This sermon by Archbishop Chrysostom is an elucidation of what constitutes traditionalism in Orthodox Christianity,and what are the pitfalls a lot of traditionalists fall to.

Features of Traditionalism

1. Tradition consists of not just a mere confession of Orthodoxy,but it includes all that is demanded by the requisite practice and observance of the Faith,or orthopraxy(ὀρθοπραξία)

2. Traditionalism also includes adherence to the Sacred Canons and Divine Traditions of the Church (if not by their exactitude, at least in the desire for that perfect adherence and not in a spirit that seeks every reason to avoid perfect observance in the service of personal pleasure and unbridled worldliness)

Some problems that Orthodox traditionalists are plagued with

1. In their imaginations to be the 'defenders of the faith',and lacking charity, hospitality, and external social graces, they defile the very traditions that they imagine themselves to be defending,and often imagine they have the right to be fire-and-brimstone-ish.

2. A habit into snooping into the private lives of other practitioners of Orthodoxy and engaging in attitudes which turn out to be harassing

3. A crude kind of anti-intellectualism has surfaced—and wholly improperly and inappropriately—in the Church under the guise of Orthodox observance and traditionalism,in the 'only Church fathers are enough and literature of all other sort is the EEEEVIL' type. It would certainly behoove them to follow the instructions of St. Basil the Great in this regard

4. The Internet,along with its' anonymity,has also been 'an obscene and depraved public platform for discussion that is destroying minds and souls.' (It is noted,however,that the Internet is a 'a wonderful contemporary tool for intellectual resources, if rightly used.')