Met. Andreas and Seraphim of Greece urge Pope to repent

[Maria]

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/hea ... ryid=21125

• In a harsh 89-page letter addressed to “Francis, head of state of the Vatican City,” two Greek Orthodox prelates have denounced Catholicism as a heresy and urged the Pope to repentance. ...

  Metropolitans Andreas and Seraphim claim at the outset that their message is motivated by “pure, sincere, and selfless Christian love.” At a time when most Christian leaders are sending Easter greetings to each other, they say that the feel compelled to “endeavor with all our might to restore you to the Mother Orthodox Catholic Church.”

Lord have mercy.

WARNING:

I could not read this entire encyclical as I had to stop after the few few pages when Mets. Andreas and Seraphim began using explicit sexual language in reference to the ongoing depravity found in Rome under the Pope's nose. Although a quick scan of the beginning and the end of this encyclical reveals nothing outrageously sinister, the middle sections contain unnecessary information which would make sensationalists tabloids appear innocent in comparison.

[Maria]

Here is the full pdf document of the 89-page encyclical to Pope Francis:

excerpt from page 1:

• With due respect and sincere love, we send you this Episcopal letter, the purpose of
  which doesn’t come from any selfish motive, but from pure, sincere and selfless Christian
  love, from Christian duty, from an essential commandment of our Savior Christ, Who
  “desires all men to be saved and to come to a full knowledge of the truth,” 1
  and finally members of the All-holy and All-pure Body of Christ, and especially as Orthodox
  Bishops, who belong as such to the Holy Synod of the Holy Autocephalous Church of
  Greece, which is our highest ecclesiastical authority, as to the whole and Undivided One,
  Holy Catholic and Apostolic Orthodox Church, to endeavor with all our might to restore you
  to the Mother Orthodox Catholic Church, from which you left and from which you were cut
  off, a work which we hope, the Uncreated Divine Grace of the Lord cooperating, shall be
  achieved.

excerpt from page 87:

• If, Your Excellency, you desire union, you must recognize and confess all your errors,
  your heresies and innovations, which the “Popes” throughout the second millennium have
  fallen into, splintering from the Orthodox Church. You must repent, you must weep
  bitterly, humble yourself and then you will be acceptable. If you do not shed your pride
  and if you do not humble yourself, imitating the Lord, not only will you not succeed in
  union, but also the division will increase and even greater scandal will be caused along
  with confusion, turmoil, great pain and damage to the flock.

excerpt from page 88:

• Restore the abject and erstwhile senior and ancient Patriarchate of Old Rome and the
  West to the Body of Christ, to the Body of the Church. Take upon yourself your holy
  duties as the First Orthodox Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches with the
  true primacy of honor, which is your right as the Orthodox First Hierarch, of the One,
  Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Amen

http://cdn.romfea.gr/images/stories/pho ... is%20I.pdf

[Maria]

There is this important passage from page 85 from this same encyclical:

• We, the Orthodox, desire union and pray unceasingly “for the unity of all (people)”– a
  unity in our Holy Church in truth. We do not pray for the unity of false churches who will not
  forsake their various heresies, of some “God-sent” unity in the diversity of false doctrines.
  You, the Papists, in essence, hinder this unity. We Orthodox are unifiers par excellence,
  whereas you, the Papists, are separators. If you do not repent here in this present life, you
  will repent in Hades, where, however, there “is no repentance”!