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I found this article very pleasing to read. It made me feel that there is still hope for our churches to unite.God bless these men and may He enlighten them and show them the path to unity.
You will find the article at:
www.ukrainianorthodoxchurchusa.org/news/Encounter-Eng.shtml [ukrainianorthodoxchurchusa.org]
Lauro

The hierarchs have met before, but not in these numbers. All of the active American UGCC and UOC bishops were present. May the Holy Spirit guide their efforts. Signs like this and the joint Moleben between Patriarch Lubomyr and Patriarch Filaret are encouraging. Both Metropolitans, Orthodox and Catholic, I noticed were wearing their white klobuks. Eis Polla Eti, Despota!

This is surely good news.

Sounds great to me! Maybe the rest of Orthodoxy and the various Catholic sui juris Catholic Churches can learn something...maybe even Rome can learn something from this meeting! Don

Dear Friends,

Yes, this is good news!

But the underlying reasons for this and other meetings and celebrations in common between the Ukie Orthodox and Catholics go beyond "ecumenical" considerations, to be sure.

They are meeting because the Ukies know that the only real friends they have are . . . themselves.

Their meetings have NOTHING whatever to do with Orthodox-Catholic rapprochement.

They have everything to do with internal Ukrainian Church healing in the realization that only Ukrainians themselves can build a common future together for themselves.

Rome is telling the UGCC that it should relate only to the "canonical" Orthodox (read: Moscow Patriarchate). And world Orthodoxy is basically saying that the UOC-KP and the UAOC are in schism and they must reunite with "canonical Orthodoxy" (read: Moscow Patriarchate).

It is high time the Ukrainian Church came together as one, with or without the "canonical" Churches that have only served to divide it in the past.

Alex

Dear Alex, Diak, et al:

As we say "po nashomu": sorochka blyzhcha jak kozhuch! (Translation: the shirt is closer to the skin than the fur).

Yours,

kl

Then again, one might say "rubashka svoia blizhe k tielu". Incognitus