(Excerpts from the writings of Metr. Christophoros of Mesogeas”Patroa Efsevia“)
There are a lot whom they wonder, why should there be an interference between the Traditional Orthodox Christians ,or as the preservers of Paternal Dogma of the faith usually describe themselves ,”Paleoeortologites”(old-hagiologists)[1].Do these persons ,some wonder, consist some fanatical ,backward ,with limited perception people which they oppose every progress and so on they have created an independent Ecclesiastical group, in opposition of the many? The world -they say- moves forward, modernizes itself, why should it be considered wrong the evolution of the church? Why should we remain in manners of the past, when everything are being renovated?
These and other similar questions are expressed from many people, whom either their ecclesiastical knowledge they possess are limited, or they judge things superficially and count everything with the ballast of the world. Our Lord although show us the priorities that we have to put in our lives." Ask –he says- firstly the kingdom of God...and everything will be added to you.”(Mathew 6:33), and “what will benefit a man if he wins (own) the entire world and he damage his own soul? Or what is the man going to exchange for his soul?”(Marcus 8:36-37) .That is us the people, must have as first goal in our lives the salvation of our soul, the pursuit of the Heavenly Kingdom of God, to take care for the immortal, after this life, enjoyment. What if we manage ,in this finitude and short life we travel, to amass riches ,fame and pleasures ,things that we are not going to sustain after our death ,and which for some of them we damage our own soul? The drudgery to accumulate earthly commodities ,will not benefit us at all after our departure from this futile world we live on ,because after the grave everything are left behind and our souls continue to live, being poor ,without glory ,sad ,alone “being expended by the conscious”.
Two qualifications exist for the assurance of the eternal enjoyment and delight. The truthful faith and the good labors. These two salvation terms, are interlinked. That is it is not enough to follow the correct faith and be limited in good deeds. Neither does it mean to be a good person with good deeds but being out of the truthful faith .Because both the first and the second occasions, lead in losing the soul.
And what shall we do someone might ask. The world today is cunning, survival difficult, people merciless. Only if we become unworldly, we will avoid the soul damaging influences of the world. But how can that be? Not to worry for the ensuring of our living needs? Not to take care for the accomplishment of our children? Of course not. These extremities are not a sample of Orthodox faith. To take care of our lives, our family ,our children ,is an essential care of every person, and of a Christian naturally but we will have to be careful ,so all these things to be accomplished, without bringing damaging consequences to our soul.
By putting forth the benefit of our soul ,we the faithful in the traditions of the Orthodox Church ,follow the faith that the holy fathers gave to us ,without any innovations and modernizations ,with the price a lot of times of being under persecution the deprivation of positions ,accepting loads of mockery remarks and the ironical criticism of those whom enjoy premiership and vain thrones .All these ,we counter –with the help of God- with tolerance and love, for the truthful Confession that we have been given and indicated to safeguard the Holy Fathers of our Church. Alas, if in the two thousand years history of our church, would not have existed the Studites, the Fotii, the Marcus the Noble, and so many others, whom would have opposed the plotting against the Church and whom would have opposed the ambitious innovators of their own time. Alas, if only because of the benefit of the evolution, and every other modern ideas of the time, we had to tip over the Sacred and Holy of our Faith .Alas today nothing would be left today.
THE ORTHODOX OBJECTION
Someone, whom perhaps had observed the Holy Mass in a Temple of the Traditional Orthodox Church, maybe has wandered asking himself, why since almost the same worship order is being performed also from the newcalendarists, this variance[2] exists. A newcalendarist believer, asked me once. Since the same letters are read in the church, from us and from you, why you remain opposed? This question comes from a lot of benevolent Christians whom do not know the true reasons of our opposition toward those whom follow the New Eortology.
The basic reasons of this opposition are two. The first is about the participation of the Newcalendarists and everyone who have any communal with them, in the Ecumenism[3]. The second, concerns about the partisan[4] change in the Holy Mass, of the Paternal-Traditional (Julian) eortology, with this from Pope Gregory 13th (Gregorian), because of the internal unity of the Holy Collective and Apostolic Church that we confess in the Holy Symbol, has been divided by two. One with the partisans and the other with the Orthodoxs.
