"Another question arises—does anyone have the right to call
the sacraments performed in Sergianist churches graceless before the Church, by
a conciliar decision, cuts off those who have sinned, having first called them
to repentance and correction?
"Metropolitan Sergius, X, Y, Z
have fallen away from grace—but as long as they are not cut off, does not that
teaching of the Church remain in effect, that 'in place of unworthy ministers
of the altar the Lord invisibly sends His angels to perform the divine
mystery'? If such a teaching exists (I believe that it does), then is it not
more prudent to endure, not to accuse of the conscious lawlessness of
Sergianism the masses of those who suffer in soul from the injustice committed
by the lawless, who in no way share their views, but, being unable to
comprehend the essence of our disagreements, are afraid of making a mistake in
choosing their path independently, and who find their only consolation and
comfort amid the surrounding darkness and grief in church services, and
therefore attend Sergianist churches?"
Source: Mazyrin A., Priest. High Hierarchs on the
Succession of Authority in the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1920s–1930s –
Moscow: Publishing House of PSTGU, 2006, p. 124.
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