"...The time of our complete isolation has come."

We must make a decisive break with ecumenism, and we must not have anything in communion with its co-travelers. Our path is not theirs. We must say this decisively and show it in our deeds. A time of genuine confession is coming for us, a time when perhaps we will remain alone and will be in the position of being persecuted. Insofar as all the Orthodox Local Churches have now entered into the ranks of the “World Council of Churches” and have thereby betrayed Orthodoxy and bowed down to satan, the time of our complete isolation has come. We cannot and we must not have any communion with apostates from True Orthodoxy, and we must be ready, if required, to depart into the catacombs, like the True Orthodox Christians in our homeland.

Our position as fighters and confessors of the pure and undefiled truth of Christ places us under great obligation, more than at any time in the past.

We must always remember that a true pastor of the true Church of Christ can never and must never have any other interests besides pure zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of the souls of his flock – to this and this alone must all his thoughts, all his feelings and all his activity be always directed.

- Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery, 1969.