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Some months ago, the Very Reverend Archpriests from Lithuania, Vladimiras Seliavko and Vitalijus Mockus, and the Reverend Presbyters Vitalis Dauparas, Gintaras Sungaila and Georgy Ananiev, who were imposed the penalty of deposition from the priesthood by the Patriarchate of Moscow, addressed His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch by letter to exercise the petition of appeal before Him, as they are entitled.

Uno dei Detti dei Padri del Deserto recita: “Uno dei padri raccontò che vi era un monaco molto laborio­so, che indossava una stuoia. Si recò un giorno da abba Ammone. L’anziano lo vide vestito da una stuoia e gli disse: «Questo non ti giova a nulla».