The past cannot bind the present, Ioannis Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamon (Turkey) said this month (May 2010), as he celebrated Mass among the ruins of the Church of Saint John the Evangelist in Bergama, Turkey, in the presence of Patriarch Bartholomew.
In it, the great theologian of the Orthodox Church -- who co-chairs the Joint Catholic-Orthodox Commission for the unity of the two Churches -- addressed both Christians and non-Christians.
Mass was celebrated with the permission of Turkish authorities, according to the Asia News website.
"This is the greatness of our Church," Zizioulas said, "which seeks to pass on the faith and the certainty of the message of Resurrection, the victory of life over death, because death is not the last word in our life. Hatred, violence, and evil are also not the last words in our life, because they are defeated by Our Lord."
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