Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All East has condemned Halloween celebration, publishing this video and playing Patriarch John's words on devil.
Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All East has condemned Halloween celebration, publishing this video and playing Patriarch John’s words on devil.
I hate to ask, but would anyone be willing to provide an approximate English translation or summary? I'm interested in the content of the message but can't speak Arabic.
A traduction would be awesome !
Forgive me, but how are we to understand when you don't give subtitles?
English title yet no English?!
Thank for this arabic video my Orthodox Brother !
Well Halloween isn't evil or the devil, its just a harmless holiday where little kids or kids/ teens dress up and go all over there neighborhood for candy with or with out friends and family. He said she said, it doesn't matter in this situation imo.
Haloween is the Vigil od the Feast of All Saints Day. Derived from the English version of Mexico's "Del de los Muertos."
Translation?
Patriarch John X :
Is there satan?
Many say and ask: is there satan?
We remember in the Gospel and our prayers: the evil
[written text: deliver us from the evil]
In French they say ..
In English they say…
In Greek they say…
It means: from the evil
[written text: be awaken and watch out (1 Peter 5:8)]
What is it, what we call "evil"
Satan, devil – it is a being, he was an angel that fell down
and started to want all people pull into shadows and hanger, which name is evil, devil
and Lord Jesus Christ came and incarnated from the Virgin Mary
and what He was doing was in order to destroy the power of devil,
that he doesn't have the power on us and that we can come back to the beauty
of the times we hadn't know the sin and the fall.
As for me considering I will soon become an orthodox catchmen I've opted to simply stop celebrating Halloween all together