On September 14, the 80-year-old Archimandrite Joan (John) , known simply as Father Ivan from Novi Khan. Father Ivan was well known in Bulgarian society as the only Monk father of the Fatherless. and a great benefactor who dedicated his life to the sick, poor, needy and, the homeless people in Bulgaria.
The Requiem service will be consecrated on September 16 from 12:00 pm in the church "The Holy Trinity" in Novi Khan (a Church situated in the improvised homeless shelter organized in an old Monastery (Saint Nicholas) by Father Ivan himself. by Bishop John of Branitsky, former Vicar Bishop of Patriarch Daniel.
Father Ivan Dimitrov Ivanov was born on March 31, 1945. in the Bulgarian village of Blagovo, Montana region. He received his basic and secondary education in the High Professional School "Peter Beron" in city of Sofia. Next He attended a university degree from the Theological Academy "St. Clement of Ohrid" (which was re-established in the distant year 1981) already in grown age after working different other jobs. He merried and with his wife Todorka Grigorova Ivanova had two sons – Ivaylo and Grigor. On October 19, 1981 he was ordained a deacon, and on 26 October same year – ordained for a priest by Metropolitan Filaret of Vidin. Since 1987 he was appointed as a priest at the Church "Holy Trinity" in the town of Novi Han, region of Elin Pelin. In year 2011 he has been consecrated as monk the name Ioan by the Bishop of Devol Theodosij (Theodosius). In 2015 in Montana he was promoted to archimandrite dignity by Vidin Metropolitan Dometian.
Along with his pastoral work, he devotes all his strength to caring for the poor. His selfless service remains misunderstood by many, and for a long time he does not receive support from the leadership of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. In 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria came to visit the “Holy Trinity” shelter in Novi Han. In addition to food and gifts, he also gave a sign of empathy with the great priest’s work.
Father Ivan began his work in the distanct 1993, short after the fall of Communism regime in Bulgaria when he restored the abandoned building of the monastery "Holy Trinity" in Novi Han. He revived the liturgical life in the monastery church (that was abondoned for many years due to the dictatorship regime in Bulgaria) and created the shelter "Saint Nicholas", in which he sheltered a dozen homeless people. Gradually, the orphanage expanded and it housed mainly women and children deprived of home and protection, but also found shelter for the elderly and homeless. The priest gave pregnant girls left without any financial support and shelter, the opportunity to give birth to their children and take care of them in the shelter for free. Several generations of children were born and raised under the care of Father Ivan. Today, some of them were the first to express their grief over the death of the father on social networks.
Even though his genuine kindness and great good deeds Father Ivan has suffered a lot from people who hate the light of Christ, being a victim of various life hardships, road incidents, and a lot of health issues, which he endevoured with stoicism. He has multiple times has shared when we met that many people being pushed by the devil has done him a lot of badness. As a mean to finance the homeless people Father Ivan with the help of his orpans, take care about animals such as chickens, cows, sheeps. Not on a signle occasion animals belonging to him and his shelter has been stolen. He fought many battles in his life time but never lost hope neither he fall in spirit always counting on the help of the Almighty, like the ancient saints. Father Ivans deed for that hard times can be compared to the great deeds of the ancients and for the Bulgarian society his meaning and inspiration was similar to the old testamental important of Moses who led the people. His servence of a priest was always given for the good example and people respected him and loved him for his deeds in Bulgaria over the last 40 years.
In 2013, the father bought several houses in the Montana village of Yakimovo, where he housed also homeless families and their children (the houses hosting homless families reached about 80+ houses ! which accomodated about 180 people, together with the people in the orphanage in Novi Han they were more than 250+ people).
The last years of his life he spend living in his small living Room (monastic Cell) in the Saint Nicolas Monastery in prayer and last spiritual cares for his many children.
The priest's work is continued by his son (who also took the path of his father) Fr. Grigoriy, who now takes care of the orphanages. Fr. Ivan remains in our recent church history as an example of complete dedication to the service of his neighbors, without seeking reward or gratitude. Something unique and unrepeatable fhat inspired many to be more merciful and benevolent for the poor and needy and by this he incarnated the example of Christ who teached us to always have the poor and needy with us and in our hearts. Generous to the life's misfortunes of his "children", Fr. Ivan set an example of a servant of Christ, whose love "does not seek its own… bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (1 Cor. 13:5-7).
I had the blessing to meet father Ivan of Novi Han a couple of times together with Bishop Ierotey Agathopolski (who used to be in the past under the spiritual guidance of Father Ivan). And my personal impressions are that father Ivan was a highly spiritual person and true monk. I had the chance one time in the distant 2011 to meet him in Novi Khan afer a pilgrimage to Holy Mount Athos we have been guests to Father Ivan in the monastery for a night and even had the chance to be and serve as a ipodeacon on a Holy Liturgy led by Father Ivan. I still remember how much he worried about the children God has sent him for care and how much he worried if financially he can make it to give a good life to all the new inhabitants who recently come to his shelter.
I remember he had to buy some food for the shelter and I wanted to help him to carry the stuff and we were to the SuperMarket together to buy food and goods for the children. Father Ivan had a great temper and a great sense of humor even though he has been already aging and his spirit was lifted even though the hardships both with suffering heavy form of diabetes and other multitude of physical infirmity.
Film Sparks (Movie about the Shleter of Saint Nicolas created by Father Ivan of Novi Han)
Father Ivan and his Children an Interview Movie by Fr Ivan
Movie about The Life Story hardships of Father Ivan of Novi Khan and what made him decide to serve the sick, the poor and the lonely
Father Archimandrite Ivan one worthy Bulgarian
In above interview, father Ivan talks about how he decided to become a priest and how he promised God that he will make an orphanage home. He was accused during the communistic times in Bulgaria for being a priest only to serve as a spy for the West. He was kept in Montana Police station interrogated for 7 months in a small dark police carcer (small police room for prisoners), trying and the police tried to brain wash him that he is guilty for things he is not for all the time being asked the same questions again and again with a light lamp infront of his eye sight. He tells in short in the interview, how he managed to restore the Holy Trinity monastery, after a lot of hardships and miracles of God who helped me to do so. On multiple times his orphanage house has been tried to be (closed) and even destroyed by the local people of Novi Han unsuccesful. He has a lot of abusers who tried to run the deeds of his life the oprphanage but God by his great grace and his powers did not allow this to happen! But right on the contrary helped him and the children and provided him everything he needs to fulfill the dead of his life to help the salvation of tens of thousands to find his path to God and multitudes of people to physically survive a life of horror for years. He put a multitude of lost souls for whom noone cared back on the track of life and by his mercifulness he preached the Gospel not only words but in deeds.
Let God forgive him, Have mercy on his Soul and Forgive him if he sinned as a man and Receive him in his heavenly kingdom ! And Let us have his prayers to Christ ! Amen
If you're running on Internet ISP that is providing via a Internet / Wifi Router device with a 3G / 4G / 5G etc. but your receiving point location is situated somewhere very far in a places like High mountains lets say Rila Mountain or Alps on a very distant places where Internet coverate of Inetner Service Provider is low or very low but you need still to Work / Play / Entertain on the Net frequently. Hence you will cenrtainly be looking for a ways to Speed Up / Optimize the Internet connectivity somehow. You cannot do miracles but certainly the daily operations and a pack up of repeating traffic can be achieved by using installing and using simple local proxy server.
The advantages of using a proxy are even more besides the speed up of Internet connection lines, here is the Pros you get by using the proxy:
Using Caches frequently accessed content (e.g., images, scripts, web pages).
Blocks ads and trackers (reduces bandwidth).
Compresses data (if needed)
Can serve multiple local devices if needed.
To save bandwidth on a slow and limited connectivity Internet router or mobile phone hotspot using Windows 10, you can install a local proxy server that:
Here’s a step-by-step guide to set this up:
Install a local caching proxy server on Windows 10 to reduce bandwidth usage over a mobile hotspot.
1. Install Squid (Caching Proxy Server)
Squid is a powerful and widely used open-source caching proxy.
7. Use Aternative lightweight Proxy Privoxy (Lightweight filtering proxy)
What is Privoxy?
Privoxy is a lightweight, highly customizable proxy server focused on privacy protection, content filtering, and web page optimization.
Unlike caching proxies (like Squid), Privoxy doesn’t store data locally—but it filters and blocks unnecessary traffic before it even reaches your browser.
7.1. Why Use Privoxy to Speed Up Internet?
Here's how Privoxy helps:
Feature
Benefit
Blocks Ads & Banners
Reduces page load size and clutter
Stops Trackers
Prevents background data requests
Filters Pop-ups
Improves usability and safety
Speeds Up Web Browsing
By stripping unwanted content
Low Resource Usage
Works on older or low-spec systems
Privoxy is easier to set up than Squid and usually much more simple and fits well if you want something simpler and more light weight and is also great for ad/tracker blocking. To install and use it it comes to 4 simple steps
You can further use community-maintained blocklists for stronger Ads filtering.
Privoxy does not compress traffic, so to speed up even further with privoxy you might Compress traffic to do so use ziproxy (the http traffic compressor).
Now all your HTTP traffic is routed through Privoxy and you will notice search engines and repeatingly accessed websites pictures and Internet resources such as css / javscript / htmls etc. will give a boost !
