The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

await136 THE FAITH OF OUK FATHERS.and to explain to you my teaching, which followsthe steps of the Apostles I beseech younot to scorn my application. Do not slight mygray hairs Above all, I entreat you toteach me whether to put up with this unjustdeposition or not. I"For, your sentence.If you bid me rest in what has been determinedagainst me, I will rest, and will trouble no manmore. I will look for the righteous judgmentof our God and Saviour. To me, as AlmightyGod ismy Judge, honor and gloryis no object, but only the scandal that has been caused:for many of the simpler sort, especially thosewhom I have rescued from diverse heresies, considering the see which has condemned me, suspect that perhaps I really am a heretic, beingincapable themselves of distinguishing accuracy ofdoctrine." lJohn, Abbot of Constantinople, appeals from thedecision of the Patriarch of that city to Pope St.Gregory I., who reverses the sentence of the Patriarch.In 859, Photius addressed a letter to Pope Nicholas L, asking the Pontiff to confirm his election tothe Patriarchate of Constantinople. In consequenceof the Pope s conscientious refusal, Photius brokeoff from the communion of the Catholic Church,and became the author of the Greek schism.Here are a few examples taken at random from1Epist. 113.