Posted on 04/02/2018 6:32:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
" ... to protect from enmity toward Russia by the Western political system and its main stream media, ... only a ... Christ-bearing Tsar would be incorruptible ...
... he has no interest in any lobbies and cannot be bribed, but by the very essence of his service to Christ, he would never sacrifice the interests of his nation ... The time is ripe for such an understanding.
The more the Russian people ... return to their Orthodox roots, then could come the restoration of our most treasured sacred monarchy."
ARCHBISHOP GABRIEL was born in 1961 and currently is serving as Bishop of Montreal and Canada with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR).
Upon graduating from Holy Trinity Seminary in New York in 1984, he became an instructor of Russian culture at the Seminary until 1989.
After serving as an assistant to his superiors, he was ordained as a hieromonk and soon consecrated as a bishop in 1996.
Steeped in the history and culture of Russia, Archbishop Gabriel speaks with authority on the religio-political scenario of that nation of which he and his peers call “Holy Russia.”
Br Nathanael: Why is the idea of the monarchy important to us who are members of the Russian Orthodox Church?
Abp Gabriel: We cannot forget who we are, either in the Fatherland or abroad.
While the memory of Holy Orthodox Rus and the Russian Tsars was burned out of the people by the Bolsheviks, those in the diaspora never forgot the divinely-appointed monarchy.
Br Nathanael: How so?
Abp Gabriel: The monarchist ideal, the rejection of which led to the February Revolution, then to the October Revolution of 1917, did not fade away in the diaspora.
The number of adherents to the monarchy was small at first, because in pre-revolutionary Russia there were few monarchists in any of........
(Excerpt) Read more at russian-faith.com ...
The monarchy HAS been restored in Russia. Tsar Vladimir Vladimirovich.
Yep just not. a Romanov.
I wonder how the switch over to a new “Czar” will go when the time coms. Thy will be key!
I’m available if they need a king.
I have five fingers on each hand, and can stay on a horse.
Seriously?! What BS and only amounts to shifting the deck chairs among the oligarchs that have taken over the country. The Romanov’s are quite dead and gone. Same should be fate of all monarchies around the world.
“Only Monarchy Can Save Russia”
No, only Christ can serve Russia.
I do think Putin would do it, if he could get away with it.
All earthly monarchs deserve to be removed by whatever means are necessary. It is an illegitimate form of government.
I hate to say it but Lenin had a point here. If Gabriel wants a king to kiss his behind he are free to leave Canada and go to Saudi Arabia. Let’s see how it works out.
Why in the bloody hell would we want to save Russia?
You could say that with a monarch at least you only have one tyrant's head to lop off unlike here where you have tyrants and bureaucrats from the local level all the way up to the federal level...
I can't wait for King Jesus to come & set the one true kingdom.
We should, because it’s in our long term interests to see that Russia, along with all of Europe, not be majority muslim.
I was baptized and chrismated in a ROCOR church when they were still not in communion with the rest of Orthodoxy.
100 million innocents murdered by Lenin and his long string of followers? Sorry, I’ll take the monarchs any day over the Red killers.
Nobody said Lenin is right on everything. That’s a broken clock thing.
You are aware that Canada is a constitutional monarchy?
Well, in a sense. Practically it isn’t.
I really don't understand the recent affection for Russia that I've seen here on FR in the last couple of years.
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