Adieu to Abp. Gregory

[Subdeacon Jerjis]

With tears in my eyes, and great sorrow in my heart, I have to say "Adieu" to you, Abp. Gregory!

As you already know, I do not recognise your moral or ecclesiastical authority anymore, and as of yesterday, 1 October 2005,I have removed myslef from under your omophorion. I will later explain the Scriptural and Canonical violations which you have committed and which have forced me to leave you, after intense soul-searching and agony. I have loved you with all my heart and believed in you for the last four years. Many know this and have derided me for it, startting with my beloved wife Michelle. I have loved you with all sincerity and purity of heart, because I was thirsting for Christ and His Orthodoxy. I was longing to have the reassurance that you were a true shepherd, and that you loved your sheep and cared for their souls. I wanted to disbelieve all the accusations of your enemies, which I heard from all quarters. I have always given you the benefit of the doubt, and have been relishing the idea that I did not have to look for a confessing spiritual father any more. I have loved you with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength, because I believed you loved Jesus Christ our Lord, God, and Savior. I have supported you financially and morally beyond anyone's imagination. I have laid my life down for you, Abp. Gregory. I have made a fool of myself defending you against the many attacks that were hurled at you from all directions.

God, however, in His great mercy and providence, has opened my unworthy eyes to see things as they are in reality. The tragedy surrounding your trampling on the soul of Sbn. Nathaniel has been a catalyst that has revealed the truths about many other hidden flaws in your beliefs, behavior, and decisions, and has made me rethink your whole history. The crusts have fallen off from my eyes through God's grace and intervention. Very tragically, my multiple and repeated supplications and exhortations to you for a fair, just, and God-pleasing resolution of the crisis surrounding Fr. Peter's shameful jailing of Sbn. Nathaniel, have fallen on deaf ears. I have felt deceived and betrayed, and had to come to terms with the heart-wrenching sorrow that inevitably comes from blaming myself for being too trusting, naive, and lacking in discernment. I still want to thank you for all the good and true teachings that you gave me. I have benefited from following the traditional orthodox way of life, which I have learned from you, after leaving the Antiochians and the OCA. I am grateful to God for all the good and the bad. For our Lord uses all things for the benefit of those who love Him.

I pray that you would one day stop from your restlessness, and rethink the path that you have forged for youself. I hope that you will one day repent of your delusion that there are no more true bishops left in the world other than you and the Lamians. I pray that you would be one day reconciled to the Church in humility and love. For he who is the greatest among us should be more like Christ, and humble himself, even unto death, and lay his life down for those whom he loves.

My soul is very sorrowful, and a big part of my life for the last four years has just died. God is however merciful, and will guide me to the green pastures of Orthodoxy with the Holy Synod of his eminence, the venerable Metropolitan Vitaly.

I have loved you very much Abp. Gregory. I cannot however, partake of your numerous Scriptural and Canonical violations, and I cannot follow the multitude into evil, for I will have to give an account for my soul on that dreaded Day to the Terrible Judge.

I will still love you and pray for you, that you may be reconciled to the Church, for the salvation of your soul, and those with you.

Very sorrowfully,

Sbn. Jerjis/Dr. Alajaji

[Subdeacon Jerjis]

Abp. Gregory,

I will keep the antimension and holy mysteries in my possession until such a time that you will be able totravel to DuBois, PA. I will then deliver them to youintact, as is the honorable thing to do. I will not give them to my brother in Christ Gregory Charnisky,who is a layman. Please do not put him under pressureo do so. He does not wnat to be in the middle of this transaction.

I will treat the antimension and holy mysteries with my customary utmost respect and care. I have not taken holy communion since my return from Dormition Skete on 19 July 2005, because I have lost the oneness of mind with you, and because of your callous disregard to the commandments of the Holy Scriptures and Sacred Canons.

I am very deeply grieved for the unscriptural and uncanonical course that you have taken in handling this crisis with Fr. Peter and Sbn. Nathaniel. I do not recognise your moral authority or ecclesiastical authority anymore.

I will seek joining the Church with the Synod of the venerable Met. Vitaly [ROCOR (V)]. I welcome you and urge you to repent, and to humbly seek joining Met. Vitaly's synod in order to avoid remaining outside the Church as a rogue bishop for too long, and in order to save yourself and those with you. For their souls will be required at your hands by the Terrible Judge, Who examines the hearts and the reins.

Respectfully and sorrowfully submitted,
With tears in my eyes,

Sbn. Jerjis/Dr. Alajaji

[Subdeacon Jerjis]

Dear Members of Eupphrosynos Cafe'

Many know that I have been a very strong advocate and defender of Abp. Gregory on this forum and elsewhere, especially a year ago, around the time of the schism between Abp. Gregory and Met. Valentine.

Since then, God has opened my eyes to the many errors of Abp. Gregory, whom I still love, and from whom I have learned many good things. Our [Sbn Nathaniel] disagreements with Abp. Gregory and our departure from him have been gut-wrenching and very mentally and emotionally exhausting. I am sure it must have been as hard for
him too. His errors have pushed him astray and has alienated him from the confessing true orthodox jurisdictions. He has made himself into a rogue bishop.

Some of his errors entail his views on marriage, rebaptizing those who already had the correct form of baptism, his dogmatic insistence on no grace in all jurisdictions in the world except for himself and the Lamians, his refusal to be accountable to anyone, and his cultic grave
error about obedience, not to Christ, but to himself, believing that his own will IS the will of Christ and that God guides him in all things. As the Fathers teach, self-doubt and humility are always a healthy
thing for our own salvation, and also for the Church and those around us.

A major heresy to which Abp. Gregory holds, in my opinion, is his teaching that an obedient monk will bypass the Final Judgment and go
straight to Heaven, irrespective of his repentence, his cultivation of the virtues, etc.... Just blind obedience to his abbot will get him saved. That is a very dangerous teaching indeed, which fosters cultism.

I hope and pray that Abp. Gregory will one day see these errors and rectify his course. No human is without error, except our Lord Jesus Christ, the God-man. To recognise our mistakes and correct them in
THE ORTHODOX thing to do.

Maybe someday, by the Grace of God, when Abp. Gregory is softened by old age and the Holy Spirit, he will see the errors of his ways. I will rejoice greatly for him and those with him, and will give him a great big hug. There will be then even greater rejoicing in Heaven.

With love in Christ our Savior,

Sbn. Jerjis

[Priest Siluan]

Dear Sdn Jerjis:

I admire your humility and courage to recognize your own errors, I believe that it is a great teaching.

With love in Christ

P Siluan