I, Chriostomos Moussa Matanos Salama, by God's mercy, archbishop of the holy Syria Orthodox Church of antioquia at the archdioceses located in Brazil, at the following address: Comendador Street, Salamao #74 -- Belo Horizonte -- MG Brazil, proclaim this pastoral letter, to call for a convocation of archbishops, bishops, fathers, deacons and delegates from different orthodox communities in Brazil, in order to gather together for an  EXTRAORDINARY SYNOD (no date set yet), focusing on the issue of the Roman  document from the Holy Father, John Paul II, Successor of Peter the apostle, called DIES DOMINI, which exalts the Sunday as truly the day of the Lord because of Christ's resurrection -- a glorious event that took place THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, with many apparitions of the Lord of Life recorded in the New Testament.

I am going to give a broad explanation about this most important day which the world has known along the historic trajectory -- SUNDAY (KIRIAKE HERMERA) -- that will be studied in this HOLY SYNOD, along with the articles of the Association and Orthodox Apostolic Catholic Churches of the West, having the presence of patriarch, authorities from the Eastern Holy churches with the presence of our patriarch, His Holiness Don Elias IV and representatives from the patriarch Pinen of Russia and authorities of the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church through the ONBB (NationalConference of Bishops in Brazil).

1. We cannot tolerate the keeping of any other "day" by any other religion without the full knowledge of "His holiness." The catholic writers, John, Matthew, Mark and Luke do not mention any other day but the DAY OF THE LORD -- SUNDAY, the only day of the resurrection of Christ. That is why we cannot accept any other gospel. (Galatians 1:6-9.)

2. We cannot tolerate any belief in the keeping of any other "day" that is in accordance with the Bible and the holy tradition and liturgy. (Isaiah 1:13-14.)

3. We cannot tolerate Jews, Sabbatizers, Adventists, or any other sect that does not keep the day of the Lord, Sunday, and tries to lead the people to go into great erroneous theologies against the good moral customs created through the rich traditions of the Holy Church.

4. We cannot tolerate those who do not seek to understand or accept the precepts ordained by the Holy Father, the Pope, in regard to the day of the Lord's resurrection E2?" Sunday.

5. We cannot tolerate any agreement with Bible texts that are not explained by the Living Magistry (i.e. religious teaching authority) of the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church which will govern the world in fulfillment of the word of God from Genesis to Revelation.

6. We cannot tolerate any keeper of any other day but the Holy Sunday the main day of the resurrection of the eternal God. In virtue of this, we are obligated to fulfill the demands of the Divine oracles enforced by the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church -- which decides the destiny of mankind.

7. We cannot tolerate the transgressors of the Holy day -- Sunday. In this case they will receive judicial penalties through the Justice Court to stop and restrain the liberty of conscience of those who are disobedient to the laws imposed by Rome, according to the supremacy of the Pope -- Advocate of the Divine Laws. He who judges, but cannot be judged.

8. Due to the intolerance of the transgressors, we will ask, through the United States of America, to punish drastically the disobedient who came from 1844, who have taken to their fold our Catholic people that are ignorant about the motives of the transgressors. Our fold, through fear of the law, is joining under the Millerite farce (i.e. sabbatizing). These Millerites seek to contradict the holy pope with spurious doctrines, like the observance of  the Sabbath day and the non-immortality of the soul, which are the principal pillars of their heresies.

9. We will not tolerate those transgressors. We will ask the American authorities to take the transgressor's possessions, like publishing houses, their orphanages, their schools, and this needs to be done with holy urgency in order to completely finish with this deception (i.e. farce).

A reader did some checking on the above letter, and below is what he found.  He states the Dies Domini did not come out until 1998, so this document must not have been written by this Bishop.  There is a possibility that Dies Domini was around in circulation for years before it was published, so one will never know for sure.  But this does prove that this person did exist, but the above letter was in Spanish, translated in Germany, and then it came to America where it was translated into English.  It is possible there were some changes during translation, so take as an interesting document.
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Subject:  Re: Verify credentials of an archbishop
Archbishop Moussa Salama, was our archbishop in Brazil. He passed away about
seven years ago.

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>   Subject: Verify credentials of an archbishop
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> I have read an article supposedly written by an archbishop of your church,
but am doubtful of its authenticity. Could you confirm the credentials of
this person?
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> According to the article:
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> 1) His name is Crisostomos Moussa Matanos Salama
> 2) His title is archbishop of the holy Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioquia
at the archdioceses located in Brazil
> 3) His address is Comendador Street, Salamao #74, Belo Horizonte--MG
Brazil
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> Thank you for your assistance.
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