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Longin, Archbishop of Banchensky, vicar of the Chernivtsi diocese (Mikhail Vasilievich Zhar). The first one went! The first bishop - from Patriarch Kirill

Anna Petrosova

27.09.2013 - 05:07

On the Ukrainian-Romanian border in the village of Bancheny (western Ukraine) there is an extraordinary monastery - the Holy Ascension Monastery. A well-known adoptive monk throughout Ukraine lives here. The 48-year-old Archimandrite Longin (in the world Mikhail Zhar) has 332 children. Many of them are HIV-infected, have hepatitis C and cerebral palsy. Father Longin takes the most hopeless children with the most severe diagnoses from orphanages and boarding schools, and even if he does not save them from death, he prolongs their lives with care and love.

gingerbread town

The priest built a magnificent shelter for his children in the village of Molnitsa, a real children's gingerbread town with flowers and fairy-tale figures. Three multi-colored buildings were erected for boys, girls and HIV-infected children. The marble stairs are equipped with lifts for those children who find it difficult to move independently.

It's very cozy here and smells like home. The rooms have beautiful furniture, carpets, and lots of toys. Everywhere there are aquariums with fish and flowers. The pupils are cared for by 104 people, of which 65 are nuns, the rest are paid employees: nurses, cooks, teachers. Children (whose health allows) run freely around the buildings and play noisy games. They often pick up kittens or puppies on the street and bring them into the house. They are not prohibited from caring for animals; their good intentions are only welcomed.

For his children, the priest also built a swimming pool, a sauna, a greenhouse, and a stadium with a special coating.

One day, the younger children asked their dad - Father Longin - for roller skates. He bought roller skates - more than 200 pairs, but it turned out that there was nowhere to skate on them in the village. Then monks from Banchen came to the rescue (monks love to visit children and give them gifts on their birthdays) and paved asphalt in the backyard of the orphanage.

Archimandrite Longin has many awards - church and state, including the title of Hero of Ukraine. The monk truly became a literal national hero for Ukrainians, but for his several hundred children he was just a dad who surrounded them with care and love. He also plays football with them...

Until now, despite his crazy busy schedule, Father Longin often cooks soup for his children in the morning! When he appears in the children's town, the children run to him as fast as they can: “Daddy, daddy has come!” Unable to reach everyone to hug and kiss, the priest lies down on the floor, and the kids pile on top of him with squeals and laughter: “Kiss me too, daddy!” And me!"

Father Longinus himself had a difficult childhood. He lived very poorly with his mother, and at the age of 11 he went to work on a farm as a milkmaid. One day he studied at school, the second he worked on the farm. I missed a lot of classes and had to switch to night work as a cattleman. “I only had one pair of pants, my mother’s,- recalls the archimandrite. - At night I cleaned up after the cattle, and in the morning I washed my pants, wrapped myself in a sheet, put on my wet pants over it and went to school. The children shied away from me - even after washing, the clothes stank of the farm. I had no friends - no one wanted to play with me.".

And soon he was left an orphan. After his mother's death, he spent six months in the hospital. One winter I stood on the street, looked at the smoke curling over the neighbors’ roofs, and asked God:“Lord, why don’t I have firewood? Come on with them, with the firewood... If only mom were alive!.. But there is no mother, no warmth, no family. Why?!"

Therefore, when in the hungry 90s, as a young priest in the temple of the village of Boyany, the father of three children, Mikhail Zhar brought milk to the orphanage, he did not hesitate for a long time. The conditions in which the children were were so shocked by the 27-year-old priest that he immediately took the two kids with him.

A little later, Father Mikhail saw three-year-old Vanya with cerebral palsy in a Chernivtsi orphanage. He felt so sorry for this child that he convinced his wife Lydia to take the boy. The baby was taken to holy places and placed in a manger where Jesus Christ was born. And he started walking! Now he is 24 years old, his dad appointed him director of the store. With all the money raised, Vanya buys sweets and distributes them to other children. After Ivan, Father Mikhail officially adopted children until the space in the passport was full. He already took the rest under his wing.

Abode

In 1996, Father Mikhail took monastic vows and became the monk Longinus, but this did not mean that the priest abandoned his children. They moved with him to a new place. With the blessing, he began to build a monastery and settle the wasteland with the first four monks. The local residents knew the priest well and loved him; after all, before he was tonsured, he served in the neighborhood. Therefore, when the construction of the monastery began, many helpers gathered: they worked at the construction site, transporting bricks, logs, food and money.

Over time, seven temples, a refectory, fraternal buildings, a bell tower, a fountain, an enclosure with peacocks, and a stable for ponies for children to ride grew on the territory of the monastery. Along with the buildings, the number of children cared for by Father Longinus also grew.

“Once I performed the funeral service for a young woman“- recalls the archimandrite. - It was winter. I see that after the funeral service, four boys remained at the grave. Everyone has left, and they stand completely frozen, wearing rubber boots on their bare feet and not going anywhere. It's frosty outside - 20 degrees. And the smallest of them was still tiny. I ask: “Why aren’t you going home?” And they tell me: “We won’t go without mom. We have nowhere to go." Their father left them, and their mother died. “Your mother is now in heaven,” I say. “Will you come and live with me?” They nod. Well, I brought them to the monastery".

When there were more children than monks, they began to think about building a separate building for them. A convenient place was found four kilometers from the monastery, in the village of Molnitsa. And in Boyany at that time, a women’s monastic community was formed on the basis of the parish. The sisters began to take care of the children.

