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What Russian state-aligned church media / the official ROC website presents as the meaning of this visit:

Metropolitan Nektarios of Corfu, Paxos and the Diapontian Islands shared his thoughts and impressions following his visit to Russia at the head of a delegation that brought the right hand of St. Spyridon of Trimythous the Wonderworker for veneration by the faithful.

In an article published by the Romfea news agency, he explained that the journey and the veneration of the holy relic were undertaken at the invitation of the Russian Orthodox Church, with the blessing and approval of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. The relevant documents were signed by its president, His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece. The hierarch pointed out that this visit was a continuation of similar journeys undertaken in the past to the United States (in 2017), Cyprus, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Belarus, Georgia and other countries, as well as to the Metropolises of the Church of Greece. “All these journeys were undertaken at the invitation of the respective church authorities, with the consent, blessing and written authorization of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece,” he stated.

“Both during the present sacred pilgrimage to the Russian Church and on all other occasions, the sole purpose of bringing the right hand of St. Spyridon is to enable Orthodox Christians throughout the world who are unable to travel to Corfu to receive the saint’s blessing, to be strengthened in their faith, and to receive strength for their spiritual struggle in an age of secularization, desacralization, shifting values and a general confusion of concepts — phenomena that we are experiencing in our own homeland as well,” Metropolitan Nektarios emphasized.

Sharing his impressions of the journey, he noted: “The scenes we witnessed everywhere we went, including during our visit to Russia, were and remain extraordinarily moving and hope-inspiring. St. Spyridon is an ecumenical saint of simplicity, humility, and love for God and man. He is a saint who reminds us of the significance of the Divine Liturgy and prayer, as well as of the unchanging nature of the faith, since he defended our holy dogmas at the First Ecumenical Council, the 1,600th anniversary of which was commemorated only last year. We live under the blessing of St. Spyridon and continually anticipate the experience of the Resurrection that his incorrupt body bears within itself, preserved in the cathedral city of our Sacred Metropolis — on Corfu. Seeing with my own eyes the love, piety, veneration and faith of the people during the pilgrimages undertaken thus far with the right hand of our saint, I once again thought that, ultimately, this was the will of God: that people throughout the world should be able, through venerating even this small portion of the holy relics, to receive the grace of God through the prayers of the saint… What we experienced in Russia during these days truly exceeded all expectations. Thousands of people, showing incredible patience by any human measure, maintaining order and patiently waiting their turn, stood for hours everywhere we went for the opportunity to venerate the holy relics and receive the saint’s blessing.”

“We exclaimed and continue to exclaim: ‘The Lord God lives!’ We rejoiced! We were deeply moved!” the hierarch continued. “We do not believe that these people should have been deprived of the saint’s blessing for reasons unrelated to religious faith, but of a geopolitical nature. We hope and pray that these reasons will one day disappear. The saint’s blessing, however, is above all that is temporary and passing.”

Metropolitan Nektarios of Corfu also addressed his participation in the Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’, recalling that the Orthodox Church of Greece, to which he belongs, has not broken communion with the Russian Orthodox Church (which is why the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece authorized this pilgrimage).

“We are not authorized to resolve the disagreements that exist, nor do we consider them sufficient grounds for depriving the people of the opportunity to venerate St. Spyridon,” he stated. “We pray ‘for the union of all’ and ‘for the peace of the whole world,’ and during these days we felt that there is both hope and a possibility, relying on the love and prayerful intercession of our saints, to overcome together the disagreements and differences in approach that exist,” the hierarch said. “At times these are also expressed in actions that no one would wish to see, but similar things have occurred throughout the centuries-long history of the Church. The presence of the saint is a sign for us that, regardless of the disagreements that exist, we are all Orthodox and rightly divide the word of Truth, which is our common faith in the Triune God and our life in the one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church — the Orthodox Church.”

“We thank the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece, our highest ecclesiastical authority, for granting us canonical permission and its blessing to share the great gift that God has allowed us to have on Corfu — our holy hierarch St. Spyridon — with such a pious people as the Russian people, with whom we are bound by centuries-old ties. Their origins go back to the time when the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Greek Byzantine Empire brought the Christian faith to Kyiv in 988 AD,” emphasized Metropolitan Nektarios of Corfu, Paxos and the Diapontian Islands. He stated: “These ties between our peoples, founded on the Orthodox faith and a common Orthodox identity, cannot be erased for geopolitical reasons that will not exist forever. The Church was, is, and will remain the foundation of our common journey and unity.”

https://patriarchia.ru/article/122631

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“THE CHURCHES” MUST 1st CORRECT:

1st Principles

1) The oness of God NOT trinity

2) The Return of Christ war of AD70

NEARLY ALL “CHRISTAINS” ARE EQUALLY HERETICAL IN THE MOST DAMNDABLE WAYS POSSIBLE …

#1 "IRONICALLY", Trinitarians on one side & (JW & Islam-Muslims) on the other, are two opposite extrems of the SAME EXACT HERESY that makes Jesus a DIFFERENT PERSON.

