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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLTC & FORETGN RELATTONSof the

S Y N O D O F B I S H O P SOF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOXCHURCHOUTSIDE OF RUSSIA

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EVENTS rN THE LrFE OF THE RLI_q_IAN RTHODqX_ HURCH OUTSTDE OF RUSSTAThe Trans lat iqn of the ReI iSe__of the New-martyrs in Gethsemane

rn accordance with the decision of the Council of Bishops and the decree of the Synodof Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the transtation of the re-lics of the new-martyrs, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth and her faithful attendant, the nunBarbara, who were slain in Alapaevsk j-n 1918, took prace in,C,ethsemane. These tr,lomartyrs represent thenillionsofRussj-answho suffered at the hands of the godless, weretortured and slaj-n during the r"egin'es of Lenin and Stalin. The rennins of the trop newmarLyrs were first transferred to Peklng, and rater, to,vards the end of 1920, were conveyeon a British warship to Palestine and taken. to Jerusalem, ule.re they were soiemnry net bytLre Patriarch of Jerusatem and ranking officials of the British aCninistration. The bodiewere interred within a crlpt at the church of St. Ilary Nlagdaleneof the Russian Eccresias-ticar }fi-ssion in Jerusalem. Late last year, on I xoven'bei tggt, at thre catLredral at tlresynod's headguarters in New York, the Russian orthodox church outside of Russia solemnlyglorified the new martyrs of Russia, afl)ng vrlrose nunJcerare the above- npntioned two. On1aY1, L982, the relics of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth and the nun Barbara were renpvedfrom the cr1pt and ptaced within the church of St. Ir,Iary egdarene.Fourhierarchsrmembers of ttre Couircil of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church O-rtsideof Russia, arrJ-ved in Jerusalem to attend the cereronies and to participate in the trans-latron of the relics. They were: Archbishop Anttrony of ros Angeles; arlhbishop paur ofSydney, Australia & New Zealand; Archbishop Laurr:s of syracuse & Trlnlty; and Bishop Greg-ory of washington a Florida. They were assisted by six archpriests and priests, and fourprotodeacons and deacons, frqn E'urope, America and Austraria.or the hierarchs' arrivar they were qreetecl by Archj:nandrite Anthony, head of the Rus-sian EcClesi-astical lri isSiOn in Jenrsatem- and hrr the c't errnr and glgnastiCs Of the VariOUsnxrnasteries. The following day,-il;-#.;";i";=.I'Io3'nl'#iarchate by His BeariLude,Patriarch Diodorus, in the patriarchar ttrrone rocrn. His Beatitude welccrnearr. derega-tion warmly and began his address of welcone saying: "your arrival here i-s sacred, as sac-red as the canonization of the nervmartyrs, for it-concerns people who have suffered nrar-tyrdon for the sake of orttrodoxy: " - He subseguentry rernarked-hcnpgrreat the significarrce ofmartyrdcrn is in our days and that the canoniiation of martyrs has always been the duty ofttte Church, and that, therefore, politics does not enter into the matter, for it is veryrarely in accord with tJ:e word of truth.The Patriarch further drew attention to the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church Or:t-side of Russia for special reasons finds herself outsicle her honeland, but tl.at the Churchin Russia daily preseqts us with new nr,artyrs and that nr-irlions of people follo,v in thefootsteps of the newmartyrs, the Tsar and Grand Duchess Elizabeth. i'And*e," said HisBeatitude, "carrl.}ot renrain unaffected by such an event-the canonizationcf the new martyrsand its celebration wtrich is being held withj-n the territory of our jurisdiction. There-fore, we have decided to bear witness to our Orthodox unity arrd by this officiat act toacknowledgre its canonicity." His Beatitude Patriarch olodorus enaea hj-s welccxning addresswith an expression of hope that t].e blood of the rnartyrs which has been poured out will beas a fresh spring which will abr:ndantly water the tree of orttrodo>V, and that through theprayers of all thre new martyrs, we may be strenqthened in r-unity and in Truth.Archbishop Anthony warmly thanked the Patriarch on behalf of the Russian hierarchs forhis words of understanding and for his decision to participate in the celebration of thetransfer of the relics of the newnartyrs.; and eisirop Cregory briefly outlined for HisBeatitude the views of the Russian orthodox Church outside-of Russia on sofi.re n:ci-a1 is-srles upon which the patriarch had touched in his address.

