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Anatemele impotriva comunismului la care se refera Sf. Filaret (a Patriarhului Tihon si a catacombnicilor) sunt citate de Vladimir Moss:

… On January 19, 1918 Patriarch Tikhon anathematised the Bolsheviks in the following words:

“By the power given to Us by God, we forbid you to approach the Mysteries of Christ, we anathematise you, if only you bear Christian names and although by birth you belong to the Orthodox Church. We also adjure all of you, faithful children of the Orthodox Church of Christ, not to enter into any communion with such outcasts of the human race: ‘Remove the evil one from among you’ (I Corinthians 5.13).”

The significance of this anathema lies not so much in its casting out of the Bolsheviks themselves (all those who deny God are subject to anathema, that is, separation from God, for that very denial), as in the command to the faithful to have no communion with the Bolsheviks…

…In July, 1937 a secret Council of the Russian Catacomb Church took place in UstKut, Siberia. Although the existence of this Council is not well-known, its existence is vouched for by three independent sources…the first three canons of this Council:

“1. The Sacred Council forbids the faithful to receive communion from the clergy legalized by the anti-Christian State.

“2. It has been revealed to the Sacred Council by the Spirit that the anathemacurse hurled by his Holiness Patriarch Tikhon is valid, and all priests and

Church-servers who have dared to consider it as an ecclesiastical mistake or political tactic are placed under its power and bound by it.

“3. To all those who discredit and separate themselves from the Sacred Council

of 1917-18 – Anathema!”

What was said here in relation to the anathema of 1918 will undoubtedly one day be said by another True Orthodox Council about the anathema of 1983. Those who discredit and separate themselves from it will be under anathema. For “whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder…” (Matthew 21.44).

Cristian Comanescu