisation, by the error in Africa, the distressing episcopal scandals of careerism, corruption and depravity, and behave as pastors and not as politicians. Then it will at last deal with ROCOR’s rebellion against the Orthodox Tradition and communion, and apostasy from it, too late realising the huge self-imposed losses of pastors, people and international credibility. Meanwhile, the other fifteen Local Orthodox Churches continue to witness, and we continue in them and with them. Moscow will have to catch us, through overcoming its schisms, restoring communion and concelebration, decentralising its Non-Russian parts, returning to the canonicity/conciliarity/catholicity of the Church.

 

 

On the Present Decadence, the Post-West and the Pre-West

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the more insane its laws.

Cicero, c. 44 BC, assassinated soon after

A fish rots from the head.

International Proverb

Decadence is a period when all collective and individual excesses (= national and personal sins) are not only legally permitted, but also encouraged. This is because all spiritual and therefore moral values (since morality comes from spirituality) have been lost in those societies. Thus, collectively, Western nations, like the Vikings of old, make wars on behalf of Satan against other countries in order to steal their resources, murder or kidnap their leaders, hide behind proxies who foolishly die for them, engage in piracy and genocide, and despise international law. Individually, hundreds of millions of souls resort to drugs, alcohol and depravity, entailing epidemics of death, disease, abortion, divorce and broken homes, which create unbalanced and rootless adults.

A US President as foul-mouthed as any vulgar trooper and bullying as any mafia gangster, Fascist (‘liberal’) European politicians who despise their own and other peoples and more or less openly engage in sexual perversions and cocaine-consumption, laws which allow the State to murder young people (abortion) and old people (euthanasia), laws which allow men to become women and women to become men, adults to be infantile, psychic illnesses considered normal and, above all, terrible pestilences (covid) and wars (as prophesied in Matt. 24, 6-13 and Lk. 21, 11) take place. These wars are all about the lust for power of a ‘civilisation’, which is based on the plundering of other countries by organised violence, and therefore make war against peace.

That millennium of organised violence, which culminated in worldwide wars in the last century, murdering a hundred million Non-Western ‘subhumans’, half of them Russian and Chinese, is very nearly over at last. Today we are witnessing the dying flailings of the cornered beast, which is in fact World War III. Its politician puppets and media hirelings, who every day spout lies which would shame Goebbels, still glorify the Western past, which was founded on violence and loot, and praise its imaginary Global (Zionist) future: ‘The West is Best’. They do so only because they are paid to, as they have no truth, conscience, integrity, right and wrong (morality). They live for power, worldly glory (fame), riches, lust and war. ‘Every man has his price’, they say.

We saw this in the lock-ups (‘lockdowns’) of Western populations which accompanied the accidental (?) release of the covid virus. After that we saw this in the restrictions, censorship, illegal imprisonments and debanking of dissidents, and ‘cancelling’ of Russia, promulgated among Western populations, after the US-installed and financed Kiev regime began persecuting and genociding Russian-speaking Ukrainians. The only reason for all this was for the millennial elites of the Western European legacy States to cling on to power. By creating fantasy bogeymen, pestilence and a ‘war’ by a country allegedly intent on marching from Moscow to London, the elite paid by arms merchants proclaim to their brainwashed plebs that they do not need peace.

And because the Church is in the world, some individuals of the elite in the Church are infected and stained by all this. They are outwardly in the Church, but in fact they are ravening wolves in shepherd’s clothing, fallen into the same worldly passions as their masters who infiltrated them. They are not of the Church and the Church spits them out like fishbones that have been stuck in our throats for years and which we have been choking on. Meanwhile, the real Church goes on, seeking everything that is not of this world, spiritual power, the glory of God, the riches of the spirit, the love of God and peace. The rest has no interest. We look for the restoration of Holiness, the Nation, the Family, the Person and Peace. This will come after the collapse of it all.

This collapse is the collapse of the West. Russia is already becoming the ‘post-Western West’, by which we refer to the ‘West’ that was invented in the eleventh century, imported into Russia over 300 years ago, and now dying out. Even some in the West are following Russia and also becoming ‘post-Western’. Thus, the war in the Ukraine is between Europeans who follow the Tradition and ‘Ukrainians’, in fact Galicians, who share in the Fascist ideology of the 1022-2022 West, promoted by the elite of Western Europe, recently – Napoleon, Hitler, Churchill, Thatcher, Starmer, Sarkozy, Macron, Merkel, Merz. This is Fascism because it oppresses all who reject the cult of the West. It also rejects us, because we are ‘Pre-Westerners’, that is, we put Christ above all.

The thousand years of the West after ‘the Age of the Saints’ of the first ‘Pre-Western’ millennium were a technological ascent, but a spiritual descent, and have now reached an end-point. Although the elite, ever greedy for power, fame, money, lust and war, justifies its continuation, some people can see its end, especially the young. Having seen the consequences of war, drugs, alcohol, depravity, abortion, divorce and broken homes, they are starting to return to the Church, to the ‘Pre-West’. This is not the Church of the elite of ravening wolves in shepherd’s clothing, it is the Church that seeks spiritual power, the glory of God, the riches of the spirit, the love of God and peace, the restoration of Holiness, the Nation, the Family, the Person and Peace.

 

A Destiny

Foreword

Come from the country, from a very small town in North Essex, I have been asked why I am where I am today: a mitred archpriest of the Russian Church and rector of one of the largest Orthodox churches in England, which is in my native city. I have been persecuted and slandered by cruel and evil men for telling the truth, and sent by Divine Providence to the Moldovan part of the most hospitable and friendly Romanian Church, whose Moldovan Archbishop is the kindest bishop I have ever met. As one of our many Russian parishioners, who has known me for over sixteen years wrote to me just now: ‘You have gone from thorns to the stars’. However, the answer to the question why I am here is in four revelations that came to me long ago.