And so it happened that now there is a monastery in Bancheny (there are now 86 monks in it), in Boyany there is a women’s monastery (in it there are 120 nuns), and in Molnitsa there is an orphanage. Father Longin is the confessor of both monasteries.

With such a busy life, Father Longinus is not in good health. He suffered three heart attacks, two heart surgeries, removal of a cancerous tumor and chemotherapy. In 2004, during an operation, Father Longin's heart stopped. Doctors could not start him up for five hours.

“I remember I regained consciousness for a minute and thought: “Lord, if you let me live a little longer, I will build the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.”, - recalled the archimandrite. - God gave me life and I kept my promise. He asked people to come and lay one brick at a time in the temple walls that were under construction. The cathedral took five years to build. Now it is one of the most beautiful and largest Orthodox churches in Europe.

Shelter for outcasts

In 2002, Father Mikhail saw two-month-old Larisa in the baby's home. Her mother abandoned her because her daughter was HIV-positive. The teachers kept her locked in a separate room. The girl was not picked up at all, but was approached to the crib wearing a mask and gloves. Doctors warned the priest that all members of his family could become infected with AIDS. It was scary, but I felt even more sorry for the doomed baby. In one night, the monks brought water into a separate room and placed the most beautiful crib in it. Then Father Longinus went to the convent and said to the nuns: “I took a girl with HIV. Who wants to take care of her, realizing that he himself may become infected with an incurable disease?” Several people volunteered at once. The girl was christened Philafthea, she almost did not walk, because she was carried in her arms all the time. Then Philafthea got a little stronger, she came to church and, when the monks sang, stood in front of them and conducted. And recently, doctors were very surprised when they saw her tests: there were no traces of HIV infection in her blood. Now Philafthea is in fifth grade and her terrible diagnosis has been removed.

And in 2009, when Father Longin took custody of 36 children aged from one to seven years from Kyiv, Nikolaev, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk regions, a building for HIV-infected children was occupied. Currently, there are already 80 children living here with this diagnosis: Father Longin collected them from orphanages throughout Ukraine. They are not isolated from other students: the children go to school together, play, and swim in the pool. The only thing is that the sisters make sure that the kids brush their teeth with individual brushes. These children need constant medical supervision, so the children's department of the regional AIDS center was created in the shelter, where they are on antiretroviral therapy and are fed very high-calorie food, because everyone is prescribed strong medications.

“Kids change before our eyes: they immediately get better, become cheerful, and blossom, says the center’s head nurse, assistant epidemiologist Raisa Kilaru. - Six children have already been diagnosed with HIV infection... The children stayed in our center for only a year and a half and were cured. We took tests three times from Filafthea, Misha, Lavrentiy, Anton, Alina and Valentin. Tests confirmed that there is no immunodeficiency virus in the children’s blood.”.

The most important event for the monastery was the opening of a home for the disabled at the end of 2011. There are 125 disabled children under the care of the archimandrite, the oldest is twenty years old, and the youngest is one year old.

...Gleb has been living in the shelter for 18 years. A mother with cancer gave birth to a crippled son and before her death she herself brought the baby to Father Longinus. Deaf, blind, with severe damage to the nervous system, he recognizes people only by touch. 11-year-old Nektary has been suffering from hydrocephalus and arthrogripposis since birth. The boy has a huge head, a small body and underdeveloped limbs. Lying on the floor, he smiles at the guests and nods his head.

Father met Styopa at a boarding school for disabled children. The armless boy jumped forward and read his own poems. Then he followed on the heels of the priest, and when he was about to leave, Styopa pressed his face to his cassock and asked: “Please take me away from here!” Father burst into tears, hugged Styopa and took her with him. Now, on major church holidays, Father Longin takes him to the belfry. Styopa rings the bells, holding the rope in his teeth. In the new house, he made friends with Roma, who plays the synthesizer; he was placed - on purpose - next to his bed. This boy has difficulty moving. He has cerebral palsy.

In addition to three hundred children and two hundred monks, under the care of Father Longin there are also 60 elderly people living at the monastery.

Archimandrite Longin never ceases to be amazed at where the funds to support so many people come from. Every day he goes to the post office: money transfers from all over the country constantly arrive there. Sponsors help. For example, one woman gave the children a cow, another two hectares of land. On these hectares, the nuns grow potatoes for the children's town. In addition, on the grounds of the monasteries there are fields, orchards, vegetable gardens, a farm, and flower greenhouses. Children work on monastery farms along with adults. As a result, both the monastery and the shelter have enough of their own products, and the surplus is donated free of charge to surrounding social institutions.

One evening, Archimandrite Longin was working in the field with the monks: they were collecting corn. At that moment, someone came running to him from the kitchen and told him that they had run out of sunflower oil and had nothing to cook dinner with. In the evening, local shops are closed, but to cheer everyone up, the priest said: “If necessary, the Lord will send us sunflower oil”. Half an hour passed, and suddenly an unfamiliar man arrived at the monastery: “Father, I brought you... 200 liters of sunflower oil”. To celebrate, the monk grabbed the man by the hands and began to spin around with him: “The Lord himself sent you. Today the monastery ran out of sunflower oil!” He broke out and ran away, and an hour later the man returned: he brought another 40 liters of oil!

