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God will surely deliver His Church from this poison in time as He delivered it from Arianism, etc., and the solution is certainly genuine and full participation in the Divine Liturgy.  This fluff can't endure.  In 20 years, it will be one more worldly trend that has come and gone while the Orthodox Church and Faith will remain unchanged.

I am not sure where this confidence comes from. We are not immune to heresy.

Copts saved the world from heresy at multiple occasions, but this is remotely irrelevant to their descendents. It is not genetic, and Copts have developed an inferiority complex towards western spirituality that makes them repulsive to their rich heritage and theology.

Rome was orthodox at one point of time, and fell, and is continuing to fall.

Protestantism, style and dogma, is fully embraced by the vast majority of hierarchy and laymen. No question about it.

God will not unconditionally save the CC (coptic church) from heresy. There is a certain synergy that needs to exist like in any other aspect of orthodox life for the Grace of God to prevail.

Right now, there is a current against Orthodoxy in the CC. The few bishops and priests who have spoken against Protestant worship and dogma during the past 40 years, and did nothing to prevent it, have shut up since the general bishop of Behera assumed the Papacy.

They have all been elevated to positions of power that would enable them to take meaningful actions against heresy, and they just fell into perpetual indifference. Some of them even joined in the blasphemous visit to the Vatican. 

If you want to live Orthodoxy without any traces of western or eastern heresy, where would you go? Name one priest or one bishop, just one, who is truly Orthodox.

Egyptian-born youth servant whose heart is in the right place but leads the youth astray because he's operating under the flawed assumptions that:

1.) Adapting to Western culture = becoming Protestantized.

2.) The youth need this stuff or they'll run away.

This is not the problem. What power does this average servant command? None.

The problem is that the church is run as a business, and the only revenue is from people. You have to satisfy their need. You are going down to their level to appease them, so they come, and pay for the church projects and other things. 

No one gives a rat's leg about the youth, it is the parents who they are after. You cater to these parents and their liberal youth while still giving them the sense that they are OK because they attend fundraising dinners organized by the "shersh", which is absolutely, positively a mega spiritual event, and they go to adulterous trips in Cancun, Mexico.   

Great, thanks for the workaround.

Minatasgeel and admins it would still be nice to have this function properly.

Thanks!

Only I want to say, one more thing:

Not always was the some, in the Catholic Church. When I was a child, the Catholic Church was (all) different. In that time (1964), the Catholic Church seems to be like a Orthodox Church. After the Vatican II (Roman Concilio), all was different: From been like an  Orthodox, seem to be more like a Protestant Church.

But also there are many traditional believers ln the Roman Catholic Church. But they is required to obey to all. (I think, that something similar happened in Russia when communism). Right now, I pray for they all Catholics, because the evil (Deamon), put out of my Church. Pray to God for This, and pray for all sincere and humble people and good priest, in my Church, to be sants!

Please pray for my Church, as I pray also, for the Copts. Thanks.

Hey guys,

 I know it's a bit early, but can anyone here tell me the tune for the Apostles' Fast Psali Adam?
http://tasbeha.org/hymn_library/view/839

There doesn't seem to be a recording available...

I just have to put this out there...am I the only one who thinks that the antagonist in RO's video sounds like HG Bishop Youssef??

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