AOCNA’s North American bishops with Metropolitan PHILIP on Friday, 24 April:
And with Patriarch IGNATIUS on 2 June 2009:
It’s tempting to want to use the contrast between Bps. BASIL and ANTOUN as the barometer…
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How much should we read into these pictures?
Published 3 June 2009 General , The Orthodox Faith 3 CommentsTags: american orthodoxy, Antiochian Archdiocese, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, Antiochians, Metropolitan PHILIP, militant americanist orthodoxy, Orthodox Ecclesiology, Patriarch IGNATIUS IV, Patriarch of Antioch, Patriarchate of Antioch, the Bishop MARK fan club, The Episcopacy, The Episcopate, we need more american saints
I don’t think it takes a thousand words to get the story.
That was the first thing I noticed today when the photo was posted…I then looked up the older one to confirm my suspicions. Still who really knows…only time will tell and it could still be a lot of time… oh boy!
If we had the power to look into the hearts of these men, perhaps we could make a fair judgment. Since we cannot do such and externals do not necessarily reflect internals, they pretty much are equal at this point. 🙂