THE ORTHODOX AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES 

TAKING STEP TO OVERCOME DIVISION 

CONTROVERSY OVER THE BALAMAND REPORT

     In this paragraph, which is authored by Greek Orthodox leaders show that their betrayal has now reached completion and they proclaim that union has already taken place in this paragraph. For it reads at the beginning: “prepared by Orthodox members of the official North American Orthodox Roman Catholic Consultation”

The Term “Sister Churches”

     In this deceptive article is the following paragraph written by the leaders, entitled: “In What Ways Are The Two Churches Sister Churches?”  This is their reply:  “The use of the venerable term (“sister churches) in modern Orthodox Catholic dialogue has helped to place relations between our churches on a new footing. (Note: the term “sister churches” identifies them as equal). It is based on the common and shared thousand years experienced reality together. The concept of sister churches includes the notion of mutual respect for each other’s pastoral ministry. As the Balamand Document states: “Bishops and Priests have the duty before God to respect the authority which the Holy Spirit has given to the Bishops and Priests of the other church and for that reason to avoid interfering in the faithful of that church . . .”  Bishops are responsible not simply for the pastoral care of their own faithful but also for the good estate and upbuilding of the whole Church and for the evangelization of the world.”

     As can clearly be seen the term “another church”  means those who are outside the church who are not another church, for there can be no church outside the Church but only falsehood, deception and heresy.

     Formerly the non-Orthodox church and the leaders of the true Orthodox Church were apart and separated now the Orthodox leaders have gathered together, completing their attempts at betrayal. With these declarations the Orthodox leaders have not just joined the heretics together , but even worse, they have blotted out Orthodoxy’s absolute perfection and its position as the one true Orthodox Church.  By this action they have removed themselves from the Orthodox Church and in doing so have also abandoned all hope of salvation. They have lost their true faith and are dangerous to all, for they can be the cause of many additional people to lose their faith and sorrowfully they this loss of faith is the cause of the loss of everlasting life.                                  

    They write: “The concept of sister churches includes the notion of mutual respect for each other’s pastoral ministry.”  Mutual respect for each other means equality before God and man, but although they claim this, the non-Orthodox can never possibly be equal to the Orthodox except in the imagination of the betraying hierarchs. We must reject their insanity and remain loyal to the holy Orthodox Church unto the end of our lives! 

     When we find any literature supporting these betrayers, it would be best for us to take it out of circulation and destroy it  for they are malicious documents able to deceive many, and it is our sacred duty to protect everyone from any such evil.

      It is obvious that the faithful are sleeping and their attention is not concerning the evils that today are being heaped upon Orthodoxy by the very leaders who are being paid good money even though they are betraying the Church. The Church would be safer if the leaders didn’t lead as they are leading people astray.

CASTELGANDOLFO,  FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION

Our own hierarchs trying to destroy holy Orthodoxy.

     “Yesterday on the Feast of Transfiguration, Pope John Paul expressed his concern over the disunity of Christians, when at noon he met with thousands of pilgrims in the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo.

     The Transfiguration is a liturgical Feast that both Catholic and Orthodox celebrate on the same day.  Therefore, this Jubilee Year it became a reason for meeting and promoting the ecumenical dialogue between these two Christian confessions.  In response to a request by Bartholomew, Patriarch of Constantinople, a prayer vigil was held on Saturday night in the Basilica of St, John Lateran, the Pope’s cathedral.

     Yesterday the Holy Father said that the Catholic Church “welcomed with joy” the Ecumenical Patriarch’s appeal to celebrate this “moving” rite united, which was held this weekend “in communion of faith and intentions.” “The occasion was propitious to stress the common profession of faith in Jesus Christ, Son of God, and the will to obey the Gospel.”

     The article above was written by Catholics and clearly demonstrates how far the Orthodox leaders have gone in betraying the Orthodox Faith. Note that they celebrate “in communion or sharing of faith and intentions.”

