SERBIAN
TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Hierarchical
Council
ENCYCLICAL
To
the Clergy, Monastics, and Faithful
Concerning
the Covid-19 Vaccine
“Come
out of her, my people,
That
ye be not partakers of her sins,
And
that ye receive not of her plagues…
-Rev. 18:4
Current events oblige us hierarchs, in the
name of a part of our fatherland’s Church which we represent, to take a stance
concerning the vaccines which are being forced on all of mankind as the only
salvation from the “deadly pandemic,” an infection of the respiratory tract
which has been named the Corona virus/Covid-19.
Our stance is based on the patristic, Orthodox perspective of current
events, events that resemble an especially dangerous period of the approach of
the end of the world. When making such
an analysis, one should be cautious, and wary of a paranoid perception of
various events, lightmindedly qualifying them as apocalyptic. On the other
hand, one should not go to the other extreme of dismissing as superstition or
conspiracy theories obvious apocalyptic similarities as important indicators as
to what stance we should take. Such a
dismissal could deceive us into going with the flow of apostasy.