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Joyful Greetings from another Fool For Christ!

Metropolitan Archbishop +Joseph Thaddeus, SSJt., Ph.D.

"Prejudice Makes Prisoners of the Hated and the Hater"

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December 22, 2007

Blessings & Greetings in the name

of Jesus Christ our Beloved Savior, and

the Most Holy Theotokos; Blessings Indeed!

I was asked a quick question that has been lingering in my mind for some time now and probably it is best that I provide the answer to it here as we come closer to the Western world's celebration of the birth of our Savior which in the Eastern Church is celebrated 13 days later.  It is just a bit of a pearl that may be polished by your own efforts to understand the meaning which aids toward providing a prize of great price in and through Jesus Christ and the Most Holy Theotokos.

One of the most majestic gifts that we can provide, I believe, to our Savior for His birthday, is understanding spiritual and material truth. 

Unfortunately, in our own day, words and books have multiplied and experiences have diminished in struggling for a life of patristic witnessing which if all did so, would provide us with true spiritual health that even all the heterodox would envy, leaving their sick delusions aside to be saved without their present day preaching of heretical doctrines, teachings and actions.  Now, however, they are not moved by our Holy Patristic Tradition, for they want to destroy that which they cannot control or to invade that which they think they can alter.

Today, because of the worldly spirit, which pursues all conveniences and avoids all bodily effort, influencing such people with such that lead to the easy road which is the accepting of those things brought by the Evil One, Satan, known as Lucifer the Light Bearer before he was cast out of Heaven, there are many who have opted out from the Root and Branch of which grounded in Orthodox Catholic Christianity both East and West. 

Many of the people of today simply marvel at the holy ascetic athletic endeavors of our Patristic Fathers of the Church without realizing how much they've labored while we have not toiled so as to be able to understand their toil, to love them and to struggle out of pain of heart in order to imitate them.

Those who do struggle out of pain of heart for the faith that was once and for all delivered by the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ unto the Holy Apostles and thence to the patristic fathers of the Church; do not give themselves rest, removing their egos from every one of their actions, helping us to understand more positively.  Yet, where today are the real strugglers? 

He who is irritated about a minor disorder and abruptly rushes to ostensibly correct it (with vehemence and petulance) resembles the light-headed sacristan who sees a candle dripping and abruptly dashes to fix it, stumbling over people and candlesticks, and by doing so, causes an even greater disorder during Divine Services.

Unfortunately, there are far too many in the Church scattered around the world who are educated having grasped the dogma with their mind and not with the spirit of the Holy Fathers. Others, who are unlearned, have grasped the dogma with their teeth which explains why they grate their teeth when discussing ecclesiastical themes.  It is that they, combined, more often cause more serious harm to the Church than the enemies of our Orthodox Catholic faith.

There are far too many people who justify their wickedness by examining others and not themselves, or by publicizing  predicaments of clergy and the Church to the world - - - even things that should not be said in public - - - using the "...tell unto the church..." (Matthew 18:17) of the Gospel as their pretext.   LET THEM DO THIS DISGRACEFUL THING FIRST TO THEIR SMALL CONGREGATIONS, THEIR OWN FAMILY, THEIR BROTHERHOOD; if they think this is good, then let them disgrace the whole Church. 

Unfortunately, however, many inconsiderate people offer a wealth of live ammunition to heretics, enabling Pentecostals, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, other cults and heretics to seize Orthodox  parishes, churches, towns and cities such as has been happening in Africa, Russian, Ukraine, Kosovo, etc.   They do it here in Deming, New Mexico as though (most of them know they are not doing the work of Jesus Christ, but doing the work of Satan) they are blameless for their goal is total destruction of Orthodox Catholicism where ever and whenever possible.  Our being Torched out in march of 2007 was an example and one of the many hallmarks of this outlandish cultic activity.

Our Good God, on the other hand, endures us lovingly without ridiculing anyone, even though, as the Beholder of hearts, He knows our pitiful state well.  The same thing applies to Saints who never insulted a sinful person in the presence of others, but with love, spiritual nobility and in a hidden way, helped in the correction of the evil ones.  Many of our own, notwithstanding the fact that we are sinners, do the opposite from time to time (like hypocrites) without forethought until after the damage has been done. 

Only a person possessed by a demon is justified to mock, ridicule and even do such as to commit BLACKMAIL, agitate other people to cause havoc and destruction to clergy... even in the presence of others - which is one of the means to make weak souls falter.  The unclean spirit, naturally, does not reveal people's virtues, but only their weaknesses where invented or found by the demon.  Those who are liberated from their passions, however, correct the evil by their kindness when possible. If sometimes they see a little uncleanness that is not easily cleaned, they cover it up with a plate, so that others who might see will not be disgusted by it.   Those, on the contrary, who reinvestigate the rubbish, resemble scavengers.  This is what we are experiencing here in Luna County, New Mexico, U.S.A by a group of scavengers who publish a rag called THE LIBERTY PRESS... who, as being the scavengers they are, incite hatred, animosity, and worse against those who do not accept their outlandish, illogical and un-Christian ways. They exist all over the world, even in Germany and other countries.

The actions of those demons, Satanic cultists who are scavengers in spirit and truth do teach us many things when compared to the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ.  Look around your own local area and you too may see a repetition of the same antics as the demons in this area... And by their cultic and heretical practices you will learn too. 

Jesus Christ is the Truth, The Way and the Light...  The celebration of His birth should be good cause for each one of us to reassess ourselves and see what kind of a gift we are daily giving him, or not! For it is by our words and our actions, that we are feeding the temple which is the soul for the soul expresses itself through the mind and the body.  The true temple that exists in each of us, cannot be destroyed by any human being, except ourselves when we do foolish things not sanctioned by the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ.  It was Jesus Christ who warned us not to be afraid of our bodies being destroyed, but those who could destroy both the body and the soul.  If one gives into those false, malicious, errant and evil ones; then we have not done our job in this life to learn truth!  Thus, we allow for our bodies and soul to be destroyed.  But to those who are on guard ... the soul is the temple of the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ which will not be destroyed when we practice and preach that which is spiritual and material truth! 

On review you may also come to the realization that we are not against people themselves, but against Un-Christian ideas and ideals not bound root and branch in the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ which is expressed more succinctly by one's daily walk and talk. 

