A General Sharing: Words of Wisdom: Truth preached without cost...
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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:
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
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ON RECOGNITION OF HETERODOX BAPTISM
by GOA priest Peter Heers
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ReplyDelete“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”.