Revelation One: Childhood

In childhood I was influenced of course by my parents, my two elder brothers, grandparents, relatives, friends, schoolteachers and fellow pupils. The third child of a third child father and a third child mother, a great many of my relatives were Victorians from the century before last. From them and from all the local people, especially from the older ones, I obtained a keen historical sense. In childhood three people influenced me especially, an aunt and two elderly people, who were unofficially called saints by others. Although they were all Christians, they would not have called themselves Protestants or Catholics. They had been illuminated from on high. There were five other local people who influenced me in particular in early childhood, who were officially called saints by others. These were: Sts Albright (794), Cedd (664), Osyth (c. 700), Edmund (869) and Audrey (679), who had all lived in England’s golden age of holiness, within 250 years of one another.

I asked myself why there had not been any saints in England for nearly a millennium? Why had the Holy Spirit, whose fruit is the saints, dried up? What had gone wrong in the history of England? Why did the Establishment version of English history begin with the catastrophic defeat of England by Papally-blessed Norman Viking thugs in 1066, when I knew about King Alfred the Great, who loved other peoples and had converted the English Vikings to Christ nearly 200 years before? Why did the Norman-founded Establishment insist on calling the English ‘Anglo-Saxons’, when they never called themselves that? Why did the English write afterwards that the Norman massacres were so terrible that it seemed as though ‘Christ and His saints slept’? And how was Old England overlaid and concealed by a disreputable Britain and then British Empire? Here were questions to which I sought to find answers in many places and from many people.

Revelation Two: The Wars

Born in the middle of the last century, I grew up with my grandfather, who told me about his First European War in Baghdad, Jerusalem and Thessaloniki. And I grew up with my father, who told me stories of his Second European War in Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Italy, Austria and elsewhere. Snatched from a quiet and peaceful country home for military service and sent abroad, he saw what the British Empire actually was. He had had no idea what it was and had only been told something about a civilising mission. Instead, he found in Egypt, Sierra Leone and South Africa a thieving, corrupt and racist crime regime, which exploited the native peoples. Yes, the British drank tea from China in ‘china’ cups, but it had been paid for with African slaves and Indian opium and millions of lives had ruthlessly been destroyed. That was the Empire. My father also explained to me that the then British Prime Ministers are only puppets of the Zionist Empire – as they still are, all come from the same factory.

Revelations Three and Four: Christ and Russia

At the end of childhood, when I was twelve years old, I received a double revelation, when I saw my future. This came to me when I saw a film which opened with a scene of spiritual immediacy. This was a scene with a Russian priest conducting a funeral. After this, I simultaneously read the Gospels and began to teach myself Russian. All had become clear to me, except for the details.

Afterword

Aged twelve, I knew God’s will for me, my destiny, though I did not know when and how, who and what. The rest has only been putting two and two together. Fundamentally, nothing has changed. Today I am still waiting for the Russian Church to find its freedom. It has wonderful saints and martyrs, but its pastors have been suppressed by politicians and I am unlikely to see it free in my lifetime. 300 years have passed, but it is still subject to the rule of Caesar, to Imperialists, to Soviets, to the CIA, to the evil anti-missionary careerists, and to all the rest who oppose Christ. The greatest saint and missionary of the Russian emigration, St John of Shanghai and Western Europe, was essentially martyred by the ecclesiastical politicians of the USA.

 

Those who would like to know more can obtain the book Paradise Just Beyond: Fragments of an Autobiography, 1956-2026, 168 pages, A5, spiral-bound. This will be available in August from frandrew_anglorus@yahoo.co.uk for £5 or $10 from overseas, payable by Paypal.

 

 

Message

Dear Father Andrew,

On the joyful occasion of your 70th birthday, I wish to offer you my heartfelt congratulations and assure you of my prayers, together with those of all the clergy, monastics and faithful of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

As we give thanks to God for the gift of your life, we also give thanks for the many decades that you have faithfully dedicated to the service of Christ and His Holy Church. For nearly fifty years, your priestly ministry has been marked by unwavering devotion, missionary zeal and a profound love for Holy Orthodoxy. Through your pastoral care, your theological writings, your lectures and your tireless witness, you have helped countless people discover the beauty of the Orthodox faith and have strengthened many Orthodox communities throughout Western Europe.

One of your most enduring contributions has been your deep commitment to recovering and making known the rich Orthodox heritage of the British Isles. Through your books, articles and years of research, you have lovingly brought the lives of the ancient Saints of these lands back into the consciousness of many Orthodox Christians. In doing so, you have reminded us that the Orthodox faith is not something foreign to Britain, but is deeply rooted in the spiritual history of this land.

I also wish to express my sincere gratitude for your friendship, your kindness and your constant support for the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese. Since joining our Archdiocese, you have continued to enrich our common witness through your wisdom, your pastoral experience and your generous collaboration. Your life has been a bridge between peoples, traditions and generations, always pointing others towards Christ and His saving Gospel.

May our Lord Jesus Christ, Whom you have served with such faithfulness and devotion for so many years, continue to bless you with strength, peace and the joy of His Kingdom. May the Mother of God ever keep you under her protecting veil, and may all the Saints of Britain and Ireland, whose memory you have so faithfully revived and cherished, intercede for you and guide you in every step of your priestly ministry.

Many blessed and fruitful years, dear Father Andrew!

