Old Calendar/New Calendar

February 6, 2008

#21

Misha_ wrote:

dear Ostonvasi if you can read greek i ll suggest you something written by the ,recently reposed, archbishop of Greece Christodoulos .

there he said that there wasn't a panorthodox agreement.

also claims that patriarch's Meletios Metaxakis decision had bad effects to the Church.

if you want the original greek text i can send it to you.

also elder Gabriel Dionisiatis of Mt Athos (not a zealot)wrote in 1968:

Even according to contemporary jurisprudence, in order that a part of the Constitution of a Country be revised, a national assembly is necessary. Despite this, in the case of the change of the Calendar neither the particular Orthodox Churches were consulted, nor even the local Hierarchy. The innovation was made as if by police order, and not by a Pan-Orthodox Synod.

It seems to me that the only \"bad effect\" is that some churches are using the calendar as a divisive wedge to harmony and unity. The “bad effect” is from those who claim superiority through it while shouting accusations of heresy. They are making an issue out of a non-issue.

The schisms are not isolated to the calendar, but reveal how parts of the church have placed value in the calendar to the point of idolatry, holding firm to rules and not leaving room for Grace. It is this narrow-mindedness that has caused the conflict. The Orthodox Faith is not a museum to a church long ago. It is a faith for the present to be lived and experienced in modern times.

For example, in the hymns of the great feasts we proclaim \"Today! We celebrate...\" Not “on this date thousands of years ago...”

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