Ukraine, Russia, Fatima: What Is Heaven Telling Us?
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The Consecration of Russia: What Now? Two Facts and Liturgical Providence
On January 14th of this year, we reported that “Catholic Fighting Men in America Launch Crusade Against Communism.” This was a 54-day Rosary crusade beginning on January 31st and ending on March 25th…
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"Our Lady gave us a role to play here too. To participate in the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
These are the First Saturdays of reparation. And that begins this Saturday. If you haven’t done it yet, start now. If you’ve already done it, do it again. Do it every First Saturday and offer it up for those who have neglected this. Offer your daily Rosary. Offer more than one for souls who have not prayed the Rosary. This is our obligation now to renew our commitment to Our Lady and fulfill her requests against the errors of Russia."
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In her Fatima message, Our Lady said that Russia would convert to the Catholic Church. Archbishop Viganò seems to think the opposite, that the West and the Catholic Church herself will convert to the Third Rome, in other words, to schism and heresy.
That is absurd. It is shocking to see it being suggested by a Catholic bishop. Here are Archbishop Viganò’s words in full:
Fr. Caprio answered: “It would take too long to give an exhaustive answer; let’s say they are together from the very origin of Russia. Even during the Soviet Union, when the Orthodox Church was persecuted, Stalin decided to dust it off during Hitler’s invasion to rekindle the patriotic spirit. Thus was born the church of Stalin, a former seminarian who as a child dreamed of becoming the patriarch of Georgia. And Kirill, as a young monk, was raised by Stalin’s group of metropolitans.”15
Bohdan Oghulchanskij is a Ukrainian with “almost thirty years of experience of priesthood, including a long tenure in the Moscow Patriarchate.” He shows the role played by the Russian schismatic church in Russian nationalism: “Religious exceptionalism, self-identification as ‘Holy Russia,’ ‘The Third Rome, and the Fourth cannot be,’ resided in the Russian religious consciousness. . . . [N]ationalism, as many researchers note, is very characteristic of Orthodoxy. . . . n Russia, Orthodoxy has always been an instrument of the imperial state.”16
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That is absurd. It is shocking to see it being suggested by a Catholic bishop. Here are Archbishop Viganò’s words in full:
The Russian Church’s Nationalism
Stefano Caprio, a priest and professor of Russian History and Culture at Rome’s Pontifical Oriental Institute, received this question from journalist Leone Grotti: “Why is the Russian Orthodox Church historically so tied to political power?”Fr. Caprio answered: “It would take too long to give an exhaustive answer; let’s say they are together from the very origin of Russia. Even during the Soviet Union, when the Orthodox Church was persecuted, Stalin decided to dust it off during Hitler’s invasion to rekindle the patriotic spirit. Thus was born the church of Stalin, a former seminarian who as a child dreamed of becoming the patriarch of Georgia. And Kirill, as a young monk, was raised by Stalin’s group of metropolitans.”15
Bohdan Oghulchanskij is a Ukrainian with “almost thirty years of experience of priesthood, including a long tenure in the Moscow Patriarchate.” He shows the role played by the Russian schismatic church in Russian nationalism: “Religious exceptionalism, self-identification as ‘Holy Russia,’ ‘The Third Rome, and the Fourth cannot be,’ resided in the Russian religious consciousness. . . . [N]ationalism, as many researchers note, is very characteristic of Orthodoxy. . . . n Russia, Orthodoxy has always been an instrument of the imperial state.”16
Archbishop Viganò’s Attempt to Justify Putin’s War on Ukraine Runs Counter the Fatima Message
Archbishop Viganò’s Attempt to Justify Putin’s War on Ukraine Runs Counter the Fatima Message. His recent “Declaration on the Russia-Ukraine…
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The Orthodox Masquerade - ‘Patriarch’ Kirill, an Agent of KGB by Lucas Janusckiewicz Coletta
Retired Lt. Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa, former head of Romanian Secret Intelligence, reveals how the Kremlin manipulates religions since the time of Stalin, and the role of the Russian schismatic Chruch in a disinformation campaign to promote Communism
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“On April 11, 1945, the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops were arrested, including Archbishop Josyf Slipyj. From 1920 to 1922, Slipyj had studied at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome and the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1939, with the blessing of Pope Pius XII, Slipyj was consecrated Archbishop of Lvov. He became the head of the UGCC (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) in1944. Then, along with the other Bishops, he was accused of collaboration with the Nazis and sentenced to forced labor in the Siberian Gulag.
“In response, Pius XII issued his Encyclical Orientales Omnes of December 23, 1945. In it the Pope not only condemned Communism; he openly and specifically attacked Moscow Patriarch Alexis.
