The Fall of Orthodox England and the Triumph of True Orthodoxy. Some commentaries on it. See videos below linked in the post
The Fall of Orthodox England Conclusion: The Hope of Resurrection
https://youtu.be/iVvTCe0AI-Y?list=PLGhdd2FStKZIlrthnbQD_RxsSYjhwSQtb
21:50 et seq. Hilarion Troitsky - in 1054, someone fell away, either East or West. Who fell away, is another question. But it is undeniable that the only True Church remained either wholly in the West, or wholly in the West. The author, Moss notes that, tragically, whenever the Anglicans apostasise further, such as over the ordination of women, or the endorsement of homosexuality and homosexual unions, the tendency has been for dissenters to these changes to turn to Romanism, thus regarding the fundamental split as having taken place in the 16th century, not the 11th century. Even though Romanism was imposed by force on England by William the Conqueror, with fire and sword, rather than re-examining their own English history, especially concerning the Norman Conquest.
23:45 et seq.: More recently, however, there has been a return of some Anglicans to Orthodoxy, following in the footsteps of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, who was baptised into the Greek Church in 1792 with the name Demetrius, some Anglicans, including many Anglican priests, have joined the Orthodox Church. The movement in general must be welcomed as an implicit recognition of the fundamental fact that joining the true Church means reunion with the Orthodoxy of the Church of England of before 1066, not with the Romanism imposed by fire and sword by the Norman invaders of England (and later Wales, Scotland and Ireland).
What is now required now to give that movement a solid base in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church which alone can save England [and the rest of the British Hibernian [including Irish and Manx] and [English] Channel Isles]. The Psalmist says: “depart from evil and do good” ([Psalm] 33, [Verse 14]). Before joining Orthodoxy, therefore, it is necessary to depart from all the evil of the last 900 [now 957 years and counting] years since the fall of Orthodox England. First of all, the papist heresies of the Middle Ages, many of which were discarded by the Reformation, but some of which remain, then Protestant heresies of the 39 Articles, then the Ecumenist heresy of heresies of today, which renounce objective truth in matters of faith and morals, in favour of an acce[ptance of every type of error and abomination. Are these three stages of heresy, papism, protestantism and ecumenism, the three furlongs along which the branch of the English Church must travel before returning to her ancient trunk, according to St. Edward´s vision. We do not know. But that each of them has to be traversed again in the opposite direction, that is, explicitly and publicly renounced is certain, for it is impossible to go with confidence into the future if one has not thoroughly repented of the mistakes of the past. Only after such a repentance will the English people be ready to embrace the good of Orthodoxy in the fullness of Orthodox doctrines and traditions, not excluding those traditions, such as the veneration of icons and saints, and those doctrines such as those of the Eucharist, and of the One and only True Church, which have proved to be particular stumbling blocks in the past, he that restraineth.
A good starting point would be the establishment of the veneration of the last [but one, because Edgar II Atheling ruled briefly, for just over two and a half months, issuing Charters, granting lands, etc., after Harold II Godwineson´s martyrdom at Hastings, and then was betrayed and also wrongly deposed by the Normans] anointed, crowned and martyred Orthodox King Harold II [Godwineson], not simply as a national hero, but as a defender of the faith, to which he has much greater right than any of the Anglican monarchs. Even now, a feeling for the sacredness of the Christian monarchy has not been entirely lost in England. No democratic politician has enjoyed, for more than fleeting moments, the popularity and reverence felt for the monarch. Only a few years ago, the relics of the first canonised King of all England, St. Edward the Martyr, were discovered and returned to the Orthodox Church. The body of his fellow royal martyr, St. Harold, should now be given an honourable public burial to right the wrongs committed against it, by William and Hildebrand. In this way it would be recognised that in his short reign of 9 months and 9 days, King Harold [II] fulfilled the function of him that restraineth in Thessalonians 2:7, the coming of the AntiChrist for English and Western peoples. In this act the English people would do well to draw on the experience of the Russian people, who have also, after a period of activity and martyrdom at the hands of atheists, come to realise what they lost in their [second] last Orthodox Tsar. His relics, too, have been discovered, after an attempt to destroy and dishonour them. In reality, the historical parallel closest to the fall of Orthodox England in 1066, must surely be the fall of Orthodox Russia in 1917, and thus, like the Russian Christians today, hope and belief in the resurrection of Holy Russia, so English Christians today must hope and believe in the Resurrection of old and holy England, not in her physical and material features, but in her spiritual countenance, in her faith. Such resurrections have taken place before. Thus, in the late Second Century, when the Apostolic Faith had all but died out, King Lucius sent envoys to Pope Eutherius for missionaries, who came and rekindled the flame. Again, in the Sixth Century St. Augustine restored the faith that had been driven West by the pagan Saxons [and Angles and Jutes]. Again, in the Ninth Century King Alfred restored Orthodoxy, when almost the whole land was in the hands of the pagan Danes. Resurrection, then, is possible, but only if we honour the memory of those saints who resurrected England in the past and consciously join ourselves in faith and life to their faith and life. The attempt to resurrect England by ignoring her history and her saints who intercede for her before the throne of God, is doomed to failure.
