Why I Am an Old Calendarist

‘They who audaciously changed the church calendar in our days, assuredly did not take into account the gravity (of the anathemas), and for the sake of astronomy they paid no heed at all to the venerable tradition and spirit of the Church; and though occupying themselves with ecclesiastical matters, they used science only as a pretense to conceal the innovating inclinations that possessed them’.  - Patriarch Christopher of Leontopolis1939 –1966*

           

The question why anybody should write an article defending his following of the Old (Julian) Calendar appears especially moot. Articles, books and volumes, if not tomes, have been written defending and explaining the Old Calendaristposition in the Orthodox Church today. However, insofar as it is the responsibility of every Christian to appropriate his faith and his belief, this article serves as my personal theological appropriation and internalisation of a question that has painfully split, and continues to split, the worldwide Orthodox community.

CONCERNING PRAYER by G.O.C. Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, Chrysostom ( Metropoulos )

CONCERNING  PRAYER 

 by

 G.O.C. Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, Chrysostom Metropoulos [1]  

“Seven times a day I praise Thee (Lord).”

(Psalms 119: 164)

“Pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you.”  

(1 Thessalonians 5: 17-18)

“‘We should remember the name of God in prayer more often than we breathe’, as Gregory the Theologian said.”  

(Saint John Chrysostom, PG vol. 55, p. 703)

Prayer fulfills the need of the soul to communicate with God, a need which God has implanted in every human being. This is universally testified: all people pray. They do not all, however, pray to the only true God, nor do they all truthfully pray to God. For this reason, then, since the beginning of the world, God’s Church is at work so that people may come to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (John 17: 3), and so that they learn the true way of prayer in order not to pray idolatrously, nor impiously, nor without benefit, like Cain or Judas.

The Importance of the Correct Confession of Faith

The Importance of the Correct Confession of Faith

   

 The pocket calendar of 2011 is dedicated to our Orthodox Confession of Faith, which teaches us what and how we must believe in order to be saved, what the truth is about the one God, and what the Orthodox doctrines are, those revealed and established by the Holy Spirit.  It is a public and solemn pledge to the Triune God, that we stand with Him, that we consent to join ranks in the holiness of His Will, that we are willing to become His faithful servants, domestics, children and heirs. 

    ­­­­­­­­­­The publication of the Orthodox Confession of Faith is deemed necessary in order that every member of the Church of Christ our God may know of which Kingdom they are citizens, in which Royal House they dwell, what borders the eternal King has set to the courtyards of His House, of what value is the Royal Treasure which has been entrusted into their hands for safekeeping by the King-without-beginning, of what honor is the Royal Seal of their salvation. 

Τα αίτια που προκάλεσαν το σχίσμα του πρώην φλωρίνης Χρυσοστόμου Καβουρίδη εις την Γνησίαν Ορθόδοξον Εκκλησίαν Γ.Ο.Χ. ( παλαιοημερολογίτες ) και η ομολογιακή και ορθόδοξος θέση του αειμνήστου επισκόπου Βρεσθένης+ Ματθαίου Καρπαθάκη. Γνώσεσθε τήν ἀλήθειαν,(μετά προσοχής και προσευχής ) καί ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει ὑμᾶς” (Ἰω. η΄ 32)

Τα  αίτια  που προκάλεσαν το σχίσμα  του πρώην  φλωρίνης  Χρυσοστόμου Καβουρίδη εις την Γνησίαν  Ορθόδοξον Εκκλησίαν  Γ.Ο.Χ. ( παλαιοημερολογίτες ) και  η  ομολογιακή και  ορθόδοξος θέση του αειμνήστου επισκόπου Βρεσθένης+ Ματθαίου Καρπαθάκη.

Γνώσεσθε τήν ἀλήθειαν,(μετά προσοχής και προσευχής ) καί ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει ὑμᾶς” (Ἰω. η΄ 32) 

Οι  επιστολές   του Χρυσόστομου Καβουρίδη και η παραίτηση του.

Η απάντηση του Αγίου πατρός Ματθαίου καρπαθακη.

Η ερμηνεία του όρου Δυνάμη και ουχί  ενεργεία