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🇻🇦🇺🇸 Pope Leo XIV:
Jesus told us, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
If we lose Assyrians in Iraq, we lose a people from the *Old Testament* who are preserving *Aramaic*.
If we lose Maronite Christians in Lebanon, we lose the last chance of culture in the Levant.
If we lose Orthodoxy in Syria, we lose every last memory & legacy of Antioch.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 American reporter Jason Jones:
“Trump said Israeli settlements are illegal and must stop, but Israel just approved a new one set to destroy 11,000 Christian homes. It will end the Christian community in Bethlehem.”
What kind of retarded Christian supports this?
Mexican Catholic actor Eduardo Verástegui has urged Catholics to pray outside a hospital in Barcelona, where Noelia Castillo Ramos, a Spanish woman who became paraplegic after attempting suicide following sexual assaults, is scheduled to be euthanized on March 26.
This is the simple, age-old, consistent teaching of the Saints, of the Church, for 2,000 years. Flee those who teach otherwise, introducing novel, delusional eschatologies which lead men to perdition.
Many people do not know about the Miracle of the Holy Fire which does not burn - which occurs every single year for 1,500 years during Lent at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - where Christ was crucified, His body was laid in the tomb, He rose from the dead, trampling down death by death. For Orthodox believers, this is the center of the world, the place where death was defeated and Eternal Life was revealed. The miracle occurs every year on Holy Saturday, the day of Christ’s descent into Hades, just before His Resurrection. The moment between death and Resurrection....
Each year on Holy Saturday, thousands of pilgrims travel to witness and participate in the grace of this Pascha miracle...The tomb of Christ (the Edicule) is inspected and sealed. Then the Orthodox Patriarch enters alone, carrying unlit candles. Inside, in the place where Christ’s body once lay, he prays, and the Holy Fire appears.
When the Patriarch emerges, his candles are lit with the Holy Fire. We see this as the same Divine Light that shone in the darkness of hades appearing to every soul that had ever died since creation. Their savior had come to rescue them. The Holy Fire is a manifestation of the Uncreated Light of Christ (the same divine light revealed at the Transfiguration)
The flame spreads instantly through the crowd, thousands of candles igniting within moments. Each persons candle representing the souls of hades being illumined and saved one by one by by the light and grace of God.
The Holy Fire does not burn like God’s presence in the burning bush that did not consume it, Like Christ Himself in the Womb of the Theotokos. It is passes over the faces and hands of those present, they "bathe" in it, as a kind of "baptism by fire" you can see people washing their face with it. And it's said that it doesn't burn for 33 minutes and 33 seconds.
Lanterns are lit with the Holy Fire and it is carefully carried across nations by either plane or boat in the past - to places like Greece, Russia, Romania, Serbia, and even the United States. It came to Minnesota 2 years ago. Churches have it in time for the Paschal services. People will light their candles by it and bring the fire home and try to keep it burning as long as they can.
You can find videos of people holding the Holy Flame under their beards and washing their faces with it, and it not burning or consuming.
This is coming up in the Eastern Orthodox Chuch, if you are not aware of Holy Pascha (Easter) or the Holy Fire, find an Eastern Orthodox Church near you and attend the midnight services this year!! You may very well be lighting your candle with the Holy Fire brought by God Himself in the Holy Seplechure in Jerusalem
It is truly tragic that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre a holy site since 326 AD (in the year of our Lord)was recently closed during the holy lent by the Israeli government. For a landmark that has endured so much history, such a closure is a profound loss for global Christians!
ARE CHRISTIANS GOING TO REMAIN SILENT…..?
Israel has closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre indefinitely for the first time in the history of Christianity‼️
Israel has closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre indefinitely for the first time in the history of Christianity.
Holy Week and Easter services will be prohibited. Sunday masses and liturgies cancelled. A church that should be packed with hundreds of thousands these coming weeks is being forcibly shut and silenced.
Israel cites it is for ‘security concerns’ while Jewish Israelis are allowed to celebrate in mass gatherings. Alongside the forced closure of Al-Aqsa mosque, reports cite priests aggressively being turned away to perform daily services.
Throughout history, wars, tensions, or even the pandemic limited access to the sanctuary, but they had never prevented liturgical celebrations in this central place of Christian faith indefinitely. Christians must not remain silent.
Israel carries out massive strikes on Christian districts in Lebanon, destroying civilian buildings, including a Catholic school — RT exclusive
One of them occurred in Nabatieh — where seven members of one family were killed
'The scale of destruction is incredible'