![]() ![]() Their all-female forces (they consider themselves a guerrilla band of terroristic ‘sextremists’) initially expressed valid concerns about poor native women being forced into the flourishing post-Soviet sex industry, besides quite correctly foreseeing the danger Vladimir Putin’s ever-more militaristic regime posed towards the freedom of their country. This makes it simple for Putin’s propagandists to portray such antinomian agitators as literal agents of the Devil, proving that extended contact with the wanton ways of the West really can corrupt previously innocent Ukrainian souls.įemen was founded in Ukraine in 2008. Such literally un-Orthodox tactics – billed dubiously as acts of daring female rebellion – are deliberately calculated to offend Christians of all denominations. One way to examine why Putin’s argument is so convincing in Russia, where belief in Orthodox Christianity remains strong, is through the lens of the attention-seeking Ukrainian-born extreme feminist group Femen, best-known today for a series of sick anti-religious stunts like invading French and German Catholic churches in a state of semi-undress before performing obscene mock-abortions of the infant Christ before the altar. Putin’s argument was that contact with Western soil inevitably corrodes the sacred Slavic soul, hence transforming his war of conquest in Ukraine into a morally just battle for the moral salvation of the Ukrainian people. Photinia St.Previously on Providence, I asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin was correct to smear the West as morally degenerate (or, as he preferred, “Satanic”) as part of his ongoing ideological war against the Occident. TAGS "Journey to the Source" "The Day of Light" 000 Advent Christian animal welfare Christ is in our midst! Christ the High Priest Christus Victor as model of atonement concepts of time Cordoba acero d11-ce Death Cab For Cutie Doxacon dying to self Eastman AC530-12 Eastman AJ816 Elevation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross Eph 1: 9 - 10 defines Recapitulation ethic of being Eucharistic bread Eucharistic life Eucharistic response ever present present finding beauty Forgiveness Sunday free will guitar instruction guitar review iconoclasm iconography imitation of Christ Life on Mars? Mary's obedience undoes Eve's disobedience miraculous healing Paris philosophy of time prayer prayer without ceasing preservation of God’s creation pro pan-life Proverbs 3:5 re-creation in Christ Recapitulation Rich Man and Lazarus Russia Seventh Ecumenical Council short story solidarity spiritual power St. By this ethic we are to understand this: we are to bear God to all creation by holy actions and prayers and words of blessing, and bear creation to God by our prayers and offerings. Hence, we are given an ethic in the category of an ethic of being. As such icons and priests we declare to all of creation, by our actions, what God is like. We are living, moving, breathing icons and priests. With the image of God restored in us as we are in Christ, we are 3-D icons. He exalted us even beyond our original status. We were liberated by the one God-man “commando raid” of the Incarnate God, Jesus Christ, the image and likeness of God (“…If you have seen me, you have seen the Father…” John 14: 9). ![]() We were delivered from sin and its death. God intervened and rescued us from such darkness, bondage, and alienation. He has crushed my life to the ground, and has made me sit in darkness like those long dead” (LXX 142, 143).īut we were not left alone to a never ending lament and sorrow. The complaint of the Psalmist truly was the complaint of all humanity: “The enemy has pursued me. Rather than upholding the dignity of humanity, humans began to degrade other humans. Rather than serving and cultivating creation in love, its exploitation began. Humanity lost communion with God, and with the creation they were to serve as God’s vice-regents and priests. Though the image of God was not lost, the integrity was lost. Truly, the Serpent was the first iconoclast: he deceived and marred those who were created in the image of God. However, iconoclasm existed long before the controversy began. The destruction of icons had officially ended, and the restoration and writing of new icons could begin. So, Sunday, October 25, commemorated the Seventh Ecumenical Council and the Church’s ultimate victory in the Iconoclastic Controversy. Since it is in the ROCOR jurisdiction it is on the Old Calendar. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church in Boise, Idaho. ![]() I recently had the great joy and pleasure of serving at St. Irenaeus | Filed under: Etcetera | Tags: iconoclasm, iconography, re-creation in Christ, Seventh Ecumenical Council | Leave a comment Icon or Iconoclast? Posted: Octo| Author: Fr. ![]()
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