This saint .. St. Porphyrios..touched me before I even knew who he was. I realize the story sounds crazy but one day, coming home from my daily errands..I noticed something in the sky. I parked my car and got out and looked up and saw what looked like a figure coming down from a cloud. I grabbed my phone and took a picture. When I looked closely it looked like an old man. I saw his features. I thought about it all week. Then a few days later I stumbled onto a story about a Saints life, on u tube. I watched the whole story when I got to the Saints older years..I freaked out...studying his features closely, I knew the figure in the cloud and the image of this Saint, were the same! After freaking out.. I investigated further the Saints life and realized how many similarities I had with this Saint. First of all our names both meant the same thing "messanger of God." Second our birth month February. And third similarities in our mothers and fathers personalities. Details are personal but nevertheless, I have been touched so much by this experience and thought I'd relate it to any lost souls out there.
I know what Depression feels like. I have been through it for many years. But God saved me by his grace. My story is a long one. But I always lived on hope and believe. I knew deep in my heart that God would not forsake me. Depression is a serious illness. It can consume you . and everything that I had been through in my life. Well its a long story. I never really talked about my feelings.
@savvas S it has to do with heschia or hesychasm...divine stillness....you basically are attentive to the heart where God speaks and it prevents the mind from wandering...its standing in the presence of God..
@savvas S I simply poured my heart out also using jesus prayer it got to the point where mindfulness wasnt really doing it for me...my soul was crying out so I learned how to pray and the next day I was cured....and my heart was filled with an intense joy for a few weeks as the book describes..
God lets people taste hell and gives many chances for sinners to cleanse there souls. We all go through trials and tribulations. Many say i feel cursed . Its to learn that we all must follow The Holy God and if we dont then we are in the hands of the evil one
Humility is knowing that we descend from Adam, and he was made out out of nothing, for God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing. And out of that nothing, He created Adam from dust. Knowing that we enter the world through our mothers womb with nothing, and leave this earth with nothing but our deeds is true humility, for we are made out of nothing, and in the sight of God we are nothing. Pride is the heart and mind that believes that we are something special, in fact, we only truly receive from God everything, and the more we decrease, He increases His humility. Knowing that your nothing but the image of God is true dignity, and through humility we reclaim His likeness. God bless.
I really struggle to understand what humility means... For me being the image of God is a very great honour I don’t understand how it could be humble to get to know this... Sorry but I am kind of lost...
May God guide us to humility, meekness and modesty. Please correct me if I am wrong: I thought that while we are really nothing compared to God, we are not nothing in His holy sight, for He loved us in Christ. Forgive me if I am mistaken, for I am really not learned in religious matters, this is why I try to listen to the elders.
@@DeusVivus Thank you for your answer... That makes sense... I hope I will understand it more deeply before I die and that Christ will enlight us all...
Um, God does not make garbage. Stop calling humans scum. The Son of God came to save the spirit children of God. And being naturally born is not disgusting. Not sinful. God created all of this and called it good. Who are you to contradict God? Humans are both good and evil. We are born with the light of Christ.
We could renounce the evil spirits of hopelessness, despair, depression in the name of Jesus. Jesus gave us the power to bind these evil spirits and command them to go the foot of the Cross. If the problem is severe, get a deliverance prayer from a priest. FAST, repent and pray to constantly minimize out ego. St Porphyrios, pray for us !!!
I don't understand why people say depression feeling hopless is a spirit that needs to be exercised I've suffered extreme consequences of childhood abuse my hole life lost everything I see those traumatic feelings and depression as a deep deep hurting wound in response to all the harm done to me and my life not an evil spirit that's whet I think
Without the Inner Prayer it’s impossible to be saved. That’s why Christ came into the world. Let engage ourselves with all the energy in this huge labor Called the Unceasing Prayer and to crush the head off the serpent. O Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on us Most holy Theotokos help us!
He was being held by dark forces, this is depression. You feel bad all the time. The good moments are the same as the bad. It's hard to get out of this thought it is only through Jesus Prayers work.
