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Alexander Kalomoiros
The union of the Churches is the best way to eliminate Christianity

Em. Macron, Rediscovering the Path to Europe

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How can men emerge humble, seeking the light from above with pain and tears, from a civilization ruled by the pursuit of human comfort and characterized by a satanic pride in the triumphs of its science? How can a man who searches the depths of his heart to find in the silence and motionlessness of his «treasury», the «pearl of great price», emerge from a civilization which is characterized by unceasing motion and concern for externals? Such a thing would be equal to a miracle of the rarest kind.

But if the savor of Orthodoxy is such a difficult thing for one individual, how is it possible for the entire Roman Catholic «Church» as a whole or all the Protestant «churches» together, to savor her? Most of the millions of people of the West do not even know that Orthodoxy exists. How is it possible after one or more conferences of representatives of the various «churches» for a return to the truth to be accomplished collectively for souls walking in darkness for centuries now?

Do those who speak of the union of churches possibly think they are dealing with political affairs where the rulers of nations lead their subjects as a whole to either war or peace? People do not come to Christ and His Church in great masses. They come as free persons.

Let us suppose that a Pope suddenly decides to become Orthodox and bring all Catholics to Orthodoxy. With that outward change would even one of the millions of Catholics really become Orthodox? And even if they all had the best disposition to memorize and believe all the doctrines of Orthodoxy, they would not be able to take even one step towards her, because Orthodoxy is not only a system of doctrines or a series of customs, but something much deeper and substantial. It is a whole orientation of life and thought. Orthodoxy is a spirit, the spirit of Tradition, which cannot be acquired from books but is transmitted from the living to the living, from father to son, mother to daughter, brother to brother, friend to friend, priest to priest, monk to monk, from spiritual father to spiritual child, «not by means of ink and paper, but from mouth to mouth», from soul to soul. And all this within the life of the Holy Mysteries of the Church, within the atmosphere of the Holy Spirit, with the passing of time, little by little, with the slow development of an organism. …

 

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