Great love is to tell the truth Interview with Father Patrick Ranson conducted by Costion Nicolescu - When and how was created Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Gregory Palamas? - Orthodox Brotherhood was founded in 1983 and his theological journal, Light Tabor, appeared the following year. We were a few orthodox French in different cities of France, some academics, some students and others with different professions All I wanted to make known the treasures of theology and Orthodox life in the world of Western Europe, the increasingly impoverished spiritually. First I created the Center for Theological Studies St. Gregory Palamas, I lectured at the École Normale Supérieure in Ulm street, which allowed us to see our contemporaries confusion: in fact, most of Catholics and Protestants came to hear our conferences Orthodoxy knew nothing about their own tradition. So I had to explain to their own theology first, before they show by what she revealed theology departing from the Prophets, the Apostles, the Holy Fathers, who is Orthodox theology. I want to say to what extent our Romanian brothers were lost sound judgment criteria in Western Europe. Most of ideologies, political and philosophical doctrines are used because at some point they are no longer able to provide criteria to make them acceptable. Deeply convinced that the only apostolic times the Church of Christ is the absolute criterion, revealed, divine and human, for spirituality and the dogma that Christ alone offers a solution to all human problems, we wanted to say that our peers and I founded the Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Gregory Palamas. - Who are the members of the Brotherhood? - Im getting all those who want to work for multiplying the professed Orthodoxy. We are a legal association, told the rules of all cultural associations declared in France, but because everything has to be done by co-work between the will of the Lords people, we asked at the outset of our father spiritual blessing, Archimandrite Ambrose and that of our bishop. Our father spiritual father Fontrier Ambrose , was the soul of our Brotherhood. And now that he fell asleep in the Lord, we still support through prayers. Father Ambrose, born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, came very young in France with his family, being chased by the Turks, who massacred the Christians. Growing up, he became aware that vocation Orthodox exiles in the West should be to spread the true faith, stifled by ten centuries of various heresies. He perfected a wondrous work: servant of God, missionary priest, iconographer, translator of the Holy Fathers and Jobs was a true hesychast, a theologian, a man of prayer. He founded several parishes in France and we owe him everything. The other members came in the years that followed, attracted by the light of Orthodoxy and the desire to serve God. - What are the goals and means of action of the Brotherhood? - Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Gregory Palamas was first dedicated to publishing authentic Orthodox texts. Of course, there were some editors Orthodox collections in France, but the texts that appeared were marked by philosophy. Especially Russian thinking of emigration, quite modernist in its ideological content and often different from that of the Fathers. Parents were not thinkers like Solovyov, Berdyaev, Bulgakov, etc ... They climbed Evdokimov spiritual Sinai, saw the glory of God, these people have written all that is wonderful and said humbly: Bigger is cleanse you from sin to God than to talk about God. We first published patristic texts and lives of the saints in light of Tabor magazine and a press review Orthodox, Orthodox to inform others about events in our country regarding church and often are not given in the West. Orthodox media in our country is ecumenical, hiding what bothers her: scandals and confusion caused by ecumenism, changes apostolic and patristic canons and regulations elementary ... In fact, the Church, bishops, priests do not form a club. There has never any clerical caste in the Orthodox tradition; believers have the right to know and the duty to act. Then we published a large number of brochures and Orthodox books, which we divided into three different collections: Collection Saints; Church History and Doctrine collection and collection of spiritual teaching. Action Brotherhood but not limited to publishing books. We organize conferences, some members depict icons etc ... - Why did you choose the name of St. Gregory Palamas and protection? - First issue of the Tabor Light I explained why I chose St. Gregory Palamas: The priests or laymen, teachers or students ... I decided to base my this journal, Tabor Light, to make known, in French, into an accurate and authentic way, theology transmitted by Prophets, Apostles, Fathers, Ecumenical Councils, theology is the common good of every Christian who professes belief in orthodox way. Unfortunately, maneuvers and uncertainties ecumenical dialogue mutilate or limit this theology, as the exigencies of the moment. To do this, the work of Saint Gregory Palamas, confirmed to the Synods of 1341, 1347 and 1351 at St. Sophia in