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-z-Pat r ia rchDiodorus t } renaf fec t ionate lybadefarewel l toa l l t heh ierarchsandc}ergywho had arrived for the celebratiorr, .rdpresented each with three red-dyed eggs'or the forrcxring day, Saturo"v,i'pray,

-the vigir sen/1c: Pg* at 3 p'm' at GethsemaneThe church and the entrance to the crypt were .1.io,,-t"a with f rowers, and carpets had beenlaid thr"oughout-tr,".r,.och and uro.r.dit outsid"- at exactly three o'crock the officiarderegation arrived fron the patriarchate. rts menrberswere: Gennanos, Metropolitan ofpetra a,.,dhead of the patriarchate,s Deparbnent oi g"ternal Affairs; cOrnerius, Archbishopof Sebastiar Daniel, Archrbishop of Tabo;; and Archima.drite Timothy' Generaf Secretary ofthe patriarchate. The n,^_mb"rsof the official deregation ryerg joined by ArchiJoishopAm-brose of Neapolis and Alchjmandrite

Theodosius, i #n6tt of the Holy S1'r-rcd; lso presentwere Archi:nandrite Theodoulos, rector of the Tombof the Theotokos, Archimandrite Kyriakosrector of the church of the H.t;;;;r"r,t", ana nranyottters. Russian pilqrims arrived toattend the soremnities rrom aneiica, switzerrand, ri"""9, Bergir-rnn'Gelrnanyand Austraria'Theywere3o inedbymanyGreek . , . ,aa 'uror thodox ,Chr is t ians .Thechurchhe ldhr :ndredsof*"ll'*e appointed inre, th transrati?'" of,th:-I":l:: :11T::""9*,:-oi:"ce in a trunphant procession aror.ind the church' Despite the fact that such services are but rarelyperforn,ed, arr went snoothly. our hierar.rr, .',J'the Greek delegation folrowed directry bhind the sewrng crergy. The intensity of spirituar feeting was so great that nnny pre-sent, including the Greeks, remarkea tirat they ielt as though they irid cerebrated a seconPascha.on the following day, the S'nday of the Myrrh-bearing \'{onen' the coffins of the new mtyrs were again borne ir-, pro".ssio. uro*d the "r-r"i.r"t,

irtut the liturgY' and were there-after enshrlned to the left of the iconostasis 'A t t h e m e a t w h i c h f o L r o w e d t h e s e r v i c e , D l e t r o p o r i u n c ' e m a : o s o f P e t r a , h e a d o f t h epatriarchal deregatron, conveyed the btesst"g u"a-;.."1t"q" of His Beatitude the Patriarchand expresseo tr,e wish ttrat the new martyt. c.-,J Duchess-Erizabeth and tlre nun Barbaraintercede for the peace or the vihole worid anc for the peace of the church of sion and

oall the Churches of C'od'Bishop Greqorv's Jtrjcilee Celebration

on saturday, B }4ay (N.S.), a banquet was held in honor of His Grace Bishop Gregory' tmark his compretion of fifty years of =urur.e in the chancery of ttre synd of Bishops ofthe Russian orthodox church outside of Russra. This a..iversary, which actually tookpJ

Iast August, was postponed =o'u" not to interfere with the prep.araticns for ttre CouncilBishops meeting and the sot errrrities attendunt Jiot C" gr"tif itation of the

new nrartyrs"'"f;l=::?J:.H#ffL':tfi'?i:'drvine ritgrsv'-whicfr 1?lop resory-concerebratisixteen prresrs a.c fcur deacons. rnrnediatery"aiter. t1-e ]1tuiw, His Eminence the lletropolitan orriciatea at a :.,oreben-or thanksgivi;g in which the serving clerg:y and priestsfrom outryrng parishes also p"fti.i-puted.- af#r the noreben, the t'letroporii:an greetedBishop cregory rvith word= or gtulitra" for-his long-standing service to the Holy ChurchArchr'ishop Seraphim of chi-cagJl tor,oarrived especlitty to attend the celebration' arsouil?::1;.'H| ; fT:;tff ii|n*"nte rraverredhe thirry nr,ires? tl" virlaseorNyack, where a banquet t = ptup.iua i" ifte ftaif of the parish of the Holy Protection'During the neal, a numbetor =i"."hui *ur. a"ii""i"a by pronr-inentneudrersof the Russiaqcnmunlty , Eheessenceof manyof which ryy: ;;aps,'Gst be sunurarized y the follorinextract from the congraturarori gieeting or-trri-"or',u."i.i.= "f q" synod':^T?:=*ries inthe Boston area: "Long ago, hoty I'laster-, even before you so paternally received our filoteries into the bosom of the noiy O-t"1ch erroad,-*-,t rrr.d hiqhry your talented theorogical mind, your }ove for the ""*i". of the church of christ arro your literary

works infense of thre truth of the Orthodox Faith' "Iru conclusion, V}adyka Gregory tharr]

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A lvarningThe chancery of the Synod of Bishops has begun to receive a newspaper entitled "TheOrbhodox American, " published in Lexington, Kentucky.Trrrzina:mr'i-nfsd itself with its contents, the Deparbnent of Rrblic a Foreign Rela-tiorrs is hereby warrlhg all into whose hands tlris periodical finds its way, that, althoughits banrrer-head is adorned with tr,,o Orthodox crosses and it uses the word "Orttrodox" in'ir-q J-iilro l-hic nsl45paper is published by a group of individuals which has nothing in ccm-n'on rqith Orthodoxy.