ECUMENISTICAL MOVEMENT OF “ORTHODOXS”
....disregarding then for heretical dogmatics of the Protestants ,the delusion course of them and the infernal goals of them ,they desired the leaders of the Orthodox Church to be place among the great variety of this confessional mosaic of the then so called “Ecumenistical Movement” without counting the mortal wounds that they brought in the Orthodox Church.
Principal of this betraying plan against the Orthodoxy has been the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. The intentions of it appear in the Synodic Encyclical of 1902 ,which was directed to all the other Independent Orthodox Churches and asks them “About the in time being and the in the future being relations between the two big of Christianity vines ,the west’s declared and the protestant Church” and as well for the “how can it ever be possible to predict the goal for it leading rough for now ,the way , to find the points of connection and communion ,or also for the mutual permissible oversight ,until the end of all the labor finishes”.
That is, the Ecumenical Patriarchy with this encyclical unexpectedly brings back matters at which the church had, hundreds of years ago, clarified and solved. And it was proposed by the encyclical to –Listen! Listen! - To become even disregards with the goal of accomplishing the finishing of the labor of the unification with the heretical.
And we ask-So, all those whom believed and wrote this encyclical believed in the genuine of the Orthodox faith? Did they believe that they were holding the unmovable faith of the Holy Fathers? Were they expressioners and guardians of the One Holy Ecumenical and Apostolic Church? - Certainly not. That is, and being so easy, they bargained those that with so many agons had been instituted and upholded by their Predecessors.
Maybe someone can counter-propose saying –but the purpose of this encyclical was the gaining of the opinion of the rest of the Orthodox Churches about the unifying plan and it does not seem in it any positive movement from the Ecumenical Patriarchy position concerning the subject under question-.This justification does not hold although , firstly because as an Orthodox Church the Ecumenical Patriarchy and also the first in the position ,it should have been the subject-guardian of all the Orthodox Dogmas and rules ,which it could hold every other mislead and second after it the latter movements it made (as we are going to see) proves the ulterior motives of it.
And behold the proof. At 1920, it has published a new encyclical, directed to all the Christian Churches, displaying obviously the friendly-protestant positions of it. It also reports this newer encyclical of the Patriarchy of Constantinople eleven ways –or better withdrawals- of the Orthodoxs that it would make possible the approach of Orthodoxs and heretics. Noticeable is also that as the first way=withdrawal, it was proposed the acceptance of a common eortology!
WHY THE ECUMENISM IS A HERESY?
The Ecumenism is a God-hated heresy and it is not an exaggeration the characterization by many as the ULTIMATE-HERESY. This is easily observed from how it starts. The basis of the memorandum of the “World Counseling of Churches” of which they owe to admit everyone whom wish to participate to it ,that it clearly reports the following “The World Counseling of Churches are a brotherhood of Churches ,whom they accept Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior». That is, according to this article a’ of the memorandum of the “W.C.C”, that whoever joins it must accept the others members-heretics of it as sister Churches of Christ. The Orthodoxs although –as we mentioned before- we believe that the Church of Christ is One of which we are members of it and only the participants to it can be saved. Also in the same article, continues," the members (sister churches) whom participate in the ‘W.C.C’ accept as God and Savior our Lord Jesus Christ”. With this statement as anybody can see , it is suppressed the dogma of the Holy Trinity .We the Orthodoxs believe in one Triadic God one of the faces of the Holy Trinity is our Lord Jesus Christ. That is the members of the ‘W.C.C’ deny the Triadic-hypostasis God and declare, that they accept only one of the faces of the Holy Trinity as God and Savior .This naturally it was not a random term but it was positioned like this because a lot of the Protestantic beliefs have misapprehended the dogma of the Triadic God.
