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#373893 - 01/07/12 07:39 AM Christmas, Kirill to Orthodox Church: Look to Christ "as the sun
Tomassus Offline
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Christmas, Kirill to Orthodox Church: Look to Christ "as the sun that lights the path"

by Nina Achmatova
Asia News
1/6/2011

Russian Orthodox Christmas in 60 countries around the world. Patriarch Kirill celebrates Divine Liturgy in the presence of Medvedev and 6 thousand faithful.

More at http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Christmas,-Kirill-to-Orthodox-Church:-Look-to-Christ-as-the-sun-that-lights-the-path-23633.html

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#373927 - 01/07/12 09:19 PM Re: Christmas, Kirill to Orthodox Church: Look to Christ "as the sun [Re: Tomassus]
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What goes around, comes around.

The very idiom rightly used by His Beatitude, Patriarch Kirill, to glorify Christ, is identical to the sycophantic praises once offered in homage to Stalin, during the time of the accursed Soviet Union.

I hope that was intentional. I bet it was.

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