“We are brothers in Christ. Nothing separates us. We are one Body – the Body of Christ. And this Body is the Church. Even though we speak different languages and do not understand one another, and even though great distances separate us, nothing separates us in Christ. We are one, and we remain one,
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“Just as the Romanian people are dispersed throughout the world, so too are we Antiochians, throughout Europe, Australia, America, Africa and the entire world. Yet we are not afraid of this distance, because when we pray to the Lord Christ, we all come together, even with those who have departed to the Lord,