In response to our article Isolated Priests and the Opportunities for the Burning Bush Brotherhood, the Burning Bush Brotherhood sent us the response below. We were very pleased to received it. For anyone wishing to contact the Brotherhood, please email us or use our contact form and we will help you get in touch. We have put multiple clergy in touch with the Brotherhood already. The Brotherhood has also posted another epistle. Click here to visit their site and read it.
The Lord’s blessing!
We have taken note of the article regarding the opportunities of the Brotherhood and isolated priests and clergy. The list of suggestions you mentioned are part of our broader vision for the brotherhood. We are glad you are like minded and that our assumption of the needs of the Church in American particularly are true.
If you know of any isolated clergy or anyone has contacted you, please have them reach out to us. We would like to build chapters and cells in various parishes around North America. This is already happening.
“The main characteristic of the bishop and the priest is a fighting spirit, boldness. It is what the apostle Paul said that, “Those who wish to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” [2 Tim. 3:12] If you see a priest, if you see a theologian, if you see a metropolitan or an archbishop who is not persecuted, but is enjoying the love and appreciation of all, then the word of Christ applies, “Woe to you when people speak well of you” [Luke 6:26]; know very well that he is not walking correctly. The same thing applies to someone who calls himself Orthodox, but does not want to go against the current, this avalanche that is coming down to destroy the world.”
“Characteristics of Orthodox Clergy”, by +Metropolitan of Florina Augoustinos Kantiotes (+2010) https://www.orthodoxwitness.org/characteristics-of-orthodox-clergy
I read on their website – “The original Burning Bush Movement was founded in 1945 in Romania by Sandu Tudor.” So who is the founder of this new one? Tudor was brave enough to use his real name… and so?
Shoot us an email and we will put you in contact and you can ask them yourself.