If you have sensitive data concentrated in single folder like plain text files with some important data or files that needs to be visible only after decrypted GoCryptFS is a very elegant way to be able to both have the data encrypted but be able to access it at times with a password.
gocryptfs – simple. secure. fast encryption.
gocryptfs uses file-based encryption that is implemented as a mountable FUSE filesystem. Each file in gocryptfs is stored one corresponding encrypted file on the hard disk. The screenshot below shows a mounted gocryptfs filesystem (left) and the encrypted files (right).
The encrypted files can be stored in any folder on your hard disk, a USB stick or even inside the Dropbox folder. One advantage of file-based encryption as opposed to disk encryption is that encrypted files can be synchronised efficiently using standard tools like Dropbox or rsync. Also, the size of the encrypted filesystem is dynamic and only limited by the available disk space.
To use gocryptfs to encrypt a directory on Linux (or macOS), follow these steps. gocryptfs is a FUSE-based encrypted file system that encrypts files on-the-fly and presents a decrypted view when mounted.
Step-by-step: Encrypting a Directory with gocryptfs
# apt-cache show gocryptfs
Package: gocryptfs Version: 2.3.1-1 Priority: optional Section: utils Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34) Description-en: Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go gocryptfs implements an encrypted overlay filesystem that is similar to EncFS, but uses FUSE and Go. Encryption is done per-file, and directory structure is preserved. This allows incremental backups and deduplication. Homepage: https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
1. Install gocryptfs
On Debian/Ubuntu:
# apt install gocryptfs
On Arch Linux:
# pacman -S gocryptfs
On macOS (install via Homebrew tool):
# brew install gocryptfs
2. Create Two Directories
One for the encrypted data (encrypted_dir)
One to mount the decrypted view (decrypted_mountpoint)
Bash (Bourne Again SHell) is definitely a technology that will stay for years to come its simplicity and multi-platoformness is a factor that will definitely continue for many years thus even though it is mostly used on Linux / BSD / Unix, its application on Windows OS-es nowadays is perhaps increasing. Hence since so many people use Winodws nowdays (for work) it is really useful to have Bash set-up on Windows host machine. In this article, I'll shortly explain how this is done, the article will not have anything too much interesting for the advanced admin or dev ops guy, but I hope people who are entering the business of system administration and high level computing and still orienting might benefit from it.
To install and use Bash shell terminal in Windows there are at least 3 ways:
Use Git Bash (Download and install it directly precompiled on WIndows)
Use Windows WSL emulation (install some Linux distro)
Use Virtualbox / Vagrant / VMware / Hyper-V emulation and install VM from public ISO image.
1. Installing Git Bash on Windows (uses MinGW Minimalist GNU for Windows)
Some might prefer to not use Microsoft for managing their bash especially the more freedom in mind people who like GNU and Free software and people.
MinGW is well known among free and open source enthusiasts. It includes a port of theGNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager), a set of freely distributable Windows specific header files and static import libraries which enable the use of the Windows API, a Windows native build of the GNU Project's GNU Debugger, and miscellaneous utilities.
MinGW does not rely on third-party C runtime dynamic-link library (DLL) files, and because the runtime libraries are not distributed using the GNU General Public License (GPL), it is not necessary to distribute the source code with the programs produced, unless a GPL library is used elsewhere in the program.
MinGW can be run either on the native Microsoft Windows platform, cross-hosted on Linux (or other Unix), or "cross-native" on Cygwin.
To install Bash via Git, you can use Git for Windows, which includes Git Bash — a lightweight Bash emulator.
Editor: Choose your preferred text editor (e.g., Notepad++ or Vim)
Adjust PATH environment: Choose “Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software”
Choose SSH executable: Use Built-in OpenSSH
Choose HTTPS transport backend: Use the default (OpenSSL)
Configure line endings: Select “Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings”
Terminal emulator: Choose “Use MinTTY (the default terminal)”
Click Next through the remaining steps and then Install.
c. Launch Git Bash
After installation:
Press Windows key, type "Git Bash"
Click to launch the terminal
Now you're using a Bash shell on Windows.
Perhaps most common way is to use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), people follow. WSL is a technology which is native Windows but gives MS Windows the opportunity to act in a way similar to docker containers. WSL lets you run a full Linux environment (including Bash) directly on Windows without using a virtual machine and is really fast and easy on Machine system resources.
2. Installing WSL bash easy from Windows 10 / 11 using Win GUI menus
Steps to install WSL on Windows 10 / 11
Microsoft has since only continued to improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux, and an update in a Windows 10 preview build back in mid-2020 made it easier to install Bash.
That method also works the same as on Win 10 as well as on Win 11. To install Bash shell emulation, hence open Windows Terminal as an admin user. You can do this by right-clicking the Windows icon and selecting “Windows Terminal (Admin)” from the power user menu.
(If you’re on Windows 10, you should see it listed as “Windows Powershell (Admin)” in the menu.)
To complete WSL install with Virtualized Ubuntu OS
In Windows Terminal, run this command:
PS C:\Users\MyUser> wsl –install
Once everything is downloaded needed to run WSL emulation and Ubuntu Linux distribution, Restart the PC.
Once your PC rebooted, installation will continue automatically.
After Ubuntu installed successfully, you’ll next be prompted to create a username and password and Ubuntu will fire up, and you will have your bash in Windows
a. Enabling and Intalling BASH via command line (if WSL Linux subsystem for Windows is not enabled on Windows
It might be your Windows has no configured Windows Subsystem for Linux, hence if that is the case you will need to enable it following below few steps.
b. Enable WSL via dism.exe cmd
Open PowerShell as Administrator and run:
Powershell
PS C:\Users\MyUser> wsl –install
This installs WSL 2 and a default Linux distribution (like Ubuntu).
If you're on Windows 10 or on a PC where whoever installed the OS has not installed the Win Subsystem for Linux, you may need to manually enable WSL:
from the Windows Magnifier run Powershell and type in PS1 prompt:
PS C:\Users\MyUser> wsl –set-default-version 2
c. Installing other Linux Distribution (different from Ubuntu)
If not already installed during wsl –install, open the Microsoft Store and search for:
Ubuntu
Debian
Kali Linux
etc.
Click Install on the one you want.
d. Launching WSL / Bash terminal
Once installed:
Open Start Menu
Search for your Linux distro you just installed (e.g., “Ubuntu”)
Launch it
This opens a Bash shell where you can run Linux commands, like in regular Linux but on your Microsoft Windows OS.
Sum it up
What we learned is how to install bash via Bash Git and start using it to have more hybrid environment Windows / Linux. The article explained the two main methods using GIt Bash and using embedded Windows emulator WSL with an emulated Linux distro.
It happens sometimes on Windows that accidently you deleted some files or directory with pressing Shift + DELETE key (not sending it to Trashbin) or by deleting fies / dirs by sending them in Trashbin but you decided you want them back once you have cleared up the Trashbin. If this is the case it is pretty easy to recover deleted files in Windows using free (freeware) unpaid soft and tools, to do so chooose on of the many options described and follow the some of below methods by the well known and reputable tools pointed next.
1. Use Recuva (Free Version)
Recuva is one of the most popular free file recovery tools from the makers of CCleaner.
Select a destination for recovered files on another drive.
Let it scan and recover files.
⚠️ PhotoRec runs in a command-line interface but is powerful and completely free.
Note that Photorec is also available and can be used on Linux to recover files and if you're used to do things from command line I strongly recommend to give it a try on Windows as well.
3. Windows File History / Previous Versions (If Enabled)
If File History or System Protection was enabled:
Steps:
Right-click the folder where the file was.
Choose Restore previous versions.
Browse previous versions and restore as needed.
4. Windows File Recovery (Microsoft's Free CLI Tool)
A command-line tool from Microsoft for advanced users is avalable it is called winfr
Enable Debian Linux automatic updates to keep latest OS Patches / Security Up to Date
I'm not a big fan of automatism on GNU / Linux as often using automatic updates could totally mess things especially with a complex and a bit chatic OS-es like is Linux nowadays. Nevertheless as Security is becoming more and more of a problem especially the browser security, having a scheduled way to apply updates like every normal modern Windows and MAC OS as an option is becoming essential to have a fully manageble Operating system.
As I use Debian GNU / Linux for desktop for my own personal computer and I have already a lot of Debian servers, whose OS minor level and package version maintenance takes up too big chunk of my time (a time I could dedicated to more useful activities). Thus I found it worthy at some cases to trigger Debian's way to keep the OS and security at a present level, the so called Debian "unattended upgrades".
In this article, I'll explain how to install and Enable Automatic (" Unattended " ) Updates on Debian, with the hope that other Debian users might start benefiting from it.
Pros of enabling automatic updates, are:
Debian OS Stay secure without constant monitoring.
You Save much time by letting your system handle updates.
Presumably Enjoying more peace of mind, knowing your system is more protected.
Cons of enabling automatic updates:
Some exotic and bad maintained packages (might break after the update)
Customizations made on the OS /etc/sysctl.conf or any other very custom server configs might disappear or not work after the update
At worst scenario (a very rare but possible case) OS might fail to boot after update 🙂
Regular security updates patch vulnerabilities that could otherwise be exploited by attackers, which is especially important for servers and systems exposed to the internet, where threats evolve constantly.
1. Update Debian System to latest
Before applying automatic updates making any changes, run apt to update package lists and upgrade any outdated packages,to have automatic updates for a smooth configuration process.
