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The Ecumenical Patriarchate disagrees.
I urge you in the strongest terms to familiarize yourself with these documents.
Here is an excerpt:
“This dialogue – through the Joint International Commission – has proved fruitful and has made substantial progress. A common sacramental conception of the Church has emerged, sustained and passed on in time by apostolic succession. In our Churches, the apostolic succession is fundamental to the sanctification and unity of the People of God. Considering that in every local Church the mystery of divine love is realized and that this is how the Church of Christ shows forth its active presence in each one of them, the Joint Commission has been able to declare that our Churches recognize one another as Sister Churches, responsible together for safeguarding the one Church of God, in fidelity to the divine plan, and in an altogether special way with regard to unity.”
That’s an explicit declaration from the highest authority in Orthodoxy that the Catholic Church is a valid Apostolic Church, and a sister Church in the One Church of Christ. We are not two different Churches, rather we are two parts of the One Church who are in an irregular situation for the present time where intercommunion is not routinely practiced.
It’s not our fault if many Orthodox are not aware of these statements or refuse to accept them.
https://www.patriarchate.org/dialog...4&_101_INSTANCE_xPOzhhZ0zKIa_andOperator=true
The language of this document is NOT the language of the hyperdox. I am sure the hyperdox would simply write this off as the ramblings of an ecumenist heretic.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate disagrees.
I urge you in the strongest terms to familiarize yourself with these documents.
Here is an excerpt:
“This dialogue – through the Joint International Commission – has proved fruitful and has made substantial progress. A common sacramental conception of the Church has emerged, sustained and passed on in time by apostolic succession. In our Churches, the apostolic succession is fundamental to the sanctification and unity of the People of God. Considering that in every local Church the mystery of divine love is realized and that this is how the Church of Christ shows forth its active presence in each one of them, the Joint Commission has been able to declare that our Churches recognize one another as Sister Churches, responsible together for safeguarding the one Church of God, in fidelity to the divine plan, and in an altogether special way with regard to unity.”
That’s an explicit declaration from the highest authority in Orthodoxy that the Catholic Church is a valid Apostolic Church, and a sister Church in the One Church of Christ. We are not two different Churches, rather we are two parts of the One Church who are in an irregular situation for the present time where intercommunion is not routinely practiced.
It’s not our fault if many Orthodox are not aware of these statements or refuse to accept them.
https://www.patriarchate.org/dialog...4&_101_INSTANCE_xPOzhhZ0zKIa_andOperator=true
The language of this document is NOT the language of the hyperdox. I am sure the hyperdox would simply write this off as the ramblings of an ecumenist heretic.
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