Thank you for this video🙏 Helped me a lot ❤

Thanks for the forecast! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

But is it really fasting if you're just abstaining from meat?

Fulfilling. Thx father and brothers

The Coptic, generally ,the Oriental Churches are from the main source. As you have mentioned it, never deviated since the beginning. The feed for the soul is from the uncreated infinite and eternal. Purely, spritual, for that very reason it might not be easier to deal with for spritual immature. It requires a great deal of work . If you want eternity then you have to follow the path of transcendence infinite. To the contrary, If you feed your soul worldly feed, then you will become temporal, your life will be limited to this planet. You may continue to have empty soul for eternity.

The goal is repentance: It is the change of heart, so Christ heals through the church. The gospel is our God's identity and belief in Him. If I was to preach, it would be the way of not living life on appearance, but to use the heart well and that's why God gives you the feeling of being chosen. 1 Samuel 16:7 Speaks of choosing David not by sight but what was in his heart. The church is rich, beautiful and has a history others cannot compare with. The problem is that there is a shadow and that people hide behind this appearance where there is not repentance or that the focas on the use of the heart is actually done. There is a laziness according to appearance.

Hello, I have a question for the Non Calcedonians. When we are glorified, will we have a composite one nature which is fully Divine and fully human as Christ had?

Emaaaaaad!!!!!!!!! :D God bless this podcast and all of your work!! Sooo nice

Difficulty is needed. I have christians come to me with struggles i know partaking in eucharist can help but they dont go to an apostolic church and partake in divine liturgy and i cant help but tell them about the sacraments Jesus Christ gave us

Simply WOW soo deep and beautiful and sheds light on God’s beautiful love for us , God bless you 🙏

Simply WOW soo deep and beautiful and sheds light on God’s beautiful love for us , God bless you 🙏

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Can we please have these posted on apple podcasts :))))))

Wonderful breakdown! Thank you!

Very Powerful! Thank you Fathers for your wisdom and your desire for unity with our brothers and sisters. May the Lord bless your mission and service and may the Holy Spirit guide us to full communion with other all apostolic church 🙏🏾✝️

Our saints do not back Fr. John behr’s and other “academics” positions on this. Christ has but one Body, the Theanthropic body of Christ which is the Eastern Orthodox Church and ONLY the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” - Ephesians 6:13

Have you seen the new documentary on Icons? It’s called “The Hidden History of Christian art”. It’s on the Harmony KZbin channel.

