New World Order vs. Christian World Order

from the book: 
Conversations With My Heart
by Saint Metr. Anastasy 
page 32

     "... Christianity brought with it a completely self-sufficient spiritual world order that is firmly established on its own foundation.  The leaven of the Gospel, once it had entered mankind, should not have been mixed with the "old leaven" of the spirit of this world, which deeply penetrates the heart of the personal and social life of mankind and becomes like a second nature.  The kingdom of Christ, from the first day of its establishment on this earth, placed itself in opposition to the world as separate from it and even antagonistic to its first principles.  The science of Christian moral perfection is found in a series of antinomies resulting from this opposition.  Thus, for example, one must humble oneself to be raised up.  One must be weak to become strong.  One must become a fool to attain true wisdom.  One must reject everything to obtain everything.  One must lay down one's own life to receive it once more.  One must die in order to resurrect and live eternally.  Here we see an obvious contrast of two mutually exclusive orders and principles of life, between which there can be no permanent — or even temporary — alliance.  One must pass away for the other to  flourish on its ruins.  Any attempt to throw a bridge between them has always led to a secularization of Christianity and to a lowering of its exalted ideal. ..."

 

St. Metr. Anastasy is recently revealed incorrupt
http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/rptsz-svidetelstvo-o-netlenii-moshchej-svt-anastasiya
Internet Sobor website is original ROCOR (Metr. Agafangel) 

Book sold here:
https://holytrinitypublications.com/product/conversations-with-my-heart/
 Caution: neo-Jordanville is ROCOR-MP

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Original ROCOR Akathist of Thanksgiving

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This morning I tried to find an internet copy of the Thanksgiving Akathist for a heterodox friend.   I thought I would just sent her some links.  But, the internet is worse now than ever.   World-orthodoxy has taken over.  ROCOR-MP sites seem to all have taken their copy of this akathist from the website of St. Jonah's in Texas (MP-enthusiast, spellbound, Fr. John Whiteford). That copy has at least 2 lines missing — mutations that have been replicated throughout the internet.

Finally, I went into my own paper files and pulled out my old copy.  Exactly where I got my copy, I do not know.  But, I have been using it for years.  Probably from the time I left OCA and went to ROCOR, in 1997.  I wondered, "Did I got this copy from the OCA?"   I flipped to the last page to see if a source is indicated.  It is not.  

BUT!  We have some definite clues!   See the last page, at the bottom, a short paragraph about the akathist.  The most striking clue — read what it says about the origin of the akathist.  

"...This akathist was found in 1940 in samizdat from among the belongings of the New Martyr Archpriest Gregory Petrov..." 

 

Googling intensively, I can not find the word akathist associated with the word samizdat.  The internet will admit that Archpriest Gregory Petrov was in the Gulag, but that seems to be as far as they will go, if they even admit that much.  Next, there is a shift to making Metr. Tryphon the main composer.  This makes the main composer a member of Russian Royalty (Prince Boris Petrovich Turkestanov †1934), rather than a New Martyr who suffered under the Communist yoke.  Wikipedia points out that Mter. Tryphon accepted Sergius' proclamation in 1927.  Grokipedia credits Metr. Tryphon with sole authorship, while briefly admitting that authorship "is frequently also attributed to Gregory Petrov."   

(Not New Martyr Gregory.  Not even priest Gregory.  Just "Gregory Petrov."  I recognize this as psychopath passive-aggressive contempt.  As well as manipulating history.)

Notice in my copy there is included in the afterword information that the akathist verses themselves contain mention of Holy New Martyr Gregory's childhood and family life.  This adds to the certainty that Holy New Martyr Gregory is the main composer, and so it should remain considered that authorship is credited to him first.  The MP. can't stop people from praying the akathist, so they have to alter the origin to make it suitable to them by pretending it's theirs.  It's not.  It's ours.

Please help preserve this akathist.  

download from Joanna's Shared Library > Services > Akathists
PDF 12.5MB
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True Story for Halloween

from Joanna's note pad

   Halloween is Satan's biggest day.  This is the day when all the witches and other servants of evil perform rituals to make Satan happy.  Why?  because they want favors from Satan.  Maybe because of fear, but usually the most zealous doings are for the purpose of getting favors — like in witchcraft.  Yes, also many innocents get caught up in the glee of the celebrations.  But the main underlying purpose for the revelry is to get favor with Satan.

