Regarding St. Faustina being first among the virgins, this doesn’t mean she is higher than the Virgin Mary. In Matthew 11:11 Jesus says, “Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” Does this verse mean that St. John is greater than St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary, both of whom were born of women? The diary of St. Faustina is amazing.
@@byzantineapologeticsthese are very strange indeed. But I’m left wondering why Satan is attacking the Roman Catholic Church but is not interested in trying to deceive or attack the Orthodox Church. Surely his priority would be overcoming the true church
Cyril Lucaris denied ever authoring the supposed "Confession" on several occasions when asked by the Synod of Constantinople. And he is Venerated because he is 1. A Martyr and 2. A fervent opponent of the Unia.
@@JurandirPERICULOSO The issue is that there is a break in communion between the Russian church and the Constantinopolitan/Greek church, i.e. "Russians on vacation in Greece can not go to church on Sunday." This destroys the myth of "one orthodox church." Also, a patriarch being above the other patriarchs is the Papacy.
@@Sam0Mahn This is something that has happened multiple times within Christian History. It is a break in Communion due to a Canonical Dispute. Not because one party or another has fallen into Heresy. Both sides are in Communion with Jerusalem, Serbia, Antioch, Bulgaria, the OCA and Georgia.
@@Sam0Mahn Not sure if you are over exaggerating or not, Russians are still allowed to pray in a Greek church, they are just not allowed to take communion.
right about faustina.............................wrong about the rest........the Roman Catholic church was given to us by Jesus through Peter........not orthodox
"For while we become many members He remains one and indivisible,and each part is the whole Christ himself. And so thus you well know that both my finger and my penis are Christ." - Symeon the New Theologian, Hymn 15 why the double standards?
How can the Orthodox Church be One if every jurisdiction of the patriarchs and metropolitans declare different and contrary things about something as simple as my baptism (done in the CC) I got conflicting answers as if I was asking Protestants what to do. If I wanted to be protestant, I would’ve stayed a Baptist instead. Orthodoxy is Protestantism with Tradition and somewhat sanity but you’re still wrong
@@IN-pr3lw sounds like what a baptist would say about other baptists even though they would be night and day different from one another. Also what communion again, Greek and Russia isnt and that bickering broke your churches between Greeks and Russians. Russians and Greeks also condemn antiochians here because they allow women to read and preach the gospel during liturgy during March.
@LuxFidelis Not sure what you're talking about, to be honest, because it doesn't affect your average Christian. All I know is that these churches are one as they are in communion with each other. If I were Greek, I could take communion in a Russian church or a Georgian church. All these churches part take in the mystery of Eucharist, which is what unites them all mystically as one body 👍
@@IN-pr3lw if you are a Greek, you haven’t been able to receive communion from a Russian since 2018 with the EP establishing a patriarch in Ukraine. That unity is an illusion that easily falls apart in instances like the council that was attempted in 2016. Mentioning communion, what about the antiochean Church communing with miaphysites (oriental orthodox which is outside the Orthodox Church) ? Allegedly encouraged and supported by the patriarch in Antioch which lead to many ceasing commemoration of their metropolitan and Patriarch over heresy so in a sense, a soft schism. Antioch is outside the Orthodox Church according to the councils and canons so no, your answer isn’t satisfactory. Proclaiming unity then condemning eachother and justifying breaks in communion again sounds like protestant ecclesiology
@@LuxFidelisthese kind of events happened prior to 1000 such as the meletian schism. If this disproves Orthodoxy now according to you it disproves the Church entirely in the first thousand years. An ecclesiastical dispute =/= a schism with anathemas Laity absolutely can commune between MP and EP churches.
Nope, Roman Catholic Church is a split from the only church: the Orthodox one, adding arbitrary dictums and novelties and "modernizing" itself all the way to substituting bread and wine for waffers...
@@foljs5858Calm down, children. Haha. Look at the state of the world and the curse of relativism. What became the Orthodox Church had no problems with Catholic Mass and teachings before the schism. With God's help, the differences concerning the filioque, celibacy, etc are not insurmountable. The Church should be as one again.
