In the old country (aka old world) in Orthodox areas we have this issue that we're so ignorant while being so used to presence of Grace of Holy Spirit that we think "ah all religions are same" (while not being experienced in them, raised in Church and not knowing emptiness outside of it) For most to convert witnessing that presence is enough, for atheist cradle Orthodox - we don't even acknowledge it and think it's normal and it's everywhere

As a cradle Orthodox, I went to a Catholic service for a family event and the word that comes to mind for the feeling it gave me was 'barren'.

​@@metrab8901Barren and sterile. That's how I felt too at Mass. I just didn't know any better. All the church services I'd ever been to were either the Mass or very close liturgical wise. So I thought that was all church. But always felt empty, lacking, sad for me. Orthodox Divine Liturgy.. WOW!! 💖☦️

Colossians 1 About Jesus: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome. Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS…. 1- THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME 2- THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE 3- THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THY GOD IN VAIN 4- REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY 5- HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER 6- THOU SHALT NOT KILL 7- THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY 8- THOU SHALT NOT STEAL 9- THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOURS 10- THOU SHALT NOT COVET Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. These few verses unmask deception and reveal idolatry: *There are various false teachings Roman Catholicism teaches pertaining to the Mary of the bible. 1. She was immaculately conceived. Mary was not born sinless nor did she live a sinless life. Mary knew she was a sinner needing a Savior. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour."- Luke 1:46-47 KJV **Mary is esteemed as the Mother of God. This is an attempt to deify Mary. God is eternal and cannot have a "mother". Mary was the mother of Jesus' humanity. Jesus deity is eternal. ***The assumption of Mary teaches that Mary ascended to heaven after death and her body did not decay in the grave. Of course there is no biblical support to this. ****The perpetual virginity of Mary is taught by Roman Catholicism. This heresy contradicts scripture which states that Jesus had brothers and sisters. "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?"- Matthew 13:55-56 KJV. *****Many of the Catholic teachings and writings claim that Mary is a co-Savior. Also included in this heresy is that Mary co-suffered with Jesus on the cross and that Mary offered Jesus to God the Father as a sacrificial offering. This is a further attempt to place Mary amongst the Godhead and enhance her role in the redemption plan of God the Father. None of these teachings are biblical. This heresy includes prayers to Mary and placing Mary ahead of Jesus in terms of appeasing the grace and mercy of Jesus towards sinners. Jesus alone paid the price for sinners and Jesus alone makes intercession for sinners. "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"- 1 Timothy 2:5 KJV The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them. SO DO ALL WHO TRUST IN THEM. Psalm 135:15-18 Deuteronomy 4:16 that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female, Jeremiah 7:18-19 KJV The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the ¨queen of heaven¨, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Mary and saint worship, Mary the mediatrix and queen of heaven? God cleary told us Jesus is the ONLY mediator between God and mankind. Whoever else you use as mediator or pray to is IDOLATRY. 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus. Saints dont intermediate and dont listen to prayers, they are dead people like you and me, made of flesh and they died, Mary also is one of them, she was a normal woman who gave birth to Jesus and she and other people may not be worshipped. God declared the dead as the following: Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten. 6Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun. If the dead are alive somewhere... then who are the ones Christ will resurrect at his arrival? *Second commandment (Ex 20:4): Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, ...* this includes rosary necklaces, Mary and saint statues, Jesus, Mary and saint images, crosses, 'holy relics' and many more items used in worship by most denominations. People bow down before these things, kiss them, pray with them and that is wrong. Christ is the mediator we pray towards, close the door and pray to him honestly without any items or images, he is the living God and does not share his glory with manmade things. It is time to return to the old Hebraic faith of Jesus (Yeshua) and do what he did (obey the Fathers commandments and laws). There was no Catholic church or hundreds of denominations each with their own views and opinions back in the days of Jesus and the prophets. Believers had the old testament back then, which is the foundation of all scripture and the key to understand the new testament. Most Cathechism practices like rosary prayers etc are just invented in the 16th century.. first pope existed in 538ad and not in the apostles their days. those things got nothing to do with Jesus, its the traditions and vanities of religious men who went far astray from the Fathers commands. Matt 7:22 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’… Berean Standard Bible Many teachings and videos are available on our fb page lessons from Jesus

So you are ok with divorce then as that's ok in orthodoxy?

