| Resolution of the Clergy of the Montreal and Canadian Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Outside of Russia Source: ROCOR Natalya Mihailova 17 March 2015 Ottawa, Ontario March 9-11, 2015 We, the clergy of the Diocese of Montreal and Canada of the Russian Orthodox Church, gathered together in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, at the parish of the Protection of the Virgin Mary, under the chairmanship of his grace Archbishop Gabriel. It is meaningful that in 2015, when the Church is celebrating the 1000-year anniversary of the repose of St. Vladimir, the baptizer of Russia, we held our annual clergy retreat in the Ottawa parish whose church was built as a memorial to the baptism of Russia. The Church beautifully sums up how we should spend our time during this Lenten season in the following hymn: “Come, ye faithful, … let us cast away every unjust accusation against our neighbour, … Let us lay aside the pleasures of the flesh, and increase the spiritual gifts of our soul. Let us give bread to those in need, and let us draw near unto Christ, crying in penitence: O our God, have mercy on us” (Stichiron at “Lord I have cried” on Friday of the first week of Great Lent). We thank God that during our gathering we were able to put some of these words into practice by cleansing our souls through the sacrament of confession and growing spiritually through prayer at the divine services and Communion of Christ’s Body and Blood at the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. We call upon our flock to remember the central importance of the Divine Mysteries in our spiritual lives and to prepare for Communion accordingly, through fasting, prayer both at home and at church and heartfelt confession. With sorrow we observe that the conflict in eastern Ukraine has not completely subsided and that Orthodox Christians as well as other peoples continue to suffer both physical and spiritual hardships. We fervently pray that our Lord grant not only peace to Ukraine, but also that He strengthen the canonical Church in that land. |
| 17. The strict expert analysis of theological literature and church calendars and the right of the Publishing Council to provide them with the seal of approval, ’Approved by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church’, is especially important. The Council reminds that the official calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church is the one published by the Publishing Council. All other church calendars have to be in accordance with the official one. 18. The Publishing Council should consider creating a more effective system of church periodicals circulation. 19. The Council believes it necessary to pay more attention to the local social service. The Department of Charity and Social Service is charged to improve the co-ordination of the projects, with a special stress on the establishment of almshouses, orphanages, boarding schools, charity canteens, as well as the organisation of medical help to orphanages, hospitals and hospices, to the elderly, the condemned, drug and alcohol addicts, immigrants, victims of natural disasters and terrorist acts. 20. Monasteries are advised to take active part in the educational and social programmes organised by the dioceses. The monastic charity service should be realised through opening almshouses for the elderly and the feeble, providing free medical help, assistance in buying the necessary medication. The monasteries which have subsidiary farms should provide as many placements as they can to the unemployed. 21. The Council points out the necessity of taking care of retired clergymen, as well as the clergymen’s widows and poor members of their families. Creating an all-church rest home appears expedient. 22. In the sphere of co-operating with the Armed Forces and the law-enforcement agencies, acquiring a new level in the partnership between the Church and the state is necessary. For this, new legislation is required, particularly the laws regulating the status of chaplains, which would be in keeping with the historical traditions and the world practice. It is recommended that the law and agreement basis be worked out in dioceses that would guarantee stable good relations of the Church and the military structures in cases when, for instance, the commanders or the attitude of military authorities is changed. |
| 32. S. 82-88; Παρανκας Μ. Τ παλαιν σστημα τς κκλησιαστικς μουσικς//Ελληνικς φιλολογικς σλλογος. 1891. [Τ.] 21. Σ. 164-176; Металлов В. М. Азбука крюкового пения. М., 1899; Озорнов М. Д. Азбука крюкового пения. М., 1901; Покровский А. М. Азбука крюкового пения. М., 1901; Fleischer O. Die spätgriechische Tonschrift. B., 1904. S. 17-24. (Neumen-Studien; 3); Wellesz E. Die Rhytmik der byzantinischen Neumen//Zschr. f. Musikwissenschaft. 1919/1920. Bd. 2. S. 629-632; Tillyard H. J. W. Handbook of the middle Byzantine musical notation. Copenhagen, 1935. (MMB, Subsidia; Vol. 1); Стефанович Д. Црквенски превод приручника buзahmujcke неумске homaцuje рукопису 311 монастира Хиландара//Хиландарски зборник. Београд, 1971. [Т.] 2. С. 113-130; Бражников М. В. Древнерусская теория музыки. Л., 1972; Στθης Γ. Τ Χειργραφα Βυζαντινς Μουσικς - λδβλθυοτεΑγιον Ορος. Αθναι, 1975-1976. Τ. Α-Β; Кручинина А. Н., Шиндин Б. А. Первое русское пособие по музыкальной композиции//ПКНО, 1978. Л., 1979. С. 188-195; Бражников В. М. Лица и фиты знаменного распева. Л., 1984; Кравченко С. П. Словарь фит певческой книги «Праздники»//Проблемы дешифровки древнерусских нотаций. Л., 1985. С. 157-195; Никишов Г. А. К вопросу о составе «Ключа» Тихона Макарьевского//Musica antiqua. VII: Acta scientifica. Bydgoszcz, 1985. P. 707-718; Богомолова М. В. Азбуки путевой нотации//Musica antiqua. VIII. Bydgoszcz, 1988. Vol. 1: Acta musicologica. P. 111-133; Герцман Е. В. Византийское музыкознание. Л., 1988; он же. Греческий учебник музыки XVIII века//ПКНО, 1988. М., 1988. С. 161-177; Гусейнова З. М. Принципы знаменного роспева (по мат-лам муз.-теорет. руководств XV - нач. XVII в.)//Musica antiqua. VIII. Bydgoszcz, 1988. Vol. 1: Acta musicologica. P. 427-439; она же. Руководства по теории знаменного пения XV века (источники и редакции)//Древнерусская певческая культура и книжность. Л., 1990. С. 20-46. (Проблемы музыкознания; Вып. 4); она же. «Извещение» Александра Мезенца и теория музыки XVII века. СПб., 1995; Владышевская Т. |
