ALL EVIL IS FROM THOSE WHO ACT LIKE JUDAS

Simply put, in order for us to be victorious, we have to be Orthodox.

If Hashim Thaçi knew how many people, including Albanians, have received protection and help, have been saved and are being saved through the intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, by the prayers of the Holy Church, he never would have said those stupid words claiming that the Orthodox church in Prishtina “disfigures the appearance of the city”! If you destroy the church, God will also destroy Prishtina. In fact, he ought to know this, after all: his great-grandfather was an Orthodox priest… And all the evil that happened in Kosovo and Metohia was wrought by the hands of janissaries,7 ethnic Serbs who converted to Islam. But real Albanians are very fine, good and God-fearing people.

The following incident also happened with the Judases of that time: bandits came to the Holy Mountain and devastated it. One elder, who worked in the vineyard on Athos, was reading the Akathist to the Theotokos. The Mother of God appeared to him and said, “Go into the monastery and tell the Abbot: Whichever of the brethren want to, let them flee into the forest, but whoever doesn’t flee, the enemy will give him no peace.” Out of all the brethren, 300 monks hid in the forest; only 25 stayed. The invaders came and locked the monks who had stayed in the belfry. Two of the monks became frightened and went over to the enemy side. The robbers burned the 23 monks locked in the belfry. Two stayed in the monastery with the heretics. One went to the belfry to ring the bells—the bell fell on him and killed him. The other went into the field, and a snake bit him. And they buried the bodies of both of these monks in the monastery. Holy King Milutin freed the Holy Mountain from the Uniates and drove them away. Then he summoned the monks who had fled into the woods to return to the monastery. After a year had elapsed the brothers who had returned—in accordance with Athonite tradition—dug up the bodies of the two monks who had perished in order to place the remains in a special burial vault. But their bodies were intact! Only black. And this is a sign of damnation. And they put these bodies in large containers and brought them to Greece, and there they are to this day with this appearance: as if alive, but—black! After 700 years have elapsed already! They are in these vessels and await the Dread Judgment…. I have seen them—really, it is frightening. The fate of traitors is horrible.

PROPAGANDA

Vera Graziadei tears to pieces the Western media circus on Ukraine!

…..on a purely human level, setting aside any political allegiances and geopolitical goals, how can any journalist with conscience and heart, ignore the catastrophe that these people find themselves in? How can they not report what Kiev’s government is doing to them?

Well, the answer is quite simple here. They have no heart and no conscience left, no human  empathy, they have made their choice and have chosen the father of lies. The sin against the truth is the sin against the Holy Spirit, it’s the sin of the devil. That’s why the Lord called it unforgivable!

They are demons, even if they still have a body for the time being. So, contrary to the devil, they can still repent, but don’t bet the ranch on that!

THE JESTERS OF THE DEVIL

The EU unelected clowns have just associated us all with the caricature* of a Nazi regime. In Europe, it’s forbidden to research and even talk about Nazism, but it’s okay to support its bloody caricature, to the point of taking it to bed.

*the modern perception of German National Socialism, as propagandized by Hollywood movies and history books written exclusively to support the mythological foundation of the current power structures (not only) in the West.
Many serious people religiously believe in that caricature, so that they appear rather burlesque themselves.

“It stopped raining, but now I’m crying. I’m knocking on your window. Anyone’s window, who is reading. Can you look up at the cloud? That black cloud above you? Can you see mangled lifeless bodies in it? Dead disfigured bodies? Children with bullets through their bodies? Traumatised children with wounds? Scars for life? stolen childhoods? Women with heads blown off? Legs blown off? Tanks rolling over unarmed people? Bombs tearing bodies apart? Bullets blowing people’s brains out? Blood and pieces of flesh thrown about a pavement? Corpses piled up in a corner of a room? Limbs torn off and scattered about? Can you see it? CAN YOU SEE IT? I can.”

CAN YOU SEE YOUR DAUGHTER, YOUR SON, IN THAT CHILDREN ABOVE?

 

CHE DIO LI MALEDICA!

EUROPE – THE AMERICAN CLOACA*

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: negotiations between Brussels and Washington

The following information refers to the way in which the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) is being negotiated between Brussels and Washington. We use the term “Brussels” because indeed, it is being negotiated between the European Commission and the United States, not between the member states and the United States. The latter is currently imposing a non-disclosure of the proposition negotiations to the member states, under the pretense that the federal government of the United States does not disclose the European propositions to the individual governments of its federated states.

