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ΑΝΤΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ ΑΒΑΣΙΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΣΤΑΤΟΥ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΥ ΑΠΑΝΤΗΣΙΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΝ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΝ ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΟΥ ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΥ

ΕΓΡΑΦΗ ΕΝ ΑΓΙΩ ΟΡΕΙ ΚΑΙ ΕΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΘΗ ΥΠΟ ΤΟΥ «ΚΗΡΥΚΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΩΝ»  ΕΝ ΕΤΕΙ 1932

«Μή κρίνετε, ἵνα μή κριθῆτε …(Ματθ., κεφ. Ζ, 1) 
«Ὅς δ’ ἄν σκανδαλίση ἕνα τῶν μικρῶν τούτων, τῶν πιστευόντων εἰς ἐμέ, συμφέρει αὐτῶ ἵνα κρεμασθῆ μύλος ὀνικός ἐπί τόν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ, καί καταποντισθῆ ἐν τῶ πελάγει τῆς θαλάσσης»(Ματθ. ΙΗ, 12).

Εἰς δύο συνεχῆ φύλλα τοῦ ἑβδομαδιαίου φύλλου «’Εκκλησία», ἐπισήμου Δελτίου τῆς ‘Εκκλησίας τῆς Ἑλλάδος ὑπό τόν τίτλον «Ἔλεγχος παραποιήσεως Συνοδικῶν Πράξεων καί Πατριαρχικῶν ἐγγράφων» ὁ ΄Αρχιεπίσκοπος ‘Αθηνῶν έδημοσίευσε μακράν πραγματείαν ἀναφερομένην εἰς τό ζήτημα τοῦ ‘Ημερολογίου, ἐν τῆ ὁποία ἔχων πάντοτε ὡς σκοπόν νά δικαιολογήση ἀπό ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἐπόψεως τήν ἐναντίον τῶν Παραδόσεων τῆς ‘Εκκλησίας καί ὡρισμένων Συνοδικῶν Πράξεων καί Πατριαρχικῶν ἐγγράφων διαπραχθεῖσαν ὑπό τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἡμερολογιακήν μεταρρύθμισιν διά τῆς παραδοχῆς τοῦ Γρηγοριανοῦ Ἡμερολογίου, παρά τήν ἐμμονήν ἄλλων Ὀρθοδόξων ‘Εκκλησιῶν εἰς τό πατροπαράδοτον ‘Ιουλιανόν Ἡμερολόγιον καί παρά τήν ἔνεκα τούτου ἐπελθοῦσαν διάσπασιν τῆς ἑνότητος τῶν ‘Εκκλησιῶν καί τήν διαίρεσιν τῶν ‘Ορθοδόξων Χριστιανῶν, προβαίνει, ὡς λέγει, εἰς τόν ἔλεγχον «θρασείας παραποιήσεως Συνοδικῶν τινων Πράξεων καί Πατριαρχικῶν ἐγγράφων τοῦ ιστ΄ καί ιζ΄ αἰῶνος» περιλαμβανόντων ἀναθεματισμούς, ἵνα προφυλάξη, ὡς λέγει, τά εὐσεβῆ τέκνα τῆς ‘Εκκλησίας, τινά τῶν ὁποίων «ἐξ’ ἀγνοίας καί ἁπλοϊκότητος παρασύρονται εἰς ἀπείθειαν πρός τήν ‘Εκκλησίαν διά τῆς μεταξύ αὐτῶν διαδόσεως ψευδῶν καί πλαστῶν ἀναθεματισμῶν». 
