This is not my Remnant ROCOR blog website

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http://remnant-rocor.blogspot.com* 

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 Dec 2023

No this is not my RRb* — not my Remnant ROCOR blog website.  It looks a lot like it, though.  It was created in 2014 by Joseph Suaiden of NFTU.  Originally Joseph Suaiden deliberately designed it to look like my RRb.  Here is what Joseph Suaiden's RRb looked like at first:

This is an enemy blog.  Joseph was unable to make a more exact copy-cat blog because the template I used had been discontinued.

 

Check out the first post, "Welcome" where Joseph Suaiden openly admits his purpose is to oppose my RRb.  Something I had posted on the RRb at the end of July 2014 made Joseph mad, and he declared war.  Literally.  He said, "This is war!"  Then he detonated his copy-cat blog.   For the next few months he imagined that I was engaged in a war with him, and he saw all of my posts as some tricky maneuver against him.  Typical narcissist...  

What was he so riled up about?  At the end of July 2014 RRb posted a copy-paste of something I found on the GOC website:  "Two Definitions of Jurisdictional Ecumenism."  I had been calling this ecumenism "Jurisdictional Ecumenism" — when I came up with that name I had no idea the concept had been discovered and labelled already.  "Old Calendar Ecumenism" is maybe a more accurate name.

This GOC is one of the Matthewite groups.  Not our GOC that is in communion with Vl. Agafangel.

http://genuineorthodoxchurch.com/1983Encyclical_against_OldCalendarEcumenism.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20141106042723/http://genuineorthodoxchurch.com/1983Encyclical_against_OldCalendarEcumenism.htm 

"Old Calendarist Ecumenism" teaches an entirely heretical teaching, to wit, that all the groups and factions that follow the old calendar together consist and belong to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ, and it proposes a union of these [factions] according to an ecumenistic perception and not according to the Orthodox Confession and Ecclesiology.

I first noticed "jurisdictional ecumenism" in 2010 after observing Joseph Suaiden who is a flaming jurisdictional ecumenist.  (In my Shared Library see the RRb archive for November 2010, "What Kind of Ecumenism is This?")  Later I saw that Vl. Agafangel pointed it out also, calling it ecumenism.  There was an idea in the air in those days that ROCOR could be saved if all the R-splits would unite.  Joseph Suaiden was most enthusiastic about the idea, because he thought that his goofy Milan synod could be included in the group.

Joseph got some flack from his peers about his copy-cat blog, so he backed off and at some point changed to a different template.  (WayBack Machine's archive pages start 2021.)  Suaiden's posts are taken from the R-Split websites and we have no argument with the historical documents they post.

R-Splits:

 ROAC

 RTOC

 ROCiE 1

 ROCiE 2

 ROCiE 3

 ROCiE 4

All the R-splits call themselves the true ROCOR (or else descendants from FROC-catacomb church) and none of them are in communion with each other.  The (evil) purpose of these schisms is to divide the Church, so it would defeat their purpose to do any uniting.  We can guarantee that no uniting among them is ever going to happen, because we know their origin (antichrist).  Metropolitan Agafangel has tried over and over to call them all together to discuss their regularization, so that unification would be possible; but we can't get even one of them to RSVP to our invitation.  

I'm convinced that the remedy to the schisms is for people to acquire what Fr. Seraphim Rose referred to as "a clear concept of the Church."  Anyone who has a clear concept of the Church recognizes that the schisms are not the Church.  The schisms try to make a Church for themselves by running off with the canons, very similar to how the Protestants try to make a Church by running off with the Bible.  The heart of the Church, the beating/living life of the Church is the heavenly Church, true fellowship and communion with the saints.  Following the canons or logically claiming succession is not enough.

Pray for a clear concept of the Church, pray to be given the discernment to recognize the Church with your "spiritual eye" rather than by figuring it out intellectually/logically with your mind.  

There are some practical guidelines for finding the Church — or at least for knowing where She is not.  There are some outward characteristics that are fruits of the true Church, — one is that they follow the Old Calendar.  True Churches, because they are true, understand that the new calendar is wrong, and they discern from where it originated (the enemy of the Church).  There are no true Churches using the new calendar.

But this does not work vice-versa.  Being on the old calendar does not cause a group to be true.  Old Calendar is a fruit.  Fruits are results, not causes.  You can very easily determine a world-orthodox Church by earthly evidences, but you can't determine a true Church by earthly evidences. The only physical way to tell if a Church is true is to ask them and find out if they are in communion specifically with Metropolitan Agafangel Pashkovsky.  This is Fr. Seraphim Rose's jurisdiction.  This is St. John Maximovitsh's jurisdiction.  

You might have to ask the priest to find out who his bishop is.  I've visited many world-orthodox websites where their bishop is not revealed, except by accident, maybe, in the photo section.  The world-orthodox deny the importance of a bishop — it is as if the bishop is a formality, like a marriage license is a formality.  The group-mind of the parish could be very opposed to their bishop.  I know of one world-orthodox parish (1996) where St. John's icon was hidden whenever their (OCA) bishop was coming for a visit.  This was because St. John was an old calendarist from the ROCOR that world-orthodoxy considers schismatic.  The group-mind of that parish loved St. John, but their bishops forbid his veneration.  Somehow world-orthodox parishioners in general are content to be at odds with their bishop like that.  I am not.  I need to be able to love and trust my bishops.  I thank God always for bringing me to the ROCOR and for letting me stay here.

* RRb (http://remnantrocor.blogspot.com) was deleted by Blogger May 17, 2023 without explanation and no recourse.   The URL of Suaiden's copy-cat blog has a hyphen in the name.  Most of my RRb is archived in my shared library, in a folder titled, "RRb Archives."