A Message For World AIDS Day

A most important Message For World AIDS Day A most important Message For World AIDS Day From Our Metropolitan Archbishop, Archabbot, Primate

No matter where I go in person, even on the Internet or viewing some of the electronic media news casts; I am struck by one important thing... None of them thus far have promoted the idea that our government enforce a working relationship with pharmaceutical companies and their research teams to find an ultimate drug that will totally and wholly stop the HIV/AIDS virus. Much is the speaking about the research on-going, but nothing is ever concrete... always "around the corner".

With the advancement of our technologies and wonder drug findings for other diseases and ailments, it is only a matter of finding the cure to HIV/AIDS that I cannot help but believe but what additional cures will be found for other destructive diseases that lead to the ultimate, death!

On visiting internet web sites, viewing the news media; I draw upon my many memories of having worked in (and am still working) in the HIV/AIDS fight for the survival of life since 1982. Everyone talks about the number of deaths, naming names and talking about the devastation to one's emotions when sitting with someone at the brink of death; holding their hands, praying for them and even burying them... I am struck with the fact that these people, for all the good work they are now doing... were more than likely the very same ones who, in 1982 to the 1990's, would turn their heads or hide away out of fear... a fear not of God, but of their contracting HIV/AIDS. Now that they have become more educated on the disease, they step out and help. I applaud them for there would have to come a time in which these care-givers and ministers would eventually reach out... Yet, I am appalled by the devastation I have seen and witnessed.

The decline of someone's mental faculties who has HIV/AIDS is nothing new to me. I've seen it time and time again. I've buried more than one can count on their hands and feet.

Yet, I am still shocked and appalled at the pharmaceutical companies eagerness to find a cure... only when it is aligned with and involves FREE MONEY on the pain and suffering, even death, of others. These are the pharmaceutical companies who already have stockpiled profits like the gasoline/petroleum companies and the government is doing little to nothing in reigning in the cost factors for those whose incomes are so limited already, that even the government has been and is creating further hardships through the re-invention of the Medicare/Medical/Medicaid wheels... Our government system is broken, lets face up to that fact! Our politicians have politicized HIV/AIDS which has been encouraged by many of the so-called "Hospice" programs who fight for economic survival. Yes... ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY! Greed is no stranger to this fight!

People out in the community are less educated for the most part, because they've been inundated by the news media so much that they prefer switching the t.v. channel or to throw away the flyer or brochure... they seemingly do not want to hear about anymore than is necessary for them, until it affects their husband, wife or child... and, as a result, they will not do anything to help on a more personal level because they feel if they just give donations or goods and money they are doing their duty while not physically participating in visiting, holding hands, hugging, truly caring and giving the kind of comfort so needed.

Living conditions for those who have this disease is becoming worse only because many of them can no longer work in gainful employment and have to resort to government help either locally (city, county and state) in order to survive, causing some of them to even resort to street living unless they opt for a state approved housing program which infringe upon their religious rights, their beliefs as to what and when they will worship, having to put up with persons who, in their way of believing, are not truly ministers, pastors or priests (even though the individual may be in their denomination, more the result of group living) causing them in having to hear alien beliefs or accept religious doctrines not sanctioned under their normal condition before HIV/AIDS.

We can talk about how one contracted the disease, but that is like letting the carriage out of the barn after the horses had already been let go!

We can talk about our educational system... but then you get the religious politics from Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals, Church of Christ and many other heretical religionists who oppose much and require much if they were given their way. You have Jerry Falwell, and then remember Anita Bryant... don't forget the televangelists and others... for none of them really have the love of Jesus Christ because they have turned a deaf ear as well as falsely say and believe that God is punishing the individual(s) who have HIV/AIDS... lest they themselves get HIV/AIDS for their own people will turn against them as I have seen it happen time and time again. Oh, yes... the platitudes of concern and so-called God's Love or Christian Love they say they have... is really full of rancor and distaste for they speak with forked tongues and, most importantly, a false witness of Jesus Christ. These are the very ones who are bringing together the ONE WORLD CHURCH which is denounced by Holy Writ (Holy Bible) prophecy and the ancient Seven Ecumenical Councils.

