Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia, about the paradox of the Ortdodox Church:"... I would make only one qualification: what I could not have appreciated back in 1952, but what today I see much more clearly, is the deeply enigmatic character of Orthodoxy, its many antitheses and polarities. The paradox of Orthodox life in the twentieth century is summed up by Father Lev Gillet, himself a Westerner who made the journey to Orthodoxy, in words which come closer to the heart of the matter than any others that I can recall:
O strange Orthodox Church, so poor and so weak... maintained as if by a miracle through so many vicissitudes and struggles; Church of contrasts, so traditional and yet at the same time so free, so archaic and yet so alive, so ritualistic and yet so personally mystical; Church where the Evangelical pearl of great price is preciously safeguarded — yet often beneath a layer of dust... Church which has so frequently proved incapable of action — yet which knows, as does no other, how to sing the joy of Pascha!
O strange Orthodox Church, so poor and so weak... maintained as if by a miracle through so many vicissitudes and struggles; Church of contrasts, so traditional and yet at the same time so free, so archaic and yet so alive, so ritualistic and yet so personally mystical; Church where the Evangelical pearl of great price is preciously safeguarded — yet often beneath a layer of dust... Church which has so frequently proved incapable of action — yet which knows, as does no other, how to sing the joy of Pascha!
Father Lev Gillet, in Vincent Bourne, La Quête de Vérité d'Irénée Winnaert (Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1966), 335.
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Mitropolitul Kallistos Ware al Diocleei, despre paradoxul Bisericii Ortodoxe:
“…As face numai o precizare: ceea ce nu as fi putut aprecia in 1952 (anul convertirii, n.n), dar care pe care astazi il vad mult mai clar, este adancul caracter enigmatic al Ortodoxiei, cu multele antiteze si polaritati. Paradoxul vietii de ortodox in secolul XX este sintetizat de catre parintele Lev Gillet - el insusi un vest-european care a facut calea catre Ortodoxie - in cuvinte care imi sunt mai aproape inimii in aceasta privinta decat oricare altele pe care mi le pot aminti:
O, ciudata Biserica Ortodoxa, atat de saraca si atat de slaba...tinuta ca prin minune, prin atat de multe vicisitudini si lupte; Biserica a contrastelor, atat de traditionala dar in acelasi timp atat de libera, atat de arhaica, dar inca atat de vie, atat de ritualistica, si inca atat de personal mistica; Biserica unde perla evanghelica cea de mult pret este aparata cu pretuire – inca adesea (aflata) sub un strat de praf… Biserica ce atat de des s-a dovedit incapabila de actiune – dar inca una care stie, ca nimeni alta, cum sa cante bucuria Pastelui!
Mitropolitul Kallistos Ware al Diocleei, despre paradoxul Bisericii Ortodoxe:
“…As face numai o precizare: ceea ce nu as fi putut aprecia in 1952 (anul convertirii, n.n), dar care pe care astazi il vad mult mai clar, este adancul caracter enigmatic al Ortodoxiei, cu multele antiteze si polaritati. Paradoxul vietii de ortodox in secolul XX este sintetizat de catre parintele Lev Gillet - el insusi un vest-european care a facut calea catre Ortodoxie - in cuvinte care imi sunt mai aproape inimii in aceasta privinta decat oricare altele pe care mi le pot aminti:
O, ciudata Biserica Ortodoxa, atat de saraca si atat de slaba...tinuta ca prin minune, prin atat de multe vicisitudini si lupte; Biserica a contrastelor, atat de traditionala dar in acelasi timp atat de libera, atat de arhaica, dar inca atat de vie, atat de ritualistica, si inca atat de personal mistica; Biserica unde perla evanghelica cea de mult pret este aparata cu pretuire – inca adesea (aflata) sub un strat de praf… Biserica ce atat de des s-a dovedit incapabila de actiune – dar inca una care stie, ca nimeni alta, cum sa cante bucuria Pastelui!
Parintele Lev Gillet, in Vincent Bourne, La Quête de Vérité d'Irénée Winnaert (Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1966), 335.
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