God Bless the USA Bible

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God Bless the U.S.A. Bible
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hCvMkPjqw&t=12s
Original video is supposed to be on Trump's "Truth Social," but I could not find that link.
my transcript of video is pasted at the bottom of this post


Thanksgiving Proclamation of George Washington
October 3, 1789 

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor — and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be — That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks — for His kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation — for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of His Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war — for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed — for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted — for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions — to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually — to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed — to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shewn kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord — To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us — and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

G Washington
source: world-orthodox blog page https://frted.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/ refers to broken link 
https://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/thanksgiving/transcript.html which can be recovered using archive.org
For the sake of preserving this document, I am including it in this post, at the end.  Please download it.


Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day
Abraham Lincoln
October 3, 1863

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies.  To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.  In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.  Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.  Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.  They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people.  I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.   And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

A. Lincoln
source:   http://www.classicallibrary.org/lincoln/thanksgiving.htm
  

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Presient Donald Trump:
    I'm proud to be partnering with my very good friend Lee Greenwood, (who doesn't love his song God Bless the USA?) in connection with promoting the God Bless the USA Bible. This Bible is the King James version and also includes our founding Father documents.  Yes, the Constitution, which I'm fighting for every single day, very hard to keep Americans protected. 
     Also, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Pledge of Allegiance are all part of this God Bless the USA Bible. 
     And it's just very important and very important to me.  I want to have a lot of people have it.  You have to have it for your heart, for your soul.  Many of you have never read them and don't know the liberties and rights you have as Americans and how you are being threatened to lose those rights.
     It's happening all the time.  It's a very sad thing that's going on in our country, but we're going to get it turned around.  Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country, and I truly believe that we need to bring them back and we have to bring them back fast.  I think it's one of the biggest problems we have.
     That's why our country is going haywire.  We've lost religion in our country.  All Americans need a Bible in their home, and I have many.  It's my favorite book.  It's a lot of people's favorite book.  This Bible is a reminder that the biggest thing we have to bring back America and to make America great again is our religion.  Religion is so important.
     It's so missing, but it's going to come back and it's going to come back strong, just like our country is going to come back strong.  In the end, we do not answer to bureaucrats in Washington.  We answer to God in heaven. Christians are under siege.  We must protect content that is pro-God.  We love God and we have to protect anything that is pro-God.
     We must defend God in the public square and not allow the media or the left wing groups to silence, censor or discriminate against us.  We have to bring Christianity back into our lives and back into what will be again, a great nation.  Our founding fathers did a tremendous thing when they built America on Judeo-Christian values.  Now that foundation is under attack, perhaps as never before.
     What can we do?  Stand up, speak out, and pray that God will bless America again?  I'm proud to endorse and encourage you to get this Bible.  We must make America pray again,  Pray, get educated, get motivated, and stand with me and the legions of Americans asking God to bless our great nation, to bring our great nation back and to make America great again.
     I'm proud to partner with Lee in this offering is a very special man, both as a talent, but maybe even more so as a human being.  He's very, very special.  And I think you all should get a copy of God Bless the USA Bible now and help spread our Christian values with others.  
     There you have it.
     Let's make America pray again.
     God bless you and God bless the USA. 

Peace vs. Irreconcilability

Archbishop Averky: Peace and Irreconcilability  a.k.a. Intransigence
Author: Metropolitan Agathangel. Date of publication: November 7, 2024. Category: ROCOR

November 7th according to the new style (October 25th according to the old style) was considered by the Russian diaspora to be the Day of Irreconcilability.  We must not forget this.

The fortieth anniversary of the terrible bloody Bolshevik Revolution on October 25, 1917 was marked by the Russian emigration in all five parts of the world by organizing so-called "days of irreconcilability."  The custom of organizing such "days of irreconcilability" has long been part of the lives of Russian people who left their homeland, which the godless Bolsheviks had turned into a kind of antechamber to hell.  These "days" were organized everywhere, and especially in large centers of concentration of Russian people irreconcilable to Bolshevism, every year.  The evil caused to the Russian people by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is so great that the organization of such "days," from a purely human point of view, is completely understandable and justified.

