Cette apostasie de confiance dans le Maître, cette absence de Foi, affecte tant ceux qui sont "à gauche" et "à droite", à savoir les fondamentalistes de l'oecuménisme et ceux qui ont un zèle qui n'est pas conforme à la connaissance et qui ont quitté la méthodologie patristique dans leur combat contre le syncrétisme oecuménisant et ses fondamentalistes. En effet, la Voie Orthodoxe est un chemin très étroit, de nos jours, rempli de pièges et précipices dangereux. L'Église subsistera jusqu'à Son Second Avènement. Qui en fera partie? Ceci est entièrement une autre question.
Protopresbytre Peter Heers, père spirituel pour l'Athos
En commentaire sur l'article du métropolite Jérémie de Gortys et Megalopolis "Quand et où donc les saints Pères ont-ils appelé 'églises' des hérésies et des schismes?"
A (re)lire : saint Païssios l'Athonite, "oecuménisme et Tradition"
http://orthodoxologie.blogspot.com/2016/07/saint-paissios-lathonite-cumenisme-et.html
Et notre saint ami de prophétiser que de nouveaux saints Marc d'Ephèse ou Grégoire Palamas allaient se lever pour protéger l'Église - et de fait, aujourd'hui ils s'appellent Hierotheos Vlachos de Namfakos, ou Seraphim de Pireaus, ou .. Et ils sont autant animés du feu de Dieu que ces prophètes des temps passés. Dieu soit loué - portae inferi non praevalebunt!
"Portae inferi non praevalebunt!"
"Fr. Georges Florovsky, as well as Fr. John Romanides, observe that the real crisis is a lack of faith. After struggling here in Greece these past 18 years, with much of this time being devoted to a study of ecclesiology and therefore also the new ecclesiologies emerging in the ecumenical movement and among the heterodox, it seems to me that those who have accepted the basic premise of ecumenism that the Church is divided and we are in search for a lost unity have lost faith in Christ Himself. They are faithless, that is, they have lost trust in Christ and His immortal words that He will lead His disciples (the Church) into all truth, be with them until the end (obviously united with them and uniting them), that the gates of hell shall not prevail against His Body, the Church and all the rest He has promised. This apostasy from trust in the Master, this faithlessness, affects those on the "left" and the "right," that is the fundamentalists of ecumenism and those with zeal not according to knowledge who have left the Patristic methodology in their fight against syncretistic ecumenism and its fundamentalists. Indeed, the Orthodox Way today is a narrow, winding path, fraught with dangerous pitfalls. The Church will remain until His Second Coming. Who will be in it? That is another question entirely."
Protopresbyter Peter Heers
In comment on article "When and where did the holy Fathers call heresies and schisms 'churches'?", by metropolitan Jeremiah of Gortys and Megalopolis