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posted 1 year ago by doginventer (+1 / -0 )
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> The Feast of the Dormition is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to as the Dormition Fast. From August 1 to August 14 (inclusive) Orthodox and Eastern Catholics fast from red meat, poultry, meat products, dairy products (eggs and milk products), fish, oil, and wine. The Dormition Fast is a stricter fast than either the Nativity Fast (Advent) or the Apostles' Fast, with only wine and oil (but no fish) allowed on weekends. As with the other Fasts of the Church year, there is a Great Feast that falls during the Fast; in this case, the Transfiguration (August 6), on which fish, wine and oil are allowed.
 
> In some places, the services on weekdays during the Fast are similar to the services during Great Lent (with some variations). Many churches and monasteries in the Russian tradition perform the lenten services on at least the first day of the Dormition Fast. In the Greek tradition, during the Fast either the Paraklesis Great Paraklesis (Supplicatory Canon) or the Small Paraklesis is celebrated every evening except Saturday evening and the Eves of the Transfiguration and the Dormition.[1]
 
> The first day of the Dormition Fast is a feast day called the Procession of the Cross (August 1), on which day it is customary to have an outdoor procession and perform the Lesser Blessing of Water.
posted 1 year ago by doginventer (+2 / -0 )
posted 1 year ago by doginventer (+1 / -0 )
"It has delighted YHVH for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and esteemed. But this is a people robbed and plundered, all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver - for plunder, and no one to say. "Restore!"
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 42:21-22
The world now sits at the brink of a catastrophic nuclear war, as the fires of conflict have been reignited by the powers of the western Roman church, and the responsive powers of the East.
This is not the first time in history that this very same battle has been started. In the time of the Parthian Empire, an understanding was reached between the Parthians and the Romans that the Parthians would not move west of the Euphrates, and Rome would not move east of the same.
But this agreement was breached by a Roman general who saw “easy pickings” on the eastern side of the Euphrates and moved ahead with his army to pursue the spoils. But the Parthians destroyed the Romans in that battle and ultimately confronted western Rome in devastating battles that would ultimately end Rome.
However as soon as Western Rome could muster military power, the assaults “across the Euphrates” would be undertaken again, whether by the Napoleon, the Kaiser, or the Chancellor. Following the defeat of Napoleon, the communist current was used to work an inside transaction covertly against the Orthodox people of Russia most successfully, succeeding where overt force had failed.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unexpected has occurred. The atheist world of communism was expected to continue – but instead, the Russians have reembraced Orthodoxy! Once this became clear to the Western Roman Empire, the demonization of Russia began and a strategy was employed in Ukraine to once again engage the Orthodox people with a military strategy.
They have crossed the Euphrates again in Ukraine.
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Jesus declared that "the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force" (Matthew 11:12). But who are the violent? And what kind of force do they employ? Join Tom Pinto as he unfolds the meaning of this enigmatic passage.
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Research from 3 scientific sources help us know exactly which day of the week the Biblical Sabbath day is. This interview on Better Life TV with Larren Cole and Charley Oliver looks at 1: Circaceptan rhythms innate in all creatures, 2. The Jewish Diaspora studies, 3. The Navel Observatory scientists who are the specialist in chronology and time keeping.
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