Christmas/New Year’s Tree in Kiev
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Philaret Denisenko, the chieftain of the self-proclaimed “Kiev Patriarchate”, isn’t against abandoning the Orthodox calendar [for the celebration of fixed feasts] in favour of the Catholic one, according to art critic Dmitri Stepovik, citing his recent conversation with Mr Denisenko. “I said, ‘Is our Church (the UOC (KP)), with its 14.5 million faithful (sic) {of the roughly 32 million Orthodox in the Ukraine (80 percent of the population), only some 15 percent (ca. 4.8 million) are in the UOC (KP)… 14.5 million is a CIA lie: editor}, ready to switch to the New Calendar?’ In reply, he said, ‘I’m ready to do it today. However, for us to do it unilaterally would be wrong. We need to coordinate such a move with the Local Orthodox Churches that adhere to the old style’”, Mr Stepovik said. The Local Churches of Moscow, Serbia, Jerusalem, and the Georgia still use the traditional Orthodox calendar today. In passing, Mr Stepovik spoke critically of Patriarch Kirill’s position on a possible change to using the Catholic calendar [for the fixed feasts of the Church]. The newspaper Левый берег (Left Bank), quoted him as saying, “With such a man as Patriarch Kirill at the head of things, we’ll never change to the new calendar”.
8 January 2011
Interfax-Religion
http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=39020
Editor’s Note:
Do note this snippet from Denisenko:
However, for us to do it unilaterally would be wrong. We need to coordinate such a move with the Local Orthodox Churches that adhere to the old style.
Well, well, well… does that mean that the OCA switch to the use of the Catholic calendar for fixed feasts is “wrong” because it was “unilateral?” It certainly wasn’t “coordinated” with the legitimate Local Churches that still adhere to the Orthodox Calendar! To have plunged the Church here into needless controversy and upset because of the Renovationist fantasies of Schmemann and his dupes was utterly wrong… it was worthy of Satan, for it put a fanciful pseudo-intellectual notion in the place of the Wisdom of the Church (by their fruits ye shall know them… do say a prayer for the comfort of John and Monica Iliff (their son Eric was sexually assaulted at SVS)… the SVS trash harried them out of the Church). We’re paying for Schmemann’s hubris today… not only Schmemann’s cacodoxy… from Aleksandr Men to Vassa Larina, unchurchly voices arise in the Church now and again. However, I’m happy to report that most Russian dioceses ban the books of Schmemann and Men, especially in the Ukraine, led by the Monastery of Pochaev, which is a particularly staunch citadel of traditional Orthodoxy. One easily sees that the faithful who confess traditional Orthodox Truth are hurt less by secularist atheist babbling, besides that, they’ve acquired an immunity to Renovationist lies within the Church. Raise a glass and cheer… the worst of the Renovationist heresy is over. Don’t drop your guard, though… although they’re mortally wounded, the obnovlentsy still have power in some quarters here… they still have the power to wound and hurt you until they are put down definitively.
BMD
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