Over at the
website of our General Curia in Rome one can download the latest edition of BICI an international internal Capuchin publication. On page three there is a report of an official visit by a number of Conventual Franciscans to Mount Athos with the blessing of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch. This was in response to an invitation from the Monastic Republic after two of its monks visited Assisi. The friars attended the Divine Liturgy, and engaged in discussions and meetings with the monks. The friars visited a number of monasteries and sketes (Monastic villages) in particular Simonospetros and Vatopediou as well as the capital Karyes. You can read the full story
here.
Above are the friars with one of the monks. It brings back memories of my own visits back in 2005. Perhaps those days contributed in some way to this day?
I was taking the photo! I add here a few pics of Athos in celebration of these developments:
May these meetings flourish and the breach between East and West be healed. May our Holy Church breath again with both lungs!
1 comment:
Amen! Christianity faces an all out assault from multiple sides: modern deviant culture, Islam, New age sects, atheism, internal strife and "bad grapes", alienation of the people. We need to make our family united again.
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