Friday, 24 April 2009

“I was particularly keen on our pilgrimage having its happy conclusion just in this visit to the Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church”. With these words, card. Dionigi Tettamanzi, archbishop of Milan, spoke today to Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, whom he met at the end of his journey in Turkey with 100 young Milanese priests: “I would like to point out that a telling and bright sign of the excellent ecumenical relations between the Catholic and the Orthodox Church has undoubtedly been His personal attendance of the Episcopal Synod of the Catholic Church on God’s Word, which was held in Rome last October. We appreciated a lot the richness and depth of the spiritual and doctrinal contents of His...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009

Here is the homily the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Michel Sabbah, gave today, Easter Sunday, at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him". Mary Magdalene has lost track of Her Lord and is panicked; she and many others as well. How very many people are seeking the Lord and yet not finding Him in politics, economics, international justice, and constitutions of so-called modern Christian countries. It is just as Mary Magdalene said: "they have taken the Lord, and we do not know where they have put him."
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009

A meditation of His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, on the occasion of Holy Easter by Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
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