Statement by His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew at Yad Vashem Holocaust
Memorial (Jerusalem, 27 May 2014)
All who descend into the inner chamber of the
museum are free to walk away when they chose,
and return to the sunlight. Such was not the
case for these 1.5 million children whose lives
were taken from them through hatred and
unspeakable violence.
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Patriarchal Exhortation by His All-Holiness
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the Orthodox
Delegations (Jerusalem, May 26, 2014)
It is our God-given mandate to bring
discipleship to the world around us. And by
discipleship, we mean the discipline bequeathed
to us by our Lord to have compassion for one
another and the natural environment. We are
called and commanded to share with others the
gifts that we have received and the joy that we
have experienced on this Holy Mountain of Zion
and in the Holy City of Jerusalem.
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Toast by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew at the Dinner Hosted by His Holiness
Pope Francis (Jerusalem, May 25, 2014)
This meal comes at the end of a long journey,
which began for Your Holiness at the West and
for our Modesty in the East. We have arrived in
the place where East and West converge, to the
roots of our very existence as Christians, the
place where our Lord was born, taught, suffered
the Cross, rose from the dead, ascended into
heaven and sent the Holy Spirit to constitute
His Church.
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Homily by His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew at the Joint Prayer
Service (Holy Sepulcher, May 25, 2014)
It is with awe, emotion and respect that we
stand before “the place where the Lord lay,” the
life-giving tomb from which life emerged. And we
offer glory to the all-merciful God, who
rendered us, His unworthy servants, worthy of
this supreme blessing to become pilgrims in the
place where the mystery of the world’s salvation
transpired.
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Joint Declaration by Pope Francis and
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (25 May,
2014)
Common Declaration of Pope Francis and
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed at the
Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem on the
occasion of the 50th anniversary of the meeting
between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch
Athenagoras.
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Patriarchal Exhortation by His All-Holiness
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the
Delegations of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
(Jerusalem, May 24, 2014)
The meeting in Jerusalem on January 6, 1964, was
an extraordinary starting-point for a long
journey of reconciliation and dialogue, which
the succeeding generations were called to
continue. Looking back at the last fifty years,
we can be grateful to God for what has been
achieved both in the “dialogue of love” and in
the “dialogue of truth.” The spirit of fraternal
love and mutual respect has replaced the old
polemic and suspicion.
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Greeting of His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew at the Doxology at the
Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem (24 May,
2014)
You, the youth of Bethlehem, are the hope and
the future of your homeland. Remain faithful to
your historical mission and preserve
unextinguished the flame of our Orthodox faith
in this land, where the Lord initiated His work
of salvation for the whole world. Your presence
here as Orthodox Christians is of immense
importance. Continue your work with the same
passion. May God be with you!
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Greeting of His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew at the Reception by His
Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem (23
May, 2014)
Greeting of His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew at the reception by His
Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem
at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem during the 50th
anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI
and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras (23 May,
2014).
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Address of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos
III of Jerusalem to His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew on His Visit to the
Patriarchate of Jerusalem after the Doxology (23
May, 2014)
Address of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos
III of Jerusalem to His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew on His Visit to the
Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Throne Room of
the Jerusalem Patriarchate after the Doxology
(23 May, 2014).
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Address of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos
III of Jerusalem to His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew at the Doxology at the
All-Holy Church of the Resurrection (23 May,
2014)
Address of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos
III to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew at the Doxology at the All-Holy
Church of the Resurrection (23 May, 2014) on the
occasion of Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew's visit to Jerusalem to
commemorate the 50th anniversary of the meeting
between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch
Athenagoras in 1964.
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