They trust Satan's power more than God's almighty power.

I knew of a witch.  Nancy Breckenridge. She is now (2026) serving a life sentence for murder in whatever prison now houses the women prisoners that used to be in Julia Tutwiler, Alabama.  I knew personally 2 men on whom this witch had cast spells.  One of the men — the one who married her — was an English professor at Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama.  George Howard Lynn III.   Not a dumb guy.  Soon after he married Nancy, he realized that she really was a witch, just as she had claimed, where before George had never really thought about witches or demons. 

Nancy had a room in her house, where she had set up an altar to Satan.  Her house was in a well-to-do northern suburb of Birmingham.  I know another man, a regular country-boy southern-Baptist, who saw this room.  Nancy showed him this room when she gave him a tour of her house.  She led him down the hall, and opened the door to the room.  He did not step inside, but he did look in.  He remembers little, except he remembers a seeing table with black candles, and the whole room being like an elaborately dressed chamber for Satan.  I know George knew about this room, but George never talked about it.  (I rarely asked George questions, but I listened carefully to whatever he offered to tell me.)

After George realized that Nancy didn't just have a wild imagination, he started listening to her more carefully.  She told him that she was a witch and she bragged that when she dies she is going to hell where, "I'm going to be one of Satan's helpers."  

At one point George asked her in so many words, "Why did you choose this course of life, to serve Satan?"

Her answer: 

 "The other one did not work."

In other words, she TRIED to get God to do what she wants.  But God would not accommodate her wishes.  She knows who God is. She just does not like Him.  She decided against Him.  She rejects Him.

conclusion: 

Why do Orthodox Christians trouble themselves to do services and make sacrifices and offer prayers to our Holy God?  It is not because we expect favors from our God, as the Satanist expect favors from Satan.  It is because we love our Holy God.  We gather together to praise Him for His beauty and Perfection, and His Truth.  We thank Him for giving us our life with Him.  We do not expect any favors in return.  We have already been given everything.

~jh

Seeds to Share

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I now have 2026 seeds to give away:

  milkweed (common)
  comfrey (European)
  Rose of Sharon (hibiscus)
  Lambs Quarters

  passion fruit
  dock (broad leaf) 

  morning glory  

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joannahigginbotham@runbox.com 

email me your mailing address.  

I also have live comfrey root.  But figure $15 for flat-rate postage USPS.

Heterodox Christian Discerns Antichrist Spirit

•  You Tube channel worth sharing 
https://www.youtube.com/@LoriBuelow-q4v

Last summer a blog reader sent me this link.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThI9YkoqHMc 
     5 minutes,  uploaded July 2026 
Here is a heterodox Christian who discerns the antichrist spirit in today's common psychopaths. 

narcissist is the politically-correct term for psychopath

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Lori Buelow

Senior Breakthough

related videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIgPYgKEYQ0  
     4½ minutes,  uploaded June 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrfInR2dXHk  
     11½ minutes,  uploaded June 2026

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If the featured video has disappeared, you can download it from Joanna's Shared Library:

https://app.box.com/s/z38hjoar5z9hj2rfjnfhkp1ifkoczqak 

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Sticky

• Fr. Seraphim's magazines
Temporary link, download your set before link is taken down

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One Little Suitcase

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     You may have noticed that Fr. Seraphim's Orthodox Word magazine did not copy articles from other English magazines, such as Orthodox Life magazine.  With one rare exception: Metr. Philaret's "Sorrowful Epistles," because these were so important.  Fr. Herman's Platina kept this policy after Fr. Seraphim died, to include the Tree of Life magazine that was published by the HOOM cult that Fr. Herman was then leading into (vagante) Orthodoxy.   I threw out all my Tree of Life magazines when I found Orthodoxy, never realizing that some of the stories would be lost to me forever.  

     One such story I've missed all these years is the story, "One Little Suitcase."  But now I have found it on a Russian website.  We know that Fr. Seraphim also sent materials to Russia, and apparently a biography of St. John was sent to Russia with information that we never had in English, except maybe in bits & pieces such as in the Tree of Life magazine.  

