The Metropolitan
of Limassol provokes a global scandal in Orthodoxy
A video
(here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLMGvt2wzME),
and two short excerpts in particular, was sent to us at the Katanixi channel: From min. 1:01:30 to 1:15:00 and from 1:21:50 to 1:26:30.
Those who listened to them were
frightened and outraged. We, striving to calm them and almost certain that
there had been a misinterpretation, watched and re-watched the excerpts
carefully and could not believe our ears and eyes.
In the video, unimaginable
lies are heard, unfortunately!
A faithful woman (listener of
the speech): "I want to ask you about walling off. I am not walled
off, and I do not intend to wall off… but I was told that walling off does not
remove you from the Church… and the same was done by Saint Paisios."
Metropolitan of Limassol:
"When did Saint Paisios do this?"
The faithful woman:
"Towards Athenagoras."
Metropolitan of Limassol:
"He never did that! Never!"
The faithful woman:
"And Augoustinos Kantiotes?"
Metropolitan of Limassol:
"Neither Kantiotes! I served with him, I served with him on Mount Athos.
He didn’t do anything of the sort. And I served every day with Elder Paisios;
when did he wall off? These are lies!"
At another point, the
Metropolitan of Limassol is heard saying: "I met Saint Paisios in
1976."
Reasonable
questions
Why such persistence and passion
in exposing so many lies against Saint Paisios and the blessed Hierarch
Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes?
Is it possible to ignore the
cessation of commemoration of Patriarch Athenagoras, which took place from 1970
until his death (July 7, 1972)? Have you not read the book published about the
Saint, titled "The Life of Elder Paisios the Athonite" by
Hieromonk Isaac, in which it literally states:
"For a
period (note: Elder Paisios) ceased, along with almost the entire Holy
Mountain, the commemoration of Patriarch Athenagoras due to his dangerous
overtures towards the Roman Catholics."
Regarding the walling off by the
blessed confessor Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes of Florina, the matter is
even worse because there is a text composed by Saint Bishop Augustinos himself,
titled "Responses on Ecclesiastical Subjects," in which he
emphasized that he, along with Metropolitan Ambrosios of Eleftheroupolis and
Paul of Paramythia, ceased "entirely canonically" and not "entirely
arbitrarily" the commemoration of Patriarch Athenagoras, in accordance
with Canon 15 of the First-Second Council [1]:
"If you
open the Pedalion and study Canon 15 of the First-Second Council, you
will see that we ceased the commemoration of the Patriarch not 'entirely
arbitrarily' but 'entirely canonically.' We ceased it after his
terrifying statements about the primacy and infallibility of the Pope, about
the Filioque, and so on. These anti-Orthodox teachings were proclaimed 'with
uncovered head' on a global level and were condemned by numerous Councils.
The three Metropolitans of Northern Greece who, with pain of soul, proceeded to
cease the commemoration of the Patriarch, declared in a document to the Holy
Synod that, if the Patriarch renounced those statements, we would resume
commemoration. But, unfortunately, he persisted in his misguided opinions. The
fact that the Holy Synod, despite all the pressures it received, did not impose
sanctions against us demonstrates that it recognized, deep down, the
correctness of our action. This action of ours provided the Patriarchate with a
high service because it acted as a brake on the Patriarch, who was rushing
headlong toward an inopportune union with the Papists. (Responses on
Ecclesiastical Subjects, Athens 1973, p. 49-50).
† Bishop
Augustinos"
It is unnecessary to mention more
arguments on the subject.
To think positively, if you erred
out of ignorance, let us know, and we will provide you with all the necessary
information to restore the truth regarding the Saint. Otherwise, is it
permissible to tell lies about a Saint about whom you continually proclaim,
among other things, that you "knew him personally"?
"I
experienced and was with Saint Paisios!!!"
The sanctity of any Elder only
increases the disciple's responsibility before God. Sanctity is not a natural
phenomenon (like electricity, magnetism, or gravity) to work through induction,
nor is there any kind of infallibility that is transmitted in Orthodoxy.
The video is saddening. A
Metropolitan, who once filled the faithful with hope for his right thinking,
unfortunately falls so dramatically and deafeningly low.
One unanswered question
remains. WHY?
Why is the canonical, holy, and
patristic walling off attacked with such passion?
Why is the pan-heresy of
ecumenism not attacked?
Why does he not take an Orthodox
stance for leaving the World Council of Heresies (WCC)?
Why does he not denounce the
pseudo-Council of Crete, which recognizes heresies as Churches and paths to
salvation?
Why does he not thunder against
the new ecclesiology of Patriarch Bartholomew Archontonis, who distributes
anti-ecclesiastical and arbitrary autocephalies, hosting the new schism within
Orthodoxy?
Whom does His Eminence fear,
distorting the facts about canonical walling off while addressing the people,
instead of rebuking the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ?
At the resounding celebration of
Saint Demetrius, we wish good repentance to him personally, to the inspired and
established guests of the speeches in the homonymous city of Athens, who,
instead of an Orthodox refuge, have transformed the parish into a "spiritual
hive" for the production and dissemination of unorthodox,
unecclesiastical, and ecumenist opinions.
Good Repentance!
[1] https://www.augoustinos-kantiotis.gr/?p=53935
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