The Orthodox Word #12

The Orthodox Word #12
 
2 St. Mark of Ephesus and the False Union of Florence by Archimandrite Amvrossy Pogodin
15 The Miraculous Icons of the Mother of God: The Tinos Mother of God
26 The Orthodox Spiritual Life: The Name of Jesus Christ
28 The Miracles of Father Herman of Alaska: Healing from Tuberculosis
30 New Books
31 A Pilgrimage to the Orthodox Holy Places of America: The Fifth Pigrimage

CHAMPION OF ORTHODOXY
 
NEVER, O MAN, IS THAT which concerns the Church put right through compromises: there is no mean between Truth and falsehood. But just as what is outside the light will be necessarily in darkness, so also he who steps away a little from the Truth is left subject to falsehood.
 
Letter to George Scholarios
 
Once we spoke entirely alike, and there was no schism between us, and then we, both sides (Orthodox and Latins), were in agreement with the Fathers; but now, when we do not speak alike, how can we be together? Now too we (Orthodox) speak exactly the same as we did then, and we are in agreement both with ourselves and with the Fathers – both ours and yours – if you wish to acknowledge what is true. But you, having introduced innovation, by this necessarily reveal that you are in disagreement first of all with yourselves, and then with the Fathers we have in common, and finally with us.
 
Address to Pope Eugenius IV
 
ST. MARK OF EPHESUS