Posted on 06/01/2018 8:04:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
While thousands of public objects dedicated to Lenin and other infamous communists remain throughout Russia, Ukraine, and other Post-Soviet states, they are being slowly replaced in various localities, and it is a cause for rejoicing for any believing Orthodox Christian anytime this happens.
The latest triumph of the Church over communism occurred on May 22 in the village of Novoselskoe in the Odessa Province in Southwestern Ukraine, when a statue of St. Nicholas was installed in the center of the village on a pedestal that once supported a monument to Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet leader responsible for the persecution and deaths of millions.
The Lenin monument was dismantled as part of decommunization, and the village council decided a year ago to install a monument to the great St. Nicholas, who is the patron of the village church, reports Trassa E-95.
The installation took place during the celebration of Village Day.
Then, following the festive Pentecost Divine Liturgy, the faithful of the St. Nicholas Church held a procession to the new sculpture and took part in the ceremony for the opening and consecrating of the monument. The rite was celebrated by Archimandrite Peter (Marku) from the village church.
(Excerpt) Read more at orthochristian.com ...
> Monument to St. Nicholas Replaces Lenin in Odessa Province <
Wow. I sure don’t want to be around when someone tells Bernie Sanders about this.
Google the Holodomor. Stalin starved 6-7 million to death.
Ping
Now please pass this memo onto Russia where Lenin statues abound and where his body still remains for all to see in an open grave in Moscow.
> Lenin statues abound <
I think Putin is just playing the odds here. There is some value to keeping the veneration of Lenin going. So Putin allows it. And there is some value to restoring the old Russian Orthodox Church. So Putin allows it.
Communist ideology, which is very similar to Christianity, in fact. Freedom, equality, brotherhood, justice — all of this is enshrined in the Holy Scripture, it's all there. And what about the Code of the Builders of Communism? This is a sublimation, it's really just a primitive excerpt from the Bible, nothing new was invented."
Look, Lenin was put in a mausoleum. How is this different from the relics of saints for Orthodox Christians...”
- Vladimir Putin, January 2018
See post 7.
It should have been replaced with a statue of Catherine the Great.
She built that city.
It was marshland, swamp and a fishing pier before she gave the order.
It was marshland, swamp and a fishing pier before she gave the order. <<
Leave it to a woman to ruin a good fishing hole....
O heavenly King, O Comforter, the Spirit of Truth
who are in all places and fillest all things:
Treasury of good things and Giver of life:
Come and dwell in us and cleanse us from every stain,
and save our souls, O good One.
Like Seattle for instance
He is named in the preparation of the Byzantine Mass. St. Nicholas became recognized as a saint long before the Roman Catholic Church began the regular canonizing procedures in the late 10th century. Therefore, he does not have a specific date of canonization, rather records of him exist in a gradual spread until his stories became widley known and celebrated. St. Nicholas' feast day is December 6.
He is the patron saint for businessmen, students and thieves and sailors.
St. Nicholas is celebrated as the patron saint of several classes of people, especially, in the East, of sailors and in the West of children. The first of these patronage is most likely due to the legend that during his lifetime, he appeared to storm tossed mariners who invoked his aid off the coast of Lycia and brought them safely to port.
Sailors in the Aegean and Ionian seas, following a common Eastern custom, had their "star of St. Nicholas" and wished one another a good voyage in the phrase "May St. Nicholas hold the tiller."
This is one more thing the protestant haters have to hate Russia for - that Russia is more catholic than protestant and is turning from secular humanism. The EU, the new world order wants to take down Russia specifically for the same reason and Russians, already the most paranoid people on earth are fully aware they are targeted for destruction.
There was a big statue of Lenin in Kiev. A few years back the locals point it into pea gravel. They are also renaming cities.
Disappointing...that statue doesn’t look a thing like Santa Claus.
Your posts about the church in the world are so terrific, marshmallow!
They should move Lenin’s body to Seattle where it would be more appropriate.
That makes sense, as there is already a statue of Lenin in the Fremont district of Seattle (really).
By the way, notice that one of Lenin’s hands in post #18 was painted red. Some counter-revolutionary running dog evidently defaced the statue of the great man.
One can only hope that the city of Seattle will raise taxes to pay for a 24/7 guard around the statue.
Thanks, AW!
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