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GIVING WITNESS TO THE TRUE CHURCH

Orthodox Christians all over the world have received the unchanging Christian Faith, passed down from the Holy Apostles to their successors, and continue to practice it today in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church – The Orthodox Church.
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Bishop Longinus: “Cretan Council a lawless synod”

Before his elevation to the episcopacy, Bishop Longinus was “Fr. Michael” at the monastery and orphanage he founded in southeastern Ukraine.

Reverend Hierarchs,

With pain in my soul, I would ask all of your my brethren: Let us stand aright, let us stand with fear, let us attend!

Bishop Longinus

At all costs it is necessary to protect and preserve our Only Orthodox Faith, Holy and Saving, and we must not be traitors like Judas. There is nothing above God’s Truth; neither friendship, nor peace, nor life, nor anything else.

The Cretan Council (16-27 June 2016), a lawless synod, a robber synod, heretical, false, and wicked.  And you, my brother bishops, as you go home, in the church, to your people, are you innocent of the Body and Blood of Christ which you deliver?

You proceed to the Altar of Christ!? How will you make the Holy Mysteries of the Church of Christ, for you are graceless and traitors? How will you proceed to the Holy, to the Faith of our Holy Orthodoxy, to the Dogmas, Canons, and Decisions of the Seven Ecumenical Councils which are necessary for salvation?

What need was there for a Pan-Orthodox Council without Orthodoxy? Serving in the spirit of the Cretan Synod, you were not in the truth, but in the spirit of globalism and the occult, preparing the way for the arrival of the Antichrist! Do you want that? You’ve become traitors to the country, to the people, and to God!

How do you look into the eyes of Christ and the faithful of our Holy Orthodox Church? No matter how many Orthodox people have suffered, they have not been conquered by the atheists, the communists, the heretics, though they went through many hardships and tribulations, yet still remained faithful to the Lord! And we today, are counted as accursed, having sold that most sacred thing—Faith in God. Do you not feel sorry for these people, for which we will have to give an answer before God?

All of you, who have worked in this lawless Council and agreed with it, putting down your signatures, at the last moment you can bring forth repentance—bring forth repentance toward God, and His Church, and to the Holy Fathers, and to all the Orthodox people.

If you do not give up all of that Council, the wrath of God will come upon you, ye workers of iniquity!

Does not your conscience bite at you, who even remain silent? You are betrayers of God, gathering with the ecumenists and welcoming all the heresies and their teachings!

All of you, who have participated in this Council, are turned away from Grace! Who are you after that? It would have been better for you not to have lived, than for you to become traitors to the Holy and outcasts from the Holy Spirit.

And does not conscience gnaw at you for what you have done? Do you wish that after 2000 years to become a new Ananias and Caiaphas and betray the Sacred Truths?

I beg and exhort you: let us remain humble and obedient children of our Holy Orthodox Church, its canons, dogmas, and traditions that we know, with the testimony of so many saints and of the Orthodox people. Why do we wish to change the Holy Truth and to fight against it?

In Orthodoxy there is nothing irreversible, so repent and return to the sheepfold of Christ’s Flock, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

With brotherly love in Christ,
Bishop Longinus of Banceski

This post is a revised translation of the post found here: http://nftu.net/non-commemorating-mp-bishop-to-other-world-orthodox-return-to-the-church-grace-has-left-you

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A life-changing documentary about the work of Bishop Longinus at the Monastery and orphanage he founded.

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GIVING WITNESS TO THE TRUE CHURCH

Orthodox Christians all over the world have received the unchanging Christian Faith, passed down from the Holy Apostles to their successors, and continue to practice it today in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church – The Orthodox Church.
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MANIFESTO

My dear Christians,

I am writing these words to inform you where our Church is lately, because most people are not informed by their shepherds.

Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis

Our Church leaders, prelates of different titles (patriarchs, archbishops, metropolitans and bishops) have abandoned the faith of our Fathers.

This was shown more openly at the so-called Synod of Crete in June 2016. In one of its texts this pseudo-Synod recognized the existence of other Churches besides the Orthodox Church. We believe that God’s Church is only one, and this is the Orthodox Church.

Four Autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Churches did not participate in this pseudo-Synod of Crete, while two of these, the Churches of Bulgaria and Georgia, condemned its decisions. The Orthodox Church is being torn in two.

The worst is that our Patriarch and all the bishops that follow him want to unite with those other “Churches,” without first being united in the same faith. This would mean that the struggles of our Fathers were in vain.

According to our Patriarch, the differences that exist between us, which the Holy Synods of the Church have condemned, no longer prevent us from uniting.


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It is no longer allowed to call those who are outside the Orthodox Church “heretics” and “schismatics.” To them, there are no more schisms and heresies; anyone from any tradition and form of worship is in the Church of Christ.

The Patriarch has given the directive to no longer receive those Christians who want to become Orthodox through baptism, because, he says, since they are baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity they have a valid baptism. For us there are no Sacraments outside the Church.

They recognize the aero-baptism that is performed even by non-Christians, and fiercely hunt down priests who dare to baptize converts. They allow marriages with non-Orthodox, without requiring them to become Orthodox.

They say that we should not let minor differences divide us, we should no longer insist in dogmas that became the reason we are divided and remain separated, and that we should be united in love.

Were the struggles of our Fathers, who kept our faith in the Holy Trinity and in our Christ pure and undefiled, in vain? “We have gone beyond them,” they would reply, “because we have more love than they had.”

We, my dear Christians, must follow the faith of our Fathers: of Saint Nektarios, of the holy Elder Paisios, of Saint Justin the New and of all the Saints, whose teachings are not followed by our Patriarch and by all the bishops in America.

What do we need to do

  • Courageously resist our ecumenist Bishops
  • Priests who want to remain Orthodox need to stop commemorating them
  • Start following an Orthodox Bishop
  • Stand behind our priests
 

Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Orthodox Priest
fremmanuel@orthodoxwitness.org

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