     Lesna nun Zinaida Yulem (Julem) wrote her memories of St. John while she was confined to a hospital bed.  Probably in the 1980s.  Copied below is her memory of the "one little suitcase."  I  have filled in a most important line I remember well, that did not come through in this Russian website version:  "...not even one little suitcase."

https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/Serafim_Rouz/blazhennyj-svjatitel-ioann-chudotvorets/1_12

. . .  Later, we had to endure much sorrow and grief.  Even the atmosphere in the church seemed to dim. A new priest was appointed who had evidently been instructed not to trust Blessed John.

  One fine day, we received joyful news from Father Mitrofan.  He wrote that our dear Blessed John was planning to visit and wished to stay in the cell he loved so much.  I began preparing for his arrival, and soon everything was ready.  We eagerly awaited his visit, however brief it might be.  Finally, he arrived, and I ran to him to receive his blessing.  He headed toward the altar, while I hurried to help carry his belongings up to his cell.   Later, he came out of the altar and wanted to go up to his room. 

  I asked, "Your Eminence, I am about to make some coffee.  Shall I bring it to you?" 

  "No, Zina, don't trouble yourself.  I will come down and have it with you all.  Call me when it’s ready."

  Ten minutes later, everything was ready.  I went up the stairs from the kitchen, passed through the corridor between the staircase and the church, and called out to the Archbishop.  He came out and began to descend.  At that moment, the newly appointed superior also emerged from his cell upstairs and started coming down, but he stopped three steps from the bottom.  Glaring sternly at me, he said, "His Eminence will have his coffee in his cell."

  I immediately objected, pointing out that His Eminence had specifically expressed a wish to have his coffee downstairs.  But the superior repeated, even more sternly, "I am telling you that he will have his coffee in his cell.  I am in charge here; I give the orders!"

  These words hit me like a knife, I covered my face with my hands and froze, unable to look at either Blessed John or the abbot.  Finally, I looked at my dear blessed John.  He stood with his hands and head down.  A few seconds later he began to slowly climb the steps, entered his cell and locked himself.  I went to the kitchen, prepared everything, put it on a tray and brought it upstairs.  Since I couldn’t go in to see him, I left everything on the table in the next room.  After that, I immediately rushed home:  I couldn’t stand it anymore.  About an hour later I returned to the temple, opened the door and immediately stepped back: in the corridor and throughout the temple it was dark and cold, like a tomb.  My heart sank and the thought immediately flashed: grace has left us!

  I rushed upstairs and opened the door to his cell without knocking.  It was empty!  Tearfully, I sank to the floor and began to pray, asking God for Blessed John’s return.  Then I began to sob aloud: "Oh, my dear Bishop!  Why did you leave me?! Why did you leave me?!  Why have I been left with nothing of yours?  Not even one little suitcase."

  I lay on the floor in that state for a long time.  Finally, I stood up, walked out of the room mechanically, and stopped when I reached the stairs.  Suddenly, I heard the door below opening slowly; Blessed John entered — his head bowed again, as if in guilt, a small suitcase in his hand.  He climbed the stairs and entered his cell.  I followed him in silence; he set the suitcase on the floor and said, "Here, I have brought a little suitcase for you!"

  And at that very moment, everything within me grew bright!  It was as if he had never left us.  Oh Lord, there was my dear one!  He had returned — having sensed in spirit that I was weeping — wearing an expression of such contrition, as if to say he felt terrible about having caused anyone pain.  It is a terrible thing to wound a man of God.  When he had departed, grace had left the church; but once he forgave everything, grace returned.  True, he never stayed with us again after that; instead, he would stay with a priest of the French Orthodox Church whose wife was gravely ill at the time.  

  She had a malignant brain tumor, and Blessed John prayed for her recovery, and she was healed. He lived in Paris for a time then—this was his final visit to us, in 1965—and the following year, 1966, he left us for good. As for that rector, he later regretted his actions and publicly repented that he hated Blessed John at the suggestion of the enemy.  But it was already too late.

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 I do not know when Zinaida died.  Probably circa 1990.  Certainly her soul would delight in being commemorated at true ROCOR altar (Agafangel) or a Sister Church.  Please do not do her the disservice of having her commemorated at a world-Orthodox altar, or in the ROCOR-MP, which is now in world-Orthodoxy whether they realize it or not.