Posted on 08/23/2018 2:20:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Talk about spiritual warfare.
An LGBT pride parade took place this last weekend in Odessa, Ukraine. LGBT pride parades are not particularly noteworthy these days.
But what happened after the parade this weekend is: an Eastern Orthodox priest visited the parade site and cleansed the space with holy water. (Pictures below!)
The head of the Missionary Department of the Eastern Orthodox Diocese of Odessa Fr. Oleg Mokryak led the cleansing, with help from a group of laypeople. Together, the dispensed holy water on people, the road, and on monuments as they walked, explaining to onlookers that they were specifically cleansing the area following the LGBT parade.
Holy water has long been a powerful sacramental used by Christians. St. Teresa of Avila attested that “from long experience I have learned that there is nothing like holy water to put devils to flight.”
Last year, the priest who visited the room from which someone shot into a crowd in Las Vegas killing 58 people and injuring hundreds reported feeling a malevolent presence in the room and cleansed the room spiritually with holy water.
See also: Priest Exorcizes Las Vegas Shooter’s Hotel Room With Holy Water After Feeling Evil Presence
See also: St. Teresa of Avila’s Demonic Experience that Proved the Power of Holy Water
Please don’t feed the trolls. It only encourages them.
Wise man.
Proving yet again my observation that it is usually....though not always, the Roman Catholic who is the first to resort to the personal attack and/or profanity when the argument goes against them.
Also advise antibacterial antiviral.
Thank-you and God Bless.
A little bit of advice.
If you do not want to be flamed,best not to come to the CC/OC threads even if no word “caucus” shows up.
Perhaps Roman Catholics should clean up their mouths. I’ve noticed a lot are pretty nasty when confronted with the Truth.
Plus at Easter baptismal promises are renewed.
No Holy Water for you!
But if you come near me, I may sprinkle you with hyssop...
:o)
OK, I'll get a li'l holy water font. Put it right next to where I hang my chapel veil...
I never get enough of this stuff.
Ever notice, BTW, who it is that can't stand Holy Water?
Demons, LGBT (the Pride-ful ones) and...
and...
(not naming any names...)
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Ever notice in the Scriptures how demons were cast out??....no "holy water" needed....they had something far, far more powerful. Perhaps Rome should take note.
Always amazing how Roman Catholics ignore the very book they claim to have given everyone.
17The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”Luke 10:17 NASB
16It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” 18She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.
Acts 16:16-18 NASB
31And He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and He was teaching them on the Sabbath; 32and they were amazed at His teaching, for His message was with authority. 33In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
34“Let us alone! What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
35But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, he came out of him without doing him any harm. 36And amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with one another saying, “What is this message? For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they come out.” 37And the report about Him was spreading into every locality in the surrounding district. Luke 4:31-37 NASB
The demons recognize there is power in the name of the Lord.
Might be a good lesson for some to learn.
You know.. "In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit"?
You really ought to find out about stuff.
Might ask a Catholic?
Too much to expect?
You continue to exhibit a lack of Biblical understanding.
“If you do not want to be flamed”
Ealgeone used your own laws, regulations, and fake tradition to prove how wrong your cult is and you think he got flamed. Not much for critical thinking are you...
2 Timothy 3:5
He needed gentle correction because had no business being on this thread.
Simply did the right thing by giving this advice.
AMEN and SECOND IT.
Um....I do see any swearing here. I do not believe you at all.
Just simply leave tbis thread please. Thank-you.
Correction: I do not see any swearing here.
Need coffee.
Numbers 5:17
Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
A ritual to find out if somebody is faithful, and punish them if they are not, Interesting.
The most meaningful example to me from the OT --- an example of healing and cleansing through water which I make use of frequently in teaching--- is the example of Naaman the Syrian. I love this.
Before I tell this great episode, let me say that God has bound cleansing to the outward sign of the waters of Baptism, but He himself is not bound by His sacraments or His sacramentals.
In context, this is true of all His physical, material outward signs which He uses as signs of His power. We should not adopt an overly legalistic, mechanical, and isolating view of the sacraments. We are called to a life of "continual conversion," and God graciously gives us ways to do this through sacraments and sacramentals, which we OUGHT to do if we understand that we are called by God to do it! But God is ALWAYS free to act in our lives at any time, in any way He wants.
So here's Naaman the Syrian (2 Kings 5), wanting to be cleansed of the dread disease of leprosy.
He gets the impression from his wife's Hebrew slave girl that there is a prophet in Samaria who can help him. He is a great general, from the important and wealthy city of Damascus, and he carries a letter from the king asking for healing.
(I think it's cool that he first shows his "greatness" being humbled by being willing to take a little slave girl's advice. I'll get back to that point later.)
The king, it turns out, has no faith in the True God. He just says the equivalent of, "I can't cure leprosy. Are you trying to pick a fight with me? Are you trying to create a pretext for war?" He's not even thinking of asking God to work through him, an anointed king!
So Naaman journeys on down and encounters Elisha (sort of): actually Elisha did not come out at all. He only sent word to Naaman, “Go and wash in Jordan seven times and your leprosy will be cleansed."
Here's the pivotal scene:
But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the Name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.
But seeing as he's in desperate straits with the leprosy and all, he listens to his slaves' advice (again) and humbles himself in the eyes of all his armed cohort, and dips himself seven times in this second-rate Jewish Jordan, and --- you know the rest. A miracle. He is cleansed of his loathsome disease.
The point is, of course God could cure Naaman instantly. Or, working through the prophet Elisha, he could heal the man when Ellisa invokled His Holy Name. But! He wanted Naaman to be cured in a better way: in a way that would be definitely humbling, and yet wonderfully effective, and that would not only get rid of his disease but also bind him in a mysterious way to Israel.
Voila! God works through a secondary cause (Elisha) and even through a further-removed secondary cause (Jordan's holy water) to show that His power works anywhere, if you are humble enough to believe and accept His mysterious ways.
The Sacraments--- all of them --- are like that. God can wash us, confirm us, feed us, forgive us and all the rest, but He wants to do it in a way that binds us to the whole Body of Christ which is His Church.
If Naaman had said, "Heck with this, I'm a powerful military commander, I'll go call on the Name of God myself and skip this dumb water nonsense" --- too proud to go to a man who would prescribe a somewhat humbling, physical procedure -- what would have happened to him?
How does God deal with the proud?
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