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
***
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.
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
