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