” “On that occasion, the Holy Synod sent a letter to the ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew. "We hope the great anniversary of our Church and our people is especially the feast of Orthodox unity". "For over 15 years goes on the letter , the painful wound of the schism has afflicted our Church. This rift in the Church of Ukraine needs to be healed". But this process adds the Holy Synod "demands wisdom and pastoral caution from us" and above all it requires and this is the appeal to Patriarch Bartholomew that any "interference in the internal affairs of our Church" be avoided. In the meantime, the other big protagonist of the Orthodox world will be arriving in Kiev tomorrow: Patriarch Alexius II, who, as well as attending the celebrations, will meet Patriarch Bartholomew in Kiev. "We are confident in this meeting said the archpriest Nikolai Balashov, secretary of the department for the relations between the churches of the Patriarchate of Moscow, to the Russian agency Irar-Tass . We would like the Kiev celebrations to help strengthen the unity of the Orthodox family. We believe that the divisions within the Church that exist in Ukraine can be successfully overcome by Orthodox solidarity".
