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Vechi 05.02.2015, 10:30:56
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Do we really have the same faith as Saint Maximus ? Let us read:
"The extremities of the earth, and everyone in every part of it who purely and rightly confess the Lord, look directly towards the Most Holy Roman Church and her confession and faith, as to a sun of unfailing light awaiting from her the brilliant radiance of the sacred dogmas of our Fathers, according to that which the inspired and holy Councils have stainlessly and piously decreed. For, from the descent of the Incarnate Word amongst us, all the churches in every part of the world have held the greatest Church alone to be their base and foundation, seeing that, according to the promise of Christ Our Savior, the gates of hell will never prevail against her, that she has the keys of the orthodox confession and right faith in Him, that she opens the true and exclusive religion to such men as approach with piety, and she shuts up and locks every heretical mouth which speaks against the Most High. (Maximus, Opuscula theologica et polemica, Migne, Patr. Graec. vol. 90)".

The faith of this great catholic saint is that the Apostolic See of Rome has divine origin. Let's read what Saint Maximus says:
"the blessed Pope of the most holy Catholic Church of the Romans, that is, the Apostolic See, which is from the incarnate of the Son of God Himself, and also all the holy synods, accodring to the holy canons and definitions has received universal and surpreme dominion, authority, and power of binding and loosing over all the holy churches of God throughout the whole world. (Maximus, Letter to Peter, in Mansi x, 692). ".

Those who tell us they follow the Early and Holy Fathers of the Church, are they following the real doctrine of Saint Maximus ? Are they saying like him and with him that the Church of Rome has received "universal and supreme dominion, authority, power of binding and losing" ? Or, in fact, they reject what Saint Maximus was saying ?
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