#Melkites

[dougielombax]

Let me make something quite clear.

Conservative American Christians (at least evangelical hardcore Republican types) do NOT care about the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East.

Nor do they know or understand them (I’m no expert myself but I’ve read up a bit and know a great deal more about them than those ghastly fuckers! That’s for DAMN sure!)

This is equally true for their idiotic fascist counterparts in Europe!

I’d even go further and say that they DESPISE the indigenous Christians in the Middle East as well.

Perhaps viewing them as usurpers or pretenders.

The Christians in the Middle East who I refer to aren’t rich white evangelical types.

Rather I am referring to the marginalised indigenous Christians who have lived in the region for thousands of years such as Coptic Christians in Egypt, Assyrian people, Maronites, Melkites, Armenians, and Arab Christians.

These aforementioned American conservative far right fundamentalist grifters (and their idiot counterparts in Europe) have never cared about them. They never have, they never did and they never will. If anything they’d rather see them all die, probably.

They only use their plight as an excuse to fuel their own pathetic persecution complex.

When they know nothing of persecution and the suffering those indigenous Christians in the area have faced and continue to face to this day.

These people suffer and those aforementioned American types don’t care one bit, simply USING their suffering as an excuse to fuel their putrid, fascist agenda.

Only pretending to care.

All because they want their stupid end time Apocalypse prophecy (Rapture bullshit!) to be fulfilled. (Or just to prove their bigoted beliefs to be true.)

And can’t abide the fact that they won’t be able to control their grandkids (who they despise) from beyond the grave.

The European far right does much of the same, only they aren’t so much motivated by stupid anthropocentric apocalypse worship like their American counterparts as they are by pure anti-Muslim bigotry for its own sake.

(For instance. You see a lot of this from the Swedish far right, who have also attacked Assyrian refugees in their country.)

The point is, they don’t give a shit and only use their suffering to justify their own putrid persecution complex.

And they’d probably see them all wiped out just to validate their nasty feelings.

They don’t care.

They never have.

And they never will.

Feel free to reblog this.

#personal stuff #dougie rambles #vent post #political crap #armenia #western armenia #artsakh #Coptic people #Coptic Christians #assyrians #Assyrian people #Armenian people #Maronites #palestinians #persecution #bullshit #middle east #reblog this #melkites #christianity #actual persecution #persecution complex #fuck evangelicals #feel free to reblog this #signal boost #signal b00st #signal boooooost #reblog the shit out of this #please reblog this #somebody reblog this

[leroibobo]

the church in the monastery of st. mark in jerusalem, palestine. the structure, completed in ad 73, was supposedly built on the ancient site of the house of the mother of mark the evangelist, and one of the possible sites of the last supper. it's remained the center of jerusalem's syriac and assyrian orthodox communities and retained multiple renovations since.

#palestine #architecture #interior #worship #christian #diasporic palestine #(-ish) #my posts #most palestinian christians are some form of melkite iirc

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

the beauty of Holy Mother Church is that she Christianizes culture, a true diversity

#I remember a Melkite priest emphasizing to us Roman’s once that difference isn’t division #and that in the Catholic Church is true

[proud-spaniard]

2048x1365 Inside view of the Melkite Catholic Basilica of Saint Paul in Harissa, Lebanon, built 1947-1962 by the renowned Armenian-Lebanese architect Mardiros Altounian.

#melkite catholic #basilica #st paul #harissa

[luvchristxx]

Going to Mass makes me feel so happy on the inside <3 Thank you God for everything, Amen

Feeling Him around you and His warmth is genuinely a feeling you can’t recreate 🛐

It’s truly a blessing

#catholic #christian veiling #feminine #girly #jesusisgod #jesuslovesyou #modesty #religion #veiling #bible #christ is king #christian girl #christ is born #christian faith #catholic veil #catholicism #catholic girl #child of god #church #melkite #amen

[brokenchainsandfallenleaves]

OC art dump

this is Melkit I love he (he/him, dryad)

most of the signatures are my twt bc he's also a Vtuber model I use and streamers unfortunately congregate there

#DIY blorbo #oc art #digital art #art practice #digital painting #melkit vtuber #rowan.art

[mapsontheweb]

Christianity in Lebanon.

Maronite Catholic 52.5%

Greek Orthodox 20%

Melkite Catholic 12.5%

Armenian Orthodox 10%

Protestants 2.5%

other Christians 2.5%

by georgianmaps

#maps #georgianmaps #igsourced #christians #lebanon

[dioscrucificado]

a priest greets children outside of saint elias melkite greek catholic church in ezraa, syria. (x)

#op

[imperial--orthodoxy]

anyway, chaldean, melkite catholics will always be more 'eastern' than any american who converts to eastern orthodoxy + that's what you don't seem to get

Ah I knew you'd come back. So how's your day going, I missed you. That said, had I known it was you, I would have known that you would absolutely ignore my point to get mad at my going home to Orthodoxy again, so I sincerely hope you get over that soon.

Ps come off anon it's unbecoming of such a stalwart defender of Catholicism.

[hebeandersen]

#polls #catholicism #christianity #roman catholic #eastern catholic #armenian catholic #religion

[dougielombax]

Here’s an idea.

Stop telling Middle Eastern Christians to run away to Europe!

It’s their home too!

And some of them are not afraid to make that quite clear (see the Assyrians).

