of Romanian Orthodox Monachism
to the Romanian Orthodox well-believing people
Our Arch-Pastors and well-beloved brethren to Jesus Christ,
to the Romanian Orthodox well-believing people
Our Arch-Pastors and well-beloved brethren to Jesus Christ,
The undersigned Fathers of the monasteries of Romanian country, abbots, priestmonks, monks and nuns raise voice of calling to unity and confession to all breathing that confesses orthodox creed and living. We all inherit the custom – entrusted by our Holy Fathers – that whatever decision in our Orthodox Church be made canonically, unanimously, and conform to our patristic teaching. We, the monks, as the ones who threefold entrusted to our Lord and we were entrusted with the Orthodox Truth for confession, we cannot infringe and pass over what our Prophets predicted, the Holy Apostles preached and the God-Bearers Fathers decided on the Seven Ecumenical and Local Synods. Thus, the Canon 15th elaborated at the 9 th Synod of Constantinople in 861 says of they who preach heresy in public or teach it inside the church be removed from the community of believers and be blamed like they who do schisms and break the unity of the Holy Church. In this way we all become guards of the Truth to the Church and care bearers of the Sacred Tradition that guide us to Salvation.
We stay stoned regarding the decision the representatives of the Orthodox Church make for the life of the Church they shepherd. We hoped that all those troubles would cease but we failed. We begin to believe that from the height they live the return way no longer is seen and it is all too late. So, the acts and the claims of the priests of the Orthodox Church versus the other cults brought us deep sadness and subject us to heavy confessor’s hardships, since they are unheard things and all contrary to the belief of the Holy Fathers.
This is the cause our attitude to the new heresies and schisms should be heard by everyone who labors in an Orthodox Way his Salvation. Therefore, grounded on the words of our Holy Fathers, we firmly and definitely declare:
* The union with Catholics is not possible as long as they do not give up all their heresies (Philioque, infallibility, Papal primacy, the created holy gift, Purgatory, Immaculate Conception a.o.), the scholastic disorders and as long as they do not receive the Orthodox baptizing through plunging into sacred water. We cannot forget the still bleeding history of Catholic Unification from Ardeal and cannot ignore the demonic plan of religious globalization of the Great West. The masonry plan consists of sealing the religious union not taking into account the divergences, through a mutual recognition of the mysteries and Apostolic inheritance, each one recognizing the other as Church, then the unorthodox union (inter-communion), limited at the beginning and then enlarged. After that it will remain to raise the issue of the dogmatic differences, considered outdated and destructive. For this purpose we rise against whatever prayers together with Catholics and Protestants especially about the ecumenical union and reconciliation that defame the Holy Mistery. All pious and confessing Fathers after the Schism of 1054 struggled against Latin heresies, lying dogmas, political expansion and sanctified and opposed up to bloodshed. Their words have today the power and the labor of the Holy Spirit and justify us to believe that : “there is one Church of Jesus Christ, the apostolic and spiritual Orthodox Church, not any more”. (St. Photius the Great) and “ The Holy Church banishes the Pope and I banish him, too, together with the Church, its son being I banish him.” (St. Paisie Velicicovschi)
* The Romanian Orthodox Church stay in the Ecumenical Council of Churches is an act of apostasy, of treachery and betrayal of the real creed by accepting the decisions that openly contradict the dogmas of Orthodoxy and the canons of the Ecumenical Synods. The Orthodox people is the rood, stem, leaf and fruit headed by Jesus Christ Lord-Man. We cannot “democratically” negotiate the dogmas of the Church and cannot be equal with the Catholics, Protestants, Hebrews, Buddhists and Muslims only the time in our cups the True Christ the One Born from Holy Maid Mary. We, the Orthodox have nothing to add or to remove from the creed or from our service and St. Mark of Ephesus sealed the above said: ” On matter of creed there is no concession and the issues of creed forbid iconomia.”
* Unmasking the policy of religious integration into the European Union Empire as being demonic and taking measures against news electronic cards of identity that foreruns the apocalyptic end. The exposure of scholastic manifestations that demonize the young people, the re-writing of the true holy-national history and the revigoration of our traditional values. We do not have motives to subject our Church to political pressure and to give Caesar more than he deserves. Our empire is in heavens but we have to get it when still alive without selling our Orthodoxy and Romanian nature.
We make a last appeal to the entire Holy Romanian Synod – for God sake, stop until it is not too late! Decide the exit of the Romanian Orthodox Church from under the political influence, stop defiling altars with prayers together with heretics and do not receive the un-baptized as sons of the Church, do not bend under the political compromises and don't ever violate freedom and conscience with communist identity cards. We can no longer tolerate the new rules that disregard the Holy canons, censure our Holy Fathers, ignore the dogmas and decisions of our Holy Synods and distort the meaning of the Holy Scriptures. Don’t bring in schisms and disruptions into the Church, don’t try to unite what is given disunited since the only thing you will succeed is to destroy the unity of Orthodoxy, to deeply break the foundation of the Church and to raise the Second Great Schism. In this ill ecumenism Romanian Orthodox Church acts individually, without the trust of the other Orthodox sister-churches, without being reinforced through a decision of an inter-Orthodox synod so it might be anytime declared schismatic and heretical by the other Orthodox Patriarchies. Compose yourself and beware! So long as you remain with Christ we shall follow you and if you put your own interests before the interests of the Church we shall call you apostates. Give up all these so that people may follow you and do not give up Christ.
All these bloody tears we wish to wipe from the face of our Church, otherwise we shall pass over the sin obedience and we shall put forward official protests, we shall come out in the streets and we shall gather a synod of resistance. No one, nowhere and never will be allowed to sacrifice for his own good the smallest part of the Orthodox Creed. God is with us and for Christ we will to go to the end even if we are to give our blood if needed so that no letter of the holy words shall suffer any damage. For all who have ears that hear to comprehend and with eyes that see to understand.
Forgiveness we ask everyone for everything and please receive these words as a crown, as a spear or as a Cross
Signatures,
The entire Monks Synaxis of the Romanian Orthodox Country
