A picture is worth a thousand words...

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I think this picture expresses very well how we should interact with our Orthodox brothers and sisters. It almost brings a tear to my eye :bighanky:

https://www.trustedpartner.com/images/library/000139/News/Pope w Patriarch.jpg

I want for us to be back together again terribly bad. It’s almost like a heart break I never really knew about. If you get the chance after reading this, pray that we might come back into unity again. Love bears all things ❤️
 
Hey lets do this with the gays to so we can finally work on problems that matter.
 
Great picture and great thoughts. God bless you for posting this.
I fear this is in the same basket as solving the Middle East but time is not of the essence here.
 
Thank you.

I have an Orthodox church 2 blocks from me and an Eastern Rite Catholic church about 1/2 hr away. I spoke to the Orthodox priest about participating in Liturgy and receiving the sacraments.

OUR catechism states the Orthodox are our brothers (their priests are taught the same as Catholic, the Orthodox Consecration is the same as our…etc) and though we should not “seek them out” the Catholic church accepts the Orthodox sacraments valid (this is by John Paul II’s Catechism). However, they dont feel the same way about us. The orthodox priest says that I can attend mass (and he said he had many Ukrainian Catholics who attend mass there) but we cannot receive the sacraments as per his Bishop’s rule.

Maybe its just this locale, because you might find that in most major cities (where I live not is not a major city) Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches are usually within blocks of each other and if you missed Liturgy in one, you went to the other.

I believe the Catholic church has offered their hand to the Orthodox but that the Orthodox have not yet accepted it and reciprocated.
 
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