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"This brilliant defense of traditional Orthodox ecclesiology by the Holy New-Martyr Archbishop Hilarion — who received a martyr's crown on December 15th, 1929 —, does not seem to be well known, probably owing to its limited publication decades ago by a small monastery press in Canada. As of 2009 it is out of print and was difficult to obtain anywhere except from an online used bookstore.

This is unfortunate, for Saint Hilarion's book is, in my opinion, the best critical analysis ever written of the ecclesiological presuppositions of the Ecumenical Movement. Every Orthodox Christian should read or listen to this book as an antidote to the bacterium of ecumenistic heresy, which has been infecting some Orthodox Christians and dulling their Orthodox consciousness for decades. As Dr. Constantine Cavarnos put it in his book Ecumenism Examined:

"According to the holy Fathers..., a heretical doctrine is a virus, a poison that leads to spiritual infection and results in spiritual death." He later states, "The Latinizing Orthodox' Ecumenists...are waiting for the day when the mind-set (phronema) of Orthodox peoples will have become sufficiently blunted to be ready to accept such a diabolic betrayal of the Faith." (pp. 52, 60)

I am convinced that any Orthodox Christian who hears the timeless words of this erudite and Patristic-minded Archbishop, and then hears or reads the statements of our misguided Orthodox ecumenists today — many of whom, unfortunately, are clergy of the highest rank, or who hold teaching positions in Orthodox seminaries—will be shocked and amazed that they have fallen so far from the teaching of the Holy Fathers.

This book—which is actually a letter to an American Protestant — was written in 1917. The English translation by Mrs. Margaret Jerinec was published in 1975 by Monastery Press. I offer it here unabridged as the first in a series of audio books that, with God's help, will be made available on the Orthodox Christian Information Center Web site (www.OrthodoxInfo.com)."

Alexandr