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    1. The document discusses two upcoming visits between the Vatican, Athens, and the Phanar that will reinforce the syncretistic ecumenical axis between Orthodoxy and Catholicism. 2. It argues that the implications of these visits do not allow for pleasantries, as they will advance anti-Patristic stances. Contemporary Athonite monasticism has composed hymns welcoming the Pope. 3. The document asserts that New Calendarist anti-ecumenists who maintain communion with syncretistic leaders cannot claim to follow the Holy Fathers, since the Saints severed communion with heretics.

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    1. The document discusses two upcoming visits between the Vatican, Athens, and the Phanar that will reinforce the syncretistic ecumenical axis between Orthodoxy and Catholicism. 2. It argues that the implications of these visits do not allow for pleasantries, as they will advance anti-Patristic stances. Contemporary Athonite monasticism has composed hymns welcoming the Pope. 3. The document asserts that New Calendarist anti-ecumenists who maintain communion with syncretistic leaders cannot claim to follow the Holy Fathers, since the Saints severed communion with heretics.

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    1. The document discusses two upcoming visits between the Vatican, Athens, and the Phanar that will reinforce the syncretistic ecumenical axis between Orthodoxy and Catholicism. 2. It argues that the implications of these visits do not allow for pleasantries, as they will advance anti-Patristic stances. Contemporary Athonite monasticism has composed hymns welcoming the Pope. 3. The document asserts that New Calendarist anti-ecumenists who maintain communion with syncretistic leaders cannot claim to follow the Holy Fathers, since the Saints severed communion with heretics.

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    We, the resisters, offer our comments...

    Two official visits with manifold implications

    The Advancing Course of the Syncretistic


    Axis of the Vatican, Athens,
    and the Phanar
    and the inconsistent movement
    of New Calendarist Anti-Ecumenism

    T he two wheels upon which the caisson of Orthodox-Papist ecu-


    menism has been borne since the 1960s have, hitherto, revolved
    around the axis of the Vatican and the Phanar.
    The ecumenists have seen fit
    to bolster and reinforce this syn-
    cretistic axis yet more and to ad-
    vance it more explicitly: to re-
    inforce it through the active and,
    indeed, energetic participation of
    the Archdiocese of Athens in in-
    ter-Christian Ecumenism (Arch-
    bishop Christodoulos, by synodal decision, is to visit the Vatican on
    14 December), and also to advance it through the sensational pere-
    grination of Pope Benedict XVI to the Phanar (29-30 November).

    1. There is no room for pleasantries


    The manifold implications of these two visits do not per-
    mit, in any case whatsoever, any pleasantry of this type:
    I asked a brother:From whence are those who are go-
    ing to the Vatican? And I received the answer:From
    the Archdiocese, and of course with a bull from the Holy
    Synod!1
    This is all the more so, when we take into account the wholly
    anti-Patristic stance of contemporary Athonite monasticism, which
    has made haste to compose special hymnological ditties for inclu-
    sion in the ecumenical reception service at the Phanar for the
    Venerable Shepherd and Primate, His Holiness,
    Pope Benedict, Bishop of Rome!2
    As an historical footnote, in May of 1964, the Holy Mountain
    was aquiver:
    [A]t least 95 percent of the Athonite Fathers disap-
    prove of the pro-Papal policy of the cumenical Patri-
    arch, whose Polychronion [Pheme] they have ceased to
    chant.3
    The vigorous promotion on the part of the New Calendarist Anti-
    Ecumenists of their conviction that
    the leadership of our Church is drawing all of us outside
    the Church, in order to unite us with heresy and the One
    World Religion,4
    with the Athonites, unfortunately, playing first fiddle(!), leaves no
    margin for pleasantries.

