Terror attack unfolding in France

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Total death count is now 158. Dear Lord have mercy. No telling how many injured, we pray for those.

Lord have mercy. Keep the prayers going. CNN was saying their still might be gunmen on the lose. This is scary somthing like this in a Eureopean capital!
 
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I have a concealed carry California CCW license. I carry my 9 mm Smith and Wesson MP Shield into church with me. When I'm a Reader, I take it off and it's in my wife's purse as I go into the sanctuary. But otherwise, I have it on. There are mosques up in Fresno and actually a good crop of Muslims. I don't trust them or the awful neighborhood our church is in. I carry. Yes, even in California you still can! Hard to believe here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia.

You know maybe I need to start a thread, but does anyone know if it's ok to pack a conceled pistol in a Orthodox Church? I worry our churches are next and I want us to be safe, Churches seem like such a soft target with virtually no security at all in most.
 
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Notre Dame de Paris, Pray
St. Mary of Paris, Pray
St. Denis, Pray.





As the man on the radio earlier; 'today is a Saturday, we shall do what we always do, eat cheese and drink wine.'
It is the victory of the attack for the populace to live in fear.

Please, I pray, this is not the unravelling of Europe.
The elephant in my mind is the word 'savages'. Let us not stoop to their rationale.
 
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Avoiding politics in geo-political thread....nope, unavoidable. Radical Islam is the terror of our time. We can fight it or lay down and let it consume us all. How can we avoid the politics of this?

Can we avoid politics here.
 
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Psalm 4:4

Be angry, and do not sin.
Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah

Amos 5:13-15

Psalm 10 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+10&version=NKJV

Isaiah 59

Psalm 7:9
Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the just;
For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds.


Matthew 5:44

Matthew 7:6 Matthew 7:15

Matthew 7


Matthew 6:5

And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.


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A statement from Bishop Anthony of the Antiochians:

We will not allow ourselves to slip down the slope of a descent into barbarism, and with it, suffer a real loss to our own humanity in the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack which we see continually before our eyes and which most recently we witness in Paris. Therefore let us be as relentless in prayer and help, and whatever advances goodness and peace which is within our ability, as others are in the abuse of power and in spreading death and sorrow.
A special note to some of our other commenters, I suppose. Esp. re: barbarism and their loss of humanity.
 
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From the orthodox cathedral in Paris:

Reverend Fathers, Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

France and its capital come again to suffer unprecedented terrorist attacks.

We condemn these acts of aggression and barbarity because “a crime committed in the name of religion is a crime against religion,” as we have been reminded by the Berne Declaration (1992), the Declaration of the Bosphorus (1994) and our Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

Before the Terror, after the Psalmist, we cry out : “The Lord is my light and my salvation ; whom shall I fear The Lord is the stronghold of my life, before whom I be afraid ?” (Ps 26 : 1).

I invite you all to not succumb to the temptation of terrorists. Keep peace in your heart, staying calm and not to cultivate the hatred, but to entrust yourselves to prayer.

I bless that in the parishes of our Exarchate be celebrated this Sunday, an office of intercession “for the nation at risk” (молебное пение в нашествии супостатов) and sing “Eternal Memory” for the victims.

May God, through the prayers of His Mother Any Pure extending its protection over us, save us and keep us from all harm and danger.

+ Job, Archbishop of Telmessos, Exach of the Ecumenical Patriarch.

Paris, November 14, 2015.
This is quoted from somebody else, so I can't vouch for the French translation.
 
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Avoiding politics in geo-political thread....nope, unavoidable. Radical Islam is the terror of our time. We can fight it or lay down and let it consume us all. How can we avoid the politics of this?
I would just say that most of us have avoided talking politics on this thread, so you could do the same. Hope that helps. Have a nice day.
 
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Gurney right we can pray for France all we want but the French and the west need to turn back to GOD. After this terror are the churches packed in France? sadly not really, France is the model of a secular Progressive utopia, and now we see the consequences. Also it saddens me how some Orthodox Christians online literally have their heads in the sand concerning Islamic fundamentalism, despite the fact that Islamists are killing or have killed Christians in Egypt, Russia, Bosnia, Iraq, Occupied Kosovo, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, and so fourth. We need to wake up quick and realize we have a enemy proabably worse than the Nazis or Commies, even jews, buddhists and hindus are facing the problem of Islam. Wake up folks!
 
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MOD HAT ON
GUYS AND GALS I KNOW THIS IS A TOUGH TIME FOR ALL OF US
BUT THERE ARE STILL RULES TO FOLLOW
DON'T MAKE THINGS PERSONAL AND DON'T GOAD EACH OTHER
POSTS HAVE BEEN CLEANED UP THAT WERE VIOLATING THE RULES

MOD HAT OFF
 
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