Friday, June 4, 2021

America’s Soldier-Saints

 

Donald Trump’s 2021 Memorial Day statement reveals about as plainly as one can make it the anti-Christian nature of Americanism:

 

On this Memorial Day, we remember the fallen heroes who took their last breaths in defense of our Nation, our families, our citizens, and our sacred freedoms. The depth of their devotion, the steel of their resolve, and the purity of their patriotism has no equal in human history. On distant battlefields, in far-off oceans, and high in the skies above, they faced down our enemies and gave their lives so that America would prevail. They made the supreme sacrifice so that our people can live in safety and our Nation can thrive in peace. It is because of their gallantry that we can together, as one people, continue our pursuit of America’s glorious destiny.

 

We owe all that we are, and everything we ever hope to be, to these unrivaled heroes. Their memory and their legacy is immortal. Our loyalty to them and to their families is eternal and everlasting.

 

America’s warriors are the single greatest force for justice, peace, liberty, and security among all the nations ever to exist on earth. God bless our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Coast Guardsmen, Airmen, and Marines. We honor them today, forever, and always.

 

--https://www.newswars.com/president-trump-honors-fallen-heroes-on-memorial-day/

The depth of their devotion, the steel of their resolve, and the purity of their patriotism has no equal in human history.

Surely Pres Trump has heard of the Christian martyrs.  Does he really believe that their devotion and resolve are of a lesser sort than the American soldier’s?

We owe all that we are, and everything we ever hope to be, to these unrivaled heroes.

Wouldn’t a Christian people owe the formation of their character mainly to preachers, missionaries, monastics, and other Christian teachers?

Their memory and their legacy is immortal. Our loyalty to them and to their families is eternal and everlasting.

The memory and legacy of the Christian saints is immortal; our loyalty to them for spreading the Grace of God throughout the world should be eternal and everlasting.  But anti-Christian America worshippers give all these things to the soldiers who are helping to build Antichrist’s New Jerusalem of ‘sovereign citizens’, his Kingdom of Mammon, here on earth.  In confirmation of that claim, here, more precisely, is what America’s soldier-saints are fighting and dying for:  the queering of the Ukraine (and many other countries):

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/us-funds-queer-culture-warriors-cultural-colonialism-from-the-west/

Now then, a soldier is on the whole a good thing, who even in an apostate culture like that in the [u]nited States points us to realities and ends that are of a higher value than the right of a couple to give their child substitute canine an oxygen-infused bath at PetSmart:

https://services.petsmart.com/grooming/2252?clientSettingsHash=UXpwsbtJ5Dg4Lqcq1Cn3Zw%3D%3D

They are deserving of special honor, but not the idolatrous praise the Trumps and Hannity’s of the world give them.

The highest praise for men of this world must be reserved for the saints of the Orthodox Church.  In them we find the highest virtues attained and the greatest benefactors of mankind, men and women and children most worthy of praise and imitation -- not Murca’s soldiers. 

In closing, we offer the life of one of these great saints, the holy martyr Apollonius of Egypt.  May the South and the rest of the States be remembered in his God-pleasing prayers:

 

The Venerable Apollonios was the son of the pious parents, Aisi and Amani.  . . .

 

At the age of fifteen, the Saint retired to the inner desert of the Thebaïd (in Lower Egypt), along with his kinsman Abib. After fourteen years of the solitary life, Saint Apollonios was granted a Divine Revelation. A Voice said: “Apollonios, by your hands I will destroy the wisdom of the wise men of Egypt, and I will remove their knowledge, which is not true knowledge. You will also overthrow those who are reputed to be the wise men of Babel (the Babylon of Egypt), and all their service to devils (idolatry). Now go quickly to the desert, to the region which is near the habitations of men. There you shall beget for me a holy people, who will be exalted by their good works.”

 

Soon he became known for the multitude of miracles which he performed. He was the head of many monks; and he directed them profitably by his spiritual instructions.

 

During the reign of Julian the Apostate, God commanded the Saint to go to the near desert. In a spot close to Hermopolis he founded a monastery in which about five hundred monks would gather in the future.The brethren of the Monastery partook of the Holy Mysteries in the morning, and then in the afternoon they studied the Holy Scriptures. Only after sunset did they eat a little food, and then they went off into the desert alone, “in the darkness of the night, devoting themselves to the contemplation of God and His Holy Word,” while some of the monks remained in the monastery.

 

The monks would eat food just once a day. Apollonios condemned those who adhered to the harsher forms of austerity - these did not cut their hair and wore chains - regarding such things as a sign of vanity. At the same time, Apollonios himself was a strict faster, he ate boiled food on Sundays, and on other days he ate only wild plants.

 

Once one of the monks was forcibly recruited for military service and was locked up in a prison for refusing to serve. Apollonios and some other monks visited him in the prison. They comforted him and advised him to remain steadfast. When the centurion heard about this, he became very angry and locked Apollonios and his companions in prison, posting many guards. However, an angel of the Lord appeared at midnight, to open the doors of the prison, and the monks left unhindered.

 

Near the monastery were ten pagan settlements. Saint Apollonios was once a witness to a pagan ritual: priests of the idols, accompanied by a crowd, carried an idol around to the villages, “raging like bacchants.” By the Saint’s prayers, the idolaters were halted and could not continue the procession. Upon learning of the cause of the incident, many of them followed Apollonios, and the idol was destroyed. After this miracle, many pagans became Christians, and some of them even remained in the monastery. Soon there were almost no pagans left in the vicinity of the monastery.

 

When there was strife between two villages near the monastery, Saint Apollonios managed to convert a robber (who may have been the instigator of the quarrel) to Christ, and so peace was restored.

 

On another occasion, Apollonios was able to prevent bloodshed between the Christian and pagan villages, punishing the leader of the pagans with a terrible death. When famine occurred at the Thebaid, Apollonios supplied the inhabitants with food.

 

Saint Apollonios reposed in peace around the year 395, at very advanced age.

 

 . . . 

 

--https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/05/31/100325-saint-apollonios-apollo-of-the-egyptian-thebaid

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While Washington City is busy turning the American military into an LGBT playground, Orthodox Moldova is busy doing the opposite:

 

A new church dedicated to the 15th-16th century hero St. Stephen the Great is currently under construction at the Moldovan Ministry of Defenses building in the capital city of Chișinău.

 

 . . . 

 

The event was attended by top officials from the Ministry of Defense and soldiers from the national army. The church will also serve as a memorial for soldiers who have given their lives or their faith and their country. 

 

In his homily, Met. Vladimir stressed that the church being built belongs to the Christ-loving Moldovan army, for a Christ-loving army must have places of worship where the Most-Holy Trinity, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Mother of God, and all the saints are honored. 

 

The construction of the church is provided for in the joint action plan for promoting the spiritual education and religious assistance of the national army in 2021, signed between the Ministry of Defense and the Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova in November. 

 

 . . . 

 

--https://orthochristian.com/139721.html

The light is coming from the Orthodox Church; let the South take due note and act accordingly.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

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