But from time to time we also have to hear some objections.  They say, for example, this: “Is this feeling of irreconcilability a Christian?  Can a Christian be irreconcilable with anyone?  Are we not commanded to always forgive one another?  Didn’t Christ teach us to love even our enemies?”

Based on such considerations, persons with such a mindset consider the organization of "days of irreconcilability" to be incompatible with Christian dignity, and participation in them, especially for pastors of the Church, to be reprehensible and unacceptable.  Many of these persons (including clergy), for the same reasons, have a very conciliatory attitude toward the God-fighting Soviet government and justify the behavior and conduct of the hierarchs of the Soviet Church.  Some of them are ready to consider the Soviet government "a government from God," as if closing their eyes to the fact that this government sets the "struggle with God" and the eradication of religion as the main goal of its existence.  Others, less decisive, say only that "Bolshevism is the punishing sword of the Lord," and therefore one cannot be irreconcilable toward it and call for a fight against it, since this means going against the will of God.

Is all this so?

First of all, it is necessary to remember that in order to correctly understand the genuine Gospel teaching, one should under no circumstances imitate the sectarians who snatch individual texts from the Holy Scriptures that are advantageous to them in order to base their biased false teaching on them.  Individual texts of the Word of God must certainly be compared with the context and with parallel passages, which alone provides the key to their correct understanding.  In addition, the highest authority for us should be those people who undoubtedly correctly understood and interpreted the Word of God, since the holiness of their lives is attested to by the Church, which has canonized them as saints of God, as true Christians who have realized the Gospel teaching in their lives and can be an example for others.

What is the true teaching of the Word of God on the issue that interests us?

Christianity is undoubtedly a religion of peace, and not of enmity and hatred — irreconcilability.

Christ Himself, according to the definition of the Word of God, is the "Author of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6).   He, as St. Apostle Paul teaches, is "our peace," having destroyed the barrier of enmity between God and man, erected by the fall of the first people.  He came to earth in order to "preach the gospel of peace" — to reconcile fallen people with God and call them to peace with each other (Ephesians 2:14-17; 1 Corinthians 7:15).  That is why the Angels sang at the moment of Christ's Nativity: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men" (Luke 2:14).

"My peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you" — such a solemn testament was made by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself at the Last Supper to His disciples, and in their person to all His true followers.  At the very beginning of His public ministry to the human race, sending the Apostles to preach, He commanded them, entering a house, to greet it with the words: "Peace to this house!" (Matt. 10:12). "Have peace among yourselves," He taught His followers, who constantly surrounded Him (Mark 9:50).  Following the testament of their Divine Teacher, the Holy Apostles "preached peace to people through Jesus Christ" (Acts 10:36) and taught "to seek peace and strive for it" (1 Pet. 3:11).  The Holy Apostles begin and end almost every message to Christians with a wish for peace: "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 1:3 and others).  And the Holy Apostle In his letter to the Romans, Paul especially insistently exhorts: "If it is possible, as far as lies in you, have peace with all men" (Rom. 12:18), and advises "to pursue the things that make for peace" (Rom. 14:19), striving "to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" (Eph. 4:3).  "Be at peace with one another," he also urges the Thessalonians (5:13), and he instructs his beloved disciple Timothy, whom he appointed bishop in Ephesus: "pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with all who call on the Lord from a pure heart" (2 Tim. 2:22).  And to his fellow countrymen, the Jews, St. Paul writes: "Strive to have peace with everyone" (12:14). 

The Holy Apostles repeatedly call Him "the God of peace" in their epistles (Rom. 15.33; 16.20; 1 Cor. 14.33 and many other places).

