Havana, February 13, 2016, 12:05 – REGNUM be ashamed of little faith! So, what it was difficult to conceive what happened. In Havana, we met the Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow. The world press reports first words spoken to each other Church leaders. “We are like brothers,” – Kirill greeted the pope. “Now everything will be easier,” – said the patriarch of this Francis. Later, talking to reporters, the pontiff explained that he was referring to, commenting on the signing of the Joint Declaration. “Now there will be many interpretations as well? A lot of. But this is not a sociological statement, this pastoral statement, two bishops met with the pastoral concern. And I would be happy, “- said the head of the Catholic Church. That’s what is remarkable: each other saw the two bishops, not the pope and the patriarch, a great reference to the days of the Apostles Peter and Paul, who did not know all these magnificent ecclesiastical titles that have appeared much later in the church world
Meeting. Francis and Cyril has two dimensions. The first, of course, political. On topics of importance were set as follows. We were brothers in the Christian faith. We must respond together to the challenges of the modern world. Put an end to the persecution of Christians and the wars in Syria and Iraq. Establish inter-religious dialogue. To counter growing threats to religious freedom. To be in solidarity with the poor and migrants. Attend to family crisis, neglect of life, one of which resulted in the spread of euthanasia becomes. There will be no proselytism and the Uniate Church. And I would like to see the world in Ukraine. But in general, the brothers – not competitors, and this concept Catholics and Orthodox should be guided in all its internal and interactions with the outside world.
The main fire is now raging in the Middle East, it threatens, according to many church leaders to develop into a world war, so that from a political point of view, of course, the attention of the majority will be paid to the pope words and the patriarch about this . On the eve of the dialogue in Havana in an interview with Vatican news agency Agenzia Fides Auxiliary Bishop of the diocese of the Latin rite in Syrian Aleppo George Abu Khazen he said: “Christians are to understand that their suffering does not fall into the void: meeting Francis and Cyril is seen as the fruit of their sufferings on the Cross. The suffering of Christians in the Middle East bears fruit Union. For us it is a great comfort, it helps us to move forward, even if we still have to suffer. ” But do not despair, even the inhabitants of Aleppo, which is now the Syrian army advances. According to the vicar, “regular army moves with the help of Russian, and in the liberated areas starting to recover water and electricity supply, open schools. In many situations, it gives the possibility of reconciliation with the Syrians, who were linked to rebel groups. A predominant appreciation for the role the public played Russian. ”
And these germs of life, making their way through the hot asphalt of the war, give grounds to speak of the metaphysical component of the launch of dialogue and restoration of the unity process between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church. With a light hand American historian at some point spread belief about the coming “end of history”. Secular people have convinced themselves that it really occurred and that it was good. But the man with the religious consciousness, especially the Christian, where others see lasting peace, says exactly the opposite trend. The end of history is both the end times, the end of life, all dried up and grow bigger nothing. But history – a piece artful, it is in the way in one place, it breaks elsewhere. For example, Pope Clement XIV in 1773 banned the Jesuits, and he was able to maintain itself in the Russian Empire, where he took care of Catherine the Great, to be reborn in 1814, when the new Superior General of the Society of Jesus was the Russian Jesuit Thaddeus Brzozowski. So today, Christians are expelled from the Middle East in the summer of last year, it seemed that they were already in Syria and Iraq did not help, but Moscow has come to the aid of Damascus, and again there was a timid, quiet hope that life will win in this region die.
Many of the church leaders as their forces are trying to delay the end of the story. Pope Francis and Patriarch Cyril decided to do it together, adding their efforts for a total of not two, but three. Not by chance the Pope shared his feeling from the meeting in Havana, that it besides the “six eyes” from each side attended the Holy Spirit. Pastoral care of the world in this case is the work of a gardener in a vineyard. Dry branches are cut out and burned to allow free space and vital force for a new life sprouts. In place of having in the past forms comes something else. Therefore, and for the Holy See, for the Moscow Patriarchate, as stated in the Declaration, “today it is evident that the method of” uniatizma “of past centuries, involving the reduction of one community in unity with the other by its separation from his Church, is not the way to the restoration of unity. At the same time, the ecclesial communities which have appeared as a result of historical circumstances, have the right to exist and to take all necessary to meet the spiritual needs of their faithful, striving for peace with its neighbors. ” Say more – require new forms and new definitions, the former word “ecumenism” is not quite suitable for the process of dialogue is now giving birth to the Churches.
No, talk about the end of history it is too early and premature. In today’s world, injured in the XX century authoritarian regimes and lies as a third force there is the Church. She experienced a lot, in the Soviet Union – General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, who had promised to show the citizens soon “last priest,” in Latin America – a dictator who supported “democracy lamp” and “leaders of the free world” from Washington. The vineyard gardeners came to clean it from the filth and disease. They are guided by historical constants, rather than variables, how much and what kind of political issues were not trying to sidetrack from the main trunk road.
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