| His Holiness mentions that hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are being summoned for “talks” and questioning by the Security Service of Ukraine; they are encountering obstacles when crossing the state border of Ukraine, are being detained under different pretexts and subjected to humiliating searches. For instance, on December 9, the Security Service of Ukraine denied Metropolitan Ilarion of Donetsk, a citizen of Ukraine, entry into the country, invoking “special instructions from Kiev.” At the level of the Government and local authorities attempts are being made to deprive the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of its legal rights to use the Kiev Caves and Pochaev Lavras – major holy sites of the Orthodox Ukraine. “Thus, on November 23, 2018, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine revoked the decision on the state registration of the right of the monastic community to use the complex of buildings of the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra. And on November 28, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine revoked its instruction of July 17, 2003, On the Exclusion of the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra from the Kremenets-Pochaev State Historical-Architectural Reserve. The reserve representatives do not conceal that in future the monastery can be given for use to another religious organization. On December 5, the Kremenets-Pochaev Reserve conducted an inspection of items of church value in the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra,” the letter says. His Holiness mentions that on November 28, for the first time in thirty years, a commission of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine conducted an inspection of cultural property in the territory of the Holy Dormition Kiev Caves Lavra. On November 30, a search was conducted in the territory of a subsidiary farm of the Kiev Caves Lavra in the village of Voronkov of the Borispol district, Kiev region. During the search, a number of irregularities in judicial proceedings occurred. As it is emphasized in the messages, attempts are being made to hold bishops and clerics criminally liable on baseless charges of “high treason” and “incitement to religious hatred.” In a number of regions in Ukraine massive searches are being carried out on the premises of diocesan administrations, churches and places of clergymen’s residence. |
| In the early 2000s, Constantinople laid claims to the Cathedral of the Dormition and filed a suit. All the three court instances fell on the time when I administered the diocese of Hungary. And we won all the three instances - first the Budapest City Court, then the Court of Appeal and, finally, the Supreme Court. We managed to prove convincingly that the present community of the Cathedral of the Dormition, including Greeks and Hungarians and people of other ethnic background, was a direct legal successor of the original community. Moreover, direct descendants of the first founders are serving in the clergy of our church to this day. Therefore, the Patriarch of Constantinople can make whatever claims he wants, but it has been already thrice proved judicially and finally that these claims are altogether ungrounded. The tenth commandment of the Law of Moses reads, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor” (Ex. 20:17). It is appropriate to remind the Patriarch of Constantinople of this commandment. Expressing such ideas publicly, he encroaches on others’ property whose right holder has been determined by court. Besides, he thus casts doubt on the competence of Hungarian courts. The Hungarian state acted very wisely by giving the Patriarchate of Constantinople as a gift a territory and a group of buildings where a church will be built (Patriarch Bartholomew blessed the foundation stone). It should seem what else does he need? But no, it proves to be not enough. Right in the presence of benefactors, Patriarch Bartholomew voices claims also to a church building that has never belonged to Constantinople. The Hungarian state generally treats traditional religious confession with great consideration subsidizing their work. The repair and restoration work in the Cathedral of the Dormition is carried out with the financial support of the Hungarian state. |
| He is weeping over how we grieve Him; over how we frequently renounce Him by our terrible deeds; over how thousands of unfaithful people are now shamefully denying Him and mocking Him. He is weeping, too, over how our hearts have become hardened, over how we are losing the truth and cruelly offending Him Who by His Divine Blood redeemed the entire human race. When the Lord entered Jerusalem, the multitude spread their garments and cut down branches from trees, waving them as the children cried out: Hosanna to the Son of David (Matthew 21:8-9). What can we now do for the Lord, when He is in Heaven, to comfort Him? Now we, too, can spread our garments under the feet of Christ. Upon reaching home, let us open our wretched storehouses and offer at least some spare pay to a needy person. This pay will be our garment cast before the Lord, upon which He will tread when He comes in glory – for, according to His words, that which we do for one of the least of the brethren, we do for Him. We can also take palm branches into our hands, waving them to greet the Lord. We all see that martyrs are depicted on icons with palm branches. This is a symbol of the victory over the passions and the flesh, a symbol with which the Lord has crowned them. Let us try to defeat something ugly in ourselves. Our age is one of resentment and extreme self-love. Therefore, if we now feel offended by anyone, let us forgive him. Let us restrain ourselves, compelling the passion of self-love to subside. Now a wide wave of fleshly passions has overflowed into the world, and nearly seven-tenths of the world is under the power of Satan and has been seized by the sin of fornication. We need to defeat these passions; we need to refrain from them; we need to overcome the callousness that accompanies them with at least small good deeds. And if we will defeat these evil habits, replacing them with good deeds, we will raise a palm branch to Christ. The Gospel says that the multitude cried out: “Hosanna!” And we, too, can cry out to the Lord “Hosanna!” – but not with our mouths, but with our hearts and our entire lives. What does “Hosanna” mean? It is a praise glorifying God, as the Apostle Paul says: And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him (Colossians 3:17). Let us do the same, crying out “Hosanna!” with our entire lives. |
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