Schism is in the bible with the story of Jeroboam. Even when Israel is not doing well, you're supposed not to go around forming another Church, but stay within God's people. Simply because humans cannot "decide better" and do better than the Holy Spirit. God didn't leave Israel behind and stayed with Jeroboam. Anyways, former atheist here and I didn't care about protestants , orthodox or Catholics, I cared about the Truth only and the Holy Spirit led me to the Catholic Church, much to my uninformed objections. Devotion to the blessed Virgin Mary, the Rosary, the Sacred Heart, the Holy Face have done WONDERS in my life. I prayed the "oh jesus have mercy on me a sinner" rosary.... not bad.... but definitely not the Prime Subscription
It is comical to see your story about joining heretical Rome and alleged "wonders" you experienced, but at the same time using Jesus' prayer that is purely - Eastern Orthodox.!
@@Elven. If so.. Enjoy being a complicit in blessing of the Sodom & Gomorrah (i.e. same sex couples). Remember that Holy Spirit leads ppl to the Truth and not to the lies.
i yet I don’t see the video, I gonna watch later. The Catholics saints don’t are true saints, I says this to a friend. I before of know the that the church thought; I thought that Francis of Assis was saint, but he isn’t
That is interesting, i in this physical moment existence holding book diary Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska in spanish, my mother bought for my elder sister, i grabbed it and never read it, but now i decided I'm inclined to read it, because you are against This Holy Nun Saint, If what you say is true, then listen that is strange, odd , foreign, to me, i will forever stay Catholic, if anything id only become orthodoxy by emotion because i see Catholic churches near me are very protestant and sadly many catholic priests and nuns teach stupidity, from liberal Christianity, empty shell of stupid shallow christless world view, existence is meaningless in this protestant religion even if conservative. Withought the eucharist we both know wether Orthodox or Catholic were literally dead, and we have to confess our sins before taking eucharist again, im in old rusty pracitcing gears of a clockwok as Catholic Christian, but now i will do my best to free will the truth of this situation, thanks for the topic, i will read the whole diary, Im always charitable to orthodox not so much to Protestants, i listen to you speak interesting falsely of Catholic saints, I pray to Saint Francis of Assisi , Protestants attack both of us for asking saints to pray for us to God. The blood shed between Orthodox and catholic is going to allow the shallowness of protestantism to engulf both of us, and here arrive the Muslim army already finishing off the atheists, christians are next in line, we are the strongest religion, so why dont we unite? God blessed us both. Amen
you need to understand the catholic crisis before saying things about the church and special faustina... she is suspiciuous and almost every traditional catholic avoid her and all after 1960. the things abaout other saints is just without context. humility is the first virtue that comes to the life of the saints
@@byzantineapologeticsI’d challenge you on some of this but I sense it wouldn’t availth much, in any sense, do you have a Catholic source on the blood contract of St. Margret Mary? It’s the first I’ve heard of this part of the story.
@@byzantineapologetics then how are you different than the people you are critising in the video? Why would Jesus want for you to with intent cause yourself pain in your heart, so you cough blood, and send an angel coughing blood aswell as a vision? While you possibly do weird poses and breathing exercises.
You have absolutely no understanding of the spiritual life.
where does he go wrong?
Regarding St. Faustina being first among the virgins, this doesn’t mean she is higher than the Virgin Mary. In Matthew 11:11 Jesus says, “Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” Does this verse mean that St. John is greater than St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary, both of whom were born of women? The diary of St. Faustina is amazing.
Something lining up with Orthodox theology isn't an objection. It just calls Orthodoxy into question
I can't believe something like sacred heart which sounds like a sensual fantasy somebody had about Jesus is canonical to Roman Catholics.
Typical Ortho Cope. Please come back to the one true Church
I would rather not carve the name of Jesus into my chest thank you.
@@byzantineapologeticsthese are very strange indeed. But I’m left wondering why Satan is attacking the Roman Catholic Church but is not interested in trying to deceive or attack the Orthodox Church. Surely his priority would be overcoming the true church
Amazing video! This channel should go a long way.
I don’t see the sources for the st margaret mary alacoque statements
You Greeks have a Calvinist saint. Cyril Lucaris is canonized by your church.
@@franknwogu4911 he recanted his beliefs before he died, he was anathematized before that. Read the book.
@@byzantineapologetics What document confirms this?
Cyril Lucaris denied ever authoring the supposed "Confession" on several occasions when asked by the Synod of Constantinople.
And he is Venerated because he is 1. A Martyr and 2. A fervent opponent of the Unia.
