by J. Froebel-Parker, Tsarizm, ©2024
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Already in May of 2024 The Balkan Press released an article destined to be a clarion call for the world to take notice that Volodomir Zelensky had officially become a “dictator.” Zelensky Is Now Officially A Dictator – The Balkan Members of NATO with a healthy dose of US Democrats and neo-Con Republicans did not heed its warning, pumping money and promoting the “Holy Cause of Ukraine” against Mother Russia with bravado and reckless abandon. Immediately, some remembered then Prince Edward Windsor and his morganatic wife, the American divorcée, Wallis Simpson, when they romped to cozy up to Hitler, with the extra bonus that Edward could speak fluent German. The elite of the Western World were lending tacit support to a dictator who had co-opted both the Lutheran and Roman Catholic state churches, leaving only the “Bekennende Kirche (Confessional Church)” to denounce Herr Schickelgruber’s misdeeds and tyranny. Pastors and priests paid with their lives.
It is not cliché to think that “history repeats itself,” because it obviously does, morphing its adjectives and players, its “pronouns” as it were, with the same nefarious effects in the end.
The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the largest Christian denomination in what is today a rather new country of Ukraine, whose patriarch happens to be the Patriarch of Moscow. While Ukraine may have declared itself independent of Russia after the Fall of Communism, the Church has remained unchanged since its inception in the 9th century in the east Slavic state of Kievan Rus when Byzantine missionaries introduced it there. It has remained impervious, though challenged, through times of Mongol rule, Bolshevism, and the Fall of Communism. It is flourishing as a dominant religion in both Russia and Ukraine, hence it is a threat to the globalist supported Zelensky dictatorship.
Enter Metropolitan Arseny of the Sviatogorsk Lavra, The Holy Mountains Lavra of the Holy Dormition (Ukrainian: Свято-Успенська Святогірська Лавра, Sviatohirsk Lavra or the Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery), on the banks of the Siverskyi Donets River. Ironically, although today located in the administrative district of Donetsk Oblast, it was called Stalino Oblast, during Soviet times. How fitting is that moniker when we learn that the metropolitan, the diocesan bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church there, has been in custody for 120 days at the writing of this report. His crime: the head of his church is ecclesiastically Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. According to a report by the lavra (monastery):
The court session was attended by the People’s Deputy of Ukraine Victoria Hryb, who personally supported Metropolitan Arseny, as well as by brethren of the Lavra, sisters of St. John’s Skete in the village of Adamovka, pilgrims and local residents.
All three days of the meeting, Metropolitan Arseny was escorted from the Dnipro pre-trial detention center to Sloviansk in a cramped box measuring 50 cm × 70 cm × 150 cm. The journey took at least 15 hours round trip, during which the metropolitan was left without food and water. Vladyka asked the court to give him the opportunity to participate in sessions via video link or not to schedule court sessions for two or more days in a row. However, the judge rejected this motion.
The defense petitioned for the release of the metropolitan on bail and the personal vouchers of nine people’s deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, representing different factions. The prosecutor insisted on the need to extend the detention, arguing that Metropolitan Arseny could allegedly escape or influence witnesses. In response, Bishop Arseny said: “If I lived in this monastery for 30 years and stayed there even while it was being shelled, I am not going to flee now either. When the troops of the Russian Federation stood 80 meters from us across the Donets, I did not leave the monastery, but stayed with the brethren and refugees.”
The metropolitan also stressed that he had taken a monastic, priestly and episcopal oath to serve in the place where the Church would place him, and the Svyatogorsk Lavra was his place of service. He asked the court to release him, noting that he did not intend to put pressure on witnesses and that nine people’s deputies were ready to take him on bail.
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