Fr. M. Mazurchuk

                                                                                                                                                     Dean of Brody

                                What does the spirit of lie pursue?

Right Reverend father,

You have provided a piece of defamatory and mendacious information against us for the secular newspaper Gazeta po ukrajinsky. You have written similar lies to the chairwoman of the Pidhirtsi village.

Among other things, You falsely state:

1)      that we apply hypnosis,

2)      that we are a criminal organization,

3)      that we are excommunicated from the Church and that we are a sect.

ad 1) Your statement is a lie. We have nothing to do with hypnosis; on the contrary, we radically fight against all forms of magic, divination and spiritism. Hypnosis is tied up with these three practices. Unlike You and the apostatic Synod, we definitely condemned hypnosis. We lodged a complaint against Max Kašpar? who was granted a doctor’s degree in Košice (Slovakia) for his propagation of hypnosis in pastoral work.

ad 2) We are not a criminal organization, but You and the structure which You serve even at the price of Your betrayal of Christ, conscience and the saving faith. This criminal organization – the antipapal structure inside the Church – abuses authority and obedience to God. It tramples on His laws and craftily preaches another gospel, another Christ and brings in another spirit. Thus it gradually strips the faithful of the saving faith and leads them to eternal perdition!

By contrast, our only “crime” is that we preach Christ and the orthodox doctrine of the Church, without which noone will be saved!

ad 3) We are not excommunicated from the Church, but Card. L. Husar along with the whole apostatic synod, who betrayed Christ and the Church for the sake of convenience, are excommunicated for eight overt heresies. You belong to them too, and therefore we urge You to give a clear answer as to whether You are in unity with the heresies of Card. L. Husar. Unless You give the reply within 14 days after the receipt of the letter, You will thus make it manifest that You are an apostate. We will then just make Your apostasy public!

We are not a sect, but those who publicly preach heresies destroying the foundation of Christ’s salvific teaching. We defend this true teaching and suffer persecution therefor by the real sectarians.

Reverend father, what spirit is behind Your lie and what is its aim? It is not the Spirit of truth but the spirit of lie which deceives the faithful so as to prevent them from conversion and repentance, to keep them in darkness and to bring on them a curse instead of a blessing.

In Christ,

         + Markian OSBM

         + Metod?j OSBM

         + Samuel OSBM

         + Eliáš OSBM

                                                                                                                                               Pidhirtsi, 26th May 2009

Copies to:

- Priests of the UGCC

- Newspaper Gazeta po ukrajinsky