Now Father Longin is building a village for his grown-up offspring. Twenty children have already had weddings. All of them received higher education. “But is it possible in our time to build a house on the salary of a teacher or doctor?- Archimandrite Longin laments. - I help as much as I can: leaving children halfway is a great sin. We are currently building 10 houses. But there will be new weddings soon. To provide everyone with housing, I rented land in Chernivtsi. If the Lord grants, we will soon pour the foundations for apartment buildings.”.

PRIEST DMITRY NENAROKOV ABOUT THE MEETING WITH LORD LONGIN

On the evening of December 1, 2017, we met with the saint-confessor, the scale of whose feat puts him on a par with the Great Athanasius or the Hieromartyr Patriarch Hermogenes: Archbishop Longinus of Banchensky is the hierarch on whom alone rests the very canonicity of the Russian Orthodox Church as such in its current apostasy state.

Over time, memory will more and more vividly fill in the missing details and strokes of the events and impressions of this holy meeting, which literally, as if with a sharp ray of God’s Truth, cut life into “before” and “after” it...

Bishop Longin should not have been present at the cynically staged performance in advance called “The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church.” The decision to include him in the Ukrainian delegation came at the last minute. Metropolitan Onuphry obviously understood that if the Archbishop of Banchen did not go, then there would be NO ONE at all to raise his voice for the Church of God, which was desecrated by heretics. But this is how it happened: Bishop Longin was alone at the council - he alone directly and courageously denounced Kirill Gundyaev and his accomplices, who, along with heresy, lost both the patriarchate, the rank, and Christian dignity.

And this fact is either deliberately kept silent or conveyed to the media with deliberate distortions. In fact, on November 30, at a closed meeting of the “council”, Archbishop Longin personally from the podium read out loud to the entire assembled episcopate of the Russian Orthodox Church his Appeal, which, I am sure, will go down in the history of the Russian Church on a par with the immortal Appeals to the Russian people of Patriarch Hermogenes, soaked in the great tears and martyrdom of the confessor .

Bishop Longin acted strictly within the framework of Church law, remaining to the end a faithful child and archpastor of the Russian Orthodox Church. The very form, the very style of his Address testifies to him, first of all, as a Christian. He, fully understanding his position as a “voice crying in the wilderness” (see John 1:23), is aware of the colossal responsibility before God for each of his holy words. The Bishop remains, according to ancient church tradition, “sorrowful” for the entire Church, for the people entrusted to him by God: he strictly denounces the patriarch who has fallen into heresy, gives him the LAST CHANCE to correct what he has done - he tries to the end to exhort him, to reach out to the perishing soul, to appeal to the burning soul conscience...

From the Address of Archbishop Longin:

“...We have repeatedly turned to you with a request to hear us and understand our pain, since we sincerely wish to remain in the bosom of our Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. We firmly know that only in Orthodoxy there is truth and there is no other path to salvation except the Church...
There are no other “churches” and there is no other way of salvation!!!
...We want to observe the canons, dogmas and teachings commanded to us by the Holy Fathers, so as not to turn out to be apostates, traitors to Christ and the Orthodox faith.
We ask... to hear the cry of our soul about the difficult situation in which our Orthodox Church finds itself... Let us forever remain in our saving faith, but we will never recognize any heresy that is preached today.
...The brothers of the Holy Ascension Banchensky Monastery humbly ask to hear the undying and anxious pain of the soul - to defend the truth and purity of our Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church...”.

And the faithful Orthodox heart, loving the Lord and His Church, cannot help but tremble at these words of the Archpastor of Christ, heavy and bitter, “like drops of blood falling to the ground” (Luke 22:44).

The Bishop’s Address itself, as we know, contains four key demands - the most important, painful and acute for our Mother Church - he has repeatedly voiced them before:

First. Withdraw from the World Council of Churches and cease participation in the ecumenical movement.

Second. Cancel the Havana Declaration of February 12, 2016.

Third. Do not recognize the Cretan false council as Orthodox as not containing the fullness of truth and having an ecumenical heresy at its basis.

Fourth. It is conciliar to refute the slanderous film “Matilda”, recognizing it as another attempt to publicly dishonor the memory and Name of the Saints - the Tsar and His Family.

The saint's verb sounded like thunder. The entire hall of the Church Councils applauded him, and there were tears in the eyes of the bishops. During the break after the meeting, they approached the Bishop, bowing gratefully for his fiery speech, which literally lifted a heavy stone from the heart of everyone present.

Archbishop Longinus, with his Address, blocked the lips of presiding Kirill, forcing him to sharply change his tone and begin to flatter and flirt with the “rebellious” archpastor, giving oath assurances (violated, however, the very next day).

Here it is necessary to clarify that immediately before this, Metropolitan Meletiy of Chernovtsy directly asked Gundyaev on what basis he, having violated the canons of the Church, went to a meeting with the Jesuit Francis without the advice and permission of the bishops. But, apparently, the Metropolitan experienced fear and excitement at the same time, since his voice trembled. And the “patriarch,” like a predator, sensing the weakness of the victim, rushed to humiliate and trample the venerable ruler into the dirt with selective abuse, threatening to deprive him of his chair. After this “fatherly” patriarchal teaching, the Metropolitan was provided with medical assistance...