# apt update && apt upgrade -y
2. Install the Unattended-Upgrades deb Package
# apt install unattended-upgrades -y
Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done The following additional packages will be installed: distro-info-data gir1.2-glib-2.0 iso-codes libgirepository-1.0-1 lsb-release python-apt-common python3-apt python3-dbus python3-distro-info python3-gi Suggested packages: isoquery python-apt-doc python-dbus-doc needrestart powermgmt-base The following NEW packages will be installed: distro-info-data gir1.2-glib-2.0 iso-codes libgirepository-1.0-1 lsb-release python-apt-common python3-apt python3-dbus python3-distro-info python3-gi unattended-upgrades 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3,786 kB of archives. After this operation, 24.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
# apt install apt-listchanges Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: linux-image-5.10.0-30-amd64 Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: python3-debconf The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-listchanges python3-debconf 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 137 kB of archives. After this operation, 452 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 python3-debconf all 1.5.82 [3,980 B] Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 apt-listchanges all 3.24 [133 kB] Fetched 137 kB in 0s (292 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages … Deferring configuration of apt-listchanges until /usr/bin/python3 and python's debconf module are available Selecting previously unselected package python3-debconf. (Reading database … 84582 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/python3-debconf_1.5.82_all.deb … Unpacking python3-debconf (1.5.82) … Selecting previously unselected package apt-listchanges. Preparing to unpack …/apt-listchanges_3.24_all.deb … Unpacking apt-listchanges (3.24) … Setting up python3-debconf (1.5.82) … Setting up apt-listchanges (3.24) …
Creating config file /etc/apt/listchanges.conf with new version
Example config for apt-listchanges would be like:
# vim /etc/apt/listchanges.conf [apt] frontend=pager email_address=root confirm=0 save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges.db which=both
3. Enable Automatic unattended upgrades
Once installed, enable automatic updates with the following command, which will prompt asking if you want to enable automatic updates. Select Yes and press Enter, which will confirm that the unattended-upgrades service is active and ready to manage updates for you.
At Line num 2 above is needed to reset (empty) the default value shown below in line num 5. Line 4 is needed to prevent any random delays coming from the defaults.
Now both timers should be active, if not, activate them with:
These timers ensure that updates are checked and applied regularly, without manual intervention.
5.Test one time Automatic Updates on Debian works
To ensure everything is working, simulate an unattended upgrade with a dry run:
# unattended-upgrade –dry-run
You can monitor automatic updates by checking the logs.
# less /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log
Log shows details of installed updates and any issues that occurred. Reviewing logs periodically can help you ensure that updates are being applied correctly and troubleshoot any problems.
6. Advanced Configuration Options
If you’re a power user or managing multiple systems, you might want to explore these additional settings in the configuration file:
# vim /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
Configure unattended-upgrades to send you an email whenever updates are installed.
Specify packages you don’t want to be updated by editing the Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist section in the configuration file.
Here is alternative way to configure the unattended upgrade, by using apt configuration options:
# vim /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic
// Control parameters for cron jobs by /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat //
// Enable the update/upgrade script (0=disable) APT::Periodic::Enable "1";
// Do "apt-get update" automatically every n-days (0=disable) APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
// Do "apt-get upgrade –download-only" every n-days (0=disable) APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
// Run the "unattended-upgrade" security upgrade script // every n-days (0=disabled) // Requires the package "unattended-upgrades" and will write // a log in /var/log/unattended-upgrades APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
// Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable) APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "21";
// Send report mail to root // 0: no report (or null string) // 1: progress report (actually any string) // 2: + command outputs (remove -qq, remove 2>/dev/null, add -d) // 3: + trace on APT::Periodic::Verbose "2";
If you have to simultaneously update multiple machines and you're on a limited connection line, configure download limits if you’re on a metered connection by setting options in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.
7. Stop Automatic Unattended Upgrade
Under some circumstances if it happens the unattended upgrades are no longer required and you want to revert back to manual package updates, to disable the updates you have to disable the unattended-upgrades service
# systemctl stop unattended-upgrades
8. Stop an ongoing apt deb package set of updates applied on Debian server
Perhaps not often, but it might be you have run an automated upgrade and this has broke a server system or a service and for that reason you would like to stop the upcoming upgrade (some of whose might have started on other servers) immediately, to do so, the easiest way (not always safe thogh) is to kill the unattended-upgrades daemon.
# pkill –signal SIGKILL unattended-upgrades
Note that this a very brutal way to kill it and that might lead to some broken package update, that you might have to later fix manually.
If you have the unattended-upgrade process running on the OS in the process list backgrounded and you want to stop the being on the fly upgrade on the system more safely for the system, you can stop and cancel the ongoing apt upgrade it by running the ncurses prompt interface, through dpkg-reconfigure
# dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades
Then just select No, press Enter. In my case, this has promptly stopped the ongoing unattended upgrade that seemed blocked (at least as promptly as the hardware seemed to allow 🙂 ).
If you want to disable it for future, so it doesn't automatically gets enabled on next manual update, by some update script disable service as well.
# systemctl disable unattended-upgrades …
Close up
That’s all ! Now, your Debian system will automatically handle security updates, keeping your system secure without you having to do a thing. The same guide should be good for most Deb based distributions such as Ubuntu / Mint and there rest of other Debian derivative OS-es. You’ve now set up a reliable way to ensure your system stays protected from vulnerabilities, but anyways it is a good practice to always login and check what the update has done to the system, otherwise expect the unexpected.
Linux by default has the /etc/motd that usually on some distributions is either completely removed or file empty or it contains some information regarding the exact Linux distribution version and numbering and that it comes with no warranty at all – example case for /etc/motd for a distro is Debian's /etc/motd (NO WARRANTY) famous message.
Exchanging this annoying message that is printed on every console tty login, in X session GUI terminal tool on the gnome-terminal / konsole / xterm as well as on each remote SSH session is easy if you have superuser credentials on the Linux server host, however if you're employed in a company and just having a single set of restricted access via LDAP or sudo credentials, that might be not possible.
Thus to save yourself the annoyance to read this reapparing company logo message or distribution non-sense information for each and every bash shell login, it is possible to do it on most Linux distributions via .an embedded feature that the bash shell understands via creation of simple empty file called
.hushlogin
Thus to get rid of the annoying /etc/motd message simply login with your user and do:
$ touch ~/.hushlogin
That's all folks on next login the message is gone !
There is other cases in which you might be the system administrator of a shared shell system and you want to inform the users about recent updates or planned Upgrade schedules under which the system will be unavailable lets say for a system reboot. to apply latest security or version updates.
Thus you might want to add an additional file under which you might want to inform all active UNIX shell users from a certain location. To do that you can use a sipmle script to run on every login via:/etc/profile.d/print-msg-on-each-login.sh
To create this simple additional print message mechanism
2. Edit file /etc/print_global_message and add the mssage to print on each user login
$ echo -e 'System reboot at 03:00 A.M.\n\n Please save all your data !\n To get rid of this message, run cmd\n $ touch /etc/.no_global_message ' >> /etc/print_global_message
That's all you're done now on next login you will get on the shell the message.
System reboot at 03:00 A.M.
Please save all your data ! To get rid of this message, run cmd $ touch /etc/.no_global_message
If you want to omit the message for your non-root user simply follow the instructions and run the touch command.
$ > /etc/.no_global_message
What we learned ?
How to disable /etc/motd message if such is there to not appear on every login by creating ~/.hushlogin As a sysadmin, how to configure an additional infromative messages via /etc/print_global_message, that could be disabled by touching /etc/.no_global_message.
The Church Rejoices + Daniil Metropolitan of Vidin chosen and Enthroned as Head of Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Dostoin / Axios !
Metropolitan Daniil is our Officially and canonically elected Patriarch of Bulgaria and Metropolitan of Sofia (the choice was made in a complex selection system) during a Church national Assembly on 30th of June 2024.
The whole Church rejoices as a dark cloud was over the Church as people were scared, un-worthy patriarch might be selected.
The procedure of selection of new patriarch depends on matching, certain criterias for the candidate.
According to the Ustav of Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Establishment Law document, Church established rules statues)
New Patriarch Candidate should match following criterias:
To have been on a cathedra as metropolitan and have governed a diocese for at least 5 years
To be not be younger than 50 years of age (should be 50+ years old).
To be distinguished within the Church to have right thoughts on the Orthodox faith and the exact observance of church order and laws.
To enjoy a good and honorable name both before the people and before the government of the country
Procedure for electing a patriarch
On 20th of June of 2024, after internal voting in the Holy Synod, following the Church statuses, after 42 turns of votes of individually each Bishop and Metropolitan voting for his favorite, the 3 candidates for patriarch were emitted.
1. In the first round, the candidate who collected 2/3 of the votes of the voters present wins 2. If this does not happen, a second round is reached with the two candidates who received the most votes in the first round 3. In the second round, the candidate with a simple majority wins.
The results out of the elections on the Patriarchical choice National Church assembly results were as so:
Three Patriarchical Candidates
Name Candidate
1st voting
2nd voting
Daniil Metropolitan Vidinsky
51 votes
69 votes
Grigoriy Metropolitan Vrachanski
64 votes
66 votes
Gavriil Metropolitan Lovchanski
19 vote
does not qualify
Patriarch Daniel (Bulgarian: Патриарх Даниил, romanized: Patriarh Daniil) has received his monk name after Saint Daniil the Stylite, one of the most notable Stylites in the Church history.
Early life and Education
Secular name Atanas Trendafilov Nikolov (Bulgarian: Атанас Трендафилов Николов; born 2 March 1972) in a town of Smolyan. He was born in a good and healthy family, his father Trendafil Nikolov is born in a small village near Smolyan (Kremene) and served as a police officer, his mother Zlatka Nikolova used to be a teacher in the field of Informatics in Economy scohol in Smolyan.