Χαίρομεν, διότι πρώτην φοράν ὁ ‘Αρχιεπίσκοπος ‘Αθηνῶν προβάλλει ἐπισήμως καί ἐνυπογράφως ὑπεραμυνόμενος τῆς ἀντικανονικῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς καινοτομίας ἐν τῶ ἡμερολογιακῶ ζητήματι καί ἐπικρίνων τά κατ’ αὐτῆς δημοσιευθέντα, ἐνῶ μέχρι τοῦδε, ἀπήντα εἰς αὐτά δι’ ἀνωνύμων καί ἀνευθύνων φυλλαδίων, ἐν οἷς αἱ ὕβρεις κατά τῶν ἐπικριτῶν του ἠμιλλῶντο πρός τάς τολμηροτέρας ἀντορθοδόξους δοξασίας καί τάς πλέον ἀνιέρους συστάσεις καί συμβουλάς, τινές τῶν ὁποίων μετεφέροντο καί εἰς ἐμπιστευτικά αὐτοῦ ἔγγραφα πρός διαφόρους ἀρχάς, παρ’ ὧν ἐζήτει τήν «ῥαγδαίως καί ἀθορύβως» έξόντωσιν τῶν ἐχόντων τό θάρρος νά ψέξωσι δριμύτατα τήν ἐναντίον τῶν Κανόνων καί τῆς Παραδόσεως τῆς ‘Εκκλησίας πολιτείαν αὐτοῦ.
Δέν γνωρίζομεν ὅμως ποῦ νά ἀποδώσωμεν τήν τόσον κοπιώδη ἐκδρομήν τοῦ ‘Αρχιεπισκόπου ‘Αθηνῶν εἰς ἀρχαῖα δύσβατα καί ἐρεβώδη ἱστορικά πεδία, διά νά καταγγείλη ὡς παραποιημένα δῆθεν καί πλαστά κείμενα ὡρισμένων Συνοδικῶν πράξεων καί Πατριαρχικῶν ἐγγράφων, ἀπαγγελόντων ἀναθεματισμούς κατά τῶν ἀποδεχομένων τό Παπικόν Ἡμερολόγιον. Ὡς ἐάν οἱ ἀναθεματισμοί καί μόνον αὐτοί καθίστων ἀπαράδεκτον καί καταδικαστέον τό Γρηγοριανόν ἡμερολόγιον καί ὡς νά μή προσέκρουε τοῦτο εἰς οὐδεμίαν ἄλλην ἐκκλησιαστικήν διάταξιν καί εἰς οὐδεμίαν παράδοσιν καί ἐπομένως ὡς νά ἔπρεπε ὅλαι αἱ ‘Ορθόδοξοι ‘Εκκλησίαι ν’ ἀσπασθῶσιν ἀσμένως τήν καινοτομίαν τοῦ Ἡμερολογίου, ἐπειδή τάχα ἡ τήρησις τοῦ ‘Ιουλιανοῦ Ἡμερολογίου δέν κατωχυροῦτο δι’ ἀναθεματισμοῦ! Καί φαίνεται πιστεύων ὁ ἀρχηγός τῆς ‘Εκκλησίας τῆς Ἑλλάδος, ὁ ἐκκλησιαστικός συγγραφεύς καί πρώην Καθηγητής τῆς Θεολογίας, ὠς ρητῶς γράφει ἐν τῶ προλόγω τῆς πραγματείας του, ὅτι «τινά τῶν εὐσεβῶν τέκνων τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου ‘Εκκλησίας», ἐάν ἀπειθῶσι πρός τήν ἐπίσημον ‘Εκκλησίαν καί δέν ἐδέχθησαν μέχρι σήμερον τήν εἰσαγωγήν τοῦ Παπικοῦ ἡμερολογίου ἐμμένοντα εἰς τό παλαιόν ‘Ιουλιανόν ἠμερολόγιον πράττουσι τοῦτο «ἐξ’ ἀγνοίας» δῆθεν καί «ἁπλοϊκότητος διά τῆς μεταξύ αὐτῶν διαδόσεως ψευδῶν καί πλαστῶν ἀναθεματισμῶν».
Ἀλλ’ ἐάν ἡ καταδίκη τοῦ Γρηγοριανοῦ Ἡμερολογίου ὑπό τῆς ‘Ορθοδόξου ‘Ανατολικῆς ‘Εκκλησίας ὑπῆρξεν, ὡς εἶναι βέβαιον, καί, ὡς θά ἀποδείξωμεν, γενική, ρητή καί ἀναντίρρητος, καί ἄν αἱ παραδόσεις τῆς Ἐκκλησίας καί ἡ διηνεκής πρᾶξις αὐτῆς ἐπί εἴκοσιν αἰῶνας τήν ἐπεσφράγισαν καί τήν κατέστησαν ἀναλλοίωτον τῆς ‘Ορθοδοξίας θεσμόν καί τό ἐμφανέστερον ἐξωτερικόν γνώρισμα αὐτῆς ἀπέναντι τῆς Παπικῆς Ἐκκλησίας, εἰς τί δύναται νά ὠφελήση ἡ ἀποκάλυψις δῆθεν τῆς πλαστότητος τοῦ ἀναθεματισμοῦ, ὅν ἐν τούτοις ἀναγινώσκομεν ἀπό τόσων αἰώνων εἰς κείμενα Πατριαρχικῶν ἐγγράφων καί Συνοδικῶν ἀποφάσεων;
Μήτοι αἱ ἱεραί Παραδόσεις καί αἱ διατάξεις τῆς ‘Εκκλησίας διά νά εἶναι σεβασταί καί νά τηρῶνται αὐστηρῶς πρέπει ἀπαραιτήτως νά περιφρουρῶνται δι’ ἀναθεματισμῶν;
Καί ἀν δέν συνοδεύωνται ὑπό ἀναθεματισμῶν ἔχει ἄρα γε πᾶς τις τό δικαίωμα νά τάς ἀθετῆ καί τάς ποδοπατῆ;

