The New Voice of Orthodoxy in the Greek Church

On The Metropolitan +Seraphim of Piraeus. For decades now the pan-heresy of Ecumenism infects the Orthodox faith and life. The shepherds, the guardians of the flock who should be alert and chase away the wolves of the papist and protestant heresies, many of them keep silent and hide, either out of fear and cowardice or so that they may not fall in disfavour of the powerful, while others have succumbed to the heresies and like wolves in sheepskins spiritually maul the flock. Many presbyters and monks assumed the protection of the faith but so also the flock itself, with spectacular candour. It is not however the first time in the history of the Church that the flock proved more prudent than its shepherds, being invisibly shepherded by the chief shepherd, Christ, who by the way installed the shepherds, not to devour but to protect the flock, not to usurp the hierarchal grace for their benefit but to even sacrifice their life, as He did for the salvation of the sheep. The good shepherd does not leave when he sees the wolf approaching, and even more so he does not join the wolves but “lays down his life for the sheep”. The sacrificial prototype of the Great Shepherd Christ, was followed by the Apostles and the Holy Church Fathers, who were expended and martyred either struggling against the heresies of their time, or against internal distortions and forgeries of the evangelical ascetic ethos, like the great Holy Father and Teacher John Chrysostom, whom this year we feast the 1600th year of his martyric and heroic repose on his way to exile (407-2007). This teaching of the holy bishops, strugglers and early fighters of the faith was never interrupted in the two thousand year march of the Church to conspicuously establish that there is an uninterrupted apostolic succession, not only in the positions and administration, but especially in the faith and life as we sing in the dismissal of the holy hieromartyrs. “Becoming shareholders of the ways and successors to the Apostolic thrones, the task you found, oh God inspired, to God beholding ascent. For this reason you rightly upheld the truth and for the faith you struggled by the shedding of your blood hieromartyr…..” Following the natural, due to old age, silence of metropolitan Augustine Kontioti of Florina, in this apostolic and patristic nature of our times, we all wonder of the almost complete absence of courageous and activist bishops. There is no Kontiotis. When would at last be heard a bold, strong and loud voice of Orthodoxy, to scare the croaking frogs in the stagnant disease bearing waters of the Ecumenical heresy? There were of course some voices of a few bishops, that supported and fed the hope of becoming more vociferous, so that they could even be heard by the wolves and cause them to flee and by the sheep to become encouraged. The warm and hearty prayers of thousands of faithful to change the climate of silence and fear under which “fear overshadowed everything and squashed by slavery”, was heard by God. The impossible He makes possible, even if it seems humanly impossible the turn over of conditions. “The arrow of the strong weakened and the sick were limited in strength”. The powerful weakened but it was preordained by God that a loud Orthodox voice of an even young bishop be heard. The metropolitan of Piraeus, most reverend Seraphim, amazed us and pleased us all with everything he wrote and reported to archimandrite Marko Manoli, to the unshakeable as well fighter of Orthodoxy, a spiritual and elder of the “Panhellenic Orthodox Union” who is also the spiritual overseer of the “Orthodox Press”. Whatever he writes and declares is the Faith, the voice, the teaching of the Holy Fathers and the self-consciousness of the Church. He accepts and declares that “the mixing crucible of the Ecumenism as expressed today by the World Council of the so called Churches as well as of the diverse national fora, deceives and debases the Christian revelation and makes worldly the message of salvation, rendering it into a morality deprived of life, grace and power of God. In the final end this effort is one more hopeless attempt by the dragon of the abyss to neutralize the crucifixion and resurrection message of life of the Apostolic Catholic Church”. The blended pan-heresy is Ecumenism, the churches of the World Council are called churches when they are not, showing that all the ecumenical effort springs from the devil. [ This Article Continues Here ] By Protopresbyter Theodoros Zisis,Professor of the Theological School of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Related Article: YOU ARE NOT A CHURCH – YOU ARE A HERESY: Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus replies to the Papist Bishop of Syros Island [ read Here ]

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