A Call to become A Soldier in Christ, Jesus

Not for the faint hearted, the spiritually weak, or those of the soft life!

In 1978, 1979 and 1980, Archbishops Jerome Joachim and David Luther began a bold move in forming what became the Western Orthodox Church of America out of Altoona, Pennsylvania.  Since the repose of Archbishops +Joachim and +Luther, there have arisen many "Western Orthodox" churches, all doing things according to their abilities as though they were the legitimate successor, even though they may have a link to those times of the past and have honorable intentions in spirit and truth. 

While Archbishop Joachim resided in San Francisco, California and Archbishop Luther resided in Altoona, Pennsylvania the endeavors to meet the needs of men who wanted to become ordained to the priesthood took on the appearance of a great army of Christ movement never before in Catholic Christian history been seen in the United States of America and Canada. 

 In tandem with Archbishop Joachim and then Rev. Father Joseph Thaddeus (Stanford), Archbishop Luther had begun to change the way the Western Orthodox Theological Seminary would train men.  Rev. Father Joseph Thaddeus was one who worked directly with both men without being, necessarily, a part of their main body during and after he (Thaddeus) was consecrated "Bishop" in the Catholic Christian Church which was taken under the wing of the AMERICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.  He continued in dialogue and work with these men in their endeavors from the background, so-to-speak, and as their personal friends and spiritual mentor.

Taking courses by mail was a viable way to train and teach.  It worked.  The Western Orthodox Church and the American Orthodox Church grew with new warriors of Christ who were trained and formed their own parishes and communities. 

Archbishops +Joachim and +Luther are no longer with us in this life, but their work continues in smaller ways. 

Some of those men who were under the now reposed Archbishops +Joachim and +Luther have become a part of other jurisdictions or have allowed their status in other jurisdictions to lapse by the wayside.  Some have become members of small monastic communities while others have active ministries of their own without belonging to any jurisdiction.

You are invited to join with us to either begin your training or furthering your training if you:

• Are attached to a jurisdiction but feel disenfranchised because of time, distance or changes in the world that has caused the jurisdiction you belong to, to take a path not necessarily of your own desire, but want to participate in and with a jurisdiction that listens and encourages active involvement regardless of where you reside.

• Are not clergy but want to become involved and trained for the priesthood or monastic life.

• Have had civil or criminal problems of any kind or nature in your life and find that they have been used against you in a way to prevent you from seeking a life in Christ as a clergy member or continuing in a Life in Christ because you were faced with such problems of the past. Remember, the Church is a spiritual hospital for all people even clergy too.

You are invited to join with us in training or furthering your training if you:

• Are not afraid to work with ex-convicts and those who have had trouble in their past.

• Are not afraid to work with HIV/AIDS patients.

• Are not afraid to work with the homeless.

• Are not afraid to work with prisoners.

• Are not afraid to work with the elderly.

• Are not afraid to be involved in studying or continuing with studies to pursue knowledge and gain information to aide and assist you in your hoped for ministry.

• Are not afraid to admit that Synchrestic Ecumenism is a false path of many of the so-called churches in these present times, being that which was prophesied in the Holy Bible and by many Saints of the past and present times to be wary of.

• Are not afraid to admit that the One World Church, the World Council of Churches and the World Council of Bishops are entities which are leading the world and their congregations along the lines prophesied about what will lead to spiritual destruction and the One World Government.

• Are not afraid to admit that there is too much of an “entertainment mentality” involved in the Churches.

• Are not afraid to admit that the ancient and time honored ways of belief, practice and worship is the true way and the only way to prepare in this life for the life to come.

• Are not afraid to admit that the ancient Seven Ecumenical Councils is the administrative structures that must be adhered to in both faith and practice.  (For those who are unaware of those ancient councils, much is provided at this web site concerning them.  The various documents and information from those councils were written in a “do not” fashion of approach which leave open many ways in which to conduct the affairs of the church).

• Are not afraid to admit that the Seals of the Confessional is a pillar of the Church which must be adhered to by all clergy of every degree.

