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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nSummer Institute for the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, organized by the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI) with participation of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, began its work on the 26th <\/sup>of August 2016. Among the Institute participants are: members of the Catholic clergy and laypeople from Italy, France, Spain and Romania, who are studying at the Pontifical universities in Rome, Vatican staff members and representatives of the academic community of the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n
On the 27th<\/sup> of August, which happened to be the eve of the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God, the attendees of the Institute went to the all-night vigil service at the church of the \u201cJoy to All the Afflicted\u201d Icon of the Mother of God in Bolshaya Ordynka Street, Moscow. After the vigil they were welcomed by the Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, dean of the church, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies.<\/p>\n The Metropolitan said the following in his greeting: \u00abToday I would like to greet all the attendees of the Summer Institute, which is organized annually by the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies in August. Dear brothers, throughout the next few days you will have an opportunity to visit churches, take part in \u00a0services,\u00a0 come into contact with the sacred objects of our Church, and also learn Russian. I would like to wish you every success and God\u2019s help. May the Holy Mother of God, our mutual Heavenly Mother, protect us against every evil and cover us with her honourable omophorion\u00bb.<\/p>\n Within the framework of a two week-long program of the Summer Institute, its participants will visit the \u00a0Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s synodal institutions and theological schools, holy places, historical and cultural sights of Moscow and Saint Petersburg.\u00a0 Renowned scholars and church experts are going to acquaint the attendees of the Institute with the spiritual and cultural life of Russia, and will also discuss the relationship between the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches. Daily Russian language lessons will also be organized for the listeners of the Institute.<\/p>\n The project of the Summer Institute, which is organized with the financial support of the \u00abRusskiy Mir\u00bb foundation and the Catholic foundation \u00abUrbi et Orbi\u00bb, is aimed to strengthen the academic and humanitarian cooperation between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Holy See, which is especially significant in light of the historical meeting between the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill and Pope Francis in Havana on the 12th<\/sup> of February 2016.<\/p>\n Summer Institute classes will last until the 4th<\/sup> of September.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer Institute for the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, organized by the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI) with participation of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, began its work on the 26th of August 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":135234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}