Cyprian wrote:Why should we donate money to heretics?
This parish has been received by the heretical "Synod in Resistance" -- a.k.a. Cyprianites.
Surely our money would be better donated elsewhere.
This comment reminds me of something I read in the biography of Fr. Seraphim Rose in the chapter about "Super-Correctness":
"When THE ORTHODOX WORD published an appeal from the poverty-stricken Orthodox Church in Uganda - which was in desperate need of food, clothing, spiritual books, icons, etc - another of the super-correct priests wrote to the fathers inquiring whether these African Orthodox were 'indeed brethren.' This priest maintained that if they belonged to a New Calendar, allegedly 'graceless' jurisdiction, they should not be helped. 'I would rather donate whatever I can to some worthy Orthodox family or organization," he concluded.
'How can we combat this cold-hearted elitism?' Fr. Seraphim asked on reading this letter."
In this biography it is explained how the Super-Correct disease and the disease of Compromise are two sides of the same coin. I see in Fr. Seraphim a perfect example of how to be soft-hearted without compromising - the middle path, neither to the right nor to the left.