And the holy saints of God — the Holy Fathers of the Church, the great ascetics and mentors of the truly Christian, spiritual life, both by word and example, taught and continue to teach us through their inspired writings the same great truth, that is, that peace is the main inalienable property and quality of the soul of a true Christian.  Especially figuratively, as if summing up everything said before, our greatest Christian ascetic of recent times, St. Seraphim of Sarov, speaks about the meaning of peace for a Christian: "Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved"; "there is nothing better in Christ than peace, by which every battle of air and earthly spirits is destroyed"; "Whoever walks steadily in a peaceful order draws spiritual gifts as with a spoon."

This is the teaching of our Christian Church about peace and its significance for a Christian.

But if so, can a true Christian cherish in his heart any kind of irreconcilability towards anyone?  Is the very feeling of irreconcilability compatible with the title of a follower of Christ the Savior, who brought peace to earth and preached peace?

We can get an answer to this question only by carefully examining whether the above data exhausts everything on this issue.

It turns out that it does not.

In addition to the teaching about peace, we find in the Word of God and in the Holy Fathers a clearly expressed teaching about irreconcilability.

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth” — this is what Christ the Savior Himself taught: “I did not come to bring peace, but a sword; for I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.  And a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.”  And then it is explained in what sense this is said: "Whoever loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me" (Matthew 10:34-38). The same teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ is expressed in even more decisive tones by the Evangelist Luke: "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple" (Luke 14:26).

The highest commandment, which, first of all, a Christian must fulfill, is the commandment to love God.  And therefore it is completely natural and understandable that everything that goes against this first and greatest commandment (Matthew 22:36-38), that prevents a Christian from fulfilling it, should be hateful to him: a Christian should be absolutely irreconcilable with all this.>

Thus, a Christian must be irreconcilable to the enemy of God and the enemy of human salvation, the devil, and to all his accomplices and servants.

A Christian must be irreconcilable to "this world lying in wickedness," that is, to all evil that comes from the devil and manifests itself in all sorts of sinful passions and vices that war in the world, about which St. Apostle James, the brother of the Lord, speaks so clearly and simply: "Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?  Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world becomes the enemy of God" (James 4:4).

A Christian must be irreconcilable to his own sinful will, since it prevents him from fulfilling the will of God, which is why everyone who wants to be a follower of Christ is commanded to "deny himself and take up his cross," that is, to be ready for any deprivations, sorrows and suffering for Christ, even to the point of martyrdom for Him (Mark 8.34-37).

A Christian must also be irreconcilable to the evil, sinful will of other people who seek to divert him from serving God and following Christ.

He must be irreconcilable, as is evident from the words of Christ cited above, even to his closest relatives in the flesh — father and mother, son and daughter and others — even to the point of "saving," in the words of the Holy Fathers, "hatred for them," if they distract him from love for Christ.

All the more so should a true Christian be irreconcilable to all obvious God-fighters, blasphemers, persecutors of the faith and the Church, apostates, heretics and schismatics.>That this is so is clearly testified to by the Word of God.

"If (anyone) disobeys the Church, it will be to you as a heathen and a publican" — said the Lord Jesus Christ Himself (Matthew 18:17).

"What agreement is there between Christ and Belial? or what part has a believer in with an unbeliever?" — says the Holy Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians: "... therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing" ... (2 Cor. 6:15,17).

"If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine (the true teaching of Christ), do not receive him into your house or greet him; for he who greets him is a partaker of his evil deeds" (2 John 1:10-11) — teaches none other than the beloved disciple of Christ, St. Paul, called the "Apostle of Love."  Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.

"Whoever does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be excommunicated until the coming of the Lord" ("Anathema Maranatha"), that is, Christians should not have any communication with him — instructs St. Apostle Paul.

"A heretic, after the first and second admonition, turn away" — he instructs his disciple Titus, whom he appointed bishop on the island of Crete (3.10).

Thus, Christianity does not preach indiscriminate peace in relation to everyone, but on the contrary — it instills irreconcilability towards evil and wickedness and warns against friendly communication with the bearers of this evil and wickedness.

