Address of His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East at the Phanar, Constantinople, Sunday 2nd June 2013 PART 7 The second disease is individualism and the interruption of true dialogue between the Orthodox Churches. The interruption of dialogue or limiting it to certain issues, avoiding more sensitive matters, points to the fact that we are unfortunately not ready to accept the other as someone who can question us and our cultural assumptions. It is therefore our duty to listen to others and to seek to hear the best of what others perceive in terms of the beauty and gifts that God has put in all cultures and traditions for the benefit of all. We have to confess that many disagreements could be a source of richness for all, if we look at them with humility and understanding. What does the world expect from us? Your Holiness, you have touched upon much of this in your speeches and especially in the book of dialogues with Olivier Clement. It seems to me that the world is expecting from us prophetic sayings such as those you have uttered on ecological issues and the transfiguration of the earth, on freedom, love, Church, homelands, the societies of consumption and other such challenging issues which characterise the global culture in which we live. I hope we can make the Orthodox Church accept the content of these sayings and live out their meaning.
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