     The “Pope expressed his concern over the disunity of Christians.” Christians herein means all those separated from the Church and all the Orthodox who cannot be united to anyone. Although they are outside the Church, by “disunity” they always include the Orthodox and the leaders confirm this.

     “In response to a request by Bartholomew, Patriarch of Constantinople, a prayer vigil was held on Saturday night in the Basilica of St, John Lateran, the Pope’s cathedral.” The Patriarch has no authority to arrange such efforts as prayer vigils for this can never be done by Orthodox Christians with any other group.

     Yesterday the Holy Father said that the Catholic Church “welcomed with joy” the Ecumenical Patriarch’s appeal to celebrate this “moving” rite united, which was held this weekend “in communion of faith and intentions.” “The occasion was propitious to stress the common profession of faith in Jesus Christ, Son of God, and the will to obey the Gospel.”

     “The Catholic Church “welcomed with joy” the Ecumenical Patriarch’s appeal to celebrate this “moving” rite united . . .” With joy because their intent to destroy Orthodoxy is advancing, in fact that this is the only reason for its existence. And they point out that we must be united, that is that we all become one, which would complete the destruction of holy Orthodoxy.

     Betraying Orthodoxy he makes the Papacy an equal “In response to a request by Bartholomew, Patriarch of Constantinople, a prayer vigil was held on Saturday night in the Basilica of St, John Lateran, the Pope’s cathedral.” Those who pray together voluntarily are considered as equals, so this is a major betrayal.

     “The occasion was propitious to stress the common profession of faith in Jesus Christ, Son of God, and the will to obey the Gospel.” “Stress the common profession of faith” is the whole intention of the Catholics for by stressing the common profession means that we both hold the same faith and so must be united. They go even further saying that this unity is the will of the Gospel when the opposite is true. It is the lack of unity by whic we identify the heretics distinguishing them from Orthodox Christians. However, truth can never be united with falsehood just as light cannot be united with darkness.

FORBIDDEN PRAYERS USED BY ORTHODOX LEADERS

     All Orthodox Church members especially clergy are forbidden to pray with those outside the Church. When this is violated it leads to no good as you will see. In an encyclical bu Patriarch Bartholomew entitled: 

“BARTHOLOMEW MAKES ADDRESS IN SISTINE CHAPEL

Vatican City (AP) The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians prayed with Pope Benedict XVI in the Sistine Chapel and urged Catholics and Orthodox Christians to work together to combat fundamentalism and to promote religious tolerance.

Bartholomew addressed the 12th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops of the Roman catholic Church at the Vatican. This was the first time ever that an Ecumenical Patriarch has addressed this gathering, which meets approximately every two years.

Benedict praised his guest, Patriarch Bartholomew I, on the occasion of the Orthodox leader’s first  service in the chapel, which is famous for its frescoes painted by Michelangelo.

Bartholomew’s participation in the vesper service and speech in the chapel where popes are elected, is a “joyous experience of unity perhaps not perfect, but true and deep,” Benedict said.

The two men are eager to bridge a nearly millennium-long schism between the two churches, and see moral and social issues – including fundamentalism, religious intolerance, abortion, euthanasia and environmental degradation – as fertile ground for common initiatives.

Bartholomew was invited to address more than 400 cardinals, bishops, priests, and lay people from around the world attending a meeting at the Vatican this month about the importance of the Bible. Cardinals and bishops listened attentively as the patriarch spoke about the potential for common initiatives between the world’s 250 million Orthodox and more than a billion Catholics.

The Orthodox leader called it more imperative than ever for both sides to provide a “unique perspective – beyond the social, political or economic – on the need to eradicate poverty, to provide balance in a global world. . .”

Patriarch Bartholomew identifies the Vatican as being a “catholic Church” which is only its claim, not truth.