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I Ephraim am dying and writing my Testament,
To be a witness for the pupils who come after me:
Be constantly praying, day and night;
As a ploughman who ploughs again and again,
Whose work is admirable.
Do not be like the lazy ones in whose fields thorns grow.
Be constantly praying, for he who adores prayer
Will find help in both worlds.

Crucii Tale ne închinăm, Stăpâne, și sfântă Învierea Ta o lăudăm și o mărim.
Crucii Tale ne închinăm, Stăpâne, și sfântă Învierea Ta o lăudăm și o mărim.
Crucii Tale ne închinăm, Stăpâne, și sfântă Învierea Ta o lăudăm și o mărim.
Slavă Tatălui și Fiului și Sfântului Duh, și acum și pururea și în vecii vecilor. Amin.
Și sfântă Învierea Ta o lăudăm și o mărim.
Crucii Tale ne închinăm, Stăpâne, și sfântă Învierea Ta o lăudăm și o mărim.

O notita publicata de B.O.R. anunta intr-o fraza:

4 februarie 1925 – Sfântul Sinod hotărăşte înfiinţarea Patriarhiei Române; mitropolitul primat Miron Cristea devine „arhiepiscop al Bucureştilor, mitropolit al Ungrovlahiei şi patriarh al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române”.

O rasplata a Constantinopolului pentru schimbarea, cu citeva luni inaintea acestei decizii, a calendarului ortodox, actul evocat mai sus este, printre altele, o parte din pretul tradarii Sfintei Traditii.

Addressing the COP 15 summit last Thursday, 5 time- Bilderberg attendee, president of the Socialist International, and current prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, stated that “at this time, we are observing the birth of global governance.”
After this statement we continuously hear parroted by members of the Bilderberg Group, he added: “We must, however, agree to an obligation and be committed to carrying this out.”
The interesting thing is that Papandreou published a version of the same speech on his own website, but with an altered- but certainly more revealing- text:
“This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.”
He also admitted he was not there only as Prime Minister of Greece:
“The Socialist International, which I also represent here, has proposed, among other measures, funding through an international carbon tax, green bonds or transaction taxes, transforming foreign debt into equal funds to be used by poor countries for climate change adaptation.”

More & source: Infowars.

“To all intent and purposes, mutual recognition of each others Mysteries already exists between us. We do not have communion in the Mysteries, but we do recognize each others Mysteries”, declared Archbishop Hilarion (Alfeev) on the air during a broadcast of the program “The Church and the World” on the television channel “Russia”, on October 17th.

“If a Roman Catholic priest converts to Orthodoxy, we receive him as a priest, and we do not re-ordain him. And that means that, de facto, we recognize the Mysteries of the Roman Catholic Church”, explained Archbishop Hilarion. (…)

Sursa: credo.ru

Via Apologeticum, doua marturii ale spectacolului dezolant al “ecumenismului ortodox”. O slujba de Pogorarea Duhului Sfant, la care slujesc preotii bisericii oficiale a Greciei si alti heterodocsi, la capatul careia se “impartaseste” intreaga audienta, a carei componenta se vadeste in imaginile urmatoare.

Fratele Dan mi-a atras atentia intr-un comentariu asupra acestei date. La rindul meu, in satul unde m-am mutat acum doi ani, i-am povestit unui localnic despre acest episod. “Voi nu sarbatoriti Sf. Paraschiva?, m-a intrebat, cind m-a vazut citind afisul petrecerii cu lautari, mici si must care inchipuie traditionala “actiune” a obstei cu prilejul hramului bisericii inchinate sfintei mucenite. “Ba da”, i-am zis, “dar o facem pe 14 octombrie dupa calendarul bisericesc, nu acum”, am explicat. “Acum 85 de ani, aceasta zi, in care sarbatorim Sfintitul Acoperamint al Maicii Domnului, a fost schimbata cu sila in Sf. Paraschiva.”