That this is so, the great father of the Church and ecumenical teacher St Paul speaks about this especially vividly and intelligibly in his 6th "Word on Peace.  Gregory the Theologian, who himself gave a high example of peace-lovingness by his refusal of the see of the Archbishop of Constantinople: 

"Let it not be thought, however, that I assert that every peace must be treasured. For I know that there is a beautiful division, and the most pernicious unanimity; but one must love good peace, which has a good goal and unites with God ... But when it comes to obvious impiety, then one must rather go to fire and sword, not looking at the demands of the times and rulers and in general at everything, rather than partake of the evil leaven and join the infected. The most terrible thing is to fear something more than God, and, because of this fear, for a servant of truth to become a traitor to the teaching of faith and truth" (Part I, p. 192).

And here is another, remarkable testimony of the also great Father of the Church, St. Isidore Pelusiotes, who decisively rejects any idea that Soviet power can be recognized as "power from God."  Having indicated in advance the order of subordination of some to others, established by God everywhere, in the life of verbal and speechless creatures, he concludes:

"Therefore, we have the right to say that the matter itself, I mean, the power, that is, the leadership and the royal power, are established by God. But if some villainous lawless person seizes this power, then we do not claim that he was appointed by God, but we say that he is allowed to vomit this wickedness, like Pharaoh, and in such a case to suffer extreme punishment, or to make chaste those who need cruelty, as the king of Babylon made chaste the Jews" (Works, part 2, letter 6).

The Soviet power, by its very essence, is a power that fights against God and is anti-Christian, and therefore there can be no talk of recognizing it as established by God.

"Live in peace with your enemies, but with your enemies, and not with the enemies of God" — another great pillar of the Universal Church, St. John Chrysostom, teaches us.

The third of this praiseworthy trinity of great ecumenical teachers (who occupies the first place in their ranks), St. Basil the Great, teaches us by his own example what our attitude should be toward these "enemies of God," the enemies of the Church of Christ.  When the fierce enemy of the Church, Emperor Julian the Apostate, set out on a campaign against the Persians, threatening that if the campaign was successful, he would finally destroy Christianity upon his return, St. Basil the Great prayed fervently before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos and the holy great martyr Mercury that he would not return from the battlefield alive.  And the saint's prayer was heard.

From all that has been said above it follows that we must be absolutely irreconcilable with the God-fighting teaching of our time, which has dared to proclaim for all to hear that "religion is the opium of the people," and with its insane fanatical followers, who blaspheme God, desecrate and destroy the temples of God, slander and persecute believers in Christ and strive for the complete eradication of faith and the destruction of the Church.  We cannot have any communication with them, not to mention any friendly relations, cooperation or compromise.  If such is the idea of ​​our "days of irreconcilability," then there is nothing in them that is contrary to true Christianity.  But all those who for some other reasons are truly irreconcilable with Bolshevism are our allies.  It is necessary, however, for everyone to fully and completely understand and realize that true and reasonable irreconcilability to Bolshevism is by no means merely political irreconcilability -— just as the struggle against Bolshevism is not merely an ordinary political struggle.  For the fundamental essence of Bolshevism lies precisely in its God-fighting, in its hostile attitude toward faith and the Church.  And therefore -— let us delve into this more deeply! — every opponent of faith in God, every blasphemer, enemy of faith and the Church, by that very fact, is a fellow traveler of the God-fighting Bolsheviks, even though he may consider and proclaim himself a fighter against Bolshevism.

Let all the organizers and participants of the "days of irreconcilability" realize this and understand that the truly blessed irreconcilability to Bolshevism is nothing other than irreconcilability to the devil in the Name of God, irreconcilability to the Antichrist in the Name of Christ!  In our terrible times, it is felt with particular force that there are only two paths in this life — the path of life and the path of death, the path of blessing and the path of damnation (Deut. 30.19-20) — the path of serving God or the path of serving the devil.

There is no third way!

