Lessons for the South from Greece’s War for Independence

 

As the South ponders ways she can throw off the Yankee/globalist yoke, let her take note of how things unfolded in Greece in her struggle for freedom from the Ottoman Turks.  The Greeks’ trust in God, and in the help of the greatest Saint before God - the Mother of the Word of God, holding on to old speechways, etc. (but perhaps a little less attention to the misguided praise for ‘democratic values and principles’), should be guidestones for Dixie:

 

On the occasion of the feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos and the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution, which began on March 25, 1821, the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church issued an epistle to be read in church by all the hierarchs of the Church.

 

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“Today is a day of remembrance, honor, and hope, in memory of the saints, New Martyrs, national martyrs, heroes, fighters, teachers of the nation, clergy and laity, men and women who gave everything for the homeland,” the epistle reads.

 

“We remember those who prepared the ground, those who preserved the faith, the language, and the national conscience, those who cultivated the fighting spirit, and those who kept the burning flame of hope.”

 

The hierarchs recall the words of St. Cosmas of Aetolia, who said that freedom would come as long as the people kept their Christian faith and Greek language and education. They also honor those who fell in the pre-revolutionary movements, and all those who “shed their blood in the battles, sieges, and naval battles of the Greek Revolution.”

 

“We hope and strive. We hope that everyone will remain free from all oppression and threats, relying on the holy faith of Christ and on democratic principles and values.”

 

The Synod calls on its flock to preserve what their ancestors fought for and walk with hope for the future, “bearing in mind that the future is what gives meaning to what preceded it—a future that reveals the presence of God in our lives.” Those who fought for freedom in 1821 would never have succeeded without faith in Christ, the hierarchs affirm.

 

It was specifically chosen to launch the Revolution on the feast of the Annunciation, the Synod recalls, in order “connect their struggle for the freedom of the homeland with the Orthodox faith and life, the face of the Panagia with their salvation.”

 

The Theotokos herself appeared in 1823, promising the Greeks that liberation would come, after which the icon of the Annunciation was miraculously found in Tinos.

 

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--https://orthochristian.com/138232.html

The South has long admired much about Greek culture; let her now adopt the most important element of it - the Orthodox Faith Greece received from the hands of the Holy Apostle Paul himself.  As with Greece and elsewhere, that is where she will find true freedom.

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For more on the wonder-working Tinos icon of the Mother of God mentioned above:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/01/30/100379-icon-of-the-mother-of-god-tinos

https://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com/2009/03/miraculous-icon-of-theotokos.html

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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!