#melkites

[dougielombax]

Let me make something quite clear.

Conservative American Christians (at least evangelical hardcore Republican types) do NOT care about the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East.

Nor do they know or understand them (I’m no expert myself but I’ve read up a bit and know a great deal more about them than those ghastly fuckers! That’s for DAMN sure!)

This is equally true for their idiotic fascist counterparts in Europe!

I’d even go further and say that they DESPISE the indigenous Christians in the Middle East as well.

Perhaps viewing them as usurpers or pretenders.

The Christians in the Middle East who I refer to aren’t rich white evangelical types.

Rather I am referring to the marginalised indigenous Christians who have lived in the region for thousands of years such as Coptic Christians in Egypt, Assyrian people, Maronites, Melkites, Armenians, and Arab Christians.

These aforementioned American conservative far right fundamentalist grifters (and their idiot counterparts in Europe) have never cared about them. They never have, they never did and they never will. If anything they’d rather see them all die, probably.

They only use their plight as an excuse to fuel their own pathetic persecution complex.

When they know nothing of persecution and the suffering those indigenous Christians in the area have faced and continue to face to this day.

These people suffer and those aforementioned American types don’t care one bit, simply USING their suffering as an excuse to fuel their putrid, fascist agenda.

Only pretending to care.

All because they want their stupid end time Apocalypse prophecy (Rapture bullshit!) to be fulfilled. (Or just to prove their bigoted beliefs to be true.)

And can’t abide the fact that they won’t be able to control their grandkids (who they despise) from beyond the grave.

The European far right does much of the same, only they aren’t so much motivated by stupid anthropocentric apocalypse worship like their American counterparts as they are by pure anti-Muslim bigotry for its own sake.

(For instance. You see a lot of this from the Swedish far right, who have also attacked Assyrian refugees in their country.)

The point is, they don’t give a shit and only use their suffering to justify their own putrid persecution complex.

And they’d probably see them all wiped out just to validate their nasty feelings.

They don’t care.

They never have.

And they never will.

Feel free to reblog this.

[leroibobo]

the church in the monastery of st. mark in jerusalem, palestine. the structure, completed in ad 73, was supposedly built on the ancient site of the house of the mother of mark the evangelist, and one of the possible sites of the last supper. it's remained the center of jerusalem's syriac and assyrian orthodox communities and retained multiple renovations since.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Archimandrite Arsène Attié, rector of the Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Melkite Greek parish church in Paris

French vintage postcard

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

the beauty of Holy Mother Church is that she Christianizes culture, a true diversity

[proud-spaniard]

2048x1365 Inside view of the Melkite Catholic Basilica of Saint Paul in Harissa, Lebanon, built 1947-1962 by the renowned Armenian-Lebanese architect Mardiros Altounian.

[brokenchainsandfallenleaves]

OC art dump

this is Melkit I love he (he/him, dryad)

most of the signatures are my twt bc he's also a Vtuber model I use and streamers unfortunately congregate there

[missouri-and-woe]

Why do people specify Roman Catholic?

Many people - even amongst Roman Catholics ourselves - may not be aware of this, but the Catholic church is actually made up of 24 sui iuris (autonomous) churches, all in communion with the Bishop of Rome. The dominant church is, clearly, the Latin or Roman Church, which makes up the vast majority of Catholics: the Eastern churches number only 18 million of the 1.3 billion Catholics in total.

The next largest is the Syro-Malabar church, centred in the Indian state of Kerala, and descending from a native church present in the region since around the 8th century. The next largest is the Ukrainian church.

The defining feature of these churches is that they use a different Rite than that of the Roman church: West and East Syriac, Armenian, Alexandrian, Byzantine.

The other main feature is a national one:

Under the Byzantine Rite, the most diverse, you have 14 churches: Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian, Greek, Hungarian, Italo-Albanian, Macedonian, Melkite, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Slovak, and Ukrainian.

Under the Alexandrian rite, there are 3: Coptic, Ethiopian, and Eritrean.

Under the West Syriac rite, there are 3: Maronite, Syriac, Syro-Malankara.

Under the East Syriac rite, there are 2: Chaldean and Syro-Malabar.

Under the Latin rite, there is one: Roman (there are some other rites within the Roman church, such as the Ambrosian rite practiced in Milan).

Under the Armenian rite, there is one: Armenian.

All of these churches, though autonomous to a degree, are fully and entirely Catholic, fully united with the Roman Catholic Church.

Some are much older than others: the Maronite church, for example, has been extant since some time in the mid first millennium; while the Eritrean church was only formed in 2015.

[mapsontheweb]

Christianity in Lebanon.

Maronite Catholic 52.5%

Greek Orthodox 20%

Melkite Catholic 12.5%

Armenian Orthodox 10%

Protestants 2.5%

other Christians 2.5%

by georgianmaps

[dioscrucificado]

a priest greets children outside of saint elias melkite greek catholic church in ezraa, syria. (x)

[dougielombax]

Here’s an idea.

Stop telling Middle Eastern Christians to run away to Europe!

It’s their home too!

And some of them are not afraid to make that quite clear (see the Assyrians).

Leave them alone!

[leroibobo]

st andrew's church in acre, palestine. the current structure was built in 1765 on the remains of a crusader church which was destroyed in 1291.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Archimandrite Arsène Attié, rector of the Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Melkite Greek parish church in Paris

French vintage postcard

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

maybe one year i’ll go full Eastern for Lent but i think i would have to think so much about food 

[anastpaul]

Saint of the Day – 20 July – St Elias the Prophet (Elias from the Greek) lived during the reign of King Ahab (9th Century BC), according to the Books of Kings. The spelling ‘Elijah’ is from the Hebrew. Patronages – for rain, against drought, coachmen, Air Forces, civil aeronautics, Romanian Air Force, the Carmelite Order, Mount Carmel, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Akka, Haifa, Israel, in Italy: Buonabitacolo, Malito, Peschici.

(via Saint of the Day – 20 July – St Elias the Prophet – AnaStpaul)

[imperial--orthodoxy]

anyway, chaldean, melkite catholics will always be more 'eastern' than any american who converts to eastern orthodoxy + that's what you don't seem to get

Ah I knew you'd come back. So how's your day going, I missed you. That said, had I known it was you, I would have known that you would absolutely ignore my point to get mad at my going home to Orthodoxy again, so I sincerely hope you get over that soon.

Ps come off anon it's unbecoming of such a stalwart defender of Catholicism.