Posted by Dean Calvert
on 8/25/2009, 1:48 pm, in reply to "MP Parishes Liturgically Commemorate Metr. JONAH"
Hi Leo,
Very interesting...I think you may be right...the rumors of the demise of the OCA are greatly exaggerated.
In the end, I've come to the conclusion that I really don't care what the Old World says about the OCA. We're here...and we're not going away. Much the same as the position of the Russian Church itself, following the election of their own Metropolitan Jonah.
In the meantime, they are free to recognize, not recognize, omogenize, diasporize to their hearts content. I doubt our new metropolitan will even notice.
Anyway...tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor!!!
Best Regards,
Dean
PS - Letter from Kiev to Constantinople, 1452
"We beseech your Sacred Majesty not to think that what we have done we did out of arrogance, nor to blame us for not writing to our Sovereignty beforehand; we did this from dire necessity, not from pride or arrogance. In all things we hold to the ancient Orthodox faith transmitted to us, and so we shall continue to do until the end of time. And our Russian Church, the holy metropolitanate of Russia, requests and seeks the blessing of the holy, oecumenical, catholic, and apostolic church of St. Sophia, the Wisdom of God, and is obedient to her in all things according to the ancient faith; and our father, the Lord Iona (Jonah), metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia, likewise requests from her all manner of blessing and union, except for the present recently appeared disagreements."
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