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"We seek and we pray for our return to that time when, being united, we spoke the same things and there was no schism between us." [http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/encyclicals/greece/christodoulos_address_john_paul2_2001.htm]
"The Symbol of the Faith must be preserved inviolate, as at its origin. Since all the holy doctors of the Church, all the Councils and all the Scriptures put us on our guard against heterodoxy, how dare I, in spite of these authorities, follow those who urge us to unity in a deceitful semblance of union - those who have corrupted the holy and divine Symbol of Faith and brought in the Son as second cause fo the Holy Spirit." s.v. Jan 19th in '''The Synaxarion'', ed. Hieromonk Makarios of Simonas Petra, and trans. Christopher Hookway (Ormylia: Holy Convent of The Annunciation of Our Lady, 2001).
"The souls of the departed can indeed benefit to their 'advancement', and even the damned to a relative 'relief' of their lot, thanks to the prayers of the Church and through the infinite mercy of God; but the notion of a punishment prior to the Last Judgment and of a purification through a material fire is altogether foreign to the tradition of the Church." ''Ibid.