A Card from the Trinityt. Serqir-rs Lavrarnha ^h:nrc^'of the Synod of Bishops has received from tlre U.S.S.R. a photographic cardconstituting a reproduction of a proclamation which has been cjrculated an'Dng pilgrims toJ-ha Trinirrr-Q1- Sergius Lavra by someone, apparently as an antidote to the ecunenism oftl.e Patriarchate of l'loscow.- al- rl'ra rnn a ihe card are j-cons of the Savior, ttre tlother of C,od, St. John the Baptist,and two archangels. fts content is as follows:Aqainst the Introduction of Novelties in the Orttrodox paithA Canon of the Sixth Ec'umenical Council: "By divine grace we decree that the Faith whichir,as in exempt fiom any and every innovati-on and mut-ilation just as it has been delivered to us by those who have been both eye-i,vitrresses andservants of tJ:e Word, the God-bearing apostles, and further by the holy and blessed fathers

in ltlin:oa /-nncl;3llinople, Ephesus, and. elsewhere". He that overturns the dogmas and canon v v l r y \of the holy pastors and teachers, overthrrows the Church itselfr without them it cannot ex-1st (Worksof the Venerable lu{acarius, VoI. I, p. 34). Frcm innovations are worrt to arisedivers heresies arrd schisms, frcm which nrayChrist presewe all the Orthodo4g (the ElderPaisy Velichkovsky) . Let us preserf/e not a-nythinq that is an innovation , but the Churchrstraditions which have been establishe

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-4-relations between the cosrmnist regi:ne and representatj-ves of the Church in Yugoslavia.Assaults on the Church began long ago, but becane particuJ-arly sharp in Septenber of198I, when Politica, the principal newspaper of Yuqoslavia, printed a bitingly criticalarticle on Orthodox bishops who, it alleges, "are vety active in trying to resurrect dark-nocc :nd e c{.:fa of dangerous religious segreqation." Over the next few nonths fourn.ioql-c \'7aro affested for "disturbing pubtic order and peace throuqh creating religiousintolerance and acting from religious-nationalistic lrcsitions. "TVacpriests, Peter Lukic and Mihajlo Petric, were sentenced to two nonths in prison.AII four priests belonged to the so-called "movement of pilgrims", founded by ttre ever-menorable Bishop Nikolaj Veljndrovic. The arrested priests had been disseminating theLectures of Bishop Nikolaj recorded on tape.The newspaper reports that in July of last year, Patriarch German visited Veseline Cjur-anovic, president of the Federal C,overnment, to dlscuss the sltrration of churches, monas-teries and the clerg"y in the Kosovo region, where many abuses had taken place on tlre basisof nationalisrn. The authorities have been markedly disturbed by the rebirth of,nationalspirit anong the Serbs.Ar{-hrvrnqr +he newspaper of the Patriarchate of Serbia, in its #I5 (April) issue, re-l s r v e v l / , s .mrFq nn rho .ilnificant return of the Serbain Orthodox people to the Church. Thus, Dea-con Ljubomir Rankovic mentions that in ttre diocese of Shabacko-Va1jevo, with its Ortho-dox populace of 500,000, 150,000, i .e. a fuI l third, recerved Ccnrnr.rnionur ing the f irstweek of the Great Fast. On Friday, Satrirday and Sunday, in tJ.e city of Vatjevo alone,oialrroan lil-arc of wine were needed, as weII as fiftykiloq ra,ns of flour for prosphora.m1 ^ ^ ^ ^ * . ; ^ ^ 1 ^ ^ ^ ^r.r e Sclvrue ucydrl at 5:00 a. m., but at noon there stil l was a long line stretching fo rfifty meters around the church, of those who were approaching the holy chalice.Varr'lTrr rrarr lfig number of church attenders and ccnnrunj-cants grows perceptibly, andthrs is particularly noticeable arrnng the younger generation. During passion week in thecama \7^liarrn +ens of thousalds of the faithful cane to bow dorvn before the epitaphiont n l e q h n h a n ' i l . q : )\ r - 4 v . r v a s r + w s / .Just the contrary to what one finds in the Soviet Union, in Serbia there is no lackof churches. Judging from the Herald of the Patriarchate of Serbia, nranyold churches andnonasteries are belng renovated, and new churches are being built as welI.For those who are acqualnted with the conparatively lukeq,narm view of the Church ccrmonaltn'ro the Serhs befOfe W61'ld Waf TT- these f icnrreq ArF \zor17 crnnfnrf inn, s r e u e 4 : ' u r u r s r v v v r j v v l r r v s r r r : J .Oppression of Reliqion.in the U.S.S.R.

