Thursday, March 24, 2005
ECUMENISM AND EASTERN ORTHODOXY
From email sent in by a reader:
*"The time has come for all faithful Orthodox
Christians to speak out and promptly put an end to
this spurious form of Orthodoxy known as 'ecumenistic
Orthodoxy'. It is a betrayal of the Holy Orthodox
Church, a negation of its essence. It is time to take
her divine dogmas 'out of the storeroom,' where
[several ecumenistic clergy have] ... relegated them,
bring them to the open light, and proclaim them by
every means, and in every land... Let us not offer to
the world the pseudo-Orthodoxy of 'Orthodox
ecumenism,' which puts error on the same level as
truth... This offering will be an act of true
Christian love, a fulfilling of Christ's commandment
of loving our neighbor as we love ourselves. Christ
says, 'What man is there of you whom if his son asks
for bread would give him a stone?' (St. Matt. 7:9)
'Orthodox ecumenism' does precisely the latter...
People today are searching for the truth that saves;
yet these ecumenists have put the bread of truth in
the storeroom and have been offering instead the stone
of untruth, of error, and of heresy that leads to
perdition. The commandment of love demands that we
take the bread of the teaching of the Orthodox Church
out in the open and offer it lovingly to all who
hunger for the truth that frees and saves." *
*/(From a lecture by Dr. Constantine Cavarnos at the
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, Atlanta,
GA, on March
16, 1997)/*
