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Alexander
Kalomoiros
The union of the Churches is the best way to eliminate
Christianity
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She is the one flock, and the bishop is her shepherd, the image of Christ, of the one Shepherd. She is the prefiguring on earth of the one flock with the one Shepherd, of the new Jerusalem. Within her, even in this life, pure hearts taste the Kingdom of God, the betrothal of the Holy Spirit. Within her they find peace which «passeth all understanding», the peace which has no relation with the peace of men: «My peace I give unto you». … The Church has no need of external bonds in order to be one. It is not a pope, or a patriarch, or an archbishop that unite the Church. The local church is something complete; it is not a piece of a larger whole. …
The common decisions of an Ecumenical Council are not the foundation but the result of unity. Besides, the decisions of either an ecumenical or local council are valid only when they are accepted by the consciousness of the Church and are in accord with Tradition.
Papacy is the distortion par excellence of Church unity. It made that bond of love and freedom a bond of constraint and tyranny. Papacy is unbelief in God's power and confidence in the power of human systems. …
It is imperative that Christians realize that the Church has sacramental and not administrative foundations; then they will not suffer that which has happened to the Westerners, who followed the Pope in his errors because they thought that, if they did not follow him, they would automatically be outside the Church. … The Orthodox people must become [continue to be] conscious of the fact that they owe no obedience to a bishop, no matter how high a title he holds, when that bishop ceases being Orthodox and openly follows heretics, with pretenses of union «on equal terms». On the contrary, they are obliged to depart from him and confess their Faith, because the moment he ceases being Orthodox, he ceases to be a bishop.
The bishop is a consecrated person, and even if he is openly sinful, respect and honor is due him until synodically censured. But if he becomes openly heretical or is in communion with heretics, then the Christians should not await any synodical decision, but should draw away from him immediately. … A pillar of the Church is every true believer who adheres to the Tradition of the Fathers in spite of all the frightful currents of the world which attempt to pull him away. Such pillars will exist until the end of the world, whatever might happen. …
Cf. Φώτης Κόντογλου, Κατὰ Ἑνωτικῶν * Pope Benedict XVI, The Papal Science * The Pope wants to baptize Russia! * The labyrinth of Papacy * The Papal Chrislamism * A union of Orthodoxy with the papal clergy will destroy Christianity permanently * The union of Orthodoxy with Papacy : a discussion
