5/14/2025
Savva Tống (Duệ Uyên)
Be patient in every trial, hold fast to the Church as a child holds the hand of his mother. For this is the only place satan cannot overcome, this is Noah’s Ark, this is the Bride of the Lamb, this is the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven.
The sad thing here is not that “the Church is not extreme enough for them,” but that their Christian view has moved away from the center of Faith—where the Risen Christ is.
The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, indivisible by Orthodox doctrine, is now presented as a fragment in a story of division and reunion, scripted and directed by Roman ecclesial diplomacy. So, what is ecumenism if not a religious-political project?
The Orthodox Church came to me not as an idea, but as something older than words: a living tradition, a beauty that doesn’t need to be explained, and a holy presence I couldn’t ignore. And what made me surrender completely… was Her.
Being Orthodox is not about wearing a cross around your neck—it’s about carrying the Cross in your life. It’s about becoming a living offering to God, each day, through patience, love, and sacrifice.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s pursuit of “Christian unity” through dialogue with non-Orthodox traditions, particularly Roman Catholicism, may appear noble on the surface, but it raises theological and political questions.
