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> Я дозвонился до архиерейского синода РПЦЗ в Нью-Иорке. До первого номера, где ответили.
 
> Конкретно:
 
> (001)212 534 1601 ext 12.
 
> Эти номера доступны из интернета на сайте www.rocor.org
 
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> Никто митр Виталия не арестовывал. Сайт Петра Будзиловича, распустившего эту информацию, мне посоветовали не читать.
 
 
Они там изолгались вконец. Чего только не сделаешь для удержания власти! Очевидно, что шкурловцы (т.е., последователи «шкурловатского раскола») уже хорошо освоили лубянские методы работы.
 
 
Существует подробный рассказ очевидцев, как это все происходило. Привожу его в конце (к сож., на англицком языке)
 
 
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> В подтверждение провокациоости заявления об аресте митр Виталия можно судить, на мой взгляд, о следующем. Консервативный сайт www.listok.com , который в течение всего этого «конфликта» в РПЦЗ осуждает архиерейский синод РПЦЗ за сближение с Московской Патриархии, молчит. Молчит уже который день. Там ничего не происходит.
 
 
Это еще абсолютно ничего не доказывает. Отсутствие информации совершенно не доказывает что ничего не произошло.
 
 
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> Ну кто и что теперь скажет?
 
 
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Concerning the Statement from the Chancery, Nov 2 – Posted by The
 
Rev. Mark Gilstrap
 
 
I have never posted to this list and only once have I posted to
 
another list of Orthodox dialogue. Also, I have no malice toward
 
anyone, either the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of
 
Russia or those who have been my brother clergy over the past years
 
or to the faithful laity of the Church. However, I have been
 
continuously scandalized by the lack of love shown to those of us who
 
believe that the Russian Church Abroad has taken a «New Course» in
 
rapprochement with the MP and World Orthodoxy and its change in its
 
stand against Ecumenism which these new associations imply. While I
 
could give many concise arguments why this change of course is a
 
fact, I will simply relate one encounter that summarizes my
 
convictions.
 
 
In 1976, when I was a Deacon serving at Holy Epiphany Russian
 
Orthodox Church under Fr. Roman Lukianov he told me something that I
 
will never forget. He said: "Fr. Spyridon, never before in the
 
history of the Church has there been a persecution as cruel and
 
diabolical as the persecution of the Orthodox Church in Russian by
 
the Bolsheviks. In all previous persecutions the Church knew her
 
persecutors, whether they were Mongols, Turks or others; they never
 
pretended to be anyone other than themselves. However, in Russia the
 
Bolsheviks sent their criminal agents to seminaries, dressed them in
 
podriasniks and ryasas, ordained them readers, sub-deacons, deacons,
 
priests and bishops and vested them in the robes of Christ so that
 
these God-hating criminals could betray the faithful and destroy the
 
Church from within." At this point Fr. Roman broke down in tears and
 
sobbed from the depths of his heart and bowels of his feelings.
 
Inexplicably, this same Fr. Roman has for the past twelve years or so
 
been one of the chief architect-proponents of reunion with Moscow.
 
Ask me how this is possible!, and, I will answer that this change of
 
heart and spiritual mind is rooted in deep spiritual delusion and
 
sickness of heart and mind that has come upon the elect themselves
 
during these last days.
 
 
Dear Brothers and Sisters, if you will indulge me a few more words I
 
would like to share with you the truth about the forced incarceration
 
of our beloved Vladika Metropolitan Vitaly by the Canadian Police.
 
1) A court order was obtained by the Synod of Bishops working through
 
Bishop Michael and his attorneys, requiring that Metropolitan Vitaly
 
submit to a competency test and psychological examination by the
 
psychiatric staff of the hospital in Sherbrooke, Canada. As you can
 
imagine, the incarceration of a ninety-two year old bishop who has
 
not committed a crime and has not exhibited activities either harmful
 
to himself or others is radical and extreme. How could this happen in
 
a free country which honors and respects personal civil liberties?
 
Only by the most extreme and slanderous false testimony! Over the
 
next few days this fact will be demonstrated by attorneys in the
 
Royal Canadian Courts.
 
2) The order issued by the court only required that the competency
 
and psychological exam be performed on Friday, the second of
 
November. There was simply no need for the police, Bishop Michael and
 
his attorneys to arrive at the Mansonville Monastery at 8:30 PM to
 
take the Metropolitan away. Even the police argued with Bishop
 
Michael and his attorneys that the Metropolitan be allowed to spend
 
the evening resting in his room at the monastery and that he be taken
 
to the hospital early the next morning. However, Bishop Michael and
 
his attorneys would hear nothing of this and demanded that he be
 
immediately removed. Ask yourself why? Because, Bishop Michael wanted
 
to humiliate and exhaust the Metropolitan so that he would be unable
 
to function competently while being examined the following day.
 