And therefore let us firmly remember the remarkable saying of St. John Chrysostom that only "when we are at enmity with the devil, are we at peace with God."  Only such truly Christian irreconcilability can lead us to true peace.

+ Archbishop Averky
Modernity in the Light of the Word of God. Vol. I, pp. 277-284.
The text has been adapted to modern Russian language standards.



Комментарии  
# RE: Архиепископ Аверкий: Мир и непримиримость — Alexej 07.11.2023 21:17
The modern Russian government is off the charts in the amount of open, blatant and outright lies, connecting absolutely incompatible historical facts. At the same time, the Soviet amorphousness of the population of the Russian Federation allows them to painlessly swallow this vomit and not think about existing further. The consequences will be inevitable and catastrophic. A. I. Solzhenitsyn wrote in "The Gulag Archipelago": "On the entire planet and in all history there was no regime more evil, bloody and at the same time cunning and dodgy than the Bolshevik one."

# RE: Архиепископ Аверкий: Мир и непримиримость — Митрополит Агафангел 07.11.2023 13:56
The Orthodox opinion of an Orthodox person, directly contradicting the ideologists of the modern Russian Federation, who allegedly reconciled historical Orthodox Rus' with the gravediggers of this Holy Rus'.  As long as there is at least a share of veneration of the Soviet "grandfathers and fathers" in the Russian Federation, who built "a bright future for all mankind", as long as the land there is filled with idols of inhuman godless fighters - this land and people remain Soviet, shepherded by the Soviet false church, Soviet false ideologists and "elders". In the Russian Federation, instead of Russian people, there are Soviet people, and the Russian Federation itself, by the fact of its coexistence with the Soviet past, disgraces both the Russian people and its history and culture. This was well understood in the Russian diaspora by its best representatives, such as Archbishop Averky and many others.

original Russian:
http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/arkhiep-averkij-taushev-mir-i-neprimirimost
https://web.archive.org/web/20240802163004/http://www.internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/arkhiep-averkij-taushev-mir-i-neprimirimost

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Lesson in Psychopathy: the "Forgiveness Ploy"

     This post is therapeutic for me.   Maybe some readers will not appreciate it — If that is the case with you, then I'm happy for you, because that means you have never been the victim of a psychopath.  And I thank you for indulging me.  

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     In the 3rd cartoon: the (psychopath) cat who says he does not get it is lying.  He gets it exactly.  The other cat sympathizes with the psychopath cat.  Sam Vankin has labelled these sympathizers as "flying monkeys."  Flying monkeys are all the people around the psychopath who buy into the psychopath's false persona, the false image they project.  Flying monkeys are "actors" on the psychopath's "stage."  If a flying monkey discovers the truth, but is forced by circumstances to remain on stage and be an actor, then that flying monkey ceases to be a flying monkey and becomes a victim.  The only way out is to exit the stage.  That is not always possible, especially for parents who have minor children involved.    ~jh

 

 

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Plans for Fr. Seraphim Rose Glorification

ROCOR Fr. Seraphim to be glorified by his Church

Synod Meeting Sep25/Oct8
original Russian
http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/rptsz/2024-16

Minutes of the meeting of the Bishops' Council of the ROCOR
from September 25-26/October 08-09, 2024

The Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, with the rights of the Bishops' Council, opened with the singing of the prayer "O Heavenly King", September 25/October 08, 2024, at 15:00, in the Synodal Representation in Ukraine, Odessa, Mikhailovskaya Square, 1.

Present: His Eminence Agathangel, Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, First Hierarch and Chairman of the Bishops' Council of the ROCOR; Bishops: George (Secretary), Archbishop of Chisinau and Moldova; Alexy, Bishop of Ceadîr-Lunga.

Bishops: Gregory, Archbishop of Sao Paulo and South America; John, Archbishop of Buinsk and Volga; Kirill, Bishop of Voronezh and South Russia; Nikon, Bishop of Ishim and Siberia; Anastassy, ​​Bishop of Vladivostok and the Far East, John, Bishop of Melbourne and Australia; Christopher, Bishop of Brisbane and Queensland; Ambrose, Bishop of Kolomensk and Shchurovsky; Philaret, Bishop of Ferapontov and Pavel, Bishop of Borrego Springs, participated in the sessions of the Conference via Skype.