The Wanderer newspaper, in its l4ay 6 issue, reSrcrts that a raid rvas conducted in lulrsmwby the KGB on a number of believers. It is considered that searches were also conductedj-n the honnesof fifty "samizdat" readers and writers; ecclesiastical l-iterature anC iconswere confiscated.Bibles, icons and spiritual books were confiscated from throse arrested: Victor Byrdiug,Qa'-ai Errzrrrnrr Nikolai Blokhin, Alexander Sidorov and Senqei Bychkov. No forma] chargesv l Y v r e q w r v v ,t^nro rarrnaA an=i-n5l the arrested, but it is well known. o all that in such cases dissidentsare usually accttsed of anti-Soviet activity. Eight other people h/ere arrested, but theirnans are not knor,ut-1.In July of 1977, Burdiug, Budarov and Blokhin signed two joint letters in defense ofAlexander Arg:entov, who was lncarcerated in a psychiatric hospital for his reJ-igious c-on"i^ ia*^ ^-r ^ the same ti-ne Bychkov sigrned a letter in defense of Fr. Dj:ri-itri Dudko. u Llvt lD , o.t lu o, (The Pascal Epistle of Patriarch Demetri-os of Co@tinople

Patriarch of Constantlnople has addres-corr a nrcnl'r>t ^cistle to his flock virich is scattered throughout ttre world. It pight seemthat there is in this nothing out of the ordinary, even though in the fj-rst third the Pat-rlarch turns "with great joy from the Great Church" not only to his Orthodox flock, butaLso to "all those who betieve in the Resurrection of Christ; and beyond even all those whhave not known and who yet await Resurrectlon. "Then the Patriarch passes on to the nrost important objective of his epistle. He statesthat in the course of the current year, the Patriarchate of Constantinople witl finallyconvoke a Second Prosynodical Panorthodox Conference, which wiII anticipate the "Greatand Holy Synod. "Thls Conference is finally to work out the previously deliberated and elaborated ques-t-innc nr conaral ecclesiastical interest which have been discussed "i-n a pa-northodox man-

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ner.'r The agenda includes a study of the question of hcx,^/o arrange the celebration ofholy Pascha so that it coincides with the celebration of heterodox Easter, designatingfor this a comnion Surday in the nronth of April for which it is necessary to find a solu-f inn rrar t-ho mraslisn of the celebration of holy Pascha, in fai-thfulness to the decisionof the First Ectrnrenical Council at Nicaea of ttre undivided Church of Christ and in harrnonywith the contemporary scientific astrononr-Lcal facts, which will permi-t a]l Christians al lover the world to gJ-orify the Resurrection on the sane Sunday" (which, as a fixed feastday,will not change-our note) ."Our Orthodox Church has faithful]y preserved uotil today the traditiorr of the FirstEcunenical Council at Nicaea that Pascha be celebrated on the Sunday after the first fu'}Inoon after the verr\al eguiqox. But even as thre First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea, withits scientific sensitivity, asked in setting the definition of the astronomical factors theopinion and the contribution of the astronomical center of that tlme, Alexandria, with thesame sensitivity our Church today has asked of two special lleetings, which were organizedby the Secretariat of the Preparation of the Synod, the contribution of contemporary astro-nonr-ical science. In this way, aII of the preparatory work is conplete so that the corningProsynodical Conference may make decisions by which our Orthodox Church will be able to of-fer her servi-ce in the sacred matter of ttre connton celebration of Pascha by aII Christians,always wi-thin the confines of those things decided by the First Esumenical Council at Ni-caea. t tIn closing his letter, the Patriarch recalls the words of St. Constantine, the Equal ofthe Apostles, vdro expressed to the Cor-rncil his desire that Pascha be celebrated by everyonesjmultaneously. The ecumen:-cal Patriarch has nerely forgotten that when tirne periods forthe celebration of Pascha were deliberated at Nicaea, the holy Enperor of course in no wayhad in mind permission tor the celebration of Pascha with all manner of heretics, but rathrthat the date be determined within the boundaries of the Church.AN ECUI'{F}JICALCONFER$JCE N Pm.U

