He Abandoned Sinai and Joined the Resistance

The world-renowned Spiritual Father Adrianos, confronting Ecumenism.

By Apostolos Kapsalis

 

Again Herodias rages, again she seeks the head of John on a platter. This time Herodias is Ecumenism, and John is a monk of the desert of Mount Sinai, Archimandrite Adrianos.

For thirty consecutive years he served with all the strength of his soul the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai. As a parish priest and also a Spiritual Father, he gave the best he could. Thousands of souls from all over the world, who flocked to his stole, he supported. He became world-renowned for his virtue and his moral stature.

His soul could not endure what was happening in the Church, and especially the joint prayers of Orthodox and other heretics.

His soul could not endure the ecumenistic leveling [of all religions].

And he chose the Sunday of Orthodoxy to abandon the Ecumenists at his Monastery, with the Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Archbishop Damianos, being at the forefront.

His monastic roots are Athonite. For twelve years he lived as a monk at the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi.

He does not sell the birthright for a bowl of lentils.

He does not betray Orthodoxy for the sake of the Pan-heresy of Ecumenism.

He proceeded and now communes spiritually with the Bishops of the Synod in Resistance, whose President is Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Phyle.

In the conversation we had yesterday, he kept repeating the word "Orthodoxy."

We asked him what made him abandon the Monastery of Sinai.

He answers directly: "Ecumenism, this terrible pan-heresy. The joint prayers with the Papists and the other heretics. The Union has already taken place secretly, but they are afraid to make it public. They are calculating the reaction of the People."

He speaks about persons and situations he saw in Australia, where he had traveled.

[Archbishop] Stylianos [of Australia], with the consent of [Patriarch] Bartholomew, openly preaches the pan-heresy of Ecumenism.

He also encountered the same things in Canada.

They have now launched a mudslinging attack, saying that he is deluded, because they have no other way to strike him.

He is world-renowned for his spirituality.

They call him "the Saint of the rain," because whenever there was a drought, he would pray and it would rain.

Now, leading the attack is Metropolitan of Zakynthos, Panteleimon.

He wants to seal his privately-owned chapel, where he serves, within his paternal property in the village of Planos, Zakynthos.

Obviously, incidents will occur if he proceeds with this threat.

 

Source: Ελεύθερη Ώρα, Tuesday, April 12, 1994