Posted on 08/03/2016 11:08:13 AM PDT by NRx
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes that increasing number of Orthodox churches in Russia is testimony that the mission of the Russian Orthodox Church is something the people want.
"Over the last six years our Church increased by 5,000 churches and 10,000 clergymen, which means that people need the Church’s mission. There could not be such growth in the Church if there were no demand. That is why we feel so special when we place the foundations of new churches," the patriarch said at the ceremony of laying the first stone in the foundation of the Assumption Cathedral of the Sarov Hermitage, where St. Seraphim of Sarov lived.
According to Patriarch Kirill, this is a testimony to "the faith of our people, their spiritual power, to the vector of spiritual and even social development that connects material prosperity with spiritual growth."
The patriarch has recently said that churches in Russia are built because people have the need, and not by command from the hierarchy.
"This is not because someone ordered to build [a church], but because of enormous strength of the faith of our people, who support the authorities’ wish," the Church primate said on July 28 after consecrating the restored Church of Smolensk icon of the Mother of God in Oryol.
It’s as if they consider Stalin to be just another Czar, like Ivan the Terrible, instead of a Communist.
“moonbatty” is somebody who listens to Russian trolls like NRx and believes them. Open your eyes.
The icon is blasphemous and has been severely condemned by the Orthodox Church. The people promoting this stuff are the Russian equivalent to the Westboro Baptists. They have no connection outside of their own imagination to the Orthodox Church.
Did a poster actually claim that the Orthodox Church is more violent than ISIS??
How incredibly ignorant & bigoted can one be? Whoever posted that needs mental help.
What in God’s name makes you think the Church of Greece is dead?
That is not the Russian Orthodox Church.
That is a small group of neo-Communists who have been very vocally denounced as blasphemous by the Russian Orthodox Church.
That is why you don’t see them in a church building.
That is why you don’t see any priests among them.
That is why the flags you see (besides the permanent displays in the background) are all Communist flags, not the flags of Russia.
That is why you don’t see anyone praying.
I also notice that every single post you’ve made the entire year is attacking the Russian Orthodox church. So who’s the troll?
Of course not. Don't be an idiot.
The fact that the neo-Stalinists figure they have to disguise themselves as Christians doesn't mean the Christians are really all a bunch of neo-Stalinists; it means that the neo-Stalinists have to lie about who they are because Christianity is so important to the Russians.
Curious: just what is it you think you see in that picture?
Do you know the meaning of that emblem?
Do you know who those people are?
A religious icon depicting Soviet leader Josef Stalin has sparked controversy in Russia's Saratov region, Region64 news site reported this week.
The icon, which portrays Stalin standing beneath the Virgin Mary and flanked by Soviet field marshals, was presented as a gift to employees of the Engels Air Base by the Izborsk Club — a patriotic Russian group that has previously urged Russian defense reform to mitigate against a possible nuclear strike from the United States.
The icon was presented by Izborsk Club director Alexander Prokhanov during a ceremony Tuesday in which an Orthodox priest recited a prayer before blessing the icon and sprinkling it with water from the Volga River.
The local Orthodox Church archdiocese said the priest who led the service had been wrong to do so, describing the icon as a "brazen provocation" and based on a "perversion of religious and patriotic sentiments," the Ridus.ru news website reported. "It does not constitute an icon in the proper sense of the word," Church authorities were quoted as saying.
Well, the commies always told the proletariat people what to do, so this is, I think, more of the same: Russian control-ski over the people, atheists or Russian Orthodoxy.
“Don’t be an idiot.” right back at you.
Yes, I know who and what these people are. They are the reason for my posts.
Yet you write as though they are representative of the Russian Orthodox Church as a whole.
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