For those of us that desire to learn the Old-Rite Slavonic it would be best to relocate ourselves with people who strictly practice the Old-Rite, only then we could learn correctly. The teacher and student would be focused on the matters at hand, namely matters of Faith and Practice. This is the only way to avoid confusion. The difficultly lies in finding a suitable location for this to take place. I see no such example anywhere in North or South America.

Pandora’s box has already been opened and there is no possible way of closing the lid, the contents are constantly spewing forth with such wickedness that it prevents the lid from being latched. If it were possible to close the lid, all the slippery slithering evils that have already escaped the box would be practically impossible to catch, capture or otherwise prevent from polluting everything around us.

Travel to other places around the world is totally impractical, if you ask me, so I am stuck here. Maybe I will never learn the pure Slavonic during this life. One thing I am certain of is that liturgical or devotional use of English in prayer, worship or scripture was never accepted by good people of faith. I believe that it is possible to preach the good news to others, giving examples and ideas in English from Sacred Literature, but we should be careful to explain that uncleanliness of such. Without a standard we know not what is right or wrong, or how to even how to live. I see no exception. What is the Great Delusion?

Here is something from the Wilderness Monastery Fathers about the state of this world at the end of time.

An Egyptian ascetic on the Nitrian mountain, Abba Pambo was a contemporary of St. Anthony the Great and himself great in monastic asceticism. Born about A.D. 303, he was one of the first to join Amoun in Nitria. He was illiterate until he was taught the Scriptures as a monk and ordained a priest in 340. He had two characteristics by which he was especially known; by long training, he sealed his lips, so that no unnecessary word passed them, and he never ate any bread other than that which he gained by his own labour, plaiting rushes. He was like an angel of God and, in old age, his face shone as did the face of Moses in ancient times, so that the monks could not look on it. He did not give a quick answer even to a simple question, without prayer and pondering in his heart.

This wonderful saint had clear discernment into the destiny of the living and the dead. He entered into rest in the Lord in the year 374. He said, “I will tell you this, my child, that the days will come when Christians will add to and will take away from, and will alter the books of the Holy Evangelists, and of the Holy Apostles, and of the Divine Prophets, and of the Holy Fathers. They will tone down the Holy Scriptures and will compose troparia, hymns, and writings technologically. Their nous will be spilled out among them, and will become alienated from its Heavenly Prototype. For this reason the Holy Fathers had previously encouraged the monks of the desert to write down the lives of the Fathers not onto parchment, but onto paper, because the coming generation will change them to suit their own personal tastes. So you see, the evil that comes will be horrible.”

Then the disciple said: So then, Geronda, the traditions are going to be changed and the practices of the Christians? Maybe there will not exist enough priests in the Church when these unfortunate times come?

And the father continued: In these times the love for God in most souls will grow cold and a great sadness will fall upon the world. One nation shall oppose another. Peoples will move away from their own places. Rulers will be confused. The clergy will be thrown into anarchy, and the monks will be inclined more to negligence. The church leaders will consider useless anything concerned with salvation, as much for their own souls as for the souls of their flocks, and they will despise any such concern. All will show eagerness and zeal for every matter regarding their dining table and their appetites. They’ll be lazy in their prayers and casual in their criticisms. As for the lives and teachings of the Holy Fathers, they’ll not have any interest to imitate them, nor even to hear them. But rather they will complain, saying, “if we had lived in those times, then we would have lived like that.” And the bishops shall give way to the powerful of the world, giving answers on different matters only after taking gifts from everywhere and consulting the rational logic of the academics. The poor man’s rights will not be defended, they will afflict widows, and harass orphans. Debauchery will permeate these people. Most will not believe in God, they will hate each other and devour one another like beasts. The one will steal from the other, they will be drunk and will walk about as blind.

The disciple again asked: What can we do, in such a state?

And Elder Pambo answered: My child, in these times whoever will save his soul and prompt others to be saved will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.