#orthodoxy

I do not mean, my children in the Lord, that you should be blindly and irrationally obedient as some are to those who teach and supposedly assume spiritual authority for the sake (even if only slightly) of their ego and self-interest. No! But be careful, and if you see from us advice and counsels that are not consistent with the pure spirit of paternal discernment and the unerring prescriptions of the holy Church Fathers, you should not obey

St. Daniel of Katounakia

Saint Dumitru Monastery, a Romanian Orthodox Monastery in New York by Anthony Falsarella (CC BY-NC 4.0)