Posted on 01/20/2023 6:49:51 PM PST by marshmallow
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrated the feast of Theophany in the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow on Thursday, where he offered a rather stark warning in his homily: “Any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world.”
Beginning his homily for the feast, the Russian primate emphasized that the meaning of the feast is that the grace of God appeared not just for the Jews, not just for the Apostles, but for all men, as St. Paul says (cf. Tit. 2:11),” reports Patriarchia.ru.
The words of God are immortal, he continued, as evidenced by the fact that the Orthodox faithful continue to celebrate the same feasts and offer the same prayers, year after year, century after century. “His preaching has no end; the power of grace will never be cut off,” Pat. Kirill preached.
When we celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Jordan during the Lord’s Baptism, we remember that the Lord is always with us through His grace, without which the world would have ceased to exist long ago, he continued.
And turning to current events, His Holiness continued:
Today we know that there are very big threats to the world, to our country, and to the entire human race, because some crazy people had the idea that a great Russian power with powerful weapons, populated by very strong people who from generation to generation have always been motivated to win, who have never surrendered to any enemy, who always emerged victorious—that they can either be defeated in the current conditions, or, as they say now, be reformatted, that is, impose certain “values” on them, which can’t be called values, so they would be like everyone else and obey those who have the power to control most of the world.
This desire to........
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TS considering Vladolf Putler is destroying Russia.
I’m a lifelong republican conservative, MAGA. And I despise the left.
But these folks are such extreme kooks they actually believe their own country is the enemy and dictatorial Russia is a savior!
And Putin is directing his propaganda to them because he knows they swallow it hook line and sinker.
Putin’s Russia is a nightmare for any liberty loving conservative.
But these idiots think Putin is going to save them from “homos” or something.
Russia - abortions, divorce, no fee speech, murders political opponents, no free press, no gun rights, no free elections, totally corrupt.
And WEF? What kind of world order do these idiots think Russia, China, N Korea, Syria and Iran are going to impose?
Good point. He’s invading because Russia needs the food, industry, and manpower because its population is crumbling.
A friend with a lot of background on Russia says they are weak because Putin has eliminated any possible opposition and they have no leaders to call on. He’s even throwing his own cronies off balconies if they imply any criticism.
Your description of the ethnic situation in Ukraine is utterly false. Every ethnographic study for the past 150 years has shown that every oblast in Ukraine, except for Crimea, has always had a majority ethnic Ukrainian population, not Russian. This includes Donetsk and Luhansk. The ethnic Russian majority in Crimea only dates from after WW2 when Stalin deported the Tartar majority to the interior of Russia.
Published in 1879:
https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1879_nation_europe1.jpg
Published in 1914:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/09/3d/0f093d9ed319ed61b678a225cb86a69e.jpg
Published in 1949:
https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wMWjtUSAXoQ1.jpg
Published in 2001:
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hL85-21M0a4/VyigQss_JpI/AAAAAAAACTc/iZwo8Q8ZCIYyG8j-kdr8Hul2BTNPP0M8wCLcB/s1600/781f6031609e52f92003a7098d5fd73a.jpg
Even today, only 17% of the Ukrainian population identifies as Russian:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/People
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/major-ethnic-groups-of-the-ukraine.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine
When last checked there were 6 million Russians in Ukraine in Eastern Ukraine areas.
To be fair, we are looking at an era of madness in the US, wherin the kooks on the other side seem to be prevailing. This creates counter-kooks. But they are all still kooks.
You know, for all the socialism and enviro-nuttery and pro-(the wrong kind of) immigrant fads, Europe seems way more sane.
Exactly- the patriarch seems not to know the bible very well- We have at the very least 1007 more years, likely many more years- but definitely that many left-
Reminds me of the joke about the ant crawling up the elephants tail ... with rape on its mind.
Why would we want to destroy Russia anyway? It's far crueler just to let them suffer.
Russian speakers, but not necessarily people who want to be ruled by Moscow.
The US and Eastern Europe and Western Europe and etc. other countries are also full of Russians who don’t want to be ruled by Moscow, maybe 15 million of them.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is a Putin Stooge POS.
MeganC’s comment was specifically against Terrorist Putin Supports. Not against people who are Russian. You owe an apology.
So much for Beroglio’s so-called “consecration” of Russia (and the Ukraine) to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
That’s out of a total population for Ukraine of 48 million. Ethnic Ukrainians are the majority in both Luhansk and Donetsk.Ethnic Russians are only 39% of the population of Luhansk and 38% of Donetsk.
The Russian minority is even smaller in the rest of the so-called “Novorossiya”:
— Zaporizhzhia Oblast: 25%
— Kherson Oblast: 14%
— Mykolaiv Oblast: 14%
— Odesa Oblast: 21%
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine
I rather like most Russians and wish they’d end this pointless and futile war.
I even used to like Putin. Check my old posts and you’ll see.
Thank you. It seems to be a recurring troll tactic to purposefully miscast other people’s posts and I’m used to it now.
Somebody wants Slavs constantly at each others throats. Putin is fulfilling their plan.
Francis is the fourth Pope to have done this. Piux IX, Paul VI and John Paul II did the same. I guess if it didn’t take, try, try again.
This is a plea for aid in resolving Russia’s problems, which are in fact spiritual.
Don’t fool yourself. This is being driven by no one other than Putin himself.
Lol
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