Trinity is no different then claiming a pagan pantheon is just different persons of the same “essance”, “substance” & or “Being” of the “one true God”… “LOOK MA, PAGANS ARE MOTHEIST TOO, WE ALL WORSHIP ONE OUSIA” 🤡…Trinitarians faith is in 3 different god persons with different amounts of knowledge, power & authority over each other & deny thats a pantheon like a liar who denies he is lying.

THE

SUBSERVIANT

JESUS-GOD

“My father is greater then I”

“No man knows, only my father”

To Father: “THEE THE ONLY TRUE GOD”

“I can of my own self do nothing”

THE SUBSERVIANT

JESUS-GOD

FORCES EITHER

A) ACCEPT JESUS AS A DIFFERENT LESSER GOD PERSON IN A PANTHEON TRINITY= three different persons with diffiferent minds, amounts of Knowledge, power & authority over each other.

OR

B) A DIFFERENT  PART OF THE SAME PERSON IN A WAY LIKE YOUR HEAD & RIGHT ARM.

MODALISIM - one person who is God manifested in different ways.

[THE ONE SENDING = THE ONE SENT!!]

Isaiah  43:10 Ye are my witnesses..and 👉MY SERVANT👈 whom 👉I👈 have chosen: that ye may KNOW  and BELIEVE 👉me👈, and UNDERSTAND that 

👉✝️I AM HE✝️👈........11 I, even I, am the LORD; and 💢👉BESIDE ME👈 THERE IS NO SAVIOR💢....13 Yea, BEFORE THE DAY was✝️I AM HE✝️; 

Psalms 118:16 💪THE RIGHT HAND💪of the LORD is ✝️EXALTED✝️

(John 17:1.., Father, the hour is come; ✝️GLORIFY thy Son,✝️ …:):

... THE 💪RIGHT HAND💪 of the LORD DOETH….. 22 THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REFUSED IS BECOME THE HEAD STONE OF THE CORNER…

ISAIAH 52:6.. MY PEOPLE SHALL 🎯KNOW MY NAME🎯 therefore they shall know IN THAT DAY that ✝️I AM HE✝️ that doth speak: 👉behold, IT IS I👈. .. FEET OF HIM THAT BRINGETH 😇GOOD TIDINGS😇,… 10. THE LORD HATH MADE BARE 💪HIS HOLY ARM💪..

John 8:24....IF YE BELIEVE NOT that ✝️I AM HE✝️, ye shall DIE IN YOUR SINS…. 28. ... LIFTED UP the Son of man, THEN shall ye KNOW that ✝️I AM HE✝️ .....58 Jesus said.....BEFORE Abraham was, ✝️I AM ✝️. 59 Then took they up stones...) 👈SPECIFIC TIME JESUS SPECIFICALY CLAIMS TO BE GOD & THEY UNDERSTOOD HIM PERFECTLY!!

You cant claim to believe that "I am HE" if you believe Jesus is a different person because to you Jesus is not HE but "some other different person sent by Him"!?!

WHY would “Christians” denounce head & right arm as just metophore & heresy while appealing to obscure abstracts “confessed” as “incomprehensible true faith”?

“WHO” it was (what person) that came “IN THE FLESH”, IS THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “ANT-CHRIST”! Even Islam claims Jesus was the Jewish messiah/Christ who was to come in the flesh. They all deny “WHO” (what person) came Christ in the flesh!?!

1Jn 2:22...Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; …”

To deny father is to deny son because they are the same person in the flesh!

.....THE BASTARD CHILD JESUS?

https://substack.com/@allendaves/note/p-205079622?r=1xhldx

Mark 12:29 Jesus answered, "The 💥MOST IMPORTANT💥 is, 'Hear, O Israel: THE LORD OUR GOD, the Lord IS ONE. 👈.........30 And thou shalt LOVE 👈the Lord thy God with all ….. this is the first commandment.

( That LOVE must be with ONENESS)

If you cannot grasp "ONE" rest of your theology is moot.

In garden Satan states no you will be more WISE & now, "3 in 1" is more WISE & humility of God’s grandeur, the “incomprehisable” mystery of “true faith”🤡

20pg “CLIFTS NOTES”

https://www.scribd.com/document/844419833/20-Page-Summary-PDF-1

"CHILDEREN OF A LESSER GOD"

https://allendaves.substack.com/p/children-of-a-lesser-god?utm_source=share&utm_med

#2 JESUS ISNT COMMING BACK …BUT A STRONG DELUSION MIGHT

https://allendaves.substack.com/p/the-man-of-sin-a-falling-away666the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1xhldx

https://substack.com/@allendaves/note/c-286164394?r=1xhldx

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