"We are one with the Jews, without renouncing Christianity and not in
spite of Christianity, but in the name of and by dint of
Christianity, while the Jews are one with us not in spite of Judaism,
but in the
name of and by dint of true Judaism. We are separated from the Jews
because we are not yet completely Christian, while the Jews are
separated from us because they are not yet completely Jews. For the
fullness of Christianity embraces both itself and Judaism, while the
fullness of Judaism is Christianity - The Jewish people are near to
us in faith. Your law is our law, your prophets are our prophets."
"By our joint efforts we shall build a new society a democratic,
free, open, just society - where Jews would live in security and peace,
in
an atmosphere of friendship, creative brotherhood and the brotherhood
of the children of the one God, the Father of all, the God of your
fathers and of ours."
Patriarch Alexis II
13 November,1991
Of course, "Patriarch" Alexy II would do well to read the first epistle of St.John, not to mention the Apocalypse of same Apostle...
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. (1st John 2:22-23)
9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. (Apocalypse of St.John, 2:9)
The miserable state of the Jews since their corporate apostacy, like the wandering of Cain, is due precisely to their loathsome infidelity to the very God (Who became Incarnate some two millenia ago) Who had led them out of Egypt.
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Apocalypse of St.John, 3:9)
It would seem then, that the ecumenistic desire of men like Agent Drozdov ("Patriach Alexy's" KGB codename) to create a civilization where the Jews can escape the infamy of their blasphemy/apostacy, would have to hinge on a belittling of the entire reason why they were viewed with such contempt by the Apostles and Holy Fathers of our Church, including the oft/selectively quoted (but rarely heeded) St.John Chrysostomos.
As for Alexy's past, see the following, just for starters...
http://www.orthodox.net/russia/2000-09- ... times.html
http://www.schwarzreport.org/SchwarzRep ... #patriarch
Then of course, there is the good "Orthodox Christian" Vladimir Putin...
KGB Putin?
More on KGB Putin
(I only bring up the issue of Putin himself, since he is involving himself in the attempted unia of the ROCOR and MP, and because the ROCORites who met with Putin have had nothing but glowing things to say of him)
However, if there were nothing else in all of this that should move us to mourning, it is the following...
"To those who attack the Church of Christ by teaching that Christ's Church is divided into so-called "branches" which differ in doctrine and way of life, or that the Church does not exist visibly, but will be formed in the future when all branches or sects, or denominations, and even religions will be united into one body; and who do not distinguish the priesthood and mysteries of the Church from those of heretics, but say that the baptism and eucharist of heretics is effectual for salvation; therefore, to those who knowingly have communion with these aforementioned heretics or who advocate, disseminate, or defend their new heresy, commonly called ecumenism, under the pretext of brotherly love or the supposed unification of separated Christians, Anathema!" (ROCOR's 1983 Anathema Against Ecumenism)
These are all crimes "world Orthodoxy" as such is guilty of, and unrepentently so. While many now argue this anathema is only of a "local" nature, it's terrifying import for the ROCOR remains unchanged - for it condemns any sort of unia with those who profess the mentioned errors. Well, what would an official, unambiguous union with the MP amount to, if not ROCOR falling under it's own anathema?
Sadly, such has happened already (though with less gusto and fan-fare than the up coming ROCOR/MP merger will have associated with it) with ROCOR's official adoption of the heretical Kyprianite ecclessiology in the mid 90's, and her profession that union was never broken between the ROCOR and the Serbian/Jerusalem Patriarchates in this same period (despite the events of 1965, and the fact that this annunciation of "unbroken relations" needed to be said at all is evidence that such official relations did not remain in tact in the years following '65, save as local abbherations, whose manifestation at those times was itself controversial.)
For Further Reading
Holy Canons Relating to Ecumenism
Canons Pertaining to Baptism
Patriarchal Sigillon of 1583
Seraphim