Finnish Orthodox Church Using Roman Catholics for Altar Boys

[尼古拉前执事]

I just read a post at OCnet where a Roman Catholic talks about how he served as an altar boy in a Finnish Orthodox Monastery. He asks if this is normal and gets a response from one person where he talks about an Orthodox Monastery that uses a Roman Catholic as a Reader!

The Fins use the Gregorian Paschallion, so it being them it is not too much of a shock, but when will enough be enough for the other Orthodox Churches?

[Kollyvas]

Evlogeite Pater.
They have also looked at "coming to terms with human sexuality" as well as other monstrous things such as intercommunion with the lutheran "church" of Finland. Here is a clear case of "sergianism in the free world," for the Finnish church is in subjection to the government of Finland. It is also a glaring indictment of the "ecumenical way." I think that strict observance of the Canons should be our reaction to them. They are under the anathemas of Nicea and nothing they do bears any force. What is appropriate, then, is counciliar deliberations and condemnation and the cessation of Eucharistic Communion.
Orthodoxia I Thanatos!
Rostislav Mikhailovich Malleev-Pokrovsky

[Kollyvas]

Actually, I won't be so vapid as to comment. I would simply ask, what government interference and control of ecclesiastical structures to the point of disciplinary, doctrinal, structural and canonical compromises is? For those who wish to discuss "spiritual sergianism," I point at the work of Zoya Khrakhmalnikova on the topic.
R

[尼古拉前执事]

I think the difference here may be that the Finnish Church does this for a tax break. They could chose to celebrate Pascha with the Orthodox but do not in order to receive official government recognition and tax-free status.

Of course one can also say that the choice to join the Soviet government over the Catacombs was also nothing but a choice too.

[Kollyvas]

Evlogeite Pater.

Actually, they do this because the Finnish government insisted on it as well as tore this diocese from the bosom of the Mother Church in the 1920s, going so far as to appoint its hierarchs and persecute and exile to soviet concentration camps non-conformists, all, I might add, facillitated with the complicity of the ep. The reason why I bring this up is that the reality of sergianism is actually more stark in the "liberal democratic" West.
R