OLOGOS ANCIENT EPITOME OF THE SACRED CANONS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ED
FR GEORGE MASTRANTONIS (no date, but probably 1950s), Apostles
pp20-24: #10 "If any one shall pray, even in a private house,
with an excommunicated person, let him also be excommunicated"
#11 "If any clergyman shall join in prayer with a deposed
clergyman, as if he were a clergyman, let him also be deposed."
#64 "If any clergyman or layman shall enter into a synagogue of
Jews or heretics to pray, let the former be deposed and the
latter be excommunicated."
T Ware, Orth_Ch Penguin (UK/US,1963/64) from Khomyakov, Church_Is_One,
section two "Inasmuch as the earthly and visible Church is not the
fullness and completeness of the whole Church which the Lord has
appointed to appear at the final judgement of all creation, she acts
and knows only within her own limits; and.. does not judge the rest of
mankind, and only looks uopn those as excluded, that is to say, not
belonging to her, who exclude themselves. The rest of mankind, whether
alien from the Church, or united to her by ties which GOD has not
willed to reveal to her, she leaves to the judgement of the great day."
SCOBA GUIDELINES FOR ORTH CHR IN ECUM RELNS RBT G STEPHANOPOULOS PHD
GEN SCY (no date but probably 1970s) pp12-15 "encouraged to
join local clergy or ministerial groups, if meaningful Orthodox
participation is possible.. discuss common concerns.. [RE:OPEN
HOUSE] host community receives guests.. members of the
congregation explain the doctrine, polity, and practices of
their faith. No denominational service is conducted..
[RE:PRAYER].. non-liturgical prayer may be understood as that
private prayer of divided Christians from diverse communions
who come together, not as the Church, but as separated brethren
seeking Christian unity. It is to be prudently used within..
pluralistic setting of our society.. In the interests of
sharing our spiritual heritage, non-Orthodox may be invited to
attend Orthodox liturgical.. clear, however, that no
communicato_in_sacris is intended or implied. The same is true
for those Orthodox who for the reasons of family unity,
courtesy, the demands of public life.. attend a non-Orthodox..
care should be taken not to offend.. Clergy of other communions
attending Orthodox services may be welcome as guests of honor,
and given some special place within the _solea_..
interreligious.. national feasts, public calamity.. form of
dress.. (cassock).. together with pectoral cross.. No part of
liturgical vestments.. [ecum svc inside Orth Ch] avoid
misunderstanding, however, the services should be publicly
acknowledged and identified as 'ecumenical' in character,
emphasizing the firm Ortmodox positions that these are prayers
for unity, and _not_ services of the one Church"
EXCERPTS FROM SOURCES CITED IN Blane=ed/GVFlorovsky/SVS93/ISBN 0-88141-137-X
WAYS Schmemann "Roll of Honour" St Vlad Q'ly Fl'53 p6-7 [RE Florovsky
vs Bulgakov] cit p63 Blane <<He called for a "return to the
Fathers," to the Fathers of the Church Universal - to that "Sacred
Hellenism".. [[NB diff from what St Gregory Palamas attacked as
"Profane Hellenism" or the modern phyletistic "Helladism"]]
revaluate the "Russian" achievments in light of that
"Hellenic" inheritance, from which, in Dr Florovsky's opinion,
Russian thought has been torn away for too long by Western
influence>> p85 Blane citing G H Williams Gr Orth Theol Rvu XI #1
Smr'65 p30 [RE:WCC] <<"separated 'confessions' do not have the
right to call themselves 'Churches'.">> [Florovsky's panOrthodox
vision implied] "that the Greek branch of Orthodoxy would assume
pre-emminence in America" Williams p10 "Biblical prophecy finds
precisely in Christian Hellenism its true realization" G V
Florovsky "Les voies de la theologie russe" Dieu Vivant #13 Paris
1949 p51
NESTOR [endemic Latin tendency to Nestorianise] "Modern man is tempered
by the Nestorian extreme.. revival of monophysite tendencies.. man
is reduced to complete passivity and is allowed only to listen and
hope" G V Florovsky "As Truth is in Jesus, Ephesians 4:21"
Christian Century LXVII 1951 p1458
ROMAN [knowledge defined as ascetic achievement] p 30 "Metafizicheskie
predposylki utopizma" PUT IV 1926. [p44 of same complains that
forced unification of mankind is a form of Roman imperial pagan
cosmotheism readapted by vatican and soviets alike]
Exetastes Column from GOANSA Orthodox Observer (compiled as a 1976 book)
"Trempelas concludes: '...it appears more glorious and divine-like
and more in harmony with the regular method of God, which we daily
see expressed in nature, to have created the various forms by
evolutionary methods, Himself remaining the first and supreme
creative cause of secondary and immediate causes to which are owed
the development of the variety of species' .. 8August1973.. When a
parish council member undertakes his duties, he takes an oath of
office before the priest and the people. In part, he says 'I will
uphold the dogma, teaching, traditions, holy canons, worship and
moral principles of the Greek Orthodox Church...'.. 1November1972..
Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece, following the advice
of a pan-orthodox conference held in June, 1930, on Mount Athos,
also condemned Masonry.. Church accepts that there are some broad
and general truths of ethics and religion to be found in all Faiths
and in all places, it cannot accept such a teaching as the final
word.. knows of some Greek Orthodox Christians who have become
members of Masonry, and who have taken from it many things which
have strengthened their faith.. also knows many Greek Orthodox men
who have become so identified with the life, the ritual, the social
connections and teachings of Masonry that it serves as a real
substitute in their lives for Christ and the Orthodox church.. That
the danger is there cannot be denied. That identification with
un-Orthodox Christian ritual has drawn many of the faithful away
from the life of the church, cannot be denied. That it does not
also have to be this way, also, cannot be denied.. Whetre do your
[NB!] loyalties rest?.. 14June1972.. sexual relations outside of
marriage are sinful and the use of contraceptives merely
compounds.. expression of their cintinuing love for each other, and
for the deepening of their personal and marital unity, the
Orthodoxy of contraception is affirmed. 8 January 1975.. embeded in
Orthodox Christian teaching th conviction that abortion is an act,
regardless of the means employed, of the unjust killing of a human
being, that is of murder. For the Orthodoc Christian Church, it is
incomprehensible how a well-ordered state can permit, tolerate or
encourage any form of murder.. 17May1972.. one of the major causes
of divorce is the widespread cult of self which is so dominant in
our country.. 28 October 1975.. important thing is that we
participate in the political enterprise as Christian, as members of
the church.. should not become involved for self-serving purposes,
but in order to serve justice, to enhance citizenship, to do good
works before all people. If, as some say, 'politics is a dirty
business,' then Christians will seek to clean it up..
1December1971.. Christian point of view that the State has the
right to employ capital punishment as a deterrnt..ought to be
consistently enforced. It is clear that in America we are not
willing to do that.. requires that persons who are dangerous..
either be fully reformed or permanenty imprisoned.. Archdioces was
correct in joining with other Christians to urge the abolishment of
capital punishment.. 23 February 1972.. no doubt that we Greek
Orthodox Christians contnuously violate the principles of our faith
with racist attitudes.. Ecemenical Patriarchate in the relatively
recent past condemned this view as the sin of 'phyletism'..
4October1972.. Christianity made it possible to exploit nature
in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects..
taught that man was master over his enviroment.. misuse
of power and responsibility does not mean that authority and
responsibility should not exist.. Orthodox Church saw nature within
the framework of spiritual illumination and a 'symbolic system,
through which God speaks to men'..17May1972"
Autocephaly of Metropolia in America P N Trempelas Tr Bebis
Stephanopoulos Vaporis HCTSP 1973 p27: "The principle of historical
precedence is innovative and without foundation.." [54: letter in
Episkepsis, 8Jun70 pp11-12 and Ekklisia 1/15Aug71 pp45-51] p55: The
provision for dealing with God's churches in barbarian lands.. 28th
canon of the Fourth Ecumenical Council and in combination with the
third canon of the Second.. p56: "Moscow Patriarchate took over
Alaska canonically, as long as this was part of the Russian State.
But it is not permissible in the Patriarchate of Moscow to
jurisdictionally invade the United States.. Holy Canons have
clearly decreed that, 'the Churches of God in the barbaric nations
are governed according to the tradition of the Fathers'" [132:
Episkepsis 8Jun70 p13; Ekklisia 1/15Aug71 p452] p58: "there cannot
be any doubt that an Ecumenical Council extends it competence upon
matters of autocephaly" [137: Istina 16 (1971); SVTQ, 15, No 1/2
(1971),p75] [ad passitum: arguments that Autocephaly of OCA
arranged while MP dying or dead; and arguments about how Moscow was
originally in rebellion with its autocephaly until a Tetrarchic
synod (one of the Pentarchs was dead) approved]