"After a necessary development that led us to dampen the first enthusiasm of ecumenical commitment and to understand the difficulties of our feat, nowadays we are going through a more complex stage that gives pride of place to the most serious obstacles to be overcome": it was stated by card. Walter Kasper, president of the Papal Council for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians, in his welcome address to the XV International Ecumenical Meeting, "The Transfigured Christ in the Orthodox spiritual tradition", which began yesterday (due until 19th) at the Monastery of Bose, under the patronage of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Moscow. According to Kasper: "Those who think the easier experience we have done so far is useless are wrong, and those who think the door to communion is impassable are also wrong. This is instead about being patient, constantly living the sacrifice of unity, as the Servant of God John Paul II had asked in his encyclical letter devoted to ecumenical commitment". "We must states Kasper question ourselves honestly. We must decide whether our commitment is good, provided everything works out smoothly and provided our actions are really inspired by confidence in He who can everything, in the times and in the ways that His Spirit dictates".
