Clergy Confession

WHEREAS,
(1)
(a) The Encyclical of 1920 of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, “To the
Churches of Christ Wheresoever They May Be,” proclaims that the union with
the (heretical) churches of the West is not impeded “by the existing dogmatic
differences” and that this union is desirable and seemly, and that one of the
first steps towards its accomplishment is “the acceptance of a common
calendar so that all the Churches may celebrate the great Christian feasts
simultaneously…”;
(b) the ecumenistic innovation of the calendar change also cultivated the
ground for the steps that followed, such as the meeting of Pope Paul VI and
Patriarch Athenagoras in 1964 in Jerusalem, and all the subsequent acts and
heretical pronouncements which were made “with bared head”;
(c) the “lifting” of the Anathema against the Papacy in 1965 is not a true
lifting, in that the Papacy has not renounced its heresies, but, to the contrary, it
places under its Anathema even the “Orthodox,” according to the dictum of
the Fathers, “If anyone does not anathematize all heretics, let his portion be
with theirs”;
(d) the enrollment of a Church as a member of the World Council of Churches
altogether, or at the very least implicitly, constitutes an acceptance of the
Branch Theory and a denial of Orthodox ecclesiology and faith, by virtue of
the acts of common prayers, pronouncements, and even concelebrations and
giving of Sacraments to heterodox; as such these in themselves constitute a
proclamation of heresy as the holy Fathers of this past age have confirmed and
explicated. For if the Holy Fathers and Saintly men of God, in this age of mass
apostasy wherein the possibility of any council being called is unlikely, have
in the prophetic Spirit of God declared the Branch Theory and the Theory of
Ecumenism, and not only its praxis, but its exposition to be heresy, who are
we to resist our betters in the Gospel. How can one deny the proclamations of
the Orthodox teaching by the luminaries such as the Holy Fathers Philaret of
New York, Averky of Jordanville, Justin of Celije, and many others?

(2)
(a) Sergianism is the evil teaching that allows the subjugation of the Church
authorities to atheist and God-hating forces, and is embodied in the much
condemned declaration of Metropolitan Sergius, the soi-disant Patriarch of
Moscow;
(b) The teachings and practice of Sergianism are contrary to the evangelical
law of the Gospel and the Apostolic Doctrine, and their expressions found in
the Sacred Canons of the Ecumenical and Local Synods of the Catholic and
Apostolic Church;
(c) The Holy Fathers of the much suffering Church in Russia condemned it
(i.e., Sergianism) with equal vigor to their condemnation of ecumenism; and
their successors, who suffer under Sergianist-Ecumenist domination still
suffer persecution, kidnapping, seizing of churches, and even death threats by
the organization which calls itself the Moscow Patriarchate; sitting as it does
in the temples of God, being an abomination of desolation.

(3)
(a) The introduction of the Gregorian calendar brought disastrous
consequences into the liturgical order and harmony of the Church and created
a schism;
(b) The acceptance of the secular calendar as an acceptable Church calendar
by the innovating and schismatic hierarchs stands in opposition to the law of
God in that, according to St. Theodore the Studite, “No authority has been
given to the hierarchy to transgress in any matter whatsoever that which is the
rule, but [it has power only] to continue in that which has been passed down
and to follow in the steps of the those who have gone before”;
(c) The faithful people of God acted in a manner pleasing to God when it
rejected this innovation, because, according to St. Cyprian of Carthage, “He
that separates and divides the Church of Christ cannot possess the robe of
Christ”;
(d) The Pan-Orthodox Councils (such as those of 1583, 1587, and 1593 under
the Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremias the Illustrious, and the Council of 1848
under the Ecumenical Patriarch Anthimus) have forbidden and condemned the
change or alteration of the calendar, saying, “Whosoever does not follow the
customs of the Church . . . and wishes to follow the new-fangled Paschalion
and new Menologion of the ungodly astronomers of the Pope, and set himself
in opposition in all these matters, and wishes to overturn and to destroy the
doctrines handed down by our Fathers and the Customs of the Church, let him
be under anathema, and let him be outside of the Church of Christ and the
Assembly of the Faithful”-the Council of 1583

