Perhaps Moscow is the "Third Rome" upholding the truth after Both Old and New Rome have succuмbed to the pressures of Ecuмenism.

Russian Orthodox Reject Inter-Confessional Worship        
2008-06-12  

Moscow Patriarchate Confirms Intention to Refrain From Participation in Joint Services with Non-Orthodox

Portal-credo.ru, 12 May 2008

Once again it has been asserted in the Russian Orthodox church of the Moscow patriarchate that they do not consider it possible for Orthodox persons to perform divine services jointly with representatives of other Christian confessions.

"We wish to affirm once again our intention to refrain from participation in joint worship with persons of other confessions," a worker in the Secretariat for Inter-Christian Relations of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow patriarchate, the priest Alexander Vasiutin, told the "Interfax-Religion" portal.

He said that this matter has acquired new pertinence in the process of preparing for the XIII General Assembly of the Conference of European Churches which is scheduled for July 2009 in Lyons (France).

The news agency's interlocutor, who also is a member of the assembly's organizing committee, noted that "the position of the Russian Orthodox church, unfortunately, does not always meet with understanding among representatives of other local Orthodox churches."

As an example, Fr Alexander told how at a recent session of the organizing committee Metropolitan of Gaul Emmanuel (Constantinople patriarchate) responded to the suggestion of refraining from performing interconfessional worship at the assembly by saying that "the position of representatives of the Moscow patriarchate on this matter reminds one of the behavior of a man who has a wife but doesn't sleep with her."

In addition, the representative of Constantinople posed the question, "why do representatives of the Moscow patriarchate always refuse to participate in joint worship with non-Orthodox, while Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and all-Rus participated in joint worship with Catholic clergy in the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris when he was there?"

"There is no need to repeat the information disseminated by many church and secular news media that in reality an Orthodox prayer service was conducted in the Paris Notre Dame cathedral at which representatives of the Roman Catholic church were merely present, including Archbishop of Paris André Vingt-Trois. But one cannot speak of any joint service or worship in this case," Fr Alexander stressed. (tr. by PDS, posted 6 June 2008)

Source: http:www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/
 

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Perhaps Moscow is the "Third Rome" upholding the truth after Both Old and New Rome have succuмbed to the pressures of Ecuмenism.

Except the Russian Orthodox are in schism...!

In schism from whom, my dear? In schism from a Rome that no longer holds the faith of Pius XII? A Rome that in fact spurns and condemns even it's own previously held Roman doctrines such as the Syllabus of Errors, and the Primacy of the Pope. In schism from a Rome that no longer exists?

The fact that the city of Rome is filled with apostates does not mean the so-called Orthodox are no longer in schism.

Where is your pope? Where is the "Vicar of Christ" now? Where is the "Traditional" Rome that SSPX and other Trads allways talk about.

The fact is that "Traditional" Rome is dead. It has been conquered by Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, and is not coming back.

I am done pretending to be in communion with an imaginary Rome that doesn't exist and a Roman Church that has lost it's visible unity.

I am returning home to Holy Orthodoxy. I think the Traditional movement in the Roman Church is a good thing, because it can only help hasten the day of reconciliation between east and west. The Orthodox Church could never receive Novus Ordo  Rome into its communion.

Hopefully the Greek Cathlics will soon wake up and realize just how wicked the Novus Ordo Church is that they are in communion with, and return home to their Holy Mother Church. The Greek Catholics in America are already loosing many vocations to Orthodoxy.  The Byzantine Catholic Church in America will be dead in a few years, only 7 vocations for the entire country!

To know the things that Holy Mother Church had always taught from the beginning until Vatican II and then to believe that the new creation from 1969 is the real Church of Christ shows just how far the insidious and mortal sins of liberalism have taken root.
This NewRome is without a doubt THE false church spoken of in the end time prophecies of hundreds of saints in thousands of prophecies. But, I fully expect to be told how wrong I am that we do not need to believe the saints, but should believe these modern "Popes" who spend their days pushing heresy in every form.

Please read "Then Christ is a LIAR."

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Please read "Then Christ is a LIAR."

No, ROME is the liar!

However, I suppose that you will  just go ahead and continue to believe in a Church that doesn't exist anymore.  Where is "Traditional" ROME? Not SSPX, but "Traditioanal" ROME. Its gone for good.

My point, Cletus, is that outside is outside.   Extra ecclesiam, NULLA salus.  Yes, the so-called Orthodox can, due to certain circuмstances, be corporately re-vivified.  It is true that this is not the case with Lutherans, etc.  However, in 1000+ years, their hardened hearts have not softened, nor have they seen the light.  Their leaders are just as much Masons, etc., as the men in the Novus, and have been for centuries.  I realize there are no "guitar masses", etc., but offering the unspotted Lamb without permission - for 1000 years straight - is not exactly something for which one should be praised.

Hell is hell, and those who are there for eternity will not quibble about whether they were naturally decent or libertines in the extreme.

Well now, that too is not the case anymore. Benidict has a new "soft on sodomy" policy and one of the heralds of this news is an American "Bishop" who "apologized" to ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs and lesbians, quoting Benidict XVI on his recent tour of America. Honestly, did you see all of the facilitators and participants in the current child rape scandal present in the front rows smirking as Bendict gave his feeble slap to them???? For that matter Francis George an enabler of Chicago sat right next to the Pontiff. And, Francis has spoken many times on my local Chicago stations and never mentioned anything about a tougher stance towards gαys.


If you study prophecy you will know that it APPEARS that the Catholic Church is no longer there, but we are not to despair as after all of the chastisement it will be brought back more glorious than ever. Holy Mother Church is going through her passion at the hands of the modernists who are savaging her much like the revolutionaries of France when the pillaged the Churches and installed whores on the altars.