“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” - 2 Corinthians 12:10

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The true basis of baptism is found in Jesus’ commandment about who is to be be baptized - _disciples._ *Matthew 28:18-20* _And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."_ The household texts simply _do not_ support infant baptism. When we examine the ‘household’ accounts closely: • Acts 10:2 portrays Cornelius as a devout man who feared God _with all his household,_ implying everyone in that household was mature enough to ‘fear God’. Additionally, they were all present to hear (ἀκούω - akouó, meaning to hear with understanding) Peter (Acts 10:33) and all received the Holy Spirit with praising God and speaking in tongues and it is only the people who did so that were baptized (Acts 10:44-48); • Lydia (Acts 16:14-15) is not said to have been married (the fact she prevailed upon the apostles in her own right suggests not) or, even if she was, to have had infants or children too young to have repented of their sins nor expressed saving faith, so there is no reason to suppose such infants or children were part of her household. It is also difficult to see how she might have been engaged in trade some 400mi (650km) from home (the overland distance from Philippi to Thyatira) with an infant or young child; • Paul told the Philippian jailer (Acts 16:25-33) that salvation was available to all in his household who believed, and all of whom are said to have been baptized and to have rejoiced in their belief. Evidently, even the youngest person in that household was mature enough to believe in the Lord; • Crispus (Acts 18:8) believed in the Lord, together with all his household. Evidently, even the youngest person in that household was mature enough to believe in the Lord; and • Stephanas (1 Corinthians 1:16) and his household were baptized but 1 Corinthians 16:15 clarifies that his whole household had “devoted themselves to the service of the saints”. Evidently, even the youngest person in that household was mature enough both to: convert to Christianity; and devote themselves to serving. Your treatment of *Colossians 2:11-12* _In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; and you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead._ is disingenuous at best. The Epistle is addressed to _believers_- most of whom were probably gentiles who had converted to Christianity as adults. No mention is made of their unbelieving infants, so the only addressees who have undergone the new covenant's non-physical circumcision and have been baptized are _disciples._ This is thoroughly analogous to the conversion process a male proselyte would undergo when converting to Judaism. That process included both a ritual bath (mikveh) and physical circumcision. Female proselytes only bathed. Given what Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 7:14, it beggars belief to suggest he is now advocating paedobaptism. There are other fundamental differences between circumcision and baptism. For Jews, male infants were circumcised as a mark of being under the Abrahamic covenant; it had nothing to do with salvation and required no belief by the infant. Females were never circumcised. By contrast, Christian baptism is for male _and_ female _disciples_ alike; there is simply no warrant in this text for baptizing unbelieving infants. That's just crass eisegesis and I'd be surprised if you didn't know the sound arguments against your abuse of this text. Paul also puts it beyond doubt that infants don't need to be baptized *1 Corinthians 7:14* _For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy._ Note that baptism isn’t even mentioned (not even the baptism of a believing parent); it is enough for either parent to be a believer for the unbelieving spouse to be consecrated and their children to be holy. As for *Matthew 19:14-15* _Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people; but Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." And he laid his hands on them and went away._ the noun for child in these verses is παιδίον (paidion), which refers to a young child _old enough to be in training,_ not an infant. The noun for infant is βρέφος (brephos). And Jesus didn't say _“Bring_ the infants to me”. Hence Jesus’ “Let the children come to me” should be understood as _allowing_ children who are old enough to approach Him _of their own volition;_ it has nothing to do with newborns being _brought_ to him. What is more, when Jesus said "for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven", he quite clearly didn't think that, at their young age (perhaps up to 7yo), baptism was a prerequisite. Read again 1 Corinthians 7:14. Ultimately, to maintain the paedobaptism heresy, one has to throw out Jesus' commandments in the Great Commission - to baptize disciples and teach them to _obey_ his commands - which includes who is to be baptized, added to which one must twist the meanings of a whole bunch other scriptures beyond recognition. Your claims about the early church are a load of selective twaddle. If the apostles were baptizing infants, please explain *Didache 7.4* _But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whatever others can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before._ The Didache is universally recognized as predating any of your sources! Do you require infants to fast for one or two days before allowing them to be baptized? Do you expect us to believe that's what the apostles required of infants? Justin Martyr (c.100-c.165) restricted baptism to those who “are persuaded and believe that what we teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly, are instructed to pray and to entreat God with fasting, for the remission of their sins” acquired when they were “brought up in bad habits and wicked training” ( _First Apology_ 61). How is that applicable to paedobaptism? Tertullian (c.160-220), writing c.205-210, denounced paedobaptism, saying, not only were infants innocent but they were also incapable of ‘coming’ of their own volition (cf. Matthew 19:13-14; Mark 10:13-15; Luke 18:15-17) to express faith or to confess or repent from any supposed sins ( _On Baptism,_ 18). Instead, baptism was to be preceded by prayer, fasting, night-long vigils, and the confession of all past sins ( _On Baptism,_ 20). These all predate your 'evidences'. So how come you didn't mention any of them? Let's look at some other early writings. Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-c.395) argued that, not only are infants born innocent, they’re born in a state of grace such that “in the case of infants prematurely dying … they pass to the blessed lot at once” ( _On Infants’ Early Deaths_ ), negating any presumed necessity for paedobaptism. Even the _Apostolic Constitutions_ (c.375-380) restricted baptism to those who had fasted and received instruction beforehand (7.2.22, 7.3.34). The only mention of paedobaptism was in the context of a criticism of those who would delay their own baptism till they were approaching death (so as to avoid compromising the perceived efficacy of their baptism) but would hypocritically baptize their infants, thus denying those infants the same opportunity (6.3.15). Baptismal deferral till later in life was the norm, even among the clergy. For example: • Basil of Caesarea (330-378) wasn’t baptized until he was appointed reader there (c.356). • Gregory of Nazianzus (c.329-390) wasn’t baptized until c.362 - by his father who was himself bishop of Nazianzus - at about the time he was ordained a presbyter there. • Ambrose of Milan (c.339-397) wasn’t baptized until he was appointed bishop there (374). • Nectarius (?-397), who was already a praetor (magistrate) of Constantinople, wasn’t even baptized until he’d been appointed to preside over the Council of Constantinople (381). • John Chrysostom (c.349-407) wasn’t baptized until 368 or 373, when he was appointed as a reader in the church. Even Emperor Constantine (c.272-337) wasn’t baptized until he was near death, in 337.

