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stopped fearing to face opposition and criticism and have total confidence in our Lord,
knowing that where I lack He will always fill, in spite of my insufficiency, and His works will
end up always glorious.
Approaching the Orthodox priests, monks and bishops to acknowledge the Pope and to
reconcile with sincerity with the Roman Church is not an easy task as our Lord says in one of
the messages; it is like trying to swim in the opposite direction of a strong current, but after
having seen how our Lord suffers in our division I could not refuse our Lord’s request when
asked to carry this cross; therefore, I have accepted this mission, yet not without having gone
through (and still going through) many fires.
You have asked: “Why do you take up this mission?” My answer is, because I was called by
God, I believed and I answered Him; therefore, I want to do God’s will. One of Christ’s first
words were: “
Which house is more important, your house or My House
?” I answered,
“Your
House, Lord.” He said: “
Revive My House, embellish My House and unite it.
”
Some of the Greek Orthodox hierarchy totally reject me, first because they do not believe
me
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, secondly because I am a woman and thirdly because a woman should not speak. Some
of the monks are suspicious of me saying that I am probably a Trojan horse sent and paid by
the Pope, or that I am even a Uniate. Many do not want to hear of reconciliation or
ecumenism. They consider it heresy if I pray with the Roman Catholics. That is where they
see it as standing above both Churches without being committed to either. I am full and
wholly committed to my Church but it is not heresy nor a sin if I live ecumenically and pray
with other Christians to promote unity. The key to unity though, according to our Lord in the
writings, is humility and love. Many of the people of the Churches do not have this key yet.
Many of the Greek Orthodox lay people but as well as the simple priest around the corner, up
to the monk in a remote monastery would call the Roman Catholic Church to this day heretic
and dangerous; they are taught to believe this since their birth and it is wrong. Yet, I believe
that in their rigidity they can change through a metanoia and the power of the Holy Spirit
who will make them bend and through the prayers of the faithful. In our gatherings we pray
to God for this change of heart.
Nevertheless, it is not a question of them alone bending. Everyone must bend in humility and
love. The people of each Church should be willing to die to their ego and to their rigidity and
then through this act of humility and obedience to the truth, Christ’s presence will be shining
in them. I believe that through this act of humility, the Churches’ past and present failures
will be washed away and unity will be accomplished. I never lose hope to approach the
Orthodox and this is why I always keep returning to them to give them my testimony. My
testimony is given reminding them of our Lord's words: “may they be one in us, as you are in
me and I am in you, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me,” (Jn 17:21). In this
manner, despite the obstacles, a few ecumenical prayer groups were formed in Athens and in
Rhodes with Orthodox priests included in them. All these prayer groups start by praying the
Rosary, then other prayers. Nevertheless, it is not only rejection I get from the Orthodox
hierarchy because of the reasons I mentioned above, but our Lord has provided me with a
good number of Greek Orthodox clergy friends as well.
The Bishop of Rome
Our Lord gave me an interior vision of three iron bars symbolizing the three major Christian
bodies, Catholics, Orthodox and Protestant Christians, calling their heads to meet by
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Although in our book of the doctrine of the Orthodox Church, Book I, published in 1997 by Mr. Trembelas, on
p. 79 it reads: “Revelations are defined as an act taken by God by which He notifies His reasonable creatures
about the mysteries of His existence, nature and will, according to their limited intellectual capacity…”