Sunday, August 25, 2024
More on transits
Friday, August 16, 2024
Open for elections
Jupiter exalted and culminating, waxing Moon applying to trine |
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Mars the protector
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Yet some priests work for the people
...and not for others' interests, as is the case around here (and I suspect elsewhere as well).
The guy with the cross in his hands in the above photo is Teodosie, the Archbishop of Tomis, Dobrogea region, Romania. For more than a few years now he's been targeted by the authorities (both state and church) and media around here because he doesn't want to fall in line with the local church and their antics.
Despite having been ridiculed publically time and again for his nature of saying what's on his mind and doing whay he thinks is right in accordance to the gospel, from both a religious and mundane perspective, the man went ahead to do his duty. As such, he recently performed a religious sermon to call on rain. The sermon was done on the feast of Saint Elijah, who in local tradition is celebrated on July 20 and is said to bring rain. Being in mid hot and dry season and given a lot of farm land around here lacks (proper) irrigation, his gesture is to be applauded. Instead, he received even more ridicule and criticism from the press and public.