Vladyka Longin is a special archpastor. Having crucified with the Lord on the cross of love and compassion, he shone with the abundant fruits of active mercy. Therefore, he appeared before the council as an experienced spiritual warrior, clothed in the strong armor of personal righteousness, holding in his hand the two-edged sword of the Word of God - the Holy Tradition of the Church (see Eph. 6:14-17). And the Spirit of the ruler - the Spirit of Christ - is unbending and unbreakable. And the Lord saw him, the only one remaining faithful to Him, the bishop - like once the youth David for the victory over the giant Goliath - in order to shame both the “patriarch” with the entire heretical clique, and all the cowardly rabble, called to be called the “sanctified cathedral”, abolishing the power of the outwardly huge and invincible majority.

Saint Longinus, who through his evangelical life, or rather through his constant dying for Christ, acquired the great conciliar virtue of Christian Courage, has every right to echo the Apostle with the words inscribed on the monastic paraman: “For I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus on my body” (Gal. 6, 17). And the Courage of the pure in heart is always clothed with Humility and Meekness. Moved precisely by these holy virtues, Bishop Longin bowed before the self-styled Patriarch of Moscow, asking him, as a common man, for forgiveness for personal sins. He made this bow so that he could then stand up to his full height, straightening his heroic shoulders, and pronounce in the name of the Lord God, like the once holy prophets, moved by the Holy Spirit, a formidable denunciation of all the vile heretical acts of the presumptuous high priest. Like “mene, mene, tekel, upharsin” (see the book of the prophet Daniel 5:25), with the word of the confessor of Christ, a concrete act of God was actually accomplished, from which the blasphemers can no longer escape.

And THEY have done this more than once: there have already been four (!) attempts to poison the holy confessor. The most famous one was last spring: a poison containing mercury and arsenic was mixed into the bishop’s meal. He, Archimandrite Lawrence and Hieromonk Cleopas, despite everything, survived. The other two poisoned died... The saint, having barely come to his senses after resuscitation, tried not to miss a single bishop's church service, despite the fact that his kidneys had failed due to arsenic, and mercury had affected the central nervous system so that for some time it became It was difficult to navigate in space and they helped Vladyka, leading him by the arm.

The last poisoning was “congratulated” on Archbishop Longin on his name day on October 29 of this year - a little more than a month ago. Bottled drinking water sent both to the monastery itself and to the orphanage was poisoned. Since sick orphans are constantly being cured under the care of the bishop in the orphanage, and the first symptoms of poisoning appeared in the children almost immediately, fortunately everyone was able to receive medical assistance in a timely manner.

During our conversation, the archpastor bitterly stated that the “patriarch” and his satraps allowed him to come, speak, and even “swallowed” accusations against them only because they knew about the serious state of health of Bishop Longinus - for them he was “not a survivor” , therefore, they assume sooner or later to “silence” the “rebellious” archbishop...

It should be noted that on that day - December 1 - we “hunted” for the bishop for eight hours. Each time he appointed a new meeting place. He was stubbornly followed and accompanied before and after our conversation by several vehicles with a characteristic specific contingent - the ruler hoped not to “set us up.” All the subsequent time, we fervently prayed for the safe return of Bishop Longinus home, safe and sound.
The colossal pressure on the archpastor also has another side: it is clearly demonstrated to the entire “sanctified assembly” how “like death” it is to go “against the flow” - against the general line of the “Moscow Pope”. Fear, a general inexplicable mystical fear, paralyzed the common sense of several hundred intelligent and impeccably educated men. Fear of a monster, an octopus, which uses the so-called figure as its “face”. the patriarch is an exceptionally vindictive person who never forgives anyone. The behavior of the members of the “council” was only further evidence that departure from the Truth deprives a person of all spiritual strength and will, and not just reason. It is enough to show dissimulation and remain silent in the face of untruth once in order to lose all boldness before the Lord, and your conscience will fall asleep like a dead man - as a rule, there is no second time...

According to the bishop, this gathering could not be called a “Bishops’ Council” by any criteria—there was no conciliarity observed there at all. Topics for consideration were given to the members of the “cathedral” in ready-made thick folders: there was no time to leaf through them, let alone read them. And they didn’t give anyone a word. Voting took place automatically, as at party congresses.

After the Address of Archbishop Longin, at the end of the stormy ovation of the entire bishops' meeting and tears of gratitude, at the next closed meeting the same bishops “automatically” voted for the adoption of a monstrous decision that actually destroyed the institution of the Family - the Small Church - “On the canonical aspects of church marriage”, in in particular, blessing free marriages with non-Orthodox people.

It is very important that five Ukrainian bishops voted against this decision and abstained from voting. “Against” were: Archbishop Longin, Metropolitans Meletius and Fedor. Following the Charter, in this case the presiding officer was obliged to submit the decision for conciliar discussion and revision. However, this did not follow: one vote was deliberately “undercounted” - “aspects of the further collapse of the church marriage” were accepted “unanimously” by the hierarchical masses shaking with fear...

... The so-called “Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church” at the end of 2017 is moving further and further away in time. Official chronicles only contain documents from this forum, and numerous analysts, observers and critics talk only about the consequences of the decisions made. After a week, no one remembers the fateful Address of Archbishop Longinus at the closed meeting of the council on November 30 for the entire Church of Christ. And this is done consciously - after all, it is the individual who creates history. The Divine Person of Jesus of Nazareth created a New history of humanity through the Church created by the Blood of the Cross. And no matter how much money the Jewish high priests gave to the soldiers to keep silent about the Resurrection of the Lord, His glory soon conquered the entire universe.

