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  • Hey everyone. I noticed that some of you were looking for the article by Fr. Shenouda Maher Ishak. I've updated my blog post to include that article.  Visit the post again and you'll find a reference to it for you to download. Hope you find it helpf…
  • YES... DEFINITELY agree with the last post. No man-made law is above God's law... if the "authority" tells me to do something sinful, ... then when choosing between God and Man... we must choose God. So the idea that we should just follow authorit…
  • Yes... I agree with the last post... of course I was speaking to those already baptized in the Orthodox CHURCH. Let me add to the previous post by explaining the singificance of the CHURCH as the means to attaining salvation through the Blood of C…
  • I heard of plans of making an American Orthodox Church, under the Coptic Orthodox Church. Anba Youssef himself said that, if the American convert community becomes large enough, making a new American Orthodox Church with their own tunes set to the …
  • just want to make a slight clarification on the previous post. When Christ was being tried, and he was slapped, and he responsed, "Why did you slap me," it was not that Christ was reacting because he was upset that he got slapped. NO. Anba Yous…
  • #1 - suicide is a rejection of the gift that Christ gave us, which is life. It is unforgivable. A person's mental state is most often a result of a bombardment of various experiences that leads them to an "unstable" mental state, or a "stable" me…
  • Wonderful discussion :) I feel it's unfortunate that we focus so much on how WE can obtain the Kingdom of Heaven, as opposed to loving God. PrincessMary noted the following verses: “Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all…