The only way by which the European Commission has shared these propositions with its member states has been inacceptable: through “documents reserve rooms” where individuals can consult the American files, on the payment of a fee and within a strict set of regulations: no copying, photography, or writing instruments are allowed in the room. Only two individuals are allowed in the reserve room at once, and for a limited time.

Under these conditions, the administrative services of the member states will not have the capacity to analyze the American proposition: despite a maximum capacity to “screen” the information made available, one administration at a time, too many of the weak links will remain overlooked: no one is immune from missing the important lines, placed where they are least expected it or purposefully hidden, which may produce serious risks for either our exportation practices, or in terms of importation.

Up to now it was assumed that, even if individual citizens could not participate in the negotiation processes, the interests of each member state would be defended through the analytical work of each ministry on their particular register of issues. The rigidity of the US on the question of confidentiality leaves all decision taking to the European Commission; when one looks upon the results on display in Canada, it’s very concerning.

Besides, the operative argument shows that the United States have not understood the structure of the European Union: how can we negotiate under such conditions, when they are projecting their institutional reality upon us?

We need to alert the general public about these procedures of negotiations, which are much more serious than the non-communication of the mandate (which was negotiated by the member states after an analysis by the services of each state).

Europeans have no idea to what extent they are being colonized, in the strict sense of the word, by the United States. This information should be disseminated as broadly as possible, as it is eye-opening. Even if it is probably already too late…

Jean-Paul Baquiast             (via The Saker)
www.europesolidaire.eu

* A common cavity at the end of the digestive tract for the release of both excretory and genital products in vertebrates (except most mammals) and certain invertebrates.

The article does not mention the fact that without the complicity of the leaders of member States no such kind of “negotiations” could be possible. (ndM)

CHRONICLES OF THE DEVIL

Prologue – The offspring of men who even the SS despised!

 

I want to thank everyone trying to help and whose heartfelt wish is to save the lives of Donbass from the reality of ethnic cleansing. That is all this has ever been about– not language, not ethnicity, and not politics. In western Ukraine people are protesting and getting the same treatment. From the build-up of Maidan until today it has become one hell of a ride for everyone here. Pray no one ever hands you a ticket to it.

For weeks the sounds of shelling fill our days and nights and shake our house. The glare of sniper scopes in the distance are visible because they are pointed in our direction, and the inflow of Pravy Sektor, Kolomoisky’s mercenaries, National Guard, and regular army has been dramatic.

Armored personnel carriers, tanks, large machine guns, and automatic weapons are now a constant feature on our streets. Each group has a different mandate, a different command structure and focus.

When the regular army enters the shops in town they are respectful to everyone. In light of what’s going on, one of the shopkeepers asked an officer if they were here to kill us? The officer answered “Of course not!”

That was 2 days ago. The same day a local farmer from our town was harvesting grain on his field and troops practiced sniper shots on his tractor. Although he is uninjured, his grain will now go to waste. There will be less flour available to local bakeries.

When the Kolomoisky mercenaries go into the shops it’s like a siege. They come twenty at a time circling the shop with their weapons pointing at anyone walking by. They do not receive government supplies so they clean out the stores, leaving little for residents. Transportation is at a standstill with the threat of snipers, and buses are stopped. People no longer have even moderate access to necessities, never mind luxury items.

A Live Mercenary in Ukraine
(image by V Kontakte)

This is Wilkes. He’s not dead, he’s passed out drunk. When a mercenary like Wilkes isn’t dead drunk he keeps busy shooting ambulances, orphanages, and refugees trying to flee.

#SaveDonbassPeople in all its forms is our plea for the right to share the same air, to live. It represents the hope for our children’s future, the love of family and the duty to protect them. The situation here ramped up so quickly that it became convenient to forget the promised genocide that pre-dated the Euro Maidan. The threats increased at the same rate that the violence escalated in Kiev. The Southeast wanted a dialogue with Kiev until the the Referendum results became known.