And the glory of the valiant warrior of Christ, Archbishop Longinus, is all still ahead; for the time being it will be hidden. Some of his earthly affairs are already known to people, at least from the film “Outpost” (but they also require amendments: now more than 450 children, of whom more than 150 are terminally ill, have been adopted by the shepherd of God), but most of them are preserved by God until the time appointed by Him ...

Only the Lord, for example, knows how much the ruler had to endure endless torment, torture, bullying and humiliation in the dungeons of the SBU. And they threw him there because he did not allow a SINGLE MAN of the Chernivtsi diocese into the fratricidal massacre in the ATO zone by the power of God given to him: “I ask you only one thing: to unite and not give your children to death. Our Orthodox faith does not allow us to kill each other. For the sake of political interests, for the sake of those who defend their business, who defend their leadership positions, they want to kill our people who live in peace with faith in God,” the courageous bishop urged. And with the archpastor’s blessing, women - wives and mothers - blocked roads, blocked recruiting stations and ultimately defended the truth of God, without becoming accomplices in Cain’s sin.

“Let flattering lips be dumb, speaking against the righteous iniquity, pride and humiliation” (Ps. 30:18)! Those who now blaspheme or try in every way to humiliate the feat of Bishop Longinus do this either out of paid engagement or out of envy of the saint. For their proud “mouse” natures do not reach his Christ-like holiness, and therefore they are seduced into the path of Judas.

The evening of December 1, 2017 divided my life into two parts. We were present at the real Last Supper, and the face of Bishop Longinus shone with the glory of the Heavenly Lord. He spoke simple words, and Heaven shone in his tear-stained eyes: “I’m a simple priest, like everyone else, but I just can’t live without Christ! I love the Lord and His Church and fear nothing but sin.” And this is the whole saint...

... Having blessed each of us, the bishop quickly left. They said goodbye again near the exit, at the moment when he was getting into the car. With a wide, childish smile, the archpastor pointed with his gaze at the “black shadows” who were relentlessly watching him: “FEAR NOTHING!” - he said, crossing us again: “NOTHING!”

Note Ed. “It is very unfortunate that those who have taken the path of confession sometimes cannot bear this cross and abandon it. After all, M. Onuphry is an active assistant to the heretic - the false patriarch Kirill. He never spoke out against the Gundyaev heresy implanted in the Russian Orthodox Church MP. In addition, he signed the apostate approval of the draft heretical final documents of the Cretan Council at the Council of Bishops in February 2016.

So how is M. Onufriy so different from the heretic Gundyaev? Nothing. Being the head of the Ukrainian church, he also leads it into the clutches of the Antichrist. Therefore, Bishop Longin’s ardent rejection of St. Kirill and his concelebration and fraternization with St. Onuphry looks strange. Lord have mercy and strengthen Bishop Longinus in defending the Truth!

The head of the UOC MP, Met. Onuphry, performed the liturgy on the third day of Christmas at the Banchensky monastery, whose abbot accuses Patriarch Kirill of heresy, and the head of the DECR MP of serving the Antichrist.

Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine of the UOC-MP Onufriy (Berezovsky) celebrated the liturgy at the Ascension Banchensky Monastery in the Hertsaevsky district of the Chernivtsi region on January 9, the third day of the Feast of the Nativity of Christ. As Patriarchia.Ru reports, the primate was co-served by Metropolitan Meletiy of Chernivtsi and Bukovina, abbot of the monastery, Bishop Longin of Banchen, Bishop Benjamin of Khotyn, as well as the clergy of the monastery and clergy of the diocese.

At the end of the service, Onufriy addressed the brethren and parishioners, first in Romanian, since the vast majority of them are Romanians by nationality, and then in Ukrainian. He congratulated everyone present on the feast of the Nativity of Christ and the day of remembrance of the holy archdeacon and first martyr Stephen, wished peace, good prayer, health and God's help in all pious deeds and endeavors.

M. Onufriy also visited the pupils of the home for disabled children “Faith, Hope and Love” and the orphanage in the village. Molnitsa, which is looked after by the Banchen Monastery. He was accompanied by Metropolitan Meletius, the abbot of the monastery, Bishop Longin, and Bishop Benjamin. The children sang Christmas carols, chants and recited poems.

Bishop Longin is known for his irreconcilable position towards Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev), whom he considers a heretic, and, more recently, towards the chairman of the DECR MP, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), whom Longin calls “a servant of the Antichrist.”

Thus, in his sermon on October 14 last year, Bishop Longin declared from the pulpit: “The heretical words of our patriarch, when he says that God is like the sun, and the rays that go to the sun are all heresies, all religions on earth and all lead to the One God. The Holy Fathers didn’t tell us this, it’s not written anywhere! He says this because his teacher, Met. Nikodim Rotov died like a dog at the feet of the Pope. But they told him not to go there, otherwise you will die. When he kissed the sandal of the Pope, then he died at his feet... And you see, this servant of the Antichrist, Metropolitan Hilarion, says that the Bible must be changed.”

OTHER “NOT REMEMBERED” MONASTERIES NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO IF THE “MANAGEMENT” COME TO THEM...
These tactics are as follows: I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.”
One blow to the priesthood and to the community.

And here there is nothing to think about, the tactics are simple, boycott, lock the gates of the monastery and not let in...