At the 3rd General Meeting of the World Counseling of Churches (1961), it was modified partly the basis of the memorandum. It mentions naturally the same principle of it but it was supplemented, that the members-“Churches” that constitute the “W.C.C” seek to fulfill “the common commonly call to Glorify the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit». With different words all the Ecumenists,”Orthodoxs” and heretics whom participated in the “W.C.C” have taken this call from God which rally them in to glorifying the Triadic God! Oh what an insanity! It is not enough the true Orthodox faith to glorify our Holy God but we are going to need for it to coindentify with every other type of mislead and heresy. This mentioning of the Holy Trinity rather was put to attract the not that time participating Churches of Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, a goal which later after this, they have succeeded in doing it.
Lastly ,the ecumenism is characterized as the Ultimate-Heresy because today almost all without counting the governmental Self-headed Autonomous “Orthodox” Churches whom are participating in the World Counseling of Churches ,the Monophysites and the various Protestantic beliefs (around 300 member-“churches”) ,peculiar participation have the Romeo Catholics and also non-Christian religions like Muslims , Buddhists ,Hebrew ,Indians ,wizards ,fire-worshippers ,Sikh ,Shiite ,Confucianism and all the parade of Satan. All of them they gather time by time, and they develop their ideas and pray-together!
(Photos of pray-together at Assize)
With the above synoptically description we believe we gave a picture about this final heresy which is called Ecumenism.
As we all understand we are in front of the times of the general-apostasy which Apostle Paul describes that it is going to be before the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God enlighten us and support us in the immaculate faith. May become.
THE JULIAN CALENDAR.
Moon calendars were used in the past by many nations, amongst one of them the Romans. Although the one that the Romans were using, were more complicated, that is why it has accepted at times plenty of modifications. More dominating were the one of King of Rome Numa Pombilius (715-672 B.C), but with the passing of time, and the various interferences that happen to it, it has created an immense time disorder. And even when they undertake the adjustment of the intercalary days, exclusively the pontiffs, with reference of ensuring the smoothness and the safety of counting the time, the problem was not solved. On the contrary, each time’s measured interests became the cause of bad and capriciously interference of the intercalary days, with the result of the complete calendar confusion. So at 46 A.D ,the Emperor Julius Caesar ,pursuit to adjust the calendar , by assigning it to the Alexandrian Greek Astronomer Sosigenis.Him ,by observing that any correction in the already problematic calendar would be futile ,he reformed it from a moon calendar to a sun calendar. This new calendar was named in the honor of his founder Caesar,”Julian”.
The Julian calendar ,is carrying every year, 365 days and six (almost) hours .It is divided in twelve months ,from which (at today’s form) ,seven of them number 31 days ,four 30 days and one (February) 28 days. With this sharing, we have a total of 365 days, and a remaining of six hours, which every four years create one full day. This day is calculated at the end of February at the forth year in sequence. So that February has 29 days, that year with this supplement was named leap year. The first month of the Julian calendar, was appointed to be the month January, this calendar was put in effect at the January 1st of 47 A.D.
The Julian calendar dominated from that time in the Roman and later at the Christian world. The Church with the passing of time accepted it, designating the mystical happenings on earth of our Lord Christ and those of Theotokos, the memories of the saints and the holy ceremonies, thus instituting the yearly eortological circle of it, defining the fasts and mainly legislated at 325 A.D, the finding of a day of which it would be celebrating every year the Christian Easter. Generally, it has adjusted the Julian calendar all over the ecclesiastical taxis.
POPE’S PEREMPTORINESS
The transition of the center of the Roman Empire under the Great Constantine, from Rome, in a township area called Byzantium in which he had erected the capital of the empire Constantinople (New Rome) and also the care of confronting the Eastern enemies of the empire, all the above had as an outcome the elastic overseeing of the West on behalf of the Byzantine Emperors .This fact, conveyed mutinies and rebellions from a lot of the indigenous barbaric races on the West part of the Empire. Similar ambitious interests appeared very early on behalf of the Pope’s Throne of Rome, aiming at the ecclesiastical and the political domination .For the accomplishment of those Pope-Caesarian pursuits from the side of the Roman Pontiff’s ,there should be a weathering and many times stepped over many institutions legislated from the Holy Fathers ,a choice that the Pope’s vanity was indifferent for the thundering penances that conveyed over their heads the contemned and overridden holy and sacred rules.