He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown and later served in the military. In 1996, he began studying English Philology at Sofia University, but being grown in the spirit of love for history and the motherland Bulgaria, he soon found out field of Philosophy does not provide enough to match his wide interests in history of the world and history of Bulgaria. Being touched by Gods love and having a desire to learn more about Christianity and his homeland orthodox christianity and learn more about philosophy but from the perspective of the Orthodoxy obviously guided by Gods provide, the following year during the hard years of national financial catastrophe and church schism in 1997 he transferred to the Faculty of Theology of the same university Saint Kliment Ohridski.
In 1997 he also become candidate for monk novice in the notorious monastery of Hadji Dimovo (in honour of Saint Great Martyr George) which was at that time of Spiritual Leadership of Metropolitan Natanail of Nevrokop, where he graduated in 2002 and which was one of the best monasteries capable of giving a solid basis for true and high standard spiritual life.
Becoming a Monk
On August 7, 1999, he was ordained a monk by him and the next day he was ordained as a hierodeacon. On July 21, 2004, he was sent for obedience to the Nativity of the Virgin Monastery (Rojenski Monastery) in Rozhen, and on November 27, he was ordained a hieromonk by his diocesan bishop. On June 1, 2006, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.
Recognized as exceptional choosen person and Levereged to a Bishop by metropolitan Natanail Nevrokopski Note: Nevrokov Eparchy is the eparchy in which Saint John of Rila Monastery belongs to, Metropolitan Natanail was among the most loved person in Bulgarian Church
On January 20, 2008, he was ordained as a Bishop with the title of Dragovitski and was appointed vicar of the Metropolitan of Neurokop Natanail.
Metropolitan Nathanail Nevrokopsky (titled as the consience of the Bulgarian Church)
His ordination was carried out by Patriarch Maxim (the previous patriarch before Patriarch Neofit) in collaboration with Metropolitans + Ioanikiy of Sliven, + Dometian Vidinsky, + Kyril Metropolitan of Varna and Veliko Preslav, Grigoriy of Velikoturnovsky, Neofit of Rusensky, Natanail of Nevrokopsky, Gavriil Lovchansky and bishops Evlogius of Adrianople, Abbot of the Rila Monastery, Naum Stobiyski at that time Chief Secretary of The Holy Synod, Theodosius of Devol, Constantine of Marcianopol and John of Znepol (currently Metropolitan of Varna and Veliko Preslav chosen after decease of Metr. Kiril).
Hadji Dimovski monastery become also famous also for being the spiritual school for Metropolitan Serafim of Nevrokop (chosen after's Metropolitan Natanail Nevrokopsky pass away to Christ).
On 15 June 2010, Daniel was appointed vicar of the diocese in the US, Canada and Australia of the Bulgarian Patriarchate. On 2 December 2011, the Holy Synod "took note of the letter from Metropolitan Joseph of the USA, Canada and Australia, notifying that permission had been received from the American emigration authorities to fulfill the obedience assigned by the Holy Synod to Bishop Daniel of Dragovitski who can already leave and take on responsibilities, as metropolitan vicar of the USA, Canada and Australia". He was considered the most likely successor to Metropolitan Joseph of America (Bosakov).
Served as vicar bishop in the American, Canadian and Australian dioceses from 2011 until February 4, 2018 (for 7 years). He was chosen to become the Metropolitan of Vidin (after the decease of Metr. Dometian) from February 4, 2018 to June 30, 2024.
In December 2018, Metropolitan Daniel condemned the Unification Council in Kyiv, calling it uncanonical. In his opinion, the actions of Patriarch Bartholomew are non-canonical, since he encroached on someone else's canonical territory.
Daniil is the originator of the introduction of religious education in the Bulgarian school and for many years worked for it to be included as a subject in the curricula.
On 21 July 2004, Daniel was sent for obedience to the Rozhen Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On 27 November of the same year he was ordained hieromonk by his diocesan bishop. On 1 June 2006, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. On 20 January 2008, he was consecrated Bishop of Dragovitia and vicar of the diocese of Nevrokop diocese.
Metropolitan of Vidin 4 February 2018 – 30 June 2024
On 4 February 2018, he was elected by the Synod to the post of Metropolitan of Vidin. Vidin was the last city that fall under the Ottoman hordes, and perhaps his zeal for truthfulness and orthodoxy and the Bulgarian nation was the reason Gods providence in that hard times to have chosen him to be head of this small but historically rich and important eparchy.
In December 2018, Metropolitan Daniel condemned the Unification Council in Kyiv, calling it uncanonical. In his opinion (based on Church Canons of Ecumenical Councils), the actions of Patriarch Bartholomew are non-canonical, since he encroached on someone else's canonical territory.
Perhaps for the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the selection by the Gods providence for Daniil to be the next patriarch of Bulgaria, was quite a shock as the expected patriarch to choose was Gregory who if chosen should have been titled Gregory the II-nd as we already had a patriarch with this name , during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (saying this by memory), but mans thoughts are very different from Gods thoughts as the Holy scriptures says.
After the death of the former Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Neophyte in March 2024 and respective mourning period, then Metropolitan of Vidin, Daniel was one of the three shortlisted candidates to ocuppy the patriach position together with Metropolitan Gregory of Vratsa and Metropolitan Arsenius of Sliven.[7] On 30 June 2024, at the patriarchal electoral Church-People's Council in Sofia, Metropolitan Daniel was elected the new Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia.
Picture of Patriarch Daniil Blessing, right after his selection and his "radiation" with Patriarchal Ensignias, the Patriarchical Wand stick, The Cross, Panagias …
Pre-selected moments of the enthronization of new Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria by Sonya Ankova
Currently he is the canonical 4th Patriarch of the new History of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, currently serving as Patriarch of All Bulgaria since June 30 !
His choosing and Enthroning was surprise for many influential people in the history and was just another proof the Church of Bulgaria is Governed by Jesus Christ and the selection was made by the Holy Spirit of God itself !
Daniil the New Bulgarian Patrhiarch, the Forth Patriarch by Bulgarian National TV (BNT) Chapter I
Lets all say Достоин / Axios !!!, just like many has proclaimed during the official introduction of Daniil as Patriarch with a special enthronization Ceremony. The selection day 30 of June this year was by God's providence on the Sunday of All Saints, this year this day coincided also with the Assembly of All Holy Apostles day commemoration dedicated to All Apostles of Christ (the 12, the 70th of desciples and the rest of rings of desciples of Christ who have done apostolic mission sent by him). The Assembly of Apostles feast is always celebrated in the Church always 1 day after the Great feast of Saint Apostle Peter and Apostle Paul's day. The day after on the day the first Holy Liturgy was served by tradition by the new Patriarch and it was the Summer Feast of Saint Cosmo and Damianos and one of the 3 major feasts of Saint John of Rila (The Return of the Holy Relics of Saint John of Rila into Bulgaria) .
Patriarch Daniil is the youngest patriarch of Bulgaria in our history of the Bulgarian Church, currently aged 51, since its establishment in year 870 (1154 years ago) and a lot of hope by many, that his Church rulership will be mostly beneficial for the whole Church and nation and will raise up the confidence and self-esteem of the nation, and shed light on the nation and attract more of the youth, that is living a life away from the Church even though baptized, back in the Church.
Lets pray and wish the new Patriarch Daniil, a lot of increasement of Health, Love and Faith for everyone and Wisdom to guide the flock of Christ through the hardships of current turmoiled times of desperation and confusion as well as good health to serve as a Patriarch for Many Years !
For Many and Blessed Years his Holiness Patriarch of Daniil ! Metropolitan of Sofia and Patriarch of All Bulgaria !
Our baby Ekaterina becomes 6 months on 17 of May, 5 days after our boy Dimitar become 4 years. Sum it up my year 2023 lessons learned.
This article is a bit late in time but I started writing it quite a long time ago in the beginning of 2024. But as my various duties as a husband, employee, a volunteer in the Church and computer hobbyist as well as the attempts to still keep up some normality with all the stressful kind of wife that is in the large cities as Sofia. I could post it just today and what has reminded me is simply our daughter Ekaterina has a half birthday today. Below I'll pinpoint some important things that happened through the year, starting with a harsh and gloomy Intro
A bit of Overview, things globally seem to be worsening
Life is ticking fast. Life is more boring than thought. Finding a cell people to hang on around is a difficult and almost impossible task. Real People are becoming less and less. Consumerism is already the only thing that matters for most people.
Love between people (unconditional love) is almost gone. Money are the ones dictating what people should do. No real communities anymore exists (COVID-19) has messed up the heads of people. Christianity is severily partitioned as schisms are seen to plague even the True Christian faith of Eastern Orthodoxy, a hidden persecution against the true pastors is ongoing in many orthodox Churches. War in Ukraine a total disaster for everyone. Politicians as usual using Church to force their own agenda lead by territory and monetary interests. There is a brutal onging economic crisis turmouling the world noone speaks seriosly about. The usual work duties requirements are increasing but sallary payments decreasins.Life expenses are gradually raising as the World Economic Crisis is firing.
People who has suffered COVID numerous times has certainly bad effects on health, many people who have survived COVID and the rest of numerous viruses that has hit us over the past had worsened vision and hearing.