The internal purity of the true man's beautiful soul beautifies his external person as well, and the divine sweetness of God's love sweetens even his countenance.  The internal beauty of the soul, apart from spiritually beautifying and sanctifying man externally, with Divine Grace revealing him to others, also beautifies and sanctifies the ugly clothes the graced man of God wears, especially a clergyman who knows himself to be an unworthy repentant sinner in the vineyard, committing himself to such spiritual struggles daily.  As a clergyman, he must tackle all that which is offensive, a violation to the true Church established by Jesus Christ and thus all the more it is important for us to follow the mandates established in II Timothy 4:2 ("Be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine"). 

May your celebrations of the Birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, be a blessed and spirit filled event forthcoming. 

+Thaddeus the Unworthy repentant one... A fool for Jesus Christ!

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

                    Metropolitan Archbishop, Archabbot, Primate

December 5, 2007

In the Name of the +Father,

the +Son, and the +Holy Spirit... Amen!

Blessings and Greetings to You,

and to all who are my spiritual Children

in the Vineyard;

If you review the QUOTES FROM VLADYKA THADDEUS you will notice our last entry was in November 2007. 

    Bishop "Matthias" (Hammons) has had cancer surgery which was a bit more extensive due to its growth extensions.  The extent of the growth with tendrils reaching as far as they did created the concern.  A nodule above the right eye caused for concern. 

     Along with Sister Elaine and this unworthy repentant one, we took Bishop Matthias to his appointment in Las Cruces in November where the surgery was performed which took more than four hours.  Because of his diabetes, the healing process has taken longer.  He is doing fine now. 

    As many of you already know, the surgery is of more concern due to the other serious and deadly health issues he has been living with for more than 19 years now.

     All is not lost.  His healing is doing fine. 

     Here it is December and just after having established the DAILY NEWS FOR DECEMBER, (See: Daily News) our web site got hacked.  But it didn't stop there... so were some of our main computers in New Mexico.  All is not lost!  We were able to save some of the most important information.  Some was lost in the attack.  Yet, we have learned something too.  One of the major hackers (and we are finding possibly more) live here in Luna County, New Mexico.  Experts backtracked their many "go through" addresses and were able to "zero" in on the main geographical area of origin.  Rather interesting, ESPECIALLY when it is learned that telephone calls to California and a Country in Europe are involved in the charades to cause disruption and devastation. There is such a thing as a Federal "Hate Crime" law of which those un-christian people are involved.  We are informed that authorities in another country have begun their own investigations having to do with a well known Corporation there and one of their employees, along with California and New Mexico authorities!  Local authorities, we are advised, are not being asked to be involved for they do nothing as they are a part of the corruption in Luna County, New Mexico, not the healers and defenders of Religious Freedom and the American Way... In fact they are alleged to be a part of the problem along with those who publish and write in and for the publication entitled THE LIBERTY PRESS ... a group whose antics are far from being "Christian" because they are knowingly and unknowingly (to themselves) a part of the ANTICHRIST. 

    One of our Nigerian Students has telephoned and wondered why he had not heard or seen anything new and now he knows a bit more as to what has been happening. 

     Our Monk Michael out of South Carolina is a blessing.  He and His family have great aspirations and he continues in his studies.  He came to us as a convert with training in other fields, including his studies in Christianity.  According to our Abbot +Gregori, Monk Michael is making good strides in his endeavor.  More about Monk Michael in forthcoming news.

    The antics of Rome and the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople says much about the politics on-going in these times.  Of course, Patriarch Alexi of Moscow has also been courted by Rome.  We most certainly hope that the Russian Patriarch will not succumb to Rome as Constantinople is doing.  It would be more than a shame, but an insult to the root and branch of Christianity which rests on the foundations of Jesus Christ and the Holy Apostles, the Patristic Fathers and the Seven Ecumenical Councils. 

    There are far too many "Roman" wanna-bees out in the world who believe and think that all things "Catholic" is bound root and branch with the ROMAN JURISDICTION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, when, in fact, it is GROUNDED, ROOT AND BRANCH WITH ALL THINGS known and called today as ORTHODOX CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY.  Inasmuch as Rome has, over centuries, been re-inventing history to suit their own self-styled will which is not the WILL OF CHRIST; we see where many Orthodox Catholic Jurisdictions having become courted and fallen to the Roman scourge of error and falseness.  These things were predictable in part and predicted in Holy Writ.  Rome has become the Whore of Babylon!  I make no apologies and answer only to Jesus Christ for making that particular statement! 

   A letter was recently received, it was in response to some things that had appeared in THE LIBERTY PRESS.  It is an eye opener letter that will be made available at another web site later on.  Hopefully, a link to it will be created, when it is published, for all to see in order to follow and be obedient to the words of II Timothy 4:2 ("Be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine"). 

   As we enter into this Holy Season of the birth of Lord and Savior, we ought to take time to reflect on the meaning of His birth and how we often times fail or refuse to celebrate it with Holy struggle out of pain of heart for more often than not, the celebrations have reached a materialist frenzy that has grievously tainted the TRUTH of His birth and the life of St. Nicholas for the idealisms of a fantasy Santa Clause.  Santa Clause is child's story, to be sure, but one that has taken the truth of St. Nicholas and turned it into a a false and misleading ideal which is seen every year now in the super markets and malls with a stunted form based in materialism.  Giving of Gifts is an honorable thing, but the sure and true gift is that which can only be given from the very spirit and Soul of each individual.  And that would be the more honorable and true gift acceptable to God the +Father, the +Son, and the +Holy Spirit. 

   According to your nature and degree of understanding, may each of you who read these words be blessed in spirit and truth.  What you accept as a blessing, will manifest and be manifold.  When you reject, it too will rebound upon you equally. 

+Thaddeus the Unworthy repentant one... A fool for Jesus Christ!

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

                    Metropolitan Archbishop, Archabbot, Primate

November 15, 2006

Blessings to all of you who are

my spiritual children in the vineyard

and to those who visit our web site

and see this message; blessings indeed

in the Name of Jesus Christ and the

Most Holy Theotokos...

During these last several months with many of us having been involved in election campaigns for candidates, we in Deming took another road of approach because of our intrinsic belief that we should indeed leave things of Caesar to Caesar (Government of the People, By the People, For the People).  There are those who can and will take offense to this understanding and we are not discounting their view as also being valid so much as our own understanding and approach holds equal validity.  That is to say, clergy of every rank and degree, in order to ensure that one does not do a misdeed in their need to keep Caesar out of the Church and the Church out of Caesar's affairs as relating to candidates, etc. we keep our affairs and activities to a minimum.  Our clergy do not preach and teach things "political" from the pulpit, but maintain that which is always been true as regards the faith, the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ, the Holy Apostles and Patristic Fathers... reminding people of those things concerning life and living, right thinking, true belief, correct worship that comes down through time and history from the ancient Seven Oecumenical Councils.