With heartfelt gratitude, profound respect and every paternal blessing,

† Atanasie

Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

108 Years of Treason and Cowardice and Deceit

The Romanov throne was destroyed not by young bomb-throwers or forerunners of the Soviets, but by the bearers of aristocratic surnames and court titles, bankers, publishers, lawyers, professors and other public figures.

Chapter 16 of the Memoirs of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich

Foreword

We are now in the fifth year of the disastrous and tragic war between Russia and the Ukraine. Between one and two million soldiers are dead. Of one thing we can be certain, this war would never have happened, indeed it would have been unthinkable, in the time of Tsar Nicholas II, because he represented not petty and hateful nationalist division, but multinational peace and unity.

In the meantime, pray for Amvrosy and Vladislav, young men in their twenties, dragged off the streets of Kiev by violent and overpaid thugs of the regime two weeks ago and now forced to the Front after two days’ training. They do not want to die needlessly. They do not want to fill the pockets of Ukrainian officials, warmongering Western politicians and arms-dealers with billions of dollars. Their only hope is surrender to the vastly superior Russian forces. Their mothers of these two young men, who live near my house in Kiev, are frenetic. But at least D. is safe in Portugal, and so is his brother in Norway. They got out in time over the mountains. Lord have mercy! Let us now return to our subject.

Slandered by Propaganda

Nicholas II is one of the most slandered people in history. He most certainly was not weak, indecisive, incompetent, stupid, or dominated by others, as atheist Western and Soviet propaganda portray. Every attempt to slander him with lies has been overturned. Thus, the tragic stampede after his Coronation, leaving 1,389 dead resulted from aristocratic incompetence, compared to the 2015 stampede in Saudi Arabia which left at least 2,400 dead; the unprovoked attack on Russia by Japan was plotted by the Western Powers and turned into a costly Russian victory, with Japan bankrupted by costly Western arms.

As for the 100 and more who died from the crowd of 3,000 in 1905, that was nothing to do with the Tsar – he was not even in Saint Petersburg when Marxists hid behind stolen church banners and icons ‘in a peaceful demonstration’ and opened fire on troops, who returned fire; the terrorist revolts of 1905 and their 9,000 victims were the result of guns smuggled into Russia for atheist revolutionaries paid to destroy Russia. As for World War I, this was the fault of Berlin, which supported the Austro-Hungarian attempt to genocide the South Slav peoples, and had been planning a War for years.

Socio-Economic Success

Even before he was crowned, Nicholas had worked for the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the remarkable opening up and settling of largely empty Siberia. Nicholas II reigned over an accelerating Industrial Revolution that led to a nearly 50% rise in the ever more prosperous Imperial population. This was accompanied by eleven reforms, including the huge agrarian reform, the reform which led to the massive growth of free education and literacy, which had reached 56% by 1916, and the introduction of a free health service in 1898, 50 years before the UK, and a social security and justice system.

The Tsar was a radical moderniser, who reigned over the electrification of his Empire, with the development of hydroelectricity, submarines, rocketry, radio, the first helicopter designs, monoplanes and bomber aircraft. Under the Tsar life expectancy reached 68. By 1913 he had brought Russian Imperial agriculture to be Europe’s breadbasket and its economy to be the world’s fourth largest, which is what it is again only today. By all accounts, by 1950, when the Tsar would have been 82 years old, the Russian economy would have overtaken that of every other nation, including that of the USA.

Foreign Policy

In foreign policy Nicholas II was the only world leader who promoted international peace, founding the Hague Peace Conference in 1899 and, though mocked, was called ‘the apostle of peace’. This was the beginning of many international treaties and the regulation of war. He had an excellent double education in law and military affairs, knew European history very well and spoke five European languages fluently. He also defended nations as diverse as Thailand, Ethiopia, Morocco, Persia, Tibet, Afghanistan, Hawaii and the Boers from aggressive Western colonisation and asset-stripping.

The Tsar also tried to find peace in the warring Balkans, with their divisive German puppet-kings, through establishing a Balkan Union. His diplomacy had long been successful in avoided the international conflict that the warmongering Western nations wanted to start in powderkeg Europe with its rival imperialisms in 1912 and 1913. His policy here was to balance each nation against the other. That he finally failed in this was not his fault. Tragically, it was not possible to stop the European attempt at suicide, when Europe absolutely wanted to commit suicide.

Projected Spiritual Reform

The Tsar wanted to debureaucratise the Church administration, which had opposed the canonisation of St Seraphim of Sarov, and to restore the Patriarchate. He failed, as he was opposed by the petty ambitions, jealousies, rivalries and quarrels of the State-loving episcopate. He had little time for the empty ritualism of a Church, where if anyone who took communion more than once a year would be eyed as a fanatic. He defended the pious name-glorifiers of Mt Athos, who were hated by loveless episcopal bureaucrats, who were backed by the largely atheist aristocrats. Both groups betrayed him in 1917.

He saw eighty-one saints canonised in twenty years against only five canonised in the previous 175 years. By 1917 there were 1,256 monasteries, against only 631 in 1890, 117 million Orthodox, with 163 bishops, over 115,000 priests and deacons and 78,767 churches – against only 39,700 in 1890. Tsar Nicholas made generous personal gifts to all the Local Churches which he wanted to free from ethnic narrowness. By 1898 there were 22,000 Orthodox in Japan, Orthodox missions in Korea and China, and seventeen churches had been built in major Western cities, including in Nice and New York.

A Military Genius

Nicholas II, a military man by training, was forced to become commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in August 1915, replacing his utterly incompetent and foul-mouthed overgrown cousin. That was the treasonous Grand Duke Nicholas, a snobbish, atheistic and anti-Semitic aristocrat, who treated his despised troops as cannon fodder, just like the Allied generals on the Western Front. His incompetence had led to the shell shortage and the retreat from the Carpathians in early 1915. Having taken 2 million Austro-Hungarian prisoners, by 1916 Tsar Nicholas had won the greatest Allied victory of the War.

