Found at my parish my priest said it was in a box with an icon of St. Gabriel Urgebadze
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Found at my parish my priest said it was in a box with an icon of St. Gabriel Urgebadze
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It’s soil from St. Gabriels’ grave
Like someone said, it’s soil from the grave of a saint…
What I am wondering, and maybe all the super religious people who get offended when I criticise the church can answer this one:
Isn’t taking anything from graveyards, including soil strictly prohibited by the church itself? You are supposed to wash you hands before leaving, lest you have something sticking to them. Everything in a graveyard belongs to the dearly departed.
This criminal organisation is so greedy, it ignores it’s own tenets, robs graves and sells it? Peak orthodox Church behaviour 👍👍👍👍
Also, isn’t doing things like this literally going against one of the 10 commandments, the one about the idols…?
Poor St. Gabriel. Even his death will be exploited for 🤑🤑🤑 by some, presumably, obese, (ex-)criminal-turned-priest in a fat jeep and with a 4kg gold chain.
The soil wasn’t bought it was gifted to my priest by a monastic. I don’t think that grave robbing (?) is commensurate with relics; if you mean like taking property from a cemetery (?)…also the 10 commandments refer to idols / graven images of false gods…have you read on in Exodus where God commands the Hebrews to build the ark of the covenant to exact dimensions with ornamentations of the temple? And the notion of relics-literally where someone is buried being holy is found in 2 kings 13:21 where men who are buried next to Elisha’s grave are risen from the dead by virtue of proximity…
Golden calf = false god (Canaanite)…tell me who are the cherubim carved atop the ark??
It says that idolatry has taken over the minds of some Christians.