Akathist by Mykhayl

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(STAND:)

PERVERSE GENERATION… 136-155 (1375)
MEDITATION 9

(CHANTER:)
A church is to be known by its devotional Christ like love for all, not as pawns playing in a chess game of foreign interests. * Together all members are interactive parts of the united, holy, universal and scriptural church. * Like a devoted extended family of all; kin and in-law. * With my ancestors reflected in our customs. This is the mystical body of Christ that contains us.

CHANT 9

(CLERGY:)

Attention! A reading from the Ephesians

(ALL:)
Glory be to you O Lord glory be to You
Alleluia, alleluia!

(CLERGY:)
“May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith, being grounded and rooted in love, may you have power to comprehend * with all the saints what is the breadth, length, height and depth to know and love Christ which is beyond all comprehension.” (Ephesians 3:17-8)

(ALL:)
Glory be to you Our God glory be to You
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

(MAY SIT IF FATIGUED)
(ALL:)
136 Rejoice through providence that our father among the saints bishop Nicholas * transfigures himself to a new world with emigrant pioneers from the old world.

Glory be immigrant laborers are saved from potentially the worst North American explosion at the Darr coal mine * due to their devotional veneration of his Julian holy day (19 xii 1907 nc Darr Mine, PA USA)

137 Rejoice, be not overshadow by agitators from the transplanted Slavophil (Russophile) movement * following Rusyn immigrants to the New World’s streets paved of gold.

Glory be careful as “Socialists in vestments” agitate “Greek Catholic Orthodoxy” against Greco Catholicism * for profit and political alteration rather than religious reformation. (1882).

138 Rejoice fraternally despite the G C U support of the Slavophiles who occupies Reverend Toth’s * “Return to Orthodoxy” movement, all opposed to the appointment of a Galician monk as first U S old ritual catholic bishop (1893).

Glory be as the G C U begot “Soyuz” which begot U N A * which supports a Galician for U S Greco Catholic bishop who in turn begot “Provadinya”. (Greek Catholic Union 1892, Ruskyi Narodnyi Soyuz 1893, Ukrainian National Association 1913, Providence Association 1912).

139 Rejoice while dealing with the horror from the old world’s first modern organized genocide * set against Armenian Christians by armed Islamic Turks (1915),

Glory be for if motives were on display instead of excuses we could not hushed up ethnic cleansing objections. But new trails blazed future genocide * within racial, cultural, ethnic, moral, religious, political or economics as control parameters.

140 Rejoice over the sighs as the new Nero (Stalin) orchestrates the worst persecution ever, * not only of Christ’s church but against all the children of God (1930’s).

Glory be despite the apathetic turning their eye expecting anonymity of responsibility even from God, * those deprived turn embracing any and all righteous priests and rabbis and ministers and muqaddams for solace.

141 Rejoice in spite of wonderment over the fact condemned prisoners receive their last requests * but not so for those dying in hospitals of the U S S R (Union of the Soviet Socialists Republic 1918-1990),

Glory be for Clergy despite pending arrests visited those hospitalized dressed as doctors, solicitors and janitors * in order to be unnoticed. “All the world is a stage” (Shakespeare).

142 Rejoice despite bewilderment as the atheist Uncle Jo (Stalin) in need of war time stool pigeons * enlisted K G B (secret police) agents from among the compromised Russian clergy,

Glory be even though the new Rome now beds with the new Babylon as demonstrated in days of old with Catherine the Second, * while the confessions of others are whispered in the ears of paid squealers who regards it as pillow talk.

143 Rejoice despite the horror that the new Tsar Josyf (Stalin) orchestrated his genocidal famine * shriveling the population of Europe’s Breadbasket by a quarter (25% percent) as a discipline.

Glory be for in God’s kingdom this act alone increases the saints in heaven by 10 million Ukrainian souls (1932-3). * In the land of the free press the NEW YORK TIMES still promotes its Pulitzer journalist Walter Duranty, who diminished this Famine as Stalin’s apologist.

