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@fadianasallah1915 The Saint here is saying that before Christ's Second Coming, those who are foretasting Hell after death can be placed in Heaven through God's mercy in synergy with our prayers and good deeds done on behalf of the dead. For example, when we give alms, we can do so by praying "Lord, please count this good deed on behalf of and in the name of the departed Orthodox." In addition to almsgiving, we pray for the Orthodox departed in the Liturgy, memorial service, Trisagion service, and on our prayer ropes. These all greatly benefit them and many have been pulled out of Hell because of them.

@@ORTHOPRAXIA33, pardon me for my many questions, if some deads don't have people to offer alms or prays on behalf of them, then it will be unfair

@@fadianasrallah1915Can you be more specific so I can offer a better explanation?

I agree with you but it is wonderful when God shows us , Jesus Christ is king

@@Toast-wd6gx I agree. This is why we should read the God-inspired teachings of the Holy Fathers on the Scriptures; they help us to understand them better☦️🙏❤️

Amen 🎉❤

You can light your own candles at home for the Orthodox departed

@@Rugz-smoke Careful dear brother; the moment we think we have fully cleansed our heart is the moment we plunge ourselves into the satanic vice of pride

Was this intentional irony?

What religion are you talking about? Heresy is a very serious disease

@@ORTHOPRAXIA33 Catholic bro

@@therageknight8546 Although we have some things in common, like in practice, concept and belief, I think we have very different doctrines and have less in common than you may realize… These things really aren’t trivial matters to just brush aside because heresy and separation from the Church is a matter of salvation. That’s why the Church Fathers warned of heresy so much and fought against it tremendously. You should check out these books published by UMP, I think you’d like them: uncutmountainpress.com/shop/product/the-orthodox-patristic-witness-concerning-catholicism/ uncutmountainpress.com/shop/product/catholicism/ uncutmountainpress.com/shop/product/the-church-and-the-pope/ uncutmountainpress.com/shop/product/the-papacy/ uncutmountainpress.com/shop/product/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-papacy/

I’m getting a lot worse than humility. I’m getting straight up humiliation. I don’t even get treated like human being anymore.

@IN-pr3Iw When the mouth gets tired of saying it, switch to saying it mentally with your inner voice. The Saints also tell us we need much patience and perseverance in prayer; imagine yourself digging a hole to find gold. It takes much effort, time and patience to eventually reach what you're looking for. Similarly, the more we pray the more we are digging to find the pearl of great price - God's grace. In the beginning prayer is arduous and tiresome, but God sees your effort and eventually will make the Prayer feel sweet and delightful. Flee despair, such is from the demons. And keep digging no matter what!

Imagine demanding accommodations into someone's home based on the host's prior "discretionary lapses in decorum". If you have a prideful attitude like that, then you are far from ready to join Christ's Body. Yes, bishops are often wrong and rely on the prayers, guidance, and teaching of their subordinate clergy and laity to help them, especially in recent years. The Ecclesiatical hierarchy is primarily a familial one and not a cold administrative one.

you should read the book “On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church” from Uncut Mountain Press. It is basically a compilation of what the saints and councils have said about these things throughout time. Apostolic Succession ceases when bishops and priests go into schism, for instance, according to St. Basil and the Ecumenical Councils.

You should read the book “On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church” from Uncut Mountain Press. According to St. Basil and the Ecumenical Councils, when bishops and priests go into schism Apostolic Succession ceases and the bishops and priests in schism become laymen. The Church is the body of Christ and cannot be divided, which is basic ecclesiology.

@@3devdas777 it’s a ancient opinion that must be filtered through church hierarchies, not the rev. Fr Peter Heers