So where are the continued "letter campaigns" to congress and to the drug manufacturers now? Who is carrying on? Are you?

I am sorry to say that I have not done enough to push, push, push... yet I have done a share or two in this fight against HIV/AIDS... without receiving one darn penny for my work... in fact, I am concerned by all economic advisors to my unworthy self who say that I am in something of a destitute condition and position, yet I fight onward and forward for the Love of God through Jesus Christ motivates me and those with me. Where are you in this earthly struggle out of pain of heart for the faith delivered once and for all? What are you willing to sacrifice in spirit and truth? And I say "Spirit" and I say "truth" because they have more than the common understanding of implication and meaning for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see (within).

And what about Islam? Their Muslims or Moslems? If anyone there has AIDS/HIV, they are looked upon as having become ill due to homosexual activity without thinking that during the Holiest of Holies (season) they are required by their religious beliefs to sodomize their young ("virgin") men for they believe their "Prophet" to come, their "Allah", will be born through the loins of a man (not a woman). This is not hyperbole, it is FACT! They do not believe or practice homosexuality, in their eyes, but fulfill a mandate of the Q'uran (Koran) AND ONLY during their Holiest of Holy seasons. That is the reason for their baggy type of wearing apparel which has become the psychological means to get western boys and men to wear baggy clothes, pants down around their hips, even below their buttocks. That psychological tool is the cause for many 'gangsta' types and wanna-be 'gangsters' wearing the clothes they do in that manner, for it is an identity symbol. It is NOT a 'cultural' thing... but people seeking an identity for their race or gang. In brief form, these western boys and men are (unknowing to themselves) copy-cats of Muslim (Islamic) teachings in slow degrees, articulating something they know nothing about, yet because some athlete in the sports industry wears their own clothes in that fashion, it is the "in-thing" to do. This is furthering the advancing psychological manipulation from a violent religion that has no barriers as to who they will go after... All who are not ISLMIC (MUSLIMS) are "Infidels" and to be dealt with accordingly. True... those in the western democratic countries, for the most part... do not engage in such and most find such violence repugnant! Yet, if they are sincere and true to the letter of the Sharia Islamic Law as imbued in the Koran (Q'uran) they cannot discount or turn away from their Islamic requirements of faith. Not realizing the damage they do to themselves, their image in reality and what they are saying by their style of dress... the gangsta/gangster types in this country... not only encourage sexual activities in the way of Islam by psychological insinuation of dress, but encourage un-safe sex and cause for the advancement of HIV/AIDS on a more psychological level which reaches the proportions of physical activity... with women and vice-versa. This "...is a long stretch of the imagination" you say? When you understand what Islam (Muslim or Moslem) are doing, the understanding of this psychology will fall into place... It is an evil religion, a violent religion, if one is really Muslim (Moslem) of the Islamic beliefs, one must do what their faith demands. Remember this... the Islamic religion, under the hands of their Imams today in the eastern countries, especially those who want and encourage "Jihad" ... against Christians and Jews... have only one thing in mind... as we've already said. And in the doing, they will use economic and psychological manipulation on the western civilization to the greatest degree possible. If you can not convert them... cause them to go to the further degree which involve any kind of unsanctioned activity, even perversions... and immoral activity... in dress, in music, in religion, etc. This moral decay will bring a nation down faster than any absolute outright attack by armies.... This is the Evil One's goal and plan... Destroy a nation through its peoples weakest link which in most instances is a link based on morality and culture... dress, music, economic, political...

As for the HIV/AIDS victims in those countries with heavy Islamic control (Muslim)... there is much that could be done, but their religionists who have control will not allow for full blown efforts to be taken to really give a caring approach both scientifically and otherwise. These are the depressed countries for the most part!

Back here in North America, we watch, we wait, and see... our government has been and continues to be stuck on the economics and politics of all things in common.... doing little with much speaking....

