Russia is fated to become center of Christian world....

Moscow, July 1, Interfax – Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplain, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations, said Russia is moving towards maximum self-reliance and must become the center of global Christianity.
“It is not accidental that many see Russia as a defender of Christian ideals and traditional moral values, as a country that provides a real alternative to the cult of the golden calf and to a suicidal understanding of what freedom is,” Father Vsevolod writes in an article, published in the Rus Derzhavnaya newspaper on Monday.
Russia must start feeling it is the center of the Christian world, he writes. Only if it does will it become an accomplished nation.

The rest is “first, petty and, second, self-destructive for it,” the priest said.

“Russia has told the world in clipped terms that it can definitely speak its own language, the language of a self-sufficient and strong nation, whose traditions and experience give it the right to walk its own way, to defend its own ideas of how society should be set up, and also to offer it to the world,” Fr. Vsevolod said.

However hard one tried to influence the state into following the opinions of narrow groups that link themselves to foreign trends and position themselves as the mouthpiece of “would-be Russia”, or “other Russia,” or “real Russia, nothing worked, he said.

“It is not accidental that we said in clear terms despite pressure coming from the West that we do want to protect children from early sexualization and from the propaganda of homosexuality. And we also said that support for foreign adoptions of Russian children is an extremely irrational step. We do not want these children, adopted by perverts, to lose the hope in which many of them were baptised, and to lose a normal life,” Fr. Vsevolod said.

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OUR LADY OF FATIMA AND RUSSIA
So, to start at the beginning, what did
Our Lady say about Russia? On July 13,
1917, during an apparition to the three
children, she said something they were
not allowed to reveal at the time, and
which came to be known as the “second
part” of the secret. After describing dire
punishments about to befall the world if
mankind did not stop offending God,
Our Lady said: “To prevent this [the
punishment of the world by war,
famine, and persecution of the Church],
I shall come to ask for the consecration
of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and
the Communion of Reparation on the
First Saturdays. If My requests are
heeded, Russia will be converted and
there will be peace; if not she will
spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the
Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be
annihilated. In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph.
The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she will be
converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.”
So at Fatima, Our Lady described the consecration as
something she would come to request in the future.
That promise was fulfilled on June 13, 1929, while Sr.
Lucy, then in the Dorothean novitiate
in Tuy, Spain, was praying alone in the
chapel. Sr. Lucy recounted a vision of
the crucified Christ, with Mary under
the cross of her Son, appearing as she
had at Fatima and saying to her: “The
moment has come when God asks the
Holy Father to make, in union with all
the bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means...