As an indication we report some of the blasphemous innovations of them. The heresy of FILIOQUE meaning ,the provenance of the Holy Spirit also from the Son, against the explicit Sunday voice “the after the father provenance”(John. 15’) .At the 10th century they replaced the in the Holy Mass the leavened bread with the unleavened ,while at the 12th century they limited ,the performance of the Holy Unction only to the deceased .One century later ,they transfer the mystery of the chrism at the twelfth year of the baptized child ,at the 14th century ,they replaced the type of the mystery of the Baptism to aspersion. Minus these ,casting the time more every peremptory and heretical dogma have been raised from the Papal’s ,like the dogma of the purgatory fire and the expunge of the sins from the left over of the saints worthy-pays ,in 1870 they declared the extreme fallacy which is the papal infallibity. The superficial stance of the Papal’s and the pursuit to conquer every dominion made mundane the spiritual identity of them and put the authority of the godbreathen scripts under the wisdom of the science.
In front of these aberrations from the true faith and being actuated by the worldly spirit the Papal’s, did not prolonged to work with the astronomy. So at 1582 they changed the then in effect Julian calendar with a new one ,named from the enforcer to it Pope Gregory 13th ,”Gregorian”. This calendaric reform –according with the Papal’s- had as a goal the perfection of the then false time counting. To ensure supposedly of time preciseness, they didn’t hesitated to step over inviolable terms and overrule without fear of God, an ecclesiastical tradition of fifteen centuries.
Never the less, let us see the famous calendaric adjustments and the year-minded preciseness of the Pope.
The Julian (solar) calendar as we have already reported counts 365 days and 6 (almost) hours every year .Because of the unequal division of the yearly amount of the period ,it was defined that, three years in the row to count 365 days ,the fourth in turn to be constituted by 365 plus one more day. This day is the sum of per year 6 hours that remains. So every four years is completed one timely period of the tropical year.
The scientists although of the Pope’s Gregory 13th, perceived that one yearly time space does not contain 385 days and ¼ days according to the calendar of Julius Caesar but 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds. According to the researchers of the Pope’s the Julian calendar has a surplus every year (exact) of 11 minutes, 10 seconds and 92 fractions of a second. This difference every 128 (almost) years, accumulates a complete 24 hours, that is a full day. Thus ,with the calculations of the Pope’s astrologers this surplus of the Julian calendar ,moved the vernal equinox from the defined (21st of March ) under the A’ Ecumenical Synod and thus from the day of the convocation of the A’ Ecumenical Synod until then , the vernal equinox had been withdrawn by ten days that is it was happening at 11th of March .So the 5th of October of that year (1582 A.D ), Pope Gregory 13th ordered to be named 15th of October .So because of this equation it would be another left over ,he defined every 400 years instead of holding 100 leap years to hold 97 to cover the total of the three extra days.
The Gregorian calendar, even though it appears superficially to be more accurate, surely is not perfect. It would have been perfect if every year of the Gregorian calendar was harmonized with the so called tropical year. This though does not happen and it can not happen for two reasons. First because the basic condition for the exact yearly account demands a full number of days that is a total of unimpaired days so the justification of them inside the year to be of equal quantity. The tropical year although that is earth’s yearly path around the sun does not happen in unimpaired days but with the most recent official calculations (which disagree with the then Papal astronomers) ,for earth to travel her orbit of around the sun and arrive to the point of origin she covers 365 days ,5 hours, 48 minutes and 47.548 seconds. Practically then, we cannot divide the year in same parts with the days of one year. Second reason, that we cannot combine a perfect calendar is the ignorance of the exact time of origin of the planetary objects.
So the Pope by enforcing his finding he did not do nothing else than to violate and disregard the terms and the decisions of the Holy bearing Fathers .The arrogance and vanity of his had guided him in such a point so to put himself above the Holy-spirited Fathers.
