It is very interesting to note that nowhere are these non-commemorating fathers setting up there own jursidiction, consecrating their own bishops, or fleeing off in hysteria to a more pure "church".
Also interesting is that these other "world-Orthodox" monastics are supporting the brethren of Espigmenou in their struggles against the politics and interference of the EP.
But aren't they in the EP? How can they remain under the EP?
Interesting how things do not procede in black and white as much as some schismatics would like?
Deacon John
Deacon John,
The history of the struggle of Esphigmenou would certainly be worth studying.
A couple of relative facts...
The other "worldly Orthodox" monasteries are NOT supporting them in-so-far as they are supporting or winking at Bartholomews efforts. If they did support Esphigmenou, then they would stop Bartholomew's invasion of the Holy Mountain, since it is in fact self-ruling and not Bartholomew's in the least bit.
The only people "running off" and forming their own "jurisdictions", indeed, their own faith, are the "world Orthodox". Esphigmenou is with the bishops of the GOC.
Deacon John, Orthodoxy is a faith, the faith, which is ruled over by God and whose unchanging face is reflected in its bishops. "Orthodoxy" is not a title of an organization or club, where people can sign documents stating other faiths, because by doing so, they are destroying the one criteria which makes them Orthodox; in essence they depart from the faith. This is what has happened to the haughty Latins, who every step of the way mocked and ridiculed us as "schismatics" until even this day. But as it is, they are not only schismatics, but also heretics. And these world "orthodox" leaders who sign documents of heresy, are not just schismatics, they too are also heretics.