WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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Today, respected citizens, the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, like every year, celebrates the Resurrection of Christ, as do all nations of the Western and Eastern Churches. With his Resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ convinced us that love, peace, justice and truth will prevail on earth, and left us the Cross and the Gospel for that, said Metropolitan Mihailo of the CPC in his Easter message.
Today, we welcome and celebrate the Lord's Easter in difficult conditions caused by the corona virus pandemic, which claimed a large number of victims, and we participate in mourning with everyone. At the same time, we need to win only for the sake of the victory of love, peace, truth and justice of the unfortunate carnal man - the occupier of Montenegro and the domestic opponents, because the same punishment awaits the Cainites - said Metropolitan Mihailo.
They remind the faithful of the Eastern and Western Churches that until the 7th Ecumenical Council in 787 there were no autocephalous churches except for the first five, namely Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem and Cyprus making up the pentarchy.
Since 185, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has been issuing Thomases to autocephalous churches. In the syntagm of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from 1855, the Montenegrin church was listed in the 9th place among the autocephalous churches as the old one, and the church in the Principality of Serbia in the 14th place as the new church, as stated by the famous Serbian theologian and canonist Dr. Nikodim Milaš in his book, "Orthodox church law". The current Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, with whom I served in the Church of Saint Andrew the First-Called and at the Greek Embassy in Rome, recently stated that autocephaly should be given to other Orthodox churches as well - said the head of the CPC.
As he adds, his first archbishop Danilo added that autocephaly should also be given to the Montenegrin Orthodox Church.
Believers in Montenegro should return to the original Orthodox faith instead of Saint Sava myths. Because Saint Cava never said he was a Serb. He never said he was Orthodox. (he was educated in Catholic monasteries, which is confirmed by his tonsure). He never said that Bosnia and Herzegovina was his homeland. And he never said that he was the archbishop of all Serbian countries. The Serbian patriarch gave the tomos to the Macedonian Orthodox Church, which violated the canon according to which this right belongs only to the ecumenical patriarch - Mihailo said.
According to him, such a procedure entails the responsibility of the Church Court.
For five centuries, the Serb languished in slavery', says the hymn of Svetosava. The question arises - What was the Serbian Orthodox Church during those five centuries? It was under the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire under which Serbia was. Enough of the wise. Dear believers, spend today's Resurrection Day in the country and diaspora with bright faces in love and peace with people who, like you, live for Montenegro, because it is the only unreserved country for them and for all of us. I greet you with a warm greeting CHRISTOS VASKRSE - THE REAL EASTER - concluded Metropolitan Mihailo.
M. J.
