churches officially still clung to the strict interpretation of laws established long ago and intended to protect the faithful from falling into error, laws that prohibited intercommunion with other Christian denominations. Such laws seemed to have little relevance to the situations in which we found ourselves in Siberia, and the faithful were the first to sense this. They wanted to worship God, to practice their religion, and to them it was the same Triune God who was worshiped and adored in the churches, the same Christ who was offered in the sacrifice of the Mass no matter which rite was
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