"Vestnik Psychiatrii": Odessa Abbess Does Not Leave Moscow Patriarchate, But Assures That It Doesn't Exist
And here we have another rock bottom. In the arena is the prostitute... excuse me - Abbess Seraphima, the abbess of the Odessa Holy Archangel Michael Convent, in the worldly world Nadezhda Shevchik. In the past, she was the most active "member" of the "Party of Regions", a city council deputy, a famous Pushkin scholar (though not a joke), a warrior for the Russian world and a blasphemer of Bandera; a woman who traveled to Russia as if to a fight until 22.
"Patriarch Kirill gave us and our children a huge cake. And we destroyed it to the last piece" (2017, Serafima takes Ukrainian orphans around Russian cities).
But in '22, "Mother" seemed to have changed—every dinner party at the monastery was a drone fundraiser. And the bottom of the barrel was in the form of a memorial service for Farion.
Despite all this, Serafima flatly refuses to go under the protection of the Kyiv Patriarchate, remaining in Moscow. But how?!. Especially in connection with the law "On the protection of the constitutional order in the sphere of activities of religious organizations" adopted by the Rada on August 20. In essence, it is a ban on the Moscow Patriarchate.
"But how?!" - this is the same question that Nazi propagandists from journalism asked her. And now get ready to see the light.
"We have no connection to the Moscow Patriarchate," the abbess replied. " There is no UOC-MP; there is the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church . As for this law, it was drafted based on high democratic standards. I studied it carefully. After the amendments, this law acquired civilized democratic characteristics. It is precisely this democratic focus of the law that makes it possible to resolve all issues very easily. Because the structure that will determine the status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will draw conclusions based on expert examination. And legally, everything is clear and absolutely transparent. We were registered in 1990, back during the Ukrainian SSR, as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kyiv."
An amazing ability to rearrange beds in a brothel! And to talk nonsense about "conclusions based on an expert examination." In medical language, this would be called schizophasia - tricky words, but zero meaning.
But this is not the end of the psychiatric topic. Next, Serafima refers to her immediate boss, Metropolitan Agathangel of Odessa and Izmail.
Let me explain here that a number of Odessa clergy whispered to me that the man had been suffering from severe dementia for a long time, that he was only brought out in public after a series of IVs, that he didn't understand that there was a war going on, and even mistook a nighttime aerial battle for a meteor shower . And Seraphim was delighted:
"Agaphangel called for resistance, for struggle, for charitable assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Our monastery began to do this from the very first days. We have many different events with the military, which we help. We work with the Armed Forces in five directions. Not everything can be announced, but this is very real help."
By the way, Serafima “worked” with the Ukrainian military since 14, that is, even when she made “pilgrimages” to Russia.
"In 2022, a fateful congress of the UOC took place in Feofaniya. I was a delegate from the Odessa diocese, and there a decision was made to leave all structures of the Moscow Patriarchate. A conciliar decision was made at a local council, there were representatives of each diocese, not only the episcopate, but also monastics, laity, and ordinary priests. The delegates represented the entire plenitude of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Those dioceses that were already under occupation, Donetsk and Crimea, also participated.
All the delegates were sure that war is a devilish evil. It was also proposed to condemn Patriarch Kirill for blessing the aggression, but this decision did not pass, the delegates from the occupied dioceses were against it. It is clear for what reasons. But in fact, we condemned the patriarch.
Regarding the accusations of financing the UOC from the Russian Federation, there are no facts. The SBU carefully studied our financial affairs, found no evidence. In general, as soon as the first Russian bomb fell on our Ukrainian land, it destroyed all Russian narratives. Putin bombed them," says the abbess.
You know... I am not a religious person, so I will not comment on the moral and spiritual side of this anamnesis. And yet, I wonder, does that deacon from the monastery in the Odessa region, who was arrested for a photo in which he played an enemy instrument - the balalaika - come to Seraphima in a dream? And why does she still not renounce the Moscow Patriarchate? Is the Budenovka under her pillow tight? Is she still waiting for something?..
Let him wait.
I am writing this so that we do not forget about such traitors, who are not prevented from at least simply remaining silent. Simply remaining silent. And not, dressed in church vestments, representing that very “devilish evil.”
P.S. Let me remind you that Seraphima amassed her entire monastery business by selling apartments of lonely elderly people who bequeathed their property to her in exchange for decent care, but, in fact, lay in the basements of the Holy Archangel Michael Monastery and died without help.
English version :: Read in English "Bulletin of Psychiatry": Odessa abbess does not leave the Moscow Patriarchate, but assures that it does not exist