Beloved in Christ, United in Truth,

Your blessing and prayers for me a sinner.

There is some talk about with whom we would be serving, and who is compromised and who is not.

Recently the Patriarch Pavle of Serbia criticized us for ordaining clergy from among the Catacomb Christians in Russia. Our first question is "Why did not the Serbs do it? These poor people have suffered eighty years of the most horrible persecution Christians have ever suffered. At the same time the Moscow Patriarchate not only denied every chance it got, that there was any persecution, but with all its higher clergy collaborating as salaried employees of the KGB in the closing of Churches, and liquidation of conscientious objectors. This continues today. Some priests who turned to us were murdered, as were at least two catacomb bishops with their attendants at Theophany two years ago. All those normal honest souls who are repelled by the constant lies, violence and betrayal or every single hierarch of the top 30, at least, who were KGB agents, destroying the Church and the Faith.

As to the authenticity of the Moscow Patriarchate itself, it was created by Stalin who got nineteen (19) bishops to elect him, despite the fact that he and they were all excommunicated, (that is OUT OF THE CHURCH!) by the Locum Tenens of Patriarch Tikhon, Met. Cyril of Kazan, and Met. Peter of Krutitsky. Moreover, Patriarch Tikhon had specifically banned him as a former member of "The Living Church Heresy" from ever holding any ruling position in the Church.

Patriarch Pavle has just Glorified his own martyrs to the Ustashi. How can he insult the Russian Martyrs of the Catacomb Church?

We are glad to read anti ecumenical articles by Fr. Sava and others, but they continue silent in the face of every kind of Heresy from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, against which no one but Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem has protested. That Bartholomeos is a heretic; there can be no doubt. He is a mason and he even... approves of abortion "for many reasons". Where is a murmur of Protest from Belgrade or Moscow? They are all career ecclesiastics of the Communist era, who have not the courage to defend the Martyrs, or even condemn Abortion and its promoters, among whom is Bartholomew. Is this Orthodoxy? Is this the True Faith? Absolutely not. This is the Great Apostasy, since virtually NO ONE not connected with our Synod makes any protest! Shame! Shame!

Obviously no honest person can join oneself to these, but SCOBA does, as persons of deeply compromised truth and integrity, mere salaried professionals.

There are many other serious charges to be brought, but these all by themselves separate the Sheep from the Goats.

Hieroschema Monk Elia The Palestinian Hermitage of the Burning Bush