Im currently RC,but im studying ortodoxy,tanks for the video
look up the 2018 Moscow-Constantinople schism. "Orthodoxy" is not even one church.
@@Sam0Mahn whats the problem? The constantinople patriarch is proclaiming himself as above the other patriarchs
@@JurandirPERICULOSO The issue is that there is a break in communion between the Russian church and the Constantinopolitan/Greek church, i.e. "Russians on vacation in Greece can not go to church on Sunday." This destroys the myth of "one orthodox church."
Also, a patriarch being above the other patriarchs is the Papacy.
@@Sam0Mahn
This is something that has happened multiple times within Christian History.
It is a break in Communion due to a Canonical Dispute. Not because one party or another has fallen into Heresy.
Both sides are in Communion with Jerusalem, Serbia, Antioch, Bulgaria, the OCA and Georgia.
@@Sam0Mahn Not sure if you are over exaggerating or not, Russians are still allowed to pray in a Greek church, they are just not allowed to take communion.
Yeah, reading the life of Catholic saints feels like a horror sometimes
I will be posting soon. Please let me know what video ideas you have
right about faustina.............................wrong about the rest........the Roman Catholic church was given to us by Jesus through Peter........not orthodox
@@charlescrockett6410 see you don’t get to reject anything. Faustina’s life is part of the magisterium, it doesn’t work like it doesn’t Orthodoxy bud
Sacred heart is the one of the weirdest traditions i have ever seen. Lord, have mercy.
Western Rite "Orthodox" uphold the Sacred Heart
Also the east practices hesychasm so they are in no room to talk about being weird
"For while we become many members He remains one and indivisible,and each part is the whole Christ himself. And so thus you well know that both my finger and my penis are Christ." - Symeon the New Theologian, Hymn 15
why the double standards?
How can the Orthodox Church be One if every jurisdiction of the patriarchs and metropolitans declare different and contrary things about something as simple as my baptism (done in the CC)
I got conflicting answers as if I was asking Protestants what to do. If I wanted to be protestant, I would’ve stayed a Baptist instead. Orthodoxy is Protestantism with Tradition and somewhat sanity but you’re still wrong
They are one because they are all in communion with each other. Just like the early church was one
@@IN-pr3lw sounds like what a baptist would say about other baptists even though they would be night and day different from one another. Also what communion again, Greek and Russia isnt and that bickering broke your churches between Greeks and Russians. Russians and Greeks also condemn antiochians here because they allow women to read and preach the gospel during liturgy during March.
@LuxFidelis Not sure what you're talking about, to be honest, because it doesn't affect your average Christian. All I know is that these churches are one as they are in communion with each other. If I were Greek, I could take communion in a Russian church or a Georgian church. All these churches part take in the mystery of Eucharist, which is what unites them all mystically as one body 👍
@@IN-pr3lw if you are a Greek, you haven’t been able to receive communion from a Russian since 2018 with the EP establishing a patriarch in Ukraine. That unity is an illusion that easily falls apart in instances like the council that was attempted in 2016. Mentioning communion, what about the antiochean Church communing with miaphysites (oriental orthodox which is outside the Orthodox Church) ? Allegedly encouraged and supported by the patriarch in Antioch which lead to many ceasing commemoration of their metropolitan and Patriarch over heresy so in a sense, a soft schism. Antioch is outside the Orthodox Church according to the councils and canons so no, your answer isn’t satisfactory. Proclaiming unity then condemning eachother and justifying breaks in communion again sounds like protestant ecclesiology
@@LuxFidelisthese kind of events happened prior to 1000 such as the meletian schism.
If this disproves Orthodoxy now according to you it disproves the Church entirely in the first thousand years.
An ecclesiastical dispute =/= a schism with anathemas
Laity absolutely can commune between MP and EP churches.
Roman Catholic Church is the only true Church initiated by our Lord Himself. You should be ashamed of your hateful attitude towards The Church.
Nope, Roman Catholic Church is a split from the only church: the Orthodox one, adding arbitrary dictums and novelties and "modernizing" itself all the way to substituting bread and wine for waffers...
@@foljs5858Calm down, children. Haha. Look at the state of the world and the curse of relativism. What became the Orthodox Church had no problems with Catholic Mass and teachings before the schism. With God's help, the differences concerning the filioque, celibacy, etc are not insurmountable. The Church should be as one again.