So what have we been doing?

Here in Luna County there is an Ordinance #37 which has and is causing a proverbial "uproar" amongst those of the poor, those on SSI, Veterans, and many Land Owners. 

The Ordinance deprives these people by the Ordinance's enactment without Commissioners having poled or discussed it with their constituents.  They elected to create such a styled Zoning and Planning Department whereby the Commissioners can by-pass the State Laws requiring Fair and Open Government for and by the People.  Therefore, a County Manager was hired who brought in outside people to create this Ordinance #37 which has infringed upon the Constitutional Rights of good and honest people to such a degree that one's dwelling, be it a solid base home or a mobile home, etc. is to be maintained according to certain standards... standards that go far beyond what is considered "fair" and "honest"... This Ordinance impacts the poor, veterans, those on SSI, etc. whereby certain businesses and property management companies would appear to benefit the most, including Real Estate companies. 

While beautification or keeping one's property from becoming an "eye sore" is necessary in part, this Ordinance goes far beyond that.  In fact, under the false "tag" of "Contaminated Wells" the Commissioners decided to claim the Revised Ordinance was because of "Contaminated Wells".  It was proven that they lied!  So, they switch tactics and call it now a "beautify" type of ordinance without changing any of the wording in the Ordinance. 

They claimed they were to create and insert a "Grandfather Clause".  This has not been done.  But now they say they have inserted it (yet to be seen) but the draft shows that it is a "two year" only 'grandfather clause'. 

So, in the long of it all, we were able to assist in bringing about the organization called LUNA COUNTY FREEDOM which is LUNA COUNTY FREEDOM AND TRUTH ... a group of concerned citizens, property owners, and those who rent or own property from the poor to the veterans and others.  Then, after less than a month three individuals in the organization decided to do things according to their way without consent of the members by publishing a salacious newsletter and then putting out a salacious cartoon.  One doesn't use unfair and dirty tactics by calling Commissioners equal to Nazis and mentioning their wives, etc.  One doesn't take an image of an individual and turn it into things dirty.  One does the honorable thing and run-it-by the membership first so as to be in union and conformity with everyone's ideas and beliefs because this is a rather conservative group of people in Luna County, even though this county of New Mexico is known for its dirty politics.  Why stoop to the levels of such actions that are rampant in New Mexico?  It is unchristian and unfaithful to Our Lord and His life and Teachings!

But, there is a woman who works at an auto parts store whose belief system is totally lacking in true Christian content and understanding.  She has taken the bold step to think she controls and is a leader in the group of which she was never voted in or approved except by two or three people who published the salacious material.  Now she goes one step further, believing her self-righteousness is above reproach!  She uses outright BLACKMAIL tactics as a means to cause diversionary tactics upon those who lack understanding of all the little twists and turns of the Ordinance #37 and her having been caught in being a turn-coat, a Benedict Arnold of sorts.  She acted as a double agent by doing things the County Commissioners wanted stopped and done... such as this organization's publishing of a State Engineer's Letter which proved the Commissioner's lied about "Contaminated Wells" among other things. 

This Mrs. we are speaking of has gone on a campaign.  A campaign to destroy what she cannot control and never could!  She uses scare tactics by divulging the past of persons involved, pasts that have nothing to do with the honorable fight against Ordinance #37....This diversionary tactic is primarily an attempt to take the heat of her from the fact that she was caught in the act, so-to-speak, of being a RAT in the organization... So, she attacks those of religion, religious life, etc.  She made several mistakes in her publishing material with photos attached and taking things off the Internet that could and might land her in jail and possibly to a lawsuit that could cost her and her family losses of immeasurable proportions. 

How does all this relate to the Church?

We have ensured that we DO NOT preach, teach or push our beliefs onto those who are not Orthodox Catholic, Roman Catholic, etc.  We let our immediate actions be the message.  When questioned about our wearing apparel, our faith, etc. then we do reply as one should.  But this auto parts store female has taken her attacks, her blackmail, to the degree of pushing her idea that 'religious' should leave their 'robes' without knowing (although she was told truth) or understanding (although she said she understood) because of her own questioning at various times in the past... that one in religious life wear what they wear just as much as a soldier wears what they wear 24/7, 365 days a year unless exceptions arise.  Her ability to twist truth to suite her own aims, ends and goals to destroy because she has been rebuffed by numerous members of the group has even caused her to establish a group of her own using a similar nomenclature.  For some of you - you may well recall a no-more bishop in another state who did the same thing after he was deposed, defrocked and excommunicated... sound familiar?  Well, this female auto parts store worker is not of the faith, but has cultist views and ideas that she promotes to such a degree that can see that she's taking actions against a people of faith while attacking only one person.  Yet, she has been claimed to of said, after she's run this one individual out of town, she'll go after another individual.  True or not... we intend to fight against hellish lead by Satan stand to be in control of that which she has neither the abilities or capabilities as well as lacking in having "forgiveness" about her and a respect for people of faith through her attacking.

What do these things say to you about what has happened in the more "political" arena of your area and through out the country?  It says that many of leaders past and present who claim to be Christian have missed the mark, fallen away and are leaders by an elected who have opened the doors for Satan to step in even further into the affairs of Caesar and those who claim to be "Christian" but are, unbeknownst to themselves, "Anti-Christian" in spirit and truth!

While we can look at the nomenclatured denominations of Protestantism, viewing their theologies, dogmas and doctrines which cause for their being branded as "Anti-Christian" and "Heretic",  but we have to really look at the actions and ideas being espoused by the indvidual(s) and it is that to which we must use discernment as to who or what is "Anti-Christian"... for many of us know of people who belong to what we know are heretical denominations of Protestantism and they are not only very good people, but honest people in their own heart and mind with their interaction with those who are members, parishioners and a part of the congregation of the parishes and jurisdictions of the "Catholic" Church being either Orthodox Catholic or Roman Catholic; the root and branch of Christianity which those who are considered by all that is Holy, to be 'heretical' (against) the ancient faith, the Seven Oecumenical Councils and Patristic Fathers which they separated from (separating from the Roman Jurisdiction, initially)...

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

                    Metropolitan Archbishop, Archabbot, Primate

October - November 2006

To all my spiritual children in the faith

of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and the

Most Holy Theotokos, and to all

who view this message... Blessings,

Greetings !!!

