Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Overdue...
Are "defending" "Holy Russia" by invading Ukraine. Idiocy
Young Russians:
The Russian Orthodox Church does whatever Putin tells it to do.
They realize that opposing Putin is probably not good for their health.
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico.[2]: 68 [9][10] In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States.
The OCA has its origins in a mission established by eight Russian Orthodox monks in Alaska, then part of Russian America, in 1794. This grew into a full diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. By the late 19th century, the Russian Orthodox Church had grown in other areas of the United States due to the arrival of immigrants from areas of Eastern and Central Europe, many of them formerly of the Eastern Catholic Churches ("Greek Catholics"), and from the Middle East. These immigrants, regardless of nationality or ethnic background, were united under a single North American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
After the Bolshevik Revolution, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow directed all Russian Orthodox churches outside of Russia to govern themselves autonomously.[11] Orthodox churches in America became a self-governing Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America in 1924 under the leadership of Metropolitan Platon (Rozhdestvensky), popularly called the Metropolia (from Russian: митрополия). The Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America was granted autocephaly by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1970, and renamed the Orthodox Church in America. Its hierarchs are part of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America. While the OCA is in full communion with most Eastern Orthodox churches in the world, the OCA's autocephaly is not fully recognized.
Unlike most Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States, the OCA does not have an affinity towards any particular foreign nationality, but most OCA members are ethnically Euro-American, and most OCA clergy are those who are born and raised in the United States. However, the OCA does have other minority ethnic dioceses for Romanian, Bulgarian, and Albanian immigrants. Additionally, as a consequence of history, certain ethnic groups (particularly Russian Americans, Ruthenian Americans and Alaska Natives) are disproportionately represented in the OCA compared to the general population. Liturgical and church traditions, such as forms of singing, liturgics, vestments, iconography, use of Church Slavonic, and architecture broadly reflect those of Russian Orthodoxy.
The OCA states that currently the Russian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Polish, Serbian, and Czech and Slovak churches recognize the autocephaly of the OCA.[8] Among the churches that do not recognize it is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which argues that the Russian Church did not have the authority to grant autocephaly, partly because the Russian Church at the time was considered to be heavily influenced by the Soviet government. The Ecumenical Patriarch also cites Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon, which asserted the jurisdiction of the bishop of Constantinople in dioceses located "among the barbarians" (i.e. outside the Roman Empire), as the source of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's authority in the matter.[12][13] The remaining churches do not recognize the OCA as autocephalous, although they do recognize the self-governing nature of the church. While the subject of political and ecclesiastical dispute, this controversy does not impair the communion between the OCA and the wider Eastern Orthodox Church.
The real battle today is spiritual, between good and evil. It used to be the lines between the two were easy to discern, but now evil is everywhere, having also invaded the Western World. Guard your thought processes as you sort through the fog brought by outside influencers who are after your minds; pray for Devine assistance as you ponder what is right and wrong, good and evil. Search for the Light and abhor darkness.
LOL, Russian Orthodox Church in action:
By declaring a "holy war" against a neighboring Orthodox country?
They should authorize the use of the Holy Hand Grenade. A couple of mega tons on the dancing Z homo should do it.
Bear in mind, Zelenskyy already made that church illegal.
several thoughts:
1. From much of what has been said now and before, the Russians consider places like Eastern Ukraine with heavy Russian populations and heritage, as their own, at least in spirit.
2. NATO’s constant encroachment on Russian borders is a spiritual threat as well as militarily and political.
3. The Russian Orthodox Church is a viable entity within Ukraine.
4. In the days of the Czars, the church and government were both powerful in their own right, and co-mingling of their hierarchy was evident. And that was true not just in Russia, but also the orthodox churches in other eastern European countries, and also between the Roman Catholic churches and governments in the rest of Europe. Oppression of the people by both state and church was not unusual. Many of our ancestors settled in America because of such oppression.
So Russia is just like Al-Quedea, waging “jihad” against its enemies
Russia bans ALL(!) Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church activities in occupied Ukraine region:
https://international.la-croix.com/news/world/russia-bans-all-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-activities-in-occupied-ukraine-region/18838
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Russia’s Religious Persecution and Misinformation in Ukraine:
It should be no surprise that we’re having this conversation today about Russia’s religious persecution in Ukraine. Not only has Russia continued to persecute religious believers since their 2014 invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, but they also do so within their own borders. Russia has been designated a country of particular concern by the State Department, which is a designation reserved for those nations that repress religious freedom and believers within their own borders. This practice has extended with their campaign as I mentioned in 2014 with the initial invasion of Ukraine and has only been exacerbated by the 2022 full scale invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-religious-persecution-and-misinformation-ukraine
“Russian Orthodox Doc Declares ‘Holy War’ in Ukraine”
Putin and the KGB aka FSB approve of this statement.
O Lord save Your people and bless Your inheritance!
The dictator and the Russian Orthodox Church are in a self-satisfying symbiotic relationship, which is not morally supportable, as Christians, given the direct and indirect crimes of the dictator.