@@artifexdei3671It's okay in very rare circumstances (i.e. abuse and your partner commits adultery), they don't (or shouldnt) go around blessing all divorces for any reason. I've seen many catholics pay their church for an annulment on their marriage, there's corruption anywhere that man touches. I'm not saying catholicism condones paying for annulments on marriages, but that was just an example. Catholics and Protestants never have a proper understanding of the viewpoint of divorce in the Orthodox Church because they judge it way too quickly.

​@@DubLL "man, doesn't divide what God has united" this is the law of God and his desire upon us. But you wrote other men's laws over his true law. I could do other examples both from Orthodox and Catholic church. All men are disobeying and betraying Him all the days. There isnt a "true church" intended as istitution

​@@artifexdei3671I don't know why you would respond to my post by talking about divorce. I am not married and don't plan on getting married so I have no comment on the subject.

Where in the fiducia supplicans document does it authorise priest to impart either liturgical or non liturgical blessing on same sex Unions? Ah the minimum you should at least read and understand the document instead of spreading disinformation.

I'm Orthodox as well, are you v@x-d?

Vespers is great to start with, I've heard. But Divine Liturgy is great too. We loved our first one even though it included kneeling Vespers after the Divine Liturgy. It was amazing!

The Holy Spirit is guiding you. God bless you on your journey to the true faith.

The early saints were catholic as they are claimed by the orthodox too.

Please copy paste "Херувимска песма" (Heruvimska pesma). This is an Orthodox Christian hymn from the 6th century. It's so heavenly and so traditional. After attending an Orthodox Church liturgy one Saturday morning and hearing this in person, I had to acknowledge the fact that the so called "Roman Catholic" church has nothing that can even compare to this kind of music.

@@pero33403 The Cherubic Hymn! Yes, very blessed and lovely! I enjoy chanting it no matter language, Greek, Slavonic, English... Always beautiful, the words, the arrangements..

Welcome home! ☦︎ 🤗 My husband and I went to the Pentecost Divine Liturgy with kneeling Vespers, which was Hierarchical and that was it!

@LadyMaria Hi Maria! Thank you my sister. May our Lord God Jesus Christ continue to guide you.

@@andys3035 And you and your wife as well. 🤗

Secularism is a plague that hurts Catholics too.

I need to stay Catholic because of my patron Saint.

Colossians 1 About Jesus: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome. Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS…. 1- THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME 2- THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE 3- THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THY GOD IN VAIN 4- REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY 5- HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER 6- THOU SHALT NOT KILL 7- THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY 8- THOU SHALT NOT STEAL 9- THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOURS 10- THOU SHALT NOT COVET Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. These few verses unmask deception and reveal idolatry: *There are various false teachings Roman Catholicism teaches pertaining to the Mary of the bible. 1. She was immaculately conceived. Mary was not born sinless nor did she live a sinless life. Mary knew she was a sinner needing a Savior. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour."- Luke 1:46-47 KJV **Mary is esteemed as the Mother of God. This is an attempt to deify Mary. God is eternal and cannot have a "mother". Mary was the mother of Jesus' humanity. Jesus deity is eternal. ***The assumption of Mary teaches that Mary ascended to heaven after death and her body did not decay in the grave. Of course there is no biblical support to this. ****The perpetual virginity of Mary is taught by Roman Catholicism. This heresy contradicts scripture which states that Jesus had brothers and sisters. "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?"- Matthew 13:55-56 KJV. *****Many of the Catholic teachings and writings claim that Mary is a co-Savior. Also included in this heresy is that Mary co-suffered with Jesus on the cross and that Mary offered Jesus to God the Father as a sacrificial offering. This is a further attempt to place Mary amongst the Godhead and enhance her role in the redemption plan of God the Father. None of these teachings are biblical. This heresy includes prayers to Mary and placing Mary ahead of Jesus in terms of appeasing the grace and mercy of Jesus towards sinners. Jesus alone paid the price for sinners and Jesus alone makes intercession for sinners. "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"- 1 Timothy 2:5 KJV The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them. SO DO ALL WHO TRUST IN THEM. Psalm 135:15-18 Deuteronomy 4:16 that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female, Jeremiah 7:18-19 KJV The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the ¨queen of heaven¨, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Mary and saint worship, Mary the mediatrix and queen of heaven? God cleary told us Jesus is the ONLY mediator between God and mankind. Whoever else you use as mediator or pray to is IDOLATRY. 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus. Saints dont intermediate and dont listen to prayers, they are dead people like you and me, made of flesh and they died, Mary also is one of them, she was a normal woman who gave birth to Jesus and she and other people may not be worshipped. God declared the dead as the following: Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten. 6Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun. If the dead are alive somewhere... then who are the ones Christ will resurrect at his arrival? *Second commandment (Ex 20:4): Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, ...* this includes rosary necklaces, Mary and saint statues, Jesus, Mary and saint images, crosses, 'holy relics' and many more items used in worship by most denominations. People bow down before these things, kiss them, pray with them and that is wrong. Christ is the mediator we pray towards, close the door and pray to him honestly without any items or images, he is the living God and does not share his glory with manmade things. It is time to return to the old Hebraic faith of Jesus (Yeshua) and do what he did (obey the Fathers commandments and laws). There was no Catholic church or hundreds of denominations each with their own views and opinions back in the days of Jesus and the prophets. Believers had the old testament back then, which is the foundation of all scripture and the key to understand the new testament. Most Cathechism practices like rosary prayers etc are just invented in the 16th century.. first pope existed in 538ad and not in the apostles their days. those things got nothing to do with Jesus, its the traditions and vanities of religious men who went far astray from the Fathers commands. Matt 7:22 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’… Berean Standard Bible Many teachings and videos are available on our fb page lessons from Jesus

