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"Global Orthodoxy' has not listened to the Synod's pleas, and therefore those who wish to remain Orthodox have no choice but to leave 'global Orthodoxy'"
- Father Seraphim (Rose)
"THE FIRE OF TRUE ORTHODOXY IS STILL ALIVE IN MANY PLACES: IN THE CATACOMB CHURCH OF ENSLAVED RUSSIA, IN THE PERSECUTED TRUE ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS OF GREECE, IN THE MALIGNED RUSSIAN CHuRCH OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA, IN THE ZEALOTS OF MT.
Athos." - FATHER SERAPHIM (ROSE)
"WE ARE IN FULL COMMUNION WITH THE
GREEK OLD-CALENDARIST JURISDICTION OF
ArcHBIShoP AuxeNtios in Athens anD wITH
THE CaTAcOMB ChuRcH iN RUSSIA; WITH
OTHER JURISDICTIONS OUR RELATIONS ARE
STRAINED, AND IN SOME CASES BROKEN ALTOGETHER."
- FR. SERAPHIM ROSE, LETTER 253, 1978
"IF EVERY ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
IS COMMANDED BY
THE CANONS TO DEPART FROM A
HERETICAL BISHOP
EVEN BEFORE HE IS OFFICIALLY CONDEMNED, OR BE GUILTY ALSO OF HIS HERESY, HOW MUCH MORE MUST WE DEPART FROM THOSE WHO ARE WORSE AND MORE UNFORTUNATE THAN HERETICS, BECAUSE THEY OPENLY SERVE THE CAUSE OF ANTICHRIST?" FATHER SERAPHIM ROSE, LETTER
40, 1970.
Your decision (if you make it) to join the Russian Church Abroad will mean that you want to join the small band of strugglers who recognize the process of apostasy in the Orthodox Churches and consciously want to separate yourself from it. We tell our own spiritual children that, wherever there is no Synod church, they can attend other Orthodox churches, but that they should not receive Holy Communion there—this is basically the position of Metropolitan Cyril of Kazan, one of the Catacomb bishops of the 1930’s.- Seraphim rose letter 263
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