Constantinople, it was necessary that the perfect expression of the theology of the Holy Fathers. Also, parents who ordained it wisely to clarify and teach us in Christ ordained to celebrate the second Sunday of Lent, one week after the Sunday of Orthodoxy, commemorating the holy archbishop of Thessalonica, Light of Orthodoxy, teacher and pillar of the Church, monastic beauty, invincible champion of theology, harbinger of glory. Opera St. Gregory is a review of the work of the Fathers. New Theologian than actually limits the circumstances of ecumenism, as well as light uncreated glory on Mount Tabor shown grace transcends artificially created and augustiniste and Thomistic scholars, based on application categories Plato and Aristotle to the Trinity. Any restriction of theologiei is affecting the Church, which alone in Christ assures us salvation and victory over death. In summary, I will add that the choice of St. Gregory Palamas was necessary for two reasons: Theologian of the uncreated light, St. Gregory Palamas reminds us that the goal of Christianity is not culturally or intellectually, but is gaining grace of the Holy Spirit and in the transfiguration, that is, to the glory of God, which, in a way beyond compare, a show his saints. Christianity is not humanism, but, say, divine-humanity. St. Gregory Palamas, Scholastic theologians in the West that they hated him, he embarrassed speculative theology, this scholastic what caused the West to inquire increasingly less faith. As we manifest in the West, we wanted to put under the protection of its highest theologians, priimind blessing. - Brotherhood wants you, of course, not to be outside the Church; you are bound to True Orthodox Christians of Greece Church and its primate, Archbishop of Athens Auxentios. Take a bishop in France. Who are the true Orthodox Christians also known as the paleo-calendarists or defenders of the old calendar? - Old calendarists as you say, refused with the calendar change, decisions encyclical of 1920, sent by the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Aiming to create a society of Churches, the model of Nations - UN today I say - this encyclical preparing a aggiomamento Orthodox Church, favoring not only contacts but also common prayers with the heterodox, especially Anglicans. The adoption of the Gregorian calendar was one way to foster close. It was, in fact, to impose, little by little, the idea syncretistic theory Protestant and branches in the Church: the Church of Christ does not exist anywhere, Orthodoxy is only one branch of it, among many others. This branch theory is heresy because it denies the uniqueness of Christs Church. Catholicism, Protestantism, Anglicanism are branches of the Church, but groups or sects who preaches doctrines condemned by the Church. Its not enough to say that you are church, but must confess faith of the Apostles and the Fathers. This is why Orthodoxy Synodikon acquis comprises formula: How Prophets saw, as the Apostles taught, as dogma Parents, as the first church, so we believe and teach pre others. On the other hand, it is true and desirable to dialogue with true, confess and proclaim the Orthodox Faith, clarifying those belonging to other faiths. It is not possible to relativize faith. Our faith does not talk, she confesses. It is not our property, it has been revealed to us and is absolute. Even bishops have the power to change faith, no one jot, but we must defend and preserve. It is still less possible if you want to be orthodox, heterodox pray with and to recognize that priests and bishops of the Church of Christ, because they were separated from it by their false doctrines. Apostolic Canons and Councils severely forbid common prayer with heretics, and that for the sake of the heretics themselves. In fact, the great love is to tell the truth. He who prays with a heretic instead to tell the truth, it reinforces the erroneous belief. This is why statorniceşte Apostolic Canon 10: If anyone prays with the damned, even in a private home, be damned. And Canon 46: commanded a bishop or a priest who would accept baptism or Communion heretical heretical be defrocked. For what Christ with Belial is conglăsuire? Or what part with an unbeliever? Also, when a bishop preaches a false doctrine, you are obliged to leave him before any conciliar decisions. In fact, Canon 15 of the Synod Prime distinguish Assistant Bishop sinner if that priest is not allowed to leave until he was tried by a superior or a council, and if a heretic bishop, which all must leave it immediately. For a bishop who does not teach Tradition (I Tim. 6, 20), which does not teach people the truth, ceases to be a bishop to become a pseudoepiscop. He is a shepherd, but the wolf. In 1924, the new calendar was adopted by the Church of Greece, with pan-Orthodox consultation, as an application to the encyclical of 1920, and contrary to tradition and decisions of councils held in the sixteenth century under Jeremiah II of Constantinople. This is why a lot of Christians have refused to modify the traditional liturgical rhythm of the Church and continued to serve after patristic calendar. State persecuted with great violence, as is the official