GREETINGS IN THE LORD!
AS I AM VISITING UKRAINE WITH OUR DELEGATION FROM CENTRAL AMERICA/KARIBEAN ARCHDIOCESE I COME ACROSS AN ARTICLE WHICH YOU PUBLISHED TO OUR GREAT UNCALLED SURPRISE ON OCT 10/2005:
AUTONOMOUS ORTHODOX IN AMERICA EXCOMMUNICATE LEADER IN UKRAINE .
ALLOW ME TO COMMENT ON THE SAID ARTICLE WHICH I SERVE YOU FOR PUBLICATION IN RISU.
1/ FIRST LET ME POINT TO YOU AND YOUR READERS THAT NO CANON CAN SUPPORT THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF A VALIDLY ELECTED GOD SENT PATRIARCH IN ANY CHURCH LESS IN OUR UAOC/C.
2/ THE ELECTION AND INTRONISATION OF PATRIARCH MOISEY DONE IN KYIV ON JUNE 17 TO 19 WAS CHURCH MATTER NOT POLITICAL MANIPULATION. ALSO IT WAS THE INSPIRATION AND ACTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOLY SYNOD THEREFORE VALID FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH .
3/ DISSIDENT BISHOPS AS MYLES/IOAN PROCLAIMING HIMSELF AS PRIME BISHOP OF A NON EXISTANT AUTONOMOUS UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA / THEY HAVE NO RIGHT NOR AUTHORITY OR VALIDITY TO EXCOMMUNICATE OUR VALIDLY ELECTED AND ENTHRONED BELOVED PATRIARCH MOISEY.
4/ TOGETHER WITH MY CONFRERES OF THE HOLY SYNOD WORKING IN GOD.S VINEYARD IN UKRAINE,FRANCE,ITALY, CAMEROON,GABON, MEXICO, PHILIPPINES, KARIBEAN, WE DEPLORE THE FACT THAT YOU PUBLISHED SUCH AN ARTICLE WITHOUT DUE PASTORAL AND DOGMATIC FOUNDATIONS.
5/ LET IT BE KNOWN THAT TOGETHER WITH OUR BELOVED PATRIARCH MOISEY WE WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THE WORK OF GOD FOR HIS PEOPLE. WE SHALL CONTINUE TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST AMIDST CRITICISMS, CALUMNIES OF DISSIDENT NEWLY MADE BISHOPS.
6/ INTRIGUES AND FABRICATIONS WILL NOT STOP US FROM ACTING AS MEN OF GOD AND PART OF THE CANONICAL UAOC UNDER OMOPHOR OF PATRIARCH MOISEY. MOREOVER WE WILL LET NO WOLVES ENTER AND HARM THE LORD.S FLOCK.
7/ OUR KARIBEAN DELEGATION DURING OUR PRESENT VISIT IS DAILY EXPOSED TO TEACHINGS,ACTIVITIES OF PATRIARCH MOISEY. NO ONE FINDS HERESIES AND FALSE TEACHINGS WHICH DISSIDENT BISHOPS INVENT OFF THEIR HEADS ABOUT PATRIARCH MOISEY. TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE HOLY CHURCH IS ENOUGH FOR ME TO DISCERN WHO IS WITH GOD AND WHO IS NOT.
8/ NO AUTHORITY BE IT PARENTAL TOWARDS CHILDREN, NO CHURCH CAN JUST TELL THEIR LEADER TO STEP DOWN SO NEOPHYTES CAN TAKE OVER. THIS IS AN ATTITUDE OF ANARCHY AND NOT THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
9/ MAY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, OUR BELOVED THEOTOKOS HELP US TO BUILD GOD.S KINGDOM IN ALL REGIONS OF THE WORLD WHERE HE SENDS US TO BE HIS HUMBLE,UNWORTHY BUT CHOSEN SERVANTS. LET NO EVIL ACTIONS OR ATTACKS STOP US TO GLORFY GOD BY HELPING HIS PEOPLE TO BE LEAD TO HIM.
YOURS IN THE LORD JESUS
+ARCHBISHOP DAVID
OF THE CENTRAL AMERICA/KARIBEAN
UAOC/C ARCHDIOCESE
