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Patriarch Kirill: “Any Desire to Destroy Russia Will Mean the End of the World”
Pravoslavie ^ | 1/20/23

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.

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TOPICS: Ministry/Outreach; Orthodox Christian; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: apostasy; fakechurch; kgb; kirill; terrorists
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To: dfwgator

Putin wants to put the ‘slave’ back in Slav.


61 posted on 01/20/2023 9:19:26 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: buwaya

No pope has done as Our Lady has requested.

And Russia will not be converted until a pope does it as requested.


62 posted on 01/20/2023 9:21:28 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: buwaya

I can understand your points.


63 posted on 01/20/2023 9:21:36 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Salohcin

” but Russia does want to destroy Ukraine.”

Link please.


64 posted on 01/20/2023 10:55:18 PM PST by BobL
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To: Brilliant

“Putin is trying to destroy Russia.”

Link please.


65 posted on 01/20/2023 10:56:03 PM PST by BobL
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To: MarMema

“A lot of Freepers seem to think this is a fun video war game.”

It does really appear that way. The Ukraine Cheerleaders seem to think that since Russia has not gone nuclear yet, that they will NEVER go nuclear, and they’ll site there quietly while China takes over Mexico and puts troops and missiles on our Southern Border (which is what Russia is looking at, on their southern border).

Unfortunately, we likely have to, once again, go through their ‘learning curve’ regarding other cultures and how they are willing to fight to preserve them, except we won’t have too many cities left this time.


66 posted on 01/20/2023 11:01:46 PM PST by BobL
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To: Brian Griffin

“Russians in the conflict area feel they have gotten shafted by Ukraine”

Not quite - it’s more like they feel Ukraine has been shafted by the West - otherwise they actually would have declared war on Ukraine and sent in far more troops.

In any case, it ends the same way, with Ukraine no longer being a threat to Russia.


67 posted on 01/20/2023 11:05:05 PM PST by BobL
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To: caww

“When last checked there were 6 million Russians in Ukraine in Eastern Ukraine areas.”

He’s just playing some lawyer crap. Technically, they’re Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and most were ok with living in Ukraine, until we activated the Azovs to terrorize them (standard US M.O., as seen in many other countries). Regardless, they’re all Slavs, so they are pretty much the same people.


68 posted on 01/20/2023 11:10:43 PM PST by BobL
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To: Quentin Quarantino

Yes, they are.


69 posted on 01/20/2023 11:18:07 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: buwaya

“You know, for all the socialism and enviro-nuttery and pro-(the wrong kind of) immigrant fads, Europe seems way more sane.”

Making Greta their ‘Energy Czar’ and supporting repopulation of their race’s are far from minor issues, in fact Greta will get them to Third World, and the Migrants will assure that they never exist as Europeans again.


70 posted on 01/20/2023 11:19:10 PM PST by BobL
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To: marshmallow

Russia and the russian orthodox church is demonic.


71 posted on 01/21/2023 1:49:21 AM PST by KOZ.
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To: ETCM

LOL good one


72 posted on 01/21/2023 2:26:36 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Salohcin

bttt


73 posted on 01/21/2023 2:28:47 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: marshmallow

Who desires to destroy russia?

putin seems to be doing it, doesn’t he?

he has turned russia into a pariah nation in less than a year

what will he do this year?


74 posted on 01/21/2023 2:28:52 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Williams

“Oh I see all the dead Ukrainians were trying to “globohomo” Russia. That explains it.

Not”

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The United States of America and their new order globalist accomplices are forcefully instilling demonic sexual deviancy on the whole world and if you can’t see that you’re thick.

And if you think this war is about Ukraine, you’re simple-minded. This WWIII is about an attempt to remove the last superpower that is resisting atheistic totalitarian authoritarianism.

But, we’ve already discussed that and concluded you are thick and simple-minded. I repeat it only for the sake of badgering you with the truth again.


75 posted on 01/21/2023 3:11:18 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: MarMema

I read some of your posts. Right now, you sound like you are preparing to die.

Sometimes, the problems of the world appear to pile up on a person’s shoulders.

I am praying that whatever may be convincing you, that it has a terminal grip on your thinking, you may consider that you can - without harming yourself and others - give your self a break.

You would be surprised to find out, some time in our future, that an encounter with someone whose life and situation improved - because you showed up in the nick of time to help them with a personal matter - is important to whom you helped, and to you, and to God.

I was thinking about you, given that you mention your previous trips to Russia, because a friend of mine was born there. Her parents (both, communists) brought her to our country, the USA, when she was a child in the late 1980’s.

My young friend’s grandfather was a high-ranking KGB officer well above V. Putin.

A colleague of my young friend, was a young mother with two very young children. This colleague was walking down a hallway one day, close to where the both worked, and I was following by about 20 steps, when I could tell that the young mother was somehow in trouble.

I followed the young mother to where she sat down, and I walked around to the front of her table. Standing there, I told her that I knew her life was in danger.

She replied that she intended to commit suicide just a couple hours later that very afternoon.

I then spoke as if by miracle. The words of God’s love for her flowed from me, as if I knew the Bible by heart. For about 3 - 5 minutes. She was stunned and burst into tears.

She replied, “How did you know I was in trouble?”

I knew.

She thought that her desparate status was her burden alone.

I stood by her for a long time, while she relaxed and regained a toehold on life.

That afternoon, I wrote her a letter and returned to where she worked, handing the letter to her - so she would have something to hold onto; something to remind her at some time in our future.


76 posted on 01/21/2023 3:16:49 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: jacknhoo

>> Russia: You will not globohomo us. <<

Russia was ready to ban abortion, until Putin rode in mostly naked on horseback to rally the sexually compulsive.


77 posted on 01/21/2023 4:40:50 AM PST by dangus
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To: caww

>> Your intense and often irrational hatred of Russians fits perfectly with the description of Russo’phobia’..... the people who hate Russia do so because of the anti-Russian rhetoric in our media. <<

You really can’t think of anything else that happened since last February that could get people angry at Putin?


78 posted on 01/21/2023 4:44:08 AM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

I’m not addressing that but those people who ARE phobic and some on these threads are apparent....failing to see the entire picture.


79 posted on 01/21/2023 5:14:11 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: dangus

Just so you know that post was addressed to an individual


80 posted on 01/21/2023 5:15:03 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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