PEACEMAKERS. ROME. TAIZE.

PEACEMAKERS.  ROME.  TAIZE.

Press release № 97 E

1. Our young Christian volunteers (VOROSHILOVS.blogspot.com) took part in some all-European peacemaking actions, having place in Italy on 23.12.2012 – 03.01.2013.

2. The most important one of those events was the “European Youth Meeting” in Rome, in which 50 000 persons of 35 states took part (and the guests from USA and Africa).

3. This “Meeting” was organized with the famous Taize congregation (France), which had been established in 1940 on the territory of the former priorate of the Templars order. The Taize congregation leads the global campaign “The Pilgrimage of Trust on the Earth”, organizing the actions, like the Roman one. In order to strengthen the peace on the Earth and the trust between the different denominations Christians, between believers and non-believers, the “Meeting” was supported by the Roman Pope, by the authorities of Italy and of Rome.

4. The greeting to the “Meeting” participants was officially sent by the Moscow Patriarchate Foreign Relations Department. This document “from the name of patriarch Kyrill” was signed by the mentioned department chairman metropolitan Ilarion.

5. In front of the “Meeting” participants, having gathered in the Saint Peter Square in Vatican, the Roman Pope Benedict XVI pronounced a big speech.

6. The young Europeans, including our volunteers, took part in a number of international church services (in different languages, with the Taize songs) in some temples of Rome and Florence. Our volunteers were entrusted the honour to pronounce the prayers and to make the Bible readings in Russian language. Among others, the praying meeting has taken place in the Prelatic Church of Opus Dei – in the temple of “Our Lady of Peace” (“Regina Pacis”).

7. Our volunteers were also honoured to lead the work of two discussion groups. Many witnesses were listened to and numerous questions were discussed. Among them the following ones were:

7.1. The problem of the return to the believers of the historic German Evangelish-Lutheran kirche in Krasnodar. During the Rome event this theme had the special sounding, because the actual pontiff is the ethnic German. (Watch isaurian.blogspot.com, 12.12.2012 – “Christ. Epistle. Putin.”)

7.2. The using of the Christ-centric “Voroshilov’s Reading Frame” (Voroshilovs.blogspot.com) for the work with the Bible (reading, interpretation, producing of the practical recommendations to solve the appearing problems, etc.).

7.3. The possibility to use the “Melanthon stipulation” as the “bridge” to receive peace and trust between Protestants and Catholics. (Signing in 1537 one of the main Reformation documents – “the Articles of Schmalkalden”, the Wittenberg University professor Philipp Melanthon put his signature with the “stipulation”, i. e. with the “special opinion”: “I, Philipp Melanthon, also hold the above articles for to be right and Christian. Yet, in regard to the pope, I am of the opinion that if he should allow the Gospel to be preached, his supremacy over the bishops, which he has according to human law, should then also be recognized by us for the sake of peace and common unity of those Christians who are also under his rule and perhaps could be so in the future”.) The Melanthon’s approach is suggested to be used as a “bridge” during the peacemaking activity of Christians in different spheres, and not only during the solving of the pontiff jurisdiction question.

8. Blessed are the peacemakers! (Mt. 5:9).

Professor    N. E. Alyoshin

(e-mail: isaurian@gmail.com

blog: isaurian.blogspot.com)