The first bishop stood up for the defense of the Orthodox Faith, the holy canons and dogmas of our Church, condemned the ecumenical heresy of the “Havana Declaration” and St. Cyril, who was no longer commemorated at liturgies as a heretic, and called on him to ask forgiveness for insulting the Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christians and all Holy Fathers, who preserved the Truth for 1000 years: “We must not remain faithful to people, but to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and the truth of our Orthodox Church!”

The Lord and the Mother of God nevertheless gave us the Russian Champion and Defender of the Orthodox Faith,- Bishop of Banchensky Longina (Heat) - related to the Holy Apostles and the Holy Fathers: Rev.Maximus the Confessor, Rev. Theodore Studite, St. Mark of Ephesus, St. Gregory Palama, St. Gennady Novgorodsky, Rev. Joseph Volotsky, St. Seraphim (Sobolev)

WORD OF BISHOP LONGIN

Dear brothers and sisters!

We have all gathered together today, because in recent times our Orthodox Christians have been asking us a lot of questions, and we are not all ready to answer each one separately. Some of the questions we received, we have prepared answers for them. Even today we will try to answer the questions that will be asked in the same way as the holy fathers of our church have answered for 2000 years.

And I think that we must control ourselves through the Holy Fathers, the holy canons of our Church and dogmas. And we will ask our brothers of the monastery to help us answer all your questions today. You know that today is alarming. Every soul in the Orthodox world is very worried, all people are very worried about what is happening today. Because we don't want to lose our salvation. And we want to preserve and cherish that Faith, which is given to us once and for all, which does not change.

We did not gather for any protests today. Or be restless in the face of what is happening, it must be. The Holy Fathers told us and prepared us for this. But we kept thinking that it wouldn’t happen now, but would happen later. I want to ask God so that the Lord does not give us over to the devils to reproach. But so that there are true Orthodox believers, confessing their Orthodox Faith, the teachings and dogmas of the Holy Fathers.

God bless us for being here with you today. I ask you to prayerfully be attentive to everyone and I apologize in advance that we may have such an emphasis, but we want this to be clear to everyone and in one word: we want to preserve the true Orthodox Faith until the end of our days. Amen.

BISHOP LONGIN'S RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION OF REMEMBERING AT THE LITURGY OF P. KIRILL

Question (53 min. 35 sec.): Why is His Holiness Patriarch Kirill not remembered at the liturgies in the Holy Ascension Monastery of Panchevo?

Answer from Lord Longinus: We pray for His Holiness the Patriarch Kirill. And our brothers pray, and you should pray. But I cannot remember at liturgies, because I don’t know: who is Orthodox, who is Catholic, who is a heretic. By accepting this document you know - 30 points ( Havana Declaration- approx. edit . ). I'll read it to you later. They say that the document was adopted following a meeting of the Holy Pope...

This is what our patriarch says. This is heresy, brothers and sisters. This is real heresy. How holy he is when all the fathers, all our holy fathers of the Orthodox Church call the Latins heretics. We then destroy, we do not allow them to rise up and repent. Now he is the “righteous” Pope, because the Patriarch of All Rus' said that he is the most holy. For us he is a heretic!

Second. The word of the holy liturgy from the document: “ Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God the Father, and the communication of the Holy Spirit with you all"Let their spirit be with them. The Spirit of God will be with us! We don't need the Pope's blessing. And besides, what right did they have to change the word “God the Father and the sacrament”? They changed the word “communion” to “communication.” Because they want to communicate! And they begin to change the words of the holy liturgy. And the rest of these 30 points are all heresy!

But I don’t remember Patriarch Kirill at the Holy Liturgy, most importantly because of the 5th point. And understand these words correctly: “ Despite the common Tradition of the first ten centuries, Catholics and Orthodox Christians have been deprived of communion in the Eucharist for almost a thousand years».

And what does he want? So that we can take communion with the Pope or what? Without repentance, without correction?

Further: " We are divided by wounds inflicted in conflicts of the distant and recent past, divided and inherited from our predecessors" This is what they call all the saints of the Orthodox Church! The predecessors, that they are to blame for everything, that these wounds are still open.

Further: " differences in the understanding and explanation of our faith in God, one in Three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We mourn the loss of unity resulting from human weakness and sinfulness».

This means that all the saints were weak and sinful. What right did they have to desecrate my shrine, my Church, my Holy Fathers, to accuse them of being sinners? Yes, they are sinners, I know, there is not a single person without sin. But their life was sacred! They died for the Faith so that no one would ever scold the dogmas of our Church. And they left us the true Orthodox Faith, and not the heresy of the Latins.

Further: “which occurred contrary to the High Priestly prayer of Christ the Savior: “That they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us” (John 17:21).” Should we be united? In the true Church of God, and not with the Pope, we must be one!

And immediately they go to the 6th point and say: “ Aware of the many obstacles that remain to be overcome, we hope that our meeting will contribute to the achievement of that God-ordained unity».

Sorry, but I will never be one with the heretics. I am Orthodox! I have the dogmas and canons of the Orthodox Faith, and I will not become a traitor!

And we all, like brothers and sisters, came to the monastery, leaving this world, not because we had nothing to do in it. We loved the Lord God. No one forced us to love Him. No one forced us to leave our mothers, our parents and come to the monastery. I was compelled by the love of God when I learned that He suffered on the Cross because of me.

I want to remain faithful to the Lord God! I call on brothers and sisters and all Orthodox Christians! We must remain faithful not to people, but to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and the truth of our Orthodox Church!

