The Romanian Patriarchate, after His Eminence Theodosius said that it is a sin to go to a Catholic church: “Prayer has no confessional or other borders” – Essential

Romanian Patriarchate spokesman Vasile Bănescu said that access to God cannot be blocked by the “old walls” of theological differences, according to Mediafax.

“Prayer has no confessional or other boundaries. Its only shore is the sky, to which we must all look with equal trust and gratitude. Ancient Theological differences cannot block our access to God anywhere in this world through prayer that elevates us above them ”, affirms the BOR representative.

He says that prayer in a space other than one’s own confession does not affect the identity of faith.

“Praying strictly in context and in another ecclesial space than that visually marked by the symbolism of our own confession does not automatically affect our identity of faith. The important thing is the good situation in our own religious tradition that we really should know, a situation that gives us discernment, balance and civility, even in relation to religious otherness. Only the absence of this good situation in faith, which leads to the failure of the saving relationship with the other, is sin. The vertical of faith and prayer is the only one that can save us from the noisy and suffocating horizontality of our differences. His choice deeply honors us in whatever context we find ourselves in, “Vasile Bănescu also said.