All who descend into the inner chamber of the museum are free to walk away when they chose, and return to the sunlight. Such was not the case for these 1.5 million children whose lives were taken from them through hatred and unspeakable violence.
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It is our God-given mandate to bring discipleship to the world around us. And by discipleship, we mean the discipline bequeathed to us by our Lord to have compassion for one another and the natural environment. We are called and commanded to share with others the gifts that we have received and the joy that we have experienced on this Holy Mountain of Zion and in the Holy City of Jerusalem.
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This meal comes at the end of a long journey, which began for Your Holiness at the West and for our Modesty in the East. We have arrived in the place where East and West converge, to the roots of our very existence as Christians, the place where our Lord was born, taught, suffered the Cross, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven and sent the Holy Spirit to constitute His Church.
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It is with awe, emotion and respect that we stand before “the place where the Lord lay,” the life-giving tomb from which life emerged. And we offer glory to the all-merciful God, who rendered us, His unworthy servants, worthy of this supreme blessing to become pilgrims in the place where the mystery of the world’s salvation transpired.
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Common Declaration of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed at the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras.
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The meeting in Jerusalem on January 6, 1964, was an extraordinary starting-point for a long journey of reconciliation and dialogue, which the succeeding generations were called to continue. Looking back at the last fifty years, we can be grateful to God for what has been achieved both in the “dialogue of love” and in the “dialogue of truth.” The spirit of fraternal love and mutual respect has replaced the old polemic and suspicion.
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You, the youth of Bethlehem, are the hope and the future of your homeland. Remain faithful to your historical mission and preserve unextinguished the flame of our Orthodox faith in this land, where the Lord initiated His work of salvation for the whole world. Your presence here as Orthodox Christians is of immense importance. Continue your work with the same passion. May God be with you!
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Greeting of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the reception by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem during the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras (23 May, 2014).
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Address of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on His Visit to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Throne Room of the Jerusalem Patriarchate after the Doxology (23 May, 2014).
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Address of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Doxology at the All-Holy Church of the Resurrection (23 May, 2014) on the occasion of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's visit to Jerusalem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras in 1964.
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