We Must Cease the Commemoration
by Georgios Zerbos, Editor-in-chief of Orthodoxos Typos
The faithful people are faced with a twofold challenge: the aggressiveness of the panheresy of ecumenism and the unconcealed adherence thereto of the leading representatives of Greek Orthodoxy.
The people have confronted the panheresy, on the one hand, through spiritual warefare and anti-heretic struggle. They are unable, however, to confront the adherence to the panheresy by the leaders of Orthodoxy. This is because dynamic ecclesiastical figures have disappeared from the forefront, who would have issued exposés, publicly condemned the apostasy and betrayal of the Faith, and given the battle cry for the universal opposition of the faithful people against those who hold the Sacred Canons in contempt.
There are, of course, powerful voices that do condemn the OEcumenical Patriarch’s disregard of the Sacred Canons during the Pope’s visit to the Phanar and the agreements made by the Archbishop of Athens when he went to the Vatican. These voices stir, but do not rally. They are seeds of opposition, but lack the force of opposition.
The Statement by the Sacred Community of the Holy Mountain and the reactions of the monasteries, Hieromonks, theologians, ecclesiastical newspapers, brotherhoods, and of the faithful people are seeds of opposition. But all of these seeds together are unable to provoke the opposition that would have been provoked by a combative Bishop in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s.
The apostates and betrayers of the Sacred Canons use television
for the attainment of their goals. The majority of Orthodox Christians, ignorant of the Mysteriological ecclesiastical life of the Church, are impressed by the joint prayers with the Papists and the joint ceremonies with the heterodox. And they consider those who react against these events to be exaggerating.
The Faith is being directly betrayed by the OEcumenical Patriarch and the Archbishop of Athens. The former transgressed the Sacred Canons during the visit of the Pope to the Phanar, while the latter has proclaimed that we are heading towards union on the basis of the cultural roots of the European peoples, thereby throwing the Mysteriological life of the Church into… the garbage dump of ecumenism. The former proclaims, by all of his actions at the Phanar, that heresy does not exist, recognizing Papism as an official Church and thereby dispensing with the Truth of the Orthodox Church. The latter has discovered the cultural sector; that is, the argumentation used by the Vatican since 1972.
The Church demands the participation of all of its members in its life. The Archbishop, however, tells us that the life of the cultural sector is preferable to ecclesiastical life.
We believe that the destructive course of the Orthodox Church towards ecumenism and Papism is one of no return, because there is no dynamic resistance to all of those who are adulterating the Orthodox Faith and the Orthodox mentality. This is why steps we need to take steps that will put a check on the "runaway" course towards ecumenism and Papism.
One step would be to cease commemoration of the OEcumenical Patriarch. This step would intimidate the Archbishop of Athens and his "fellow-travellers." Cessation of the commemoration of the one would intimidate the other, who stresses, in all of his speeches on the subject, that the OEcumenical Patriarch is playing the coördinating role in the movement towards the heresy of ecumenism and that he is following in his lead.
We demand valiant clergymen, monks, and Bishops.
- Orthodoxos Typos, February 16, 2007, pages 1 and 5
