AN EXAMPLE OF THE LIVING ECUMENICAL RELATIONS OF THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX COMMUNITY AT THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL
2022
Abstract
Background: The article examines the ecumenical impact of a crisis. Concretely, it offers and analyses interviews with a priest and members of the Romanian Orthodox Community in Prague that, due to fire, lost their church, and from day to day had to seek an alternative place of worship.
It also offers and analyses insight on an Old Catholic priest now hosting the Romanian Orthodox community. Conclusion: It shows how the relations of Christians from different communities can contribute to ecumenism, how they draw on mutual recognition of each other's Christian spirit that has already been reached, and where it can and does overtake the ecumenism of official proclamations and dialogues, and thus can serve as inspiration.