” “A greeting of "sincere brotherly love" to His Beatitude Christodoulos, archbishop of Athens and primate of the Greek Orthodox Church. "The Lord will tell us the ways and the time to renew our encounter in the joyous atmosphere of a reunion of brothers". This is the concluding message, with which this morning Benedict XVI welcomed the Greek participants Greece(archimandrites, priests and seminarists) in the "study tour" of Rome. As he met, on February 14th, a delegation from the archdiocese of Milan headed by card. Dionigi Tettamanzi, His Beatitude Christodoulos had announced his intention to visit the Vatican and Benedict XVI this year. "For us Eastern and Western Christians said the Pope today at the beginning of the second millennium, the strengths of evil have acted also in the divisions that still continue among us. Over the last forty years, however, many comforting and hopeful signs have made us get a glimpse of a new dawn". The Pope spoke of the "initiatives that will help get to know each other better", such as scholarships, the exchange of visits and cooperation in the publishing field" and, in this light, he thanked the Apostoliki Diakonia. "The target of unity amidst the disciples of Christ he then added no matter how distant it may seem, does not prevent us living with each other even now in love, at all levels. There’s no place or time in which love, moulded on the love of our Master, Christ, is useless; it never fails to shorten the way to a full communion".” “