Church, who took their religious and priests called paleo Calendarist arrest. Then there was a great miracle at the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross , which these Christians wanted to celebrate the traditional date, which has been banned. They had then to gather in a church located on a mountain. Police ordered to prevent them mercilessly to keep his job and to pray. Then it happened that the stars gathered in the sky as the sign of the Cross. The soldiers came to arrest believers stopped astonished, and some of them, seeing the miracle became monks ... However, after some time they followed other persecutions against those who keep the old calendar, which had organized themselves in monasteries, with their own hierarchy, in many parts of Greece. The evolution towards reformism and modernism Orthodox churches, ecumenical policy led to the proclamation of branches theory to the world finally gave justice to those old calendarists of the beginning. And today they are the most consistent in refusing ecumenical prayers in common with the heterodox and membership of Babel Council of Churches. They acted in compliance with dogmas, canons, Saints, all professing the same reality: the Holy One and the Church of the One God-Man Christ. Because they jealously preserved their Orthodox faith, we joined them. If we find in the ecumenical movement, we would totally inconsistent. On the one hand, we say to those around us: Become Orthodox Church here is truth and, on the other hand, I kiss your hand bishops who do prayers and services with Catholics and Protestants, recognizing them as members of the Church. There have been removed in the history of the Church semi-Arians, can exist today and semi-ecumenists, but they never existed semi-Orthodox. - The issue of timing is so important in itself? - If it is not important, why has changed the calendar? Why crushed liturgical unity of Orthodoxy? Nothing authorize local churches to accept and thereby create great confusion. In Paris, for example, the Russian cathedral, on the ground floor there is a church that respects the old calendar, and other church down into the crypt, where it has the new one. When some are preparing to sing the Epiphany, others sing Christmas carols. Its absurd ... There are historical and ecclesiastical criteria to refuse the Gregorian calendar, because he was condemned by several councils anathema pan-Orthodox Patriarch Jeremiah require II, in the sixteenth century. Then the Gregorian calendar, as it applies to the total church in Finland, the date of Easter contradict decisions taken by the Council of Nicea. Finally, it is possible - I repeat - to separate the day from the calendar issue of ecumenism. The calendar was changed only to facilitate proximity unorthodox, not for reasons astronomical science - because eventually all calendars are false - or for for convenience. Nothing forbids us to have a civil calendar for the needs of everyday life. As Constantinople was conquered in the fifteenth century by a small gate, left open in the city wall, we can say today that the timing was just that little bear allowed occult forces to seize Constantinople Patriarchate. We know today with certainty that Meletios Metaxakis who decided to change the schedule, and Patriarch Athenagoras, who imposed it belonged to these occult. - Why the name True Orthodox Christians? There seems to be too conceited? - No more than that of orthodox, which means to confess and praise the Lord in truth and justice pre. In the general confusion of the 30s, Greek Orthodox Christians have added the term gnisios, which means true or genuine , to distinguish it from others what is called orthodox, but who had lost their true faith. It is a way to acknowledge us. Everyone knows that the term Christian is not enough to show how you think. There are Christians in America, the Unitarians, who deny the Trinity. However, today we have the orthodox who believe what I believe Protestants and Catholics. But zeal for the faith must accompany boundless love. Love and truth are inseparable in Christianity, because Christ is Truth and Love. Great modern heresy, that of ecumenism, of course, but also what is called the general term humanism want to separate and oppose the love of the truth. That would be to split the Christ. Photius says rightly that the greatest proof of love is to tell the truth ... - How do you see the unity of Orthodoxy in the world and in France? - It is true that we are experiencing a crisis as severe as Arianism and iconoclasm, maybe even worse. But the solution is everywhere the same, it is the confession of the Orthodox Faith. If we are relying upon that stone is Christ, and the Creed and if we try, as far as lies in our power, to live in Christ that we have sent Fathers, all weights will be solved with the help of God. If politics, diplomacy, opportunism, interest, heresy and branch theory prevails, will be a permanent rift between those who remain loyal to the faith Fathers and those who prefer the image of the world, thus left the Church. translate.google/translate?hl=ro&langpair=ro|en&u=traditiaortodoxa.wordpress/
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