@@dannyneville1310 The Church is already one and it is the Orthodox Church. Catholics need to repent and return to Orthodoxy.
What church? Do you mean the synagogue of Satan?
@@dannyneville1310very well said.
You should make a video on the Filioque.
@@yosoq i will for sure
@@byzantineapologetics by the way, what do you think of St. Cyril's seemingly miaphysite quotes?
@@yosoq he was not. I might be making a video on Oriental “Orthodoxy” soon so I will definitely include this topic in the video
Schism is in the bible with the story of Jeroboam. Even when Israel is not doing well, you're supposed not to go around forming another Church, but stay within God's people. Simply because humans cannot "decide better" and do better than the Holy Spirit. God didn't leave Israel behind and stayed with Jeroboam. Anyways, former atheist here and I didn't care about protestants , orthodox or Catholics, I cared about the Truth only and the Holy Spirit led me to the Catholic Church, much to my uninformed objections. Devotion to the blessed Virgin Mary, the Rosary, the Sacred Heart, the Holy Face have done WONDERS in my life. I prayed the "oh jesus have mercy on me a sinner" rosary.... not bad.... but definitely not the Prime Subscription
It is comical to see your story about joining heretical Rome and alleged "wonders" you experienced, but at the same time using Jesus' prayer that is purely - Eastern Orthodox.!
@@johnnyd2383 sigh, it's to clearly show that I listened to every side at the beginning, and the Holy Spirit lead me to the original faith
@@Elven. If so.. Enjoy being a complicit in blessing of the Sodom & Gomorrah (i.e. same sex couples). Remember that Holy Spirit leads ppl to the Truth and not to the lies.
i yet I don’t see the video, I gonna watch later. The Catholics saints don’t are true saints, I says this to a friend. I before of know the that the church thought; I thought that Francis of Assis was saint, but he isn’t
That is interesting, i in this physical moment existence holding book diary Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska in spanish, my mother bought for my elder sister, i grabbed it and never read it, but now i decided I'm inclined to read it, because you are against This Holy Nun Saint, If what you say is true, then listen that is strange, odd , foreign, to me, i will forever stay Catholic, if anything id only become orthodoxy by emotion because i see Catholic churches near me are very protestant and sadly many catholic priests and nuns teach stupidity, from liberal Christianity, empty shell of stupid shallow christless world view, existence is meaningless in this protestant religion even if conservative. Withought the eucharist we both know wether Orthodox or Catholic were literally dead, and we have to confess our sins before taking eucharist again, im in old rusty pracitcing gears of a clockwok as Catholic Christian, but now i will do my best to free will the truth of this situation, thanks for the topic, i will read the whole diary, Im always charitable to orthodox not so much to Protestants, i listen to you speak interesting falsely of Catholic saints, I pray to Saint Francis of Assisi , Protestants attack both of us for asking saints to pray for us to God. The blood shed between Orthodox and catholic is going to allow the shallowness of protestantism to engulf both of us, and here arrive the Muslim army already finishing off the atheists, christians are next in line, we are the strongest religion, so why dont we unite?
God blessed us both. Amen
you need to understand the catholic crisis before saying things about the church and special faustina... she is suspiciuous and almost every traditional catholic avoid her and all after 1960. the things abaout other saints is just without context. humility is the first virtue that comes to the life of the saints
Can please send the article
www.orthodoxethos.com/post/francis-of-assisi-the-pseudo-saint
@@byzantineapologeticsI’d challenge you on some of this but I sense it wouldn’t availth much, in any sense, do you have a Catholic source on the blood contract of St. Margret Mary? It’s the first I’ve heard of this part of the story.
Thank you for this god bless you
Great video brother 👍
are you famliar with orthodox so called saints, purposefully making their heart experience pain, and later coughing blood etc....?
@@gladatusbob4497 do you mean the noetic prayer of the heart? Yes of course I practice it.
@@byzantineapologetics then how are you different than the people you are critising in the video? Why would Jesus want for you to with intent cause yourself pain in your heart, so you cough blood, and send an angel coughing blood aswell as a vision? While you possibly do weird poses and breathing exercises.
There’s a great book on this topic called the watchful mind. I would look into it for more details.
@@byzantineapologetics take a step back and ask yourself is this really what God's love looks like?
@@gladatusbob4497 you should probably read the book so you can find out.
Begone schismatic