Believe this and weep for this is true.
 
3) While the Divine service of Matins was being chanted Bishop
 
Michael brought a woman police officer into the sacred altar of the
 
church to take custody of Metropolitan Vitaly. Yes, this is also
 
true. The senior policeman (who is not Orthodox) who had earlier
 
attempted to have the bishop's incarceration put off until the
 
following morning exclaimed to those around him that the arrest in
 
the sacred altar was like the betrayal of Christ at Gethesemane.
 
4) The Metropolitan was then driven to the Sherbrooke Hospital where
 
he was admitted at 11:30 PM. He was then brought to the emergency
 
psychiatric ward and was given a stall equipped with a bed and steel
 
chair which opened up to a circular room with a nursing station in
 
the middle so that all of the patients could be observed by the
 
staff. This room also had stalls with restraint beds equipped with
 
large tie downs for patients who lost control of themself and became
 
physically violent.
 
5) In spite of being confined in these most violent and abusive
 
circumstances, and in spite of not being able to sleep, Metropolitan
 
Vitaly remained composed and alert and prayed throughout the night.
 
6) While I sat with the Metropolitan, I prayed reading the Akathist
 
to the Mother of God, to the Sweetest Lord Jesus, the Canon to The
 
Mother of God and other prayers after which I said the Jesus prayer.
 
During this time the Metropolitan rested fitfully.
 
7) At 8:45 AM the Director of Nursing and an intern came to the
 
Metropolitan and brought him to an examination room. The
 
Metropolitan's physical health was reviewed and his vital signs were
 
taken and they indicated that he was in remarkable health. After this
 
a several page competency test was administered and this test proved
 
that the Metropolitan had remarkable reasoning capabilities,
 
excellent memory, the ability to understand all of the
 
responsibilities of his life and the ability to make well reasoned
 
judgments about appropriate actions needed in managing his affairs.
 
In addition, the Metropolitan translated the French physician's
 
statements into English for me as she explained the nature of the
 
test and the remarkable facility with which he had completed its
 
requirements. When we were finished the Director of Psychiatric
 
nursing thanked the Metropolitan for his cooperation and said that
 
she hoped that she lived as long as he has and that, if she did, she
 
would hope to have his remarkable mental health.
 
8) The Metropolitan and I were then led to the psychiatric
 
examination room where emergency evaluations were made. There was a
 
small waiting room arranged like a large hallway with rooms on either
 
side. On one side there were examination rooms with a small desk and
 
two or three metal chairs. On the other side there were three
 
restrain chambers with hard, low beds equipped with extensive
 
restraints for use with violent patients. There were four other
 
people in the waiting room who were in different states of agitation-
 
two of whom were chain smoking and pacing with obsessive and rhythmic
 
gyrations. The other two were sitting and appeared to be in near
 
catatonic mental states. At this point I asked the nursing attendant
 
if the Metropolitan could wait in a more private area. We were
 
offered use of one of the restraint rooms, which was totally
 
inappropriate. Suddenly another attendant offered the Metropolitan
 
and me chairs and gave us some privacy in the vestibule of one of the
 
restraint areas. The Metropolitan and I sat there for an hour and
 
half. After a few minutes, given our tiredness and anxiety I thought
 
that this wait would be a virtual eternity. Remarkably, however, the
 
Metropolitan began to tell me in exquisite detail (in English) the
 
life of St. Mary of Egypt. As he told me the saint's life and its
 
inner spiritual meaning he also explained the subtleties of meaning
 
that exist in the Russian original of the life which he says was
 
written in non-liturgical old Slavonic. After discussing the life of
 
St. Mary of Egypt we also discussed liturgical language and his
 
preference for the Elizabethan English used by the King James Version
 
of the Bible and urged that we always preserve this beautiful English
 
in our English language Church Services. Finally, the Metropolitan
 
and I discussed the meaning of the betrayal of Christ by the hand of
 
Judas, the true meaning of Gethesemane and how all true Christians
 
must bear the Cross of Christ in our lives.
 