100%. Do not ignore your interior movement regarding this sense.

We are not saved by running from falsehood unless we also run towards the truth, and by running towards the Orthodox Church we will be running away from all other false paths.

Thirsting for God is natural state of the soul brother... Perhaps you could consider organizing your home and workplace with details that will resemble church you are attending by forming prayer corner with icons, candles, incense, etc. Just a thought. God bless.!

I comberted to Christianity from Islam and i’m having the same problem. I can’t pick between orthodoxy and catholicism. The differences in belief can honestly go both ways. Whether mary is born of an immaculate or dispassionate conception doesn’t matter to me. Whether the holy spirit precedes from the father or both father and son doesn’t really affect my faith in anyway. Papacy is somewhat important to me so i’m trying to debate whether having a pope is the right way or not. Honestly wish that the church as a whole would just focus on christianity because honestly these differences do not make that much of a difference.

Colossians 1 About Jesus: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome. Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS…. 1- THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME 2- THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE 3- THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THY GOD IN VAIN 4- REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY 5- HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER 6- THOU SHALT NOT KILL 7- THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY 8- THOU SHALT NOT STEAL 9- THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOURS 10- THOU SHALT NOT COVET Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. These few verses unmask deception and reveal idolatry: *There are various false teachings Roman Catholicism teaches pertaining to the Mary of the bible. 1. She was immaculately conceived. Mary was not born sinless nor did she live a sinless life. Mary knew she was a sinner needing a Savior. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour."- Luke 1:46-47 KJV **Mary is esteemed as the Mother of God. This is an attempt to deify Mary. God is eternal and cannot have a "mother". Mary was the mother of Jesus' humanity. Jesus deity is eternal. ***The assumption of Mary teaches that Mary ascended to heaven after death and her body did not decay in the grave. Of course there is no biblical support to this. ****The perpetual virginity of Mary is taught by Roman Catholicism. This heresy contradicts scripture which states that Jesus had brothers and sisters. "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?"- Matthew 13:55-56 KJV. *****Many of the Catholic teachings and writings claim that Mary is a co-Savior. Also included in this heresy is that Mary co-suffered with Jesus on the cross and that Mary offered Jesus to God the Father as a sacrificial offering. This is a further attempt to place Mary amongst the Godhead and enhance her role in the redemption plan of God the Father. None of these teachings are biblical. This heresy includes prayers to Mary and placing Mary ahead of Jesus in terms of appeasing the grace and mercy of Jesus towards sinners. Jesus alone paid the price for sinners and Jesus alone makes intercession for sinners. "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"- 1 Timothy 2:5 KJV The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them. SO DO ALL WHO TRUST IN THEM. Psalm 135:15-18 Deuteronomy 4:16 that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female, Jeremiah 7:18-19 KJV The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the ¨queen of heaven¨, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Mary and saint worship, Mary the mediatrix and queen of heaven? God cleary told us Jesus is the ONLY mediator between God and mankind. Whoever else you use as mediator or pray to is IDOLATRY. 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus. Saints dont intermediate and dont listen to prayers, they are dead people like you and me, made of flesh and they died, Mary also is one of them, she was a normal woman who gave birth to Jesus and she and other people may not be worshipped. God declared the dead as the following: Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten. 6Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun. If the dead are alive somewhere... then who are the ones Christ will resurrect at his arrival? *Second commandment (Ex 20:4): Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, ...* this includes rosary necklaces, Mary and saint statues, Jesus, Mary and saint images, crosses, 'holy relics' and many more items used in worship by most denominations. People bow down before these things, kiss them, pray with them and that is wrong. Christ is the mediator we pray towards, close the door and pray to him honestly without any items or images, he is the living God and does not share his glory with manmade things. It is time to return to the old Hebraic faith of Jesus (Yeshua) and do what he did (obey the Fathers commandments and laws). There was no Catholic church or hundreds of denominations each with their own views and opinions back in the days of Jesus and the prophets. Believers had the old testament back then, which is the foundation of all scripture and the key to understand the new testament. Most Cathechism practices like rosary prayers etc are just invented in the 16th century.. first pope existed in 538ad and not in the apostles their days. those things got nothing to do with Jesus, its the traditions and vanities of religious men who went far astray from the Fathers commands. Matt 7:22 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’… Berean Standard Bible Many teachings and videos are available on our fb page lessons from Jesus

