One mild day in Greenland ,
a cruise ship puts His All Holiness Bartholomew I, ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople ashore to climb the hill behind the site of Bratthild, a pagan Norse settlement founded by Erik The Red, and perform a Byzantine liturgy in the ruins of the first Catholic church in the Western hemisphere.
His All Holiness' congregation responds antiphonally with a Moravian protestant mission hymn sung in Inuit
Read the whole strange and elegaic thing here
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