We cannot reverse almost 1,000 years of apostasy if we do not reach back beyond it to the 1,000 years of True English Christianity [at least in the sense of the land that is now England], that were, in fact, filled with the most glorious light. In this respect a hopeful sign was the establishment in the year 2000 of a Feast of the Saints of the British Isles on the Third Sunday of Pentecost, by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, and in 2006 Bishop Photios of Marathon, Secretary of the True Orthodox Church of Greece, blessed the foundation of a monastery in honour of the saints of the British Isles, with a chapel dedicated to St. Harold and the martyrs of Hastings in a suburb of Hastings itself.
The return of the branch
So, if we love the saints of our land as God loved them, then as an English priest of the Russian [Orthodox] Church Abroad, Andrew Philips writes, we would, firstly, love God through the saints. They would be familiar to us, part of a family to which we would belong, and not only the universal saints, such as Ss. Peter and Paul, patrons of London, but also the local saints. The long litany of their names would be known and their litany, by us, by heart, and we would feast their high days and holy days and their would be national festivals in their honour, instead of absurd bank holidays as if banks could be holy or worthy of feasting. There would be national holy days on the feast of the Apostles of England, on the twelfth of March, the Feast of St. Gregory the Great, and on 26th May, the feast of St. Augustine of Canterbury, and, no doubt, on other great saints days. We would name our children after these saints and children would know their lives when still small. How can we forget St. Meletus and Lawrence and Paulinus, the patron of York and all the North. Long ago, we would have asked the French authorities to give back the relics of St. Peter of Canterbury, and St. Edmund of East Anglia. Saint Oswald of Heavenfield would be venerated amongst us, St. Benedict Biscop, that lover of icons and Holy Books, would be the patron of Church art. The Great Theodore, the great Greek Archbishop of Canterbury, may God send us a second, and his faithful companion Adrian would have their icons hung in our schools and seats of learning. The wonderworker of Great Britain, St. Cuthbert, would be known to all. Saints Wilfred and Bede and old Helm would intercede for us at the throne of the most high. We would read the life of the great fen Father, Guthlac, the English Anthony, as we read the lives of the aesthetics of Syria and Russia. Women would find their examples of living according to the examples of the lives of Etheldreda, Hilda, Mildred and Edith and that multitude of Holy Women who were drawn to the holy abbesses …” Erkenwald of London, St. John of Beverley. Missionaries Boniface of Crediton, [heiromartyr of Mainz], apostle of the Germans, St. Clement, who brought the light of Christ to the Frisians and much of Holland. Edmund the passion bearer, patron of East Anglia. The humble St. Swithin would heal the sick in our hospitals. St. Edward the Martyr - once more a feast of national penitence. Shaftesbury would again be called Edwardstowe…” etc.
My comment: The EU has never been totalitarian. Neither Father Andrew Philips, quoted here, nor Dr. Anthony Moss (Vladimir Moss) had a Politics component in their university degree titles. I do. The EU is, in classical political science terms, a confederation as opposed to a federation. Member states in a confederation have the right to leave unilaterally, in accordance with the Vienna convention on diplomatic treaties if no specific other mechanism is provided. In 2009, under the Lisbon Treaty, article 50, the EU provided for a notice period of two years to leave. The UK and Gibraltar left it in 2020 using this mechanism, though it remains subject to ongoing legal challenges in the international courts because of the proven dishonesty of the Leave campaigns which has attracted fines and vitiated consent.
