Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Transaction
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
The real meaning of ecumenism.
The ecumenical movement was born out of the consciousness of a relatively small group
people that Christians had separated so long ago and had ceased to communicate so long ago that
They have ceased to understand each other at all, and that it is necessary to create some kind of
organization, a place where Christians of different faiths will not meet with
criticizing or tearing each other apart, and in front of each other
to bear witness to what they have learned over the centuries about God, they have learned about life,