    2. The foundations of the Faith are being undermined


    At this critical time, when
    the heresy of syncretistic ecu-
    menism is being bolstered and ad-
    vanced with full force, the Phanar
    and Athens are speaking about
    Orthodoxy and Papism as puta-
    tive Sister Churches,which
    ought to work in concert as Christian Churches, to coperate
    in matters of common concern, independently of their theologi-
    cal differences,5 and to aim not only at co-existence, but also at
    close coperation, in order to confront not just social but oth-
    er problems of the world, which is in need of religious conver-
    gence both particularly and unitively;6 at this critical time, then,
    it is imperative that we reaffirm, in word and in deed, that the
    Rules of Faith and exactitude are the Saints, and it is them that
    we follow.7
    The anti-Orthodox nature of ecumenism is no longer in ques-
    tion: the foundations of the Faith have been undermined for de-
    cades now by the panheresy of Ecumenism,the tenets of which
    have been repeatedly proclaimed by Patriarchs, Archbishops,
    and theologians, who have now adopted another Gospel.8
    The Holy Fathers, these true Yardsticks of Faith, neither in-
    dulged in banter when confronting heresies, nor did they waste their
    struggle on journalism, but severed communion with heretics, that
    is, they resisted by walling themselves off, and were, for precisely
    this reason, subjected to persecution...!
    The declaration by the New Calendarist Anti-Ecumenists that
    we struggle following the line of the Holy Fathers, and it is their
    teaching that we put forth,9 if not deliberately misleading, is
    nonetheless quite inadequate, indeed, utterly inadequate.
    Saints Maximos the Confessor and Theodore the Studite, to
    whom the New Calendarist Anti-Ecumenists advert, were virulent-
    ly persecuted, not only because they did not hesitate to speak,10
    but precisely because they did not hesitate to wall themselves
    off.

    3. Not even for a moment...


    The clear, very clear asseveration of the New Calendarist
    Anti-Ecumenists that their syncretistic Shepherds are drawing
    them outside the Church, that the foundations of the Faith
    have been undermined for decades by these Shepherds, and that
    they have adopted another Gospel underscoresindeed, with
    especial emphasisthe anti-Patristic character of the truly inconsis-
    tent movement of New Calendarist Anti-Ecumenism.
    New Calendarist Anti-Ecumenists who maintain commu-
    nion with their syncretistic Shepherds cannot conceivably proclaim
    that they are of One Voice with, and Followers of, the Holy Fa-
    thers,11 since the Saintsaccording to St. Basil the Greatnot
    even for a moment (let alone for decades...!) accepted com-
    munion or relations with those Shepherds whom they found to be
    stumbling (lame) in the Faith.12

    From the Chancery


    of the Holy Synod inResistance
    16 November 2006 (Old Style)
    Holy Apostle Matthew the Evangelist

    Notes

    1. Protopresbyter Dionysios Tatses,






    [The Archbishop at the Vatican], , No. 1665 (17 November
    2006), p. 1.
    2. Maria Antoniadou,







    ,
    [Three New Troparia Will Be Chanted at the Doxology for
    the Historic Visit of Benedict XVI, Who Will Recite the Our Father in Greek],
    (26 November 2006), p. A36.
    3. -, No. 40 (May 1964), pp. 1, 3.
    4. , No. 1663 (3 November 2006), p. 1, lead article (see also
    the issue for 20 March 2005, which features the views of Father S. Sarantou).
    5.

    .



    [Interview with Patriarch Bartholomew by Nikos Papachrestou],
    (26 November 2006), p. 14.
    6.

    .




    [Interview with Archbishop Christodoulos by the Russian news ser-
    vice Novosti], , No. 1665 (17 November 2006), pp. 1, 5.
    7. Protopresbyter Theodoros Zeses,

    [The Ene-
    mies of the Church], , No. 1665 (17 November 2006), pp. 1, 5.
    8. See note 7.
    9. See note 7.
    10. See note 7.
    11. Seventh cumenical Synod, Mansi, Vol. XIII, col. 196D/
    [Proceedings of the Holy cumenical Syn-
    ods], ed. Spyridon Melias (Holy Mountain: Ekdosis Kalyves Timiou Prodromou,
    1981), Vol. II, p. 823b (Fifth Session).
    12. St. Basil the Great, Epistle 266, To Peter, Bishop of Alexandria, Patrolo-
    gia Grca, Vol. XXXII, cols. 992-994.

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