{"id":341832,"date":"2013-04-16T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/romania-catholics-and-orthodox-in-dialogue\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:09:00","slug":"romania-catholics-and-orthodox-in-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/romania-catholics-and-orthodox-in-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania, Catholics and Orthodox in dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWe have a chance…<\/em> we can speak on common themes of Christian theology.\u201d With these words, Prof. Stanciu, Dean of Orthodox Theology at the University of Babes-Bolyai<\/strong>, recommended to aim at what unites rather than divides. \u201cWe all know that there\u2019s need for love and there are no elements of disagreement when one speaks of love. Why not benefit from this opportunity?\u201d<\/p>\n

This second meeting was held on the 16th<\/sup> April at the department in an atmosphere of harmony of thought and life. It was entitled: \u201cWhoever remains in love remains in God and God in him\u201d<\/em> (1Jn 4,16).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Orthodox and Catholics<\/strong> in turn presented academic papers and life experiences in an atmosphere of intellectual and spiritual productiveness, as a fruit of the shared intention to live this moment in the light of Jesus\u2019 words: \u201cWhere two or more are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst\u201d<\/em> (Mt 18,20). \u201c<\/em>From the presentations it seemed to be that there was not just a dialogue of concepts among the speakers but also of hearts\u201d, commented an Orthodox professor. \u201cWe not only spoke but also lived\u201d.The friendly and fruitful relationship among some Catholics and Orthodox has in fact developed over several years.<\/p>\n

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Bishop Vasile<\/p><\/div>\n

The Meeting began with the Metropolitan of Cluj Andrei\u2019s greetings to the nearly seventy participants present, and ended with the speech of bishop Vasile, the Metropolitan\u2019s deputy. He drew a parallel between the birth of the Focolare and Saint Basil\u2019s activity or the message of Assisi \u201cbecause in the difficult times the world was passing through, they knew how to bear an extraordinary witness to Christ, uniting forces with whom they helped society advance, mobilizing all the Church\u2019s energies in order that it might mirror that what it ought to be and for which Christ founded it.\u201d He also wished that these meetings of mutual enrichment, knowledge and fruitful exchange, would continue to be held on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

In order to highlight the importance of the event, the Metropolis radio hosted a programme with various interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second international dialogue meeting between the Focolare Movement and the Department of Orthodox Theology of the University of Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}