JOURNAL #1

Listened to: Chairman on the Agenda.
Resolved: To approve the agenda of the meeting of the Bishops' Conference with expanded rights in the following form:
1. Report of the Chairman and Bishops
2. On the canonization of new saints
3. On the council of saints of the Russian Church who shone forth in the American land
4. On the Synodal House in the USA and the need to register a community there
5. On candidates for ordination
6. Appeal from Vissarion Tugushi
7. On the veneration of Matrona of Moscow, Luka Voyno-Yasenetsky and others glorified in the MP
8. On the parish charter
9. On the status of Hieromonk John (Kurmoyarov).
10. Miscellaneous

JOURNAL #2

Heard: Report of the Chairman and Ruling Bishops on the state of affairs in the Dioceses.
Resolved: To take note of the Chairman's and Ruling Bishops' Report.

JOURNAL #3

Heard: The Chairman's report on the canonization of new saints.

Resolved: To add Saint Joasaph Skorodumov, canonized by the Greek Old Calendar Church, to the ROCOR calendar (commemorated on November 13/26). To add Archpriest Evstafiy Evstafiyev, holy confessor, glorified by the Bulgarian Church, to the ROCOR calendar (commemorated on the 3rd Sunday after Easter).

JOURNAL #4

Heard: The Chairman's report on the Council of Saints of the Russian Church who shone forth in the American land, and on the canonization of new saints.
Resolved:
1. To celebrate the memory of the Synaxis of Saints of the Russian Church in the American Land on the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost.
2. To begin preparations for the glorification of Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) as a saint (commemorated on August 20/September 2). To appoint the date and place of the glorification additionally.

ЖУРНАЛ № 4

Слушали: сообщение Председателя О соборе святых Русской Церкви в земле Американской просиявших, и о канонизации новых святых.
Постановили: 1. Память Собора Святых Русской Церкви в земле Американской просиявших праздновать в Неделю 3-ю по Пятидесятнице.
2. Начать подготовку к прославлению иером. Серафима (Роуз) в лике преподобного (память 20 августа/ 2 сентября). Дату и место прославления назначить дополнительно.

JOURNAL #5

Heard: the Chairman's report on the Synodal House in the USA and the need to register a community there.
Resolved: to take note of the Chairman's report on the Synodal House in the USA and the need to register a community there.

JOURNAL #6

Heard: Archbishop George on the appeal from Vissarion Tugushi.
Resolved: to return to this issue after Vissarion Tugushi has completed his probationary period.

JOURNAL #7

Heard: Chairman on the veneration of Matrona of Moscow, Luka Voyno-Yasenetsky and others glorified in the MP.
Resolved: It is unacceptable to place icons of saints not glorified by our Church in churches of the Church Abroad.

JOURNAL #8

Heard: Chairman's proposal on the need to amend the Parish Charter.
Resolved: To accept the Chairman's proposal and develop a charter suitable for modern small parishes.

JOURNAL #9

Heard: On the position of Hieromonk John (Kurmoyarov).
Resolved: To recommend to the Ruling Bishop to remove Hieromonk John (Kurmoyarov) from the staff until the circumstances surrounding him are clarified.

JOURNAL #10

Heard: about holding the next Bishops' Conference.
Resolved: to convene the Bishops' Conference when the materials for the glorification of Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) are ready.

ЖУРНАЛ № 10

Слушали: о проведении следующего Архиерейского Совещания.
Постановили: созвать Архиерейское Совещание, когда будут готовы материалы к прославлению иером. Серафима (Роуза).

Chairman of the Conference: + Agathangel, Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America
Secretary: + George, Archbishop of Chisinau and Moldova
Assistant Secretary: + Alexy, Bishop of Chadur-Lunga

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