Privet brat Symeon,

Thank you for joining this Wiki and your friendship. I would ask you to look just a little further into some things I will suggest here, or show me where to look further, in order to find what is right. The idea of priested and non-priested Old Believers is a fallacy as I see it. It is actually a matter of real clergy or false clergy. The terms priested and non-priested derived from those outside Old Belief. For those that are called priested all their clergy are questionable, either they are guilty of simony (paying for their office), are of New-Rite influence or were consecrated without being received by a bishop and have brought into the Old-Rite many heretical New-Rite things like God the Father icons, they are very worldly.. Which priested Old Believer group is not collaborating with Antichrist? As far as the non-priested groups go they see this world clearly as being in the Great Apostasy and therefore Christ is now their Heavenly Archbishop, Who fulfills anything that might seem lacking in them, they do have all the sacraments. In Scripture, in such places as Daniel, we are told of this time with a desolate sanctuary and saints like Chrysostom foretold of this too. I believe the strict Pomorsky, who recognized the loss of earthly clergy, to be correct. I know of Old Ritualists in Texas now, but they have put aside any ideas of aligning themselves with those called priested, they say the term priestless is a misnomer, sometime we should talk about it.

Forgive, brother John

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