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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jan 24, 2023 18:07:04 GMT
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Feb 3, 2023 19:35:17 GMT
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Mar 24, 2023 16:04:01 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on May 13, 2023 12:23:31 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 11, 2023 22:40:47 GMT
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Jul 14, 2023 9:28:14 GMT
Very interesting, although there is a deflection from the issue of bad blood between Poland and Ukraine, which was particularly in evidence during the Second Polish Republic (which included western Ukraine) and the Second World War with atrocities on both sides. Two partisan groups - the Polish Home Army and the Ukrainian National Army - were at war with both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. And when not distracted by either, they happily fought each other. For similar reasons, I ask the awkward questions in regard to the Divine Mercy devotion is what was a Polish nun such as St Faustina doing in a convent in Vilnius during the original apparitions in the 1920s. The answer is that following a war between the newly independent republics of Poland and Lithuania, Vilnius was occupied by the Poles.
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 14, 2023 22:04:59 GMT
The Poles have very strong memories of the massacre of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943 in the province of Volhynia. I knew nothing about this until recently - another example of the sheer horrors of the Eastern Front in World War II en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_GaliciaAs regards the Divine Marcy devotion, it is quite possible that Sr Faustina could have been a local Pole, given that Polish irredentism was based on the presence of Polish minorities (often as tge local ruling class and much of the urban population) across the territory of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which included much of Ukraine.
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Jul 19, 2023 10:32:10 GMT
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Aug 10, 2023 8:42:00 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 24, 2023 21:54:00 GMT
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Nov 30, 2023 14:32:45 GMT
Though Solovyev is no doubt a fascinating character, his conversion to Catholicism was a lot more ambiguous than generally allowed.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jan 3, 2024 10:43:30 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Mar 22, 2024 16:13:35 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on May 6, 2024 20:54:53 GMT
At the March for Life today I saw an Eastern priest accompanied by a couple of men wearing cloaks with pictures of icons. I spoke to them and was surprised to find they were ROCOR - Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, historically a "White" exile jurisdiction; the priest was North American. They had travelled from Clifden to attend. I didn't knoe ROCOR had an Irish presence. Whatever our differences, it's good we can join in supporting the pro-life cause.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 7, 2024 10:34:00 GMT
At the March for Life today I saw an Eastern priest accompanied by a couple of men wearing cloaks with pictures of icons. I spoke to them and was surprised to find they were ROCOR - Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, historically a "White" exile jurisdiction; the priest was North American. They had travelled from Clifden to attend. I didn't knoe ROCOR had an Irish presence. Whatever our differences, it's good we can join in supporting the pro-life cause. It has had a presence here since the 1920s at least. At one time there was a protocol between the ROCOR and Moscow Patriarchate that one would not enter on the other's territory and Ireland was regarded as ROCOR territory, but this was violated early this century, or maybe in the 1990s (though I suspect it was out the window elsewhere). There were a few conversions to the ROCOR from the Church of Ireland after the C of I voted to ordain women and a church was built in Stradbally in Co Laois.
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