@@David-rq6ok so whag do u think is true christianity?

​@@hellokitty-ts4veThese things matter. Everything matters. To say otherwise, one only gets a piece of the picture, one isn't digging deeper to know Christ fully in truth. Keep digging.

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Even if you can’t attend services every week, it is essential to be united to the body of Christ, the Church Christ established for our salvation, the Orthodox Church.

Hi Marie Good morning. I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌺🌺🌺

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I did the opposite. Now part of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church. 🙏 Glory to God.

@@LadyMaria I hope you come back home. I recommend if you like KZfaq videos Dwong. God bless

@@hap1678 I'm finally home and will never go anywhere else. ☦︎

We as brothers have spent 1,000 years apart a whole day in the eyes of the Lord. It is a true shame how the Vatican and many Bishops do not seek or even care to try and mend the schism

As an Eastern Orthodox Christian, my brothers and sisters of humanity include everyone, including Buddhists and Atheists. My brothers and sisters in Christ are strictly other Eastern Orthodox.

You must first realize that Catholicism is anti-Orthodox and has existed to provide a counterfeit version of Orthodoxy so to lead the faithful astray.

@theStormaftertheCalm we should seek to do what we can to bring the West and East into Communion. The Pope has most definitely been over blown to position it was never meant to be, but the truth of the witness of the Saints and Martyrs of the West cannot be discounted just as the Saints and Martyrs of the East cannot be discounted from their heroic witness of Christ.

@@spoodermens - When the Eastern Orthodox monastics, worldwide, embrace a union and announce that those of the West have become added to the Eastern Orthodox prayers OR announce that the Eastern Orthodox prayers have been abolished and will be rewritten, those are the events that I'm waiting for. With that stated, how close are the Eastern Orthodox monastics in doing such things and preparing for such announcements?

Please use Fr. (First Name)

There is a major difference and distinction in being Catholic as in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic and what Catholicism represents. A comparable dichotomy would be femininity versus feminism which cannot be conflated or confused though they often are.

We are all sheep but pope religion is lion right now,they will take human in hel@. We will believe holy spirit and nit hererics. Go in pope church and take holy water test it,you will understand god have left them.

No all,sheeps are following the jesus, heretic's are not.

Have you read “The Orthodox veneration of Mary the birthgiver of God” by St. John of San Francisco? It is very good.

There aren't any actual schisms. That would mean the Pat. of Constantinople is completely cut off. Right now the MP has stricken the PoC from the Diptychs to commemorate. That's how the Bishop of Rome was first censured, being stricken from Constantinople's Diptychs to commemorate. It happened in the first millennium. We've had two internal matters that resolved recently, Jerusalem and Antioch, and Macedonia and Serbia. This happens but the Head of our Church, Christ, calls all to repentance. We do not sweep things under the rug as does the RCC with its internal matters. The jurisdiction is not bad because the Patriarch might be. The jurisdiction of Constantinople has had a Patriarch under that worldly system since Pat. Metaxakis. The faithful are innocent. I used to be under the Pat. of Constantinople and left, myself, but do not harbor any ill feelings to those who stay therein as we're all one Church. Now if the Patriarchate of Constantinople were cut off completely, that would be another story.

@@LadyMaria I don't know. I read the rudder and all the cannons say you should not even pray with heretics or you are automatically disqualified from your position according to God. And it also says that the so called innocent you claim who follow a lucifarian/mason is just as guilty. That is of course if the cannons aren't from God but just a guide.

