Balamand Agreement or

Compromise of the Faith?

We are convinced that the implementation of the Balamand

Agreement is an act comparable to the great man-made famine
enforced on Ukraine in 1932-33, because today souls are perishing
from want of spiritual food through enforced spiritual starvation. The
Bread of Life is refused them not by communist authorities but by
church politicians. These politicians are Catholic bishops charged by
God to feed Christ's flock even at the price of their own lives.

Ours are the Catholic spirit and convictions of the

Redemptorist Bishop Vasyl' Velychkovsky, and Bishops
Lyatyshevsky, Lakota, Goydych, Hopko, Romzha, Kotsylovsky,
Khomyshyn, Verhun and Budka and all the New Martyrs and
Confessors who chose persecution and even death rather than
apostasy to the Orthodox religion. Vichnaya Pamyat! May their
memory live forever! - and not be forgotten in these days of false
ecumenism. A man can have no greater love than to lay down his life
for his friends.
We are convinced that the Balamand Agreement which
recognises the Orthodox churches as a "Sister Churches" is a denial of
reality. And worse, it is a culpable betrayal of the blood of our martyrs
and the sufferings of our confessors; it is an agreement to close the
Ark of Salvation, the Greek Catholic Church, to millions of souls in
Ukraine, Belarus' and Russia.
 His Beatitude Patriarch Josyf Cardinal Slipyj
Patriarch of Kiev, Halychyna and all Rus'
Confessor of the Catholic Faith, 18 years imprisonment, died in exile; his patriarchal title was
denied him by Rome for ecumenical reasons.

Our spirit is the Catholic spirit of Patriarch Josyf, who in

1962 returned to his prison cell rather than become the Russian
Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow. He would not recognise as the
Orthodox schismatics as having any valid jurisdiction over souls; his
charity wanted to convert the Orthodox and make them true children
of the Catholic Church.

We are convinced that Patriarch Josyf held the only solution

which God will accept: that we must convert the Orthodox even at the
price of our own great suffering; that the only ecumenism is the true
ecumenism of conversion and union in the One, Holy, Catholic and
Apostolic Faith.
 The Servant of God, Kyr Nicholas Charnetsky, C.SS.R.
Apostolic Visitator beyond Halychyna
Confessor of the Catholic Faith, 11 years imprisoned, released 3 years before he died, his tomb is
a source of miracles.

Ours are the Catholic spirit and convictions of Kyr Nicholas

Charnetsky the Redemptorist missionary bishop-monk for the
territories beyond Halychyna, a tireless apostle among the Orthodox
for Holy Re-Union; in 1933 alone he united 56 villages with the
Catholic Church.

We are convinced that Kyr Nicholas Charnetsky's apostolic zeal

for the conversion of the territories beyond Halychyna and of Ukraine,
Belarus' and Russia is an example of authentic missionary charity that
must be applied today. The salvation of souls is the supreme law of
the Church; no human law or ecumenical agreement can be permitted
to restrict missionaries and separate souls from the Catholic Church.