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) starts to kicks and puts even more mess in the already messy world especially as it is some kind of another marketing baloon similar to the WWW Domains business baloon. The AI such as ChatGPT, WormGPT, Google Bard said to outsmart our professions (though the facts are still not encouraging enough as the Hype is great, plus the results with collaboration with AI seems to not be fact proof enough yet). The Rapid evolution of technologies has put many moral dilemas and life is becoming harder to bear as the stress of using techonlogies and the higher expectations by humans and their constant requirement to collaborate with technologies (Smart Phone, Tablets Computers, ATMs, Terminals, Cars, Banks, Cards, Virtual currencies and complex systems which claim to simplify life of man makes the human body more fragile sick.
The lack of good and ecologically brew food is also a great factor, as most people who live in large cities eats mostly industrial quality food (and there is no real way to find out whether a food is really ecological even if it is sold as such). In Todays more and more tech inter connected world between People noone can live a normal private life (as often our datas shared on line are leaked to hacker groups after a resource or system is hacked), that poses a number of other challenages and dangers. Privacy has also become almost impossible task, as we don't have a real or full knowledge on how much of our data seen or processed on our phones is staying at our side and how much shared with Security agencies such as CIA, Musad and KGB etc.
Everything is steering us Camares, Phones, Photos, Social Networks and loneliness is often felt so real. Most people living in economic slavery, even though doesn't really even recognize the cell they live in due to the smartphones and many virtual false options given. Complexity of life is increasing as one should have too much skills to manage even simple tasks. Lack of people to fill in open gaps about professions and work, same time generally not too much work capacity or willingness to do people is also a great of issue.
The world is more and more starting to look like it is described in anti-utopias books like Brave new World, 1984, Animal Farm.
Even though this hardships and birth pains, that are typically described by Saint Evangelist John in the Book of Reveleation,
The Birth of Ekaterina on 17th November 2023 another hope for the World
With every new kid coming to this earth it is a God blessing for everyone and another oportunity for individuals to grow and raise another meaningful person, that might make the world a little bit of a better place. Even though today is scary to have a kid because of the harsh situation, it is better to stay helpful for the best and share the joy to have second kid born.
i'm happy for God blessed me with second child a baby Ekaterina born on 17 of November 2023.
Day of Discharge of the Sheinovo Child Birth Hospital, Sofia with Little Baby Ekaterina
During birth Baby Ekaterina was born around 3300 gr of weight, thanksfully the birth of wife was a natural birth. But sadly I had to in parallel take care about the other kid Dimitar, (since he did not attend the Kindergarden for some time), Clean up the house and prepare everything for the acceptance at home of new baby, and buy threats to treat multitude of people who are close and nearby. I'm thankful to Vasil Kolev and Mitko for attending the Official hospital Discharge.
Below is another picture of the now grown baby Ekaterina 4 months later for a one day trip to Balchik (sea resort) near my home city Dobrich
During this year personally review the 2023, Helped as Alter server (ipodeacon) in the Holy Liturgies in Saint George (Dyrvenica) https://www.svgeorgi.com as a ipodeacon, on many services, together with Archimandrite Father Flavian. Summery time i was able to Visited many monasteries nearby
Sofia with Father Flavian. Just to name a few of the multitude of monasteries visited, The 7 Thrones, Praveshki Monastery Saint Teodor Tiron, Seslavski Monastery near Sofia, Saint Petka (near Bankia), Etropolski Monastery, Rilski Monastery, Troyan Monastery, German Monastery, Kremikovski monastery, Glozhenski monastery, Tetevensky monastery Saint Ilija Travelled to Teteven and many others. Just for reference the monasteries and holy places one could visit in Bulgaria are thousands and this makes the country quite interesting to travel around. The high spirituality which the nation had in the past has left a lot of spiritual inheritance for us. Which however nowadays, we do not value and protect …
Has visited multiple times, monastery of Saint Marina situated near village of Krumovo in between Dobrich and Varna. Also visited Ahtopol (i won't say i'm too impressed – maybe i was in the wrong season and with a pregnant woman) and Tsarevo, Pomorie and Nessebar (for the Feast of Dormition of Holy Theotokos).
To speak the truth has been a heavy and hard year a lot of spiritual sorrow, sicknesses and lack of direction, internal family problems between me wife, my nerves totally strained and I have no clear direction as eyes sems to be deteriorating and I often though about leaving it all behind and going to a monastery. Quite disappointed from the realities I've seen. Bulgaria is very beautiful country but everything seemed too messed …
Also i've had too many temptations, drived a lot our old minivan KIA Carens 2006, which helped me to significantly increase my car driving habits, and hopefully now I become a better driver . Middle of May had to pay car taxes and expenses in SDI, paid for standard Vignette starting from June as prior year.
Tried to read my prayers daily Morning and Evening prayers + (rule), that turned to be much harder than thought as it takes up to 30 minutes morning and 1 hour evening times (with some of the additional prayers I try to keep). Also had been blessed to be able to receive the Holy Communion many, many, many times.
Tried to bring the Kid Dimitar regularly on a Church services in Holy Trinity Church (the Slatina (an ex-village) and Sofia district main temple), situated 10 minutes from Svetlostruy where we live currently, as well as bring him to Dyrvenica regulary, and thanksfully he also took part in Christ misteries for many, many times throughout the year.
Spend and I have to say perhaps lost a lot of time hanging with Alexander (The singer), drinking beers – that was a bad idea but as this helped me a bit to get away my focus from sad stuff and cheer me up, it had a positive effect as well. Health, seems to be critical, especially with the high stresses I experienced before and near birth of our daughter Ekaterina. I was also heavily involved in taking care for our kid who is now 3.8 years next year 12 of May to become 4 years.
Also I sung a lot on services as a main singer mainly Evening services as often due to the lack of people to sing the service there is necessity to sing services, sing also a few times a Holy Liturgy and as usual sung every Monday and Friday for the Sanctification of Waters and on a Akathist prayer to the Holy Theotokos (Mother of God). Lately don't have enough time to read too much books. My Work computer notebook (failed to apply) Windows Updates shipped by WL and I've been sent a new laptop which came early 2024. Exchanging work computer due to failing update is funny and absurd but I survived this one too … In the begining of 2024, our beloved colleague Dimitar Paskalev has left our team in Worldline and that also one of the hardships, we have to bear an extra amount of things to do when he is gone as he is an excellent system administrator, programmer and business consultant consultant.
People's knowledge thought increasing makes things hard to be fixed more and more. As finding a solution becomes more expensive or sometimes impossible to resolve software issues on a hardware that cannot be tracked it is way easier to simply exchange the hardware. Same is true nowadays for both computers, cars and pretty much everything. If it breaks don't fix it but exchange it with a new, that seems to be valid more and more.
This is product of hardcore consumerism society, we humanity turned out and this is going to destroy the planet obsiously but seems noone really cares, even with the International Summits for reduce of Emitions etc., i'm pretty convinced from what I see is done that is just a pure marketing for countries as well as simple populism. Ecology is something people has to seriously think about though, because the life style with driving cars everything as we did and hyper consumption is destructional for both people, environment (nature), animals, this is pretty clear observing how the natural environments gets destroed more and more due to conustruction works and industrial waste etc.
The news read about Ukraine and Israel has been mostly troubling and together with the techonlogization and degradation of Society has convinced me the hope for this world is almost gone. Doesn't look like there is any "Road Ahead" as some "visionaries" are foreseeing (i'm talking about the insane book of Bill Gates, called the "Road Ahead", which is picturing a great future with a lot of developments due to technology (what a blatant non-sense). It seems what we observe is starting to become quite opposite to Bill Gates, Ilon Musk and the rest of "visionaire" idols of the world visions as all is falling apart more and more and unresolvable issues are much more.
The technological enslavement of people has been continuing, though it has been presenting as this is making people much more free and happy, it is exactly the opposite, prople become more and more dependent on technology and on the road to become a subordinates of technology than controillers. Most young people are suffering completely of addictions to technology, has very low literacy and I'm noticing most of teenagers couldn't properly express themselves, quite sadding. A lot of young people seeing the sad reality are turning to sub-culture, just like it was in the end of 1990s but the difference is now, people are separated each one hanging in his tech device and community across the common problem of isolation of the individual, that was sharing and communing with others is not really too much possible in the 21 century.
Many good peoples in the Church has passed away, I've suffered a lot during the summer from the heat, hardly beated. After the COVID seems to have passed through a long COVID and some depressions, which I don''t know whether managed to deal with even now, the Church has helped a lot to keep on track as feelings were overwhelming, most likely due to the nightmare war between orthodox Russia and Ukraine (remember The Gospel says it God''s punishment becomes from his own people). We Bulgarians are at mind wars, as some people take Russia's' positions and others Ukraine (Pro and Anti-Russian attitudes) prevail, everywhere. The same is I guess among all ex-USSR countries The Patriarch Neofit become quite sick. In terms of Work the first part of Year up to end of Summer has been more heavy, but mainly stress at work is not from work complexity but the messiness in the Company Worldline. In end of Autumn passed all required company trainings. Tried also to blog as regularly as I could but blogging is becoming harder and harder task, as my eyes degrades. Tried to play some Arcades as that has been funny for me but nowadays don't have too much of a free time to play on the handheld consoles. Life in Sofia is quite heavy as distances are putting its toll ((though there is pretty much everyhing) the amount of stress is destructionary for the personality.
