Considering the current realities, we do not dream of healing the historical body of the church, for us joy is hearing that at least somewhere (in some soul, “parish,” diocese…) the rate of dying has slowed down… (The heresy of secularism has metastasized throughout the body of the church, all organs are affected – and no true therapy will help). But as long as there is still life in the body – we must fight for life to save (ourselves) at least someone (“to be everything for everyone to save (ourselves) at least one!”).
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In describing the disaster in the church, we do not call to flee to the mountains, forests, deserts… – there is nowhere to go! We need to be saved in the local (Orthodox!) church where you are being saved now (there is no church in a better state than yours!) but at the same time know the truth about the real state of things and humble yourself, be announced, repent, humble yourself, be announced…
We write about the Parish-Eucharist knowing that there will be no more Church Parish-Eucharistic life in the Orthodox Church! But our prophetic task is to point the way to salvation and shout: here is the norm (= Parish-Eucharist) and not this disaster which priests-popes (“apostolic” “successors”!?) present as the norm-ideal! The main thing in spiritual life is humility, therefore all our efforts are aimed at ensuring that the path of acquiring the Holy Spirit, life in Christ, is not forgotten or replaced by various “traditions of the elders.” Once again we emphasize: the main thing is humility (and there are always enough reasons for humility, especially in the last times! That is why the saints said that in the last times there will be men greater than the Great Saints of ancient Christianity! He who has humbled himself more – he is Great and closer to God to the Norm!).
Again I say: there is nowhere to go and there is no need to break what exists (external forms) (only heretical “traditions of the elders” and not externally, not mechanically, but internally spiritually with prudent caution!)! Therefore, when we talk about “dismantling…” we call for work (and struggle) not with hammers and jackhammers, not with axes and pitchforks, not with automatics and “grads” – but with repentance, humble tears of prayer, being announced, being announced, being announced… That is, we call for internal Spiritual renewal and the external (formal) will change itself according to the spiritual law: the spirit creates forms for itself, not vice versa! The spirit will change – the external will change itself (or renew) “traditions of the elders” will disappear themselves, disappear, be abolished (no one will follow them – for the Spiritual, for those in the Truth there is no Law, much less “traditions of the elders”).
We are accused of destroying everything (“Destroy this temple…”). Our word is not aimed at destroying what exists (this “breathing its last” historically formed body-organization) that would be wrong and even humanly unfair because I can reasonably be asked: where (in the church of what state) did you become who you are, where did you know Christ in which church did Christ reveal Himself to you, allowed you to know-experience Him in the Holy Spirit in which church did you know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God by the Holy Spirit?
!! Therefore, Christians carry the following thoughts: “A smoldering wick He will not snuff out, a bruised reed He will not break, their Lord (and Christians desire and will of the Lord Holy Spirit)” “Let everything (wheat and tares) grow together until the harvest so that by pulling up the tares, the wheat is not also uprooted”… At the slightest manifestation of good (in the flesh I say) conscious or unconscious movement to God God’s Spiritual or simply an expression of religiosity: entered the baptized in the temple… lit a candle… read some prayer or simply stood before the icon… – we say: well at least this, thank God for this. Once a year confessed-communed (or four times in the long fasts or a little more often…) – then let it be at least once a year! Although such practice has nothing to do with Christianity (Parish-Eucharistic life in Christ)! (In the church over the centuries, a situation has developed (by various “traditions of the elders”) that we now observe but initially that is, in principle (in God’s plan) it was not so!). But let it be at least this, thank God for this! But when this anti-Christian practice-piety which is not based on the Church Tradition but on the “traditions of the elders” is called the norm (and the Church Tradition at the same time automatically acquires the status of modernism, novelty, loss of reverence and piety and consequently receives a verdict – heresy!) – then in the Church we say: heresy, double disaster!!! As long as the current disaster is called a disaster, disease – a disease (what can you do, such times have come) you need to humble yourself and endure all sorts of deformities and perversions together with the Body (from the priests-priests-hypocrites) – this is the patience of all the saints at all times; but as soon as this disaster is presented as the norm – there can be no compromise or patience and humility with heresy and heretics!!!