Jakarta, May 2/15, 2025
Your Beatitude, Most Reverend
Hierarchs, Christ is Risen!
I thank you because, thanks to
your prayers, I have returned normally to my duties after about 2 months of
health problems. From the beginning of Great Lent until Bright Week, I had to
be frequently hospitalized in a hospital in the city of Kediri, in East Java,
staying at my sister’s nearby house in order to reduce the cost of continuous
hospital stay. I returned on April 30, 2025.
A few days before my return, I
received a message from His Eminence Metropolitan of Demetrias, kyr Photios,
concerning a condolence announcement for the repose of Pope Francis, which had
been posted on the website of the Indonesian Orthodox Church. I immediately
gave the order for it to be removed, which was done. Our team responsible for
updating the website had posted it with a view toward public relations, taking
into account the good social relations our faithful have here with our Roman
Catholic compatriots. We have good social relations with nearly all our
compatriots, regardless of religion, except only with our former Orthodox
brethren of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Patriarchate of Moscow, who are
waging war against us.
However, this posting reveals a
significant problem we are facing. While both I and my collaborators accepted
the Confession of Faith and, in general, everything that the Church of the
Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece accepts—and there were no objections from
our flock either (for those who may have had objections had the option of
attending the local parishes of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the
Patriarchate of Moscow)—there still remain deficiencies with regard to the
integration of this teaching into our daily life and mindset, which, by force
of habit, remains in many of us here as it was before our incorporation into
the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece.
Already from the first visit of
His Eminence Metropolitan of Demetrias, kyr Photios, here in Indonesia
in 2019, we have corrected many things that we were not doing properly and
which he pointed out to us. Surely, there are still other things that we must
correct, and we want to do so, but we need your help.
We believe that Greece is the
source of Orthodoxy, and we desire to have the opportunity to send our
Indonesian youth as prospective clergy there to stay with you, in order to
properly learn the Greek language, the ecclesiastical rites, but above all the
Orthodox faith and life. We want these young people to live with you for a few
years and to acquire the mindset of true Orthodox Christians, so that when they
return to Indonesia, they may also be able to transmit to our flock here all
that they will have learned from you in Greece.
We know that there are many
practical difficulties in this, but we ask you to consider it, to pray for it,
and if it is set as a goal, perhaps the Lord will bless it and the difficulties
of the endeavor will be overcome.
We ask for your prayers and
kindly beg you to forgive us for our mistakes.
Christ is Risen!
Daniel, Bishop of Nicopolis
Greek
source: https://www.ecclesiagoc.gr/index.php?view=article&id=2359%3Aepistoli-theofil-episkopou
The
entirety of the post in question:
Original:
Segenap
Pengurus Gereja Orthodox Indonesia mengucapkan Turut Berbelasungkawa atas
meninggalnya Paus Fransiskus pada hari ini, Senin tanggal 21 April 2025 di
kediamannya di Casa Santa Marta, Vatikan Roma dalam usia 88 Tahun.
English
translation:
All
the Administrators of the Orthodox Church of Indonesia express their
condolences for the death of Pope Francis today, Monday, April 21, 2025, at his
residence in Casa Santa Marta, Vatican, Rome, at the age of 88.
Source
(since deleted): https://gerejaorthodox.id/turut-berbelasungkawa-paus-fransiskus/
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