Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Transaction
accepted the prayers, the bloodless sacrifice of this priest, because he
He was honestly mistaken—in his head, but not in his life, not in his heart, not in his faith, and
He was simply unable to understand with his head what was being said.
I am now talking about the consciousness of the Church, and not about the historicity of this case; I
I see no reason not to trust its authenticity, but that is not the point. Story
talks about how the Church perceived this. This point is clear here: man
he can be mentally mistaken and be pure in heart. Christ says: all blasphemy,
which shall affect the Son of Man shall be forgiven" (Matthew 12:32). Virtually
blasphemy is the limit, but up to this limit all misunderstanding, all distortion,
All mistakes that we can make mentally can be forgiven. Can't
to say goodbye to something else that relates to our deepest gut. And that's why I
I don't think that anybody would just be outside, that the mystery of God, the knowledge
God's things are unattainable for external man.
Tell us more about Orthodox witness in the Christian world on
West. What is ecumenism?
It is the striving of Christian confessions to become one Church: and therefore
at the very center, at the heart of the ecumenical movement, stands the Gospel, the word of Christ,
Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ. This is a very important point, because
The ecumenical movement is not an attempt by any diplomatic means
to overcome the differences or disunity of the Christian Churches, this is an attempt to
grow into the Gospel so that suddenly it turns out that we are all one in Christ. Here