​@@jimw5142They remain where they are and don't commemorate the Pat. of Constantinople.. Donatism is a thing. You don't want to go down that rabbit hole. Perhaps you should be around Orthodoxy for while and experience it before such judgments. Orthodoxy is an experiential Faith rather than scholarly. Legalism has no place.

Don't be afraid of anything. All of this can be figured out. I absolutely disagree with Maria in this issue. The Patriarch of Constantinople and some other Greek Churches entered into communion with the schism from Ukraine - because of this they themselves became schismatics. Both primates and ordinary believers (same with Catholics). This is a great tragedy, the story of 1000 years ago is being repeated. But all the other Churches are still in the truth. Choose a non-Greek Church and everything will be fine. We can't go to Greek Churches all over the world beside Greece.

In the Orthodox Church we have bishops but we only follow their teachings to the extent to which they follow the saints and Fathers. We do not have infallible bishops.

That would be the Orthodox Catholic Church they spoke about.

@@GGhiba611 I mean, I don't know. The closest church is like 2 minutes walking, but still. I have always heard of my catholic friends that the orthodox church is very ethnocentric and vey wary of westerners, that it"s a church by and for easterners,

@@isaakchatelet7260 You are correct. Eastern Churches are very ethnocentric. That shouldn't stop you from visiting but it should show you their true colors.

​​​​​​​​@@isaakchatelet7260That's a strawman a lot of those who hate us throw at us, even on our forums. Many Parishes are not ethnocentric. Many are convert, and/or native born cradle heavy. Some, like mine, are mission Parishes. Keep in mind in many places the Roman Catholic Parishes were very ethnocentric, like in the US, for example. Last century you had the Italian, Polish, Irish, etc. Parishes and an Irishman would not go to an Italian or Polish Parish and vice versa. There are still ethnocentric Parishes. And IME very few in general are friendly. The first Roman Catholic church I ever went to was Portuguese in the US. Very ethnic. Another was Hispanic, one had much Filipino culture. I went to my first Orthodox Parish just by jumping right in. It was Greek. The Liturgy was half in Greek and half in English, alternating so I was able to catch on (also had a guide later on). Not hard to. The people were very friendly, many converts. Many of the Greeks actually moved to the Russian Parish, and so we did too. This Parish is very mixed and convert heavy, a mission Parish. And quite a few from the Greek Parish and Romanian Parish and others visit our Parish for Divine Services and trapeza (agape meal after Divine Liturgy). And some from our Parish visit other Parishes too. The Orthodox community in general goes back and forth.

@@LadyMaria Maybe, but still. You have the Russian orthodox church, finnisch orthodox church, ukraine orthodox church, and they even are in schism with eachother, like the Russian and Constantinople patriarchates. Also, the Orthodox Churches are highly political, like the Russian Church, with a literal billionair and old KGB agent as its patriarch. I mean, not even to begin with the fact that they aren't capable to hold an ecumenical council or synode with all Orthodox Churches together. Sorry, but I stay loyal to Catholocism, even tho it's having hard times, together we will rebuild the Church

If you hesitate to visit, feel free to call the priest and ask questions ahead of time. It is true that some parishes are rather ethnocentric but there are many parishes that are not. Some parishes are nearly all converts. If you have several Orthodox churches in the area, visit several.

Please see the content on our channel. We are not obsessed with “Catholics” but post many things about dogma and the spiritual life. Dogmatic issues include truth vs heresy. Heresy is an obstacle to salvation, so it is our duty to expose it while also pointing to the truth of Orthodoxy.

Which questions you make you be torn between oriental orthodoxy and Eastern orthodoxy?

I am bias towards one of them and I hope soon they will be united but all I can tell you now that Antioch and Alexandria are 2 of the original 4 first century apostolic churches

​@@Александр_Православный_есмьI'm not really smart enough to understand the miaphysits and diophysite Controversy I can't figure it out

