{"id":1117,"date":"2009-09-04T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2024-02-20T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:27:00","slug":"the-necessity-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/2009\/09\/04\/the-necessity-of-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Necesitatea Unirii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Metropolitan Jonah<br>September 4, 2009<br><br><strong>The Necessity of Unity &#8211; We\u2019ve Got to Get over this [in NA]!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>ADMINISTRATOR\u2019S NOTE:<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These excerpts of Metropolitan Jonah\u2019s September 4 speech were edited by Dean Calvert on the \u201corthodoxdetroit.com\u201d &#8211; \u2018discussion forum\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are not Christians unless we evangelize\u2026\u201d&#8221;Be transformed in the renewal of your mind,\u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Orthodox Church in America and the Antiochian Archdiocese have an imperative to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2026we\u2019ve got to get over this &#8211; we\u2019ve got to get over these divisions\u2026but we have to respect the diversity within the Church &#8211; because that ethnic diversity, the cultural diversity, is actually something beautiful which can enrich our experience of Orthodoxy\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe bishop with his clergy and the faithful serving the Divine Liturgy\u2026wherever that is present &#8211; there is the fullness of the catholic church\u2026\u201d \u201cIf we think that by the fact that we are in some kind of a canonical relationship with an Old World patriarch &#8211; that that patriarch is the guarantee of our catholicity..if that\u2019s the case, then we have no choice but to submit to Rome\u2026that\u2019s Roman Catholic ecclesiology, that\u2019s not our ecclesiology. Orthodox ecclesiology is the ecclesiology of the local church\u2026the local church territorially defined, and quite frankly, this doesn\u2019t look like Damascus &#8211; it doesn\u2019t look like Bucharest\u2026 it certainly doesn\u2019t look like Moscow\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Metropolitan JonahSeptember 4, 2009 The Necessity of Unity &#8211; We\u2019ve Got to Get over this [in NA]! ADMINISTRATOR\u2019S NOTE: These excerpts of Metropolitan Jonah\u2019s September 4 speech were edited by Dean Calvert on the \u201corthodoxdetroit.com\u201d &#8211; \u2018discussion forum\u2019. \u201cWe are not Christians unless we evangelize\u2026\u201d&#8221;Be transformed in the renewal of your mind,\u2026 \u201d \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246212808,"featured_media":1157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roeanews.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/capture-2.png?fit=165%2C133&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfcdbO-i1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246212808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roeanews.info\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}