Patriarch Kirill and the Criminal Essence of the MP

Metropolitan Agafangel, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad

March 15/28, 2024

 

The Patriarch of the Moscow Patriarchate, Kirill Gundyaev, along with the entire so-called "World Russian People's Council," on these days—March 27, 2024—having "convened" in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, once again bore witness before God and men to their criminal Soviet heretical essence, once again blessing the mass murder of people in Ukraine. And not merely blessing, but blasphemously calling for the killing of people—including defenseless elderly and children—solely for their unwillingness to live in the Soviet Union under the dictatorship of the Putin regime, calling this murder even a "sacred" act for the Moscow Patriarchate ("a holy war"), stating that:

“The Special Military Operation is a new stage of the national-liberation struggle of the Russian people against the criminal Kyiv regime and the collective West standing behind it, a struggle that has been conducted on the lands of Southwestern Rus' since 2014. In the course of the SMO, the Russian people, with weapons in hand, are defending their life, freedom, statehood, civilizational, religious, national, and cultural identity, as well as their right to live on their own land within the borders of a united Russian state. From a spiritual and moral point of view, the Special Military Operation is a Holy War, in which Russia and its people, defending the unified spiritual space of Holy Rus', are fulfilling the mission of the 'Restrainer,' who protects the world from the onslaught of globalism and the triumph of the West, which has fallen into satanism.

After the completion of the SMO, the entire territory of present-day Ukraine must enter the zone of Russia's exclusive influence. The possibility of the existence in this territory of a Russophobic political regime hostile to Russia and its people, as well as of a political regime governed from a foreign center hostile to Russia, must be completely eliminated.”

(http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/6116189.html)

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Thus, the Moscow Patriarchate—unrepentant and not freed from its communist essence, continuing to preserve and profess the materialistic doctrines of its founder, the communist dictator Joseph Stalin—has confirmed that it remains to this day a heretical community serving the God-fighting, Kremlin-based, Soviet anti-Russian regime. At the same time, it attempts, as it has always done, to present itself as the historical and authentic “Orthodox Russian Church,” which it is not and never has been since the moment of its creation by communist ideologues in 1943.

Today, the so-called “Russian World” has fully transformed from an ordinary Kremlin program for creating a “pro-Moscow diaspora” into a stable Soviet doctrine of globalism, having imperceptibly become the official Moscow ideology of worldwide hegemonism (temporarily replacing the communist doctrine, which remains unacceptable to the rest of the world for now):
“The Russian World includes all those for whom the Russian [in reality — Soviet — ed. +M.A.] tradition, the sacred values of Russian [in reality — Soviet] civilization, and the great Russian [in reality — Soviet] culture are the highest value and meaning of life.” (Same source as above.)

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As we can see, the Moscow Patriarchate, in the new political situation, now dares to cautiously try on for itself the status of the "Restrainer," despite the fact that Soviet churchmen have violated all nine of Christ's Beatitudes and have acted directly contrary to them. The Lord testifies: blessed are the poor in spirit, those who mourn (not the proud), the meek, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (not those who profess Soviet materialism), the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake and those who are reviled for Christ (not the persecutors of others) (see Matt. 5:3–11).

Such are Orthodox Christians—not people dressed in church garments who call for mass killings in service of political powers.

As long as the Moscow Patriarchate does not purify itself through repentance for its collaboration with God-fighters, as long as it does not anathematize the God-fighting regime—just as the last Orthodox Russian Patriarch Tikhon and the Local Council of 1917–1918 did—it will remain a heretical satanic community, merely covering its essence with outward Orthodox ritualism. The same applies to the so-called Ukrainian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, consubstantial with the Moscow false-church—as long as it does not renounce and cleanse itself of its shameful past, and does not repeat the anathema against the God-fighters and their collaborators, proclaimed by Patriarch Tikhon and the Local Council of 1918, and does not fully, without reservations, sever itself from the Moscow Patriarchate that gave it birth—ceasing all prayerful and Eucharistic communion with it, and returning to a pure, heresy-free confession of the Orthodox faith—it will remain a satanic, God-fighting organization, no matter what lies its “hierarchy” once again uses to disguise itself.

 

Russian source: http://odessa.ruschurchabroad.org/ru/suschnost-mp