Poroshenko’s Peace Initiative of June 22

The peace plan which was dubbed by the president of Ukraine as “Plan A” gave an ultimatum for New Russia (the Southeast) to put down their weapons; anyone not directly involved would be spared. Considering that everyone here was involved in the referendum and have family and friends affected by the mass killing of civilians, this made for a great sound bite for the UN and US to grab hold of. Three things that show it was never intended to be implemented:

• Kiev never engaged in dialogue with the Donetsk National Republic, and Lugansk Republic. If you have a plan for peace it would be helpful to at least outline it to the other parties and get their reaction. At the time of publication, two days after the peace plan was rolled out Kiev has started a dialogue in Donetsk to last until the 27^th.
• Each time Kiev has said peace they used the time to re-position soldiers and equipment: Massacres in Slovyansk, Odessa, and Kramatorsk Massacres are examples that come to mind.
• In reaction to the peace plan, Kolimoisky (banker, Jewish leader, oligarch statesman of Ukraine) stated that he will not be governed by Poroshenko. He would continue military operations until all the Moskal are killed. Take him seriously: this is a guy that rips down holocaust memorials (Crimea- before Maidan) and built luxury housing where the crematorium stood. He organized and paid for the Odessa Trade Union House massacre and the Mariupol massacre. He has challenged the legitimacy of Kiev and declared himself a separatist. Should we tell president Obama? Does Ms. Psaki know anything about this? Is it Putin’s fault?

Reasons why the Government in Kiev has no Credibility

• They are using cluster bombs, missiles, rockets, and artillery, targeting hospitals, orphanages, schools, apartments, housing, water supplies etc.
• Early on they cut off the shipment of medicines and to a degree food. People needing insulin or heart medication can no longer get them.
• Ethnic cleansing of towns and villages that have no militias. In the towns of “Snowy” and “Friendly”, houses were marked according to who supported them and who didn’t. Pravy Sektor lined up men 16 to 60 in the street and shot them in cold blood. The two Russian reporters that were targeted and killed were with the survivors trying to leave the village of Friendly.
• The use of mercenaries has been the hardest to deal with. The local red cross complains that the only thing they fire at is anything marked with a cross. Ambulances, medical drug transports and humanitarian goods have to be brought in secretly. This alone is a war crime, never mind the use of mercenaries to target and kill civilians, which is happening. Mercenary trainers also target orphanages instead of militia checkpoints. At first we thought that the Ukrainian army was just incompetent with howitzers and rockets. After a few months it was clear that instead of military targets, civilian targets over a kilometer away were being struck continually.
• The use of Phosphorus Bombs is illegal. The burns have to be handled by specially trained doctors because they are from chemicals. and have to be removed surgically. Phosphorus burns through flesh until it reaches the bone.
• 
  Phosphorus Burns- Treatment is cutting out the flesh under the burn.
  (image by V Kontakte)

   

  • The use of hollow point bullets is illegal in war- never mind against “your own people.”
  • Gas was used in Odessa and Mariupol
  • Concentration Camps are being prepared. On June 11, 2014 assistant minister of defense and Pravy Sektor lieutenant Mikail Koval stated in a ministerial meeting that after a hard military surge people would be put through filtration camps. The militia would be eliminated, and their supporters weeded out. This action would be repeated until they are certain that all the junta’s opponents have been dealt with. After all the murder, and torture, Pravy Sektor says: ” I know this sounds harsh but…” apologizing for how harsh the concentration camps will be…
  • The people that pass muster will be relocated to different parts of the country. By November the Kiev government hopes to relocate at least 250,0000 people from western Ukraine and replace them. Currently there are over 400,000 displaced people and refugees from the Southeast.
  • The Kiev government is considering establishing a 10 kilometer wide buffer zone with a closed border. A quick look at any map will show that means relocating 5 million people and closing every regional capital in the Southeast.

  The Southeast’s Reactions

  Reactions vary with the degree of shock people are in. Six months ago they saw Maidan happening, but thought that when it was over there would be a united Ukraine and they would get through this period.

  Three months ago a young man I met said he thought Pravy Sektor could be dealt with the same as the KGB from Soviet times. Afterward the separatist leaders thought reason could prevail and a dialogue would happen. “We can negotiate with them” they would say. The young man read a few articles from the West including my own, spoke with his father and when we talked again he, like most people in Ukraine had begun to find out who they were dealing with. School history bookshad been scrubbed and not many people spoke about the war beyond the fact that some Ukrainians helped Hitler. Until recently everyone was Ukrainian, regardless of region or ethnicity. Even today many still can’t understand their situation but when they do, they want to protect their people.

