Polish Orthodox church made a copy of the Lesna icon

[Jean-Serge]

You mean whose facilities when you write "they used their own facilities"? Who is they?

[Suaidan]

You mean whose facilities when you write "they used their own facilities"? Who is they?

I misread this line-- "The historic event, which took place in Provemont near Paris, was the inauguration of this year's celebrations related to the pilgrimage of copies of the Lesna Icon of the Mother of God to selected places in Poland" --to mean that the delegation of nuns brought the icon outside the monastery. However, on second reading, Lesna is in Provemont, so there is nothing contextually that indicates it was held anywhere else but the monastery.

That was my mistake.

[Jean-Serge]

This translation done using ChayGPT is better, I think

Prayer Before the Original and Copy of the Leśniańska Icon of the Mother of God in Provemont (France)

On June 21, 2022, a delegation from the Lublin-Chełm Diocese, led by its bishop, Archbishop Abel, visited the Monastery of the Leśniańska Icon of the Mother of God in Provemont, France.

The main purpose of the visit was to pray with the words of the Akathist before the original Leśniańska Icon of the Mother of God and a faithful copy created in Thessaloniki, Greece. The donor and main initiator of the reproduction of the original Leśniańska Icon of the Mother of God, which is carved from stone, is Konstantin Gieorgijewicz Szawel. After the Akathist, Archbishop Abel performed the rite of consecration of the icon and pressed it against the original miracle-working icon that arrived with the sisters from Leśna Podlaska. The historical event that took place in Provemont, near Paris, marked the inauguration of this year's celebrations related to the pilgrimage of the copy of the Leśniańska Icon of the Mother of God to selected places in Poland. The pilgrimage of the icon will begin at the Monastery of St. Onuphrius in Jabłeczna, where it will be displayed for prayerful adoration during the festivities in honor of the patron of the monastery, St. Onuphrius the Great. The culmination will be its solemn introduction into the Church in Nosów, near Leśna Podlaska, on October 2, 2022, during the feast honoring the Leśniańska Icon of the Mother of God.

The diocesan ordinary was accompanied by: Father Józef Fejsak from the Orthodox Church of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, who has had friendly relations with the sisters of the Leśniańska monastery for years; Father Paweł Samoluk, the parish priest in Lykostomo, Greece, who facilitated the process of creating the icon; the donor and initiator of the icon's creation, Konstantin Gieorgijewicz Szawel; Father Korneliusz Wilkiel, the parish priest of the Orthodox parish dedicated to St. George in Biłgoraj; and Dymytro Pokchyluk.

After the service, Archbishop Abel expressed gratitude to the abbess of the monastery, Mother Euphrosynia, for the warm welcome and the opportunity to raise prayers before the Leśniańska Icon of the Mother of God, which is a great sanctity for the Chełm and Podlaskie lands. As a gift for the monastery, the hierarch presented an icon of St. Seraphim of Zahorów with a relic fragment.

Then, the members of the delegation bowed to the holy icons of the monastery and went for a joint meal with the sisters of the Leśniańska community.

[Jean-Serge]

Were I a lawyer for the Poles I would say that they officially rejected the 1920 encyclical and the New Calendar a decade ago, but the counter I presume would be that they are still involved in the World Council of Churches.

I did some extra-searches. This bishop Abel of Lublin is himself an ecumenist. In 2019, he led ecumenical prayer at a WCO meeting.

The meeting ended with a common prayer led by Archbishop Abel of the Polish Orthodox Church and Bishop Andrzej Malicki from the Evangelical Methodist Church.

https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/doc ... communique