144 Rejoice interspersed with lamentations as the descendants of Khazars, * the 13th tribe of Israel are hunted by Nazi butchers,

Glory be as Lviv echoes with the call from its local Moses “Though shall not kill!” * turning churches into refugee sanctuaries for Jews all the way to Rome (Sheptytsky 1943).

145 Rejoice despite the irony of the severed gangrenous state controlled church seeking reattachment * with the apostolic succession * she has persistently amputated herself from since 1326 (thirteen twenty six),

Glory be though ripping the Greco Catholics away from Saint Peter without benefit of their own shepherds * this “Return to Orthodoxy” leaves this Sobor in Lviv a God forsaken sham (1946).

146 Rejoice in the resolve of the Ukrainian Orthodox Catholic Church * continuing as a domestic church ministered by grandmothers, being officious from the catacombs.

Glory be as the largest singular persecuted religious society in the history of mankind * this mangled church manages to administers the faith.

147 Rejoice and marvel as all ten of the Galician bishops from this apostolic succession predating Saints Cyril and Methodius were imprisoned * while in the troves of the catacombs the golden rule were cultivated and shared.

Glory be decades later exactly ten bishops emerge from the Halych (Galicia) underground church including those “known but to God”, * giving Him thanks unlike nine of the ten Biblical lepers rescued by Christ.

148 Rejoice despite the new murmurs of dread from the ancient Eastern Christian indigenous lowlanders * who are exiled from ancestral homelands in “Operation Wisla” (Akcija Wisla),

Glory be for a third of the population of this new Poland could advocate insurgency, * a Soviets orchestrated genocide cleanses the native minority from Lemko Rus’ (1947).
149 Rejoice with surprise as the Polish primate Karol Wojtyla was presented the fisherman’s ring * and joined the international solidarity opposing godless Marxism (communism 1978).

Glory be as Pope John Paul II (the second) offers to the president of free Ukrainian, on his visit to Kyiv the Catholic University’s chair in orthodoxy studies. * Alas the “new Russians” refuse to recognize theology as a doctoral discernment, biting off their own nose to smite their own face (2001).

150 Rejoice through anxiety as the worst nuclear accident in history occurred just north of Kyiv * “A great star shot in the sky flaming like a torch, raining on a third of all rivers and springs.

Glory be despite the star was named “Chornobyl” (Wormwood) as a third of the waters became poisoned * with wormwood, many men died who drank…” (1986, Rev: 8: 4-5…)

151 Rejoice despite apprehension as Muscovites refugee south into Ukraine then west along the old migration trails into the Carpathians * while expatriating the native Ukrainians and Belorussians into the danger zones.

Glory be although “like a fire that will devour Israel with no one to quench it, turning justice upside down * changing into wormwood… and night into sunrise and day into shadows” Amos 5: 6-7…8)

152 Rejoice despite cynicism for the Muscovite church’s orchestrates a universal celebration * for its imposed millennium inauguration from colonial lands (1988),

Glory be even though a contrived ruse “ from the lips drip honey, her tongue slicker than oil, in the end more bitter than wormwood” (Prov 5:3-4).

153 Rejoice with euphoria as the righteous faithful of the Ukrainian church * emerged from diverse corners of its diaspora awaiting incorporation.

Squabbling shepherd preceded which were eclipsed by the sheep’s self-starting harmonious cooperation, * bringing unprecedented global recognition for the Kyivan catholic church of the orthodox faith (1988).

154 Rejoice in reciprocal justice as the celebrating of “Kievan – Russia’s christening” * cracks the Evil Empire’s façade exposing both church and state deceptions,

Ancient churches bravely emerge from their catacombs hideaways, * as new governments with old names profess religious liberty (1991).

155 Rejoice as the Greco Catholics moves its metropolitan base from Galicia * back to Kyiv to be in tandem with its Orthodox sister churches (2005).

Despite being the most ancient of Scythian apostolic successions, * returning to the cradle of Slavic Christendom brings hellfire from the archaic imperial patriarchs.