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Orthodox Priest Cleanses His City’s Downtown with Holy Water After LGBT Parade
ChurchPOP ^ | August 22, 2018 | ChurchPOP Editor

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


TOPICS: Moral Issues; Orthodox Christian; Prayer; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: exorcism; gaypride; lgbt; ukraine
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Axios!
1 posted on 08/23/2018 2:20:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m thinking you want to add a little bleach too ...


2 posted on 08/23/2018 2:26:56 PM PDT by dartuser
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To: Mrs. Don-o
We're going to need more holy water.


3 posted on 08/23/2018 2:28:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Mrs. Don-o

He might want to get some bleach and lysol too, knowing what those types tend to get up to during their parades.


4 posted on 08/23/2018 2:41:05 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Orthodox Priest Cleanses His City’s Downtown with Holy Water After LGBT Parade

Well good on em. A lot of people on our side of the political divide do not seem to grasp the significance of symbolism in this culture war.

5 posted on 08/23/2018 2:50:58 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DannyTN
Needs a thorough delousing...


6 posted on 08/23/2018 2:54:46 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Good on ‘im! We can use some of that here, too.


7 posted on 08/23/2018 2:58:21 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Ty 4 posting and also for the link:

https://churchpop.com/2017/06/26/st-teresa-of-avilas-demonic-experience-that-proved-the-power-of-holy-water/

Years ago I first met Ruth, she was at that time 102 years old, and frequently went to Eucharist Adoration (where I was a regular).

She gave me a very old Catholic pamphlet which spoke about the mysteries of Holy Water.

I learned that (like most any thing else) Sacramentals are limited in power only by the disposition of the supplicants who used them.

Anyway, the older generations of the faithful taught us that a sprinkle of Holy Water could be transferred into all people, living or dead.

I bought a Holy Water font, and to this day, I renew my Baptismal vows every day - the font is in front of my door - EVERY day before I step out into my little town - I ask God’s blessings for people who have nobody to pray for them or with them, etc.


8 posted on 08/23/2018 3:13:24 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Yet another non-Scriptural practice of Roman Catholicism not attested to in the New Testament.

From Roman Catholicism's own Catholic Encyclopedia:

Some was permanently retained at the entrance to Christian churches where a clerk sprinkled the faithful as they came in and, for this reason, was called hydrokometes or "introducer by water", an appellation that appears in the superscription of a letter of Synesius in which allusion is made to "lustral water placed in the vestibule of the temple". This water was perhaps blessed in proportion as it was needed, and the custom of the Church may have varied on this point. Balsamon tells us that, in the Greek Church, they "made" holy water at the beginning of each lunar month.

It is quite possible that, according to canon 65 of the Council of Constantinople held in 691, this rite was established for the purpose of definitively supplanting the pagan feast of the new moon and causing it to pass into oblivion.

In the West Dom Martène declares that nothing was found prior to the ninth century concerning the blessing and aspersion of water that takes place every Sunday at Mass.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07432a.htm

This is yet another "tradition" not handed down from the Apostles.

SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE.....Roman Catholic "tradition" has, does and will change.

9 posted on 08/23/2018 3:18:30 PM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Re: My morning ritual - after blessing myself at the font - I bless all people who have nobody to pray for them, or with them, all whom I ever loved, or ever hated, all the people who must die today, all the Holy souls in purgatory, all of God's Holy Priests or Religious, (especially my particular shepherd, Father Ed) all those who suffer and those who care for them, and ultimately, Fiat voluntas Tua! Thanks again, Dóminus vobíscum.
10 posted on 08/23/2018 3:24:46 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: ealgeone; NRx
You might want to put down your Catholic-fighting boxing gloves on this one. Cuz...you might not have noticed that this was Ukrainian Orthodox?

Use of Holy Water has been a God-honoring and God-honored practice of the entire Church, East and West, for over 20 centuries.

God-honoring because it is accompanied by ceaseless prayer and acts of faith in God's healing and purifying power.

