It is already not surprising that some public leaders of the Republic of Moldova come on the scene, any time an occasion appears, to bring accusations and offences to the Orthodox Church in Moldova. We will further present you some activists involved in this betrayal act of authentic romanianism by denigrating our Ancestral Faith.
We will start by the Thursday issue, September 8, 2005 of the publication “Literatura si arta” (Literature and Art). Making praise to “the Metropolitan Antonie”, the editor of the weekly – Mr. Nicolae Dabija, surprises us by his knowledge of recent history and not only. For example “while he was delivering his speech (the Metropolitan Antonie – author comment), a group of students from the Faculty of Theology in Chisinau, stood up from their places and have demonstratively left the audience. It was the beginning of 1991, long before the reactivation of Metropolitanate of Basarabia. I was ashamed of those “guttersnipes in cassocks” says the authors, avoiding to mention that in 1991 the rector of this institution was Petru Buburuz – one of the today leaders of the “Metropolitanate of Basarabia”. I would also like to ask with all the respect where did Mr. Dabija hear that Moldovan or Russian priests “intoxicate them with arguments of the “the Romanian church is foreign to our nation; our church is those of all Russians.” kind. I am sorry to say that Mr. Dabija lies with boldness.
Following this idea, I would like to remind that the Orthodox Church has never belonged to “Vladimir”, to “the Russian Patriarch – Alexei II of Moscow” or to His Beatitude Teoctist of Romania, on the contrary it is the Church of all Christians and above all this is the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ – its creator. Plus, we understand that the author has something personal with the Metropolitan Vladimir; that is why he makes accusations against him personally.We will start by the Thursday issue, September 8, 2005 of the publication “Literatura si arta” (Literature and Art). Making praise to “the Metropolitan Antonie”, the editor of the weekly – Mr. Nicolae Dabija, surprises us by his knowledge of recent history and not only. For example “while he was delivering his speech (the Metropolitan Antonie – author comment), a group of students from the Faculty of Theology in Chisinau, stood up from their places and have demonstratively left the audience. It was the beginning of 1991, long before the reactivation of Metropolitanate of Basarabia. I was ashamed of those “guttersnipes in cassocks” says the authors, avoiding to mention that in 1991 the rector of this institution was Petru Buburuz – one of the today leaders of the “Metropolitanate of Basarabia”. I would also like to ask with all the respect where did Mr. Dabija hear that Moldovan or Russian priests “intoxicate them with arguments of the “the Romanian church is foreign to our nation; our church is those of all Russians.” kind. I am sorry to say that Mr. Dabija lies with boldness.
The author of the article puts a question, which he also attributes to the deceased hierarch Antonie: “how can a churchly USSR still maintain?”. To such questions we remain not only shocked, but especially, revolted. Since its foundation, the USSR has constantly persecuted the Church. The soviet state was profoundly atheist. The Church resisted more than seventy years, due to the orthodox Christians in the former USSR who have fully endured the wild persecutions. To affirm that they formed the “churchly USSR” is the biggest offence to the martyrs of the soviet totalitarian regime, among whom there were our parents, grandparents and great grand parents.
Further, in a pejorative, indirect way, this calumniates the whole of the Fighting Church, I repeat, that fought and did not collaborate with the former regime. “Unfortunately, those 60 years of communist slavery perverted the souls of many Basarabians, including of those theology students, but also of many priests who believe sincerely that the Russian Church guards in the Redeemer’s waiting room, it decides who will be appointed to audience of the Heavenly Father and who will not, that the other peoples can communicate with the One Above only by the medium of Moscow. What “waiting room”, what “audience” Mr. Dabija sees – only he knows.
“Our orthodoxy is Latin, while the Russian orthodoxy is Slavonic” – a new theology makes appearance in Basarabia. But it is nothing original – it looks more like a heresy. The Primary Church after the Schism of 1054 separated into the Western, Catholic Church - of Latin rite and the eastern, Orthodox one – of Greek rite and not “Slavonic”. The reference to a “Latin orthodoxy” resembles more the Ukrainian uniatism or the Romanian Greek – Catholicism, whose first hierarch, including his whole suite, was anathematized as far back as the 17th century.
Mr. Dabija makes one more statement: “the holy scriptures (Holy Scriptures – is written with majuscules, if the reference is not made to something different than the Bible – author comment.) also affirms that each of us will face the Day of Judgement along with his nation, that is with his people”. There is nothing more false, each person responds for his own sins and is welcome to pray for his close ones or for the lost ones. No one attributes Christians the sins of their fellows, e.g. criminals or tortionars. It would be ridiculous if, for example, the Romanian Patriarchy would assume the responsibly for the crimes committed by tortionars in the prisons of Pitesti, Curtea de Arges and Bucharest or the crimes committed by the USLA troops (Unitate Speciala pentru Lupta Antiterorista, anti-terrorist special squads) during the 1989 Revolution.
As regards the period of “after the 1968 “Spring in Prague”” the author surprises us again, continuing with his rich knowledge of history: “the regime in Bucharest has thereafter degraded in suspicion and dictatorship”. Therefore, since 1944 till the establishment of Ceausescu’s regime in Romania, it would result, they lived the same as in the interwar period.
Mr. Dabija also lets us know that “in Romania there was not a single church closed”. But about the megalomaniac projects of Ceausescu (more exactly - of his wife) when entire villages were erased to the ground, the famous writer does not say unfortunately anything. In the area of Casa Poporului (People’s Palace) where there worked and thereafter killed hundreds of peoples, there was also a church.
“Sorrowful songs of Jews”, which Mr. Dabija remembers about, are actually the Psalms of David. The wrong interpretation, foreign to Orthodoxy, of the verses in the Psalm 136, 5-6: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill]. May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember thee; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.” is characteristic only of Jehovah’s witnesses, who preach “the heaven on Earth” and “the death of the soul”. Meanwhile the Jews wait for the coming of messiah who, according to the Orthodox Church’s teaching, will be the antichrist. Both these interpretations create the bases for the heresy of filetism, whose origins have roots as far back as the times of the 19th century revolutions.
In this stream there were involved unfortunately, not only Mr. Dabija, but also the entire public forum, so-called “Christian-Democratic”, that draw with boldness into the Church affairs concerning theology exclusively.
(to be continued)
Mihail Dohot
Translated by V. Ursu
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