@@SUDMONEYBAGS The controversy concerns not some minor point, but faith in Christ Himself. Since ancient times, the Orthodox Church has preserved the truth that the Lord Jesus Christ is at the same time true God and true man, which means that after the incarnation He united two natures in His one Person - Divine and human, and thus became one in nature (consubstantial) with the Father in divinity and one-natural to us in humanity, so that with an unfused and inseparable union, the peculiarity of each nature is preserved. That is why in the Gospel Christ Himself calls Himself both “Son of God” (John 10:36) and “Son of Man” (Mark 2:10). As God He heals the sick (Matthew 12:15), raises the dead (John 5:21), and commands the storm (Mark 4:39), and as a man He sleeps (Mark 4:38), eats and drinks (Matthew 11:19), experiences hunger (Matthew 21:18), suffers suffering and death (Mark 15:25-37). However, in the 5th century, those who began to claim that Jesus Christ had only one nature appeared. This teaching was called “monophysitism” (that is, belief in one nature), and its followers, having separated from the Orthodox Church, then began to divide among themselves into different movements. There were "extreme" Monophysites - followers of Eutyches, and there were "moderate" - followers of Sevirus of Antioch and others. But both, differing from each other in particulars, professed the belief that Christ had only one nature. In 451, the Fourth Ecumenical Council (Chalcedon) determined that the Church from ancient times believed in «the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable [rational] soul and body; consubstantial [co-essential] with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the Manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin... only begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably, the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person (prosopon) and one Subsistence (hypostasis), not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son. In turn, the Monophysites also anathematized the Orthodox at their councils, calling them “dyophysite heretics.” What exactly is the heresy here and why did the Church consider this issue so important? The very doctrine of incarnation means that God the Word, the second from the Trinity, became incarnate, that is, took on human nature. And, if we say that He still has one nature, and not two: divine and human, then we have only three options: 1. This one nature is only divine, and the incarnation was, as it were, illusory, which is the heresy of docetism. 2. Either this one nature is human, and Christ was not God then, which is the heresy of Arianism. 3. Or, as the Monophysites say, in Christ there was one complex, composite nature, consisting of Divinity and humanity. But in this case, this means that Christ is no longer consubstantial, that is, he does not have the same nature with the Father, because the nature of God the Father is a divine nature, and not a complex divine-human one. And Christ is not consubstantial with His Mother, the Mother of God the Virgin Mary, and with us, too, in humanity, because we do not have this complex divine-human nature, but we have simply human nature. Thus, Christ turns out to be equally alien to both the Father and us, people, and therefore cannot be a Mediator or a bridge connecting God and people. This opinion is clearly erroneous, with which the Holy Fathers could not possibly agree. St. John of Damascus, in particular, writes that in this case Christ would have neither Divinity nor humanity and could not be called either God or man, but only Christ. And the name Christ itself in this case would be the name not of a person, but of a special nature, consisting of two natures. This goes against the original faith of the Church and, in particular, with the Creed adopted at the First Ecumenical Council, which states that Christ is consubstantial with the Father (that is, of the same essence/nature). I can write additionally if you want.

Read John 6:66-69

@Alexandr_Ya-Pravoslavnyj I did. It is about how many disciples found what Jesus had to say was too difficult and turned away. Then he asks the orginal 12 who were to become his apostles if they wanted to leave and Peter replied "To whom shall we go". It's a great lesson but that didn't answer my question. Jesus didn't send those initial disciples away, they chose to leave. So why would Orthodoxy send people away from God.

@@macdan22 Orthodoxy doesn't send people away from God. Each visitor can be present during all the liturgy if you about it. Security does not take people out of churches :)

@@Александр_Православный_есмь The father at timestamp 5:12-5:17 literally says you are limited and maybe asked to leave after the Gospel in some churches.

@@macdan22 in some churches but not in all churches. Orthodoxy in America is young enough, and this is not done in traditional Orthodox countries

Axion Estin (It is Truly Meet in Greek)

@@Александр_Православный_есмь Thank you my friend 🙏🏻

«Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you» (1Cor. 11:2). «if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!» (Gal.1:9)

@@AlexanderRMSR Amen

@@GGME7777 if "Amen", you need to agree that there is the only one truth in the only one Church which continues keeping this truth to this day and all other beliefs are false.

@@AlexanderRMSR Can you explain what do you mean ? Because there's no one physical church that's 100% correct in everything, every church got few things wrong here & there. Also, no one can divide the body of Christ.

@@GGME7777 if there is no faithful church, then Christ lied in the Gospel when he said that “the gates of hell will not prevail against it,” and the apostle that “the Church is the pillar and ground of the truth.” This means that either God is not omnipotent (since He is not able to create a physical Church, which is 100% right, or He does not want to create such a Church, allowing us to remain in lies and disagreement with each other, and not giving physical beings physical mercy), or The Gospel and the New Testament and Christianity are false. And since Christianity is better than all other religions and beliefs, it is true that they are all false, and there is no truth, we are wandering in darkness, there is no hope, and there is no God, or He is imperfect. Also, real life is deprived of all meaning, since we do not know anything true, and what will happen beyond the grave and whether it will happen is unknown. In general, just despair (or empty unfounded optimism). But I do not agree with the initial statement that there is no physically faithful Church. It exists - it is the Orthodox Church, and no one can point out that it sins in anything.

