http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=259
Whether this happens or not, the intent is worse than the accual act.
The MP says, "‘are an amazing challenge to the agreed conviction of the world Orthodox community that has never been doubted."
He obviously doesn't get around much. This has been "doubted" for many decades now by many people, including people of the MP. I mean really, this just didn't come out of the blue, it is rather a natural progression. George Bush isn't going to wake up one moring and propose to unite America with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but it is conceivable he might propose to make Puerto Rico a state. In other words, ecumenism must be a strong current among the Finnish Synod and this idea of communion must not be terribly strange.
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Moscow Patriarchate is surprised at a Finnish metropolitan’s proposal to have communion with Lutherans
Moscow, August 30, Interfax - Metropolitan Ambrosius of Helsinki (Finnish Orthodox Church of the Patriarchate of Constantinople) proposed to ‘introduce eucharistic communion between the Orthodox and the Lutheran Churches’.
According to the Kotimaa daily of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, metropolitan of the capital city said at a seminar sponsored by the Lutheran Church in Turku last week that a start could be made by introducing ‘communion at marriages between the Orthodox and the Lutherans’.
Religious leader of the Finnish Lutherans Archbishop Jukka Paarma emphasized that ‘the Lutheran Church should pay attention to Ambrosius’s proposal and discuss the topic’.
Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, secretary of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate told Interfax that none of the Local Orthodox Church had ever practiced communion with the Protestants.
According to him, the words of the Finnish metropolitan, in case they ‘were given correctly’ in a Lutheran publication, ‘are an amazing challenge to the agreed conviction of the world Orthodox community that has never been doubted’.