I have made no postings since July because of on-going activities which have affected our overall endeavors locally (Deming, New Mexico) and enriched our lives by the power of God's Love.  Unworthy that I am and those with me in spirit and truth; we are blessed in many, many ways both seen and unseen.  For all the damage that has been done against us, we call the names of those whom we have known did the damage with intent and forethought... calling their names to remembrance before the Lord our God asking and entreating they be forgiven as we forgive them; including those whom we do not know by name.  Yet, we also find that we cannot leave out those of the various denominations who call themselves "Christian" when, in fact, they are much like those described by St. Paul, the Apostle, regarding the Corinthians. 

These modern day Corinthians go under a variety of "Church" names without being one in, and of, the faith handed down through time and history to the present day.  All they know and believe is that anything "Catholic" must be "Roman" and that all things "Catholic" come from the Romans without knowledge and forethought.  They do not listen or research FACTS or TRUTH and thus they must be prayed for.  As a result, they only know one thing... their confusion which begets confusion and furthers the aims, ends and goals of the Evil One, the great deceiver, Satan!  This is also true for many of those who call themselves "Independent"... even those who call themselves "Independent Benedictine".

They all fail and refuse to recognize or understand historical fact and Christian TRUTH that the Orthodox Church (Church = "Faith") is not a 4-cornered building.  They are mildly literate, obstinate to the core and as a result of the much publicized scandals of the Roman Jurisdiction's sex scandals, the furtherance of these cults and their cultic (Mormon, Pentecostal, Jehovah's Witness, Church of Christ, some Methodists and yes... a few Baptist groups... including those of the "Independent" groups) error... the FAITH is no longer in them from the times of Jesus Christ.  Of course, when was it?  There was a time they could have been corrected and some of their people were open to studying FACT and TRUTH of history and Biblical writings.  But less are they who are willing to cross the proverbial borders which separate them from FACT and TRUTH... for they have entrenched themselves further into the errors as false christs.  The Spiritual eyes and ears they had are no longer for 'holy' things, for they are under the sway of a most horrible of all entities of the celestial sphere, the spiritual world.

There are those who talk about the "traditions of men" and that there is only one tradition, Biblical! 

Unfortunately for these misguided Protestants and now, in these times, some who call themselves "Catholic" (be it Independent and otherwise), most of them are unaware of the "Oral" tradition and know only the "Written" tradition which they erroneously attempt to reinterpret as though they have been guided by the Holy Ghost (Spirit)... and of that mix of individuals, only a very small number of them may truly be under the guidance of the Holy Ghost (Spirit) while the remainder of them are actually under the sway of the Great Deceiver who, himself, is an UN-HOLY SPIRIT who can and does appear as an angel of light (for "Lucifer" means "Light Bearer" before he was cast down from Heaven). Thus all that is contained in Heaven is equally counterpart (duplicated) in the great chasm, hell! The 'counterpart' is the forgery, a deception...

Back to the "Traditions" referred to above.

The definition of the word "tradition" is precise.  In its literal sense, the word means that which is 'passed on'.  "Holy Tradition is, therefore, that which is passed on and given over within the Church (Faith) from the time of Christ's disciples right down to the present day... Tradition is the very life of the Church itself as it is inspired and guided by the Holy Spirit (Father Thomas Hopko, 1971.. The Orthodox Faith: An Elementary Handbook on the Orthodox Church. Volume I, Doctrine, New York: The Department of Religious Education The Orthodox Church of America. P12). 

What, therefore is Holy Tradition? Holy Tradition is the experience of the Church (faith of the people) passed down from one generation to the next.  It is something that we employ and practice daily in our very lives if we are true strugglers in the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ.  No longer do we employ the Old Testament attitude and idea of "... eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth" for to do so says we have not attained the faith and practice as true "Christians" in spirit and truth!  This tradition is lived, as said, and the expression of our understanding of all things revealed in the faith even though it may not be written down in Holy Scripture is our way of life according to our individual nature and degree of understanding from within.  Remember, it has been said that if all that Jesus Christ said and did were to be written down, it would fill volumes that would encompass the world itself and then some.  Therefore the Holy and Living Tradition of the Orthodox Catholic Faith, the very root and branch of the Church herself is lived daily according to one's nature and degree of understanding. 

The variety of Independent Catholics, Protestants, especially those of the cultic congregations, would reply that this does not yet explain why Holy Tradition was not written in Holy Scripture.  It was Jesus Christ who pointed out to us that there were some things that would not be accepted by the populace because they did not have spiritual eyes and spiritual ears.  Thus He spoke in parables. 

It is often said by both Independent Catholics, many Protestants, Orthodox Catholics and those of the Roman jurisdiction of the Catholic Church... that if one is walking in the Commandments they will not err.

Let us briefly say that ever since the time of the Holy Scriptures which came after the Church was established by Jesus Christ and His Holy Apostles and even until now, the true Church has lived in a manner in which She speaks very little about holy matters.  Holy matters are to be lived, rather than endlessly spoken about.  The Church is not a realm for study whereby we might carry out research, or dialectical and intellectual discussions.  

Holy matters are not to be subject to quarreling, arguments, and contesting.  What most Independent Catholics, some present day Orthodox, Protestants and their cultic offspring do not understand is the word HOLY.  It signifies that these matters should be approached in the utmost reverence, awe and sobriety.  But they are unable to do so or even maintain respect for those who do because they lack spiritual and material understanding of the Faith itself while yet claiming that they are "Christian" and believe in those things written in the Holy Bible.  What the real truth is... is that they cannot and do not understand with spiritual eyes and ears that which they read and hear from Holy Scripture because they do not even understand the word, term and use of "HOLY" which is one of the primary causes for their present day Entertainment Mentality approach to worship, a worship to Satan (unbeknownst to themselves) as they have allowed themselves to become sheep and false Christs amidst a world heading toward its destruction as prophesied in Holy Scriptures.

We say "false christs" because anyone who holds the title of "Rev." "Reverend," etc. are supposed to be carriers of the faith handed down through time and history from Jesus Christ, the Holy Apostles and Patristic Fathers.  Most of them do not these days although their message(s) often call upon "Christ".  Yet, these are false Christs even though they do not out rightly say they are Christ.  A Priest is the alter ego of Christ if they serve under an Apostle (Bishop) in a long line of succession from previous bishops (apostles). 

There are several articles already available at this web site which one, who may be a serious struggler in this life for the life to come, can read to obtain more understanding.  We propose the following:

• A MESSAGE TO CHARISMATIC CHRISTIANS

• The True meaning of Repentance, Forgiveness, Seals of the Confessional, etc.

• Is Christianity Collapsing? A theological evaluation regarding T.B.N. and its so-called ministers!

• Part II -Is Christianity Collapsing?

