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THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT !!!
the things I learn on CAF…
the things I learn on CAF…
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I had no idea.
That is so cool
That is so cool
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It was a Protestant symbolic communion, but nevertheless, this is a truly inspiring story.
Here’s a picture of the Zvezda (“Star”) module of the International Space Station, Christmas 2009. Notice the several icons and the gold crucifix. “Holy Russia”, indeed. I try to educate my family, some of whom remember the Cold War, that Russia is a holy and noble country, as it was historically, and not a bastion of atheists to be mistrusted — they still have this conception of it. I teach my son in homeschool that the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy is just as much a “Mass” as ours is.
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Here’s a picture of the Zvezda (“Star”) module of the International Space Station, Christmas 2009. Notice the several icons and the gold crucifix. “Holy Russia”, indeed. I try to educate my family, some of whom remember the Cold War, that Russia is a holy and noble country, as it was historically, and not a bastion of atheists to be mistrusted — they still have this conception of it. I teach my son in homeschool that the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy is just as much a “Mass” as ours is.
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The Fátima prophecy.
Do you mean in reference to the conversion of Russia?
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TK421
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The conversion of Russia has been happening over the years as we live and breath. The sickness that invaded the country all those years ago with Trotsky and Lenin and Rasputin fads everyday. It is a light and easy yoke to live through the eyes of faith and to see Our Queen’s words made into a reality every sunrise.
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I thought so. They didn’t self-communicate back in 1969.
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You might be interested to know that Aldrin mater expressed some doubts about it:
In his 2010 memoir, he wrote that he’d come to wonder if he’d done the right thing by celebrating a Christian ritual in space. “We had come to space in the name of all mankind—be they Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, agnostics, or atheists,” hewrote
Inclusive and honourable words from a brave and honourable man.
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I don’t see any problem with what he did, even from a nonbelieving standpoint. He is Christian, and he shut off the transmission, as this was a private prayer. The secular world surely wouldn’t have any problem with it, if it had been a Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhist ceremony — to object to that would be “politically incorrect”. Professing Christians, of whatever stripe, are disliked by the secular world, unless they water down their doctrine to conform to that world. Our Lord assured us that it would be this way.
Russia doesn’t worry so much about “political correctness”. Good for them!
Had he been Catholic, he could have been given a dispensation. People living solitarily were permitted to self-communicate even in the early medieval Church. One would certainly have wished to self-communicate Viaticum, if it had come to that (e.g., if they had not been able to leave the moon and were to die there).
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I’ve got no problem with Buzz taking communion on the moon (you might note that Armstrong didn’t participate). Each to his own. A private ceremony at an important time for a man of faith. Who I’m sure felt that God was looking over himWozza:
I don’t see any problem with what he did, even from a nonbelieving standpoint. He is Christian, and he shut off the transmission, as this was a private prayer. The secular world surely wouldn’t have any problem with it, if it had been a Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhist ceremony — to object to that would be “politically incorrect”. Professing Christians, of whatever stripe, are disliked by the secular world, unless they water down their doctrine to conform to that world. Our Lord assured us that it would be this way.
Russia doesn’t worry so much about “political correctness”. Good for them!
But the OP link complained that it wasn’t broadcast. Well, in Aldrin’s own words, what they did wasn’t for Christianty. Or for Hinduism. Or for Muslims or atheists. It was for the whole world. The landing drew us all together as one like no other moment in history. Before or since. If it had been broadcast then that would have left out half the planet.
He understood that. I hope others do as well.
He did what he should have done by shutting off the transmission. Something about when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and do it in private.
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Couldn’t get more private I guess.Wozza:
He did what he should have done by shutting off the transmission. Something about when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and do it in private.
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Very interesting and very cool! 
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The Russians also flew the relics of St Seraphim of Sarov to the space station and let him orbit the earth. This was after his relics were discovered in some dusty storeroom after the fall of Communism. They were going to make a cathedral into a museum of atheism or some such rot and put his relics in there with other stuff and then they lost the relics for like 80 years.
Once I put his picture with his bear on my Facebook and told my friends he made friends with bears and later flew in space and they thought I was making it up.
Once I put his picture with his bear on my Facebook and told my friends he made friends with bears and later flew in space and they thought I was making it up.
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