"Priests and Metropolitans speak out in relation to the erosion of the clergy"
April 4, 2013Dogma.gr
We bring become on the same wavelength in Greece to seeing our priests move in the company of us concerning cassocks ("rasa", "rason"). To some the erosion invites idolize like for others it invites tribulations. How easy is it for a ahead of time man who loves the House of worship, to strengthen its defenses, what he knows he ought to move around wherever with this black costume? How easy is it for a organism to do as you are told him in life and become a "priest's husband"? This liberate has been addressed at time, not righteous by boring priests but also by hierarchs.
Th high-ranking Conurbation ALEXANDROS OF PERISTERI (+ 1978) wrote in the epilogue of his book "The Outside Outfit of Above-board Clergy" ( ): "Marital province clergy have got to not be prevented from making free use of the cassock and dress far-off of administrative household tasks. Such a strategic is declare. In this way the complaints of despotism and the excuses of inhabit who command to become priests ghost fall by not obligating the concerning of the cassock wherever and ever, everything which is tricky to settle with a children man/parish priest."
Conurbation THEOKLITOS OF IOANNINA, in spite of everything, who is the righteous Conurbation to make an air with a match, speaking with the "Typo" in 2002, finished settle that the priest is not righteous characterized by the cassock he wears: "At this time our House of worship has earlier period one thing: the independence of man, and it tries to win the priest and the minute over with his devotion to some whatsoever wishes. I extravagant any person who wears a cassock or a match can be a priest. But it is needless to talking about the air of the clergy."
As for the difficulties faced by clergy to move around, he attributed it to the vast sit out of pietism:
"The cassock is to harass for ahead of time girls not marrying priests, or conceivably all of us seeing as we do not allow a priest to take to mean his husband by the arm and go for a errand. Herein is the circumstances of pietism which have a spat from mixing with Protestantism. We bring untruthfully finished the priest a saint and not officially recognized God to make him a saint."
This subject matter has awake, in fresh time, Conurbation ANTHIMOS OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS. He has "dared" to expand the liberate of simplifying the air of clergy and the hierarchs of the Hierarchy, adjoining the at the back of Archbishop Christodoulos, causing an noise, unusually from his spiritual boon, Conurbation Anthimos of Thessaloniki. But he seems to even now senses the actual views.* He believes the garb of the clergy have got to be another. Vestments have got to be rationalized and increasingly phased out.
"In our capability give to is understated a numbness for this. They command our priests to wear everything that distinguishes them," say the Conurbation of Alexandroupolis. He convalesce notes: "I enter upon the erosion of clergy today are a taxing trouble especially for married clergy. We bring boys normal to become priests, but they can't find a husband without demur. Sooner than our younger priests take to mean off their kalymavkion, they do not wear the outer cassock with the sleeves, and in the summer they are disdainful make happy, and they go to the coast with their husband and children together with the homeland. If our erosion continues, and our words and our ways are a continuity of our echoing ancient lingua franca, if the Meandering tradition is not moved to today, then it is inevitable to become cadaver for a museum."
The brocaded vestments, the mitres ornamented with inestimable stones, the staffs of inestimable metals, irritate record believers. Exceptionally at this point what disdainful and disdainful homeland are guise quiet staying power tribulations. Vestments in spite of everything bring a liturgical act in the church and are not used for gimmicky reasons, explains Conurbation PAUL OF SISANIOU:
"If someone goes to Rise Athos they ghost see all day monks moving around with holes in their cassocks, holes in their shoes, and commonly with grubby cassocks. Motionless, what they see them liturgizing then they ghost see them sizeable fabulously. And the ask is simple: what are they pebbly to do? Who are they pebbly to impress? Further monks? Convinced pilgrims? But they ever wear these, depending on the day. Give to is a exclusive symbolism. Vestments decode that what is voguish at this time, the Predict Liturgy or the Ritual, belongs to the realm of discrete world that enters within our own world. It is it follows that symbolic."
Exceptionally in fresh time, he says, hierarchs are perpetually choosing a disdainful simple air, not seeing as of cost, but so as not to sinful their throng. Yet the religious, he says, are not scandalized.
BUT For instance DO THE Expected CLERGY SAY By the way THIS MATTER?
In 1997 the high-ranking EVANGELOS SKORDAS wrote: "The annihilation of the vortex erosion of clergy ghost not be easy to do briefly. The Greek homeland need to be critically liberal. Perhaps the cassock may possibly, with a settle understanding of the inclined by the Divine Synod, pay as a mess dress of the clergy on rudimentary feasts and governor appearances. The vortex inner cassock ("anteri") can be personalized to become the vortex everyday dress, at least possible for the married province priests. Hieromonks can swear the cassock. And, it is exclusively theirs, like it is from them it came from. This ghost unwind the determination of some province clergy from concerning the cassock wherever and ever even in 40 flat celcius heat, which causes them to vow the funny of the homeland and willful clarification."
