Author: Mitropolitul (Metropolitan) Laurentiu
July 6, 2008
HIGHLIGHTS OF METROPOLITAN LAURENTIU STREZA’S (Romanian Patriarchate)
JULY 6, 2008 CHICAGO SPEECH unofficial transcription in Romanian from the video found at http://www.biserica.tv/play.php?vid=48 (unofficial translation of highlights into English)
Dear brothers in Christ,
His Eminence Nicolae asked me to say goodbye to you…
…It was a great opportunity for us, I say this sincerely, receiving this news that I wished for with all my soul. I would have gotten upset and I would have left so saddened if this project planned by God would have been stopped by men. This would have been our biggest failure. We do not know what would have followed. The so-called Plan B fell a long time ago, because it was simply meant to be a warning to both sides that time was moving too quickly.
So many years have passed since our revolution, our liberation, well let’s count 17, tomorrow 18, then nineteen, we will go, not the years. Time is the same, but we pass through and do not leave behind anything well established, we do not even succeed in repairing things. I tell you, it is very difficult to repair something broken by others… See that God has pulled it off through the wisdom of those who have lead you until now.
Metropolitan Laurentiu
July 6, 2008.