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Ukraine: The Mother of God Destroyed the Soviet Empire.
Zenit ^ | May 25, 2012 | Marie-Pauline Meyer

Posted on 12/29/2013 12:56:58 PM PST by steelhead_trout

Archbishop Schevchuk: As a teenager, at that time I was not aware of the dangers because it was completely a secret and every teenager had his own secret. Neither my mother nor my father were aware of this and this was my personal secret. It was after a year that I understood the dangers that could have resulted had I been discovered by the secret police. My parents: my mother was a music teacher and my father was an engineer. Had I been discovered my parents would have lost their jobs. Many people in Ukraine, in the past, who were discovered were either imprisoned or exiled. At that time, however, I did not fully understand nor was I aware of the dangers and the persecution, which was going on in Ukraine.

Q: So nothing happened to you?

Archbishop Schevchuk: Thanks be to God nothing happened. For me and my own perspective, in order for me to openly become a priest, the Mother of God had to destroy the Soviet Union. I remember praying; it is impossible for humans to destroy the evil of the Soviet empire but for God nothing is impossible.

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TOPICS: Catholic; History; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: atheistic; coldwar; collapse; communism; divineintervention; ukraine
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Divne intervention--perhaps in the form of the Virgin Mary-destroyed the USSR. God was tired of the persistent atheism and persecution of God's People in the USSR, and so decided to finish with it, once and for all. This is something the US and Western Europe, along with other "advanced" nations, should keep in mind with our tolerance of sodomy and depravity. It also shows that it wasn't economics that destroyed the USSR, but depravity, cruelty and godlessness that inevitably attracted God's wrath.
1 posted on 12/29/2013 12:56:58 PM PST by steelhead_trout
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To: steelhead_trout

The Virgin Mary was a mortal human being. God might have had a hand in it though


2 posted on 12/29/2013 12:59:34 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: steelhead_trout

Pope John Paul II certainly played a part in it, as did Ronald Reagan. And Polish Catholics.


3 posted on 12/29/2013 1:04:11 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: GeronL

Catholics believe in her less than divinity/ more than common mortal status. There was her Assumption into heaven body and soul. And ‘the seed of the woman shall crush the serpents head. ‘


4 posted on 12/29/2013 1:17:21 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Cicero
Pope John Paul II certainly played a part in it, as did Ronald Reagan. And Polish Catholics.

Zactly, and let us not forget Maggie Thatcher.

5 posted on 12/29/2013 1:22:22 PM PST by VRW Conspirator ( 2+2 = V)
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To: VRW Conspirator

And thank God the CDU, under Helmut Kohl, was in power in West Germany at the time.


6 posted on 12/29/2013 1:36:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: GeronL

God ‘might’ have had a hand in it?

Well I guess if the Mother of God is just another fallen sinner... The God of the Gospels is optional.


7 posted on 12/29/2013 1:41:20 PM PST by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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To: GeronL

It was me! I’m a saint, I brought it all down!

On a serious side, it’s alarming how many people defer to gods rather than God.


8 posted on 12/29/2013 1:49:23 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: steelhead_trout

So, let’s be aware that God still rules the nations and all those practicing child sacrifice are next.


9 posted on 12/29/2013 1:50:48 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Vaquero

Did i miss something? Elijah went into heaven alive, not sure of any others.


10 posted on 12/29/2013 1:51:03 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

I agree.


11 posted on 12/29/2013 1:53:29 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: steelhead_trout

Thanks for posting. BTTT


12 posted on 12/29/2013 1:53:46 PM PST by steve86 (*Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Mary Thatcher!


13 posted on 12/29/2013 1:57:49 PM PST by cornelis
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To: Bulwyf

According to the Catholic bible, Elijah died.


14 posted on 12/29/2013 2:00:17 PM PST by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY.)
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To: steelhead_trout
Archbishop Schevchuk: Thanks be to God nothing happened. For me and my own perspective, in order for me to openly become a priest, the Mother of God had to destroy the Soviet Union. I remember praying; it is impossible for humans to destroy the evil of the Soviet empire but for God nothing is impossible.

A first year logic student knows god
cannot have a mother or else she is god.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
15 posted on 12/29/2013 2:04:31 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: Bulwyf
not sure of any others.

Enoch

16 posted on 12/29/2013 2:05:50 PM PST by xone
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To: kitkat

I wouldn’t doubt it.


17 posted on 12/29/2013 2:06:23 PM PST by xone
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To: Bulwyf

http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/p/Assumption.htm


18 posted on 12/29/2013 2:12:37 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: steelhead_trout

They locked God outside the Iron Curtain.
On old Satan, they have placed a kingly crown.
But this evil nation will never find salvation
Till the Lord tears the Iron Curtain down.
—Wesley Tuttle, 1952.


19 posted on 12/29/2013 2:20:35 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: kitkat
According to the Catholic bible, Elijah died.

Are you sure? If so give me the passages. I would like to read them. I have a Douay-Rheims bible.

20 posted on 12/29/2013 2:25:18 PM PST by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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