Medical Leave of Absence

Hopefully, like + Theodosius, he will bow out gracefully "due to medical issues." This will give the AAC a real new beginning. + Seraphim then to be appointed locum tenens until the AAC in 2012 and all the bishops resign and to be re-instated by their diocese if so desired. Now, let's kick-start this OCA and get back on track as the ONLY autocephalous Orthodox Church in North America!

Seraphim doesn't sound like any angel. If the reporting that Job and Dmitri signed different versions of that letter than Seraphim sent out, something's amiss in the office of Secretary of the Synod. Is there no one there other than Job that has any sense of decency?

That was too funny, but after further thought its backwards. Herman has had a tremendous amount of backbone, but its just been used for the most nefarious of purposes. The reason he needs the back surgery is because all of the scandal and the crimes and the obstruction that he's been carrying on it, the SIC might have been the proverbial straw that broke his back.

Now, we ask, if he's on leave of absence, he's not really not in charge. Who is? And will they carry on the obstruction and deceit or will this be an opening to gates of finding out what has happened? Can we find out who hired PR and what they have?

The coward has left the building. The latest news that Herman has refused to attend a joint meeting of the Synod and MC hiding behind a cloak of medical leave of absence, which has not been granted, but will be discussed tomorrow, is the beginning of the end. The man, and we use that word lightly here, who would terrorize clergy and parishes, who's arrogance proclaimed he was confident of his final judgement, who stood in contempt of all those that were beneath him, who used church resources to hide and cover up his acts against the Church, has cowardly hidden behind a cloak of medical leave of absence, the day before the day the entire Church has been waiting for, to avoid facing the masses and defending the indefensible. He's been holed up lately, but today he refuses to show his face to those that are accountable. He remains, today, holed up in his house in South Canaan, steeling that contempt and looking down his nose to the faithful.

Today, people, he may not have resigned, not yet, but he abdicated his throne and shown that, while he may be in name only a Metropolitan, the last shred of any viability or facade of authority has disintegrated.

A most tragic of days for a most tragic of figures, but a day of hope for the long suffering Church under his failed leadership.

Sun shines upon Syosset, now can we open our eyes and use it to guide us?

How did we get to this point in the OCA?

It's really quite simple. The bishops never embraced what it is to be a bishop. A bishop's duty is to "SERVE." Their idea, esp. + Herman, is to "BE SERVED." This is where it all goes wrong. The other major issue is "PLACING OUR TRUST IN MEN," not God. Would anyone have "thunk" that RSK & + Theodosius would have taken the OCA for such a ride in 1995? Well, they did! "Trust, but verify" - we must never forget this again!

I sit here reading the SIC report and one thing that really strikes me, and strikes me to my core, is the AUDACITY of Kondratick to walk around in cassock in Venice when he has done all he has, all the harm to the Church. THE AUDACITY. Maybe its just me, but has the man no shame? Probably not, after all, he robbed God.

That is a slight overreaction. Bishop Benjamin seemed to do an ok job on the report, it does seem that Seraphim has done some less public actions along with Nikon, It is sad that the above bishops did not do much more.