God-honored because of its many, many miraculous manifestations which are still happening and have never ceased.

If you only knew!

11 posted on 08/23/2018 3:27:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Please designate your posts CatCauc in the future so I won’t see the likes of ealgeone spewing half-truths, out of context quotes, anti-Catholic bigotry, and slanderous libels!

Dóminus vobíscum.


12 posted on 08/23/2018 3:32:04 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: ealgeone

In Catholicism, holy water isn’t “required” for salvation, other than its use in Baptism. Only the things backed up by Scripture are. (Please don’t bother arguing about what else is or isn’t covered by Scripture...)

The water is a way to symbolize your humility and your praise to God. That humility and praise is what may bring on the healing and other graces.


13 posted on 08/23/2018 3:44:40 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The anti-Catholic bigots at FR don’t care.


14 posted on 08/23/2018 3:48:24 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: ealgeone

Not a Scriptural practice itself, but a reminder of the Scriptural practice of Baptism


15 posted on 08/23/2018 3:51:42 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: Mrs. Don-o
You might want to put down your Catholic-fighting boxing gloves on this one. Cuz...you might not have noticed that this was Ukrainian Orthodox?

Yes...I did see that. And Roman Catholicism uses "holy water" as well.

Use of Holy Water has been a God-honoring and God-honored practice of the entire Church, East and West, for over 20 centuries.

Maybe in Mrs Don-o's version of history....however...and again from Roman Catholicism's own Catholic Encyclopedia:

In the West [aka Rome] Dom Martène declares that

nothing was found prior to the ninth century

concerning the blessing and aspersion of water that takes place every Sunday at Mass.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07432a.htm

The CE disagrees with you.

If only Roman Catholics would apply sound Scriptural principles in these matters.

To properly fight spiritual warfare Paul lays out how we are to do this in Ephesians 6.

SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE.....Roman Catholic "tradition" has, does and will change.

16 posted on 08/23/2018 3:56:51 PM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: heterosupremacist
Please designate your posts CatCauc in the future so I won’t see the likes of ealgeone spewing half-truths, out of context quotes, anti-Catholic bigotry, and slanderous libels!

LOL!

The current problems of Rome can be partly attributed to this head in the sand mentality of Roman Catholicism.

Everything I posted was straight from a Roman Catholic source.

But I've notice that Roman Catholics, when confronted with various truths of their denomination, don't like it when the contradictions are brought to Light.

It's a good thing Paul wasn't as thin skinned as today's Roman Catholics. He'd written everything with a "caucus" label on them.

17 posted on 08/23/2018 4:00:48 PM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: Jacquerie
The anti-Catholic bigots at FR don’t care.

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.

18 posted on 08/23/2018 4:02:08 PM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: ealgeone
Your arrogance, ignorance, bitterness, etc. are surpassed only by your OCD/RCC symptoms. May the Lord be with you, hetero
19 posted on 08/23/2018 4:12:11 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: heterosupremacist
Your arrogance, ignorance, bitterness, etc. are surpassed only by your OCD/RCC symptoms. May the Lord be with you, hetero.

Nothing I posted was in error. Again...it's from a Roman Catholic source.

All I'm showing is this is something NOT practiced by the NT church.

Roman Catholics have told us everything they do was practiced by the NT church and "handed down" by the Apostles.

If this was unheard of in the West prior to the 9th century....it wasn't something "handed down" from the Apostles.

I noticed you said you had a "holy water font" at hour house.

From catholictothemax.com.....

Keep a visible reminder for your family to bless themselves with holy water at home, giving them a chance to place themselves under God's protection throughout the day.https://www.catholictothemax.com/holy-water-fonts-1/

Does the Roman Catholic have such a weak faith this is really needed?

Does the Roman Catholic not realize the believer in Christ is already under His protection??

We are already under God's protection....all the time.

31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

33Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

34who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36Just as it is written, “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”

37But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39 NASB

20 posted on 08/23/2018 4:20:06 PM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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