• Missionary Conversations

• ECUMENISM -- A PATH TO PERDITION

• Call No Man Father

The above are only the proverbial "Tip of the Iceberg" for those who are serious strugglers in Faith of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and those of the various Independent, Orthodox, and Protestant persuasions, along with the cultic ones; if they are serious that is in calling themselves "Christian".

It is at the very instance when the Church's int9imate and awfully holy matters become widespread with the proliferation of printed materials thanks to the printing press, and later the radio and then the television and Internet; that they intersect with other foreign ideas and the result is a sullied, unpreserved, alloy which superficially resembles the faith of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.  Do not be mistaken for a romanticized remembrance of a reality, diminished with time, distant in the pure and untainted past.  This is not so, for surely the early Church faced much strife and struggle.  However, note that the main purpose here is to point out the result of our age's negligence.  The mass proliferation and propagation of the Christian faith without that essential lived and effective spirit, is the cause and the result is the effect one sees today in those various congregations and parishes which has seriously and grievously infected the Roman jurisdiction of the Catholic Church that has taken it further away from the root and branch of Christianity itself being the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ, the Holy Apostles and Patristic Fathers prior to it's 1054 schism.

The early Church was different in times past than what we see today.  The Church pragmatically lived through these holy matters, but did not speak them.  For it was the difference between praxis and mer knowledge/theory which is important.  Praxis is that important element of practical application and practice which is favored by the Orthodox Church.  Praxis affords a necessary silence which in turn allows grace and mystery to partake in the experience of the Church. 

It is for these reasons that if one who is not an Orthodox Christian or not even Christian at all, and comes to a Parish... during Divine Liturgy ... what would you do?  We will invite this person into the Parish and offer him or her a liturgy book so they might be able to follow along (and we will be happy that we had added a number to our congregation).  But what will this person hear in the liturgy and read in the liturgy book?  Our visitor will hear talk of bread and wine becoming the Body and the Blood and will become completely befuddled and leave the service in a state of confusion. This visitor comes from a place and level where these things do not make sense; not yet being ready to hear these things or having come from another so-called congregation, has taken these things imperceptibly of the reality of their significance and what such requires of the penitent... This is why the early Church did not allow this to happen.  When a visitor came to the Church she or her was not allowed entrance.  It is so with us at the Monastic Community of St. John Maximovitch and the Holy Theotokos.  We do not permit entrance by them from other places for this very same reason. 

When a visitor came to the early Church, she or he were not allowed entrance because "This is not your place, you may not enter for it is our private house of prayer".  The visitor may often say something that equates to, "I have come to your house, with all my baggage and I will live with you"  It is this very baggage is important because it stresses the importance placed by the early Church on the necessary catechetical process which is the shedding of past ideologies and understandings (ie: baggage) and the acceptance of the revealed faith. 

It is therefore our responsibility and necessity to respond with, "No... I am sorry, my home is a private space and requires certain adherences that I must preserve in my intimate home life."  For it is that the Church, the Parish is a "home" for true strugglers in the faith who understand the very importance of its creation by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ Himself and not by those of man who claim to have built it for Jesus Christ... There is the difference! 

Be on guard.  Watch what you do and whom you invite in for the very devil himself walks into many of these modern day (so-called) churches without anyone being awake in them.

Pray for me and those with me... for it is indeed that I find myself an unworthy repentant one in the vineyard....

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

                    Metropolitan Archbishop, Archabbot, Primate

September 23, 2007

Blessings to you, and to all my Spiritual Children;

With the fall months just around the corner, Thanksgiving in the U.S.A. coming up upon us in November; there are many things that come to mind that begs for each of us to ponder, to consider, and to reflect upon.

One question that has apparently been boggling the minds of numerous people, questions asked in different ways but they all boil down to the same question... "What is the Church for in these present times"???

The answer is the same as it was in the beginning of the Church, continuing to and through the centuries to present times, that being: to preach, to teach, to worship God in both spirit and truth; we must also carefully consider what is happening through out the world and in our own country.

The U.S.A. is a very Protestant Country.  Actually it has become and is becoming, more and more, a very cultic protestant country.  As such the End Time Delusions and more are on the minds of many with false teachings brought by those very same cultic Protestants, their heresies which the Orthodox do not and cannot accept.  Yet, those who are Orthodox Catholic in spirit and truth are often assaulted by those heresies promoted in the electronic news media daily. 

Might we suggest your read:

Contemporary Signs of the End of the World

If Satan could trick Christians, would he?  If the deceiver could lie to Christians to get them to withdraw from the battle for earth, and just wait for the Protestant idea of a rapture into Heaven, would he? 

He would, if the "Rapture" theory were true... and then we'd have to say "Yes!"  But, one must be careful about the "Rapture" theory!  For that is just a Protestant theory not founded and grounded in the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ whatsoever. 

The rapture theory is an invention of Protestant cultists, to say the least.  Yet the answer applied is not sufficient enough!  One needs to understand scripture from both the material and more especially from the spiritual aspects and there is no place where this can be done in these times except through the writings of the Patristic Fathers of the Orthodox Catholic Christian Church for most Protestants believe in their heresies and are unwilling, incapable and unable to separate the flack from the fall-out! 

The same is true about their often heard of statements that "all are going to Heaven."  Shall we say that those back-woods theorists, are literalists who do not and in many instances cannot fathom the spiritual because they are afraid of such spiritual truth as it may place a responsibility upon them that has to be reflected in the material life.  As for "going to Heaven" - May be!  But not right now! 

While in this life, we have to struggle out of pain of heart in order to make ourselves ready to enter into the blessed life of Heaven.  We can, after all, end up in hell.  Therefore, our daily words and actions must, according to our nature and degree of ability, become one with our faith in the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ... and not let the cultic Protestants continual bombardments cause for us to slip and fall into their hellish (shall we say, unbeknownst to many of them) hellish ways led by their God, the Deceiver, the Evil One, Satan!

I watch, as you do, the mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters who loose their loved ones to gangster attacks.  The result of many of those un-necessary deaths is because they have entered into the glorification of Entertainments, of drugs, sex and worse - - - shall we say, a glorification which has become something akin to glorifying those things as one glorifies God? 

Gangsta's and their territorial disputes as to who is going to sell drugs or control "my turf" is what its all about.  Little gangsters compared to the governments who are the real gangsters... Yet, someone always gets hurt. 

In the case of parents and siblings who loose a son or brother to shootings, we are often viewing on the electronic news media where the mother or father or someone is saying something like, "Oh, he was such a good boy.  I know he's in Heaven with his uncle now!" or something like that.  Well, they apparently haven't heard of Hell.  They didn't learn the lesson that God takes only those who truly struggle out of pain of heart in this life for the life to come. 

