[Mount Athos]

Maybe it means exactly what he said, and not all the bogus stuff you made up and falsely attributed to him, in a spirit of defamatory anger.

[utahagen]

I agree that the Patriarch was speaking matter-of-factly, i.e., "Our churches will talk again when you are done with the business that understandably absorbs you at the moment." I take the message of condolence as a very positive sign about thawing between the Western and Eastern churches.