Announcement to the President and Government of Austria
Lvov (Ukraine), 14 July 2011
Dear Mr President,
dear government representatives of Austria,
we live in historic times, witnessing artful destruction of moral and spiritual values which have formed the foundation of Europe for nearly 2000 years. The new thinking is built on lies and unreality and leads to moral, spiritual and physical genocide of individuals, families and individual nations of Europe. Unfortunately, the tragedy is that this process of self-destruction is supported by international organizations such as the UN, European Parliament and PACE. However, the greatest responsibility falls on the Christian Churches.
It is publicly known that Austrian ex-Cardinal Sch?nborn shares the views that deny the essence of the Christian faith and morals. He sees the so-called reform of the Church in abolition of the priestly celibacy, in ordination of women priests, in church marriages of homosexuals and their ordination as priests and bishops.
On 29 June 2011, 300 priests in Austria signed a petition in which, among other things, they demand promotion of the above-mentioned perversions. The Catholic Church in Austria is no light any more but darkness, no way to salvation but to eternal perdition. The reason is that it has abandoned the Gospel and the Apostolic Tradition and failed to highlight conversion to Christ and true mission.
We also bring to Your notice that by reason of internal apostasy and church legalization of homosexuality God’s anathema has fallen upon 25 Churches (see http://uogcc.org/en/letters/article/?article=4832), three of which are from Austria. It concerns the Old Catholic Church, Austrian Protestant Church and Evangelical Church of the Helvetic Confession. These Churches perform same-sex marriages and blessings. They practically deny sin, God’s laws and commandments, they no longer call evil evil and the truth the truth. Moreover, these Churches allow gay priests. They have become a dangerous infection for Austria, bringing down a curse upon the entire nation. Through ex-Cardinal Sch?nborn and other liberal and homosexual theologians this infection has penetrated into the Catholic Church, too.
You ask: And what shall we do?
We answer:
1) You need to know about the state of the present-day Church and take account of this painful reality. Moral and spiritual restoration of Austria therefore cannot begin through these traitors who shelter themselves behind the highest church authorities.
2) The solution is to separate from this apostatical structure which will not allow true restoration of the Church and society. Using a variety of religious phrases they all too well kill the conscience and completely destroy the sense of moral values. If You want to be saved, each one of You must keep the saving faith which, unfortunately, has been abandoned by the Catholic hierarchy in Austria as well as by the above-mentioned Protestant Churches. Your parents or grandparents confessed this faith. They believed in one God the Creator. Every sensible man, if he stops and thinks of greatness and perfection of the universe and of the mystery of life on earth, must bow before the majesty of Almighty God.
The saving faith means that man, according to conscience, truly calls a sin a sin, confesses his personal sins by the cross of Christ in prayer, and believes that “God so loved the world (X) that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone (X) who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (cf. Jn 3:16). “The blood of Christ cleanses us from every sin.” (1Jn 1:7) This faith in Jesus Christ as the only Saviour gives us eternal life (cf. 1Jn 5:10-13).
3) Let each one of You today defend moral values, fight against evil and malice, and promote conditions for an honest life. We have to warn against the laws coming from the EU which destroy these universal values and by establishing a homodictatorship lead to demoralization and demonization of individuals and the nation. May an example for You in this struggle be the Czech President Vaclav Klaus and the Hungarian and the Lithuanian Parliament.
Dear Mr President and Members of the Government, God has put the future of the Austrian nation in Your hands. You shall bring either a blessing or a curse upon the nation. In case moral perversion is legalized and penetrates into politics, education, culture and medicine, it will bring a curse on the nation.
Today, the universal means of destruction of all European nations is the establishment of a homodictatorship. If You stand up against this trend and restore the moral laws in Austria, God will save Your nation.
On behalf of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
+ Elijah
Patriarch
+ Methodius OSBMr + Timothy OSBMr
Secretaries of the BCP
Copies to:
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– Mass media in Austria
