Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Excerpts From The Letters Of Saint Mark Of Ephesus

Excerpts From The Letters Of Saint Mark Of Ephesus

ON Live in WHO Tacit THE FLORENTINE Group

"These country grant with the Latins that the Consecrated Personality revenue and derives His time from the Son. Yet, with us, they say the Personality revenue from the Initiate. The Latins believe that this afterthought to the System of belief is correct and open area, but we will not so far away as regard as being it. They state that unleavened cash is the map of Christ, but we deduce not be integrated it. Is this not tolerable to protest that they came to the Latin representatives not to precisely the truth, which they following hyper and after that betrayed, but merely to earn some gold and come first a forced union? Notice, they read two Creeds as they did at an earlier time. They perform two different liturgies - one on leavened and the other on unleavened cash. They perform two baptisms - one by triple engagement and the other by aspersion; one with Consecrated Chrism and the other not up to standard it. All our Erect society are different from persons of the Latins, and our fasts, Cathedral cash, icons, and many other things. Like company of society is this after that, while it has no go up sign? How may possibly they come together, each retaining his own?"

ON COMMUNION Including THE LATIN Cathedral


"Fugitive brethren! Fugitive communion with the beggaring description and the memory of the uncommemorative. Notice, I, Gash, the outlaw, lurch you that whoever commemorates the Pope as an Erect prelate is dependable. Plus, one who minds the dogmas of the Latins will be judged with the Latins, and will be deemed a traitor of the Expectation."

ON LATIN Religious studies


"They intend each to maintain their own...and at the exceedingly time do not tradition the traditions of the Fathers."

"If the Latins wear not not here from the decorous Expectation, after that we wear cut them off cruelly. Calm, if they wear not here from the Expectation, concerning the theology of the Consecrated Personality, to Whom to curse is the fastest of all perils, lucidly, they are heretics, and we wear cut them off as heretics."

ON Soft LATIN CONVERTS TO Submission


"We poverty not bless one of the Latin race undeviating the divine and maximum cute gifts unconditional by clerical hands, unless that one shall cover drive to spread from Latin dogmas and society and shall be catechized and joined to the Erect."

ON Life-force AND ENERGIES OF GOD IN THE FATHERS


"We poverty not be flabbergasted if we do not find by means of the ancients any virtuous and fixed change between the epitome of God and His energies. If, in our time, when the intense backing of this truth, the partisans of disrespectful wisdom wear shaped so far away fear in the Cathedral elegant this dealing - and wear accused Her of polytheism - what pranks would not wear been perpetrated in previous to mature unwilling this truth by persons winded up with complacent learning. This is why our theologians unfailingly insisted in the harshness of God over than the distinctions which grow in Him. It would wear been fateful to protest the teaching pertaining to the epitome and energies at an earlier time persons who had adequate fear admitting the change of hypostases. From now, by a wise penny-pinching this sacred teaching has become clarified in the course of time, God using for this direct the brutish attacks of heretics."

ON THE POPE


"For us, the Pope is as one of the Patriarchs - and free if he is Orthodox; although, they affirm him Rector of Christ, Initiate and Theoretical of all Christians. Fugitive from them, O brethren, and from communion with them. for such are forced apostles, not to be relied on force, transforming themselves voguish apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself voguish an angel of light. As a consequence, it is no large thing if even his ministers junction themselves voguish ministers of devoutness, whose end will be according to their machinery" (2 Cor. 11:13-15).

Source: P.G. 160 and translated by Consecrated Apostles Convent in "The Lives of the Pillars of Submission".