Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A
The Ecumenical Heresiarch, Bartholomew of Constantinople, in his final preparations to betray Holy Orthodoxy like his forebears who signed the false union at the Council of Ferrara-Florence, attended a heretical Papist Latin Mass—just the same as his miscreant son, the arch-heresiearch of America, Elpidophoros, did here in the United States.
According to the Orthodox Times another rag publication of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOARCH) reports that,
He attended the Divine Liturgy held in commemoration of the 12th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis of Rome.
Also present at the Divine Liturgy were His Beatitude Sahak Maşalyan, Armenian Patriarch of Turkey, representatives of other Christian communities in the city, members of the Diplomatic Corps, and a large congregation of Roman Catholic faithful.
In his address, the Ecumenical Patriarch once again conveyed his warm and heartfelt fraternal wishes for the speedy recovery of Pope Francis.
At another point in his speech, he referred to the mutual desire for a joint celebration of the 1,700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, a year in which the celebration of Easter coincides for all Christians according to the calendar.
He further emphasized that the differing methods of calculating Easter undoubtedly hinder Christians from having a stronger and more unified voice in our fragmented world [1].
Yet again, another so-called "Canonical Patriarchate" of World Orthodoxy has publicly prayed with the ecumenically condemned Monophysite Armenians and Copts at a Latin Mass. In my last article, Spitting in the Face of the Fathers: World 'Orthodox' Participation in the Papist Mass Following the Sunday of Holy Orthodoxy, we demonstrated once more how such actions violate Scripture and the canons and constitute the ultimate insult to the Fathers—many of whom were martyred for the True Orthodox Faith by both Papists and Monophysites throughout Church history.
Where is the outcry from the faithful? Where is the protest from their priests and fellow bishops who, in their supposed Orthodox conscience, must know this to be nothing less than a betrayal of Christ? All over the internet, World Orthodox pseudo-confessors of the faith preach an anti-ecumenist message, condemning their own hierarchs for such egregious actions against the faith of the Fathers—yet at the same time, they bow low in their presence and kiss the very hands that, just days prior, joined in joint prayer with non-Orthodox who openly reject our faith.
This begs the question: how long will you remain with your heretical bishops? How long will you live a milquetoast existence—spineless, without courage, without even an ounce of confession for the faith—decrying the pan-heresy of ecumenism online while simultaneously cowering before the very betrayers of Christ?
In the Holy Gospel of Saint Matthew, our Lord Jesus Christ warns that those who do not confess Him will be as strangers to Him, saying:
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity (St. Matthew 7:21-23, KJV).
For the majority of those reading this who remain in World Orthodoxy, Scripture has clearly indicted you. You are no stranger to the abuses of these pseudo-bishops who parade as “canonical bishops” of the Orthodox Church, and yet you remain tolerant—waiting for some fanciful marble king, sleeper saint, or future ecumenical council that, ironically, would be called by these same heretical bishops to condemn themselves and their own actions.
This tolerance—this willingness to remain under the authority of bishops whom you know full well to be betrayers of Christ—is nothing less than the lukewarmness spoken of by Christ in the Apocalypse of John, where He warns: "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth" (Apocalypse 3:16, KJV).
How much longer will you endure these betrayals, which you see so clearly with your own eyes? How much longer will you cling to what is comfortable—because your family does, because it is cultural—rather than to what is truly Orthodox?
Let the words of a true confessor of faith, Saint Chrysostom of Florina, ring in your mind: "We elect to be persecuted, struggling on the adamantine ramparts of Orthodoxy!" [2].
References
[1]. “Bartholomew attended Liturgy for the anniversary of Pope Francis’ election – His remarks on the celebration of Easter,” Orthodox Times, accessed March 24, 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://orthodoxtimes.com/bartholomew-attended-liturgy-for-the-anniversary-of-pope-francis-election-his-remarks-on-the-celebration-of-easter/
[2]. Subdeacon Nektarios Harrison, The History of Resistance: From the Apostles to the Twentieth Century (Washington, DC: Orthodox Traditionalist Publications, 2019), 332.