I had the pleasure of having the Cardinal, HE Cardinal Anders Arborelius OCD invited to my home for dinner and brotherly talks. I picked up Brother Anders at 17.00, he declared we are Brothers of Christ with no extra titles, from his HQ and drove him to my home where we had a lovely dinner in my garden: it was fabulous weather. After the dinner, I gave him on the behalf of Priory St Ansgar and Grand Priory of Sweden
the special coin with certificate no 3 and told him the story behind it and the purpose in collecting funds to the orphan children in Ukraine. By receiving this framed coin and certificate he had sponsored with 111,11 Euros. He was very pleased and after receiving the real certificate in a couple of weeks he would most likely have it in his office.
Brother Anders really liked our efforts in Ukraine and told me that he will appoint a Ukraine Priest this coming autumn and we will most certainly have a joint project regarding Ukraine after his installation. He was also curious about our transportation of the collected clothes and toys and would like to have ongoing reports.
Brother Anders than got an honorable membership certificate and pin as Serving Brother in St Ansgar. Even that was to his great amusement and he would check if that was “OK with Rome”, which he believed would be.
Then I presented him with our idea of having a jo
int Knight event with mass, dinner and a joint aid projects for homeless children in Stockholm next year.
If we are successful it will be a joint venture together with the two branches of the Lazarus Order, the Knights Templars, the Order of the Holy Grave, SMOM and the Johannites Order together with the Catholic Church, the Swedish Protestant Church, the Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Churches of Sweden. We will also
invite our Princess Viktoria and Prince Daniel since they run an aid project for children with single parents and parents with a lack of monetary stability.
Brother Anders really liked the project and was clearly interested in participating. He wanted me to make a presentation of the material in English so he could show the project to the Vatican on his next visit. Next week I will contact our Archbishop in Sweden and after that the others too.