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MISINFORMATION REGARDING HELLENIC COLLEGE
AND THE HOLY CROSS GREEK ORTHODOX SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
(Document released by the President of HC/HC on September 13, 1997)
For the past two
thousand years, the Church which the Lord Jesus Christ
established is undergone many crises from the initial
persecutions to many and diverse forms of attacks which
She has experienced down through the centuries.
The Church, however,
has never been in danger of collapse or disintegration.
She is the divine institution established by Christ
Himself as His eternal Bride. It is He Who promised that
even the powers of hell would never be able to prevail
against Her.
In the past three
months, individuals, groups, and self-appointed
organizations, seeing themselves as the conscience of the
Church have surprisingly made detrimental and even
embarrassing public statements regarding the state of the
Church in America, specifically the Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese. Dire predictions and forecasts of doom have
been carelessly promulgated by those with no correct or
complete information regarding the state of the
Archdiocese, especially the Holy Cross School of Theology
and its College.
It is ironic that no
reference has been made to the Holy Spirit Who has
preserved the Church in spite of Her people from the
great day of Pentecost. It is as if the College and
Seminary are no more than secular institutions which only
human power and reason can sustain. They see the Seminary
as of the people, by the people, and for the people. They
do not see it as of God, by God, and for God's mission in
the world.
Hellenic College and
Holy Cross has just began its new academic year as it has
the previous fifty-nine. The idealism of its students,
the new and the continuing ones, can only come from God
Who built the School for His Church and His people.
Within this
inspirational idealism, one sees that the School cannot
have personal agendas. Individual biases and aspirations
should have no room for personal gain and recognition.
Its recognition is the Lord Jesus Christ; its gain is the
glory of God.
The School will
continue to fulfill its mission by preparing men for the
holy priesthood to go out into this sinful world to save
those who seek salvation. It will continue to send out
women and men in the other ministries to remind the world
of man being the crown of God's creation who is more
valuable than the materialistic greed that has inundated
almost all of life. Hellenic College and Holy Cross will
continue to do this by the power of the Holy and
Life-giving Cross even until the return of Her divine
Founder.
[ ALITHEIA-ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ | www.alitheia.org/EA-ST.HTM - September 13, 1997 ]
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