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From the Greek Archbishop’s Cabinet ( 25.11.2007 )

“At the same time, during the last few days we have been receiving a multitude of messages in which it is requested that His Beatitude oppose the recognition of FYROM with the name of Macedonia. His Beatitude was informed about these messages which call for a firm involvement of our Church. He would like to remind us that the position of the Church is well known to all state factors.

He is pleased with the sensitivity of the people and is asking all of us to have complete confidence in the wisdom and stability of our entire political leadership.”

From the Cabinet of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Christodoulos

Source: www.Ecclesia.gr


Commentary from the staff of the MOC website

As we are able to note, the one who writes on behalf of His Beatitude kyr Christodoulos (who certainly does not ponder upon such foolishness even in the back of his mind, considering the state he is in) is reminding everybody that: “the position of the Church is well known to all state factors”. Naturally, this reminder is merely a formality, given that the same ethnophyletic policy of the Greek Church has been well-known throughout the centuries so that all of us (meaning, all of us Orthodox) are nowadays tasting its fruit, that is, this dissolute Orthodoxy which God only could gather…

Fortunately, the same writer who is hiding behind the Archbishop’s name, instead of promising involvement of the Church, “is asking all of us to have complete confidence in the wisdom and stability of their (i.e. Greek) entire political leadership”. We, in turn, hope that this political leadership is sufficiently ‘stable and wise’ not to oppose the politics of the United States of America for the Balkan region. Since we, the Orthodox, are obviously not normal enough to solve our own problems by ourselves, we are left with nothing else but to wait for God to solve them through the United States. For now, thank God, the unfolding of events is suiting us Macedonians, well…