“Schism” or “Walling-Off”?: A Pastoral Epistle

Publication Data: Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 2007
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 20
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.3 cm × 13.8 cm × 0.2 cm

   
Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili
Translated by Archbishop Chrysostomos and Hieromonk Patapios

“By the Grace of our Lord, I am addressing this Epistle to you, in order to remind you, in a simple way, of some basic truths concerning our ecclesiological identity, that is, the place within the Body of the Orthodox Church of those of us who follow the traditional Calendar of the Church Fathers. I am taking this action, because an uproar has recently been raised in the [Greek] press, and an attempt has been made to present us as supposed schismatics, who ought to return to the innovation of the New Calendar, indeed to submit to the New Calendarist and ecumenist administration of the Church of Greece, and, if we wish—they make this allowance for us!—retain the Old Calendar.”
—““Schism” or “Walling-Off”?: The Calendar Question and the Heresy of Ecumenism”

CONTENTS

“Schism” or “Walling-Off”?: The Calendar Question and the Heresy of Ecumenism
   A. “I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance”
   B. The Unity of the Church
   C. The Old Calendar is a Tradition of the Church
   D. The Heresy of Ecumenism and the Change in the Calendar
   E. Innovators and Modernists
   F. Anti-Innovationists and Walling-Off
   G. New Confessors of the Faith
   H. The “Old Calendarist Unia”
   I. For Peace and Unity
   J. “Keep that which is committed to thy trust”