Watch! Do not deceive yourself and do not let anyone deceive you! Hurry to begin repentance, start catechizing, preparing for baptism!
“I am already a patriarch!? And I am the Pope!? And I am a bishop!? And I…!?” Leave all these games of “Pope,” “Mom,” “Lord,” “Holiness,” “High Eminences,” and other nonsense, meaninglessness, and start catechizing, repenting. And what to do with ranks, structures, hierarchies, orders…? Leave the formalities (structures, ranks…) as they are! Do not touch anything (do not mechanically reform anything); as long as there is repentance and a search for Truth, everything unnecessary (“traditions of the elders,” …) that does not correspond to the Spirit of Christ will naturally fall away, die off! “Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God” (1 Cor. 7:19). “In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value (the performance of sacramental rites or the non-performance of them – this has no significance for Christianity (serving God in Spirit and Truth (see John 4:23-24)), it is all formalities; Sacraments (the gift-partaking of the Holy Spirit), which only God performs and only for the catechumens, are not dependent on rites!), but faith expressing itself through love (the Holy Spirit)” (see Gal. 5:6).
“Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing,” performing religious rites, ceremonies – nothing, and not performing rites, ceremonies – nothing; in Christ, religious formalities (rites, ceremonies, piety, outward behavior (observing rules, canons…), fasting-diets, etc.) have no significance (whether they are performed or not), but the main thing – faith expressing itself through Love, fulfilling the commandments of God! God is Love!** This is in paganism (and Judaism: both in Jewish (Jews are waiting for the Messiah (= Christ)) and in “Christian” (“Christians” are waiting for the second coming of Christ (= Messiah)) rituals, rites matter; the essence of religion (paganism and Judaism) is the correct (according to canons, typicons, statutes, traditions…) performance of rites, ceremonies, formulas, spells… in the appropriate place (temple, sanctuary, on the altar or antimension, etc.) and at the appropriate time (season, day, month…). In the Church, all this is dung! “In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value, but a new creation” (Gal. 6:15). Therefore, all this ritualism, ceremonial sequence (religious pagan forms, which Christians used and implemented for the sake of catechizing pagans, and which later began to be perceived as the essence of the Church, as something inherent to it by nature, something without which the Church cannot exist!), which has formed over centuries in the Orthodox Church, needs to be filled with true meaning, that is, start using them not like pagans or Jews, but as Christians used them and for what purpose they implemented these rites-ceremonies! And the goal of everything that exists in the Church (temples and everything in them, rites-ceremonies and everything in them, hierarchies and structures, rules, typicons, etc.) – catechesis! So, everything (all religious formalities, which in essence, by themselves are nothing!) needs to be filled with the one necessary thing for pagans (which all “Christians” are) – catechesis-teaching, catechesis-teaching, catechesis… And then the Lord Himself, under the condition of sincerity in seeking the Truth, will lead, instruct the churches, giving the communities the appropriate Spiritual gifts for the building up of the Body of Christ! (Then the synagogues of the antichrist will begin to become Christ’s churches!). We speak schematically, without going into details (and for us to be able to talk about finer things with you, you need to first understand this coarse, obvious one), so if you have any questions – write to our elder-pharmacist (or “old man” – our “grandmothers” often get confused: sometimes they call him “elder,” sometimes “old man” – the essence is not in the names! They say he knows a little bit about this. Maybe he will help you too with something! But watch out, discern the spirits, for many false elders, false prophets have gone out into the world; do not be taken in by flattering cunning weaving of word forms – discern the spirits!).
Thank God (praise, glorify, magnify, love God) not the one who “partakes” (participates in the rite) of the Eucharist (Thanksgiving, Gratitude), but the one (and only that one!) who keeps the commandments of God (“He who loves Me keeps My commandments”).** And we, instead of keeping the commandments of God (catechizing, repenting), go the broad way – perform the rites of the Sacraments, relying on them as magical guarantees (which act by themselves, regardless of our conformity to the Sacrament, without ascetic faith-trust, without repentance)! Do not deceive yourselves! God is Love! To give us Himself (the Holy Spirit, the Kingdom of God), God needs not rites (Sacraments), but only one thing (the necessary and sufficient condition for the performance of the Sacrament) – a humble and contrite heart, full of faith-trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us repeat again: the rites of the Sacraments are not magic, not a magical pagan ritual (as “Christians” believe (and teach in their heretical “dogmatic theology”), which they testify to with their heretical, filled with the spirit of the antichrist, practice: without catechesis (that is, without orthodox faith) they perform the rites of the Sacraments).