One world, the magazine of the World Council of Churches, reports in its M,arch issuetJ.at a group of about one hundred theologians has set ttre date 3I December 1984 as the ter-minus for the fifty-five year investigatron in the province of Chnstianunity.Iln:n'imrrclrz and with general applause, the ttreoJ _ogians of the W.C.C. whO had assemlcledin rima Donr in January of this year expressed thre desire that all the churches whichr r 4 l g , t v l q 'take part in that organization present, by the end of 1984, their consent to tle mutualrecog'nition of the baptism, eucharist and ecclesiastical ndnistry of ttie other menrberchurches.F'nr 1-ho nrAqA* rL^ ^^..-- i^^:r ' \ r ' ) h:q nnf oqJ-ahl ichad ecrroorl-rrrnn J-ovl-q crf anrr qori- anrl v u l E t / l e J C l I L / U I E \ - U l l U . [ 5 J I - . . d T I J T I E U q Y l s E u u ] r y u u u ^ l J v q r J J V L , A Uit was quite obvious that ttrere are still points in regard to which cerbain rembers aremaintaining a temporizing position; yet at the sane tjrie it was established that "therewas general satlsfaction that the texts were a mature and balarrced statenrent of the faith."That satisfaction shoul-d be celebratedr" tl're magazine says.The "traditions" represented in ttre Com'nission on Faith a Order included the Roman Cattrolic, Lutheran, Reformed, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox [sicJ, Anglican, United, Bapii q, f - Mefhodi sf . Di sr: i nl es and Adi,zentiSt ChurCheS.l v e t v t u e v L t /"It is unprecedented in the nodern ecunenical- novenent for theologians of such variedtraditions to speak so harn'oniously on fr.:ndamental guestions of church doctrine." JohnTiziarr'lac an orfft6,flox theologian from England, st-ated that such sj:nilarity of opinion

would have been "unimaqinable only a few years ago. "ff these theologians manage to reach an agreernent on questi-ons of the mutual recogni-r^- ^c r^^^ i^*;, eucharists and clerica] orders, thenwhatwould remain to hinder theJ-\JI1 \J JJCTPt.-L-rtt i"Orthodox" frcm bec.oming nrgmbers of the new "church " which will unite within itself allthe ancient and ncdern heresies?A Paschal Liturcrv to Order

The Word, the official publication of the Patriarchate of Antioch in America, in itsApril issue included an advertisement to the effect that on Pascha, Aprit 18, and later,^* ^^ei 1 1tr *h: CBS televislon network vor-rld broadcast an Orthodox paschal liturgy. a L ) L L L a J l u l cOf course,whether one s]anpathizes wj-th or, on the contrary, is negatively disposedtowards the broadcasting of liturgies vi-a television (in the Russian Orthodox Church Out-side of Russia it is not perrnitted), the following is interesting:l"ha nacnhar r-iturgy televized, which Metropolitan Philip sewed himself, with two priest

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-6-concelebrating and a congreg'ation. of 800 people, was celebrated on Februarlz 28 (N.S. ) ,i.e., on Cheese-fare (Forgiveness) Sunday, on tfte evening of whj-ch the senrices of theGreat Fast connence..one of our priests who saw the telecast noted that there were'irich were allowed to take pLace: it was evident that a r,arnbwas.Presanctified Liturgy, for instancel

several inconsistenciesbeing prepared for theAs in a good advertisernent for a theatrlcar production, the namesof aII of the partic-pants were announced, as well as the fact that the choir consisted of a combined grbup ofsrngers representing three parishes, under the directlon of the cathedral's choir director(the liturgy was taped in St. Nicholas Cathedral in Los Angeles, California).These and other abuses indicated that what was broadcasl was not a paschal }iturgy,but rather a perfonrnnce of sone sort.

A Threat to the Holv placesIn its June 7 issue, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reports that the daily newspaperAf - t r : i r e n d { -h ar-rqr aru Lrre Supreme Moslem Council have aqain been receiving threatening letters.Beginning with the past }l,arch, a series of such retters has been sent to Arab newspapers,to the AI-Aksa Mosque, to the Church of the HoIy Sepulchre, and other institutions in theHoly Land, warning that they rvould be blorvn, up.TVl3 ureeks agro, the police assured the interested parti-es that they assun'ed that thoserespoasl-b]e for the disturbances had been found in t]:e person of six aiabs who had thrcumsuch a letteilaway. However, an ensuing investigation has not determined ttlat these Arabyouths are themselves the authors of the threatening letters.Tho mrina mlipl6in ttat the letters are written by a "sick person", but that tlrey ar e. r v I r y r l v v l r Ll - : k i n r y J - h a f . h m : t a a ^ v i ^ r r ^ r . .| . . ,s l rY urs u l lsqL5 :)erJ- ( rus J.v.From private sources it has been confirmed that the letters composed by a "sick person',arre in fact sigined by Rabbi Kahane and have been sent to Patrlarch niodorus, and the headsof the Catholic and Armenian churches in Jerusatem.Follo'vers of the extremist Rabbi Kahane are threatening to blow up the Church of theqoly sepuchre, the church of the Nativity of christ in Bethlehem, and the Tomb of the All-.cly Theotokos j-n Gethsemane.

