Fake Esphigmenites press release: “An end to the disputes”
March 13th, 2009
AN END TO THE DISPUTES ON THE MONASTERY OF ESPHIGMENOU CASE
Last Thursday, March 15th, the State Council (III division Seven-member constitution) was about to discuss the annulment application that seven people had submitted, among them Methodios, the leader of the team which occupies the buildings of the Monastery of Esphigmenou in Mount Athos, against the decision of the Holy Community of Mount Athos, according to which, the new fraternity and administration of the Monastery had been determined in 2005.
The trial, in the end, did not have to take place because the applicants withdrew from the annulment application. This is due to their certainty that its holding would be futile for them, that there was no possibility in winning it. Indeed, last Monday, the Court reporter of the case, Mr. Tsimekas, had submitted his proposal, according to which a) the appealed decision of the Holy Community aims, among others, at the reinstatement of the smooth operation of the administrative system of Mount Athos b) the application was unacceptable due to lack of lawful interest, mainly in the person of Methodios, who, according to previous decisions of the Holy Community and the State Council, he is not even a monk of Mount Athos and he should have abandoned Mount Athos in 2003, c) all the annulment reasons that the applicants highlighted in relation to the competence of the Holly Community, the selection and the appointment of the persons with whom this common organ of the monks of Mount Athos manned the Monastery, are, either way, unfounded.
The result of this withdrawal is that pendency ceases to exist, the appointment of the new fraternity by the Holy Community is considered legal and is, from now on, unquestionable by anyone. This way, the pendency that had been created by the submission of the application typically ends, and the page on the reinstatement of the institutional operation of the Monastery of Esphigmenou and of Mount Athos in general, closes irrevocably.
Source: The fake Esphigmenou Monastery website , via The Greek Orthodox Old Calendarist list
Gheorghe Vanau
March 14th, 2009 at 9:40 am
The deceitful article above from the usurper, Archimandrite Chrysostomos, is a
shame. He calls Archimandrite Methodios and his Synodia “a group of men.” He
does not even recognize these valiant defenders of the Faith as monks!
Archimandrite Chrysostomos is no more than a thug of the new Bekkos – Patriarch
Bartholomew. The ecumenists have not even shrunk from being responsible for the
deaths of confessing Monks, just as the evil John Bekkos was responsible for the
Holy Martyrdom of the Twenty-six Holy Martyrs of Zographou Monastery and others
on the Holy Mountain who opposed the unia. Is it Christian for the Fathers of
Esphigmenou Monastery to be cut off from food, medicine and other necessities by
the Greek Government and the Ecumenical Patriarch? Is that what Christ taught?
The ecumenists fawn over the heretical Latins and Protestants, yet cause the
deaths of Orthodox Monks. Have they lost all Orthodox Christian love for their
own? Will God reward the betrayers of our Holy and Blameless Faith or rather
grant Martyrs Crowns to those who defend Orthodoxy to the end? Please pray for
the new-confessors of Esphigmenou!