Ecumenism came about formally in terms of the Kingdom of England (and the rest of the UK) with the coronation of Charles III in 2022 when New Calendarist pseudo-Orthodox Greek Orthodox, and many others (Romanists, even Hindus and others) took part in the coronation. The 2006 monastery in Hastings was premature, attracted no additional monks, and soon closed. If we take a period of 967 years from AD100, roughly when the last book of the bible, Revelation (aka the Apocalypse [written by the last surviving apostle of Christ, John the Evangelist] had been completed, and the start of the Second Century AD when King Lucius asked for help to be sent to Britain, we reach 1067 when the false William was crowned. A similar span takes us to 2034. On Tuesday, 29th May 1453 Constantinople fell to the Moslem Ottoman Turks. It was prophecised on a column there, deciphered just before its fall in 1453, that it would be occupied for about 580 years before being restored to the Greeks. And it would be restored when the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25th [traditional Orthodox] Church Calendar and Civil Calendar on Mount Athos, Greece/7th April in the Civil Calendar elsewhere) and the Feast of Holy [traditional Orthodox] Pascha [aka Easter] coincide (which can run up to two days after this great feast), thus creating a "Kyriopascha"(up to March 27/April 9). There will be, as well discussed in the Byzantine Apocalyptic Prophecy Facebook Group, just such a Kyriopascha falling in 2034, with the Feast of the Annunciation on Friday 27 March/7April and Pascha [aka Easter] on Sunday 29 March/9 April, exactly 580 years and 10 months since the fall of Constantinople TO THE DAY! And some 33 years and a bit (similar to the time our Lord was incarnated on earth) since the first feast of All Saints who shone forth in the British Isles was instituted and celebrated in the year 2000. This would seem to be the likely time of the restoration of Orthodoxy in the British (including Hibernian and Channel) Isles and for the end of a global conflict as the true gospel is finally preached throughout the world on the command of an angel as a great global conflict comes to an end.
The Fall and Restoration of Orthodox England (mini-documentary) (and Orthodox Europe) etc....
Update from the author of the video. Neither "Queen Elizabeth II" nor her husband "the Duke of Edinburgh" showed any signs of repentance so far as I am aware before their deaths. If they did, it is so far known only, it would seem, to God, not to man, and certainly not to the general public. I think it would be worth pasting this comment I made on another video (which was on the subject of Orthodox England, part of a playlist reading of Vladimir Moss's The Fall of Orthodox England, "The Fall of Orthodox England Conclusion: The Hope of Resurrection
OrthodoxAudioLabs
https://youtu.be/iVvTCe0AI-Y?list=PLGhdd2FStKZIlrthnbQD_RxsSYjhwSQtb "
below:
The EU has never been totalitarian. Neither Father Andrew Philips, quoted here, nor Dr. Anthony Moss (Vladimir Moss) had a Politics component in their university degree titles. I do. The EU is, in classical political science terms, a confederation as opposed to a federation. Member states in a confederation have the right to leave unilaterally, in accordance with the Vienna convention on diplomatic treaties if no specific other mechanism is provided. In 2009, under the Lisbon Treaty, article 50, the EU provided for a notice period of two years to leave. The UK and Gibraltar left it in 2020 using this mechanism, though it remains subject to ongoing legal challenges in the international courts because of the proven dishonesty of the Leave campaigns which has attracted fines and vitiated consent.
Ecumenism came about formally in terms of the Kingdom of England (and the rest of the UK) with the coronation of Charles III in 2022 when New Calendarist pseudo-Orthodox Greek Orthodox, and many others (Romanists, even Hindus and others) took part in the coronation. The 2006 monastery in Hastings was premature, attracted no additional monks, and soon closed. If we take a period of 967 years from AD100, roughly when the last book of the bible, Revelation (aka the Apocalypse [written by the last surviving apostle of Christ, John the Evangelist] had been completed, and the start of the Second Century AD when King Lucius asked for help to be sent to Britain, we reach 1067 when the false William was crowned. A similar span takes us to 2034. On Tuesday, 29th May 1453 Constantinople fell to the Moslem Ottoman Turks. It was prophecised on a column there, deciphered just before its fall in 1453, that it would be occupied for about 580 years before being restored to the Greeks. And it would be restored when the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25th [traditional Orthodox] Church Calendar and Civil Calendar on Mount Athos, Greece/7th April in the Civil Calendar elsewhere) and the Feast of Holy [traditional Orthodox] Pascha [aka Easter] coincide (which can run up to two days after this great feast), thus creating a "Kyriopascha"(up to March 27/April 9). There will be, as well discussed in the Byzantine Apocalyptic Prophecy Facebook Group, just such a Kyriopascha falling in 2034, with the Feast of the Annunciation on Friday 27 March/7April and Pascha [aka Easter] on Sunday 29 March/9 April, exactly 580 years and 10 months since the fall of Constantinople TO THE DAY! And some 33 years and a bit (similar to the time our Lord was incarnated on earth) since the first feast of All Saints who shone forth in the British Isles was instituted and celebrated in the year 2000. This would seem to be the likely time of the restoration of Orthodoxy in the British (including Hibernian and Channel) Isles and for the end of a global conflict as the true gospel is finally preached throughout the world on the command of an angel as a great global conflict comes to an end.
The Triumph of True Orthodox Christianity: The World After World War 3
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