{"id":2644,"date":"2017-04-27T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:36:50","slug":"russia-west-swapped-spiritual-cultural-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/2017\/04\/27\/russia-west-swapped-spiritual-cultural-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and the West Have Swapped Spiritual and Cultural Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"with-subtitle\">\n<h2 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ministryvalues\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow Mystic Post on Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"with-subtitle\">\n<p id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Russia and the West Have Swapped Spiritual and Cultural Roles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In March of 1984 it is said by the Catholic Church that Pope John Paul II successfully completed the Consecration of Russia to Our Lady\u2019s heart fulfilling the Blessed Mother\u2019s wishes. Of\u00a0course, not all agree. But suddenly does the mysterious rise of Christianity in Russia point to evidence that the prophecy of Fatima is unfolding and that the consecration of Russia did occur? \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Additionally, Our Lady says that Medjugorje is the fulfillment of Fatima. This fact is fairly well known by those who follow Medjugorje but less well known is Medjugorje\u2019s \u00a0Russian Prophecy. And it is this Russian prophecy that directly connects Medjugorje to Fatima. \u00a0At Fatima and Medjugorje the only country specifically mentioned in the Marian apparitions is \u201cRussia\u201d . This is not an insignificant fact.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>The rising tensions between Russia and the West will continue to dominate the news headlines as we near the 100 year anniversary of Fatima. The origins of this conflict between the United States and Russia seemed to have come out of nowhere. But the Queen of Peace\u2019s prophecy predicted in a stunningly accurate way the dramatic world events of today.<\/h4>\n<h4>The prediction was revealed at the height of the Cold War in a quiet village called Medugorje in what was then Yugoslavia.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4848\" title=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysticpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/russian-church68_n-1-300x269.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mysticpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/russian-church68_n-1-300x269.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mysticpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/russian-church68_n-1.jpg 480w\" alt=\" \" width=\"300\" height=\"269\"><\/h4>\n<h4>On November 1, 1981, the Soviet Union was still very much an atheist state \u2013 at war with Christianity. \u00a0The Pope was a real threat to the totalitarian regime. So much so that the Soviet Union planned to kill Pope John Paul II. \u00a0 The assassination attempt occurred on May 13, 1981, an anniversary date of the first appearance of the Virgin Mary at Fatima.<\/h4>\n<h4>One month after the attempt on the Pope\u2019s life, \u00a0the Virgin Mary began to appear at Medjugorje. Then six months after that the Virgin Mary \u00a0spoke about the future of both Russia and the \u201cWest\u201d. \u00a0In a brief message to the visionaries,<em> She said:\u00a0\u201cRussia will come to glorify God the most, the West has made civilization progress, but without God and acts as if they are their own creator\u201d.<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4>It seems impossible that in 1981 the Virgin Mary would speak about a time in the future when the Soviet Union would disappear and return to its roots as the country of \u201cRussia\u201d and that Russia would experience a spiritual revival unforeseen by the entire world.<\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>\u201cRussia will come to glorify God the most\u201d <\/strong>is this<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe Great Prophecy\u201d of Medjugorje?<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>World events seem to be unfolding in a way that lend strong evidence that \u00a0the Virgin Mary\u2019s \u00a0prediction of a mysterious spiritual awakening is in fact coming true. What comes next in these volatile times is anybody\u2019s guess.<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2GezdNQooM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Please read the following article to understand that something is happening in Russia that is ignored by the Main Stream Media.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"with-subtitle\">\n<div class=\"sub-title\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-sub-title field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/user\/191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/sites\/insider\/files\/styles\/40x40\/public\/pictures\/picture-191-1409820777.jpg?itok=vPeHtKK7\" alt=\"\">Iben Thranholm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/user\/feed\/191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysticpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/feed.png\" alt=\"Subscribe to Iben Thranholm\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/en\/russia-and-west-have-swapped-spiritual-and-cultural-roles\/ri9514\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">From Russia Insider<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Russia and the West Have Swapped Spiritual and Cultural Roles<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cRussians are returning to Christianity in a modern and contemporary context\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cThey are familiar with the bitter fruit of atheism and have no appetite for the bleak and barren wasteland it produced\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cin Russia, Christianity is associated with being modern and progressive\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cthe young, the hip, the wise and the wealthy, express their Christianity as a completely natural and straightforward thing\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cToday, the spirit of communism shows itself in western worship of human rights, freedom of speech and the elite\u2019s utopian notions of so-called open societies. We are headed for the very wasteland that the Russians were relieved to leave behind.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cRussians perceive activists like Pussy Riot as latter-day Bolsheviks\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-author view-display-id-block_9 view-nodeid\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourse\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The subject of this interview\u00a0is a Danish journalist and theologian \u00a0who hosted a series of five programmes, entitled \u201cFrom Russia with Love\u201d on Danish national public service radio,Radio24syv, with the sub-heading \u201cAn Unbiased Look at Putin\u2019s Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Inspired by Emperor Constantine, she believes Christianity in the West can be rejuvenated by looking to the East. Iben is aware of the sheer enormity of this task. \u201cSuch, alas, is the depth to which Western hatred for Christianity has sunk,\u201d says the theologian, who does not hesitate to defend President Putin, on whom the Western media delights in heaping derision and scorn.