Leave them alone!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #vent post #political crap #middle east #caucasus #armenians #assyrians #Maronites #Coptic people #Melkites #Arab Christians #fucking hell #minorities #lebanon #syria #syrian civil war #Iraq #bethnahrin #armenia #artsakh #Asia #persecution #just saying #fuck’s sake

[leroibobo]

st andrew's church in acre, palestine. the current structure was built in 1765 on the remains of a crusader church which was destroyed in 1291.

#which is probably why it's (melkite) catholic #palestine #interior #worship #christian #my posts

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

maybe one year i’ll go full Eastern for Lent but i think i would have to think so much about food 

#my friend is melkite and i'm always like #Wow

[opencommunion]

(submission from @akkawi) I made a Maronite fursona do you like her. My family is Melkite but I did it for the lulz. She's kinda satire but I also love her

#submission #lmaooo she's perfect thank you for sharing #I can imagine her frolicking among the cedars <3

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Both Roman and Eastern rite Catholics celebrate the Church's Feast of the Transfiguration today, August 6, on its traditional date for both calendars.

The feast commemorates one of the pinnacles of Jesus' earthly life, when he revealed his divinity to three of his closest disciples by means of a miraculous and supernatural light.

Before his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Christ climbed to a high point on Mount Tabor with his disciples Peter, James, and John.

While Jesus prayed upon the mountain, his appearance was changed by a brilliant white light, which shone from him and from his clothing.

During this event, the Old Testament figures of Moses and the prophet Elijah also appeared, and spoke of how Christ would suffer and die after entering Jerusalem, before his resurrection.

Matthew, Mark, and Luke all record that the voice of God was heard, confirming Jesus as his son (Matthew 17:5, Mark 9:6, Luke 9:35).

Peter and John make specific reference to the event in their writings, as confirming Jesus' divinity and his status as the Messiah (2 Peter 1:17, John 1:14).

In his address before the Angelus on 6 August 2006, Pope Benedict XVI described how the events of the transfiguration display Christ as the “full manifestation of God's light.”

This light, which shines forth from Christ both at the transfiguration and after his resurrection, is ultimately triumphant over “the power of the darkness of evil.”

The Pope stressed that the feast of the Transfiguration is an important opportunity for believers to look to Christ as “the light of the world” and to experience the kind of conversion, which the Bible frequently describes as an emergence from darkness to light.

“In our time too,” Pope Benedict said, “we urgently need to emerge from the darkness of evil, to experience the joy of the children of light!”

For Eastern Catholics, the Feast of the Transfiguration is especially significant.

It is among the 12 “great feasts” of Eastern Catholicism.

Eastern Christianity emphasizes that Christ's transfiguration is the prototype of spiritual illumination, which is possible for the committed disciple of Jesus.

This Christian form of “enlightenment” is facilitated by the ascetic disciplines of prayer, fasting, and charitable almsgiving.

A revered hierarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, the late Archbishop Joseph Raya, described this traditional Byzantine view of the transfiguration in his book of meditations on the Biblical event and its liturgical celebration, titled “Transfiguration of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

“Transfiguration,” Archbishop Raya wrote, “is not simply an event out of the two-thousand-year old past, or a future yet to come. It is rather a reality of the present, a way of life available to those who seek and accept Christ’s nearness.”

#Feast of the Transfiguration #Mount Tabor

[luvchristxx]

ℐ𝓃𝓉𝓇ℴ （𝓌𝒽ℴ ℐ 𝒶𝓂）

𝖧𝗂 <𝟥 𝗂’𝗆 𝖺 𝟣𝟩 𝗒𝖾𝖺𝗋 𝗈𝗅𝖽 𝗀𝗂𝗋𝗅，𝗂’𝗆 𝖺 𝖼𝗋𝖺𝖽𝗅𝖾 𝖼𝖺𝗍𝗁𝗈𝗅𝗂c, (melkite catholic) 𝗂’𝗆 𝗁𝖺𝗅𝖿 𝗅𝖾𝖻𝖺𝗇𝖾𝗌𝖾 𝖺𝗇d 𝗁𝖺𝗅𝖿 𝖼𝖺𝗇𝖺𝖽𝗂𝖺𝗇. You can call me 𝖳𝖺𝗆𝖺 ♡︎

𝖨’𝗆 𝗀𝗈𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗈 𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝖻𝗅𝗈𝗀 𝗍𝗈 𝗌𝗉𝗋𝖾𝖺𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖶𝗈𝗋𝖽 𝗈𝖿 𝖦𝗈𝖽， 𝗌𝗉𝗋𝖾𝖺𝖽 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗃𝗈𝗒 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖾𝖿𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗒 𝖿𝗂𝗇𝖽 𝗈𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝖼𝖺𝗍𝗁𝗈𝗅𝗂𝖼／𝖼𝗁𝗋𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗂𝖺𝗇𝗌 𝗐𝗁𝗈 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝖦𝗈𝖽 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝖺𝗌 𝗆𝗎𝖼𝗁 <𝟥

𝖯𝗅𝗌 𝗂𝖿 𝗎 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝗇𝗈𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗉𝗈𝗌𝗂𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝗌𝖺𝗒 𝗂𝗀𝗇𝗈𝗋𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝖻𝗅𝗈𝗀 <𝟥 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗇𝗄 𝗎

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#christian veiling #veiling #feminine #modesty #religion #jesuslovesyou #jesusisgod #catholic #girly #faith in jesus #intro post