Consequences Have Arrived

On December 18, 2025, six individuals received cease and desist letters from legal counsel representing the the Temporary Trusteeship of St. Sava Cathedral.

The recipients are not random parishioners. They are the core organizers of the ongoing disruption, individuals who have trespassed on church property after being asked to leave, harassed the faithful entering for Divine Liturgy, blocking a priest from serving the Divine Liturgy, and published defamatory content through an anonymous blog.

Predictably, they are now claiming victimhood.

But consider: the Trusteeship's legal counsel has reviewed the conduct in question and concluded there are sufficient grounds for action. These letters are not persecution, they are a formal response to behavior that the Trusteeship believes crossed lines.

There is also a glaring contradiction. These same individuals claim to have filed canonical appeals to the Holy Synod in Belgrade, while simultaneously threatening civil lawsuits against the bishop and diocese. You cannot demand the Church respect your appeals while dragging her into secular court. That is not faithfulness to canonical order. That is leveraging whatever system seems convenient.

The Church has been patient. The faithful have been harassed. And now the legal system has been engaged, not to silence anyone, but to establish that actions have consequences.

Yet the Liturgy continues. The doors remain open. Even to them, if they choose to enter as faithful, not as schismatics.

Read the full series on the St. Sava Cathedral situation: Blog