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Amados,

Thanks for the translation, I already posted the same one few days ago on this site which I started (Coverage of...).

But still waiting on the offical one, especially to what His Holiness Bartholomelow had to say.

G-d bless,

SPDundas
Deaf Byzantine

Dear CatholicNerd,

This IS really cool! In my memory Rome-Contantinople relations have improved dramtically. Since Pope Paul VI and EP Athenagoras I met in Jerusalem in 1965?? I don't believe this is a publicity move, but it is two Godly men who see the damage the separation of the two churches has brought to the church and non-Christians.

IMHO it is us the Latin and Greek local parishes who will make unity of Rome and Contaninople a reality. We need the kind of leadership that PJPII and the EP have given to us to get us off our duffs.

Christ is our peace,

Paul

I do not wish to be one who throws "gasoline" on fire, but I would like to ask.
How can the Church of Christ ever be divided?
Is it not by its very nature, One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic?
Is it not more of a matter of someone, returning to the unity of the Church?
Just some thoughts!
Stephanos I
"The saced mystery of the Church's unity."
The Church is one because of her source: "the highest exemplare and source of this mystery is the unity, in the Trinity of Persons, of one God, the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit." The Church is one because of her founder: for "the Word made flesh, the prince of peace, reconciled all men to God by the cross, restoring the unity of all in one people and one body. The Church is one because of her "soul": "It is the Holy Spirit, dwelling in those who believe and pervading and ruling over the entire Church, who brings about that wonderful communion of the faithful and joins them together so intimately in Christ that he is the principle of the Church's unity.
UNITY IS THE ESSENCE OF THE CHURCH .

AMEN!

That is why we really are one already, and this wall of separation that divides us is made up of nothing but purely human sin and pride. Thanks be to God that is is of the temporal order only!

That said, I still pray for the wall on earth to dissolve, that all might know and believe.

Sts. Peter and Paul, pray for us!

Tammy