  A neighbor of mine personifies a misconception that was common until Odessa happened. He doesn’t understand what this form of Nationalism is, and doesn’t want to know. He wants to be left alone on his little piece of land. He disagrees with Kiev and is angry about the murder of people around him. He wants someone (a super hero, maybe Batman) to stand up and fix this. He is too old, recently retired at almost fifty. He wants his wife, children and grandchildren to be safe, but helping them remains beyond his grasp. If Kiev wins over the Southeast I have no doubt I might see the red and black UPN/OUN/Pravy Sektor flag in front of his house. Not because he is a nationalist, but just to be left alone- unafffected. His failure to understand what is going on gives him the only peace of mind he has – or had.

  Kiev has been raising the conscription age. Last week they raised it again. Sixty year olds now need to report for duty. My neighbor may soon fire a weapon at his nephews, nieces, and in-laws. He might have to fire on his neighbors or their kids. He may be involved in cleansing exercises like the ones in Snowy or Friendly.

  They are Batman

• On the other side are everyday people who, after the shock of the genocide in their region subsided, reacted in an amazing way. People from all walks of life; shop clerks to software programmers, business people, construction workers, farmers- all dropped what they were doing and said “Stop” with one voice.They all believe different things. Some were for moving closer to Europe. They come from across the spectrum politically (right, left, center). When your life or way of life is threatened, who you are as people and what you love is more important than your politics, or what you hate. They are people that love life, their families, and heritage.For months they tried to negotiate peacefully with Kiev. The protests were about starting a dialogue. But no one was interested in talking, then or now. These normal everyday people have been demonized in the media for too long. They should be held up as heroes. They are Batman. They are fighting for their right to live. They won’t accept anything less. Would you?Bandera | Jacob Franks, Anti Christ of PoliticsThese words are from Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs June 23,2014FaceBook page In these few days talking a lot with our zone ATU – from general to soldier. And I want to say a few words about the truly important things. War cannot generate light feelings. But we can generate cleansing. False and superficial burns in the fire of war very quickly – as if deliberately leaving space THIS .. Through disorder and pain, through the death of comrades and the need to kill in response, through fear for their relatives, through observation of grief, people deprived of their home .. all not just in this war, and this purification and redemption for everyone – you need as a prerequisite of victory .. Atonement. It comes as the inevitable fee perfect. And each is his redemption – and me and you and the Donbass and Ukraine. And everyone is given as much as earned and how many survive ..Ukraine stand, and you do not give up. Bite the bullet and bear their redemption. And do, do what you have to! P / S Today noticed a strange coincidence, the English words atonement – ATOnement .. ATO- Anti-Terrorist Operation

  Mr. Avakov is reworking the mystical teaching of Jacob Frank’s repentance. I wrote a book about this subject a few years ago. Put simply: If a nation is considered a person, each citizen is a prayer. Violent deaths through war are acts of repentance. Through the death and suffering of many, purification is achieved for the nation.The more death and suffering; the greater the atonement value for the unified country. For the survivors, the victory is atonement. Every person that stands against Nazism in Ukraine will be purged as supplications. The atonement when achieved, is a unified Ultra Nationalist Ukraine that holds their values. There will be no one left that does not hate Russia.

  This means forcing Russia into war and drawing NATO and the US into the conflict.

  How little will it take to spark WW3 if that was the goal all along? Ukraine has fired on and destroyed all the buildings of one Russian Border Control. Shells are landing on Russian soil.

  Going Forward

  You need to muster every reason to act like my neighbor or stand up, say no, and be Batman in your own right. For over ten years Americans across the political spectrum (right, left, center) agree we have problems, agree on what the problems are, but instead of pulling together, here we are. Is this all we are? I have to hope for more.

  The clock is ticking but there is still time for America to say no more.

  In forthcoming articles you’ll see a side of Ukraine and the US you don’t know. The challenge is how will you answer a simple question…

  Is This You?

  

  One of the Scariest photos I have ever seen
  (image by V Kontakte)

  Could this be you? Is her hair ok? This photo could be taken in front of the Coliseum, or the Eiffel Tower, or maybe Niagara Falls. It looks like a couple of hot dogs in her hand. Just out enjoying the day, such a historical day.

  The photo is real, not photoshopped. That is the Odessa Trade Union Building with 270 people being gassed, mutilated, raped, hacked with axes, shot, clubbed and burned behind her. She know this, everyone there knew this.

