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"We have concluded that when the principle of phyletism (i.e. ecclesiastical nationalism) is juxtaposed with the teaching of the Gospel and the constant practice of the Church, it is not only foreign to it, but also completely opposed, to it. We decree the following in the Holy Spirit: 1. We reject and condemn racial division, that is, racial differences, national quarrels and disagreements in the Church of Christ, as being contrary to the teaching of the Gospel and the holy canons of our blessed fathers, on which the holy Church is established and which adorn human society and lead it to Divine piety. 2. In accordance with the holy canons, we proclaim that those who accept such division according to races and who dare to base on it hitherto unheard-of racial assemblies are foreign to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and are real schismatics."
Constantinople...1872
Re: Real #'s- Metropolitan Jonah's Russian Interview - "It is Time to be Direct"
Posted by Dean Calvert
on 5/10/2009, 3:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Real #'s- Metropolitan Jonah's Russian Interview - "It is Time to be Direct""
Al,
I couldn't agree more. We either acclimate to the local environment or we (deserve to) die.
It's really that simple - "the numbers" are just one more dimension of the nonsense that has become the caricature of Orthodoxy on this continent.
Sts. John Chrysostom and Photios must be spinning in their graves.
I second the motion..time to take our heads out of the "sand."
Best Regards
dean
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