Apart from that it is accepted from everyone. Never the time is going to be “tamed” by the man and in vain they calculate the accurate measure of it. Pope’s arrogance lead him in the reformance of at that time simple and easy to use Julian calendar into a complicated and complex time measurement system. And because we don’t care so much about the political calendar and the from time to time reforms of it but the ecclesiastical and the established eortology straight away our occupation is going to be the sequences the Papal calendaric innovation brought.
THE ORTHODOX OPPOSITION
According with the profane beliefs of the papals. The authority of the Pope is above everyone either political or spiritual. He holds the primacy over the rest of the Leading of Christianity not as the first between equals but as the overlie of everyone. He is the unquestionable expresser and interpreter of the Divine Truth, his word and his decisions oblige to be accepted and enforced to everyone.
With these heretical dogmas it was natural to be pursuit the enforcement of the Papal calendaric reformation to the Orthodoxs. The fact of the calendaric reform, had occupied the Orthodox Church even before the Pope’s arbitrarily. Already at the 14th century the astronomer and philosopher Niciforos Grigoras (1296-1360) whom had proposed to Emperor of Byzantium Adronico 2nd , the change of the ,on effect at that time, Julian calendar especially of the Easter .Another apparent innovator was the almost current of the above Grigoras ,Georgios Gemistos or Plithon (1350-1450).The pursuits although of both of these innovators ,the Latin-thinking Grigoras ,and also of the defector Gemistos collided with the unmovable rock-mountain whom the Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod had put ,by foreseeing these blessed ones those that they were coming to manipulate the Sacred Institutes of the Church. So the Pope’s impiety of 1582 had found the Orthodoxs ready.
The next year of the calendar’s reform under the Pope was 1583, the then Patriarch of Constantinople was Ieremias 2nd had summoned a Synod at Constantinople being there the Patriarch of Alexandria Silvestros and they disbanded Pope’s innovation. They released an encyclical which everybody signed beside the absent Patriarchs and Metropolitans , Patriarch of Antioch and Metropolitan of Ahridos Gavriil.
Again at 1587 , synodicaly condemned the Papal innovation ,”as not needed ,as opposed to the sacred rules ,and as a cause of many scandals in every Christian nation at which is spoken at”(See Dodekavivlion Dositheu ,Tome 12 page 57, Published by Rigopulu). This holy synod reunited again at Constantinople and participated minus the Patriarch of Const/ple Ieremia, Alexandria’s Meletios and Ierosolima Sofronios.
The propagandistic acting of the Papal’s has been the cause for a third synod. At February of the year 1593, it was composed a Great Synod again at Constantinople under the presidency of Patriarch Const/ple Ieremia ,and by the presence of Patriarch of Alexandria Meletiu ,whom he also represented the Patriarch of Antioch Ioakim 7th ,the Patriarch of Ierosolima Sofroniu 4th and forty other Archpriests ,whom at the 10th act condemned the calendaric innovation of the Pope. ” (See Dodekavivlion Dositheu, Tome 12 page 232, Published by Rigopulu).
So the papal innovation was condemned from its birth from the Orthodoxs. Minus that, at times, the Orthodox Patriarchs, with encyclicals had recommended to the Orthodox populace the avoidance of any of Pope’s innovations. As an indication we report the decisions of the in Const/ple Synods at 1722 under the Patriarch Ieremia 3rd and the 1838 under the Patriarch Grigoriu 6th. Also the common Patriarchic encyclical of 1848 in which it is clarified the notoriety and innovations of the papals confirming the persistence of the Patriarchies with the Orthodox Dogmas of the Church.
The last condemn of the Pope’s calendaric innovation became at 1904. The unleashed encyclical of the Patriarch of Const/ple Ioakim 3rd expressed the opinion of all the orthodox Churches, denied again the calendaric innovation of the Pope.