Over time, in this fight against HIV/AIDS, and caring for a variety of people with this devastating disease who come from all walks of life and religions, I have provided house and home care, medical coverage to some degree, even financial help when I could... even praying with them and burying far more than many of you could ever know. I recall one man, who had full blown AIDS and suffered very violent mental disturbance as a result. Most with HIV/AIDS in its full blown stages, do not suffer or go through these things in such a manner, but there are many who do. I've cared for several of them. In this particular instance, he was one of two persons (the second one did not have AIDS or HIV), who caused for me to go to prison in order to protect the Seals of the Confessional (witnesses can attest to these facts) in relation to sexual matters involving young boys... He/they are no longer with us in this life.

While in prison, even though the HIV/AIDS virus detection was supposed to be 98% correct or accurate, it really wasn't. I knew men whose lifestyles, as they had related to me under Seals of the Confessional in prison... had to of had the HIV virus, but no one knew except my unworthy self. Many of them, I have since found, are in an HIV/AIDS section in the prison system (in California... Vacaville, a few in Atascadero... now, while others were able to serve their term and get out only having to face the inevitable and eventually be housed in an HIV/AIDS hospice shelter. Some are no longer living with us in this life and a few I have personally buried since. So even in prison, I kept up the fight for these people. Even writing letters to the various pharmaceuticals, to senators and representatives and others. Since then, upon release, I did not stop.

The very HIV/AIDS individual who was protected under the Seals of the Confessional, still living at the time I came home, still causing grief through lies about others, paranoia and living in a fantasy world of his own creation... caused much grief after I came home to Seaside (Monterey), California.... but we didn't give up even though his mental faculties had become so violent that we had to place him in a place where he could be constantly watched until his repose... and many of us, including my unworthy self, have not given up either.

Yet, in all this, even at my present age now... I still do these things... even though I have been physically attacked by some of them when their minds became violent which caused for my unworthy self to be physically attacked, needles jammed into me because someone with full blown AIDS reached a point in his or her life where they were sick and tired of being sick and tired, and in a few instances their minds became something else which was very violent, as said above in part... Yet, by the grace of God, I am not infected! I don't know why and am not the least bit concerned anymore at my age because I accept each day as one more day to continue in this fight, in this life, to help people of all ages and degrees of understanding; with them and even some whose families I was able to bring back to them or them to their families who had thrown them out because the disease, in some instances, exposed their real life style as being what it was. Some, today, who have the disease, are very heterosexual and yet their own families have a false understanding... believing their child (an adult) is homosexual... believing the disease is of homosexual creation. What a lie... continually pumped up by those false ministers, pastors and televangelists who have not an ounce or idea of understanding, and those that do won't tell the truth, are using the negative and false lie to pump themselves up in the eyes of their congregations.

I can only wonder what you are doing to help in this fight to prevent or stop HIV/AIDS from spreading further? What are you doing to help someone who has this horrible disease? Are you standing in the background or are you upfront and donating your physical time toward worthy endeavors as suggested?

I praise and bless those in the Monterey County AIDS Project. One of the founders was a man who I had consecrated a Bishop many, many years ago. He has gone to his repose. But those who continue in these endeavors, although the politics and economics get in the way from time to time... those people in Monterey, California (MCAP) ARE TO BE HELD UP AS WORTHY! WORTHY! WORTHY!

And since coming to New Mexico I have to say the same about the Camindo de Vida people in Las Cruces, New Mexico... They too are affected by the politics and economics which sometimes slow things down a bit in obtaining their goals and in working with many of the clients they have to go to across the State of New Mexico. They too are WORTHY! WORTHY! WORTHY!

For those suffering from HIV/AIDS... Bless you! Do not give up or give in! For as long as you have one ounce of faith and mental where-with-all, do all you can do and be all you can be physically, spiritually and mentally... to stay alive and to carry the torch! For yours is a life of struggle now... a painful one, but one that can be an example of Love, compassion and understanding for those who have little love, little compassion or caring, and little understanding.