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Pussy Riot case opened the door to Russia for me,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI understood that Russia is a country that refuses to compromise on Christian values. Russia is not just a country or a nation, Russia is a spiritual concept, a state of mind. Criticism of President Putin was not the crime for which the activists were tried and convicted. Their crime was the invasion of the Christ-The-Saviour Cathedral, the holiest of places, and engaging in a blasphemous act in front of the iconostases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default\">\n<div class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default\" title=\"Thranholm on a recent trip to Russia\" src=\"https:\/\/russia-insider.com\/sites\/insider\/files\/styles\/1200xauto\/public\/users\/%5Bcurrent-user:original:name%5D\/7-Sep-2015\/10685582_845925252092657_8545698568127080101_n.jpg?itok=HZfd8XWq\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"526\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-caption field-type-text field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Thranholm on a recent trip to Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the West, freedom of speech is widely deployed for the purpose of desecrating religion, but Russia does not permit crossing the line into blasphemy. That really fascinated me, and so I travelled to Moscow to learn more and this eventually resulted in a series of radio programmes trying to help Danes move beyond the tedious and unhelpful caricature-like clich\u00e9s and provide them with a nuanced view of Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>What was your impression of Russia?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI experienced a fantastic energy, a moral energy similar to America in the \u201950s with the old moral values. I met helpful, poetic and cultured people with a spirit of self-sacrifice I have not seen before. The atmosphere in Moscow is completely different from that of any capital in Europe, and unlike here in the West, I feel much more spiritually free in the East.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While the West is deriding and disowning Christianity and Europe revels in self-loathing, Russians are returning to Christianity in a modern and contemporary context. Bear in mind that Christianity was suppressed under Communism, which was atheistic. Russians are familiar with the bitter fruit of atheism and have no appetite for the bleak and barren wasteland it produced.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The interesting thing is, that in Russia, Christianity is associated with being modern and progressive.<\/strong> It is the spirit of the young, the hip, the wise and the wealthy, who express their Christianity as a completely natural and straightforward way of life. Christianity is simply fashionable, but not in the superficial Western pop manner. Christianity\u2019s roots grow deep in the soil of Russian life, and they look with amazement at how we guard, or rather, disregard, our spiritual heritage.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Not only that: They discern in our obsession with political correctness, and the social liberal opinion policing of the general media and academia, a new manifestation of the terror of totalitarianism they counted themselves blessed to escape after 75 terrible years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After the Cold War, East and West swapped roles spiritually, culturally and morally. Cultural Marxism now holds unrestrained sway in the West.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>But Communism and Social Democracy are probably not the same?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLet me put it a different way. During the rule of Communism, Russia found itself in the grip of a culture of death, but she is returning to life, in the sense of Christian culture with a strong awareness of the historical roots and continuity.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1544\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysticpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Russian-Rockets-God_02475871046-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexiy II during a visit to the Uspensky (Assumption) Cathedral in the 17th century Iversky Monastery at Lake Valdai, some 380km (236 miles) northwest of Moscow, January 12, 2008. REUTERS\/Alexander Zemlianichenko\/Pool (RUSSIA) - RTR1VPTG\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexiy II during a visit to the Uspensky (Assumption) Cathedral in the 17th century Iversky Monastery at Lake Valdai, some 380km (236 miles) northwest of Moscow, January 12, 2008. REUTERS\/Alexander Zemlianichenko\/Pool (RUSSIA) \u2013 RTR1VPTG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The situation in the West is the complete opposite. We celebrate death and have surrendered to the satanic view of man in a self-righteous rage and rant against God. We can divorce with ease on-line. We prioritise work and career above family responsibilities especially raising children. We favour euthanasia, abortion on demand, homosexual rights and same-sex marriage while our cities are submerged in Islam and growing segregation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Russia has chosen a completely different direction, and it is one of the reasons that many Russians perceive activists like Pussy Riot as latter-day Bolsheviks. They invade and desecrate the sanctity of the church, a holy place. The West celebrates this as progress and prosperity. Russians are reminded that the spirit of communism is still alive. It merely assumes new forms and takes up residence in the West, where liberals and progressiveslove and adore Pussy Riot.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Today, the spirit of communism shows itself in western worship of human rights, freedom of speech and the elite\u2019s utopian notions of so-called open societies. We are headed for the very wasteland that the Russians were relieved to leave behind. Patriarch Kirill has warned the West: \u201cDo not take the path we took. We tried it and it leads to destruction!\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>Recently the Russian military held an exercise based on the scenario of an attack on northern Norway, Aaland, Gotland and Bornholm. Do we just turn the other cheek?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWell, that\u2019s not the true way to look at it. The Russians hold such an exercise because of the geopolitical pressure that NATO creates by deploying hostile military forces along the Ukrainian border and in the old Warsaw Pact countries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Russian foreign policy has long been demonized. Russia is compelled to respond to a situation it did not create, which is not the same as aggression. Why should Russia accept being cut off from access to the sea, from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok? Such a thing is unthinkable. With bald-faced hypocrisy, the West makes it look like Russia is our new enemy. The truth is exactly the opposite. The West is its own worst enemy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysticpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/I-found-it-to-be-a-great-book-a-fascinating-fast-paced-thriller-with-a-story-line-that-tackles-the-most-meaningful-religious-and-political-subjects-in-the-world.-It-is-an-impressive-work-2-700x525.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Madonna-Files-Stephen-Ryan-ebook\/dp\/B01E9D8ZB4\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" width=\"485\" height=\"364\">Is it possible that there exists a Catholic mystery that holds the secret of America\u2019s future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cA fast-paced, tightly-plotted political thriller with genuine spirituality at its core.\u201d<strong> RANDALL SULLIVAN \u2013 Author of \u201cMiracle Detectives\u201d, Rolling Stone Contributing Editor and Television host on Oprah Winfrey Network<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Mystic Post on Facebook \u00a0 Russia and the West Have Swapped Spiritual and Cultural Roles In March of 1984 it is said by the Catholic Church that Pope John Paul II successfully completed the Consecration of Russia to Our Lady\u2019s heart fulfilling the Blessed Mother\u2019s wishes. 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