Responsibility
✦ General Idea
The lecture revolves around the concept of Christian responsibility toward the generation in which we live, not only for personal salvation, but also for having a positive influence on others and protecting them spiritually, intellectually, and morally.
✦ Responsibility Toward the Generation
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III explains that every generation has its own challenges, and our generation is more dangerous due to the spread of media, the internet, diverse ideologies, sects, and moral deviations. Therefore, the responsibility placed on believers today is greater and heavier.
✦ The Danger of Negligence
He emphasizes that neglecting responsibility is not a simple matter, but a serious spiritual danger, because God demands an account for the blood of souls lost due to negligence, as stated in the Book of Ezekiel. Failure to warn, teach, and care makes a person a partner in the sin.
✦ Responsibility of the Church and Priesthood
Responsibility extends through all levels of priesthood and includes spiritual teaching, preserving doctrine, confronting deviations, caring for the poor, the sick, the unemployed, and the suffering, and supporting people in their life needs alongside their spiritual needs.
✦ Responsibility of the Family
He stresses that spiritual and intellectual upbringing begins at home, and that the role of parents is not limited to providing food and academic education, but includes planting faith, good example, and continuous guidance, because God will ask parents to give an account for their children.
✦ Responsibility of the Servants
Service is not a formal presence, but rather visitation, love, and real knowledge of every child and youth, with the awareness that the loss of any soul is a responsibility before God.
✦ Individual Responsibility
He affirms that responsibility is not limited to a specific group, but that every person is responsible for his brother and for the values and principles by which he lives, being called to always ask about the well-being of others spiritually and emotionally.
✦ Spiritual Message
The core call is to live with vigilance, deep responsibility, and positive action through love and good example, so that we may truly be a light in this generation.
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