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Just as God watches over our personal path and, even from afar, anticipates our return, like that of the Prodigal Son, so we might also say that God “allows” for various disturbances to arise within the Church for the perfection and glorification of the healthier members of the Church, who, like the Prodigal Son’s elder brother, who remain more faithful to the Father. “I hear that there be divisions among you,” the Apostle Paul writes the Corinthians, “and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you” (I Corinthians 11:18-19). So, we may say that a second reason for controversy is the revelation and proving (or testing) of those who are faithful. -- #BishopAuxentiosofEtnaandPortland (The Criteria of Ecclesiastical Struggle -- https://goo.gl/OrcG6l) #genuineorthodoxy #struggleagainstecumenism #ecumenismisheresy #againstecumenism #metropolitandemetriosofamerica #cobleskillny #monasteryofstjohnthewonderworker

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