It's not so simple. Why did you decide that the great commission had already been fulfilled? Saint Augustine said that the true faith had not yet been preached in his time. And it isn't possible to say that the Catholic Church has become the church of every nation. What about Russia, the Balkans, Arab countries, China and others? So it isn't a good argument for the truth of your church

@@Александр_Православный_есмь it's not me and my personal opinion, it's an objective fact. No one comes close to the Catholic Church. You will never hear someone say that they have a hard time finding a Catholic church near them. Can't say the same about the Orthodox. And yes there are Catholic churches in Russia, Balkins and even China too. And in the rare instance there is a Catholic who isn't near a Catholic church, they are allowed to attend an Orthodox Church as they do have valid sacraments. The Orthodox are too prideful to say the same vice versa.

​​@@TruLuanDon't you understand, being more preached than others does not mean being preached all over the world. And just the presence of churches in a country does not mean that the faith was preached in a particular country. Be honest: we can't say that your faith was preached, for example, in modern Greece, or in modern Saudi Arabia, because most people of these places don't hear enough of it. The fact that there are more Catholics cannot be an argument for their truth. There were also more pagans than monotheists, and 10 fallen tribes of Israel versus 2 not fallen away in the Old Testament. The Orthodox are not prideful, just we love God and we believe that God is One, so there is only one true Church and only one true faith and only one true sacraments. We can't go against God to please people and because we love people we tell them that there are only one sacraments in only one Church

​@@TruLuanFor example, my grandfather was Catholic, but I didn't hear anything enough about this faith in a country which has a quite large Catholic community (Ukraine). And I only recently found out that he was a Catholic :-)

Correct. The true Faith is Universal not ethnocentric. The Eastern Churches are all ethnocentric in practice. Just walk into one and you will see the truth that they are very inward looking.

You cannot serve God and mammon/heresy.

You can't attend a schiasmtic liturgy. It's valid but illicit to attend any Eastern Rite that is not in communion with Rome.

No... no you do not. You are not Orthodox and you do not have what the Orthodox have. Thinking you do... is delusional. ONLY Uniates insist on this even as they want to have or appropriate everything the Orthodox are and have. It just seems ... disingenuous. God help you and save you, enlighten you and strengthen you on the path of salvation and the Truth.

It is important to persevere, and to attend different Orthodox churches, if possible, if we aren’t at home at the first one we visit. Sometimes our dislikes, though, are superficial temptations. We need to belong to the true Church which will lead to salvation and not just somewhere that we like for superficial reasons.

Please read the lives of the Orthodox saints, especially those of recent times, to understand the fruits of Orthodoxy. According to the Orthodox Faith, Roman Catholicism is outside of the Church and separated from Christ. Several books on this topic are available from Uncut Mountain Press.

@@California4Christ by empty I meant it was the middle of the day and no was in the church at the time. As I recall it was a hot Southern California day and the church was cool inside. That’s what I meant by empty. The primary reason why I didn’t convert was because I still enjoyed Catholic devotions like the rosary, the Little Office of the BVM, quite and simple weekday Mass. God just had other plans for me within the CC.

@@California4Christ thank you for your concern. One thing though that I’ve learned from the Anabaptist tradition is to detach from anything that isn’t Jesus. So when some say to go to Mass, or go to a priest, the believer would say we bypass those and ask Jesus personally and just as on the road to Emmaus Jesus opened up the meaning of the scriptures, likewise He will do it for those who trust in Him completely in Faith.

@@California4Christ yet one can say that those who make the Spirit into images has fallen into prelest. One can even venture as far as saying that the early church fell into apostasy by making images called ikons and were led astray by their own disobedience. Yet the Gates of Hades will never prevail for the Spirit blows where it wills, upon whom it wills to guide into all Truth. Many follow the institution called EO or Rome but few follow Jesus. They follow early church tradition but few follow Jesus the very Word of God. There is a big difference.

@@California4Christ do you pray to pictures?

Sodom and Gomorrah, heresy in the doctrine of the Trinity, the Church, lies about the role of the Apostle Peter and the Roman bishop, heresy about the third place between heaven and hell, the lie that it's possible to be saved outside the Church, delusion in ascetic teaching and much more - what good about it? This choice in favor of all this is not from God.

There is only one Church that is the body of Christ, the Orthodox Church. The Lord did not come to establish a menu of options.

