Posted on 03/29/2007 8:08:40 AM PDT by kawaii
29 March 2007, 15:24 Canonical conflict over Bishop Basil Osborn’s going over to Constantinople settled - Metropolitan Kirill
Moscow, March 29, Interfax - The problem over Bishop Basil Osborn’s moving to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople has been canonically settled completely, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, chairman of the department for external church relations, told journalists commenting on the Holy Synod’s decision of March 27.
‘The problem arose because Bishop Basil went over to Constantinople illegally, without any request from Constantinople and without any consent from the Moscow Patriarchate. Now Constantinople has requested his documents, which customarily include a letter of release. This means that the Moscow Patriarchate has granted Bishop Basil a canonical leave’, Metropolitan Kirill explained as cited by Blagovest-Info on Thursday.
Thus, he added, the resolution of this ‘canonical misunderstanding’ is a result of the meeting held in winter in Geneva between a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and a delegation of the Russian Church led by the DECR chairman.
‘We let Bishop Basil go. Now he will legally represent the Church of Constantinople. It will be possible to concelebrate with him’, Metropolitan Kirill said.
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Excellent, irenic resolution.
and the sort of thing we should see during lent.
Just asking.
Or "sailing to Byzantium"?
;)
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
That child could write a pome, coudn'he?
He certainly could!
That he could, that he could. When I am in my best Rumpolian form before a jury of some client's peers, I like to quote Yeats, and this poem in particular if the jury be "of an age".
Its a damnable shame that children aren't taught poetry anymore. Maybe that's one of the reasons society has become so coarse and common these days.
The 'orrible brat child bankrupted us by going to a private school (K-8) which was full of assemblies and performances and recitations and whatnot. I'll never forget a dramatized production of Horatio at the Bridge. And then to hear one of the 8th grade boys doing "I know a bank where the wild thyme grows" in a class production of Midsummer Nights Dream? AWESOME!
Meantime at the local gummint school they were teaching 4th grade girls go-go dancing!
"I'll never forget a dramatized production of Horatio at the Bridge. And then to hear one of the 8th grade boys doing "I know a bank where the wild thyme grows" in a class production of Midsummer Nights Dream? AWESOME!"
SUBLIME! Future doctors, lawyers and business leaders, one may hope.
"Meantime at the local gummint school they were teaching 4th grade girls go-go dancing!"
Future fecund Medicare patients and court appointment clients for the newly admitted to practice on.
Why hasn't Kaliningrad dropped it's Communist name and gone back to Koenigsberg?
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
All of their songs sound like they were written for gay people.
Well considering that Koenigsberg is the German name and there's only .87% Germans left there it would seem odd to use the German name. Mosre than 90% of the country are ethnic slavs (meaning the Russian name makes more sense to them) and 82% are ethnic Russians.
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