Trista zi.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Standard Newswire

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will open the meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order, which will take place in Kolympari, Crete, Greece, from 7 to 14 October 2009.
At this plenary meeting, the 120 members of the commission, which is seen as Christianity’s most representative theological forum, will address the question of Christian unity from new perspectives.
Participants at the Crete gathering will not only address issues that have traditionally divided Christian denominations, but also matters that have become divisive in more recent times even within churches, such as questions of moral discernment.
This new approach will be rooted in a reflection on how churches relate to their sources of theological authority, and developed through case studies illustrating how churches use these references to make moral decisions.
WCC president from Europe Dr Mary Tanner will encourage participants to engage in what she affirms could be the beginning of a new phase in Faith and Order’s history.

The main theme of the meeting “Called to be the One Church” will be addressed by:
•Metropolitan Prof. Gennadios of Sassima, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople;
•Rev. Dr Maake Masango, Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, South Africa;
•Rev. Dr Marianela de la Paz Cot, Episcopal Church in Cuba;
•Dr Minna Hietamäki, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland;
•Sister Ha Fong Maria Ko, Roman Catholic Church, China/Italy.

The discussion on the future of the study “The Nature and Mission of the Church” will be stimulated by contributions from:
•Rev. Dr Paul Collins, Church of England;
•Rev. Dr Hermen Shastri, Methodist Church in Malaysia
•Rev. Dr Viorel Ionita, a Romanian Orthodox Church.

More information on the meeting

Poate ati aflat sau vazut scenele acestea, cu un pastor neoprotestant predicind intr-o biserica ortodoxa. E o scena emotionanta, cu oameni cu sufletul deschis, plingind si rugindu-se (intr-un chip heterodox). Infricosatoare scena: sint acolo oameni pe care simt, omeneste, ca as putea sa ii iubesc si sa ii inteleg fara rezerve, insa, pe de alta parte, ii vad schimonosind cu totul dreapta credinta. Trebuie sa va marturisesc ca nu am putut urmari materialul pina la sfirsit. De fapt, abia daca am vazut prima din cele patru parti ale acestei filmari. Am plins, speriat ca asa ceva se intimpla si ca pot vedea cu ochii mei cum bietii oameni, ca niste oite, sint dusi la pieire duhovniceasca. Culmea, plingeau si ei, de emotie si bucurie.

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O stire referitoare la moartea unei oficialitati locale semnaleaza:

Ceremonia de înmormântare va începe duminică la ora 14 şi va avea loc la sediul Primăriei Municipiului Mediaş. Slujba de înmormântare va fi oficiată de Înalt Prea Sfinţia Sa Mitropolitul Ardealului, Laurenţiu Streza şi Preot Protopop, Reinhard Guib, Episcop Vicar al Bisericii Evanghelice alături de un sobor de preoţi. Cortegiul funerar se va deplasa pe traseul Primăria Municipiului Mediaş şi străzile Mihai Eminescu-Carpaţi-Nucului-1 Decembrie-Academician Moraru-Johannes Honterus-Piaţa Enescu-străzile I. Ghe. Duca-Cloşca-Hermann Oberth-Sibiului-Calafat-Blajului-Iacob Pisso, din nou strada Sibiului, strada Axente Sever şi strada Păcii. Convoiul funerar se va opri la Cimitirul Evanghelic unde va fi oficiată slujba de înhumare în jurul orei 16.30.

Nu stiu daca e o eroare de tipar. Daca nu e, un ierarh ortodox va “oficia”, impreuna cu un heterodox, in cadrul unui ritual de tip religios, ca nu stiu cum altfel sa numesc asta, slujba de inmormantare (urmata de cea de inhumare?).

