9/24/2018
Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich)
We’re not primitive creatures who live by the principle of stimulus–response. The Lord didn’t just decide to give us reason.
Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) of Boryspol and Brovary
Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) reflects on the price we can pay for the Lord’s riches.
A defective and malicious copy of world Orthodoxy is now being built before our eyes. In this parallel system, such aspects as the perversion of the canons, the legalization of schismatics, concelebration with people who have no valid ordination, and the trampling of the conciliar format of Church governance are considered natural and normal.
There are several reasons for the feeling of God-abandonment.
The 26th Psalm was written by David when he was being persecuted by Saul before his anointing as king of Israel by the Prophet Samuel. It was an incredibly difficult period in David’s life, when everyone turned their backs on him and abandoned him.
To be with God and His Church means to bring love and goodness to others, to warm them with care, attention and warmth, to protect them from calamity, to stand in the truth. Always—both in the little things, and in the great ones.
Our conscience is clear—it is not us who seize churches, but it is our churches being seized. We do not violate anyone’s rights, but our believers suffer because of their loyalty to God. We do not shed blood and we do not provoke the incitement of sectarian strife.
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The persistent and stubborn attempts of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to heal the split in Ukraine, through the provision of granting autocephaly is not a cure, but poison for both the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and the entire body of Ecumenical (Universal) Orthodoxy.
