Voice from the Grave: Protopresbyter George Metallinos

After all that is happening in the so-called Churches and which Fr. George denounces, what do the clergy, the monks, and the people say?

Until when will they remain within HERESY?

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FR. GEORGE: They call me a heretic because I rely on the Kollyvades.

We have an encyclical from the Church of Germany stating that baptisms should not be performed—not only for Roman Catholics but also for Protestants. The same is happening with the Church of Greece. They are no longer baptized. And you know, this was finalized with the meeting at Balamand—or Belemend—in Lebanon. It is a university and has a large theological faculty. Fr. Romanides taught there, as well as Fr. Hierotheos Vlachos and others. Now, the dean is a fanatical Arab in his mindset, who forbids any Greek from going there. There has been a change of policy at the Patriarchate of Antioch for some time. We, as a university, cooperate with them, as theological schools through the deans, but I know what game is being played over there. This is a policy they are implementing. I know what is going on and how I will deal with it.

So they banned it. The same in America. My book “I Confess One Baptism,” which presents the Patristic view on this matter—that they must be baptized as unbaptized—has been fought against so much in America. But that contributed to its wide dissemination. Of course, I don’t take a penny from it, mind you. I’ve left it to the Holy Mountain, to the Monastery that printed it. But it has spread widely because the Russians have followed the ecumenist policy from Peter the Great onward.

The Greeks of America. The Greeks of Germany. The Greek Orthodox in Greece, etc., accuse this book of being heretical and me of being a heretic because I rely on the Fathers.
Maximos Aghiogoussis, Metropolitan of Pittsburgh—bishop of Pittsburgh—had sent me something (may he be well, and I venerate him for his episcopacy, but I do not agree at all with what he says, not to characterize it further). So Maximos, years ago, circulated a text against me.
The Greeks of America, of Pittsburgh, sent it to me, and I received it and studied it. And I told them, excuse me, just a few months ago the Patriarchate proclaimed Saint Athanasios of Paros a saint of the Orthodox Church. I was relying on Paros for what I said—on Mark of Ephesus, on Palamas, and on the Kollyvades. So tell me: is [Athanasios of] Paros a saint for you or is he not? Then I told him, why are you fighting me? Did I say anything of my own? I simply present these things systematically. And I ended by telling him: one can become a bishop easily; to become a scholar is not easy—it takes labor. Forgive me, I say it now and I publicly ask forgiveness, but that was my defense. Well, Germany did the same, and the same is happening in many places.

So you understand, then—this is what I want to say to you as a brother—that it is not a natural flow of events, where at some point one might say, “Well, brother, rather than leaving them outside in the cold, let’s give them a space.”

WHEN THEY TAKE THE SPACE, THEY WILL PROCLAIM THAT THERE IS COMPLETE EQUALITY AND UNION.

This is what happened at Balamand. Nine Churches at Balamand in 1993—with the Ecumenical Patriarchate first and the Papal side—proclaimed the mutual recognition (that’s what it says in the text: mutual recognition) of the Mysteries… and therefore, that the Orthodox may freely commune with them, and they with the Orthodox.

Now pay attention. When they come to receive Communion, they have—as I told you—the decision of Vatican II, that IMMEDIATELY THEY MAKE US PAPISTS AND NOT THAT THEY BECOME ORTHODOX.

So there is a diplomacy at play.

Now, someone who is not interested in such matters might say, “Come on, folks, is this what we’re dealing with?” Well then, why do people fight over Olympiakos and Panathinaikos [Greek soccer teams – trans. note]? Are there greater absurdities than the clashes of hooligans?

BUT WHEN ONE KNOWS THAT THESE ARE ELEMENTS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE UNTO SALVATION, THEN HE DOESN’T KILL ANYONE—HE IS HIMSELF SLAIN.

As for me—and I will finish with this, beloved—it would have been to my benefit to be on good terms with everyone. I would have received titles. I would have received medals. I would have risen higher than where God willed me to reach. I became a dean. The first theologian, number one, in all of Greece at this moment. I do not say this to boast, but that is the position of the Dean of Athens. After him comes the Dean of Thessaloniki. God brought me to finish my term, if I live until next year, in this condition. Therefore, I am harming myself. Because I too could have had a nice little job in Geneva or in Brussels, to have my own benefits as well. I have not taken a penny from the meetings. I go everywhere for free. I mean the dialogues and such things. And most importantly: when did I ever refuse to cooperate? I stated my positions, etc., but I undertook whatever task was assigned to me in those dialogues. I have prepared some fifteen texts; I have read them. I spent entire months for free and so on, yet confessing the Patristic continuity of Orthodoxy. Scientifically, in such a way that no one could refute them. The first in this was Fr. John Romanides, and then I as well. And do you know what they did? The texts of Romanides—and mine too, but mainly Romanides’—were never read. “There’s no time.” And they told him: “Write this text,” and then the text was not read at the meeting. “Read it on your own later”… and then the others wouldn’t even take it.

So what do I want from all this? I don’t think it’s pride, and I don’t think it’s gain, to strike your fist against a knife. That’s the problem. But you know, there are limits.

MASQUARDES, MASQUARDES, MASQUARADES, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO END UP?

WE’VE COMPLETELY LOWERED EVERYTHING. WE STAND BEFORE YOU STRIPPED BARE.

Forgive me—today I’ve gone beyond the limits.

CONSTANTLY MASQUARADES—SO WHERE WILL WE END UP?

The solution in binary form:

Either

ALL THESE THINGS FOR WHICH WE STRUGGLE ARE LIES, SO WHY EXHAUST OURSELVES? THROW THEM AWAY,

or

IF THEY ARE TRUE, THEN WE WILL DIE FOR THEM.

 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K33Ds9YPyn0

Translated from the transcription posted on https://apotixisi.blogspot.com/