This article or interview of elder Ephraim's remembrances of various incidents justifying - to him - the grace of the New Calendar is very odd.
Does anyone want to read it and give some analysis ?
Besides all sorts of dramatic anecdotes which could easily be made up out of the blue to serve his anti-Old Calendarist movement statements, elder Ephraim states this :
" I want to say that the movement began quite Orthodox and correct, but then it slowly took another turn, leading in dangerous areas and positions, which today is a serious wound in the Orthodox Church, because they shattered into many fractions. And before I left Mount Athos, a pamphlet came to us from America, that said the Old Calendarists of Matthew, who have reached even America, now even have an Ecumenical Patriarch! It had his picture that said "Ecumenical Patriarch so and so, Genuine Orthodox Church".
Archimandrite Ephrem (Philotheitis)
Translated by John Sanidopoulos
Mystagogy
12 / 03 / 16
http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/91448.htm
This allegation is not true of a Matthewite competitive "Ecumenical Patriarch" heading that jurisdiction ?
This sounds like fluff ! He seems to be citing a phony pamphlet or some kind of fraudulent copy of a Matthewite publication.
I would like to hear all the things wrong with this article.
I can pick out narcissism. It seemed to me that the so-called elder is too fond of showing himself as a great elder. The way he describes his interactions with his spiritual children seems too flattering to himself.
Other remarks ?