     He calls for religious tolerance which is up to the state being outside his Orthodox responsibilities. Orthodoxy does not believe that other religions are good but that they are erroneous, for Orthodoxy is the Church founded by Christ, and seeks to bring all men into the Church. She \urges them to abandon their false religions and be baptized into the true Church and this is not religious tolerance. The state can declare religious tolerance but not the Orthodox Church. Our vision is one single united Church and the non-existence of the many false churches.  All the many false churches draw people away from the one Church.

     Though we are forbidden to deliberately associate with heretics the Patriarch urges Catholics and Orthodox Christians to work together to combat fundamentalism and to promote religious tolerance.

INFAMOUS BETRAYAL OF ORTHODOXY

Ongoing, started around 1920 with encyclical of the   Patriarch of Constantinople

It is entitled:

 “To the churches of Christ everywhere.”

     The early 1920's was a period when the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople adopted and changed to the papal calendar now beig used in western countries. This helped to spawn the ecumenical movement, one of the worst heresies that ever attacked the Church, for they proclaim that all heretical churches together constitute the whole Church, and sadly the Orthodox who accept them, in doing so, reject their own salvation, for they accept falsehood as being truth.

   The encyclical begins and is based upon a falsehood, saying: “The church holds that raproachment and fellowship between the various Christian churches is  not excluded by doctrinal differences,”  First, the Church has never called those outside gathered into groups “churches” for she is aware that she is the one and only Church. Raproachment can never been the position of the Church, because the Church functions by using her sacred truths to refute any falsehoods and correct the lack of purity and truth usually found in heretical groups. If any of them abandon their heresy and approach and accept Orthodoxy, they are then catechized and baptized by the one and only baptism of three immersion and they become members of the Orthodox Church. There are many doctrinal differences in all these outside groups like not following the Orthodox Creed which they contradict by their spurious claims to be the church. We believe in the sacred Creed which proclaims: “I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church and in one baptism for remission of sins . . . ”  They continually present false churches, which spreads their heresies which they claim to be true doctrine.

     Speaking of ill-conceived Orthodox attempts to unite they write: “the difficulties which have so often jeopordized  our attempts at reunion in the past.” This just never happened because attempts for union have never been made by the Church. The Church simply requires camdidates to abandon errror and accept truth and before they are baptized.  

    Another erroneous statement in the encyclical, shows their real mindset when they address  the true Orthodox Church as being just another “sister church” (a new term they invented)  and such a thing is impossible for there can never be multiple churches when there is “one holy catholic and apostolic Church.” They changed and speak of the church in the plural calling them sister churches, but this assertion denies the Orthodox Church as the only true Church.

     Their intent is to corrupt the idea of the true church and the recognition of false churches as a church. This is the whole ideal of ecumenism, the new “one” church is formed by smoke and mirrors! They say: “They should no more consider one another as strangers and foreigners, but as relatives and as being a part of the household of Christ and “fellow heirs, members of the same body and partakers of the promise of God in Christ” (Eph. 3:6). The Patriarchate herein establishes that it doesn’t matter what they believe (all heretical Christian churches) for they are all “relatives and part of the household of Christ, “fellow heirs and members of the same body and partakers of the promise of God in Christ.”

     There definitely exists the one holy catholic and apostolic Church. The encyclical’s doctrine denies this fact and establshes that all Christians functioning outside the church are part of the Church. This is impossible and in fact constitutes a declaration of war against the Orthodox Church. 

     The encyclical travels deeper into the mire of error, saying: “Such a sincere and close contact between the churches will be all the more  useful and profitable for the whole body of the Church.” So they clearly establish that the Orthodox is just a portion of a much larger view of the church which they imagine and it takes in all wrong believers and heretics.

     It clearly seeks to tear down the Orthodox Church by confusing it in with all heresies. It also causes the loss of countless souls of those outside the Church who are not encouraged but instead are discouraged from leaving their errors and entering the true and saving Church, headed by Christ and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.