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By Vladimir Moss

The Russian church writer Lev Regelson has recently pointed out: “The concept of the ‘Local’ [pomestnoj] Church has long ago lost its literal sense. Nobody is surprised any longer by the existence of communities of the Russian Church in Africa, consisting of local aborigines. So that now it would be more correct to speak about the Autocephalous Russian Church as the historical successor of the Orthodox Church of the Russian Empire, which has gone beyond the bounds of the territorial, state or national principle.” In fact, not only has the concept of the Local Church been lost: the administration of the Orthodox Church as a whole has been in a state of increasing anarchy since the fall and break-up of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires in 1917-18. The resultant enormous political changes, combined with the creation of large Orthodox minorities of various nationalities in the non-Orthodox countries of the West, have created huge problems of administration that have stretched the concept of the Local Church almost to breaking point. If these problems have afflicted the heretical, but more-or-less well-organized Churches of “World Orthodoxy”, they threaten completely to tear apart the right-believing, but divided True Orthodox Churches. This article is an attempt to introduce some clarity into the debate by going back to basic principles, on the one hand, and the witness of Church history, on the other.

1. Basic Principles

The first principle of Church organization, according to canon law and the early patristic sources (such as St. Ignatius of Antioch), is that the primary unit of the Local Church is the bishop and the Christians of the territory he administers. There can be only one bishop for any one given territorial unit. All the Christians living within that territory, whatever their nationality, must submit to the bishop of the territory. It is forbidden to create sub-units within the territorial unit on the basis of race, class or any other criterion unless they are blessed by the bishop and under his overall control. It is forbidden to divide the territorial unit into smaller sub-units, each with his own bishop, without the agreement of the bishop of that territory.

Although the power of the bishop is largely autocratic within his diocese so long as he rightly divides the word of truth, he is obliged to join with other bishops of neighbouring territories to form synods presided over by the senior of the bishops – the metropolitan or archbishop. This rank does not constitute a fourth level of the priesthood above bishops, priests and deacons, and a metropolitans or archbishop cannot impose his will on the other members of his synods. At the same time, the bishops of a synod cannot make any decisions in synod without the agreement of the metropolitan or archbishop.

Synods of bishops have the right to investigate complaints against the behaviour of an individual bishop within his diocese and to discipline, or even to defrock, him if he is found to have transgressed the dogmas or canons of the Church. Moreover, they, and they alone, have the right to ordain the successors of bishops who have been defrocked or who have died, and to create new dioceses. It is this collective, collegial character of the episcopate, as expressed in the meetings and decision-making of synods of bishops, that both ensures apostolic succession within individual dioceses and the organizational unity of the Orthodox Church as a whole.

In essence, these two levels of Church organization – that of the individual diocese, and that of the metropolitan or archiepiscopal district – are the only levels of Church organization that are required in order that the Church should carry out all her essential functions…

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Is Catholic-Orthodox Unity in Sight?

The Catholic Archbishop of Moscow has given a remarkably upbeat assessment of relations with the Orthodox Church, saying unity between Catholics and Orthodox could be achieved “within a few months.”

In an interview today in Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper, Archbishop Paolo Pezzi said the miracle of reunification “is possible, indeed it has never been so close.” The archbishop added that Catholic-Orthodox reunification, the end of the historic schism that has divided them for a millennium, and spiritual communion between the two churches “could happen soon, also within a few months.”

“Basically we were united for a thousand years,” Archbishop Pezzi said. “Then for another thousand we were divided. Now the path to rapprochement is at its peak, and the third millennium of the Church could begin as a sign of unity.” He said there were “no formal obstacles” but that “everything depends on a real desire for communion.”

On the part of the Catholic Church, he added, “the desire is very much alive.”

Archbishop Pezzi, 49, whose proper title is Metropolitan Archbishop of the Mother of God Archdiocese in Moscow, said that now there are “no real obstacles” on the path towards full communion and reunification. On issues of modernity, Catholics and Orthodox Christians feel the same way, he said: “Nothing separates us on bioethics, the family, and the protection of life.”

Also on matters of doctrine, the two churches are essentially in agreement. “There remains the question of papal primacy,” Archbishop Pezzi acknowledged, “and this will be a concern at the next meeting of the Catholic-Orthodox Commission. But to me, it doesn’t seem impossible to reach an agreement.”

Prospects for union with the Orthodox have increased markedly in recent years with the election of Pope Benedict XVI, whose work as a theologian in greatly admired in Orthodox circles. Benedict is also without the burden of the difficult political history between Poland and Russia, which hindered Polish Pope John Paul II from making as much progress as he would have liked regarding Catholic-Orthodox unity.

Relations have also been greatly helped by the election of Patriarch Kirill I earlier this year as leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, which is by far the largest of the national churches in the Orthodox Church. As the former head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external relations, Kirill met Benedict on several occasions before and after he became Pope, and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch is well acquainted with the Roman Curia and with Catholicism.

Source: NCRegister