“Here you received the first degree of the priesthood. Not to be served, but to serve; not to seek human glory, but to shepherd the spiritual flock of the Church of Christ,

“You willingly emptied yourself for the Church, renouncing every personal interest and devoting yourself entirely to the service of Christ and His flock.

“shepherd the flock of God entrusted to his care with God-given wisdom and courage

“no one present at the ordination in 1961 could have known where the young deacon’s path would lead.

“Apparently, he deceived me in order to find an opportunity to discover something against me and to kill me ecclesiologically, by stripping me of holy orders.

“in the Church everyone – from the highest hierarchical ministry to the layperson – is united by the love of Christ, and that each person is a bearer of the grace of the Holy Spirit, which does not dwell in a person automatically but is given in response to a pious life.