• If there ever was a photo that encapsulates Nazi thought, this is it. What Yatsenyuk described as subhumans were offered as prayers of repentance to a Bandera God that requires it according to Avakov’s model.This photo is an apt description of every journalist that purveys a PR or propaganda lie because he is told to by his editor. This photo is every talking head that makes the Sunday rounds and justifies atrocities, or when cornered “don’t know/ I’ll get back to you/ I’ll check with my office.” What stronger punctuation is there to describe the resolve of people to call for justice against every politician that wants to punish Southeast Ukraine for not complying with their ridiculous version of propaganda?This is a photo of anyone who loves murder but is too cowardly to carry it out themselves.Is this photo of America? Are we like my neighbor who didn’t want to be bothered? Are we still Batman? We need to find out.

George Eliason

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO OPEN YOUR EYES!

CHENEY’S PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

A far deadlier attack than 9/11 in the US.

If I’d live in America you could color me very worried!

LA BELLA ADDORMENTATA NEL BOSCO (L’ONU) SI E’ SVEGLIATA

La Commissione di monitoraggio per i diritti umani delle Nazioni Unite ha pubblicato un rapporto sulla questione ucraina. La relazione potrebbe stimolare Kiev, gli Stati Uniti e l’Unione Europea, “…se solo l’Occidente rispettasse ancora le Nazioni Unite”, come afferma amaramente un articolo di The Voice of Russia del 20 giugno.

Il rapporto di 58 pagine elenca le violazioni di diritti umani e convenzioni internazionali da parte del governo ucraino:

– Detenzioni, rapimenti, torture e uccisioni di civili, tra cui donne e bambini.

– Bombardamenti di ospedali e asili.

– Sequestri e scomparse di attivisti filo-russi (11 casi documentati nel rapporto).

– Uccisioni e arresti di giornalisti da parte delle forze ucraine.

– Aumento delle tensioni e delle provocazioni attraverso i media federali.

– La tragedia di Odessa del 2 maggio è definita “un crimine mostruoso”, esteso attraverso le minacce di morte ai feriti della strage e i depistaggi delle indagini.

Altre parti del documento fanno riferimento a violazioni in tema di Euromaidan, dei referendum nelle zone di Donetsk e Lugansk e delle elezioni presidenziali del 25 maggio, parlando di un aggravio di violazioni delle norme internazionali dopo il 7 giugno.

Oggi, anche i media ucraini iniziano a riconoscere che quella in atto nel Donbass è un’operazione punitiva, e ad ammettere che il paese deve affrontare il fascismo.

Human Rights Watch (HRW), l’Organizzazione per la Sicurezza e la Cooperazione in Europa (OSCE), i giornalisti della CNN e deputati europei condannano il governo ucraino per la violazione delle convenzioni internazionali attraverso l’uso di armi chimiche contro i civili, compresi i bambini, e per le proposte di campi di concentramento e di estradizione dei propri cittadini.

In pratica, il rapporto ONU copre tutti i crimini che abbiamo denunciato su questo blog, a partire dal rovesciamento del governo legittimo in Ucraina (guardate i post degli ultimi quattro mesi per accertarvene), attività che non abbiamo certo intrapreso con piacere, ma che abbiamo ritenuto necessario compiere, stante il grande silenzio stampa da parte dei media generalisti in Italia riguardo a questa tragedia.                                                     Padre Ambrogio                               (details in english here)

THE ENEMY

John 6, 66

“After this many of His disciples drew back and no longer went about with Him.”

On any given Sunday, what is the most likely reason for why a youth might not be in Liturgy (or Mass, or Morning Worship, or Praise/Celebration/Happening)?

Because, statistically speaking, he or she is probably not.

The present reality is very different from that moment of Pentecost, when thousands entered the new apostolic church and continued to do so at an obviously miraculous rate. Contrary to the nattering doctrines of church growth and evangelism consultants (and especiatlly the hysterical secret-agent folk of the New Apostolic Reformation), the “numbers added daily” was never a goal for the church, or even a “value.”

It was a sign, rather, and the signification was obvious. The entirety of human nature, renewed and assumed into Christ, had become the Holy of Holies. The new eschatological Israel was now present and real.

But nowadays, there is no such sign — at least, not phenomenonally here, not in the globalized West. The inescapable fact is that the Christian West is living in a patently “John 6.66″ moment. If you do not know this verse, with its troubling numerical reference, permit me to refresh your memory:

“After this many of His disciples drew back and no longer went about with Him.”

