Un parere: che ne pensate di queste pitture murarie in una chiesa ortodossa?

[Augustinus]

In questa chiesa ortodossa, a Petresti, in Romania, su una parete sono dipinti Giovanni Paolo II, attorniato da G. Bush (padre) e Mikhail Gorbaciov. Che ne pensate? E sono lecite queste raffigurazioni?

[DanielGi.]

Come è possibile santificare un'eretico quale Karol Woijtila e due personaggi tuttora viventi come Georghe Bush e Michail Gorbaciov ?

la riconoscenza è un'ottimo sentimento : se i romeni sono grati al vescovo eretico di Roma per la generosa ospitalità ricevuta nelle chiese d' Italia questo non significa che debbano estendere la loro riconoscenza fino a questo punto.

[daneel]

Fermate il mondo: voglio scendere.

Comunque, trattandosi della cosiddetta "Chiesa Romena canonica", queste cose dovresti chiederle a SLURP.

p. Daniele

[robdealb91]

in effetti non poteva certo essere una chiesa veterocalendarista....

[arbereshi]

Incredibile veramente…
Può essere un fotomontaggio?
Salve

[DanielGi.]

Tutto è possibile...

Inoltre c'è il fatto che questo strano affresco è collocato in un andito che precede la CHiesa vera e propria...

[arbereshi]

Tutto è possibile...

Non vorrei arrivare a quei giorni, dove di fianco i nostri santi, vedremo papi moderni!!!
Salve

[Aquileiense]

Che schifo! Che indecenza! ma chi ha avuto una idea così obbrobriosa???
Queste raffigurazioni non sono lecite e nemmeno giuste!
Sulle pareti di una Chiesa si raffigurano solo escusivamente le S. Icone di Cristo, della sua Santissima Madre, le scene della Sacra Scrittura e della storia della Chiesa, dei Santi e della loro vita.... NIENTE ALTRO!!!
In alcuni luoghi si usa mettere nel nartece o vicino all'ingresso le immagini del Vescovo e del Patriarca (nel caso dei Greco-Cattolici il Papa) viventi al momento della consacrazione, e questo personalmente lo ritengo già una cosa non molto giusta...
Non capisco comunque il senso di quei tre personaggi... perchè proprio loro e non Ceausescu e i suoi?
In Cristo.

[Augustinus]

Non è un fotomontaggio. La notizia la trovate QUI e QUI.

[Augustinus]

ROMANIAN CHURCH ENSHRINES POPE, BUSH, GORBACHEV

By Radu Marinas

PETRESTI, Romania, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A new Orthodox church in Romania's mountainous Transylvania features some strikingly untraditional icons -- portraying Pope John Paul, former U.S. President George Bush and ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

"The three should have been proposed for sanctification for changing the course of the history, like Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman emperor who became a famous saint," argues Alexandru Coman, the priest in the village of Petresti.

"I wanted our church to illustrate three providential personalities of the past millennium," Coman, 53, whose church was consecrated on Sunday, told Reuters.

"They made a crucial contribution to demolishing the red plague of communism".

The three faces beaming down from a fresco inside the church porch are powerful symbols to Romanians still struggling to shake off the effects of half a century of particularly repressive communist rule, Coman said.

Beneath the painting, which depicts Bush and Gorbachev making speeches and the Pope, an inspiration to Poles throughout the 1980s, blessing the faithful, is a short text.

"When man shouted: Stop the world, I want to get off, God intervened through these three providential men to change it".

Coman, who has preached in Petresti since 1973, explained the significance of the message.

"It symbolises the desperate shouts of people living under the communists who could not bear the lies and harsh conditions any longer," he said, adding that the images had been copied from photos found on the Internet and in a papal souvenir album.

UNITING BELIEVERS

Work on the new church began in 1988 to meet the needs of a growing Orthodox community in a village previously served by a small stone church dating from 1849, when just 46 families lived in Petresti compared to some 700 today.

About 500 of these are Orthodox, Coman said, but the area, once populated by Germans, is home to a sizeable Protestant minority, as well as a small number of Roman Catholics.

In 1999, the Pope made a historic three-day trip to Romania, becoming the first Pontiff to visit a mainly Orthodox country.

He and Romania's Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist sat side by side in common prayer in a symbolic gesture designed to narrow the centuries-old schism between Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

In a bid to unite the faiths in Petresti, which lies 350 km (230 miles) northwest of Bucharest, the church features other icons which make it unique in Romania, where communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu routinely raided religious property.

"We have painted various Catholic and Protestant prelates inside the church to make our believers understand they have to live like brothers with people of other denominations," Coman said. "It's a church of inter-confessional communion".

About 2,000 Orthodox priests, along with clerics of minority faiths were jailed under Romania's harsh communist-era regime.

Under Ceausescu, hundreds of churches throughout the country were bulldozed or moved out of sight to clear the way for mammoth public buildings, particularly in Bucharest.

The imposing new church in Petresti was built thanks to small but continuous contributions from residents, topped up by a $25,000 grant from the local authorities.

"We all gave something to build our new spiritual shelter," explained Mariana Oprean, a member of its congregation.

EDITOR’S COMMENTS: Surely, St. John the Romanian who was a zealous defender of the Holy Traditions and of the traditional calendar would have never been able to comprehend the actions of this Romanian Church. Saints are those Orthodox Christians who have reposed in the faith and love of our Lord. Orthodox do not look to the Roman Pope, a former American president or a former atheist Soviet leader for spiritual inspiration. It surely appears that we are in end times when clergy cannot distinguish between good and evil.

FONTE