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| Volume 7 Number 29 - Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 |
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I hope that many other people will write in support of the letter published from Miss (Mrs.?) Olga Petrova, in which she points to some of the many flaws within the "Pokrov" organization. I studied her letter, and could not find anything with which I disagree. I do not doubt that genuine trauma occurred to the families of those who founded Pokrov. (The perpetrators, whoever they were, should have received swift judicial punishment.) I am disgusted, however, by their responses to suffering. Rather than offer an information base and a healing ministry to families and individuals who have suffered abuse, they seem to perpetuate a long-running, personal vendetta against and hatred of the Orthodox Church. They may disagree with my remarks made here, but that would not alter the impression that they make on me, and on other people. One individual told me that when leaders from Pokrov visited her church, on some sort of scrutinizing mission, that the women seemed cold, hard, and left her feeling very "creepy" after being around them. Once again, people cannot help sensing whatever they sense in an atmosphere. With regard to the skewed and slanderous information on the Pokrov website about Fr. Ephraim and his monasteries in the U.S., I will add this. When I first read those pages, some years ago, I wrote a private e-mail to the "expert" "consultant" on cults, whose odd views are quoted on the website. I received a hysterical and pompous reply from the man, who wondered how I could dare to question his ex cathedra-style infallibility. So here's my public "Thank you!" to Olga Petrova, who took the time to craft a well-written, and long overdue for the public to read, letter.
Mrs. Antonia
W. Colias
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