The Calendar Question
The Orthodox anti-ecumenists maintain the traditional Church Calendar free from any innovation, since the calendar change of 1924 was the first practical step in the heresy of ecumenism.
The calendar question became ecclesiological in nature to the extent that the ecumenists aimed at reforming the Festal Calendar handed down by the Fathers (see the Patriarchal Encyclical of 1920 and the “Pan-Orthodox Congress” of 1923), in order to concelebrate with the heretics of the West.
• In this way, however, in the name of syncretistic rapprochement and communion with heretics, they sundered the festal unity of the Orthodox.
Texts
• The Patristic Church Calendar: An Indissoluble Element of Universal Church Tradition (English pdf, 167 KB)
• The “Sigillion” of 1583 Against “the Calendar Innovation of the Latins”: Myth or Reality? (English pdf, 258 KB; Greek pdf, 157 KB)
• Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Phlorina: An Heroic Confessor of the Faith and Restorer of Hallowed Traditions (English pdf, 820 KB; Greek pdf, 516 KB)
• “Joint Examination of the Calendar Question and a Common Pascha By Way of the Ecumenical Movement” (English pdf, 205 KB; Greek pdf, 176 KB)
“The Difference is Not One of Calendars: It is one of Conflicts over Dogma and Theology That Lead to Separate Celebrations of Pascha” (by Protopresbyter George Metallinos, Professor at the University of Athens)
• “The Movement for a Common Pascha” (Greek pdf, 144 KB)
A brief historical treatment of various aspects of the issue
• “What Should Be Done "for the Union and Harmony of the Church"?” (English pdf, 33 KB; Greek pdf, 120 KB)
“Presuppositions” and “challenges”
• “Papal Proselytism and the Calendar Reform” (Greek pdf, 223 KB)
• “The Calendar Question or the Heresy of Ecumenism?” (Part I) (English pdf, 160 KB; Greek pdf, 134 KB)
• “The Calendar Question or the Heresy of Ecumenism?” (Part II) (English pdf, 138 KB; Greek pdf, 118 KB)
• “The Calendar Question or the Heresy of Ecumenism?” (Part III) (English pdf, 175 KB; Greek pdf, 127 KB)
• “The Calendar Question or the Heresy of Ecumenism?” (Part IV) (English pdf, 195 KB; Greek pdf, 134 KB)
• “The Calendar Question or the Heresy of Ecumenism?” (Part V) (English pdf, 290 KB; Greek pdf, 261 KB)
• “The Calendar Question or the Heresy of Ecumenism?” (News Item) (Greek pdf, 134 KB)
• “The Calendar Question or the Heresy of Ecumenism?” (Part VI) (English pdf, 1.1 MB; Greek pdf, 261 KB)
- A rebuttal of three articles by the Athonite monk Elder Theokletos Dionysiates.
• “Athens is More Ecumenical than the Ecumenical Phanar.” (English pdf, 393 KB; Greek pdf, 197 KB; Russian pdf, 274 KB)
• “A Miracle Which Confirms the Traditional Church Calendar: St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco and His Attitude Towards the Ecumenist Calendar Reform.” (English pdf, 111 KB; Greek pdf, 94 KB)
• “The Inspirers and Ringleaders of Innovation: ‘These Two Luthers of the Orthodox Church’” (Greek pdf, 139 KB)
- By Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Florina [† 1955]
• “The Sacred Struggle Receives Acknowledgment from Heaven: A Miracle of the Holy Great Martyr George” (English pdf, 696 KB; Greek pdf, 173 KB)
• “‘Concerning the New and the Old Calendars’: A Presentation by St. Seraphim (Sobolev), Archbishop of Boguchar, to the Congress of Moscow (8-18 July 1948)” (English pdf, 501 KB; Greek pdf, 487 KB)
• “The Hierarchy Would Do Well to Restore the Traditional Calendar to the Church” (English pdf, 118 KB; Greek pdf, 157 KB)
- By Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Florina [† 1955]
• “The Greatest Snare of the Enemy-The WCC: The World Hodgepodge of Heresies” (English pdf, 174 KB; Greek pdf, 101 KB)
- By Archimandrite Justin [Popovich]
• “Œcumenical Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis (1871-1935): Freemason, Innovator, and Ecumenist.” (English pdf, 484 KB; Greek pdf, 621 KB)
• The Calendar Question and the Ecumenical Movement 1924-1994 (Greek pdf, 73 KB)
- By Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili
• “Are the Terms ‘Christian’ and ‘Orthodox’ Accurate in Our Times?” (English pdf, 187 KB; Greek pdf, 233 KB)
- By Archbishop Averky [†1976]
• “A Miracle Which Confirms the Traditional Church Calendar (English pdf, 178 KB; Greek pdf, 328 KB)
- A Revelation of the Theotokos to the Virtuous Monk Boris (in Schema, Nicholas) of the Holy Monastery of Valaam”
• “His Beatitude Ended up Dyeing His Throne in the Blood of the Innocent and Devout Flock, Which Suffered Martyrdom for Orthodoxy”” (English pdf, 377 KB; Greek pdf, 296 KB)
- By Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Florina [† 1955]
• "Issues of Vital Importance for Orthodox Ecclesiology" (English pdf, 95 KB; Greek pdf, 115 KB)