+Joseph Thaddeus, OSB, SSJt., Ph.D.

Metropolitan Archbishop, Archabbot, Primate

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There are unscrupulous people on the internet these days. Some of them are not who they claim to be and in order to disrupt honest spiritual pursuits, they are known to send out e-mail under someone else's name or the name of another church or jurisdiction with attachments. Anyone can do this, if they want. Some of them exist in Toledo, Ohio... Some in Texas... Others in Michigan, California and many other places... Some are "haters of truth" who follow (whether they are willing to admit it) those who have sway over less educated or ignorant people... as their are also those who do not even know what they are doing because they seek glory to satisfy their own vanity and selfish pride to take over a church or jurisdiction of another, or to wreck havoc over those whom they hate without considering the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ.

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Unless we know exactly from whom an e-mail comes... nothing is clicked on or opened, not even attachments! You would be surprised from whom 'hate' e-mail arrives and what attempts and extremes they go to make their e-mails "look" official when it is a lone person or persons who hate TRUTH and love lies, hate anything from being posted that involves TRUTH because they may be affected with exposure to the LIVING TRUTH of Jesus Christ's Love.

Also: Hang Up Telephone Calls constantly get to you?

We get them all the time. But one thing we do that many are unaware of... We keep an automatic telephone log and then we turn them over to the same group who monitors and interacts with the hackers, etc.

It no longer matters if the caller calls once in a day, every other day or every day or several times a week, once a week for several months... All get logged, even those who think they have escaped notice by using the actual I.D. Caller number of "000-000-0000" which is being used of late.

It is known that a telephone number showing up may actually be a telephone service provider phone number, yet... they too keep logs and information as to each individual cellular or local (their locale) phone usage...

In the not-to-distant future, we intend to post some of those telephone numbers which constantly show up as "harassing hang-up" callers. May be, you too have the same? If so, may be we can assist in interacting to go further in bringing them to justice...

Contact us by E-Mail... provide us with your telephone number (U.S. residents only)... so that we may telephone you and assess the information.

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Those who do such unscrupulous things, HATE some of the news, quotes, and such as to inform the general public. Some of them pose as clergy, while a few are actually clergy from various "other" offshoot AMERICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH or other jurisdiction(s) of the same or similar name of which we are, in some instances, their former MOTHER CHURCH (as is the same named Toledo, Ohio based, an offshoot, who had once been a part of us and unknowingly to our unworthy selves, were once a part of the clergy but they did not obtain permission to leave the jurisdiction they were under, according to Canon, and thus obtained for themselves re-ordination and consecrations, several times... and then using a variety of church names, including our own after they were defrocked and excommunicated, having more than three (3) times being excommunicated by other legitimate apostles/bishops); having joined in and with "Independent" churches who have nothing to do with us or even true Orthodoxy.

They seek to go out of their way to character assassinate and disparage religious web sites who do not meet their own brand of standardization which is evidence of their being not "Orthodox" "Christian" or even "Catholic" no matter what their nomenclature corporate name may be. The Toldeo, Ohio based same name group under their so-called leader has been deposed, defrocked and excommunicated more than three different times by various bishops/apostles. He, and several others, have become just as bad as the modern day Ecumenists of the National Council of Churches, World Council of Churches, the World Council of Bishops and more. Their ultimate aim and goal is destruction to those from whom they had either originated from or gone through to obtain the same named "church" they claim to hold to by the state's civil law in which they reside alone. They are not a "Schema-monk" or even a true "monk" for they were deposed and excommunicated for violations of the Holy Rule they claim to subscribe to, giving and openly providing false misleading and inaccurate information about other more honorable clergy. These 'wolves in sheep's clothing attract other nefarious and questionable persons whose aims are similar: for fame, image, power and glory.

Remember, anything that is a HALF TRUTH is not truth but a lie! Many there are that you may know who fit those descriptions... pray for them. Pray that God will send his Spirit of Truth upon them and lead them to Salvation through tears of Repentance, conversion of their cold and calculating hearts toward seeking forgiveness from God and those whom they attempt to harm.