The Pope of Ron-e e the Jewsfn its ll,arch 7 issue, the New Yorli Tj-rres newspaper reported that qulte recently the popegave an audience to the nmbers of;-conmission ccxnposed of forty clergynen and laity who

were meeting for the first tin'e since the conrnission's inception in 1975, to study the q,te"-tion of t]:e mutual relations between RoJnancathorics and Jews.r|ha nrocirlanr. gf the conunission, Ilcnsignor Jorge Mejia of Argentina, gave a speciar in-tenziew to the Vatican Radio. He reported that the results of the conrniision's workwouldbe published as a document on catechesis and the practicat teaching practices. He also ex-pressed the hope that it would nreet with Jewish approval, but refused to elaborate further.T n h i q q n a o a h n f a r o a l - i n n f n l - ' i - - ' ^ ^ r a + 1 . ^rr rrrr etEurr v ylccLrrlv LrJ irs guescs/ cne Pope broached the question of the churchtsdoctrine which Jewish specialists consider the heart- of fhe nrohlem of r-roatinojud iced i_mage of Jews. o uvrrDrutr: l L lrc lreslu v srE ylvurq* v erso,Ll,ry an unpre-Tho Dnm ceiA lfu3l "we must reach the point at which this teaching, at different revelsof religious educatlon, 1n the catechism taught to children and adolescents, presents theJews and Judaism not only in an honest and objective manner, without any preilaice and with-out offending anyone, but even npre with an active consciousness of the-heriLge thrat wehave broadly outlined." He also told "those who remain skeptical, even hostile,,Eo a rap-prochement that the Catholic church did not intend to devj-a-te into "religious relativismand even less a loss of i_dentity.,'Domr*'ih^ nh the same event in its lr4arch 7 issue, the Jenrsalem post newspaper ended itsl r ]Y vr rarti-cle with Ivlonsignor }aejia's words-: "fn the pastoral campr-EEre wiff be develolxrents...i n o t t r n re a n h in . r - r r t l r 1 -o :n h . in n in l - h p . | - r : . i n in narr uu IJ lsctur[ l lgr vur Lt:dulr t lrg, 4rr sru uq'*rry Of SeminafianS, SO t]rat the image Of JewSand Judaism is presented in a way t}rat corresponds to truth and historical reality."Nevertheless, Jewish observers are expressi-ng open jmpatience over the fact that the' ocnltr+-ian n +hs Second Vatican council is taking so rong to implement in a practicar way.r rJ- : I oer l ' i nd ^qe q rsqu,ry u.-xnn-issi-onmendcer, ttre Rev. Ir{,arcel D:lcois, a French OonLinican*iro has adoptidIsraeli citizenship arLd s chairman of the philosophy depa.rtnrentof Hebrew University inhas assured the Jews that, slowly but surery, the catholics have already madereat progfress in settlng ari-ght their relat.ions with thre Jews. "rt is an irreversible pro-ess. But it will take more than twenty years to correct the errors of twenty centuries.

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-7-The matter is so profound and important that it demands nu:ch si.lence, rm:ch patience and -'mtrnlr hnm rr is God Hjrnself Who is the nrst interested party, because it is a nntter ofthe story of His l ife."The Pope of Rome in England

A visit to England by t.}-e Pope was arranged between the Vatican and English Cattrolicsalmost a year ago. However, at the monent of the Pope's appearance it seened that Englandwas in posture of war with Argentina, which the Pope had also intended to visit, and thusthe question ar:ose as to the political benefit of his arrival.The question of cancelling his visit c.ompletely was even seriously considered, but herethe interests of the Vatican and the Engfish Catlrolics collided. The Pope greatly wishedto strengthen the negotiations between Anglicans and Cathol-ics on unity, but anong theBrglish Catholics the problem was purely financial.In its June 15 bulletln, the Ecumenical Press Service reports that the cost of the Popevisit to the Roman Catholic Church in Britain has been estimated at aror.nd 6 million por:nd'sterling, an ancunt which would have had to be met even had the Pope cancelled his plans;an initial collection in England and Wales towards the cost of ttre visit raised only 650thousands pounds. There wonld al-so not have been any incune from the sale of souvenirs.Thus, Basil Cardinal Hune of England adnitted that if the visit were cancelled, it r+ouldhave been a substantial nunrber of years before the Roman Cathotic Church in Britain couldhave contempJ.ated inviting the Pope again. Intensive negotiations therefore were initiatedbetween Cardinal Hume and tJ.e Vatican. The archbishops of Liverpool and Glasgow flew toRon'e to state their case. The Britj-sh governnrent rnet the Pope halfway by giving hjm toknow that no one would be offended if he avoided a nreeting with Prime lrt-inister Thatcheror anyone else in the government. As it turned out, the Pope nret with tlre Queen, in hercapacity as temporal head of the Anglican Church.From the Catholic point of view, the Pope's journey was a triumph. Hundreds of thou-sands of people, Catholics and non{atholics, greeted him with cries of joy and listenedrr-font-'irrolrz t-n his preachiqg of peace. OnIy a tiny group of nilitant ProLestants tried toorgranize a demonstration which fail.ed completely and was alncst unnoticeabl-e.The Pope's service inEnglandwas very ecurenical j-n character. In Canterbury Cathedral,the see of the senior prelate of the Anglican Conwunion, a special altar was set up. Archbishop Runcie of Canterbury and the Pope silumtaneously entered the church and knelt be-fore t}te altar which was erected near the site of tlre nn:rder of Archbishop Thornas a Becke'by the henchn 'ren of King Henry If in I1;0.