Not a one of us can say with truth that a loved one has been allowed to enter into Heaven!  No - - - no one can say that and claim to be a "Christian" which is the following and PRACTICING of the Life and teachings of Jesus Christ!  That is something the cultic Protestants do not or have not considered, and they most certainly do not want you to consider it for to do so might mean they would loose most of their so-called avid followers... We are talking about those of the "Church of Christ" - the Pentecostals, the so-called Evangelicals and "I'm Saved" people among the many of them.

Where is the love involved when a young man or girl gets in with a gang?  Where is the love involved when a young girl dresses in short skirts, wears other clothing to strut her "stuff" in front of youth?  Where is the love involved for the parents who raised them when these youths sell drugs to others, knowing that the drugs will most likely fall into the hands of youngsters, minors ... Such actions and activities are a form of Child Molestation which many adults in these times (especially in Luna County, New Mexico) have been and are involved in but they often use their official capacities and involvements in such so-called patriotic groups to make the public believe they are saints... when they are actually sinners whose lies will eventually catch up with them when it becomes a fact of truth that they, like the gangsters, incited others to cause devastation and destruction to those whom they consider their enemies - enemies who have done nothing against them whatsoever except to bring the message of God's Love concerning the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ?  Torching, Gun shots, and worse continues....  These are the adults who act no differently than the major city gangsters!  So who is really going to heaven. 

If we listen to the rantings  of those so-called "Christians" - they are going to Heaven no matter what they have done or do because their preacher's interpretation of the Holy Bible (without any spiritual knowledge of it themselves) say so!  So they believe they, like the gangsters, can go on their mini-rampages without being held accountable, in their minds!  Many a politician is guilty of this, as they portray themselves as a so-called "Good Christian" (usually having established a ministry or foundation under a "Christian" ideal) while themselves are involved in an authoritative way for bringing in, under color of law, such that deprives people of either their land or house/home and often, their personal possessions.  Isn't such duplicitous action(s) no different than the Sanhedrin or the Pharisees?  Or, as the American Indian would sometimes say, "They speak with forked tongue."

The Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church is seemingly incapable of aiding with your need to know both spiritual and material truth for it has most assuredly lost its way with its Bishop of Rome, and the clergy under them, having bedded down with those same heretical bastions of iniquitous heresies.  Having allowed itself to become over bloated with its own self-image and magnanimousness, it is almost as though it cannot, through its hierarchal leaders and clergy under them in most countries, see the forest for the trees.  Of course, when viewing its historical self-view as in relation to the Catholic World which it has held in captivity... one must ask when do the lies stop and see its return to the fullness of Orthodox Catholic Christian Truth that it separated itself from which began around the 800's A.D. with its official schism from the Church built upon the Blood of Jesus Christ.  The Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in 1054 A.D. ceased from being true brothers in the vineyard of Jesus Christ and and became one in the vineyard of Satan's making by its continued acceptance of false heresies, if not .... aiding in the creation of many of the false heresies that are unacceptable to true Catholicism based on Orthodox Catholic Christian Truth.  While those words are harsh, they are true! 

The Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church, especially in the United States of America and Canada; having been assaulted by the numerous sex scandals; it has, through its American Cardinals and Bishops, attempted to distance itself from those things that would answer questions about their faith and its clergy who have been found 'guilty' by man's laws... yet, fail or refuse to answer the most significant questions about clergy who have been forced, by their bishops, to accept false charges... even going so far as to distance itself from one of the very pillars of the church, the Seals of the Confessional - - - even refusing to stand strong in respecting them as regards those clergy (of their own jurisdiction and other jurisdictions) who may have taken a conviction to protect them... What does this tell you about the so-called faith of the Roman Jurisdiction? 

As a result, the Protestants (more especially the heretical cultic Protestants) have had a very significant sway over them.  This is proven by the very fact that decades ago, those cultic protestants were able to bring political pressure to bear upon the American Roman jurisdiction to rid itself from wearing Crucifixes (cross with corpus), doing away with wearing their cassocks and habits which were the outer signs of the armor of their faith... 

The Cultic Protestants' prejudice had more to do with their political sway which, when added with the sex scandal... raises one more important question:  Why have the various Protestant Churches been over-looked, skipped, or the information minimalized as to their sex scandals which are very numerous... why?  Because of their intrinsic hold over secular politics in these United States of America... And it is to them and their atheistic partners that God has been removed from schools in spite of what they publicly have said, and why American Roman clergy no longer wear their cassocks and habits, why prejudice, hate and a systematic denigrating of anything "Catholic" has grown so profoundly that many of the faithful of the Roman Jurisdiction have left in droves... their faith was not sufficient for them... as it is apparently not for the Roman Clergy either as their own arrogance and elitist attitudes become more entrenched against all other "Catholics" especially "Orthodox" unless those "Orthodox" belong to and are under a "Patriarch" which is not always necessary when a toma (decree) had been issued.... "Prejudice" leads to hatreds and then  to physical assaults of various kinds....

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!

+ Joseph Thaddeus

 

"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

We can ask more questions about the Roman Jurisdiction, but the answer will always be the same.  They shall never really return to the root and branch that they schismed (separated themselves) from, but continue the same as most of their heretical Protestant children.  Something worthy of reading about the Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church's link to "Mad Cows and Madder Men" may astound you....

When we look at people through out the world, as individuals; we cannot necessarily fault them for there are many wolves in sheep's clothing, such as exists in many of the Protestant heretical churches and even now, more than ever, in the Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church.  Thus, it is not people we are against!  It is the heretical teachings that have led those people astray that we are against.

All of these things bring us back to the deceiver, to Satan who was once the "Light Bearer" and was known as "Lucifer".  His ways are always changing because he keeps pace with the changing times.  Thus, deception upon deception occurs on a more grandiose scale. 

The Entertainments with the sports, the sex, the delusions, etc. are all a part of the deceptions.  And, what is more, our various governments (in the U.S.A. - being City, County, State and Federal) are all involved in the deceptions of what is going on that lead you into a false sense of hope for times to come. 

These are the very ones, led by people of the heretical denominations who bring, unknowing to themselves, their false religious teachings into the office, that makes your life either a blessings or a living hell with their 'rubber stamping' of those documents you have to apply for in order to receive services or obtain licenses and permits.

Overcoming Satan, Lucifer, the Deceiver...

One cannot, by himself, over-come or defeat Satan and his demons... But one can ward off the attacks until they give up for a time....