If only his timid General Brusilov had had the courage to follow through on the Tsar’s carefully planned breakthrough in 1916, Austria-Hungary could have been knocked out of the war. Russian troops would have liberated both Vienna and Berlin by 1917. Unlike Napoleon who reached Moscow and later Hitler who almost did, the enemy in World War One did not reach Russia. They only occupied eastern Poland, Lithuania and what is now Catholic western Ukraine and western Belarus, where satanic anti-Jewish pogroms had taken place – none took place in Russia, though huge ones took place in Berlin and Vienna.

His armies suffered only some 50% of the casualties of the Allies on the immobile Western Front. This was despite the fact that his troops faced the vast majority of the German Army on a highly mobile Front that was half as long again as the Western, as well as facing the Austro-Hungarians and the Ottomans. Nicholas II failed on the very verge of victory in early 1917, as Churchill recorded. However, he failed only because of the ‘treason and cowardice and deceit’, as the Tsar described it, of decadent and Russophobic aristocrats, corrupt generals and bureaucrat-bishops, supported by the ‘Allies’.

Afterword

When Tsar Nicholas and his family were murdered 108 years ago on 17 July 1918, the order for it had gone out from financiers in New York. The victim of ‘treason and cowardice and deceit’, the world is still suffering from his murder. Without his overthrow, there would not have been a World War Two, let alone today’s tragedy. Without that, we would be living in a far different world.

Of this St John of Shanghai and Western Europe, who proposed his canonisation in the mid-1930s, wrote: ‘That blackest crime, which was committed against the Tsar, must be effaced by fervent veneration for him, glorifying his feat. The Russian Lands must kneel down before the humiliated, the slandered and the martyred….Then the Passion-Bearing Tsar will be granted great boldness before God and his prayer will save the Russian Lands from the disasters borne by them….Innocently shed blood will regenerate Russia….A restored Russia is needed by the world, which has lost the spirit of life and trembles with fear, as before an earthquake’.

17 July 2026

 

 

 

 

The Restructuring of Europe

Foreword: Reason Replaced by Ideology

The elite of the contemporary Western world seems to be in the grip of insanity. Its political and media elite, paid by arms dealers, is irrational. This irrationality is the result of its unrealistic ideology driven by hubris, the same hubris which lay behind the insane and suicidal German invasion of Russia in 1941. This insane wishful thinking states: ‘We must destroy ourselves by rejecting cheap Russian energy and food because Russians are subhuman’.

The roots of this ideology are in the arrogant delusion or fairy tale ‘narrative’ that the West is superior to ‘the Rest’, that Western culture is better than all others. This came from the superior military technology that the West used to possess. This military advance led hypocritical European settlers to call Slavs, Muslims, Native Americans, Africans, Asians and Aborigenes ‘savages’ and genocide them. Now even its military superiority is over, as we can see in Iran.

Four Great Powers?

According to IMF figures, the Gross Domestic Product of China by PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) is about $44 trillion, of the USA some $32 trillion (without finance, insurance and real estate, in reality probably about $20 trillion), of India nearly $19 trillion and of Russia $8 trillion (its vastly underestimated military production means that it is probably about $10 trillion in reality). These are the four largest economies in the world, the Four Powers.

In today’s world reality, of these Four Powers, the three former Regional Powers, China, Russia and India, have become or, in the case of the narrowly nationalist India, whose anti-Muslim nationalism is hindering it, is becoming, Great Powers. And one Great Power, the USA, is fast becoming a Regional Power. This follows its successive routs in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and the Ukraine, the results of its irrational and hateful ideology of superiority.

As a result, the tribute-paying (that is, tariff-paying) Western European vassals and court jesters of the American King Donald are becoming even more irrelevant than their master. As we can see from the collapse of the much-divided NATO and planned US occupation of the last large European colony, Greenland. If Western Europe is to survive, its leaders will have to reverse their ideology and to depend on Russia for energy and food and on China for goods.

The radical contraction of the influence of Western Europe, delusional in its wishful thinking, and the end of NATO will also mean the long-awaited end of the much-hated EU. The whole south-eastern quarter of Western Europe, centred on the largely Orthodox Carpathians and Balkans, will be connected to the Chinese economy by rail. The impoverished Baltics may follow to embrace China, and after them south-western Europe – Spain, Portugal and Italy.

The Borders of European Countries Redrawn: The Ukraine

However, none of this can happen until Western Europe’s old imperialist and racist elites, who hate Russia, China and all the ‘savages’ in the ‘jungle’ (they consider that they alone are in the ‘garden’), have collapsed in coming elections or in civil unrest. The First World War ended in injustices, which caused the Second, which also ended in injustices. As a result of those injustices, we now face the Third Recasting of Europe, which still seeks justice.

Firstly, the Soviet-invented Ukraine is over. The tyranny of Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev, supported by the West, will end. The Ukraine resembles tiny Wales, in the sense that 83% speak Russian as their first language and only 17% speak Ukrainian as their first language and have some limited Russian. And this is about the same as the proportions of those who speak English and Welsh in Wales, where only 17% speak Welsh better than English.

The war in the Ukraine is at last ending after Putin’s long years of diplomatic dithering. We suggest that the nine provinces of Novorossija may return to Russia, and, in a deNATOised (= deNAZIfied) and demilitarised form, the province of Chernivtsy may return to Romania, Zakarpattia may return to Slovakia and Hungary, and the three provinces of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and the western halves of Volyn and Ternopil as far as Pochaev may return to Poland.

