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Daer brother's.

This infighting amongst ourselves is a waste of time.

We need to pray for the Pope and our leaders to work things out.

You Know, Kolo, I remember the beautiful prayer you sent me awhile back when my mother was sick.

This is what's important.

Love is the abridgment of all theology!

I wish you both a blessed evening

SFA, you are confusing our stand with lack of love. We love you (our Catholic brothers). If we didn't we wouldn't talk to you. When I was in Lynchburg, Va. a year ago, there were only two Catholic churches (one traditional and one kind of a "clownish" type). I didn't think there would be any Orthodox churches nearby, because all other "churches" were Protestant/Baptist (over 200 of them!).

On Sunday morning I knew where I would go—the traditional Catholic service. That was a given. When I asked the front desk manager of my hotel for directions, I also asked about nearest orthodox churches and the tols me there was one right in town, St. George's (my patron saint!), whose priest (Fr. George!) had long retired in North Carolina but comes every weekend to care for the retirees in various homes and to serve the Divine Liturgy. So I ended going there, naturally, but I am sure I would have felt right at home in the Catholic church.

We really have no personal gripe against the Catholics. We believe what we have believed and prayed for the last 1,700 years (that's as far as out records can go). We were the same Church then, sharing the same faith.

But that a bygone. We are not going to give up our unchanged faith for our unity with Rome. Not because we don't love you, or because we hold grudges, but because your Church is alien, indeed unrecognizable, to us, and most of all because we no longe rprofess the same faith because that's what you cnose to do.

So, when you express desire to reunion, we think you want to return to your Latin Patristic roots, and the faith we once shared in common. There can be no other way. We are not asking you to become Greeks. :)