"JUST HITTING ANOTHER
BRICK WALL"
It is with a heavy heart that I am making this posting to night. Therefore, I shall dispense with my usual “Freaky Deaky Friday” postings for tonight. Those of you who have viewing my blogs when I was on my former blog site, may remember a posting I made this past November, titled: “Patriarch Bartholomew I is a Traitor to True Orthodoxy”, which was about the un-Orthodox and un-Christian tactics employed by Bartholomew I the Patriarch of Istanbul (Constantinople) to remove the TRUE monks of Esphigmenou Monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, and replace them with imposter monks. To those who have not seen the posting and would like to, please click on the cross icon.
Today, I have an update on the situation, which was emailed to me by His Grace +Symeon, Bishop Ordinary of the Northwest for an American Orthodox Jurisdiction.
His Grace +Symeon
GREEK GOVERNMENT TO MONKS: "DROP DEAD"
So far 5 monks have died during the blockade of the monastery. Only 100 more to go before the Patriarch and Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyiannis achieve their goal of emptying the monastery and "cleansing"
An Esphigmenou monk is transferred to the hospital by ambulance following the violent attack by individuals supported by Patriarch Bartholomew of Istanbul (AP Photo)
breaking down the door with sledge hammers, and assaulting the
defenseless Esphigmenou monks inside, sending four to the hospital.
Fathers Cleopas, Mardarios, Chrysostom and Ambrosios were
hospitalized at
having been attacked with crowbars and sledgehammers. According to the attending physician, Dr. Athanaseos Papageorgiou, Fr. Ambrosios, has multiple bodily injuries including a fractured skull and remains hospitalized in serious condition.
The attackers have been emboldened by the direct, personal support
they enjoy from Patriarch Bartholomew. Bartholomew has anointed
these men who embrace violence and launched the attack as his chosen brotherhood to replace the peaceful and defenseless monks who have resided in the monastery for over 1500 years. In another example of his backwardness, and his departure from Orthodox Christian teachings, Patriarch Bartholomew refers to the violent attackers as his children those that the Esphigmenou monks they have attacked and brutalized with violence, as "rebels". Already over five "rebel" monks have been sent to their graves during this siege, and now four more have been sent to the hospital. You do not need to be a theologian to understand that Patriarch Bartholomew has totally abandoned a Christian mindset and has embraced a crusader-like mentality that views violence as a means to an end.
The true Orthodox Church always has, and always will, reject violence as a means to an end. It is not the "rebel" monks of Esphigmenou who need to return to the fold, as they have never departed from Christian teaching, it is Patriarch Bartholomew and his followers who embrace violence who need to return to the fold of Orthodox Christianity.
The monks of the historical monastery of Esphigmenou, who were
attacked by the Patriarch Bartholomew's monks, reject all violence as
unchristian, and have condemned these actions by the Patriarchs
representatives. The monks have respectfully and humbly requested a peaceful dialogue with Patriarch Bartholomew in an attempt to resolve their differences. So far, Patriarch Bartholomew has chosen to deal with the monks in an ironfisted and repressive manner, preferring instead to persecute them by proxy, using the Greek police and his own sledge hammer wielding monks to do his work.
I ask your prayers for these holy and True monks of the Esphigmenou Monastery.
Now For an Unrelated Item: Please contact your Representatives and Senators in the United States Congress and demand that they put an end to the frivolous, time and tax payer money wasting congressional investigations of the Justice Departments investigation into the Bush administrations firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys. President Bush and Alberto Gonzales did nothing wrong, and congress knows it. It is well within Bush’s right to fire U.S. Attorneys for any reason. The Democrats have their panties in a twist because they claim they were fired for political reasons. SO WHAT!
“Abouna” Gregori
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