understand each other, and not in order to destroy each other. Orthodox

At that time they bore witness to their faith very much, and the whole Catholic world and

The Protestant suddenly discovered that Orthodoxy exists, that it is not just

a variety, and a "spoiled" variety, of Western religions, and

that it has its own face, its own depths, and has something to say. Then, when we

got used to talking to each other, began to talk about the existing differences and about the

what divides us; And there was an interesting, lively period when we compared our

disagreements, and again, not in order to convert each other, but with the fact that

to inform each other and understand each other.

And then the ecumenical movement became (at least for me) much more

more difficult problem, because they stopped posing the main questions and began to

to expand membership and to do so, to reduce criteria and allow ambiguous

Language. At first, those who believed could participate in the ecumenical movement

into the Divinity of Jesus Christ and perceives Him as its Savior. Then we decided

to introduce a new base, which would be theologically "richer" and which

turned out to be like a quagmire. It was proposed: cannot participate,

A church that does not believe in the One God in the Three cannot be a member of the movement

Faces. And then trouble happened, because some churches are one of the

The Netherlands and one from Switzerland have written a statement that they are ready for this

wording, provided that it is not specified in any way that we want

to say when we speak of Persons: these can be real Persons, it can be