THE ENFORCEMENT OF POPE’S CALENDAR
Not many years had past, after the last denial of the Pope’s innovation. The suitable persons were found and the Westerners grabbed the chance that they needed. At 1920 it was released by the Patriarchy of Const/ple an encyclical –as we mentioned earlier- which it was appointed at every Christian Churches at West and East that it was underlined the need of approaching the heretics even if some “needed withdrawals” from the side of the Orthodoxs were needed. It was noted also eleven ways-retreats to ensure this “friendship and goodwill «from which the first was considered to be the acceptance of a common calendar. At the 29th of December 1921, Meletios Metaxakis was dethroned lawfully and by standard means by the Sacred Synod of Greece for the abundance of Ecclesiastical violations and because of the creation of schism. Being dethroned he was elected and put in the throne at 24th of January 1922 as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Const/ple. Under distinctive Synod at 23rd February 1923 he was enforced as Metropolitan of Athens the Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadopulos ,dethroned and again in the place of the legal Archbishop Theoklitu Minopulu .With these two major ecclesiastical positions ensured it was just a matter of time to take shape the reforming plans and generally the West’s pursuits at the Orthodox Church. After the establishment of the Metropolitan of Athens Chrysostomos Papadopulos, Meletios Metaxakis tried to form “Pan orthodox Conference», with first subject the calendar. This conference only as a Pan orthodox could not be described. To it only six bishops (Metaxakis and five more bishops from the Patriarchy of Const/ple), one archimandrite and two lays. So, the ecumenical Patriarchy of Const/ple one-sided, moved to this outrage .He transformed the then followed by the Holy Worship Julian calendar into a Gregory-Julian. That is the Orthodox Church from then on would follow two calendars, the Gregorian for the movable fest, and the Julian for the unmovable ones. With this fashion, Metaxakis and those with him, from one side they kept the terms of the 1st Ecumenical Synod concerning the feast of Easter and at the other side they satisfied the ambitions of the Pope.
So here comes the question: Why Pope Gregory did the change of the calendar?
Answer: Because he found the defined, until then, yearly period mistaken. Because of that the vernal equinox (which concerns the defining of Easter) went down by 10 days with continual falling!
Question: The change of the calendar from the Pope violated the terms of the 1st Ecumenical Synod?
Answer: Yes. That is why Metaxakis and the rest of the innovators did not dare at that time to apply the Gregorian calendar at the movable feasts.
Question: Since the Gregorian calendar was damned and was stepping over unbroken terms, why should be put in effect in the Orthodox Church?
Answer: Because that is what the Pope and the rest of the heretics want it.
Question: With all of this, was there a betrayal in the Orthodox Church?
Answer: YES. (Shout a powerful confessive YES friend reader so you may have the blessing of the Holy Fathers).
This decision of the so called “Pan orthodox Conference” was not accepted at the beginning by any of the Orthodox Churches. The next year and provided that the related political interferences have been made, they were put in effect by the Greek and Romanian Church.
Many may Wonder: Even like this, since with the application of two calendars Easter who was defined by the Holy Fathers at the 1st Ecumenical Synod it remained intact, why is it so important the date of Easter, if for example 5th of April renamed into 18th of April .What does this damages? Is it such a serious reason the change of the date of the movable feasts?
On to this we answer: First the whole subject concerns the Sacred Tradition of our Church which is forbidden to be alterated.If by times the Sacred tradition was being refreshed then we should not been talking about it and we would follow the downfall of the Protestants whom have completely denied the Sacred Tradition . We must know that the Holy Bible and the sacred tradition are two unmovable pillars that they hold the mighty Orthodox Church. If we deprive the Holy Bible against the Sacred Tradition then we fall over to the Papism, whom for them to enforce their dogmas they put in front the Unmistaken of the Pope and they twist the sacred scripts. If again we degrade the Holy Tradition against the Holy Bible then we put ourselves with the Protestants whom they deny the Sacred Tradition in favor of upholding their fallacy. Even by not counting these it is not possible to deprive or alternate in times the sacred tradition according with the wishes of some disrespectful. Neither certainly selectively to use it wherever it suits us and use it when where it opposes our fallacies to ignore it. For example :for us that we remain in the Paternal receptiveness the Newcalendarists consider us out of the Church ,schism being ,heretics and whatever each of them think of calling us. With what standards do they attribute us these unjust blames? By using obviously the miscomprehended Sacred Tradition of our Church. For their warfare against us that is, they use the Sacred Tradition whom they deprived so much and breached. Their dark plans don’t hesitate although to contradict it, manipulate and a lot of times to nullify it!