You may wish to follow through on these many things from the privacy of your home or become a part of the monastic life here with us which is not for the faint hearted whatsoever.  It is truly a material and spiritual struggle out of pain of heart for the Faith once and for all delivered by the Apostles and Patristic Fathers...

If these things interest you, please contact us by writing to us at our Mailing Address or by E-Mail, even by telephone call (be sure if you telephone, you turn on your telephone ID for we do not answer if there is no Telephone ID showing:

Metropolitan Archbishop +Joseph Thaddeus (Stanford), OSB, SSJt., Ph.D.

Attn: Clergy Administration

P. O. Box 1652, Columbus, NM 88029

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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. 

    If you should ever receive an e-mail with an attachment claiming to be from anyone at "apostle1.com" - "apostle1.org" or even "apostle1.net" - - - know that our policy is to not send out e-mail from any of our domain names with an attachment except to those only who know us.  Please note that apostle1.com news messages do not include file attachments. If you receive an email not meeting these strict guidelines, please do not open it under any circumstances. Instead, forward it to apostle1.com (webmaster@apostle1.com) so its contents can be examined by our various affiliates. Therefore, don't open it! If you receive any e-mail from apostle1.com, apostle1.org or apostle1.net and have never before communicated with us... even if you have communicated with us... verify, verify and again, verify.  And, We do not open e-mail that is not identifiable or known to us either.

Unless we know exactly from whom an e-mail comes... nothing is clicked on or opened, especially those with 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(s)  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 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 telephones once in a day, every other day or every day or several times a week, once a week or 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 has been used, even those who don't show up on caller I.D. as hang-ups now. With new technology being what it is it only takes one ring at a person's (receiving phone to activate some of the new technology being used which locks the caller's phone number in, even when they use by-pass alternate numbers to make shrewd calls).  We are advised one caller is facing terrorism criminal charges even though he used three different go-through numbers ranging all around the world, but were found to originate their call from California.  Hmmm.... what does this tell you?   Others, we are advised were found to be out of Michigan, Ohio, even Illinois and another state.

It is known that a telephone number showing up on some caller I.D.'s 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 and, hopefully, persons, which constantly show up as "harassing hang-up" callers.  May be, you too have the same? 

Keep Watch!

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.  We have the information on their numerous "Paper Church" names and name changes.  But the real issue is whether they were ever truly an ordained Priest and bishop?

It is true that when one is ordained to the priesthood, the old saying of "Once a Priest, always a priest forever..." holds true... But where there has been or is deception and fraud involved, the old saying is invalid altogether which is the stool kicked out from under any subsequent consecrations as a Bishop for the Episcopacy has then been obtained on a sheet of lies and therefore they are frauds, wolves in sheep's clothing.  The problem here is with civil authorities and agencies. 

Any documents a false one obtains from those who ordained him, including subsequent documents relating to consecrations; civil authorities never (or hardly ever) verify their validity and thus issue their own documents and errantly recognize the individual. 

These false sheep in wolf's clothing seek to go out of their way to character assassinate and disparage religious web sites who do not meet their own brand of standardization and those who know where the proverbial "bones are buried on them" which is evidence of the wolf not being "Orthodox" "Christian" or even "Catholic" no matter what their nomenclature corporate name may be.  The Toldeo, Ohio based same or similar named person/group under his/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.  It matters not now... whether they use the so-called name of "Athonite" "Benedictine" "Celtic" "Old Roman" "Old Catholic" - etc..  A name does not make one Christian. Their ultimate aim and goal is destruction to those from whom they had either originated from or gone through to obtain the same or similar 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, and if it should be that 'fortunes' come along, all the more is their power based.

    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".

•Ancient Canons/Seven Ecumenical Councils  

•An Understanding of the Ancient Canons

• Ancient Canons/Seven Ecumenical Councils

• A bit of understanding about the Fundamentalist Cults....

• Modern Day Ecumenism and its horrors

•  How Many Times