The senrice was a pastiche of the nore rn',portant ncnents of the Catholic and Anglicanmasses. The Creed read r.ras not the Nicaeo{onstantlnopolitan S}4rbol of Faittr, but the so-called Apostles' Creed. The altar Gospel used was the priceless Canterbury Gospels, whichhad been presented to St. Augustine, first archbishop of Canterbury, by St. Gregory theDialogist, Pope of Rone, in the sixth century. So as to render this prayer senzice moreecr:nenical, there also took parb in it the Greek Archbishop Methodios of Thyateira, BasilCardinal HLure, Catholic Archbishop of Westnrinster, and a I'lethodist, the Moderator of theFree Church Federal Cou:rcil. Anong the honored grests present was lletropolitan Anthony(Bloom) of Surozh, a hierarch of the Patriarchate of Moscow. Orre of the peculiarities ofthe prayers senzice was the affirmation by aII present of the vcxnrsmade at baptism. Thisinl-omcfinn arronl was follcx,ved by an exchange of the "kiss of ;reace" beb,veen all- thre hier-archs and those present. Although both Orthodox hierarchs refrairred from taking part in1-hic nan.r ir-o rJrey were aJnong he first to greet the pOpe with the "kiSS Of peace." v v ,rrho Dnm rnnislssd in the cathedral that Archbishop Runcie and he, in the presence ofall in the church, were pledging to strive anew for unity, so that "the dialogue wLrich vehave begun [may] Iead us to t]re day of full restoration of r.rnity in faith and love."Tha 'inini rloqfs;4tion was solemnly signed by the heads of the'ttrc nnjor Western religionThe tremendous rapture wittr which the English reacted to ttre arrival of the Pope mayeasily play a sig'nficant role in the negotiations on unification with Rone.ml^, , ^r-rr.Lrs, s rrcrywell see the tjrre when "the wind returneth agai-n according to its cirguits"and the theory of ttte great Russian theologrian Alexis l(honr-iakov , that all the Western cofessions are fi:ndanentally one and the same thing, will be realized in fact.

Tbvrards the Cornirq of AntichristThe announcement made on April 25 of tJri-s year, cornprising a fu1l-page adverLi-sement i-

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-8-the t e,w-York- rmes-, as well as in other major newspapers j-n Arnerica and throughout theworld's capttals (we have received reports of identiiaf adversitements placed in the paperin France, Switzerland, Irrgland, Greece and Hollandl, indj-cates that s n|ay well be enter-ing the period foretold by the Savior in which the pseudo{hrist and false prophets willbe activeA photostatic reproduction of the a&rertlsement, reduced in size to fit our newsletter'sforennt, will be printed out on one of the last pages of tfri-s issue.The l,tressiah ag Conc.eived bv a Brazilian Rabbi

T n i { - c M : r z i clrl rE'c.x risu, the nngazine Ecumenical- Trends published an interesting article byPrhl-ri lJann r T CI \ o t , JJ I ' rg r [ y r . jobe] ,ent i t1ed ' ' Ju f f i ' , f rc t rnwhichwequote ."In a broader sense, the term 'messianlsm' refers to theories regaid.ing a future inprovenent of the state of hr-manity. The tine di:rension is basic to the concept of niessianisn.The tin'e process is expected to lead to a major change or even a final constururnti-onas aresult of whrichhumanity wiII attain a better, happier, Epreperfect condltion....- "Manyncdern scholars suggest that Jewish nessianisn has 1ts origins in the sacralcharacter ttrat tJ:e Israeilltes conferred upon their kings. Alt].rough the anointed king ofIsrae1 was not considered 'divj-ner' certai-n supernatural gualities and nessj-anic firnctiorrswere ascribed to hi:tt. .. .".. .?he Jews [have] held firmly to ttre prophetic idea that cod wourd nrakea dramaticintenrention i-n hi-story on behalf of the chosen people by neans of a descendant of KingDavid who wotrld deliver ttle Jewish people from boldage and wLrosearrival would be previous-Iy arrnouncedby ttre prophet E]ijah. Hence, the Hebrew word rmashiach' cafie to nLean theanointed one of the r-ordr' the nressiahr par excelrencerr the rTessengerof the AhTlighttEpwould bring to the fsraelites the glories of a new age....". . .The ancient rabbis vihose ttroughts are e>

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- Y -He Tried to Llve in Accordance with the Gospel...