@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 1. The Holy Fathers in EVERY generation, including those of the ECUMENICAL COUNCILS and those in our own days, teach there are no sacraments outside the Church. This is not the personal opinion of St Nikodemos or Fr Peter Heers; it’s literally the ecclesiology of the Church; we show this entire spectrum of the Patristic Consensus in our book ‘On the Reception of the Heterodox.’ Furthermore, this ecclesiological teaching is confirmed and upheld in the hymnography of the Church, the Holy Scriptures (OT & NT), the Patristic commentaries on those same Scriptures, and even in our own Creed - "In ONE, Holy, Catholic Apostolic Church I confess ONE baptism..." All of this testifies to the basic truth that the Church is undivided, as Christ Himself said. A branch that falls off the vine can't and doesn't receive the divine sap of the Sacraments outside the vine of the Church. 2. Church history is replete with Individual bishops and entire synods of bishops teaching and doing heretical things. And in every case the Church rejected them as false teachers and false synods unworthy of our obedience. As Fr. John Romanides says, “[The canonical Local and Ecumenical Councils were made up] of bishops who knew the therapeutic method of the Church. The Council was convened with the aim of preserving, not simply the dogma and the order of worship of the Church, as happens today, but also the therapeutic method of the Church. A true bishop is an expert on the therapeutic method of the Church. Today, however, when noetic prayer is rare among bishops, if a Council of bishops meets and they stand up at the beginning to sing together, “Heavenly King and Comforter, Spirit of truth, everywhere present and filling all things…,” will the Holy Spirit come without fail and enlighten them? Simply because they are canonical bishops and assemble at a Council and pray? However, the Holy Spirit does not act in that way, with only these preconditions. Other conditions need to be met. The one who prays must have noetic prayer already activated within him when he comes to the Council, in order for the grace of God to enlighten him. Those who attended the pseudo-Councils were not in this state of prayer. The bishops of old, however, had this sort of spiritual experience and when they came together as a body, they knew what the Holy Spirit was assuring them of within their hearts on a specific subject. And when they reached decisions, they knew that their decisions were correct. Because they were in the state of illumination, and some of them had even reached glorification, theosis.” This is precisely what St. Theodore the Studite says too: “ [A] council is not just a meeting of bishops and priests, even if there were many of them, - for it is said: “better is one” righteous, “doing the will of the Lord, than a thousand sinners” (Sir.16:3), - but an assembly in the name of the Lord, for the sake of peace and the following of the canons, and in order to bind and loose, not as it happens, but as it should be, according to truth, according to rule, and according to true judgment.” So, just because a Bishop or Synod of Bishops says something, it doesn’t automatically mean they are correct, nor does it mean that we are obligated to automatically obey their directives just because they’re Bishops, as once again, the Saints teach: St. Daniel of Katounakia: “I do not mean, my children in the Lord, that you should be blindly and irrationally obedient as some are to those who teach and supposedly assume spiritual authority for the sake (even if only slightly) of their ego and self-interest. No! But be careful, and if you see from us advice and counsels that are not consistent with the pure spirit of paternal discernment and the un-erring prescriptions of the holy Church Fathers, you should not obey.” St. Justin Popovich: “We must obey men in authority, as long as they are not against God and the laws of God. However, once they stand up against God and His laws, the Church must resist and oppose them.” St. John Chrysostom: “[St. Paul] said, ‘Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves.’ ‘What then, (you may ask), ‘should we obey even if he is wicked?’ Wicked? In what sense, I ask you? If in regard to [the] Faith he is wicked [by teaching heresy], flee and avoid him; not only if he be a man, but even if he be an Angel who has come down from Heaven.” St. Basil the Great: “If we are ordered to do something opposed to the commandments of the Lord or something that appears to corrupt or adulterate it, it is time to say, ‘We ought to obey God rather than men’ and to be mindful of the Lord who says, ‘They do not follow the voice of a stranger, but flee from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.’ And we ought to be mindful of the Apostle, who, for our reassurance, dared to hold to account even the Angels when he said: ‘Though we ourselves or an Angel from Heaven should proclaim a gospel to you other than the one we have already proclaimed to you let him be anathema.’ From these sayings we are taught even if someone is very genuine, maybe even of exalted status and held in admiration, yet who hinders us from doing what the Lord has prescribed, or who orders us to do what the Lord has forbidden, such a one ought to be avoided and despised by all who love the Lord.” St. Ephraim the Syrian: “True, unlike false, obedience will not listen to seductive heresy. But true obedience is like of a pure betrothed maiden who is not drawn after the voices of strangers [heretics]; for the ear which turns away even in a little from the Truth is like the adulterous wife who turns away from her husband; and the ear which is led to embrace all heretical teachings is like the harlot who is persuaded by every one who calls her. Let us, therefore, reject that erroneous kind of obedience which is infected by the words of the liar [the heretic] which, instead of the name of the true Bridegroom [Christ], loves the name of its corrupter [the name of the heretic who created the heresy].” St. Symeon the New Theologian: “In all those matters in which there is no deviation from God’s commandments or from the apostolic canons and regulations, you must absolutely obey him [the abbot, or by extension, Bishops and Priests in general] in them all and trust in him as you would in the Lord. But in those matters in which the Gospel of Christ and the laws of His Church are compromised, you must not only NOT follow the orders of the person who suggests this to you or orders it, but must not even do so even if an Angel has come down from Heaven and is preaching something to you contrary to what those who were eyewitnesses of the Word of God have preached.” “Implore God with prayers and tears to send you a guide [Spiritual Father] who is dispassionate and holy. But you yourself should also study the divine writings - especially the works of the Fathers that deal with the practice of the virtues - so that you can compare the teachings of your master with them; for thus you will see and observe them as in a mirror. Take to heart and keep in mind those of his teachings that agree with the divine writings, but separate out and reject those that are false and incompatible. Otherwise you will be led astray. For in these days there are all too many deceivers and false prophets.”

@@jacob6088 Thank YOU for watching!

@@carolflower9672 On the Reception of the Heterodox, published by Uncut Mountain Press, written by team members of @OrthodoxEthos. Here’s a link to the book: uncutmountainpress.com/shop/product/on-the-reception-of-the-heterodox-into-the-orthodox-church-the-patristic-consensus-and-criteria/

@@ORTHOPRAXIA33 Thank you

@@fuzzi3125 It’s the apolytikion for St Joseph the Hesychast

@@ORTHOPRAXIA33 thank you

@@jacob6088 Yes; what’s your email?

@@ORTHOPRAXIA33 I can’t send it on RUclips because RUclips keeps deleting it

@@jacob6088 email me: sbournelis@hchc.edu

This is Mother Mary speaking in the scripture: Luke 1:47 King James Version 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

I think it's because devils don't repent and that they can't stand up and be forgiven either.