"We are not sot bold..."

INTERVIEWER [Tatiana Matchkovska]: There is in Bulgaria a group of Old Calendarists who consider the Mysteries of the "official" Church, which follows the new liturgical calendar, to be thereby wholly deprived of Grace.

ANSWER [Bishop Photii of Triaditsa]: This is an extreme position which is not ours. We are well aware that, to the extent apostasy progresses, Grace disappears. But we are not so bold as to decide this matter in a decisive manner. Only a council can do such a thing. Our task is to separate ourselves, but without assuming the role of judges.

Source: Труд, No. 20. English Translation: Orthodox Tradition, Vol. 10 (1993), No. 3, pp. 9-10.