+Goran Mijajlovic Giga I am particularly interested in the teachings about depression. It's an absolutely spiritual point of view, and requires a different approach too. Anyway I wish that you have his blessings and inspiration for loving Christ deeply.
What did people do before Christ to cure depression? Was everyone just walking around depressed for 4500 years? Did the Old Testament people just have to suck up their miserable lives? This always confuses me. Is there something missing?
Before Christ, people did not truly have time to dwell on their depression as most had very hard lives and could not properly treat themselves. Those who suffered from depression from more wealthy classes sought to fight depression with pleasure. This does not cure depression, but only lessens its effects temporarily.
The elder Porphyrios was constantly available to thousands of people looking for help. They gave him a phone and he would answer as many times as possible.
He was a wise Greek "geronda" as we call them in Greek (lke an old wise man) except he was special. He was a man who was enlightened by the Holy Spirit even as a young boy and at the young age of 20 he became a Monastic at the infamous community of Agion Oron (Mt Athos) which is basically the spriritual center for the entire Orthodox world in northern Greece. However , he had to leave after some years due to some illnesses which were constant. He went back to his native Evia (an island not far from Athens) where God had prepared his new journey in life in the world. Such people are to be revered and their memory eternal among the Faithful.
This saint .. St. Porphyrios..touched me before I even knew who he was. I realize the story sounds crazy but one day, coming home from my daily errands..I noticed something in the sky. I parked my car and got out and looked up and saw what looked like a figure coming down from a cloud. I grabbed my phone and took a picture. When I looked closely it looked like an old man. I saw his features. I thought about it all week. Then a few days later I stumbled onto a story about a Saints life, on u tube. I watched the whole story when I got to the Saints older years..I freaked out...studying his features closely, I knew the figure in the cloud and the image of this Saint, were the same! After freaking out.. I investigated further the Saints life and realized how many similarities I had with this Saint. First of all our names both meant the same thing "messanger of God." Second our birth month February. And third similarities in our mothers and fathers personalities. Details are personal but nevertheless, I have been touched so much by this experience and thought I'd relate it to any lost souls out there.
Angela...so very awesome...HE truly does give us... shows us...speaks to us individually...and for what he created us to be
I know what Depression feels like. I have been through it for many years. But God saved me by his grace. My story is a long one. But I always lived on hope and believe. I knew deep in my heart that God would not forsake me. Depression is a serious illness. It can consume you . and everything that I had been through in my life. Well its a long story. I never really talked about my feelings.
I was healed by God a couple of months a go...I poured it out with mind in the heart and jesus prayer.
@savvas S it has to do with heschia or hesychasm...divine stillness....you basically are attentive to the heart where God speaks and it prevents the mind from wandering...its standing in the presence of God..
@savvas S here's the book
The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox... www.amazon.com/dp/0571191657?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf
@savvas S I simply poured my heart out also using jesus prayer it got to the point where mindfulness wasnt really doing it for me...my soul was crying out so I learned how to pray and the next day I was cured....and my heart was filled with an intense joy for a few weeks as the book describes..
God lets people taste hell and gives many chances for sinners to cleanse there souls. We all go through trials and tribulations. Many say i feel cursed . Its to learn that we all must follow The Holy God and if we dont then we are in the hands of the evil one
These words are more precious than gold.
Best sermon ever 🤩 What a blessing to listen to this saint sharing pearls of wisdom by the Grace of God 🙏
Humility is knowing that we descend from Adam, and he was made out out of nothing, for God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing. And out of that nothing, He created Adam from dust. Knowing that we enter the world through our mothers womb with nothing, and leave this earth with nothing but our deeds is true humility, for we are made out of nothing, and in the sight of God we are nothing. Pride is the heart and mind that believes that we are something special, in fact, we only truly receive from God everything, and the more we decrease, He increases His humility. Knowing that your nothing but the image of God is true dignity, and through humility we reclaim His likeness. God bless.
