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ROCOR pilgrimage continues

A Sharing: TWO articles: 1) ROCOR pilgrimage continues to the Holy Land plus more photos, & 2) Serbian Memorial & short video

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Dan Everiss

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Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:49 PM

ROCOR: Pilgrimage of our parishioners to the Holy Land continues (added PHOTOS) Автор: Митрополит Агафангел вкл. Author: Metropolitan Agafangel inc. 13 Сентябрь 2017 13 September 2017 . . Опубликовано в РПЦЗ (Просмотров: 118) Posted in ROCOR (Views: 118)

Продолжается паломничестово в Святую Землю наших прихожан из Бразилии и США, которое возглавил протоиерей Владимир Петренко.


Continues the pilgrimage to the Holy Land of our parishioners from Brazil and the US, which is headed by Archpriest Vladimir Petrenko.
Паломники посетили Колодец Марии. Pilgrims visited the Well of Mary.


Горненский монастырь. Gornensky Monastery.


Место рождества Иоанна Предтечи. The birth place of John the Baptist.

Колодец Иакова. Well of Jacob.

Дворец Ирода. Herod's palace.

Монастырь Георгия Хозевита в Иудейской пустыне. Monastery of George Hosevit in the Judean Desert.

Мощи св. Relics of St. Иоанна Хозевита. John Hozevit.

На Иордане. On the Jordan.



В монастыре преподобного Герасима Иорданского. In the monastery of the Monk Gerasim of Jordan.



Serbian Memorial:


From: Archimandrite Alexis <info@saintedwardbrotherhood.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:39 PM
To: Archimandrite Alexis
Subject: Memorial held by Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church at the sight of the Jasenovac concentration camp
 

From: Bishop Auxentios
Subject: Not very ecumenical but critically important to remember
Date: 13 September 2017 at 17:09:50 BST


Dear Friends,

Εὐλογία Κυρίου!

The video below was sent to me this morning by a spiritual son. It depicts a memorial held by Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church at the sight of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, where, during WW II, the German Nazi-sponsored State of Croatia (the Ustaše régimeexterminated Orthodox Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and dissident Croats and Bosnians (anti-fascist activists).

According to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, "Some six hundred thousand people were murdered at Jasenovac, mostly Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and political opponents of the Ustaše regime. The number of Jewish victims was between twenty thousand and twenty-five thousand, most of whom were murdered there up to August 1942, when deportation of the Croatian Jews to Auschwitz for extermination began.”

In the obscene world of political attempts to downplay the Nazi atrocities during the Second World War by silly claims that the numbers of those exterminated have been exaggerated (as though even one such death were not unthinkable), some say that “only” 100,000 people were killed in the camp. Such numbers are absurd and are contradicted even by the admissions of criminality at the time. Some statistics, in fact, place the number of deaths at well over 1 million and as high as one 1,700, 000 victims.   

Sadly, the Ustaše régime was de facto recognized by the Vatican, and the Croatian Catholic Church clergy were closely aligned with the Nazi régime. Pope Pius XII was also criticized for not condemning the Croatian state, which he called an “outpost" of his church’s influence. The atrocities were accompanied by the forced conversion of many Orthodox Christians.

Fortunately, a number of Roman Catholic clergy and leaders have condemned the involvement of the Catholic Church in Nazi Croatia and its support by the Vatican, whether directly or indirectly. Others, however, have sided with historical revisionists, who downplay the extent of the Nazi atrocities.

Certainly violence between religions is not one-sided, and shameful persecutions between and within various religions are part of the flawed history of an imperfect world and many imperfect religious believers. This must be cured by mutual forgiveness. But that forgiveness is meaningless if we do not remember those who were exterminated for their religious beliefs or ethnicity and commemorate them in our religious ceremonies.

May the memory of the Orthodox and other victims of  the perverse Ustaše régime be eternal! 

Αἰωνία ἡ μνήμη!

Least Among Monks, † Bp. Chrysostomos
  

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