"The situation got worse March 8-10, 1946, when Soviet authorities forcibly convened an assembly of 216 priests and the so-called Synod of Lvov was held, at which the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was forcibly ‘reunited’ to the Russian Orthodox Church and forced to revoke its union with Rome. The UGCC first became a ‘Church of Silence,’ then a ‘Church of Martyrs,’ as many Ukrainian Catholics who were imprisoned by the communists were tortured and/or murdered.” (Ibid., English ed., p. 91)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_China ...on to Tawain...
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so where are we on Fatima?
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Ukrainian Catholics discuss future of their church in North America
Ukrainian Catholics in North America continue to struggle to develop ways to maintain their Ukrainian religious and ethnic identity amid a larger majority culture that beckons with the siren song of assimilation.
"One takeaway from last October’s Synod of Bishops on “young people, faith and vocational discernment” at the Vatican, was that “our parishes are rightly placed (with) exactly what our young people are searching for,” although “we don’t always use the same language,” she said, adding that “if Jesus were preaching and teaching today, we might think of him as that millennial hipster with some crazy ideas.”
Youth coming together to celebrate also is helpful, according to Timoney, who cited national, regional and local World Youth Day celebrations concurrent with the international World Youth Day as an example. “Young people need help with discernment,” Timoney said. “They need help to make sense of who they are, and who God wants them to be.”
Assimilation into the larger culture is not limited to Ukrainians, said Mar Munoz-Visoso, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church.
“Among Hispanics, kids are speaking English,” Munoz-Visoso said. “They are subject to the same temptations and cultural influence as all of the other kids.” What is needed is “to reach out in a way that is meaningful to them,” she said.
But discipleship is not to be restricted to one’s own group, she added. “The church in Ukraine is missionary in its own identity,” she said. Evangelization should not be limited to just “the ones who speak like me, or look like me, or think like me, but all nations,” as Jesus decreed, she added.
Father Peter Galadza, a Ukrainian Catholic priest and theologian, said the Ukrainian liturgical rites hold an appeal to some non-Ukrainians who have joined the Ukrainian church, which like all Eastern Catholic churches, are in communion with Rome. Still there are some Ukrainian Catholics who harbor resentment of non-Ukrainians worshipping with them.
“We will never allow anyone in our church to look at you and say, ‘What are you doing here? You’re not Ukrainian,'” said the priest, who is director and professor of liturgy at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto."
oh boy...there's lots to discuss here...but elsewhere I guess...lol
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UKRAINE: ZELENSKY BANS THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH! (LINKS)
He just announced that he is banning the Russian Orthodox Church. He’s now banned news stations, political parties, jailed opposition leaders, and now religious organizations.. Links Below: THEY ARE RUNNING BOTH SIDES: https://www.bitchute.com/v…
Zelensky announces a decree banning religious organizations and churches in Ukraine with “ties to.."
Zelensky announces a decree banning religious organizations and churches in Ukraine with “ties to Russia.” His government has also been raiding Ukrainian Orthodox churches and arresting priests. https://t.me/No_BS_NewS/78649
Zelensky launches crackdown against Ukrainian Orthodox Church
It is reported that the Security Council ordered a probe into the existence of legal grounds and compliance with the conditions for using the properties located on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery
"The State Service for Ethnicpolitics and Freedom of Conscience was instructed to conduct a theological examination of the Charter governing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for signs of ecclesiastical and canonical links with the Moscow Patriarchate."
Now that would be an interesting read...
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Ukraine officials press to ban Russian-affiliated religious sects: Zelensky
Ukraine's Security Service reportedly found Russian propaganda at a branch of the Moscow Patriarchate, which is affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church.
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"According to a Facebook post from SBU, the items recovered on Thursday included "books of xenophobic content with offensive fabrications about other nationalities and religions."
"The found brochures deny Ukraine's right to independence, and stress that Russia, Ukraine and Belarus 'cannot be divided,'" read the report.
The SBU also reportedly found printouts of "pro-Russian songs that glorified the 'Russian land' and called for 'the awakening of the mother-Russia.'" All of the materials are being transferred to "relevant expert research," the report said.
The Kyiv Independent also reported that a large number of Russian Orthodox parishes have "switched" to align with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. The outlet said that a record number of 229 parishes left Russia's church in the month of May alone"
...maybe Facebook should be shut down?
Twitter?
Explainer: No, Ukraine’s president hasn’t banned the Orthodox Church - Emerging Europe
A much-shared tweet from a highly questionable source accusing Volodymyr Zelensky of banning Ukraine’s Orthodox Church and arresting priests is way off the mark. When it comes to identifying false news, refusing to take anything that Donald Trump Jr. tweets at face value is a decent rule of...
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"This year, however, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is allowing its congregations for the first time to celebrate Christmas on December 25, according to the western, Gregorian calendar.
It is yet another move away from Russia."
awww...that is nice...
errr sorry
that's horrible...
and the move away from Holy Rus...
Ukraine sacks official who opposed banning the Orthodox Church
Until yesterday, Elena Bogdan headed up the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience.
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