And thank God that we understood today what happened. The Lord gave us the strength to live until these times, so that we would better know the truth of the Orthodox Faith. After all, if this ( betrayal of Christ - approx. edit .) was 30-40 years ago, when we were in a weak knowledge of our Faith, and therefore the Lord was so slow for us to understand our Faith and Truth, to follow in the footsteps of the Savior, and not in the footsteps of these people.

Let their conscience torment them, because the document says: “Catholics and Orthodox have been deprived of communion in the Eucharist for almost a thousand years.” Yes, come back, please. Repent. There is a lack of humility because pride is devilish. Who can pacify them when they are God’s substitutes on earth, when they have purgatory, when they have trampled all the dogmas and canons of our Orthodox Church and left, renounced the true God?

Is this not enough for us? This fraternization? Kiss Judas.

I ask His Holiness for forgiveness ( p. Kirill - approx. edit . ), but let him ask for forgiveness from our Orthodox Church, from Orthodox Christians and from all the Holy Fathers who have preserved the Truth for 1000 years, for offending them.

EP'S REPLY LONGIN ON THE QUESTION ABOUT THE ADOPTION OF THE FINAL DOCUMENTS OF THE PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL

Question (1 hour 27 minutes 30 seconds): “We are told that ecumenism is not a heresy, but a movement towards the unity of all Christians. This is stated in the documents signed by our Patriarch in Chambesy in the fall of 2015. The inculcation of all-recession in the Orthodox Church through the adoption of draft documents took place without a conciliar discussion at the Council of Bishops on February 2-3, 2016.”

Answer from Lord Longinus:“Let no one be offended, dear brothers and sisters. Nobody saw us, heard us, and absolutely no one looked at us. We sat on benches for 2 days, and they didn’t care whether we were there or not. They made their decision anyway.

We pray for our Father, His Holiness the Patriarch. But if he is our father, then please listen to your children, who have always been faithful not to a person, but to the Russian Orthodox Canonical Church. And we will continue to remain faithful to her. But we sat there and no one asked us.

And one time, when there were dogmatic errors or one might say the greatest sins against the Holy Spirit, I raised my hand to be against it, that I could not vote for these issues, then they told me “Who are you? Sit down! We can do without you!” They can do without me, but we will never do without God, without the Truth.

I have nothing against him as a person ( Kirill village - approx. edit . ), but one person cannot decide the fate of our Church. There must be a Council. They say that the Council gave the go-ahead. Well, will we be deceivers for the whole world? Nobody told us about any meetings.

When we raised the question that Your Holiness, that there are big dogmatic errors, how are we going to this Council ( Council of Bishops February 2-3, 2016 - approx. edit . )? In reply: "All! Shut up, sit down! All is decided! Everyone has voted, everything has already passed!” But wait, how is this possible? And they put us there, and we couldn’t say anything there.

The Orthodox people are now accusing: “Why did you betray us, lords? Why did you do all this? There were many rulers who were not against everything: "Fear. There is fear upon us. Because tomorrow I will punish you, tomorrow I will send you to the North!”

Worse than during the communists. And this is our Orthodox Faith, Mother of Love. We have come to God freely, will we not listen to these false teachings?”

EDITORIAL REMINDER: Whatback in 2014 year Vladyka Longin (Zhar), Bishop of Banchensky, vicar of the Chernivtsi diocese (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate), who is also called "father of four hundred orphans" , delivered an extremely harsh sermon against the war in Ukraine and the leaders of this country, whom he called “damned” and “servants of Satan.” Moreover, the bishop called on Ukrainian believers not to send their children to death, because this contradicts the Orthodox faith:

About mobilization

I urge you to be united and not send your children to death. Our Orthodox faith does not allow us to kill each other. They want the death of our people, living in peace and with God, for the sake of their political interests, for the sake of those who protect their business and leadership positions.

My dears, you are not allowed to shoot and kill. God gives life, and He takes it away. Ukrainian leaders have stated that "the Orthodox faith is Ukraine's greatest enemy." This was dictated to them by strangers who cannot bear the truth because they are blind.

About the victims of the conflict in Ukraine

How can you pick up a gun and shoot at God's creation? He, like you, has a mother, a wife, a child. Why are we forced to kill? The secret will become clear: thousands and tens of thousands died, and they are talking about hundreds. I do not bless you to go to war. We call you to peace.

About ten thousand soldiers have been killed, and even their mothers do not know that they are no longer alive. I am not involved in politics, but I say with pain that this is not a war against the enemy, but a war between us. When the damned defend the United States, they want to see the Orthodox kill each other, while they eat, drink, have fun and rejoice at the fact that blood is being shed on holy land.

On the participation of the United States of America and the West in the conflict

They will pay in full for the blood that stained their hands and clothes. All this is the work of damned Europe, about which the Holy Fathers said: “Do not worship beasts,” and the Americans, who, wherever they interfere, sow only hostility and bloodshed. Now they have stood back and are enjoying the shedding of the blood of our Christians.

Brothers, we all feel ourselves on the threshold of the third world war. That is why I appealed to you: repent! I thank all the villages of Bukovina, all its inhabitants for standing up. Everyone is called to this: we do not give our children up to die!

