Ioannis Kornarakis
Emeritus Professor
of the School of Theology, University of Athens
Greek source: Ιερά Παρακαταθήκη,
August 2009.
“O God, the heathen are come
into Thine inheritance, they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made
Jerusalem as it were the hut of an orchard-keeper.” (Psalm 78:1
[LXX])
The incursion of the papal
heresy, in November of 2006, into the Ecumenical Patriarchate transformed Mount Athos—or rather its
spiritual leadership, the abbots of its twenty Holy Monasteries—into an abandoned and desolate orchard-keeper hut of Orthodoxy!
The people of God, the fullness
of the Church, were expecting the immediate and dynamic intervention of the
Holy Mountain regarding the events that took place in the Phanar with the
Pope’s visit and concelebration, as a self-evident manifestation of Orthodox
reaction and witness—just as had occurred in the past under Patriarch
Athenagoras, at the lifting of the anathemas, when the entirety of Mount Athos,
its spiritual leadership, ceased the commemoration of his name!
But the spiritual leadership of
today’s Mount Athos did not do the same!
It did not proclaim the Orthodox
witness militantly with the well-known authority of the Athonite voice, as a
corrective intervention against the arbitrary and flagrant patriarchal
violations of the holy Canons of the Church.
On the contrary, it rewarded
these unorthodox patriarchal actions by declaring its reverence for Mr.
Bartholomew!
Thus, the guardians of Orthodox
Tradition, the gatekeepers of the protection and safeguarding of the authority
of the holy Canons of the Church, abandoned their post!
They denied themselves.
They left the vineyard of the
Lord unfenced and unprotected and conformed to the present age of Ecumenism, of
heterodox Christian syncretism.
They aligned themselves with the
New Age minds of clergy and lay theologians, deniers of the truth of the One,
Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of Christ, the Church of the holy
Apostolic and Synodal Canons, of the Patristic Tradition!
This stance of the spiritual
leadership of Mount Athos deprives the Orthodox Church today of the guardian
and protector of the handed-down truths of her faith and teaching.
Today, Mount Athos has ceased to
be a guarantee and support of Orthodoxy, a bastion of the rank of martyrs and
confessors of Orthodoxy.
Today, Mount Athos resembles an
orchard-keeper’s hut crumbled by ecumenism and heresy, now a monument of
Athonite abandonment of the Garden of the Panagia!
This sorrowful fact is taking
place today, at an hour and moment of advanced weakening of Orthodoxy by vital
and vigilant forces of witness and confession, given that today bishops and
archbishops and patriarchs, as well as clergy and lay theologians, arrogantly
transfiguring themselves into a kind of ecclesiastical ecumenical council,
utter unspeakable sayings of heresy “for the good” of Orthodoxy!
Heretical Christian communities
are today recognized as churches; concelebrations with all kinds of heretics
and common prayers are baptized as relationships of love; and every Orthodox
truth is relegated to the bin of ecumenism, to be reinterpreted according to
the new data of postmodernity, which demands the redefinition of everything in
theology and, generally, in the life of the Church!
At this critical hour of the
ecumenist tempest, the Athonite abbots did not hasten to show themselves as “a
divine encampment and God-speaking warriors of the Lord’s host”!
They surrendered to cowardice and
the fear of bearing witness, under the… heretical pretext of pious obedience to
the person of the Patriarch!
Thus, they transformed their
spiritual leadership into a crumbled orchard-keeper hut of the Garden of the Panagia!
They turned their backs on the
shelter and protection of the Lady Abbess of Mount Athos.
They made their choice!
They chose to walk alongside the
patriarchal ecumenist mindset!
Online: https://apotixisi.blogspot.com/2016/05/blog-post_52.html
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