The 'MP' in the "ROCOR-MP' becomes clearer

.12/1/25

http://internetsobor.org/index.php/novosti/mirovoe-pravoslavie/moskovskaya-patriarkhiya/reputatsiya-mp-pereshla-na-ejo-novyj-filial-rptsz-mp
 

 I am not sure if I'm understanding this Internet Sobor article  correctly.  It looks to me like this is either an accusation or an observation, made by ...whom?  Whomever, it looks like somebody has noticed something about the MP that Konstantine Preobrazhensy has been saying all along.

 This book was published in 2009:     

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KGB/FSB's New Trojan Horse: Americans of Russian Descent
Konstantin Preobrazhensky

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When Fr. Gregory died †2016, SJKP had plenty of copies of this book in stock.  World Orthodox relatives took over the SJKP about a year later.  First thing they did was to box up all the back issues of Living Orthodoxy magazines and stick them high away in the attic.  I bet we could find the cases of the "New Trojan Horse" book up there with the magazines.  Contact me if you can't find a copy for a fair price.

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more information google:
   КГБ среди Америки Русская эмиграция, Константин Преображенский
   Moscow Church Increase Work Spy for Putin, Paul Goble
   https://revniteli.livejournal.com/43462.html

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.12/2/25 

UPDATE ABOUT THE INTERNET SOBOR ARTICLE LINKED ABOVE 
TITLE THROUGH MACHINE TRANSLATOR READS:
The reputation of the MP moved to its new branch – ROCOR-MP

Subdeacon Nektarios has the explanation:
https://www.orthodoxtraditionalist.com/post/the-kremlin-church-abroad-historical-intelligence-operations-to-youtube-propagandist

My summary of the explanation:

1. "The Hill" (short for Capital Hill) is a news outlet with a printed newspaper and a digital media site which covers state and global politics.

2. An article in "The Hill" was published 11/17/25 and is titled (paraphrase):

White House to meet ROCOR-MP & OCA clergy about the Church's ties to MP
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5609325-russian-orthodox-church-white-house-capitol-hill/

3. This article has prompted Republican representatives to call for an investigation.

4.Interesting related observation by non-Orthodox political analyzer:

     When it comes to the relationship between the Kremlin and the Russia Orthodox Church; the threat that Patriarch Kyrill poses to the west is because he has allowed the Russian Church to be completely co-opted by the Kremlin
     The technical word for that is caesaropapism, i.e., government control of a state sanctioned religion. 

          https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C4YRTGKsdtg 

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. . . to be a part of the old ROCOR . . .

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Sub. Nektarios interviews Evan Stern, a convert from the ROCOR-MP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYP2mVKYyWo
1 hour 18 minutes

Excerpt from interview

  from 8:00 to 9:28
 

 "a hefty chunk of garment":
  our holy hierarchs, Anastasy, Anthony, Philaret, Vitaly, Agafangel, 
  St. John, Abp. Averky, Abp. Andrew,  Archim Konstantin, Bp. Nektary, Bp. Gregory Grabbe, Fr. Boris Molchanov, Fr. Seraphim Rose, Fr. Michael Pomazansky, I.M. Kontzevish, I.M. Andreev,  . . .

This is the pragmatism of Vatican II in Orthodoxy

ROCOR-MP has fallen into world orthodoxy so deep, it is now experiencing symptoms that the Roman Church manifested with Vatican II.

Sub. Nektarios interviews Evan Stern, a convert from the ROCOR-MP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYP2mVKYyWo
1 hour 18 minutes

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Excerpt from interview
  from 39:21 to 41:17

Evan Stern: ...once you see it, you see it everywhere.
          Like the latest synodal statement about the things that are happening in Russia — they don't have the teeth to say: "communism."  They use a euphemism.   They say, "dangerous 20th century ideologies" or something.  They're completely neutered.  They can't even name the demonic force that they claim to stand against.  Because it would cause too much of a rift in the former Soviet Union.  

Sbn Nektarios:  [ROCOR had an 80-year witness against Sergianism.  MP is on the cusp of canonizing Sergius Stragorodsky.  It will be interesting to see what ROCOR-MP does about that. paraphrased ~jh]

Evan Stern:   I actually got a chance to ask Fr. Dcn. Psarev about that in person and I said, "it seems like they're going to canonize Sergius pretty soon."  And he said, "I don't doubt that they will."  And my question was, "how will you teach at Jordanville when we have all of our modern saints who are, — I mean there is no gray area here, again —  Sergius of sorry memory.  He is a traitor. He is an agent of the devil."  And he said, "Well, we will respect their decision, but we won't agree with it."

And that again, it's just we've returned to this pragmatic church.  This is the pragmatism of Vatican II in Orthodoxy.

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Foods That Cause Sickness

WFPB (whole food plant based)

...."the food which caused the sickness..."

St. John Chrysostom
Hebrews 10:2-9
excerpt on verse 7

. . . . Tell me now, if when you have been well for forty days after a long illness, you should again give yourself up to the food which caused the sickness, have you not lost your former labor too?  For if natural things are changed, much more those which depend on choice.  As for instance, by nature we see, and naturally we have healthy eyes; but oftentimes from a bad habit [of body] our power of vision is injured. . . . .

Reading this part of the homily, I remembered an incident from sometime soon before covid.  One Sunday coffee hour after liturgy, an older catechumen complained about his high blood sugar and having to restrict himself eating sweets.  I told him that there is now a cure known for type II diabetes,  He was very interested to know it, but when he found out that the cure is the same as our strict Church fast, his excitement totally deflated.  Apparently, he considered the cure just as onerous as the disease.  

He asked how long will it take.  Well, it depends on the degree of compliance, but Dr. McDougall would take his diabetic patients on a 10-day cruise and have them off all medications by the end of the cruise.  His next question:  "Then, after that, can I go back to eating regular?"

 

What are these foods that cause illness?  It's clear to me it is the non-fasting foods: meat/dairy/oil.  (Wine is considered medicinal, — ok for serious illness and even mild indigestion.)  Our Church used to know this.  Somehow we have forgotten.  So many diseases are caused by the rich western-American diet:  including glaucoma which is caused by fats/oils, and non-diabetic (nuclear) cataracts which are caused by excess proteins.  Also look at the wording: ...when you have been well for forty days after a long illness...  This implies that fasting was normally used as a treatment for serious diseases.  Remember that in the old days, rich diets caused "king's diseases," like gout.  The peasants who ate roots and barley and potatoes did not get "king's diseases."  Our Church fasting fare is ancient wisdom which we have somehow forgotten, maybe we deliberately suppressed it.  It is interesting that St. John uses the word "injured" when speaking about the cause of vision impairment.  This is the same language the wfpb doctors are using — that we "injure" ourselves by eating fats/proteins, that we do violence to our organs and our brain. 

 
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