The remaining eleven provinces, 40% of the old Soviet Ukraine, the real historical Ukraine in the centre, could retake their historical name of Kievska Rus, resembling a Southern Belarus, also landlocked, again as demilitarised zones. In return, the main beneficiary of land transfers, Poland, could grant a narrow land corridor to Kaliningrad. As for the Russian parts of Moldova like Transnistria and Gagauzia, they could by referendum be ceded to Russia.

In EU Europe

The three Baltic States are collapsing economically and therefore demographically. After the fall of the USSR, the Germans bought out and then closed the Baltic factories and their young people were forced to emigrate to live as wage-slaves in Western Europe. The Baltic elites must stop attacking Russia and grant their Russian minorities their human rights, or else be occupied, the American-appointed, poke-the-bear, puppet elites removed.

Then there are the massive injustices of ex-Yugoslavia. A whole set of non-viable countries were invented by the divide and rule US: Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia. Parts of Serbia were stolen by Croatia. Albania remains the poorest and most crime-ridden country in Europe. These all survive with a permanent NATO and UN presence, which is what prevents justice being done. Here there must be confederative resolutions with justice for all.

In Western Europe, there are four obvious cases of countries which have long sought independence. These are (a Reunited) Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, all at last to be freed of London-based British tyranny. The end of an oppressive and artificial union would mean freedom at last for all the peoples involved. No doubt, given their common history of oppression, they could co-operate together in some loose Confederation of Four Sovereign Nations.

There is also the case of Catalonia, long oppressed by Madrid centralism. However, there are also questions about the artificial, British-invented, post-Waterloo union of Belgium (in fact, the Netherlands, France and a small part of Germany), about a still not denazified West Germany (only East Germany was denazified), which perhaps should go from a Federation into a Confederation, a small part of Austria that is Italian and parts of Slovakia that are Hungarian.

The Restructuring of the Church: Twenty Local Churches?

Kievska Rus should receive autocephaly because few there will ever tolerate hearing the hated Russian Patriarch’s name at services. They will boycott any Russian churches there. If Kievska Rus is granted autocephaly, then Belarus should receive autocephaly too. The three Baltic States and Finland could also form an autocephalous Baltic Orthodox Church. This would mean three new Local Autocephalous Churches, their number going from sixteen to nineteen.

The Romanian Orthodox Church, the Polish Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of the Czechs and Slovaks would have to take responsibility for the Orthodox in the parts of the Ukraine which returned to them. Carpatho-Russians in eastern Slovakia would be greatly reinforced. Any Orthodox who live in the small part of Zakarpattia, which would return from the old Soviet Ukraine to Hungary, could join the Orthodox Diocese in Hungary.

In the Non-Slav world, we think that the administration of the Patriarchate of Constantinople should move to Northern Greece, perhaps to the town of Ouranoupolis, ‘the City of Heaven’, at the foot of Mt Athos, from which it could at last obtain a monastic episcopate. After nearly 200 years the Church of Greece could return to it. And the Patriarchate of Alexandria should be decolonised by Greeks and Russians and become a black African Patriarchate.

As regards the new Moldova, in an ideal world the Russian and Romanian Patriarchs would together grant its Church autocephaly. In return, Western Europe, already with nearly fifty bishops, could at last receive a new Local Church, to be led by the majority Romanian Church, despite Greeks and some Russians wishing to remain in irrelevant national ghettos, whose nationalism puts them outside Church unity. Then there would be twenty Local Churches.

Afterword: Ecclesioclasm – The Sin Against the Holy Spirit

Certain members of the elite of the Orthodox world are in the grip of insanity, that is, of irrationality. This is the result of their passions for power, money and lust. We say certain members, because only the secularists are in the grip of this insanity, which is the sin of Infallibility, common among secular-minded people, because they have no humility. They say: ‘We do not care for Christ, we only care for our careers, honour, ambition, villas, cars and carnal lusts’.

These are the hireling clerics, the wolves in shepherd’s clothing, who are filioquists, as they consider that they are the source of the Holy Spirit. This is the sin against the Holy Spirit. They place themselves above the canons as despots, who recognise no laws, certainly not the law of Love. They are seized by schismatic anti-Conciliarity. This is the heresy of ‘Pneumatomachy’, of the rejection of the Holy Spirit, breaking the Church by their ‘Ecclesioclasm’.

 

 

 

Their Name is Spiritual Death: Unconverted Converts as Clergy of the Orthodox Church

The (administrators of the) Church would sooner renounce nine tenths of its teachings than one tenth of its property.

Karl Marx

Foreword

Today’s Western world lives without Faith. Its last variant, Protestantism, was discredited for its spiritual emptiness and delusions. Devoid of spirituality, it was left only with sectarian moralism, which was focused on sexual puritanism, never getting to the source of sin, and making it rejected by hundreds of millions. As for Roman Catholicism, it survived longer, but has also been discredited by its State ideology, absurd dogma of Papal infallibility and pedophilia. ‘Are any of its clergy normal’?, as one Irish Roman Catholic asked me. This leaves only the Orthodox Church. However, the devil is doing his best here to wreck our presence and mission by inspiring certain Orthodox clergy to behave like Popes of Rome and certain others to behave like moralising Protestant sectarians, who have only hatred for real Orthodox.