I did not have much of achievements this year at work but I guess with years, the energy of person is reducing (just like the motivation due to the messy stuff that is unvailing in the world). With age seems one can do less and less except if he is not some kind of mania mode. Also the lack of recognition for what is done at work and the type of Corporate stuff that is mostly like a (Social) Socialist company, makes one to be not much motivated to complete much, the other issue is it seems times ticks too fast (just as Christ says in the Gospel because of lawfulness of people, time will be shortened this prophecy seems to be fulfilling and for those who can see it they can see how time reduces and one can do much less than he could some years ago). Days are flying quickly. There are too many experienes all the time and due to information overburn, the mind becomes very unfocused. Having any even simple kind of focus becomes a luxury nowadays, as we''re bombarded from everywhere with false preaches of advertisement and people's idea and stereotypes of the world.
I remeber about my youth and how simple we lived with my grand parents, and how much happiness was in that and compare to noaways over-stressed and complex world and often, miss that old times (that even though) physically harsh has been much more graceful than today.
In terms of technology I have the desire to go out of the Technological slavery but for that you need to have a co-minded person ( wife), which agrees to live a more simple wife, which i don't have in the moment.
Why I saw technological slavery, well it is what it is, in the past technology was really making the life of one easier and even today, many technologies are doing so. However being online 10 to 12 hours a day is no longer a conforting, especially if about 6 to 8 hours of your midful time is to be hired at work and stay on a chair in front of the computer and to do complex mind stuff, that after 10-15 to 20 years, destroys the psyche and the body .
Being intelligent is also a big problem in the 21 century as you see much more of the usual people and you see most interactions between people are simply manipulative and dictated by the desire to attain something. The communication between most people is based on "receive" as much as you could and give out as little as possible and on the principle of always do gain in everything. People do things to receive and not to give including me … that is totally the opposite of the teaching of Christ who says "It is more blessed to give, than to take".
About entertainment for the year was mostly traveling and going for a Night dinners in Emilian with Angel, Alexander and gathering together with Vasil Kolev (A researcher in the Bulgarian Academy of Science BAN, specalist in the field of Frequencies and Signals) and a very good Christian and man who helped a lot together with Emilian and Angel. Perhaps part of the entertainment was our after-work stuff we did with Dimitar Paskalev and Georgi Stoyanov which was more happening in beginning of 2023 and has deteoriated as I had a lot of personal issues and did not have enough time to do computer stuff together after work.
Silvia also helped me a lot with the kid, as I needed help, and suffered with informational and physical overload, perhaps that is common for those with kids.
As said we got born our second baby who my wife decided to name Ekatherina after Saint Ekatherina (St. Catherine of Alexandria), a good selection for name as saint Ekatherina is a great woman martyr saint I love much and that helped me in hardships many times.
Have to say, i am very sad that I don't see people to love each massively, this has to be endured but it is hard. Also I feel sad I can't do much my to change the world for better both by work and action and my weak prayers. Near end of year I had severe pain and left leg inflamation, after having a multtiude of health disturbances in parallel with the pregnancy of Svetlana. Also often i feel very disconnected from everything, perhaps I'm seeing much harsh reality than expected and being raised more or less in the spirit of idealism it is really hard to accept the reality as it is. Also with the aging it is a common and well known fact that we become much less flexible as in the youth age past. Thanks God the year has passed and in the new year 2024, I hope for the best as everyone but as the monks say Spiritual life is based on the two columns of "Ora" and "Labora" = Work and Prayer, so the coming year depends heavily on my perseverance to do this two and of course follow God's main commandments love God with all my heart and all my being and love my neighbor as myself !
One very notable event to say is early in 2024 Metropolitan JOANIKIJ (Joanichius) of Sliven has passed to Christ aged 82 on 9 of January (The day on which passed my beloved grandather Marin passed away), This year it turned 20 years since my beloved grandfather Marin has passed. He used to be a man of honor and goodness that was rare for the 20th century and he is among main persons for example to follow the good path of helping everyone and love everyone.
Let God have mercy on his soul and receive him in Heaven.The brother of Patriarch of Bulgaria Neofitos (The Proto-Psalt and director of the Cathedral Choire of Saint Alexander Nevsky Proto-Psalt Dimitar passed) as well as a lady called Violeta who was helping in Holy Trinity Church and suffering multiple diseases passed to Christ.
The times of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ seem to be really near, this is clear from the facts that the corruption and people's degradation has reached a state, where no truthfulness is existing neither in the worldly organizations Countries, governments, parliaments, courts, institutions, companies and even in the Most Holy Church of Christ which he has consecrated by his Holy Blood, through the Crucifixion and Death on the Cross for our sins.
It seems today, neither the low ordinary people neither the high and eligible and most honored Bishops and even Metropolitans are in a such a bad careless state, that they only care about their own wordly interests and the interests of a few of other servitudes nearby, neglecting the interest of the Holy Church of Christ (which is the Assembly of believers in the Lord Christ Jesus, who breath and live being in the world but , “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”John 18:36.
What happens now about 2000 years, later in Christ Church is absotely the same. Just like Jesus, his true followers has been rejected to be accepted by his own people. In same way his true people are always, being rejected to take their ruling place, but instead in the world the Lies and manipulations are taking place to crucify the true servents of God.
The Holy Gospel seems to repeat itself again and again all the time through the ages. This time the stage is different this is not ancient Israel with the Assembly of Synodrion and the Old Testament's Church of God and his People the Israelites. But the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church with his people the new Israel the Christians.
Get to know the facts on Bulgarian Church Scandal Escalasion for New Metropolitan of Sliven voting – situation as of 24th April 2024
The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church has made another and strange untransparent decision once again, right after the Enormous Scandal with the cassation of legal choice of People of Sliven for best candidates Ierotey and Mihail (amongs which Ierotey is preferred), as the Metropolia of Sliven is still mourining on the beloved pontiff his holiness Metropolitan Ioanikij, less than 3 months before his blessed passing to Christ.
Map of Spiritual Eparchies in Bulgaria of Bulgarian Orthodox Church Bulgarian Patriarchy (BPC-BP)
Territorial Map of Sliven Eparchy according to the Local Spiritual districts belonging to Sliven Metropoly
Shortly after, it was decided to stop the legal procedure for choosing between bishop Ierotey and bishop Michail and overwritte the Synod accepted and agreed own legal document to follow on different church casuses, the ' the Church statuses regulations (Устав на БПЦ Българска Патриаршия = Bulgarian Orthodox Church Regulation Rules document decided to be followed by everyone in the Church including the bishops and metropolitans on a National Church Assembly) rightduring a procedure for enthronization of next Metropolitan of Sliven.
The new "regulation" they tried to push "in the shadows (illegally against the Church statues)" was written in a way to make the choice of new Metropolitans to be done only by Metropolitan assembly the Synod, without taking in considerating the christian people preference for such, something scandal as this was not so during the last 150 years since we have restored the Bulgarian Church Excharchy.
Out of this a great number of discussions started by Christian laity in facebook, viber and in the media of multitude of people, priests and cleargy from Sliven Eparchy complaining and protesting first infront of the Metroplitan Palace in Sliven
Sliven Church Priests, Monks and Layman gathered in front of Sliven Eparchy Metropolitan governing building
As this protests were not considered seriously by many of Elders of the Synod, the same protest with much more participant occured in front of Synodal Palace (the ruling ministry of the Bulgarian Church seat place) in Sofia as well as purely physical by presence with Prayer Vigils to the Holy Synod because of their unwillingness to accept the Synod unargumented decision to stop the procedure for choice of new metropolitan.
Peaceful objection Vigil Prayer in front of Holy Synod by Sliven Clergy and Laymen, Poster reads: "Do not exchange our Good shepherd, which gives his soul for the sheep with a mercenary, we do not know !" Second Poster on the background is "Against the New Order", meant the new Order to not venerate People's choice during voting of new Metropolitans
The outcome of the protest in front of the Synodal bulding palace in Sofia, Bulgaria was to cancel the votings for Metropolitan and do the whole voting procedure from the beginning. The people accepted the decision of the Synod even though the synod took this decision to not put in place 'new order' in favour if existing norms of the Churh statuses on the background of multitude of protesting priests, monks and layman from Sliven Eparchy and other eparchies which is well documented well in below video.
Synodal Prayer Vigil against the cassation of choice for future Metropolitan of Sliven
On the protests along with Church people and clergy from Sliven was present people from other Eparchies as well as key well known priests and monks that are from Sofia and the Sofia Metropolitan to tell their unwillingness for overriding the Church established rules "Statuses", as well as to express their support for Sliven Eparchy whose Church people will is to have venerated their up to the rules selection of Bishop Ierotey to become the next Vicar (Metropolitan) of Sliven.
On many TV medias this protest was not shown and the organized fake "contra-protest" of Metropolitan Nikolay and his people who were anti-protesting against people will was shown as it was paid for that (another proof for lack of enough freedom of speech and transparency of Bulgarian mass medias).
The contra-protesters from Plovdvid Eparchy that came with buses from Plovdiv eparchy enforced by Metropolitan Nikolay, very much in the old spirit of manifestations during the totalitarian regime of communism (notice the obviousness of the protest is fake from the exactly same looking slogans held mainly by priests)
As a result people from Sliven Eparchy accepted the fact that the Holy Synod decided to finally cassate (cancel) the procedure for choice of new Sliven Metropolitan and organize a new list of Worthy and dostopochteni (venerable) Bishops among which Sliven's people should make the choice again. The people accepted this as they hoped the Holy Synod elders, might have been misled by the false accusation reports of the two brother priests Silvester and Evgeny Yanakievi (who by the way are very active on facebook) against Ierotey, and thus by organizing the choice once again officially the choice will take case in a transparent way and according to the Church rules statuses and then they can again vote for bishop Ierotey and double verify their initial choice.
