The spirituals who go beyond the limits, the “red lines” go out of the church and sacred rules with their behavior, underlined the professor of the Holy Monastery of Esfigmenos, Archimandrite Bartholomew.
“For years this phenomenon has existed in the church, a phenomenon that transcends the boundaries, the ‘red lines’ and reaches the point of falsifying a great mystery in the life of the Christian which is the mystery of confession and the relationship with the spiritual… This sacred relationship that exists is being altered. ”
“It is a matter of the church for those who have crossed the lines, in the highest bodies, administratively and spiritually. I can not say if they have space in the church, they say it themselves, with their behavior they have left the church. The way they move, which they intervene and impose on the faithful, is not in line with the spirit of the church, with the spirit of Christ and what the sacred rules say is outside the sacred rules, so they have gone out of the church, they have no place themselves in the church “.
Asked about the hospitalization of the Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania Mr. Kosmas, he commented that “it is sad, and it is not only the Metropolitan of Etoloakarnania, there are others and priests and high priests, either in the hospital etc… It is sad that they they have exceeded the excavations, and when you exceed the excavations you have left the space you are moving and you have to move “.
He clarified that the number of pilgrims on Mount Athos is checked by rapid tests, certificates of illness or vaccination, but there is still a concern.
“The monks should have gone for vaccination already, in addition to the obligation for those over 60, common sense says that they should have already gone.”
Mr. Bartholomew also pointed out that “it’s a matter of what everyone will decide, but he has no right to take advantage of the robe he wears to seduce people. Christ himself says it says it clearly since we are supposed to be bearers of the word of God Christ to the faithful. A simple phrase Christ said: ‘Ὅστις θέλει ὀπίσω μου ἐλθεῖν’, Whoever wants. I can not force you to have different views in dialogue, different thoughts, but decisions count. The organs of the Synod on Mount Athos … There are many opinions here, they exist, but one is the decision, and we must follow this one decision “.
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