Dear Catholic friends, let us pray for a return of unity between the East and West; let us pray that the Roman churchmen, especially in the person of the Pope will return to guarding the Tradition of Jesus Christ, the Apostles, and the Fathers.
In the meantime, through mysteries known but to God, the separated brethren of the East are "guardians of tradition". We thank God Almighty they hold fast to the ancient Byzantine rites of St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostom. Let us therefore hold fast to the ancient rite of St. Gregory the Great, the father of the various Latin Rites (or usages) that emerged over the centuries in Latin Christendom.
The following is an example of "traditionis custodes" in action, with the the Patriarch of all the Russias leading the Divine Liturgy for Christmas Day.
As you watch also consider the hate and rage of bolsheviks, who could not eradicate Christianity in Russia, even through 70 years of the most barbaric, bloody persecution. Place yourself in the position of a western atheist, and you tremble with hate and fear as you see the Russian Orthodox Church blocking your way to destroy, carve up, and then incorporate the remains of Russia into the wicked degenerate, perverted western, globalist hegemony.
Now, dear Catholic friends, place yourself at the side of Christ and rejoice that Christianity is growing in Russia. May the Pope of Rome open his heart to true Tradition, may he come back to the Faith of the Fathers, handed down for all time to the saints.
In the far north of Russia, President Putin attended midnight Divine Liturgy.
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