Posted on 04/07/2018 4:30:40 PM PDT by Nextrush
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with his wife Svetlana Medvedev have arrived to the Easter Service in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral.
The service, conducted by Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, is also attended by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and other prominent political and public figures.
Shortly before midnight, a capsule containing the Holy Fire from Jersualem has been brought to the cathedral.
In line with a longstanding tradition, Putin attends the night-time service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on Easter.......
(Excerpt) Read more at tass.com ...
The Orthodox Easter Sunday is observed a week later because the Orthodox Church celebrates it according to the Julian Calendar.
Russia switched to the Western Calendar in 1918.
As I recall, for some years, Patriarch Kirill has been participating in talks to explore the possibility of reunification with Rome.
Patriarch Kirill seems like a holy, visionary man--and I hope we RCs through our recent leadership have not screwed up this possibility beyond redemption. As St. JPII pointed out, the Church has two "lungs," West and East, and it needs both to properly breathe.
The Russian church has shown a patient, burning faith refined by suffering under Communism. The Roman Catholic Church has suffered from laxity and aimlessness in Western Europe and America due to wealth and distraction. (But it is growing like wildfire on the front lines against Islam in Africa.
Between the leader of China making a deal with the Vatican and Putin going to church..... satan is very active.....
I just don’t see a common ground being formed between the liberal Vatican and conservative Orthodox.
That’s enough to preclude reunification for the foreseeable future even if all the other problems between the two churches could be resolved.
And the post-Christian West has no moral standing to lecture Russia about ethics and morality.
The Russian leader is more of a Christian than any Dem leader.
indeed christian and conservative russia is a natural ally of us
I’ll be attending services later tonight. Although it is Greek Orthodox, we have several Russian members, as well as Ukrainian, Bulgarian, etc. We also have some darker brothers and sisters from Africa, who are Syrian Orthodox. All are the children of God.
“I just don’t see a common ground being formed between the liberal Vatican and conservative Orthodox.”
You’re right...but Pope Francis won’t live forever.
Happy Easter to you and all your fellow Orthodox. The late Pope John Paul dreamed the Church someday would “breathe with both lungs”. I, too, dream of that.
That makes team church “attenders.”
Hristos Voskrese! Voistina Voskrese!
Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti!
Satan is a counterfeiter and a pretender.
a little research might surprise you -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3d_yxJhmjk
Vladimir Putin Traitor to the New World Order says Jacob Rothschild
Putin kicked the NWO order out of Russia - AND Rothschild - AND Soros, with a standing arrest warrant ‘dead or alive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-bTeV6i55A
As for Gays - He says they will not be persecuted, but they wont be allowed to parade or spread propaganda of their lifestyle, especially to children nor teach it in schools and cannot adopt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5bfvvL-3JE
He also wants to go back on the gold standard (one of the biggest reasons Clinton took out Guadaffi - but they can hardly ‘take out’ Putin and Russia by force - so they do it with propaganda, that too many people are swallowing - because they don’t do research...the one area where even Republicans will swallow the Fake News/libRats propaganda/agenda -
He’s also death on pedophilia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bee70unn9aM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeWY-beyt50
Since 2000, Russia has built/rebuilt hundreds of churches and cathedrals, including the Great Christ Cathedral that the Communists had dynamited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeEOQpnbpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQR36Z7Pwn4
Agreed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwWYu_d62Z0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYAUP6jRKrk
this is fun - the making of 100,000 Easter Cakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeEOQpnbpk&t=708s
you post:”The Russian leader is more of a Christian than any Dem leader.”
Damn straight.
see my post 15 and 16
This was going on most actively under JPII and Benedict.
Believe me, both East and West have their problems with internal dissent, clerical corruption, faithful who aren't faithful, and failure to enforce doctrine.
The split from Russia was glacial before it actually occurred, and the reunion would be glacial and transcend who happens to be in charge at the time, for reasons beneficial to both.
Russians use the word "Easter," too.
"Lent" just means "spring" in some version of Anglo-Saxon. Names of things are not particularly important over the centuries, and calendar days wander with changes in measurements of the stars. It's the teaching and the habits of the people that give holy days their life.
Anyone can "Google "Easter" and get the same message. When Rome took the church in the 4th century, all these pagan concepts were mixed into the church. The Sunrise service commemorates the worship of the Sun God on Sunday. Leviticus 23 tells us First Fruits is the day Jesus rose from the tomb, if He was killed on Passover. Jesus is said to be the First Fruit of the dead.
Celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus on a pagan day is just a shame. We have been given the Lords days to celebrate in Leviticus 23. We are told the Sabbath is on the 7th day. That is Saturday in all calendars I know of. The Roman church changed the calendars and moved away from the Hebrew calendar. Why do that? Satan wants to confuse God's children. We don't even know when God will do something because we won't read the Word of God. The church at Rome follows the religion of Babylon of Nimrod and Semiramis. Tammuz is the baby celebrated on Dec 25th. Jesus was born on Tabernacles. Even if you don't agree with that, we are told to celebrate Sukkot to acknowledge God coming to live with His people. Jesus was celebrating Tabernacles when He stood and shouted "I am the light of the world". He never celebrated Easter or Christmas. He celebrated Chanukah in John 10:22 at the Feast of dedication and that wasn't even started until the book of Maccabees.
If you convert the Hebrew calendar to the Julian calendar, today, Apr 7th-8th 2018, is the proper day to acknowledge the resurrection of Jesus. How the Eastern Orthodox church got there, I don't know, but they are celebrating the right day. If next year, the calendar changes the celebration to another day than what Leviticus 23 says about First Fruits, then we know it was an accident that the day fell on the right day. You can go back many years and see that Easter hardly ever falls on Passover, Unleavened Bread, or First Fruits. We are making a choice to observe the wrong days when anyone can get a calendar that has the Hebrew Feast Days marked on them. We make an even bigger choice to celebrate bunnies and eggs with a sunrise service on Sunday, a pagan day to worship the sun god. This IS the religion of Babylon written about in Revelation as the Whore of Babylon. It is also the church written to in Rev 2 at Thyatira. Thyatira was the daughter of Nimrod and Semiramis. In Scripture, Daughters, women or females are religions. A daughter is a break off of the mother.
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