The Vision of the Movement

I was not there on the sixteenth of March of the year 1942. I had not seen anyone enter that hall in which the founding of the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) was declared. My parents had to wait ten more years to meet each other, and another seven to give birth to me. I am not getting myself into an event which some of you might consider it insanity that I get myself into. Nevertheless, I would be insane if I do not say that I do not consider the founding an event of a bygone past, but rather that it is ongoing every day, in every young man and young woman towards whom God moved in the mystery of commitment to the regeneration of the Church. I admit. This awareness has kept me from considering the Movement as an affiliation with individuals, notwithstanding my love to all the members of the Movement; indeed: whomever they are. Affiliation with the Movement is a belonging to the action of the Holy Spirit in an ever-present expanse. This is not a denial of His action in history and people, but rather faithfulness to the vision that He had launched in history and people. This is the perfection of vision.