To the Orthodox Living Among Schismatics
November 14*
(From the Life of Saint John Chrysostom)
By Archpriest Victor Guryev
November 14*
(From the Life of Saint John Chrysostom)
By Archpriest Victor Guryev
Why is it, O Orthodox, that those who live among you, who call themselves Old Believers, never experience miracles? And why is it that, while believing according to the same old printed books, they constantly quarrel among themselves and curse each other, and some are called Popovtsy, others Priestless, others Wanderers, others Begunys, others Undergrounders, and so on? This is why: because the Old Believers who live among you are heretics and schismatics. Heretics: for they mix their false teachings with the Orthodox Faith. Schismatics: for they have separated themselves from the Orthodox Church. And know this: such people never have had, nor ever will have, miracles, and the wrath of God, as it was before upon them, so it always will be.