Introduction: False Conversion

Protestants have been joining the Orthodox Church for well over sixty years, especially in the USA. The last thirty years have seen relatively large numbers, especially in the USA. And many of them have come from strict, ultra-conservative Evangelical backgrounds, especially in the USA. And quite a few of them have become members of the clergy, especially in the USA. Here they have been joining two small jurisdictions in particular: the small Antioch and ROCOR, which both desperately lack clergy. (Those from moderate backgrounds have joined the much bigger Greek Archdiocese, OCA and Serbs. They generally do become Orthodox). The problem here is that those from such ultra-conservative Lutheran/Calvinist backgrounds are tainted by them.

Such extreme Protestantism hardly exists in any Western country outside the USA. After all, the extremist Puritans emigrated to the USA precisely because of their intolerance of others and there they started witch-hunts. It is this intolerance which they also bring with them when they ‘join the Orthodox Church’ – notice we do not say that they ‘become Orthodox’ in their case. These are the individuals who believe that being as conservative and fundamentalist as possible is somehow Orthodox. So far are they from the truth, for they clearly have no idea whatever of the realities of the Orthodox Church and Faith. This trend had already become apparent among converts, especially in California, in the 1970s, in their ‘supercorrectness’.

However, today, in this rootless, internet age, this fake Orthodoxy has become a veritable epidemic. What are the symptoms of this sick pseudo-Orthodoxy, which began in the USA, especially among the oddballs of California, though it has affected a few others, especially from a Protestant background, especially in English-speaking countries? Such converts may enter the Orthodox Church sacramentally; but if left unhealed by obedience to Tradition and the mind of the Church, the Evangelical imagination simply reappears under icons, cassocks, mispronounced Russian or Greek titles, and misunderstood and distorted quotations of the canons, instead of from the Gospels. Below are twelve characteristics of these unconverted converts:

Twelve Characteristics

  1. These individuals have never lived for any time in any Orthodox country or spent years in an ‘ethnic’ Orthodox monastery or parish. Such they despise. This is why they do not speak or read any Orthodox language with any fluency and do not wish to. Indeed, they scorn Orthodox languages and immigrants. Everything must be in American, including in England!
  2. The life of ancient, suffering and often very poor peoples, who have preserved the faith through centuries of prayer, liturgy, exile and martyrdom and handed it down through the generations, remain foreign to them. Indeed, they despise and even hate them. They do not turn to the ancient, deeply rooted Orthodox countries. The historical ethnic Churches have preserved an unbroken heritage, born of centuries of profound sacrifice, exile, and martyrdom and have handed down the faith rooted in their ancestral soil of humility. But the unconverted converts want an abstract (the Protestant manner) Anglo-American product, stripped of memory, language and people, constructed as a Neo-Protestant revisionism. They want the Disney fake.
  3. They demand total loyalty and cult-like obedience in an ultra-rigid, high-demand environment. This is marked by intense expectations of personal compliance in a high-control system of psychological pressure and discipline. This is the suffocating pressure of guru-style control freakery and emphasis on purification (they are after all Puritans) in their tightly-governed religious ghetto.
  4. They speak with ‘authority’ and confidence about tradition, obedience, order, and duty. This message is especially used to manipulate and prey on insecure and lonely young men, who are disoriented and confused by the modern world. Such young men may never have had a father, may suffer from autism, may be awkward with girls, may be victims of the covid period and seek certainty of any sort.
  5. Imbued with Old Testament phariseeism, domination and conservatism (which is quite different from the living Tradition of the Holy Spirit), they know nothing of Orthodox spiritual fatherhood, self-sacrificial love, patience, gentleness and the bearing of shame for the sake of the sinner. In Orthodoxy, spiritual fathers are called to take up the Cross first, to protect and repent for others. They do not place the burden of shame on spiritual children. Orthodox spiritual fathers bear the burdens of their flock with tears, patience and unconditional love. Imported Protestant administrators impose only bullying and threats. Clinging to the works of the law divorced from mercy, they remain under the curse of the very law they mistake for righteousness, substituting self-sacrificial love with rigid, self-righteous pharisaic control. Intoxicated by self-righteousness, they never cease to fashion weapons out of holy things. The whole Church, Scripture and Tradition are cudgels for them. For the betrayal of Judas does not always come with a kiss. Sometimes it comes through ‘protocols’, calculation and signatures, and above all through intense jealousy of real Orthodox and through taking money and ‘subscriptions’ off the naïve and deluded.
  6. Ascetic life, fasting and abstention are viewed by them as parts of a punitive authoritarian regime of control freakery and abusive discipline, and not as the free offering of the heart to God for the acquisition of mercy.
  7. All who quickly see through their fakery and hypocrisy and whistle blow are put under intense pressure, fear of permanent exclusion and swift retaliation, as their ‘authority’ has been challenged by those who actually know the Tradition. All this comes from their harsh and punitive Lutheran/Calvinist mentality. Those who resist these bullies and do not give them obedience and personal loyalty (and their cash) will disappear as ‘non-people’ – they never existed.
  8. Any objection to their fake Orthodoxy is for them a source of hurt pride, wounded reputation, embarrassment, emotional distress (which causes them to turn to drink, among other things), business harm, loss of professional standing and of future economic advantage. They are money-obsessed narcissists.
  9. Such unconverted Protestants justify their pride by referring to the ‘Ancient Faith’, which is selectively borrowed and deployed to create an artificial authority, which is in fact only Neo-Evangelical fundamentalism, not the ascetic, eucharistic, conciliar Orthodox Faith. Orthodoxy for them is just an excuse for personal spiritual reinvention, renewed fakery and a very profitable personality cult. How they love raking in the dollars, just like any Protestant tele-evangelist!
  10. Their theatricality does not stop with legalistic honorifics and borrowed academic or ecclesiastical titles. They teach themselves to speak with a foreign cadence, stylised, Old World delivery, ‘an Oxford accent’ (which is in fact nothing of the sort, but could sound like one in crazy California), or Eastern European vocal inflections. These are all simply part of their brand: an artificial pose intended to project frowning severity, antiquity and the pseudo-exotic spiritual authority of the guru. Their deliberate adoption of affected speech patterns and foreign cadences to command an audience is not the sound of Tradition, it is the fake theatrical vanity of the preening narcissist. When the theatre of their legalism replaces the Church, the letter is weaponised against the Spirit and a fake juridical process is mistaken for the life of the Church. This only works among naïve and uneducated American neophytes, who know no better. It does not export. We saw through him in five minutes, but then we have been around for a long time, since before any of them were born.
  11. Tradition and the canons are not respected with humility and prayer. They are selectively ‘harvested’, weaponised and then discarded. They are only observed when they appear to justify their crazy punishments. Orthodoxy is kept only to elevate personal status, command obedience and play at being Orthodox, in order to increase their beloved income, power and prestige. The Orthodox ethos, accountability before the Tradition, spiritual fatherhood, humility and compassionate love for the sinner are discarded. Orthodox symbols on the outside, Evangelical content on the inside. Patristic language on the surface, legalistic and bullying control beneath. Tradition for them is mere conservatism a la Trump, not the Holy Spirit and repentance. For them it is all just a clerical costume, an exotic credential, a borrowed title and weaponised obedience for income for their guru selves.
  12. These unconverted converts make of the Orthodox Church a platform for their own pseudo-charismatic self-construction. They build a personality cult, used as authority, it is the Evangelical will-to-rule in outward Orthodox forms, the Protestant fundamentalist world of misogynistic patriarchal authority (how they hate women!), puritanism and punitive control. Orthodoxy is merely symbolic, it is only there to provide them with self-justification for their proud egomania and narcissism, it is only the personality-driven religious performance of Evangelical show.