However what happened now is far from that. Contrary to any logic (and as provocation), the list of venerable Bishops was made by the Holy Synod, during the Great Lent on 22 of April, a time in which people should concentrate on their repentance and spiritual growing and spiritual preparation to accept the Fest of Feasts, The Resurresction of Christ Easter.
Contrary and again unvenerating the Church clergy and people's will of Sliven the new list of Bishops does not included neither Ierotey nor Mihail and included only 6 Bishops claimed to be venerable !!!
Here is a tiny biographies and only few rumored things about the Bishops, synod have been included and listed them according to seniority on when they become bishops.
1. The first listed Bishop Sionij (Velichki) completed Cherepish Spiritual Seminary (Academy) in 1990. Become monk in 1991. Completed Theology in 1994 in Saint Kliment Ohridski. 1995-1996 specialezed in Erlangen Germany. Become monk from Metropolitan Dometian (Vidinski) in Klisurski Monastery soon after become hieromonk. In 1992 – 1995 has been abbot of Klisura Monastery. In 1996 has become deacon of Sofia's Theological Seminary Saint John of Rila (he was later removed because of scandals, a boy died and accused by pupil parents for pedophilia, a sad fact that was hidden with time, due to many publications you can find online …). In 1998 has been raised to archimandrite by Patriarch Maxim in Dolni Lozen Monastery St. Peter and Paul. In March 2007 has been ordinated as Bishop Velichki in Saint Alexander Nevski Cathedral. In 2009 become vicar of Vidin Metropolitan Dometian In 1 May 2014 become an abbot of Troyan monastery, 3rd April 2019 he has become an abbot also to Bachkovo Monastery. Bishop Sionij is among the most scandalous persons in Bulgarian Orthodox Church, many media scandals assigning his name tо pedophilia and homosexuality through the time. It is claimed by medias he is involved with mafia (and especially with Church mafia). There was even a person who says to have been involved in this affairs with him that publicly has given interview for "Tzanov"'s self financed youtube channel Napred i Nagore" (video titled: "The Church of Sin"). Currently paradoxically he is an abbot of 2 of the biggest and 2 second richest monasteries in Bulgaria Troyanski and Bachkovki.. His family is known in Sofia for years for being one of the most richest people in Sofia. Currently aged 56 yrs.
2. Second one Arsenij gruaded high school 2006 in Stara Zagora in village Osetenovo. Completed Saint John of Rila seminary in 2006, was student in Saint Ohridski Theology and continued his education in Plovdiv University, saint Paisios of Hilendar, said to have graduated 2009. Tonsured monk in 2007, became hierodeacon and consequentially same year 2008 hieromonk. 6th December he was raised by Metr. Nikolay to Bishop. He has been a director of Plovdiv's Orthodox TV since 2009 and Plovdiv Seminary 2010 (seminary initiated again by by Metr. Nikolay). In 2012 he was given to be a head of Metropolitan cathedral in Plovdvid saint Marina. On June 2014 he was raised to bishop after offer was to the Holy Synod, by Metr. Nikolay. Hierotony was made by then very old Metropolitan Ioanikiy of Sliven in collaboration with Metropolitans Dometian of Vidinsky (now deceased), Grigoriy of Velikotarnovsky, Ignatius of Pleven and Nikolay of Plovdiv.
Iinterestingly he is titled as protegee of Metr. Nikolay who orchestrates the decisions in the Holy Synod for the last years (fact known by most people who even had a slight idea of what is going on internally in the Church). The backstage ruling of the Synod and the place is said to be easy for the Metr. Nikolay, since patriarch Neofit was severely sick and in practice inactive as patriarch. According to official information that leaked from Synod, it was exactly Arsenij the choice of Metr. Nikolay and his group of metropolitans (most of whom doesn't have the necessery support from anyone such as DS (Dyrzhavna Sigurnost) to which Metr. Nikolay is said to have the support and in which Metr. Nikolay's father was important ranked person). Thus according to different medias the legative choice of Sliven people was cancelled by the Synod by Metr. Nikolay and his group in attempt to install the already pre-chosen Arsenij in any means.
Bishop Arsenij is known amoung the clergy in Church for becoming a bishop officially against the Church statuses, not having the Statuses set fulfilled years, becoming bishop before his 30s in 28 years, according to Church rules of statuses regulations of BPC-BP he should have had been at least 35 years, 2 more years than Christs age of crucifix. The other break of Church statuses regulations with his hierotony was that he did not have 10 years as a clergy person in Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Currently 37 yrs old (has 10 years served as Bishop)
3. Bishop Gerasim (Melnishki) is famous for having a professional Actors education, before deciding to become monk and start his new career in the Church. He has not have officially any Theological Education diploma till the moment he decided to walk the spiritual path, but received such by specialization in Moscow 2 years in a newly created faculty by Metropolitan Ilarion Alfeev (faculty created 2012) and no longer existing. The Diplomas from Russia are not really considered officially by Bulgarian Government due to legislative reasons. Even though that he managed to be chosen somehow and become the Secretary of Holy Synod, and have signed documents that he has a higher Theological education which he at that time doesn't. He seemed to have served as a head of saint Alexander Nevsky and in this service He is said by some medias to have closed his eyes and signed the documents for requirements of higher education for the job of Synodal Secratary as a preliminary to the function of Secratary. He is known to often serve Liturgy in the Russian Church among which was a lot of scandals last year and which kept closed for quite some time, due to clergy in the Russian Church Clergy in (Sofia) Bulgaria being accused for serving for FSB (Russian Secret Services). He is also accused by medias for organizing an official business dinner for donation to collect money from businessmen for the sake of restoration of Biggest Cathedral in Bulgaria St. Alexander Nevsky. It should be said his service in saint Alexander Nevsky as a head of it for some years was okay, no big scandals like the previous head archim. Dionisij Mishev. Have to say it is strange why such a cathedral as Saint Alexander Nevsky, has to collect donations for its restoration, especially since the Bulgarian church Sofia Metropoly has a lot of land properties and stores on the city center that given for rent and should be bringing money to mitropoly along with the so called "vladichnina" amount of whole profit which every Church on territory of eparchy has to pay to the metropoly, especially as the Church st. Alexander Nevsky is a common tourist destination in Sofia for people all around the world and that should be supposably another way to collect money for its restoration. He is neither famous nor infamous and that is perhaps his main places of service was Saint Alexander Nevsky and as Synodal Secretary. Currently he is aged 44 yrs. Served as Bishop 8 yrs.
4. Bishop Pahomij (Branicki) has been made a monk and hieromonk again by Metr. Nikolay, his elder was proto-abbot Benedict from Holy Mount Athos Zograph in Divotinski Monastery, near Bankya in 2002 in 2004 he become abbot of Divotinsky Monastery. For 2004 till 2010 he had managed to gather brotherhood and helped to recover a Chapel Saint Anna and rerecover the 70 Apostles Church buildings and the Main Church Holy Trinity (which is considered his greatest achievements) his fame amount the Orthodox christian youth has been positive as he managed to have a good charisma and attract young people in his monastery during his abbotship. In 2015 he become hieromonk. bishop (hierotony by current Metropolitan of Vratza and some other bishops who is temporary substitute for patriarch Neofit's passing till the new choice of patriarch completes.). In 12.06.2017 he was made a bishop in Rila Monastery, again – according to some sources he did not have the Higher Theological education at that time for the post of bishopship, requirement according to Statuses of Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Currently he is aged 45 yrs. Served as Bishop 7 yrs
5. bishop Makarij (Glavnicki) has completed Plovdiv's Spiritual Seminary (whose deacan at that time was Bishop Evlogij Adrianopolski), finished Theology school in Bucharest in 2004 and Master degree in Thessaloniki (Solun) completed in 2010. In march 2007 become a novice monk in Rila Monastery Saint John of Rila. In 2008 during Lent become Hierodeacon, by bishop Evlogij. April 2011 become a hieromonk (priest monk). In March 2017 become a bishop. After becoming metropolitan he is now a vicar Bishop of Metropolitan Naum. He is perhaps among the most educated bishops of Bulgarian Church at present. Due to his studies in Greece, some people which play a kind of rloe of 'whisle-blower' but also do distribute some false mirrors, he might be a man of the Ecumenical patriarch. It is interesting fact that his hierotony as bishop did not happen in Saint John of Rila monastery but in Troyan Monastery (The Old Practice of Bulgarian Orthodox Church was to create new bishops in the Capital Sofia in Saint Alexander Nevsky – nowadays changed – some speculate this is done to escape from the anaxios (unworthy) that someone might scream during the services of new hierotony to stop the ceremony). In Troyan monastery as of time of writting this article the abbot is bishop Sionij Velichki. Also it is a bit strange the person who pushed his career forward Bishop Evlogij of Rila Monastery did not take part in the hierotony in Troyan monastery. Current aged 42 yrs. Serves as Bishop 7 yrs
6. Bishop Isaak (Velbyzhdski), started and completed aged 13 in Saint John of Rila seminary in Sofia, which he complated in 2001. In 2001 he started working in Seminary administration. Completed Sofia, Theological School saint Kliment Ohridski in 2008 (Bachelor). In 2009 in Vidin he become monk by Dometian of Vidin under spiritual guidance of Biship Sionij Velichki. In 2010, was raised to hieromonk in Saint Nicolas Church and in parallel works in Sofia Seminary as а tutor (ethnical bulgarians living abroad). In 2011, with blessing of Metr. Dometian he has become episcopal vicar of Lom Spiritual district. In 2012 in Dormition of Theotokos Chapel (which he headed) he was raised to archimandrite. In 2012 he started studying postgraduate studies in Moscow. In June 2023 he was raised to bishop with the title Bishop Velbyzhdski and given the role of second patriarch Neofit's vicar, as first is Bishop Polikarp. According to rumors, he is said according to some media news to have some connections with FSB due to his studies in Russia (and the common Russians practice to try to recruit their students to work for Russian agencies). Also according to some medias he had public appearance speach, staying behind Russia's official position for holy war, held against the evil (Russia as a Third Rome idea which currently Russian Church embraces). Serves as Bishop 1 yr
Bishop Ierotey Agathopolski (Kosakov)
The Seventh Bishop that is excluded from list, Ierotey (Agathopolski) was selected by Sliven Eparchy Priest, Monks and Laity to become the 7th Metropolitan of Sliven is Ierotey (The Voice of the People, The Voice of God) !
