Dear Khomes,
I can assure you that the Genuine Orthodox Churches, the Old Calendar Churches of Greece, are the place to be. 100% no doubt. I am a former Traditionalist Catholic, attending the SSPX and the indult Latin mass. While reading the writings of Vatican I which defined papal infallibility, I came to realize a huge contradiction: This "Ecumenical" council issued a decree on Revelation saying we cannot understand scripture in a way DIFFERENT than the holy Fathers of the Church understood it. Yet in their definition of papal infallibility, they refer to scripture without quoting a single holy Father to back up their position! Silence! They don't even follow their own rules. Or when they defined the Assumption of the virgin Mary as a dogma. A DOGMA? Whether Christ took his mother directly into heaven three days after her death is a historical question, but not a DOGMATIC one, it has no relation to Theology, Christology or Ecclesiology. Plus, if it really is a dogma, and necessary to believe for salvation, did Mary have to believe it before she died in order to be worthy of the Assumption in the first place? lol. Rome is full of Contradictions if you look.
Now, here was my mistake that landed me in New Calendarism/World orthodoxy (Heresy) for a couple years, and it is a kind of blindness:
I was fed up with the Pope, with his ecumenism, with his outright heretical statements, his willingness to compromise Catholic Dogma, and the lack of fidelity to the fathers. Not to mention the vast liturgical reforms, the inability to effectively fight and check the liberal current in Papism, etc. Not to mention joint prayers with heretics and schismatics. So, when I looked into Orthodoxy, I saw something truly wonderful and beautiful, but there was a blindness: I had just got done justifying my severance from the Pope on the basis of his innovations, and failed to recognize his PARTNERS in all these innovation! And who are his Partners? Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Patriarch John of Antioch, the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, etc. They were all doing what he was doing! They or their delegates joined in joint prayers with the Pope. They made joint declarations pronouncing BOTH are equal GUARDIANS OF THE ONE APOSTOLIC FAITH. Really? Cause I am sure one of you is a heretic...SO in my enthusiasm, I was blind to the fact that the Orthodoxy I was entering was culpable of all the same faults I had just criticized Rome for.
BUT, God is merciful! I came to learn that all these events and compromises on the side of World Orthodoxy can be reduced back to a very important document issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1920. It was titled, "To the Churches of Christ, Wherever They May Be" Not a promising opening line. In this document, it is explicitly asserted that the Heretics and Schismatics, form, with the Orthodox, one Church, being members of the one household of Christ. It is also asserted that NOW we need to work toward making the path to a deeper union possible. It then lists several steps to aid in the implementation of this understanding of our "Unity" as a Church. Guess which event is number one on that list? The Implementation of a common calendar so that the Heterodox and the Orthodox can celebrate the great feasts at the same time.
So, we see the Implementation of a New Calendar was a means of serving a heretical notion of the Church, that it is the assembly of all "True Believers" regardless of their doctrinal beliefs. This is a blatant lie, the Church of Christ is ONE and Cannot be adulterous, as St.Cyprian of Carthage says. When the Calendar Change came in Greece in 1924, many of the Monks and Priest Monks of Mt Athos revolted and declared the Church of Greece to be schismatic. About 1/4 of the Greek Population at one point was up in arms against the Calendar Change. But even worse, the Church of Greece itself ADMITTED it was schismatic, when the year before his election as Archbishop of Greece, Chrysostomos Papadopolous had written that "Even though the Church of Greece is Autocephalous, she cannot separate herself from the others and adopt the new calendar without becoming schismatic in relation to the others." But then, the next year, he did it anyway. So, who is the schismatic?
And to this day, we fight innovation and the heresy of ecumenism and proclaim our faith in Orthodoxy!