2.3. The Rending of the Body of the Church (the Year 1054)

Oh, pay attention to the word of My mouth on this day of Mine with you in speaking, for We are going back to the beginning of My church and of the way of My faithful ones; and he who does not want to hear and to read the history of that time of Christ’s church, of My first disciples and of those left by them from generation to generation as those in the beginning, (See the lives of the saints of Patericon, Synaxarion and Philokalia, r.n.) oh, he who does not want to hear, then let him not hear, let them not know this, for they are not pushed to believe, but are rather asked to remember that Christ’s church is not as man chooses it to be; rather it is as it was established and strengthened on strong pillars once and for all and left to the Lord’s saints.

Oh, but who are those who were and are the saints of the Lord? They are those who sanctify themselves for Him; they are those who believe and work as those at the beginning, from where the faith and the man’s way with God started. Then the time has come when, by the Holy Spirit, there stood up with power from above the three great bishops of the Orthodox flock, Basil, Gregory and John, over whom the great work of the Holy Spirit and its great power descended, and they established good order for those who would be worthy on the way of the Orthodoxy with their life to God, and the Holy Spirit sealed this wisdom, descending and working a great deal over them, and He left the things that were taken from My things and announced to be established over the holy things and over the saints of the Lord. To these three great and holy bishops are added, for the strengthening of the church of the saints, the bishop Nicholas, the bishop Spyridon, the bishop Charalambos, some of them are now being named in My speaking about the holy beginning of the work of My church, strengthened by the saints full of modesty and full of humility of heart and absti-nence by their self-denial, as I, the Lord, require of those who walk with Me on the way, and they and many others like them walked having great struggles between My holy ones and the enemies of the right faith. And after one thousand years since the foundation of My church by My disciples, oh, the time of the separation had to come, (The year 1054 – the separation of the Catholic Church, r.n.), and if this time came, then I, the Lord, have remained with a little flock, because most of it chose its way, and it threw the dice to know the fortunes and to choose its own order; however, by coming out from the obedience at the beginning of the church, its order has became variegated in such a way that, from time to time, it has taken place over the separated flock many other separations, (The protestant Cults and neo-protestant, r.n.), until there have appeared many other paths and names of paths, many choices of paths, each at will; how-ever, I, the Lord, have remained faithful and wholly with those who have persevered in their walking according to the guide sealed by the saints for the spirit, for the body and for the walking of My church.