 

Without love to animate it, even the most eye-catching and impressive deeds are dead, even though they might have the outer semblance of virtue (1 Cor. 13:1-3). It is only the Spirit who can give rise to a love that runs through the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7), a love always patient and kind, never jealous, never conceited, never rude or selfish, that is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes UCor. 13:4).

The movement of love is centripetal: when it arises from the Spirit within and is expressed in life by one's words and actions; it intensifies the Christ-life in men. John argues that a person who hates his brother whom he sees cannot love God whom he does not see: anyone who loves God must also love his brother (1 Jn. 4:20-21). For the love of brother is the measure of one's love of Christ, »ho identifies himself in his brethren (Matt. 25:31-46; see Jn. 15:1-11).  Do the Cultic Protestants do this?  Superficially, may be!  But in truth, NO!  Here in Luna County, New Mexico, this is born out by the actions of a small group of people who publish a so-called "Constitutional" newspaper called "The Liberty Press" ... It is born out by the Commissioners of Luna County whom they work for (directly and/or indirectly)... and what they have done to people's property and possessions... It is even born out by the antics and actions (or non-action) of the primary two local Roman Parishes and its priests. Remember the "arrogance" and "Elitists" we said before.

The perfect communion prayed for by Christ (Jn, 17) will not be achieved before his second coming. Nevertheless Christians are on their way to meet him, for good or for bad. The steps they must take are those of love, or, in Paul's words, "love upbuilds" (1 Cor. 8:1) if they are true spiritual strugglers for the faith once and for all delivered by Jesus Christ. When faith, through which we now lay hold of a hidden reality (Heb. 11:1), will brighten into the vision of God, then we shall see face to face (1 Cor. 13:12; 1 Jn. 3:2), and hope will become possession, then love will abide forever (1 Cor. 13:8) to cement the communion that is also the consummation.

Take a quick look at Psychiatry and Psychology in general.  It is not our friend!  As a former Psychiatrist - one admitted that the practitioners of psychiatry and psychology are no longer your friends but the very instruments of Government manipulation. 

• "We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood."  - Dr. Carl R. Rdogers, former President of the American Psychological Association (APA).

• "One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." - K. M. Heaton, The National Educator

Those are just two of many responses that need to be considered as to what is really going on in our schools, in psychiatry and psychology today... One who is informed cannot necessarily rely on those professions to truly aid and help any one, but to question their motives and who they are really working for. 

"Bullies in school, sexual assaults, and other abominations are, and have been, on the rise, not necessarily by those who were convicted, but by people who have yet to be caught".  Why?  Because our government is too involved in the affairs of its citizens.  Why?  Said one high official... "... to bring about control of one's mind by letting the horrendous actions take place where the people will want their government to get involved.  And that is exactly what has been happening.  As a result, the government's subtle actions to destroy 'religion' especially 'christianity' is a MUST in order for it to re-invent 'religion' - the 'religion' of government, of the One World Order, the One World Government, the One World Church.  To encourage children into thinking only one way, by providing them with the fruits of entertainments, less individual deductive reasoning skills, less individual creative skills; all of these things are the agenda of today's governments.  Why do you think we have NAFTA - the bringing together of Mexico, the U.S.A. and Canada... all because the aim of government in North America is actually working.... Government's goals are being met with such military precision that no one has time to stop and think!" - Anonymous (name withheld - due to the individual's high standing in the field of Psychiatry and Government)

Surely the true Church, the Orthodox Catholic Christian Church established by Jesus Christ has much to consider today because IF we rely on those statements as being true... then our very own CHRISTIAN RELIGION is certainly under greater assiduous attacks than ever before thought possible, as motivated by the great deceiver himself, Satan. 

Satan, the deceiver has implanted all the harmful ideas and motivated the actions of "Caesar" (Government) [and the Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church] to such horrendous acts against citizens and faithful that goes beyond anything Emperor Nero could have ever devised against the citizens and Christian faithful of his time!  Many of today's Orthodox Catholic Patriarchs are making movements toward the Roman Jurisdiction in such ways that have to be considered, a turning away from true Orthodoxy for the materialism of what the Roman jurisdiction can bring them!

Therefore, the remainder of the true Church must act in a manner, form and way, whereby she continues with her primary purpose but add to it, in a more up-front means, such that aids those who continue to hold to the unadulterated Life and Teachings of Jesus (spiritually and materially) ... to be imbued with the solid rock of faith as was Peter and Paul!  It means to bring into action such that will attempt to provide, in this material world, a means to band-together whereby the faith once and for all delivered can be strengthened by numbers which will provide the means to teach and preach more than what is presently being done, those things so necessary for survival after the One World Church and One World Government takes more dominant control over your lives, as it has begun!

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

                    Metropolitan Archbishop, Archabbot, Primate

September 4, 2007

Blessings and Greetings to All my Spiritual Children and

To all who are visitors….

Here in the U.S.A. we have just celebrated "Labor Day" also known as "Memorial Day".  It causes for one to pause and consider many things of the past and present, both spiritual and earthy, physical or material.

There are heavy times ahead of us in the United States of America and for that matter, the whole North American Continent covering Canada, the U.S.A. and Mexico.

We’ve been told many things, heard many things, seen many things; all regarding some impending activities regarding the possibility of a horrible event that may cause for our President in residence to declare something akin to, if not outright, “Martial Law”. Thus far, that hasn’t happened (as yet)!  Now it’s the financial crisis of the stock market of which it has been said the government is pumping in money to keep it bolstered, as other countries are supposedly doing.  

I know all of this sounds a bit doomsday like for our own spiritual children and the nation as a whole.  But the truth is that with all things taking place in these present times, it is nothing but doomsayers and event prognosticators attempting to get their questionable message out about the Evil on-going and growing worse in these Times.  Yes… all these things are possible and, we might add, a bit probable.  “With September 11^th anniversary coming up, the infamous ‘911’ – we are sure that something is going to happen which will be blamed on some far outreach group who it may be claimed "...have snuck into the U.S.A. to do us damage,” said one group of people. Another have said it will be the stock market which will cause for the implementation of the newly created and special martial law provisions regarding a crash of the stock market,” said another group.  Then there may be some other action that might come about too.  Who knows?  And, some people do not really care because they are not being counted among the level of those who no longer are employed and who have run out of unemployment benefits while others have lost their homes (in many instances, illegally) and the list goes on.  These may be horrible times, but I assure you – we haven’t seen anything yet on North American soil!

We’ve heard of foreign soldiers being trained in countries to the south of the U.S.A. and ready to come into the U.S.A. from the south entry points to take over parts of the country when, and if, martial law is declared.  We’ve heard of mass armaments and foreign troops are being situated in those very same countries to the south, but nothing seems to show up as bona fide fact.  Will these things happen?  Can they happen? 