About the current leaders of Ukraine

I will never remember at the Divine Liturgy these damned leaders of our country, these unbelievers who have no fear of God, who sit in armchairs and give out orders for murder. There is only one prayer left: Lord, if You are still able, enlighten them, for darkness and hell have enveloped them. They want nothing more than bloodshed, and they find pleasure in this. Satanists! Servants of the evil one. If they do not stop, then God will stop them, but then there will be great grief for them.

In connection with the latest statementLords of Longinus (Heat), standing up for the defense of the Orthodox Faith, the Athonite Fathers composed a prayer -

PRAYER

for Bishop Longinus and confessors of Christ's Truth

Compiled by the Athonite Fathers, Hieroschemamonk Rafail (Berestov) and Hieroschemamonk Onufriy (Stebelev-Velasquez)

God IJesus Christ, by the prayers of our Most Holy Lady Mother of God, Holy Archangel of God Mikhail and all the Bodiless Heavenly Powers, Your Honest Forerunner and Baptist Joanna, Holy Glorious and All-Praised Apostles, Holy Royal Great Martyrs, through the prayers of all Martyrs and Confessors, Reverend and God-Bearing Fathers of ours and all Thy Saints, save, preserve and strengthen the Confessor of Holy Rus', Bishop Longinus and his Christ-loving flock (here you can also commemorate all the faithful Archpastors and shepherds), grant them fiery Faith, Your humility and the grace of the Holy Spirit, patience and unshakable courage, grace-filled prayer, irresistible word, sacrificial and all-conquering Love.

Protect them, Lord, from all enemies, visible and invisible, help them to remain faithful to You even to the point of death and make a good confession for Your glory, for all glory, honor and worship is due to You with Your Beginning Father and with Your Most Holy, Good and Life-giving Spirit , now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Dear fathers, brothers and sisters!

Let us earnestly pray for our Confessor - Bishop Longinus with his Christ-loving flock, so that God will strengthen them with His grace and help them make a good confession before the Victorious Triumph of Orthodoxy!

The Lord and the Mother of God gave us the Russian Champion and Defender of the Orthodox Faith, who became related to the Holy Apostles and the Holy Fathers: Rev. Maximus the Confessor, Rev. Theodore Studite, St. Mark of Ephesus, St. Gregory Palama, St. Gennady Novgorodsky, Rev. Joseph Volotsky, St. Seraphim (Sobolev) and with all the Confessors, Martyrs and Pleasers of God.

We all remember Father Mikhail from the movie "Outpost"(see below), his great Christian love is truly unforgettable. And today, in the hour of mortal danger for our Russian Church, we see how the Love of Christ raises up the former O. Mikhail, today already Bishop Longinus, together with the monks and the people of God, to confession and fidelity to Christ to the martyr's Cross!

Bishop Longinus and his Christ-loving flock showed in word and deed to the whole world what a great and irresistible power God has given us in the Orthodox Church - Conciliarity in the Holy Spirit!

We thank God and the Most Pure Mother of God with all our hearts for dear Bishop Longinus with his spiritual children, for this Great strengthening that they show for the Orthodox in Rus' and throughout the world, giving us all an example of all-conquering, sacrificial Christian love. We are with you, our dear Master Longinus! Many years to you! We love you and are praying for you!

Let us follow the good Shepherd, who lays down his life for the sheep of Christ! (cf. John 10:11)

May God grant that the example of the good confession of Bishop Longinus and his flock will inspire the defense of the Orthodox Faith and other Archpastors, clergy, monastics and laity of our Russian Church.

WE ARE RUSSIANS, GOD AND THE COVER OF THE VIRGIN ARE WITH US, AND THEREFORE WE WILL WIN!

Dear brothers and sisters!

Share this Great Joy! Spread the Good News! Print this material and give it to bishops, priests and laity. Let them familiarize themselves with it, watch this video and examine their conscience. Who are they with: God or the devil? Everyone will give an answer for their choice before the Lord! By this good action of yours, you will rank yourself among the confessors and defenders of the Holy Orthodox Faith.

Thank God for everything! Amen.

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A remarkably bold archpastoral word appeared on the website “Tatiana’s Day” Bishop of Banchen Longinus (Heat), vicar of the Chernivtsi diocese of the UOC-MP, published on the Romanian website Activenews.ro , about the punitive action of the Kyiv junta in the southeast of Ukraine. In today's Ukraine, where the most severe information and physical terror reigns against any dissent in relation to the so-called. “anti-terrorist operation” of the Kyiv regime against its people, such words from the Bishop are a real confession in our time!

Bishop Longin (Zhar), Bishop of Banchensky, vicar of the Chernivtsi diocese (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate), who is also called the “father of four hundred orphans,” delivered an extremely stern sermon against the war in Ukraine and the leaders of this country, whom he called “damned” and “servants.” Satan." Moreover, the bishop called on Ukrainian believers not to send their children to death, because this contradicts the Orthodox faith.

Bishop Longinus on mobilization

About the victims of the conflict in Ukraine

On the participation of the United States of America and the West in the conflict

About the current leaders of Ukraine

I will never remember at the Divine Liturgy these damned leaders of our country, these unbelievers who have no fear of God, who sit in armchairs and give out orders for murder. There was only one prayer left: “Lord, if You are still able, enlighten them, for darkness and hell have enveloped them.” They want nothing more than bloodshed, and they find pleasure in this. Satanists! Servants of the evil one. If they do not stop, then God will stop them, but then there will be great grief for them.

Recorded by Mihai Shomenescu for Activenews.ro