The Church

In the copy of the Pomorsky Answers published in 1911, on page 4, we read the quote from St. John Chrysostom, “The Church is not walls and roof, but Faith and Life.”

Stranniki Types

There are two types of Stranniki Old Believers. There are the perfect Christians who live separate lives from the antichrist society at large, and then there are the beginning Christians who desire to live as perfect Christians but still presently live in some ways with society. The beginning Christians help the perfect Christians with food, clothing and other needs, while the perfect Christians lead the worship services and teach Christianity to the children of the families of the beginning Christians. There are other aspects of these relationships, but for now I will just add that should a beginning Christian have some serious illness they would be baptized. If an ill person should later recover they would be expected to live the remainder of their lives as a strong perfect Christian.

No Drivers License & No Social Secrurity Card

Many people are wise to what the governments of this world are doing with all the Identification and other tracking numbers. The Stranniki are not the only people who forsake all governmet papers, including money. There is a film called “Into the Wild” based on a true story, and in the theatrical trailer in the first link below it shows how this young man destroyed his license, social security, bank cards and money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LAuzT_x8Ek
Or see the full movie here.

There is one other online video to mention, a supressed Disney cartoon that explains how the Nazi trained their children in death, starting by giving them an antichrist birth certificate and other government papers. Nobody I have talked to remembers this cartoon being shown at all, no doubt it was seen as being exactly like the USA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASW3UCc17AI

Naked Into The Wilderness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILIZ6nmGeaE&feature=channel_page

Running Away to the Wilderness

These are some places where people have

runaway into the wilderness in Russia.

Old Faith Women’s Skete along a small river in 1989

http://samstar.ucoz.ru/news/2009-01-14-1562

Old Faith Men’s Skete, lower reaches of the Yenisey River, 2005

http://samstar.ucoz.ru/news/2009-01-16-1567

The photos are from the book, Tree of Avvakum

The 2nd Kathisma, from the Psalter

As times continue to only get worse and worse, with the worst right around the corner, it is helpful to be reciting the Psalter. In the second Kathisma we have an encouraging line which goes something like this.

The Lord is a refuge for the poor

and a source of strength in times of trouble.

Westerners reference the line at Psalm 9:9


Forgive

Who Can Be Saved?

If the righteous are scarcely saved, who can be saved?

“So great is the depravity of the times, that if a stranger were to compare the precepts of the gospel with the actual practice of society, he would infer that men were not the disciples, but the enemies of Christ.”

St. John Chrysostom - on the priesthood

One day Saint John Chrysostom, preaching in the cathedral in Constantinople and considering these proportions, could not help but shudder in horror and ask, “Out of this great number of people, how many do you think will be saved?” And, not waiting for an answer, he added, “Among so many thousands of people, we would not find but a hundred who are saved, and I even doubt for the one hundred.”

If in the days of Byzantium, with preachers such as St. John Chrysostom, society was still so terribly sick, how must we look at our degraded days? If we are reasonable we must conclude that it is doubtful if in any nation even 100 people are working out their salvation. I hope that there are at least two or three people working out their salvation in every nation.