Conclusion: Bringing Spiritual Death

When the Protestant cultural framework is not healed and transfigured by repentance and the sacraments, it survives. Byzantine furniture is only added to their extremist Protestantism. Their literalism (The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life, 2 Corinthians 3, 6) and Puritanical instinct to ‘purify’ (‘drain the swamp’) and witch-hunt survives. Those of Protestant background can become Orthodox. However, the old Protestant mentality, severity, control and legalism to repress what they see as impurity by enforced discipline, loyalty and ‘spiritualised’ obedience to their personality cult may remain. If so, this means spiritual abuse, exclusion and erasure, demands for submission, rigidity and a carefully curated image of self-righteousness, which also fool uninformed American bishops in the USA.

Reception into Orthodoxy requires more than changing outward jurisdiction, vocabulary, ancestry and dress. It requires inward repentance, the death of the religious ego, humility and not pride. It requires obedience to the Catholicity of the Church, not the conquest of the Church by the inherited bad habits of domination and personal ambition a la tele-evangelist. Like all Protestants, these individuals are possessed by Judeo-Christianism, a term invented only a hundred years ago. It is not in the language of the liturgy, in the Philokalia, in the Fathers, saints and ascetics. It is only in the Old Testament political language of American conservatism and Protestant fundamentalism, part of the legalistic, punitive, authoritarian, Evangelical heresy of Christian Zionism.

This is why their missionary endeavours always fail. They understand nothing of the people they are trying to convert and have no compassion for them. They are spiritually suffocating, which is why they are sooner or later thrown off. Their emphasis is not on repentance, mercy, joy, healing, the gentle restoration of sinners, but on the arrogance of puritanical moralising and hate-filled condemnation. This is why so many such bullies end up in old calendarist sects a la Boston. Bostonitis does not need theology, it needs psychiatry, for it is a pathology. Their faces express disapproval, but that is all theatre. Subjugation to them is ‘spiritualised’. Resistance to their heresy is framed as ‘rebellion’. Disclosure is disloyalty and betrayal. They kill the Church. Their name is spiritual death.

Acknowledgement: We thank Fr Emmanuel Lemelson for bringing this pathology, unique to the USA, to our attention in his blog. He deserves many more readers and much support for denouncing the systematic secularisation by ‘Orthodox’ Evangelical Zionists of parts of the Orthodox world in the USA and the obvious Deep State financial backing for it as part of its process of extreme right-wing ideologisation.

Political Ideologies, or the Orthodox Christian Faith?

The gates of hell shall not prevail.

All around treason and cowardice and deceit.

Tsar Nicholas II after being overthrown

Introduction: The Judgement of the Nations

The world lies in evil, says St John the Theologian. This is why the world always refuses God’s Truth. But as we Christians are called on to live in the world, to which we do not belong, we have to know what spirit directs the world and how to remain faithful to God’s Truth despite it. Thus, although it is natural for Orthodox to defend our countries as patriots, we know that Christ stands above patriotism. Therefore, we clearly recognise that wars against or even between Orthodox Christian countries happen only because Orthodox Christian countries put nationalism above Christ. Such wars are the Judgement of God on apostasy. Such was the war between Serbs and Bulgarians in 1912-1913, such is the war between Russians and Ukrainians. God does not force Himself on others. Leave God and He leaves you. Those who do not live with God choose to live with the devil, the father of lies. Such is the choice possible with human freedom.

Political Ideologies Against the Faith

Wars of the Collective West against Russia, whether Hot or Cold, have never ended. Though they began earlier, they began in earnest after the Russian defeat of Napoleon’s multinational invasion in 1812, when it became clear that Russia had become a Great Power. Since then, the tide of War has only ebbed or flowed. It flowed with Napoleon in 1812, again with the Anglo-French-Muslim invasion of Russia from 1853 to 1856, again with the Western-financed Japanese attack on Russia in 1904, part of the Imperial British ‘Great Game’. Then it flowed with the German invasion of Russia in 1914, with the British-rigged overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917, with the Collective Western invasion of Russia between 1919 and 1922, and with the German-led invasion of 1941. It ebbed at times, recently after 1991 until the NATO proxy Georgian invasion of Russian-protected Ossetia in 2008, and flowed again in the Ukraine after 2014.

