WARNING

NOT EVERYTHING THAT

CALLS ITSELF ORTHODOX IS

TRULY ORTHODOX


The above warning was given to me when I first met Orthodoxy in 1986. Today [2009] it is even more perilous, even more difficult to find the Royal Path. For one thing there is a far greater abundance of misinformation. And many materials are missing, and other materials are being rapidly rewritten. For another thing there are fewer than ever guides remaining on the Royal Path, especially who speak English. Hopefully this website will be a place where Newcomers to the Faith can keep at least one foot on solid ground, while they are "exploring."


blog owner: Joanna Higginbotham

joannahigginbotham@runbox.com

jurisdiction: ROCA under Vladyka Agafangel

who did not submit to the RocorMP union in 2007

DISCLAIMER



January 29, 2016

14. Royal Path is Hidden

Many things are "hidden" in our Faith, especially from those who are blinded spiritually.  Christ even prayed thanking the Father that certain things are hidden from the wise and revealed unto babes.  Our sacraments are called "Mysteries" because there is a spiritual reality in them.  The spiritual reality is hidden from those who are spiritually blinded, they might see the sacraments only as ritual.  

It is the same with the royal path.  There is a spiritual reality to it that is hidden more often than not.  Those unable to see the spiritual reality will usually try to define the royal path as some place or as a compromise between the extremes of super-correct ["true" Orthodoxy] and world Orthodoxy.

But super-correctness ["true" Orthodoxy] and world Orthodoxy [renovationism], Fr. Seraphim has taught us, are just flip sides of the same disease.  Mixing two opposite diseases together does not make health.

The Royal Path is other-worldly.  It is above us, we have to look up to the heavenly Church to see it.  This is done with prayerful pondering, asking for heavenly help, asking for illumination from God.

Fr. Seraphim saw the Royal Path.  As much as he tried to show it to others, even many of those closest to him did not see it.  Or, at least, they did not see enough of it to discern that the ROCOR-MP union of May 17, 2007 was a false union.