{"id":9651,"date":"2014-12-23T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/?p=9651"},"modified":"2015-01-02T20:05:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T17:05:04","slug":"thousandth-anniversary-of-the-death-of-st-vladimir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/thousandth-anniversary-of-the-death-of-st-vladimir\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousandth anniversary of the death of St Vladimir"},"content":{"rendered":"
8 December 2014<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

Open letter to President V. Putin<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Dear Mr President!<\/p>\n

On behalf of numerous Christians, including abroad, receive my thanks for initiating the jubilee year of St Vladimir<\/span>. St Vladimir, who as a politician and a saint carried out an important reform both in his personal life and in the life of the whole empire, died 1000 years ago, in the year 1015. He used his authority for the welfare of the nation. He brought Russia into civilized Europe. Modern Western Europe with its gender schizophrenia ideology becomes an uncivilized and amoral cesspool. Who is to blame for it is the Catholic hierarchy who adopted the heresies of Neomodernism and syncretism with paganism (Assisi 1986). NWO architects, U.S. bankers and Masons pursue moral, spiritual and physical autogenocide of the nation and mankind (so-called golden billion). That is why they promote demoralization of the individual and elimination of the institution of the family. They turn people into slaves of various addictions (alcohol, drugs, sexual perversion \u2013 homosexuality, paedophilia, zoophilia). The aim is to deprive man of conscience and ultimately of reason too and to turn him into a pig, or even something worse \u2013 a demon incarnate, a cynic and a criminal. The system of self-destruction must be resisted by effective defence in <\/strong>Russia<\/strong> \u2013 a reform. It must be fully supported by mass media, education, culture and the Church.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Not only in Ukraine but in Russia, too, U.S. agents have managed to build a network of traitors and collaborators whom they promoted to the highest positions and prepare a coup like in Ukraine. The existence of Novorossiya is a question of the existence of Russia as well. Jesus calls for repentance in the Gospel. The Mother of God calls for repentance in all true apparitions. Repentance (true self-criticism) is the most important thing in the life of the individual, family and society.<\/span> It means to get out of lies into the truth, out of death into life. May God grant to the Russian nation the spirit of repentance and consequently spiritual resurrection (cf. Ezek 37).<\/p>\n

Mr President, let me thank You on my behalf and on behalf of many Czechs, Slovaks and Ukrainians that You fight against the most evil neofascist system which disguises itself with positive terms. It is a spiritual and psychological fight.<\/span> Do not give up, and trust in God like King David (Ps 56:2-8). It is necessary to share in an interior communion with God by being truthful and admitting one\u2019s mistakes and weaknesses before Him (cf. Ps 51:1-16). Your time is precious; nevertheless, do find one hour every day for prayer in solitude.<\/strong> You will by no means lose time; God will give You the light and strength in the fight against serpents, bears and hyenas. Begin at least for one week and You will see for Yourself that You will gain time and information which no counsellor could give You. An old proverb says: \u201cGood advice is beyond price.\u201d The one who has power (President) needs wisdom. King Solomon asked and it was granted to him (2Ch 1f). God gives wisdom to him who asks (Jam 1:5). But \u201clet him ask in faith, with no doubting\u201d (Jam 1:6). All Christians (1Tim 2:1-4), and especially men (v.8), should pray for You as a Christian President who seeks spiritual and moral restoration of the nation. Moreover, all priests should pray for You as a political representative<\/span> in every Divine Liturgy. \/see Litany \u201cLet us pray for the President, a servant of God Vladimir), for his health and salvation, (for our government\u2026).\u201d<\/em>\/<\/p>\n

Make a promise to God<\/strong> like many others that in the jubilee year of St Vladimir You will spend one hour daily in prayer before God\u2019s face (i.e. realize His presence).<\/strong> You know very well what psychological and spiritual struggle is and what is the attack of darkness. If God gives You inspiration, You can find an effective solution within a few seconds. Be an example also to Church representatives who are paralyzed by the curse which Patriarch Kirill brought down on himself. He promotes anti-Christianity both by his gestures and words. He invited representatives of Buddhism to the Church of Christ the Saviour in the Kremlin. He is to blame for the plan to build a spiritual centre of Buddhism in Moscow in 2015 which U.S. agents promote with the purpose of weakening the Orthodox Church. The presence of Patriarch Kirill in Astana, a spiritual centre of New Age, brought no blessing but rather calls down a curse on the Russian Church. Christianity purified by true repentance and filled anew with the Spirit of God \u2013 the Spirit of truth and repentance \u2013 must play the key role in the spiritual resurrection not only of the Church but of the Russian nation too. Sevastopol, former Khersones, is really of great significance in the spiritual restoration of the Church and nation, as You stated on 4 December 2014: \u201cOur people live in the <\/em>Crimea<\/em>, and the very territory is strategically important because it is the spiritual fountain of the formation of a large but monolithic Russian nationality and centralized Russian state. So it was right here, in the Crimea, ancient Khersones<\/span>, or Korsun<\/span> (as called by Russian chroniclers), that the Baptism of Prince Vladimir and of all the <\/span><\/em>Russia<\/span><\/em> took place<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The roots of early Christianity are in Sevastopol, going back to the 1st<\/sup> century (St Clement, a disciple of the Apostles Paul and Peter, lived and died a martyr there between 98-101; there is also a mention of St Andrew, the \u201cFirst-called\u201d Apostle, brother of the Apostle Peter: \u201c\u2026he stayed in Korsun (Khersones) for a long time.\u201d<\/em> The first historical records were noted by Origen in 200-258, by the Jerusalem monk Epiphanius, and in the Tale of Bygone Years (orig. \u041f\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u043b\u0435\u0442).<\/p>\n

St Vladimir was baptized in Khersones, Sts Cyril and Methodius, Apostles of Slavs, started their mission in Khersones. Part of the relics of Pope Clement, a martyr, was transferred from this place. 7 bishops carried out a mission in Khersones (Sevastopol), 5 of whom died martyrs under Diocletian in 303. It would therefore be appropriate that the local Church and political government take measures in the jubilee year towards restoration of the sound roots of this spiritual centre, which will have a positive impact on all the <\/strong>Russia<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sevastopol (Khersones) is the first Christian territory in the present-day Russian Federation to be sanctified by the martyr\u2019s death of St Clement and by the suffering of Christians in a stone quarry above all for their testimony to the Christian faith as early as the 1st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

Mr President, do not give up but fight! May God protect and bless You and through You the whole Russian nation too. May St Vladimir, whose name You bear, intercede for You and the entire nation and implore the miracle of spiritual resurrection of <\/span>Russia<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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+ Elijah<\/p>\n

Patriarch of the Byzantine Patriarchate<\/p>\n

see https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/?page_id=9564<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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8 December 2014 Open letter to President V. Putin Dear Mr President! On behalf of numerous Christians, including abroad, receive my thanks for initiating the jubilee year of St Vladimir. St Vladimir, who as a politician and a saint carried out an important reform both in his personal life and in the life of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9655,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions\/9655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}