Look
at all those long beards! Muslim lovers!
Only
blood-drinking vampires wear long black robes!
Look
at that swarm of Russians! Don’t let the
civilian clothing trick you: They are
training to invade the Baltic countries!
TEH
kiddie SPETSNAZ!! Ready to hack into the
‘Murcan education system to give your kids D’s and F’s on their report cards!!
Any
good Evangelical knows that icons are demonic.
America
is the ultimate target! Look at them
scheming in their tents! All your base
are belong to us.
This
is the view of Russia that the globalists at The Weekly Standard, CNN, NPR, National
Review, etc. want you to believe.
Maybe,
however, the Russians really do want to live the traditional Orthodox Christian
life of the Holy Apostles and all the Holy Fathers (which their own forefathers
received at Russia’s baptism into the Orthodox Church more than 1,000 years ago
in 988 A.D.) without interference from
the demonically inspired, post-Schism West; without State Dept.- and
CIA-directed color revolutions in the name of ‘constitutional values’; without
Wall Street funded coups that fill the streets with violence and soak the earth
with blood.
Maybe
the people in these pictures really are pious Russians on pilgrimage, seeking
closer union with the All-Holy Trinity, His honored friends the saints, and
themselves.
Here
is a bit of the article that these pictures came from (by Alexander Groves, a
native Englishman):
The anxiety had been
mounting for weeks, and now over breakfast on the first day of the Velikoretsky
pilgrimage there was no escaping the feeling that I may have made a terrible
mistake. I had seen a Russia Today short programme about the oldest, longest,
and largest walking pilgrimage in Russia, how, although very much suppressed in
soviet times, it was not only allowed, but now hugely popular. An inner feeling
had developed that I wanted to experience this event and to be a small part of
the religious revival in Orthodox Russia.
So, visas obtained,
injections endured, and all manner of unaccustomed items bought—a rucksack,
sleeping mat and foam-roll, and (I thought they might be useful) many packets
of Kendal’s Mint Cake. Anyway, now, on this first morning there was no way out
so we went, as arranged to the entrance of the Trifonov Monastery in Kirov
where the procession was about to begin. 105 miles to go, in a six-day round
trip.
Already the choir was
singing the end of the Liturgy, and hundreds and hundreds of people were
arriving—every minute more and more until, through the archway colourful
banners, priests and the wonderworking icon of St.
Nicholas proceeded off down the road. We had been adopted by Anastasia who
was the English teacher to students at the seminary “you have a blessing to
walk with us at the front” she had told me and then we jumped in to the huge
stream on people as the choir continued to sing. In fact, the choir sang all
week from three o’clock in the morning until we stopped in the evening—through
the streets, the fields and the forests as we walked—all ages, all types of
people, men, women, and children, priests and monks, nuns.
Many pilgrims wearing
icons round their necks, some walking barefoot.
So the pattern was
established—we walked for about two hours, then the icon stopped, a moleben
sung, and thousands of people found a patch of field to unroll their mats, lie
down for a rest and perhaps have some tea or a snack, then on out into the
countryside and road which gave way to a path, and the path to mud and the mud
to large path-blocking puddles.
The miraculous icon was
found in the forest by the river Velikaya in 1383 by a peasant who saw it
bathed in light as if surrounded by many candles. A small chapel was built,
miracles wrought and pilgrims started to seek the aid of St. Nicholas. When the
icon was later moved to the monastery in the regional capital of Kirov, it was
on the understanding that each year at the beginning of June it would return
once again to where it was found. Under communism the pilgrimage was officially
banned and as late as the Khrushchev period anyone in even the smallest group
of walkers heading there was turned back.
By the year 2000, the full
route of the ancient pilgrimage was allowed, and now some 40,000 people walk
and pray and sing and do so with what I can only describe as a deep sense of
joyfulness.
. . .
Source: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/105229.htm,
opened 23 July 2017
May
the Lord, through the prayers of the Most Pure Mother of God, help the South to
know who her friends are.
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!
Anathema
to the Union!
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