9) Suddenly, the doctor arrived and asked the Metropolitan to join
 
her in an examination room. I was not allowed to accompany the
 
Metropolitan during this part of the examination. About one hour
 
later the doctor came out of the room with a broad and beaming smile
 
that immediately lifted my spirits. She happily informed me that the
 
Metropolitan was in remarkably good mental health and had the mind of
 
a much younger man.
 
10) The doctor then asked me to join the Metropolitan and her. When I
 
sat down with them in the examination room she asked me how it was
 
possible that Bishop Michael could have gotten a court order for this
 
examination in light of the fact that the Metropolitan was completely
 
competent and in such remarkable mental and psychological health. I
 
explained that the Church is a Holy Family and that the Metropolitan
 
was the father and elder of the family and, as is true in a family,
 
the Metropolitan, according to Church Tradition and Law was the head
 
of the Church for the entire duration of his life. Moreover, that
 
even if the Father and Elder of the family were to become physically
 
and mentally infirm it was the sacred and holy obligation of the
 
older members of the family to administer the Father's affairs in
 
strict observance of his life long principles without deviation and
 
change. The doctor understood this and agreed that this is exactly
 
what the courts required of the executors of estates.
 
11) I further explained that the Family members around the
 
Metropolitan (that is the Synod of Bishops) had wanted, for the past
 
several years, to change the direction of the church against the will
 
of their Father and Elder. Ten years ago the other bishops were
 
certain that the Metropolitan would die by the time he was eighty
 
five and he lived on; then they thought that he would surely die by
 
the time he reached ninety and still he lived on strong and vital. In
 
the meantime other members of the family had made secret commitments
 
to their associates outside the church to change the direction of the
 
church. These obligations caused great embarrassment because they
 
were unable to keep their commitments as long as their Father the
 
Metropolitan remained at the head of the family. Finally, at a
 
meeting of the Sobor of Bishops in October of 2000 the Synod of
 
Bishops made decisions in complete opposition to the will of the
 
Metropolitan. And, though they were able to coerce him into going
 
along with these decisions in the intensity of their meetings, after
 
the meetings, when he was alone and could review these decisions in
 
peace and quiet he realized that he had been coerced in his weaker
 
moments of exhaustion. To correct these mistakes he wrote very strong
 
condemnations of the decisions that were made under coercion. The
 
doctor again interjected that of course decisions that were extracted
 
under duress were legally invalid and would be immediately thrown out
 
by the courts. I continued saying that the Synod of Bishops then
 
tried to usurp the authority of the Metropolitan, who is in office
 
for life, by forcing him to retire and after three days of
 
intimidation the Metropolitan signed a letter of retirement which
 
they prepared and forced upon him. Again, after the Metropolitan had
 
rested from the meeting, he reviewed his forced retirement and
 
revoked this decision with a Declaration that the most recent meeting
 
was a meeting of «irresponsibles».
 
12) After opening the Synod meeting and refusing to attend the
 
sessions the Synod of Bishops decided to attack the Metropolitan by
 
removing his personal secretary of twelve years. When the
 
Metropolitan refused to accept this and left the Synod headquarters
 
and returned to Canada, the Synod of Bishops became desperate and
 
resorted to court action. First, they went to court in New York City
 
and claimed that the Metropolitan had been kidnapped. When this
 
failed and he arrived safely in Canada, they went to the Canadian
 
courts to have him declared incompetent.
 
 
Dearly beloved behold the truth: In their desperation the Synod of
 
Bishops tried to have Metropolitan Vitaly declared incompetent so
 
that they could gain by the civil courts what they were unable to
 
gain by the hand of God through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
 
In short the Synod of Bishops sold their Father in God, Metropolitan
 
Vitaly, for thirty pieces of silver and delivered him up to the
 
Sanhedrin for judgment. To the amazement of the Synod of Bishops even
 
the Sanhedrin realized that there was no basis for the charges, the
 
Metropolitan was found to be completely competent and they released
 
him so that he could return to his work as the First Hierarch of the
 
Russian Church Abroad.
 
 
While on the one hand, I want to show all due respect to the Synod of
 
Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, on the
 
other hand it is necessary to assert the truth so that you can, of
 
your own good conscience and divinely free will, understand that
 
Bishop Gabriel and the Chancery of the Synod of Bishops have launched
 
a campaign of disinformation against the God of Truth, Our Lord His
 
Eminence Metropolitan Vitaly and the faithful Orthodox Christians of
 
the Russian Church Abroad. "Father, forgive them for they know not
 
what they do."
 
Asking your forgiveness and prayers, I remain,
 
 
Yours in the Truth of Christ
 
 
Fr. Spyridon Schneider