It should be noted that the incarnate Second Person of the Trinity actually experienced a decline in His attendance figures. This was immediately after His troubling doctrinal teaching on the Trinity and the Eucharist.

Across the board, “Christian participation” in religion is in sharp decline — even in the Orthodox community, much as we would rather not admit. And please do not bring up megachurch numbers as a counter-narrative: those numbers mostly represent people who have laterally migrated from one Christian community to another. (The megachurch is to more authentic neighboring parishes what a brandnew Super WalMart is to mom and pop stores downtown.)

There are a number of reasons for this unprecedented net decline — most of which I would like to roll up into a single term:

The Enemy.

Who, or what, is this Enemy, that we might strategize about him, that we might go to seminars and purchase books about him, that we might do money-raising projects and consciousness-raising programs about him?

It is not the Romans — they have been “christianized” long ago.

It is not the Mormons or Moslems — who are equally non-Orthodox (the “christologies” of these two traditions  are not completely dissimilar).

It is true that in other places — like the Middle East and parts of Africa — that Islamicists are waging an aggression against Christian populations. But in the West — in Europe mostly and increasing in North America — mosques are established mainly in the gray shadowed absence of faithful Christianity.

The Muslims in the West are displacing no one.

And besides — you probably won’t believe this — according to the 2008 Pew Religious Landscape Survey, the Eastern Orthodox and Muslim communities occupy the exact same proportion of the American population: and that is a whopping 0.6%. No, that isn’t a typo: not 6% … but 0.6%.

The Mormons, contrary to a lot of scare-talk, only amount to 1.7% of the total population.

Obviously, the Enemy is not Chinese, nor North Korean, nor foreign or human at all. And that, by the way, is why racism is so patently anti-Christian — racism is a blasphemous division of human nature, even a fictitious fracturing of the icon of Christ. For the Orthodox, at least, Christians are prohibited from viewing any human as “the Enemy.”

Contrary to these cultural and racial phobias, there is a much bigger enemy that accounts for the across-the-board decline in religious belief and church attendance.

This enemy accounts for the fact that while most Americans still believe in a God and an afterlife, these beliefs are really “opinions,” and loosely-held attitudes.

Real beliefs actually produce real religion, like church attendance, prayer and charity. But “religious opinions” have no power to produce any real religion.

The mere fact that Americans “agree” with a survey statement reveals only an observation that Americans have a positive opinion on God’s existence, with the strong likelihood that they might not want to do anything at all about that opinion.

If religion is demoted to the level of opinion, or, more accurately, “consumer choice,” then like any other choice it can always be easily replaced and switched out with something more convenient or entertaining. Maybe something more “personally fulfilling” will come along.

This state of affairs is really contemporary stuff — religion is not only privatized now, it is also commoditized. Like everything else, religion is passed through a “values clarification” mental evaluation that judges whether or not it is “doing anything good” for the individual. Is it entertaining? Is it fulfilling? Are my kids happy in the youth group? Am I attracted to the leaders and the crowd? Do I feel better about myself?

If not, well then … I’ll just mosey on over to the big megachurch praise center with the Starbucks in the atrium and a rock concert for my kids (and me).

Or just stay home and do a Netflix binge on “House of Cards.” Then go out for a champagne brunch with much prettier people.

Not much difference there. They are both private, consumerist and gnostic.

The Enemy consists of two forces that may or may not be deliberately executed in concert. One is external to the Christian community — and that is the utter consumerification of modern globalized culture. Everything must be commodifiable — if it cannot be (like real doctrine, like sacrament, like real goodness and beauty), then it is relegated to the private sphere. And this private sphere is considered meaningless and without public value.

The other internal force of the Enemy is the ancient degenerative form of religion sloppily called “Gnosticism.” Gnosticism has always been around. It has always opposed theology with sentiment. It has always tried to escape Place and Time. It has always warred against Tradition. It has always tried to disregard the poor and the weak — aristocrats have perennially made the best gnostics.

But Gnosticism has never met such a friendly atmosphere as this present Totalistic Banal Culture of the universal marketplace.

Think of it: our totalitarian banality — where God’s infinity, beauty and goodness are almost completely obfuscated — is like a giant ocean of gasoline, and gnosticism is a single Bic.