Those who receive e-mail from us, know who we are and from where we send mail. There are also many who know that they can send e-mail under another group or person's e-mail address, which has been happening. If you receive e-mail that purports itself to be from us, verify first by hitting your "reply" button and ask, "I received this e-mail but would like verification if it is from you."

If you are of another jurisdiction, you too could find that your parishioners, clergy and faithful might become subject to the same as we have recently found.

Let this be a warning to visitors so as to be safeguarded against unscrupulous e-mails which contain viruses, worms and unsavory material from person(s) organizations or institutions that are more self-serving than uplifting and informatively news worthy.

For ourselves, we have, as in the past, so once again, acquired the assistance of those who are able and capable of tracing e-mails back to their source and taking appropriate action in North America.

We have learned that the organization we subscribe to, whose members come from various legal and law enforcement backgrounds amongst other areas of society, are committed to the faith even though they may hold different theologies. Yet, in their monitoring of electronic communications of various persons or people, they do not always make haste to bring perpetrators to justice until after enough evidence has been gained in order to build a solid case. We do not always know what information they have gained, but we do know the organization, whom we've been asked not to name, has had a 97% success rate in bringing to justice and obtaining a conviction against individuals, people, and sometimes even religious organizations of a persona that gives the appearance of both secular and religious bearing but who abuse and misuse technology. The organization views those who abuse and misuse the internet and other technologies as nothing more than a form of "domestic terrorism" - - - - and, it would seem to appear that the courts are in agreement!

Those kinds of people, organizations, etc. who misuse and abuse communication technologies are no different than those who attempt to use coercive measures, and in some instance, even blackmail for the same idea is involved... to cause havoc and wreckage, to destroy the spirit and activity of those who struggle in the faith out of pain of heart for the Orthodox Church which is TRUTH. The degree that some have been known to go to, as seen by other jurisdictions, is to take advantage of questionably mentally challenged or those who have a lack of education and understanding to get them to make statements, even outright lies, in writing, in order to destroy. Such persons or groups are spiritual terrorists for unholy and un-Orthodox causes, aims and goals.

Yes, our Metropolitan Archbishop, +Joseph Thaddeus, SSJt., Ph.D. strongly defends the Seals of the Confessional for such leads to true Repentance in thought, word and deed whereby the penitent is required to make amends, where possible, to seek forgiveness of those harmed by his actions whether real or imagined, and to give his forgiveness to those who have harmed him before taking the Holy Body and Blood in the Eucharist, Jesus the Christ. The reality of this understanding is bound up in and with the findings for which cause he, himself, had been character assassinated by his detractors who claim the courts prevented him from breaking the Seals of the Confessional which is not the truth at all.... Click here to see what another bishop's findings are...

The workings of Holy Spirit will not be daunted by those who attempt to cause disruption! It is for these and other reasons that you are urged to read what true repentance and forgiveness means for real "Christians".

"It would be better to have ten (10) true repentant X-felons who ask for and give true forgiveness than it would be to have one (1) non-x-felon or common person whose self-righteousness exceeds even the Pharisees, Sadducees, the gossip mongers, slanderers and un-repentant; for the repentant x-felon understands the true meaning of the Church's purpose as being the spiritual hospital." (siq) +Joseph Thaddeus, OSB, SSJt., Ph.D., Metropolitan Archbishop, Archabbot, Primate

Yes... "Prejudice Makes Prisoners of the Hated and the Hater..." (1992-Fr. Alan Stanford)

One can ask, "What part of 'Prejudice' and 'hate' do you not understand? Are you a complacent person? In light of the saying, examine yourself! You may be surprised if you are honest with yourself for your soul may convict you before Jesus Christ convicts you in the times to come!

"When tested by some trial you should try to find out not why or through whom it came, but only how to endure it gratefully, without distress or rancor."

St. Mark the Ascetic.

"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit." Psalms 32:1-2

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