The situation is usually presented as follows. There are only two choices in this world: either to be for Russia and for all the propaganda in favour of Russian nationalism, for instance, for the nationalist Tsar Ivan IV (admittedly much less harmful than his dreadful contemporary Henry VIII), for Tsars, especially for Peter I and the German Catherine II, who introduced feudal serfdom, for Lenin, who created the Ukraine, for Stalin, who murdered hundreds of thousands, and for xenophobia against anything Western. Or else it is possible to be for the West and for all the racist Russophobic propaganda against Russia and Russian culture, playing on the inferiority complex of pseudo-Western Russian liberals, for anything in favour of the US substitute Patriarchate of Constantinople, for LGBT, or for the CIA-run ROCOR, and for spreading Russia-hating myths like ‘Russian roulette’, which was only ever an American invention.

In other words, the situation is all about a choice between alternative nationalist political ideologies, but not at all about the Christian Faith, it is all about viewing the Church through the lens of nationalist politics. And yet it should be about Faith. What about Christ and His Church? Have they forgotten? There are in fact 16 Local Orthodox Churches. 14, nearly 90%, of them, are not Constantinopolitan or Muscovite (even if those two have some 50% of the Orthodox people between them – once you subtract all the Non-Russians under Moscow, not least the Ukrainians). And in any case, the vast majority of Churches people and educated clergy even in these two Local Churches of Moscow and Constantinople are for Christ and have no truck with nationalist ideologies. Only their leadership is contaminated by the anti-pastoral, Papist spirit of politics, power, money and prestige. Some wonder if such even believe in God.

The Fruit of Replacing the Christian Faith by Nationalist Ideologies.

The bureaucratic elite of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, to be exact the tiny minority of Phanariots, are well-known for their love of money, prestige and power, which is why they worship and imitate the Vatican and present themselves as ‘Eastern Papists’, ‘first without equals’. They form a Dictatorship without Catholicity. Sadly, as none of them is married, this also leads to perversions, just as in their favourite Vatican. And so their political ideology is Ecumenism yesterday, the Green Patriarch today, LGBT tomorrow, and the day after the next fad from the Western woke bandwagon. But nothing changes, it all remains exclusivist Greek nationalism, phyletism, called ‘Hellenism’. The Archpastors have been replaced by Archpoliticians and, sometimes, Archbandits. And the bureaucratic and careerist elite of the Patriarchate of Moscow, where there was once great potential, similarly fell from freedom and grace.

Copying Greek nationalist Phanariots, in recent years they invented their exclusivist and racist ideology, ‘the Russian world’ – the same Dictatorship without Catholicity. However, unlike the secularist Greeks, they marketed themselves as having ‘traditional values’. Sadly, Lenin’s mummy is still revered in the centre of Moscow, the capital of abortion, and Russia is full of statues and the names of Stalin and his henchmen like Sverdlov. Traditional? And some bishops are sexual deviants or mini-oligarchs. Masculine? Well, have you seen the videos of Russian metropolitans with boyfriends and bishops? Masculine? Orthodox Christianity is about family life and that is definitely not anti-woman and anti-children. The Moscow Patriarchate will even support the new ROCOR heresy of rebaptism, as long as clericalist ritual is observed and the Patriarch’s name is heard. All others in the other 15 Local Churches are schismatics or heretics.

This is because, according to the nationalists, the schism and heresy of all the others is not to commemorate the Russian Patriarch, even though that is forbidden by the local State and ROCOR did not do it for eighty years. Certain of the senior bishops are mini-oligarchs who rule their dioceses under harsh, totalitarian regimes, as the new, all-American ROCOR has copied. One metropolitan in Russia has recently bankrupted his large metropolia. Some priests are very poor because their bishops take their money with threats, like mafiosi. As a result, you have many scandals, like those in the Skopin Diocese, in Kolomna, Rostov on Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Tatarstan, Kazan (among several others) and that here in England. And then there is the viper’s nest of careerist homosexuals who attack seminarians and honest priests. Where is the Russian Church of the Saints, of the New Martyrs and Confessors, part of the whole Church of Catholicity of All the Saints?

Conclusion: The Victory of Christ

And where is the glorious Church of Constantinople, led by the Antiochian St John Chrysostom, followed by a host of saintly patriarchs, persecuted monks and faithful? Archpoliticians and Archbandits instead of Archpastors. And it is the same problem everywhere. When bishops stopped being real monks, then it all went wrong, beginning with Rome in the late eighth century. Regardless of where human-beings live, in Moscow, Constantinople, or anywhere else, regardless of when they live, yesterday, today, or tomorrow, human nature remains the same and the temptations are the same. There is one acid test, the one that Christ gave us and lived for us in his Life on earth: By their fruits you shall know them, and, A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

On Athos, in Diveyevo, Optina and Pochaev, Putna and Prislop, and in all the other bastions of Orthodoxy, we are praying for the freedom of the Church. Away with luxury cars and yachts, private railways carriages, silken cassocks and gold! The Diveyevo Brotherhood is coming for the Great Cleansing of the corrupt in the Church. St Sergius of Radonezh, St Xenia of Petersburg, St Seraphim of Sarov, St Matrona of Moscow, Elder Nikolai Guryanov all lived in poverty. And so will you!