I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
THE SNAKES OF THE VIRGIN MARY IN KEFALONIA
From today until August 15th, when the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God is celebrated in Greece, the Kefalonian snakes or "holy snakes of the Virgin Mary" (agiofides) appear on the island of Kefalonia in the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God.
Interestingly, the snakes continued to appear on the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God even after the Greek Church accepted the new calendar and the feast of the Dormition was moved 13 days earlier.
In the eastern region of Kefalonia (an island in the Ionian Sea), not far from the village of Markopoulo, there is a small church dedicated to the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God. Here, for many years, once a year on the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, something unusual happens:
From the Feast of the Transfiguration, snakes appear inside and outside the church.
The locals call them the snakes of the Most Holy Mother of God. Every day the number of snakes increases, and on the eve of the Dormition, they are present throughout the entire surrounding area. During those days, the residents of the village of Markopoulo go through the valley on whose slope the church is located and collect the snakes in order to bring them to the Most Holy Mother of God.
According to an 18th-century tradition, when pirates attacked the village, the nuns prayed to the Virgin Mary to save them, and instead, snakes appeared and drove the invaders away.
Where these snakes come from and where they disappear to after the holiday—no one knows.
It is a great mystery to everyone.
During the all-night vigil service, the snakes slither freely among the people: over the stasidia (monastic stalls) and analogia (lecterns), completely unafraid of anyone.
If a snake gets into your shirt—do not be afraid!
@truthcartel816@scrowder Here let me be more specific, The Orthodox Church is church guided by the holy spirit, not your raggedy online discord church.
After a long period of discernment I am leaving Eastern Orthodoxy for Rome on the basis on primarily Saint Celestine and Saint Agatho alongside a long plethora of witnesses to the papacy
I love all of you my brothers and sisters I’m sorry things have to end with my departure from you all and the unity we shared
I am grieved and have been grieving the reality of this for awhile forgive me all of you
May Saint Theodore the studite pray for us
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> I witness now before God and men, they have torn themselves away from the Body of Christ,** from the supreme see (τοῦ κορυϕαἲκοῦ θρόνου) [See of Rome], in which Christ placed the keys of the faith, against which the gates of hell (I mean the mouths of heretics) have not prevailed, and never will until the consummation, according to the promise of Him who cannot lie.** Let the most blessed and apostolic [Pope] Paschal rejoice therefore, for he has fulfilled the work of Peter.
`St. Theodore the Studite of Constantinople to Naucratius, [PG 99.1281, in The First Eight General Councils and Papal Infallibility, by Chapman, 76n3, 817 AD]`
The Quran itself affirms the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ.
Yet Sneako chooses to blaspheme Christ because he is motivated by a seething hatred for Jesus Christ and America.
His Muslim LARP is just a cover up for his resentment.