(4)
(a) As no judgment by universal consent, as of yet, of the Orthodox has been
rendered concerning whether the Mysteries of the World Orthodox
Patriarchates are True Mysteries, no position can be forced outside of the
rulings of local Synods and their requirements;
(b) As such no rash accusations of heresy should be leveled against those who
take the positive position that the World Orthodox still retain the consecrating
Grace of the Holy Mysteries;
(c) However, as the World Orthodox have fallen repeatedly for several
generations under anathemas, mass canonical violations, and most importantly
of all, a deficiency in the Faith, and have not sought to correct these problems
after decades of stern warnings by their own most celebrated luminaries,
communion in the Mysteries, or prayer, and any other expressions of Catholic
Unity is impossible.
(d) For, if the Patriarchs and Hierarchs, who commit themselves to the
teachings of these heresies, after repeated warnings, protests, groanings,
petitions, tears, and earnest beggings, are indeed making the Bloodless
Sacrifice of Jesus Christ in the Holy Liturgy (oh, what a fearful thought!), thus
are indeed receiving the Immaculate Mysteries of the Most Holy Body and
Precious Blood of Our Lord God Jesus Christ, then they do so to their own
eternal damnation to the fires of hell, as the Blessed and Holy Apostle
explains;
(e) Therefore, if they are under this deadly condemnation by the Head of the
Church, Jesus Christ, due to their own willful wickedness (becoming
inheritors to the accusation of St. Stephen the Protomartyr, “Ye stiffnecked
and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as
your fathers did, so do ye”..) , how much more must we pray continually for
their conversion to Jesus Christ; yet, we must also refrain from contaminating
ourselves with such darkness and wickedness. For what concord hath Light
with darkness, Christ with Satan (for it is Satan that they [the innovating
clergy and laymen] knowingly or unknowingly represent, to great sadness).
(5)
(a) Furthermore, modernism must be rejected as contrary in all points to the
One True Faith, the Holy Catholic Church, the Apostolic Deposit, and the
simple Orthodox Christian Faith. Modernism teaches that the Scriptures,
especially of the Old Testament, were not written by the authors that the
Scriptures and Holy Fathers attribute them to. The Holy Ghost, Being Himself
God, inerrantly and infallibly exercised His authority by speaking through
Holy Men of old, in both the Old and New Testaments, from Prophet and
Law-Giver Moses to the Blessed Apostle and Evangelist John, and He (the
Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, a Person of the Holy Trinity, God Himself)
expressed His Truth in the Scriptures, and He exercised His guidance for the
written Word of God against error clearly in the writings of the Holy and God-
bearing Fathers of the true Orthodox Christian Faith.
(b) Therefore, the Holy Fathers taught correctly, in approved consensus, in
saying that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch, Isaias the author of all of
his book, and Daniel of his, and all such as was proclaimed. As well, as all
those books of the Old Testament being those which the Church has received.
(c) And, that these works are not vainly invented fables, legends, and baseless
stories ( for the Blessed Apostle Peter says, “For we have not followed
cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,”), but the factual truth and commonly
understood meaning as allowed by the Holy Fathers and the general consensus
of the saints, who proclaimed the Will of God. This further includes the
authorships of the Gospels and Epistles, and other New Testament books.
(d) Furthermore, the Holy Ecumenical Councils, their Canons and Decrees,
and the Tradition received concerning Our Most Pure Sovereign Lady the
Theotokos and Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary are to be received, as commonly
understood and applied by the Church, being guided by the Holy Ghost, and
proved by the Spirit in the lives of countless godly and saintly men and
women, not the least of which were our Fathers Athanasius of Alexandria,
Cyril of Jerusalem, Meletius of Antioch, Hilary of Poiters, Cyril of
Alexandria, Anatolios of Constantinople, Leo the Great, Eustacia of
Chalcedon, Gregory of Tours, Gregory the Dialogus, Patriarch Eustichios of
Constantinople, Maximus the Confessor, Martin the Confessor, Taraisios of
Constantinople, Photios the Great, Gregory Palamas, as well as the Defender
of the Faith, Mark of Ephesus, and countless other holy ones, whose
unanimous consent reflects the movement of the Holy Ghost in expounding
the Orthodox Catholic ChristianTruth. As such, their decisions are not subject
to review or reinterpretation outside of the purely non-dogmatic minor
economies allowed by consensus of the Holy Fathers;
(e) Therefore, Nestorius was a Nestorian, Dioscorus and Severus
Monophysites, Honorius a Monothelite, the wicked Isaurian an iconoclast,
Barlaam a non-Orthodox thinker and fighter against Grace, and the Roman
Catholics and Protestants expounders of heretical doctrines;
(f) Therefore, all the successors to these heresies must accept the canons,
decrees, decisions, anathemas, and teachings of all Seven Ecumenical Synods,
the Local Synods approved by them, and all the Pan-Orthodox Synods which
confirmed the Truth; for these groups are separated from the Pillar and
Ground of Truth, which is the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,
Guardian by the pure mercy and Grace of God, of the Orthodox Faith; for we
can only confess ourselves to be unworthy servants;

THEREFORE, I confess that I accept all of the forgoing, as well as rejecting

every ecclesiastical and liturgical relation or association with the non-
Orthodox bodies and the modernist/ecumenist Patriarchates and those who are
in communion with them. I confess and proclaim with the Fathers of the
Seventh Ecumenical Synod: “We follow the ancient traditions of the Catholic
Church. We keep the institutions of the Fathers. We anathematize those who
add anything or subtract anything from the Catholic Church.” I confess that I
am joined and united to the saving and true Orthodox Church, under the
jurisdiction of His Eminence,Chrysóstomos, Metropolitan Archbishop of
Ecuador and Latinamerica, Metropolitan of the Autonomous Orthodox
Metropolis (GOX) of Ecuador and Latinamerica, who have the blessing of the
Metropolitan Angelos of Avlona and Viotias, President of the Holy
Metropolitan Synod (GOX) of Patristic Calendar, to admit under the omophor
of Metropolitan Chrysóstomos all Clergy, faitfulls and parrishes in U.S.A. and
under whose spiritual guidance and omophor I shall be.

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