{"id":1010,"date":"2015-07-05T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T08:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2015-07-05T09:11:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T09:11:25","slug":"metropolitan-hilarion-confirms-historic-meeting-is-on-the-near-future-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Hilarion confirms &#8220;historic meeting&#8221; is on the near future agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It becomes very clear that a Russian Patriarchate is only waiting for the <strong>&#8220;right time&#8221;<\/strong> to bring forth the <strong>&#8220;well prepared&#8221;<\/strong> for, <strong>&#8220;historic moment&#8221;<\/strong>. When might this be? Maybe when the whole world is in complete chaos due to widespread economic collapse &#8211; then the urgency of unity in face of iniquity (financial) may far outbalance any &#8220;technical issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Now such a meeting is getting closer every day but it must be well prepared,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church&#8217;s foreign relations department, said in an interview with Italy&#8217;s Corriere della Sera newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/historic-meeting-between-pope-francis-and-russian-orthodox-head-getting-closer-10352898.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/historic-meeting-between-pope-francis-and-russian-orthodox-head-getting-closer-10352898.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf such a meeting does take place, it will be historic in nature, therefore <strong>the process of preparing key issues<\/strong> relating to bilateral relations between our churches should be thoroughly tackled so that the meeting <strong>would be fruitful to the utmost instead of being a purely protocol event<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pravmir.com\/russian-church-denies-reports-of-time-and-place-of-patriarch-pope-meeting-being-set\/\">http:\/\/www.pravmir.com\/russian-church-denies-reports-of-time-and-place-of-patriarch-pope-meeting-being-set\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It becomes very clear that a Russian Patriarchate is only waiting for the &#8220;right time&#8221; to bring forth the &#8220;well prepared&#8221; for, &#8220;historic moment&#8221;. When might this be? Maybe when the whole world is in complete chaos due to widespread economic collapse &#8211; then the urgency of unity in face of iniquity (financial) may far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}