Bishop Ierotey (Agathopolski) in 2003 completed, Parallel course of Sofia Theological Seminary. December 22, 2003, Metropolitan Ioannikiy (Nedelchev) of Sliven tonsured him as a monk in brotherhood of the Holy Great Martyr George in the city of Pomorie. Archimandrite Theodosius (abbot of) Pomorie monastery at that time became his spiritual mentor. May 11, 2004, Metropolitan Ioanikiy of Sliven in the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Burgas ordained hierodeacon. On May 16 of the same year, Metropolitan Ioanikiy of Sliven in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos in Nessebar was ordained to the rank of hieromonk. On January 1, 2005, he was appointed abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Great Martyr George in Pomorie. He made a significant contribution to the development of the Pomorie monastery and its influence on Christian life in the region. Christian children's camps were organized annually at the monastery, a week of Orthodox singing introduced. Many hopeless and lonely and people with problems found a hospitality and spiritual help and resort in the monastery. On May 6, 2008 he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. In 2010 he graduated Master Degree of Theology of Shumen University, Bishop Konstantin Preslavsky. September 18, 2014, by decision of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, he was elected vicar of the Sliven diocese, bishop with the title of Agathopol (Agathopolski). October 1 was chiratonized to Bishop rank by Metropolitan Ioanikij (Nedelchev) Slivenski, Metropolitan Grogorij (Stefanov) of Tarnovo, Metropolitan Starozagorsky Galaktion (Tabakov), Metropolitan Nikolay Plovdivsky (Sevastyanov), Metropolitan Ambrosij (Ambrosius) Dorostolsky (Parashkevov), Metropolitan of Nevrokop Seraphim (Dinkov), Bishop of Trayanopol Cyprian (Kazandzhiev), Bishop of Znepol Arseniy (Lazarov). Served as Bishop 10 years
I believe there is nearly no person who has even encountered to meet Ierotey (Kosakov) Bishop Ierotey and interacted and doesn't have a good memory of that time, or have some bad impression. Not that I know him presonally but that person has always tried to help everyone in everything, this is really rare in our mostly egoistical world. Perhaps only envious and people obsessed with money or material goods can criticize him for the reason, he lives a true monk, and as every true monk and as Saint John of Rila adviced in His Covenant, "From all the things, most beware of money, for they are the root of all evil.".
It happens Slivens Eparchy is full of material goods due to its strategic location nearby see and due to tourism, and of course this eparchy is interested to be at the hands of businesses who can built freely and sell for cheap to big investors lands for the sake of increasement of tourism in the region, as Bishop Ierotey might be a factor against that (as he has refused to cooparete in building of 200 rooms Hotel accomodation at lands of Pomorie Monastery to Silvester Yanakiev, now there are some people leading fierce company to remove him from the vote and destroy his good name reputation.).
From the Holy Synod, there is no official explanation on why Bishop Ierotey is removed from the vote list during the new choice, but for everyone who has even the slightest idea of what is going on in the Church higher stages of power it is fully clear.
The wing of Metropolitan Nikolay and his protegees Metropolitans has risen their voices against the inclusion of Ierotey in the list. In order to make it not clear that Ierotey is the real target, few others were also removed who were in practice "un-votable" as their personal life has spots.
This just like the first time of decision to halt the process of voting even thugh two candidates for metropolitan were chosen (none of which that seems to fit the desires of the Dark Cardinal of the Bulgarian Church Metr. Nikolay and his synodal group of dependent people who are kept silent and obedient due to compromates against them or with financial donations).
It is not secret and not new the backstage dictation of Metropolitan Nikolay to his band (Synodal wing) of bishops many of whom are known to have a lot of homosexual (homophilia) and even pedophilia and other abnormal sexual activities, as well as activities related to the dark business schemes in bulgarian businesses and money laundary for which people know from mouth to mouth information spreading for years in the Church.
What is now stunning is that these people has become so unscrupulous, that they're ready to get over any person or group of people and even against a whole Eparchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church that perhaps nominally might be around 1 million people !!!
These peoples's believe, that us the ordinary believers of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church are stupid and easily managable and they can do with them whatever they want because they're a higher class and very few of people are really regularly going to Church or actively parcipating in the Church Mysteries (Holy Communion and the other 7 sacraments).
What is striking, the Synodal elders are shameless, they think they're the Church, forgetting the word Ecclesia meaning.
"Ecclesia (or Ekklesia) in Christian theology means both: a particular body of faithful people, and the whole body of the faithful."
Seems like now our many of our Synodal Elders understand the Church (Ecclesia) as them and the servitude of faithful to Christ people who should obey them for the only reason, they have taken the seat of the Holy Apostles (that is the metropolitan seat = bishopship seat + administrative obediences).
It is interesting to say the modern understanding of Ecclesia in Western Modern Catholicism does well fit the understanding that the powerful of the day in the Synod that are trying to push out their agendas against the people will and choice, below is a definition.
Christian understanding of Church
If one speaks of the whole body of Christian faithful, then there are included not only the members of the Church who are alive on earth but all who were members of the church before. Some churches therefore describe the Church as being composed of the Church Militant (Christians on Earth) and the Church Triumphant (Christians in Heaven). In Catholic theology, there is also the Church Suffering (Christians still in purgatory).
The Christian family, the most basic unit of Church life, is sometimes called the domestic Church.[2]
Finally, 'The Church' may sometimes be used, especially in Catholic theology, to speak of those who exercise the office of teaching and ruling the faithful, the Ecclesia Docens, or again (more rarely) the governed as distinguished from their pastors, the Ecclesia Discens.
What else is really not Okay with how the selection of Bishops are reduced from 10 to 6 venerable to take the seat of Sliven Metropolitan
All this events happen during the Great Lent and for every True Christian it is well known the old Church practice, that important decisions should not be taken during the great Lent period as usually such decisions are wrong and could create havoc, due to the highest degree of temptations that are let around by the Almighty God for the spiritual grow and healing of his faithful childs the Christians.
It is up to Christian people to now proof them once the Great Lent is over after the Glorious Resurrection Day they're wrong and that people will not let the God given eparchy of Sliven to be ruled by dependent Metropolitan to Metr. Nikolay.
It is up to us to proof we're not sheepsand that people's will on matters of higher hierarchy of Church and their deeds should not be unmonitored and unpunished as it was in a higher degree over the last years !!!
People should rise of their indifference and show they still care about the Pureness of the Church and the legitimity of the Church Law of Selection of new Highest Hierarchical heads of the Church. It is last time and last chances until we still have Church, especially considering the Apocalyptic times in which we seem to be living.
If you dear brothers and sisters in Christ not react and not fight for the truthful selection of a list with really venerable bishops that is transparent and argumented as it should be, another satellite Metropolitan will be installed to fit the plans of the ex-communist DS (Dyrzhavna Sigurnost) and the Ruling elite. If that happens soon we'll not only have a Real Orthodox Church Hierarchy chosen according to canons and due to Church Statues as it should be but an Assembly of Pseudo Hierarchs who acts in secrecy and conspiracy schemes in the same way as any Masonic Lodge.
In other words, we'll have Church but a faked artificial business and party like organization, where decisions are not taken by the Creator of the Church the Lord Jesus Christ and his true followers the Apostles (that are the Bishops and Metropolitans), but we'll have a secular organization with Big beauty Church temple (museums without real cleargy) and a Monasteries full of pedophiles, gays and people who want to live an easy life and enjoy themselves instead of spiritually persevere and lead the hard spiritual fight and pray for the well-being of Bulgarians, Bulgaria and the Rest of the Christians.
Lets pray fervently until the end of the fasting, that the Metropolitans who took that bad decision will change their mind and put back in the list the real venerable people and not have a list of people who are dependent and unworthy due to lack of Higher education, a personal scandals, they were involved like Bishop Sionij or have another kind of spots, that can be easily researched even by a simple few Internet searches in Google.
Nomatter who is worthy or not, the main thing is that Sliven Eparchy should be headed by a person who is wanted in the Eparchy and such person according to the clear votes of Eparchical electors is Ierotey, the problem is that Ierotey is not playing well with the dark businesses and does count the interest of people, and does not randomly do what is being asked for with the only goal to make money and he doesn't follow blindly rules by Metr. Nikolay or whoever else that is not working for the good of True Church of Christ (the assembly of all people believing in Jesus Christ as we theEastern Orthodox believe) and thus he is automatically becoming unworthy. As worthy is considered those who serves the Business and the Internet of the powerful authorities of this day.
