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I totally agree with him that the Divine Liturgy must certainly have helped those under the yoke of Communism perservere. It maintains a sense of mystery much as the Older Form of the Traditional Latin Mass does.
Also, it doesn’t take a Liturgist to see that the two forms of the Liturgy are much closer than the Kumbaya Masses we often see (even from each other)
That said, while I am always glad to see a thawing of relations he seems to overlook the joint Catholic-Orthodox statement on Uniatism and overlooks the fact that the Eastern Ukraine was intentionally depopulated of Ukrainian Catholics by the Soviet government.
Unfortunately, while things seem to be going well with the Greek Church and the Ecumenical Patriarch, there may not be any similar progress made under the current Russian Patriarch.