@@OrthodoxEthos there is not one Orthodox Church, in my city alone there is 3 different etnic ones not counting the schism following the Ukraine war. So claiming the Orthodox Church as the one original is a contradictionin terms.

@@universalflamethrower6342How? The Orthodox church unlike the Catholic church is dogmatically united. You ignore ecclesiastical history in which you can see that there always were multiple autocephalous churches.

@@GodSurelyBlessYou the word salads and winding ways to unite what are basically ethnic churches controlled by earthly forces are breathetaking. As a Christian you should really stop and think about what you are saying. Say about the Vatican what you want, it is in Rome on top of where Peter and Paul are in it's own State. Constantinopel is no more. If we want to get Old Testament ome can clearly see who is scattered to the wind and carried off into Slavery.

Orthodoxy is the personal and communal relationship. Both of which are important.

the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece Thus, with the mysterious sign of his clothing, the Lord prefigured the unity of the Church. Saint Cyprian.

@@AlexanderRMSR If this comment belongs to St. Cyprian, it has been uttered before the schism of the Church...

@California4Christ The keys were given to Peter alone and not the rest of the apostles. Peter is the ultimate apostle in a sense that Jesus made him the leader to feed the flock, tend to the sheep. Up to Peter how this role is exercised through councils, bishops or individually in some matters. The final word in matters of faith and morals is with Peter just like it was at the first church council in Jerusalem. By the way, how come the orthodox bishops across many countries cannot organize themselves to another council when catholic bishops across the globe can? Hint: pope calling

The forthcoming book “The Orthodox Patristic Witness Concerning Catholicism” from Uncut Mountain Press expresses what all of the God-inspired saints have said about the heresies of Papism. We hope you will read it to find out what the saints who were not “converts” have said about these things.

@OrthodoxEthos sure let's see. You realize that from the very beginning eastern part of the church has been this big brewing cauldron of anti-papal sentiment (Western part of Roman Empire vs. East) that gave rise to dozens of heresies including mixture of many of them in Islam. For some reason eastern Christian communities have never had a close bond with the papacy that left them exposed to errors and over time, reduction to national churches. With no spiritual leader within orthodoxy, who makes the ultimate decisions? Who convenes the orthodox council? Pope can convene one in no time.

@@artifexdei3671 So you are Antiochian Orthodox since Peter first established that See well before Rome?

Protestants and Eastern Churches are very similar in their belief system. They both believe in self-interpretation of Church history and of Sacred Scripture. They are spritiually very linked even though they are centuries apart.

Well, the true faith is Orthodox. So, The Church founded by Jesus Christ is the Orthodox Church

Don’t take our word for it, study the history yourself and the teachings of the saints and Fathers throughout time. We are preparing to publish a 1,000+ page book “The Orthodox Patristic Witness Concerning Catholicism” that shows the 1,000 year witness of our saints and councils regarding the Pope and his teachings. Seek and ye shall find.

All the dozens of RC Parishes here are straight up Novus Ordo. Only one Hispanic Parish (almost exclusively in Spanish and not very open to outsiders, which is usual in my experience with RC Parishes) had a TLM Mass on Sundays but it was in a Novus Ordo chapel and not available on feast days except Christmas day and Easter day. The TLM there is gone now though thanks to your Pope. If I was RC I would have left over that. No Papalist monasteries near here either, not that they'd be any better. The Shrine here is Novus Ordo too.

@@LadyMaria You're in the US, right? Do you think the whole world is reduced to what you see around you? What you obviously ignore is how the young generation of Catholic priests, monks and nuns as well as simple believers are a lot more conservatives and work/ask for a more traditional expression, not necessarily in Latin. There are adjustments being done and a process where the generation of those who went too far is being replaced by a new one. Especially in Europe. There is currently a revival in the Catholic Church and renewal as you can tell with the WYD, Taizé etc... PS : Why are you so agressive and using derogatory terms?

​@@FREEMAN....she doesnt sound aggressive, just disappointed.

@@heartmind4267 You say so because you haven't read how she answered my other comments.

The Orthodox Church is the body of Christ and the means by which man attains salvation. If we do not have an Orthodox Church nearby we need to do all we can to contact the nearest Orthodox churches and discuss how to become and remain Orthodox. For some, they may only be able to attend services a few times per year, but what is important is to become and remain part of the true Church.

Catholic (katholikos) means wholeness in Greek. The Orthodox Faith is wholeness in Christ. The Church is whole, the Body of Christ with Christ as Head.