Tn i1-e lvlaw 28 issue, thie nehrspaper Dailv News reported that in New York, near theRornanCatholic church of St. Francis of Assisi in llanhattan, a man appeared at the breadIine set up to sen/e the homeless and poor, who began to approach those waiting on linernrr rn airra ar^\ a five or ten-dollar bil l, sayinq to each "In the nane of Jesus."All went wel-] until the unexpected benefact-or reached the middle of the line. Therehe was suddenly surrounded by nrany of tJ.e 350 peopfe on hand, who pushed and shoved him,demandinq ten-do}lar bills instead of five-dollar bilIs.according to the account of eye-witnesses, the benefact-or, a rnan of about fifty-five\roa rc nF rno \r1cjuslo v qyu, *earing glasses, tried to hide from the rude jnportunities of the indigentrnrr l-'-an fn nrnss the street. But about eight nen chased after him and tried to surroundhjr. The "good Samaritan" broke away from them with difficulty and fled.One of the recipients of these alms, a man by the nane of McAllister, told a reporter:"I got a $10 biLt, but f was indignan-t over how the nran was treated."' One of the friars vfio was distributing bread to the needy related th,at one of tLrose whorrrere standing on line pulled on his sleeve and said to hrm: "That marL's crazy, tlie nan upahead; he has a roll of noney and is giving out g5 and gl0 bittsl"The brettrren of the Franciscan Order were at a loss to e>plain why the nran chose to makhis contribution personally, irustead of donating rpney to the St. Francis of Assisi bread'1 i - ^f i l E .The incident itself is a sad con'nentary, not on the "good SamaritarL's" sanity, butrather on tlre lamentable changes wrought in the concept of almsgiving by insitutionalizedcharlties.Donations Recelved & Gratefully Ackncnvledqed

rr.}roFtamrt-mo-t of Public & Foreigm Relations has received donations for the furtherr r v s v r u r s , . v r rnrrl 'r] inrf inn nr i15 Nertslett6r from the following indlviduals, to whom it wrruld like Lo/ w 4 - v g e rexpress its thanks:Archbishop Seraphim of Brazil, Archimand-rite Theophan, Priest Tho'nasMarretta, O. IIl1mfhe Rew^ ,TOsenh d i } lanro 1 \ t \ {6q 'n r : A r . : i f f i r A T{nnhorn in M Tr r :nnr ra Nl {n ln r^ r r fnhr s r \ s v . v v p E t 4 r s r ' s u v , t . f - . r v o ^ v a , n . t t . I i E : L I n . f \ v u l r g l y J t l , I ' t . r v a l v v q , \ . I t v f u w a L ( - I l ,Dr. J. Bober, Mirolovich, J. Kcnvalski, Priest V. Irlelechod, G. Petrcnvsky, G. Nevsky, V. iVisnevsky, J. c 'olovach, Dr. A. Tolas, Rev. L. Kudart, r . Hudanish, V. Sepe, A.F.Stronko,Deacon T. Shevzov, D. Levizky, A.rchpriest B. Krzenko, P. Artievsky, Hierononk Gregory,Princess Engalycheva, P. Ilinsky, Protodea@n N. Kadjan, and three anon)rr.ous donors.l4any and heartfelt tha.-rlcs to all for responding to our ca}l for assistarrcelIn the Synod Bookstore we now have for sale incense from Jemsalern and from Mt. Athos.Price: approxiantely one ounce for 92.00.Also avai lable are beauti ful prosophora seals, at gI0.00 each.

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THECHRISTSNOW HERE.HOWWITLWERECOGNIZE IM?Iook for r aodcrn nrrn conceracdwlth nodcrn pobltnr-poliiical, economic,and sodd. SinccJuly,1977, heChrist hasbeenemaging asa spokesmanor agroupor community n awell-krownmoderncountry.He s not a religiouseader,but an educatorn thebroadest ense f theword-pointing heway oyi of ourpresent risis.We will recognizeHim by His exkaordinaryspiritualpotency,the unrversdit ofHis viewpoint, and His ove for all humanity. Hc cocrcr not to fudgr, but to eld end lnrptre.WFIO STHECHRIST?

Tluoughouthistory,humanity's volutionhasbem guidedby agroupof enlightmedmen,theMastenof Widom. Theyhave emainedargely n the emotedesert ndmountain lacesof earth,workingmainly hrough heirdisciples ho live openly n theworld.rhismessagef he hrist'rea?ffrfl:ffrrfl%lg:-'r by uchdiscipleAt the centerof this spiritualHierarchy" tandsheWorldTeacher,-ordMaitreya,known by Christians the Cftnif.And r Christians wait heSecondComingso heJews wait he Mcssiah,heBuddhistshe ifth Buddha,heMoclims he Imam ahdi,and heHindusawaitKnslna. hese reall namesor one ndividual.Hb prcrence n thc world gurrenteo thce wtll be no thlrd World War.

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