St. Victor of Glazov (pictured on the left):
"We believe with child-like simplicity that the strength of the Church is not in organization, but in the Grace of God, which cannot exist where there is wickedness, where there is betrayal, where there is renunciation of the Orthodox Church, even if only under the guise of achieving the external good of the Church. After all, this is not a simple sin of Metropolitan Sergius and his advisers. Oh, if only it were so! No! Here is the systematic destruction of the Orthodox Church according to a certain deliberate plan, the desire to confuse everything, desecrate and corrupt everything spiritually. Here lies the death of the entire Orthodox Russian Church. After all, there is an obvious perversion of the essence of the Church, namely the conscious adaptation of her - the Heavenly Bride of Christ, to serve the world, that is evil, for the world lies in evil."
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St. Mikhail Novoselov* (pictured in the center):
"Sergianism for many escapes the accusation of heresy because they are looking for some heresy, but here is the very soul of all heresies: rejection from the true Church and alienation from the true faith in her mysterious nature, here is a sin against the mystical Church body, here is the replacing of it with a shadow, a bare scheme, and the skeleton of discipline. Here is heresy as such, Heresy with a capital letter, for every heresy distorts the teaching of the Church, but here we have a distortion of the Church itself with all of its teaching."
"Sergianism itself is only one incarnate lie - it is spiritual emptiness and powerlessness. This is a lie with a capital letter, this is flattery before some, and seduction of others, it is truly a 'church of deceivers'. This is not the antichrist, but it is already his Anti-Church."
*Some believe that St. Mikhail, towards the end of his life, became the Catacomb Bishop, St. Mark of Sergiev.
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Archimandrite Constantine Zaitsev of Jordanville (pictured on the right):
"What is happening before our eyes is scary. So scary that a person naturally dismisses this nightmare, not giving faith to the most real evidence of reality, hiding behind all sorts of illusions, evading all sorts of speculation and evasion from its recognition.
None of the usual church concepts defining various deviations from the Truth cover this phenomenon. Not only must this be said about the ancient concepts of "illegal gathering", "schism" and "heresy", but even about the general concept of "Apostasy", in its still-manifested stages. “Church of the crafty” is, perhaps, the only concept that is capable of embracing the reality of the “Soviet Church”.
The Church - and at the same time not the Church: a "anti-church", with the prefix "anti" - (as in the word "Antichrist") embracing two meanings - warfare against the True Church and the substitution of the True Church. In other words, we have before us a phenomenon that gives rise to the most accurate semblance of the True Church, which, by its purpose, has a struggle with the True Church. What could be worse?"