Posted on 09/22/2020 6:33:41 PM PDT by marshmallow
Clergy of the Ukrainian Diocese of Zaporozhye cleansed the city square with Holy Water on Sunday after an LGBT “Equality March” was held.
The march, which included the symbolic “marriage” of three lesbian couples, seemed to have been met with indifference by local residents.
“The desecrated place in Zaporozhye has been affused with Holy Water,” Archpriest Gennady Elin, the head of the Zaporozhye Diocese chancery writes on his Facebook page.
“Today’s ‘Sermon on the Mount’ of the sin of fornication and sodomy was ambivalently received by the residents of the Zaporozhye region… But, as they say, you have to condemn the sin not the sinner,” he writes.
“Therefore, after the ‘ceremonies’ dedicated to propagandizing unhealthy lifestyles, we served a moleben For the Admonition of Those Afflicted by Soul-corrupting Passions on the site of these events, and to strengthen the results, we blessed the place with Holy Water,” Fr. Gennady testifies.
According to the Union of Orthodox Journalists, the LGBT rally gathered several hundred people, including from other cities and countries, as well as representatives of international organizations (OSCE, Amnesty International).
Earlier, His Eminence Metropolitan Luke, the outspoken hierarch of the Zaporozhye Diocese called on authorities to ban the LGBT event, though they did not heed his call.
“On September 20, we will witness the desecration of our Zaporozhye land, as part of a parade under LGBT symbols—a public demonstration of sin!” he writes on his Telegram channel.
We are currently witnessing an extreme double standard, His Eminence writes, given that churches are being seized from the canonical Ukrainian Church, parishioners and clergy are being beaten, and people are being deprived of their property for having the wrong religious or political view, and the “democratic” authorities of Ukraine see no violation of human rights in all of this.
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And bleach?
Or Lysol at least.
Yeah, holy bleach.
Well, I know that as Christians we are supposed to "Love God and love each other." But it's not easy to love the people who DELIBERATEY and openly defy God's law by "embracing" their homosexuality. They scream it out at the top of their lungs.
They ALL know that acting out their homosexual feelings is anathema to ALL cultures, past, present and future. Every society knows that it's illegal, immoral, wrong and/or sinful...but.
I know; I know: hate the sin but love the sinner.
Our good Lord will sort it all out...for ENTERNITY.
Phisohex?
Barbicide?
Povidone?
They are lost souls that enduring the consequences of their choices, they need our compassion and prayers. As hard as it is for us to see them flaunting their behavior, I truly believe that many suffer greatly. Perhaps a dysfunctional way to look for love that is missing in their lives.
I vote for the holy bleach
So refreshing to hear about reverent Orthodox maintaining the faith against violent opposition.
Yes
Muriatic acid...
I love the Eastern European approach to all this crap.
:)
Sage. Don’t forget the burning sage.
TOO many people look for love in the wrong places. They KNOW where those "wrong places" are and still go to them. Reminds me of Lucifer who KNEW that his arrogance was wrong but still showed it anyway. He was one of God's favored angels.
They are the authors of their own suffering and all they can do is beg for God's mercy.
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