All these things are possible.  With our country’s indebtedness to China and other countries who are unforgiving while we have forgiven their debts to us in times past; it only stands to reason that we are living in a world of Evil where it is becoming a nation, no… a world of people whose only aim and goal are to achieve the best possible position in world affairs through what, I personally believe, is akin to the old “One-Up-man-ship” tactic. If these things continue to take place it only stands to reason that the U.S.A. will eventually be greatly impacted as a result of the manipulation by top moguls of world financial affairs, far more worse than we’ve seen since the stock market crash and world wars of the last couple of centuries.  In these present times, one only has to take a look at China to see how they have gained much from the actions of last two to three U.S. presidents who have allowed for our technologies and various companies to go over to it, along with our country’s indebtedness to cover the costs for the war in Iraq.  Isn’t the material picture clear to you as to what is possibly on the horizon?  If we withdraw from Iraq now… there will be much lost, and not necessarily oil.  The growth of the satanic religion of Islam will then make enormous strides as well as other devastating effects world-wide.  While oil seems to be the reason in the minds of most people, the truth is that there are far greater reasons for the situation we have becomes ensconced in.  That is not meant as a defense of the war… Hardly!  Any war is just as devastating as any other when just one life is taken.  We have the war on our own soil with gangs, with the government over its lack of maintaining educational strengths in the schools which are resulting in our youth being ‘dummbed down’ – failing to learn critical thinking skills, and more. That is a war that must be fought on our soil too. The impoverished, the theft of houses and land by local governments and worse is a war!

Now when looking at the New Testament, especially the Apocrypha or Book of Revelation, we can assuredly place some things into perspective.  These things were predictable in part.  And even when viewing many things of the Old Testament, placing them in comparison to the New Testament’s Book of Revelation; here again we should be able to see a bit more of the things we’ve been warned about time and again, as to what the future holds.  Yet, even history is ignored and the human race is doomed to its repeated failure for its lack of honoring and worshiping in a right manner, with correct understand of the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ.

The President of our Country may not necessarily be his own man.  When reviewing his father’s actions when president - and other presidents before him since the 1940’s – there is much to be alarmed about. 

When taking a look at the controversial subjects having to do with the world’s money moguls who have had centuries of involvement in world affairs having to do with Gold, Silver, Platinum, Copper, etc. as well as the printed money trails… we could learn much too. 

Some have said, and it would not be difficult to learn the truth, about whether or not the U.S.A. no longer has a stockpile of those metals which money had been based upon and secured by.  Oh, I almost forgot… we are no longer on any “Gold Standard” and it is said the Federal Reserve is not really controlled by the government of the U.S.A.  And that what metals we had are all in Britain.  Would that mean that once again we are under British sovereign Rule?  Well, take a look at the manner our laws have been quietly implemented, the manner with which Judges are off “common ground” in a court room, the re-designed Flag of the USA which has been turned into the flag of Puerto Rico, a flag and justice system that looks upon you, the citizens, as a CORPORATE entity and many other things.  Do these things have anything to do with us who are spiritual strugglers on the path to a heavenly life?  Yes!

While in this life, we must, with such mental and spiritual struggle – keep our wits about us or we shall fall into the arms of the Evil One without knowing it!  We must test every designing spirit that come to us under color of law… man's law and/or spiritual! 

Scripture tells us how in subtle ways, Jesus Christ used parables.  The lives and writings of the Patristic Fathers who had emulated the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ tell us much more.  Jesus Christ Himself, while walking the earth, showed us the way!  For He is the Way, the Truth and the Light!  There is no other way He tells us.  That is the way our Patristic Fathers, down through time and history, have been attempting to direct us toward.  Few listen, few read or learn because they are caught up in the materialism and the disease of scholasticism with all its attendant man-made psychology and pop culture.

Those who opt to coax you into praying with heretics such as those who believe that our God is the same as the god of Islam (Muslims) are doers (whether they know it or not) of Satan, the Evil One, Lucifer (Light Bearer) who had been cast out of Heaven and who has been the harbinger of Evil in this world. The simple truth of the god of Islam, called “Allah” – is that we learn that Allah is a moon god!  A pagan god!  A god of War not of peace! "Allah" the god of "Islam" is not peaceful and therefore "Islam" - as has been proven by their extremists who operate similarly as some of the so-called Evangelicals and so-called "Fundamentalists" of Christianity that are neither "Evangelical" or "Fundamental" as compared to the early Church's "evangelicalism" and "fundamentalism". 

There are those through out the world who believe in a time of “tribulation” which thinking and theology is of Protestant origin because of their misguided and unfounded understanding of scripture.    The Rapture, the Tribulation, the End Times… is mostly driven by Protestant heresies and especially by those of the Cultic brand led by the Evil One such as most Pentecostals, Church of Christ, some Baptists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons and others.

Yet, take a moment and read what Father Jim of another Orthodox Jurisdiction has had to say and a response from an Orthodox Catholic Christian parishioner…. 

Father Jim provides a glimpse of what is a more correct attitude and understanding.  Do you?  Other related subjects on these issues should also lead you to further understanding.  Read: Missionary Conversations with Protestant Sectarians. Sola Scriptura - In the Vanity of Their Minds, ABOUT CALLING NO MAN FATHER Also See:, About Forgiveness and the Seals of the Confessional.  ECUMENISM -- A PATH TO PERDITION, and many other articles at this web site.

If you do not read, you do not learn – no matter how lengthy articles may be for some.  For some of you, I can only say – ‘Get off your lazy duff and read! Make time to read and learn’ 

In order for the faith of the Church to be enduring while in this life, one must Read and learn. It may be uncomfortable because of eye trouble, but life is not always comfortable no matter how sick you may be.  You haven’t crossed over to the next life so keep on reading and learning no matter how difficult, or how lengthy, or even how hard it is become for you! One must pray, meditate and recognize what salvation truly is.  Jesus Christ did not say it would be easy!  He did not say he came to bring peace either. 

The manner with which not only this country, but the whole world is heading as it has for these many, many decades (if not centuries) – would seem to appear to be into oblivion!  But, even so, given all that you know, your task is to read, learn and heed that which is true, right, and correct in both faith and faith practices on a daily basis in what you think, what you say and most especially in what you do (or fail to do). 

While there are many people who have left the true Church established by Jesus Christ for those wolves in sheep’s clothing (see: ECUMENISM -- A PATH TO PERDITION, Awake You Who Sleep and