Secondly from Easter are depended a lot of movable feasts. For example the feast of the Saint Apostles for which it is established to be before this fast. The fast of the Saint Apostles is defined by the Easter because the rules of the Church order so. After the feast of the Pentecost, for a week we eat everything in the honor of the Holy Spirit, the next day of the Sunday of All Saints, comes the fast of the Saint Apostles whom lasts as their memory. That is that the number we fast in days for the Saint Apostles it is not defined from the Saint Pentecost which is upholded as it is known fifty days after Easter .So the if Holy Easter is early the fast of the Apostles is prolonged through if the Holy Easter is late then the days of the fast are limited. Many years although –like the 2002- because the Easter was early and was upholded with the new (Gregorian) calendar at 5th of May ,the days were not enough for the fast of the Saint Apostles with the event to be completely removed. Because you calculate: The feast of the Pentecost happen at 23rd of June (N.Calendar) and one week until the All Saints we reach 30th of June .The next day as it is defined by the Sacred rules supposed to begin the fast of the Saint Apostles .But how can that be, since it came by the feast of the Saints was held from the Newcalendarists at the eve of the All Saints ?
But besides those the Newcalendarists accept the Easter of Pope’s, since the “Orthodox” Church of Finland by their constitution follows the Easter of Pope’s and with it no other “Orthodox Church” reacted, but they tolerate all, the sister with her “Churches” by holding a guilty silence! Let us consider the occasion, which priests or faithfuls of other “Orthodox” Churches in Finland come together at the time of Easter. Those are going to feast according with Pope’s Easter and returning to their countries they are going to feast it for a second time in violation of the Sacred rules. On the contrary now :in the occasion that a priest or faithful of the Finland “Church” celebrates Easter in his country and after some days happen to be in another Orthodox country. What happens? The hopeless man will feast again second time in the same year Easter. All these in the contrary of the order “Anathema to whom that he does not feast Easter according to the terms of the 1st Ecumenical Synod”. (Memoirs of Synods)
With the one-sided enforcement of the new calendar in the Orthodox Church it came back the problem that with so much wisdom solved the Holy Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod. Because for instance, if a Serbian priest comes in Greece at the 25th of December with the new calendar, he will feast according with calendar followed by our country the Gregorian calendar of Christ’s Birth. Maybe indeed this priest officiate in a temple. Returning after few days to his country which is (as it is known) following the Julian calendar, he will celebrate again the same feast. The same will happen to any faithful. He will listen in the Church of the new calendar the hagiography of the day:" this 25th of this month is the birth of our Lord and God our Savior Jesus Christ” he might even commune with them because of the feast. By returning to his country after thirteen days he will hear again in the Church:”this 25th of this month is the birth of our Lord and God...”!
Alas! Where is the Church of Christ been guided to when her shepherds are disrespectful!
[1] Although every other name which has any correlation with the Calendar does not represent fully the followers of the Old Calendar, the term “Paleoeortologitis” it is more accurate of “Paleoimerologitis” because the prescribed Orthodoxs, oppose legally and canonical the change of the Calendar’s Hagiology of the Holy Worship and not of the practical calendar’s application by the state, according of the law statement of 18th of January 1923.
[2] Today is obvious that for a believer whom is regularly going to church, that there is a difference at the holy mass .Because the newcalendarists, as much as the Holy Mass as and the rest of the Sacred Mysteries and the holy ceremonies of Church’s have limited them much, by cutting off as they chose the Sacred Letters, for the sake of conciseness!
[3] See Ecumenistical Encyclical of the year of the year 1920
[4] See telegram of "Archbishop” 3-3-1924 to every Archpriest, without synodical judgment and decision of the entire Church, neither of the Greek Church.