The whole globalized marketplace will develop an allergy to Christianity, particularly to Orthodoxy. The more theological, and sacramental, and traditional and anti-passion a church is, the more “de-valued” it will become.

This is the challenge. We need a strategy. Stay tuned.

Fr. Jonathan Tobias                               (Versione Italiana)

YOU JUST CANNOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP

Israel was elected as vice-chair of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization.

The committee deals with matters related to the Palestinian cause, like probing the Israeli occupation to Palestine, following the international resolutions on this cause and investigating the Israeli violations to the international law and human rights.   (link)

Next I suppose that they will elect Jack the Ripper as Chief Surgeon of the Worldwide United Hospitals.

THE DEMONOCRATIC JOB

A Slavjansk si moltiplicano i bambardamenti di chiese: l’altro ieri vi abbiamo presentato le rovine della cappela accanto alla chiesa di san Serafino di Sarov nel sobborgo di Cherevkovka. Ora a Slavjansk hanno bombardato la cattedrale di Sant’Aleksandr Nevskij e la chiesa della Risurrezione, mostrata nel seguente video:

Purtroppo in quest’ultima chiesa è morto il custode, di cui vedete il feretro di fortuna (pregate per il riposo dell’anima del servo di Dio Aleksandr)

Le notizie delle chiese attaccate a Slavjansk ci arrivano perché nella Repubblica di Donetsk la stampa è libera. Non osiamo pensare a cosa stia succedendo nell’Ucraina occidentale, dove giungono voci, che per ora non è possibile confermare (censura dei media?), di preti ortodossi ucraini del Patriarcato di Mosca costretti a fuggire in Russia mentre uniati e scismatici – inclusi i leader del loro clero – li minacciano apertamente di morte, e le loro chiese di distruzione. (una conferma posso fornirla io – ndM)

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Il locum tenens della cattedra metropolitana di Kiev, il metropolita Onufrij di Chernovtsy e della Bucovina, in un’intervista a “Interfax-Religion” si è soffermatro tra le altre cose sulle cause spirituali dei tragici eventi che si svolgono oggi in Ucraina.

“Vediamo un conflitto di interessi economici, politici, e se volete, spirituali tre Oriente e Occidente, e questa crepa si è estesa in Ucraina. Questa è la nostra tragedia” – in particolare, ha detto il presule.

“L’Oriente ha i suoi valori, l’Occidente i propri, noi siamo una zona cuscinetto tra Oriente e Occidente”, così ha detto, soffermandosi sulla differenza di questi valori:

“Un quarto di secolo dopo la persecuzione atea, cerchiamo con i poveri e i bisognosi nella nostra terra di rivivere la fede in Cristo e rafforzare la sua Chiesa, e l’Europa ci mostra già un esempio specifico di una vita senza Cristo, in cui non si presta attenzione ai comandamenti del Signore, ai suoi divieti. Al contrario, si incoraggia sempre di più il permissivismo, secondo il quale la vita non è santificata dalla legge di Dio, ma dai desideri umani. ”

“Oggi tutto il mondo è come diviso in due campi: un campo sono quelle persone che vogliono mantenere in vigore ed efficaci le leggi morali date da Dio all’uomo per il suo beneficio. E la seconda metà viola queste leggi. Per esempio, il matrimonio. Dio ha benedetto il matrimonio dell’uomo e della donna, di Adamo ed Eva. Non di due Adami, non di due Eve. Ma ad Adamo ed Eva ha detto: “Siate fecondi e moltiplicatevi”. E ora introducono leggi che Dio condanna, come il matrimonio gay ”

“Un altro esempio. Cristo vieta all’uomo di disporre della sua vita – ne dispone Dio. E ora vogliono introdurre una legge sull’eutanasia, di fatto, legalizzare il peccato del suicidio”.

“Oggi, nel nostro tempo, l’aborto legalizzato quando erano al potere i senza Dio, è difeso da persone che si ritengono credenti, che posano la mano sulla Bibbia e giurano su di essa”.

“Perciò, quelle leggi che oggi ci offre il nuovo mondo europeo sono per noi inaccettabili. Non possiamo contribuire e partecipare a questo mondo. Abbiamo bisogno di mantenere l’unità con le persone che custodiscono la legge di Dio.

Il fatto è che se non ci sono sulla terra persone che mantengono l’ordine della vita di Dio, la vita dell’umanità è destinata all’auto-distruzione”, – ha concluso il presule.

Padre Ambrogio