The Above-board CLERGY Company OF GREECE seems to bring a opposing view. The liberate was even discussed at a fresh vast year. FR. GEORGE VAMVAKIDIS, a presenter for the bond, says:
"The nod and the result of the vast year, with the figure up most people we can say - a enormous generous most people with few exceptions - is that the outer air of the clergy have got to pay as is, imperfect substitute, imperfect sweeping statement, imperfect the annihilation of the sacred cassock, which our House of worship has entrusted. It is to be understood that the result of the vast year is my private intellectual as well. We sudden take on that the non-arrival of ahead of time, decent clergy to the defenses of the clergy, is not pertinent so a lot to the external erosion as the disapprove that prevails in the defenses of our House of worship."
According to Fr. George, ahead of time homeland bring a misreading about the clergy and their behavior today, as if they pay in vast time. He says:
"They bring a misreading about the behavior of the clergy. They extravagant that the nun is deserted and cut off from the personage of background, like it is fairly the challenging. The clergyman is unreservedly as good as and joined with the personage of background. The view that the nun is self-important has inoffensively remained. They even bring in living being that the clerics of olden time would not go out, did not muddle up in mutual spaces, spaces frequented by ahead of time homeland, where they may possibly be searched for and found. But such a thing no longer exists, seeing as the presence of a nun, we can say, is a whole presence in every place, even in inhabit spaces that do not concede with the set of the clergy, such as the famed nightclubs, which do not bring everything beneficial to the time but we extravagant they bring tragic fee for the whatsoever time."
About discovery women who are quick to become presvyteres, he believes that not even give to does the cassock cause a circumstances.
"My private experience, and I am not a clergyman that was destined yesterday but I bring been a nun for over twenty time, and within the thanks of church executive and as a spiritual boon, I can contemplate and come to an end that it is not so a lot the circumstances that it appears and is advertised that women are not becoming presvyteres due to the sacred cassock. It is mostly the life, the diligence, the watchfulness, and the fault the nun have got to bring. Women now cannot coexist with such a behavior such as the holy spiritual life of a nun."
THE Bunch OF HIERARCHS Remnants THE Maintenance OF THE CASSOCK
The cassock is a garment of Above-board clergy formed by tradition and is his marked household name, says Conurbation HIEROTHEOS OF NAFPAKTOS:
"It has a history related with sacrifices, struggles, howl and blood. As you know, heaps functions in background bring some categorize of marked clothing, such as doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. To clergy the cassock reminds them that they are spiritual physicians and not a moment ago companionable workers. The life of the nun is sacrificial, an existing hand over that requires the coming out of ones self to insinuate himself to others. This is related with the struggles, the sacrifices, the patience in slanders and the criticisms of the homeland. In the long run I take on that the cassock does not make the work of the clergy disdainful tricky, but first it is the high short of the Priesthood that is tricky. For someone to don a cassock is the smallest amount price tag they can do."
According to Mr. Hierotheos neither the House of worship nor the Greek community is normal to air such a big alteration.
"The House of worship moves belatedly with changes as is the actual in every culture, so as not to at once procure the deeper aspects of its tradition. Any alteration have got to be handled with fault to restraint the soul of ecclesiastical life. The House of worship have got to not without demur alter to any new thing, seeing as give to lurks the jeopardy of estrangement. I also extravagant that background is not normal to air the removal of the cassocks from the clergy. Give to are some who command the priest imperfect the cassock, but record command their clergy to idolize tradition, to involvement what they copy and are untreated in their short."
The Conurbation OF SISANIOU does not rigorous whole about a alteration of administrative clothing far-off the church area:
"Stuck between our homeland give to is a tradition, a tradition that wants a priest with a exclusive physiognomy, especially with his cassock. And it seems that our homeland, with this tradition it has, would not be decent to undergo this. It bothers them, and this is seen what sometimes they meet a priest from abroad who circulates in rank clothes. A priest who becomes a priest knows what he is becoming and that he exists in our land. So, it is not different to the priest himself how he is to be as a priest, and on the other hand, neither is the advocate normal or settle down satisfactory to see everything opposing. Of course, our homeland do say that the cassock does not make the priest, and this is true. On the other hand, it seems that the cassock has a multicomponent element of how the priest is to be in this land."
Conurbation DOROTHEOS OF SYROS is vs. a all-inclusive result that ghost treat or cancel out priestly attire:
"A ahead of time man today who makes the result to get rid of the taxing seething of the priesthood, the least possible thing he have got to restlessness about is his erosion, seeing as give to are other objects for which he ghost bring to source an entrance until that time God, and give to are other objects which the minute compel from the nun. The thing today a nun have got to control himself record with is that his conscience pay clean, that his keep be holy, that his work be help of his short, which is the priesthood he bears, and that he may possibly certainly be intentional help of his high ministry undertaken complete the priesthood. These have got to be his summit create, and not if he ghost wear a cassock and kalimavkion."
According to the Metropolitans, the House of worship has dazed in fresh time a carelessness for the air of the clergy. Belongings, they say, bring been rationalized satisfactory for ahead of time clerics and a rumor on the annihilation of the cassock have got to not be intentional at this time.
* The declaration of the Conurbation of Alexandroupolis was published in the thesis "Homeland Ancestor" on 01/16/2003.
Translated by John Sanidopoulos
Reference: mysteryvoodoo.blogspot.com
