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GOA priest objects to Heterodox Baptism

A General Sharing: Words of Wisdom: Truth preached without cost...

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Dan Everiss

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Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:10 PM


From: info@saintedwardbrotherhood.org
Subject: Truth preached without cost...
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 19:48:51 +0100
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From: Bishop Chrysostomos 
Subject: Truth preached without cost...
Date: 11 May 2016 16:33:39 GMT+01:00

Dear A:

Христосъ Воскресе!

Thank you for this excellent paper. A few comments, if I may.

This is assuredly not bla-bla in content, even if it is sheer bla-bla in terms of the compromises that these well-intentioned people accept and with regard to the penchant that some of them have for calling us heretics and outside the Church for saying exactly what they do—albeit from a place that they are sure to avoid because, the uneasy truth to be told, of the reprisals promised by the wrong-believing Bishops that they chide, while commemorating, following, and obeying them. This is the essence of what was once called Sergianism: paying to unbelieving (or, in this case, wrong-believing) power tribute that it does not deserve.  So deeply ingrained is this cowardice, that no one stops to think that alienating or condemning those of us who have for decades resisted what they know to be wrong (indeed, some of us for our entire lives serving the Church) constitutes a sort of betrayal, too.

As long as epithets exist against us—“as a wretched minority,” “unlettered peasants,” “schismatics,” “enemies of God,” "ultra-conservative fanatics,” “fascists,” ad nauseam), such excellent presentations as the following certainly fall short of paying the price that a costly treasure demands of those who seek and appreciate it. If unity in truth is painfully costly—and I affirm that it is—the pain of a conscience steeped in words without action must not be ignored. As for the dismissal and condemnation of those who fight the good fight, imagine the pain of falling under chastisement for despising one’s brothers and ignoring the Lord’ observation, so misused today to justify the unjustifiable betrayal of ecumenism, that “I have other sheep.”

Least Among Monks, † Bishop Chrysostomos

 ON RECOGNITION OF HETERODOX BAPTISM
by GOA priest Peter Heers


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1 comment:


  1. “unlettered peasants” (?)

    I can't believe anyone would say that the Etna bishops are “unlettered peasants”.

    And what is so bad about being “unlettered peasants”? Many of our Church's saints were “unlettered peasants”.

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