President Putin Defends Orthodox Christian Culture and Morality
"For many years Putin has certainly had a close relationship with Archimandrite Tikhon, the Father Superior of Sretensky monastery. So close, in fact, is this relationship that there are those who would paint Tikhon as an éminence grise. Certainly Tikhon, a former film student, with a reputation as a spiritual healer seems to have served for some years as confessor to Putin. One biographer speculates that Tikhon probably knows more about Putin’s life than anyone else.[xix] He is also a priest with some rather remarkable political views, having publicly criticised democracy as a force that weakens a country and its spiritual basis, spoken out in favour of censorship as a necessary instrument and worked as a well–known public media figure. He has certainly seemed to profit from the relationship with Putin and other prominent political figures securing a string of new offices and promotions in recent years. However, he himself has always been keen to be clear that Putin is very much his own man, and certainly for all the closeness in their relationship Putin has stopped short (at least so far) of fully endorsing Tikhon’s model of Church–state relations. They did, however, work closely together in 2007 in the process of re–unifying the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and speculation over the extent of their influence on one another has continued for years.[xx]
Tikhon has reported in the past that Putin prays daily in a small chapel next to the presidential office. Putin’s mother and ex–wife were both certainly religious and the claim that Putin prays regularly is not implausible. As an overall picture of Putin’s personal faith then, while recognising the usual problems when it comes to unpicking truth from myth and managed public image, we can at the very least see that Putin wants to portray an image as a man with a committed personal faith.?
Excerpted from Part 3 of Sergei Bondarchuk's incredible War and Peace series (1966). Perhaps the most expensive film production in the history of the Soviet Union.
Thanks to @EwoktheMoid for taking the time and effort to share this clip on youtube.
All Glory to God.
WERE YOU THERE WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD - JOHNNY CASH - LIVE TV PERFORMANCE 1962
Lyrics
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh, were you there when they crucified my Lord?
(Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble)
Tremble
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they nailed Him to the cross?
Were you there when they nailed Him to the cross?
(Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble)
Tremble
Were you there when they nailed Him to the cross?
Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
(Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble)
Tremble
Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
Well, were you there when the stone was rolled away?
Were you there when the stone was rolled away?
(Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble)
Tremble
Were you there when the stone was rolled away?
The are called deadly because they bring death to the Soul and they are probably not what you expect. This is brought to you with thanks to God and Pantocrator.gr ICXC NIKA
n.b Special thank you to Pano Kostouros
Marcel Pérès - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Pérès
Chants de la cathédrale de Benevento, Ensemble Organum (full album)
https://kos.aahvs.duke.edu/image/benevento-cathedral-17
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chants-Cathedrale-Benevento-Ensemble-Organum/dp/B00P2U7D5I. (currently unavailable so listen here :)
A wonderful 8hr collection of Christian chanting.
(Originally from youtube chan : Prophecy Channel: Truth Will Set You Free: Jo 8,32) go and support if you still support that hideous platform.)
Paul's Epistle to Philemon. Read by the excellent David Suchet
It is a prison letter, co-authored by Paul the Apostle with Timothy, to Philemon, a leader in the Colossian church. It deals with the themes of forgiveness and reconciliation. Paul does not identify himself as an apostle with authority, but as "a prisoner of Jesus Christ", calling Timothy "our brother", and addressing Philemon as "fellow labourer" and "brother."
The Gospel according to Mark (Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Μᾶρκον, romanized: Euangélion katà Mârkon), also called the Gospel of Mark, or simply Mark, is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death and burial and the discovery of Jesus' empty tomb. There is no miraculous birth or doctrine of divine pre-existence.
AD70
(((Read wonderfully by David Suchet))). *** Thank you David