Cyprianism in GOC HOTCA
Channel: GenuineOrthodoxChurch
Date: 2014-06-07

GOC News (About Met. Cyprian).
http://www.gocnews.info/

The Defrocking of Cyprian of Oropos (in Greek).
http://www.gocnews.info/0001_archives/0014_i-140207-002_H-Kathairesis-Tou-Kiprianou.pdf

Metropolitan Pavlos slandered Archbishop Gregory
http://www.trueorthodoxy.org/schismatics_kiousites_slanderous_letter.shtml

GOC HOTCA Communes New Calendarists! (2002 Encyclical).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH-OZ5a7QkQ

If you belong to mainstream Orthodoxy, you CANNOT commune in a GOC parish.

Saint John Chrysostom said: "I say this for those who indiscriminately go to all churches--both to ours and to those of the schsmatics. If they teach differently than we do--then for that very reason, of course, one ought not to go to them. But if they teach the very same as we do--then all the more cause why one ought not to go to them, for here is the sin of lust for authority."

DEFEND THE FAITH:

St. Photius: "It is incumbent upon everyone to observe the letter of all that is common to all, and, above all, the points touching the Faith, where to deviate a little is to commit a sin unto death."

St. Theodore the Studite: "Not only if one possesses rank or knowledge is one obliged to strive to speak and to teach the doctrines of Orthodoxy, but even if one be a disciple in rank, one is obliged to speak the truth boldly and openly."

St. Theodore the Studite: "It is a commandment of the Lord that we should not be silent when the Faith is in peril. So, when it is a matter of the Faith, one cannot say, 'Who am I? A priest, a ruler, a soldier, a farmer, a poor man? I have no say or concern in this matter.' Alas! The stones shall cry out, and you remain silent and unconcerned?"

St. Theodore the Studite: We have a command from the very Apostle himself that says, whoever dogmatizes, or orders you to do something that is against that which we have received, against that which the Canons of the varied in time holy, general and local synods, let us not accept him, nor consider him Orthodox, and I avoid saying the severe word that the Apostle said..., that is let him be anathema."

St. Gregory the Theologian, "By your silence you can betray God".

St. John Chrysostom: "in worldly matters we are meek as lambs, but in matters of the faith we roar like lions!"

Saint Ignatius: "If thy bishop should teach any thing outside of the appointed order, even if he lives in chastity, or if he work signs, or if he prophecy, let him be unto thee as a wolf in sheep's clothing, for he works the destruction of souls."

Saint Felix III of Rome: "An error which is not resisted is approved: a truth which is not defended is suppressed...He who does not oppose an evident crime is open to the suspicion of secret complicity."

Saint Vincent of Lerins:"for Christians to declare something which they did not previously accept has never been permitted, is never permitted, and never will be permitted,—but to anathematize those who proclaim something outside of that which was accepted once and for ever, has always been a duty, is always a duty, and always will be a duty."

Father Georges Florovsky: "Very often the measure of truth is the witness of the minority. It may happen that the Catholic Church will find itself but "a little flock."

Father Georges Florovsky: The whole body of the Church has the right of verifying, or, to be more exact, the right, and not only the right but the duty, of certifying. It was in this sense that in the well known Encyclical Letter of 1848 the Eastern Patriarchs wrote that "the people itself", i.e, the Body of the Church, "was the guardian of piety."

Father Georges:......"therefore in questions of faith the people must judge concerning his teaching. The duty of obedience ceases when the bishop deviates from the catholic norm, and the people have the right to accuse and even to depose him."

Timothy Ware: Yet if Cyril was intemperate in his methods, it was because of his consuming desire that the right cause should triumph; and if Christians were at times acrimonious, it was because they cared about the Christian faith. Perhaps disorder is better than apathy.

Archbishop Theophan of Poltava: "you may be subject to God's judgement if you are indifferent to deviation from the truth: 'So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold not hot, I will spew thee out of My mouth' (Revelation 3.6).

Saint Metropolitan Philaret: "Let us remember that this indifference to the truth is one of the main woes of our age of apostasies. Value the truth, O man! Be a fighter for the truth... Place the truth higher than all else in life, O man, and never allow yourself to decline in any way from the true path..."