Amen
I really struggle to understand what humility means... For me being the image of God is a very great honour I don’t understand how it could be humble to get to know this... Sorry but I am kind of lost...
May God guide us to humility, meekness and modesty. Please correct me if I am wrong: I thought that while we are really nothing compared to God, we are not nothing in His holy sight, for He loved us in Christ. Forgive me if I am mistaken, for I am really not learned in religious matters, this is why I try to listen to the elders.
@@DeusVivus Thank you for your answer... That makes sense... I hope I will understand it more deeply before I die and that Christ will enlight us all...
Um, God does not make garbage. Stop calling humans scum. The Son of God came to save the spirit children of God. And being naturally born is not disgusting. Not sinful. God created all of this and called it good. Who are you to contradict God? Humans are both good and evil. We are born with the light of Christ.
We could renounce the evil spirits of hopelessness, despair, depression in the name of Jesus. Jesus gave us the power to bind these evil spirits and command them to go the foot of the Cross. If the problem is severe, get a deliverance prayer from a priest. FAST, repent and pray to constantly minimize out ego. St Porphyrios, pray for us !!!
I don't understand why people say depression feeling hopless is a spirit that needs to be exercised I've suffered extreme consequences of childhood abuse my hole life lost everything I see those traumatic feelings and depression as a deep deep hurting wound in response to all the harm done to me and my life not an evil spirit that's whet I think
This is so amazing.Thank God for the truth that even scientists will never get their hands on
Without the Inner Prayer it’s impossible to be saved. That’s why Christ came into the world. Let engage ourselves with all the energy in this huge labor Called the Unceasing Prayer and to crush the head off the serpent.
O Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on us
Most holy Theotokos help us!
I needed this.... the struggles I am currently facing :(
I love you REM!!! 🥺🥺🥺
Thank you for the translation
Love this ❤
Is it possible to remove the ringtone from this video? Very disturbing indeed!
Powerful
He was being held by dark forces, this is depression. You feel bad all the time. The good moments are the same as the bad. It's hard to get out of this thought it is only through Jesus Prayers work.
:-) Beautiful
I need this in English. Why is a phone ringing?
Can you tell me please, which chanting is the background of last few minutes, or who is chanting?
I think it is the monks of Simonopetra monastery in Mount Athos
Thanks! ευχαριστίες!
Παρακαλώ Goran! What are your thoughts about this video?
+Chryss Stell It's great, I know about elder Porphyrios, I have one book about his life and sayings, so he is no stranger to me.
+Goran Mijajlovic Giga I am particularly interested in the teachings about depression. It's an absolutely spiritual point of view, and requires a different approach too. Anyway I wish that you have his blessings and inspiration for loving Christ deeply.
Is there a wrtten form of his homilies??
What language is this idk why I can understand it
Greek I guess
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What did people do before Christ to cure depression? Was everyone just walking around depressed for 4500 years? Did the Old Testament people just have to suck up their miserable lives? This always confuses me. Is there something missing?
Before Christ, people did not truly have time to dwell on their depression as most had very hard lives and could not properly treat themselves. Those who suffered from depression from more wealthy classes sought to fight depression with pleasure. This does not cure depression, but only lessens its effects temporarily.
why are there telephones and doorbells in the background?
The elder Porphyrios was constantly available to thousands of people looking for help. They gave him a phone and he would answer as many times as possible.
@@DeusVivus thankyou for the explanation
is this the saint who was Russian who was battling many horrific illnesses?
SpiritGives Life I believe so. You should read his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrios_(Bairaktaris)_of_Kafsokalivia
He was a wise Greek "geronda" as we call them in Greek (lke an old wise man) except he was special. He was a man who was enlightened by the Holy Spirit even as a young boy and at the young age of 20 he became a Monastic at the infamous community of Agion Oron (Mt Athos) which is basically the spriritual center for the entire Orthodox world in northern Greece. However , he had to leave after some years due to some illnesses which were constant. He went back to his native Evia (an island not far from Athens) where God had prepared his new journey in life in the world. Such people are to be revered and their memory eternal among the Faithful.