I needed to hear this , thank you Abouna , remember me in your prayers 🙏 as this is a struggle for me

I don’t think Jesus chose to die on the cross, this was the way the romans would kill anyone at that time period.

Ämen 🙏

Thank you, so much.

So proud as a copt that we have a channel like this to represent us here in the West, I have been praying for this 🙏

Please stay consistent, fathers. I can see this podcast getting big

I love Coptic and Ethiopian Traditional and i am glad these dialogs are happening. I pray that you rejoin the true church, as i also pray the roman Catholics and protestant do the same. But if i am being honestly it seems the coptics amd the EO have the best chances of reconciliation, then mabey the Ethiopians, then mabey eastern catholics, then mabey the church of the east mabey.

Aba Antony, father of monastics, star of the wilderness, pray for us. Amen.

Pray for us st. Anthony 🙏

Today We celebrated the departure of st. Anthony in our counry Ethiopia. May he intercede for us amen! Thank you father for Teaching

Central question seems to be: - what are the actual definitions of Nature as per EO & OO theologies? Without precisely defining these two, I feel we are condemned to these fruitless discussions for another 15 centuries. (Not an easy question, I know. I have asked it to my EO priest who momentarily pointed me to our bishop for further clarifications) For me, many downstream questions hang on this one. E.g. can nature be layered, or it must be homogeneous? If “yes”, then it sounds OO theology could be justified by introducing a concept of a “meta-nature”. If “not” then the 2 natures must reside side-by-side within a person without producing a “meta” (“mia”) nature. At which point we will inevitably step onto another question: what is a divine person? Too complicated for my priest, too complicated for me ( a cradle EO with zero minutes of formal theological education)…

Thank you so much, Abouna!

We don't need this. EO evangelization fills up KZbin already, or didn't you notice?

What's the purpose of bringing an Eastern Orthodox Priest into this when everything that the monks on Mt. Athos say is against reunion, and the mess the Russian Church is creating is delaying reunion, while just a few podcasts ago you were doing apologetics against the Eastern's mis characterization of the Oriental Orthodox. The Easterns "don't have their house in order." I protest that you did this because I have the background to do so - I am the widow of an Orthodox Priest, and I converted to Oriental Orthodoxy, and now am a consecrated Hermitess, called Bahtawe In the Eritrean Church - and part of the Bahtawe's role in the Orders of the Church includes Holy Foolery when the Church is heading the wrong direction. You don't need these EO Priests on your podcast yet. The EO literally fill up KZbin with all their evangelization. I have friendships with EO as well but my friendships wouldn't include bringing them onto any podcast or demonstrating that the 2 Churches can "play nice" with each other until the Agreed Upon Statements between the 2 Churches move forward! Instead of what you just covered as a topic - why not do some more incredibly hard work that many a person has been hiding from for a few decades, and invite Clergy members of Ethiopian and Eritrean Churches, or Indian Orthodox Churches on your podcast, and focus the show on how to break out of the "I'm still back in the motherland and I love it" mindset that keeps half of them stuck in their own language with no desire to learn English, and the other half insulating and Christmas Caroling among their own Church members instead of getting over their own ethnicity and going out to carol among the dying (in hospices) and the destitute (in homeless shelters)? Did that statement just turn your head or raise an eyebrow? It should have, because it's absolutely true!!!! So, let's stay in our own backyards and "get our houses in order" rather than playing nice with EO's right now.....and feel free to contact me for further field observations in my neck of the woods for the past 12 years.

Give thanks

Fasting everyday and praying to God to the best combination

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Ämen 🙏

I do believe there were just a confusion of languages in those centuries because the churches were battling against Nestorianism, Arianism and Eutychianism. I genuinely hope EO and OO come to a closure and reconciliation. I pray a miracle would happen and go back to full communion. Amin!!

Christ is the ONLY way.

great convo. i would love to hear more of his journey through EO and Catholicism to see why he didn’t go with those? did he mention that?

Superb.

Amazing

Thank you Father .

I like how all the Coptic Priests get so excited to talk about the Saint they were named after.