I heard you on another show the John & Cathy show before. Also on Ancient Faith radio. I'm a Roaming Cathloic that has been researching the Orthodox faith. I've enjoyed your talks. A blessed Nativity to you and your Church as well.☦
I've been a catechumen for over a year at this point. I admit, there are times when I've felt impatient but in retrospect, I'm so glad that I'm taking so long as its helped me immensely.
Pray for my family, I have been attending Orthodox services here and there for the last few months and have finally convinced my wife to attend one in January. Hoping my 3 young children behave so she can be truly present in the service.
I started going to my church the week after Theophany, so I have almost experienced a full year steeped in Orthodoxy, my kids and I officially joined the church last June, it’s been a truly blessed year
My husband and I found the Orthodox church in 2021 at Fr Andrew Stephen Damick's Doxamoot conference. My husband was already disenchanted with the protestant church before that. We were just baptized in February 2024 ❤ both of our boys are baptized as well and our new daughter will be this Sunday ❤ more new people are joining our church and it's nice to be able to encourage them in that journey from protestantism to orthodoxy.
the individualistic, protestant, western mentality is something i need to continually check as a catechumen. Obedience is foreign to us! Lord have mercy! This is such an important video! Thank you.
Congratulations! Having been received earlier this year, I have discovered that entering the Church is not the goal but the beginning of an amazing journey.
I was trying to convince my Baptist husband to become Catholic. We compromised and went to a Lutheran church. I got curious when I realized that the Lutherans baptize infants and believe in the true presence (mostly Southern Baptist for most of my life) Once the “when did that change” question popped in my head, I stumbled past Catholicism into Orthodoxy. Currently a catechumen in South Carolina.
4:00 I think I would be a pre inquirer. Just came across Orthodoxy a few months ago. Never knew it existed. But something just seems right. Haven’t been into a church yet.
@@campomambo us too. Yours must be a big parish to begin with. Ours in minuscule, unable to offer little beyond liturgies. There are now visitors at least,used to be none. But no families, only a millennial dad and teen boy or young person by himself or herself. Now high schoolers coming even without a parent. Millennials are the least forthcoming.
I was raised in Protestant churches, but I've become very disenchanted with them in recent years, to the point that I just don't go anymore. They have grown stale, and a lot of them feel like rock concerts. I want something that feels more solid, something that feels more like reverence and worship, as opposed to entertainment and showboating. Sadly, there are no Orthodox churches in the area where I live. I'd have to drive at least an hour away.
Orthodoxy is simply Right Living & Right Worship within the CHURCH. One maybe be Single, Married or Religious it's an endless immersion within the CHURCH through the Holy Spirit by the individual. day by day S L O W L Y in a Mystical Process that which can not be described. Think of a snow flake each one different in a process. Thanks be to God for this " GIFT " called Orthodoxy. ~ Amen
Here outside the “West”, there are a lot of enquirers, displaying more piety than a babushka or a yaya, donning merchandise from Orthodox channels and sites, etc. When talking to them, they seem eager to talk about theosis, but don’t fast at any time of the year. They show up periodically, for they enjoy alternating jurisdictions. They seem well meaning, but seem to be getting their catechesis online or from books and to be content with that, disregarding instruction by the priest in front of them and becoming part of a parish. Something about it doesn’t bode well for their enduring conversion. Alas, all things are possible to God.
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I heard you on another show the John & Cathy show before. Also on Ancient Faith radio. I'm a Roaming Cathloic that has been researching the Orthodox faith. I've enjoyed your talks. A blessed Nativity to you and your Church as well.☦
As an inquirer I do believe what the father says. That this appears to me to be the last stop on my journey of faith. Please pray for me.
Please pray for me. I’m a catechumen in Arizona. 🙏
Prayers from Australia. God bless.
I've been a catechumen for over a year at this point. I admit, there are times when I've felt impatient but in retrospect, I'm so glad that I'm taking so long as its helped me immensely.
We need to take care of the new members and nourish them in our faith ☦️
Pray for my family, I have been attending Orthodox services here and there for the last few months and have finally convinced my wife to attend one in January. Hoping my 3 young children behave so she can be truly present in the service.
Please pray to the lord for me to grant me grace, patience and endurance
Amen.
I started going to my church the week after Theophany, so I have almost experienced a full year steeped in Orthodoxy, my kids and I officially joined the church last June, it’s been a truly blessed year
My husband and I found the Orthodox church in 2021 at Fr Andrew Stephen Damick's Doxamoot conference. My husband was already disenchanted with the protestant church before that. We were just baptized in February 2024 ❤ both of our boys are baptized as well and our new daughter will be this Sunday ❤ more new people are joining our church and it's nice to be able to encourage them in that journey from protestantism to orthodoxy.
I will let Fr. Andrew know! Thanks for sharing
the individualistic, protestant, western mentality is something i need to continually check as a catechumen. Obedience is foreign to us! Lord have mercy! This is such an important video! Thank you.
I am a catechumen in South Carolina. I will be chrismated on December 22!
Congratulations! Having been received earlier this year, I have discovered that entering the Church is not the goal but the beginning of an amazing journey.
God bless your Chrismation!
Congrats! That is the day Im most likely becoming a catechumen!
I was trying to convince my Baptist husband to become Catholic. We compromised and went to a Lutheran church. I got curious when I realized that the Lutherans baptize infants and believe in the true presence (mostly Southern Baptist for most of my life) Once the “when did that change” question popped in my head, I stumbled past Catholicism into Orthodoxy. Currently a catechumen in South Carolina.
Thank you.
@ 36:00 YES. I always tell people how God brought me to the Church.
4:00 I think I would be a pre inquirer. Just came across Orthodoxy a few months ago. Never knew it existed. But something just seems right. Haven’t been into a church yet.
We have 116 catechumens and counting!
Where is that? We got like 5.
@ Southern California
@@campomambo us too. Yours must be a big parish to begin with. Ours in minuscule, unable to offer little beyond liturgies. There are now visitors at least,used to be none. But no families, only a millennial dad and teen boy or young person by himself or herself. Now high schoolers coming even without a parent. Millennials are the least forthcoming.
I was raised in Protestant churches, but I've become very disenchanted with them in recent years, to the point that I just don't go anymore. They have grown stale, and a lot of them feel like rock concerts. I want something that feels more solid, something that feels more like reverence and worship, as opposed to entertainment and showboating. Sadly, there are no Orthodox churches in the area where I live. I'd have to drive at least an hour away.
Orthodoxy is simply Right Living & Right Worship within the CHURCH. One maybe be Single, Married or Religious it's an endless immersion within the CHURCH through the Holy Spirit by the individual. day by day S L O W L Y in a Mystical Process that which can not be described. Think of a snow flake each one different in a process. Thanks be to God for this " GIFT " called Orthodoxy. ~ Amen
Thank you Fathers " united " in Orthodoxy we Stand........Praying for you all. Blessed Advent.
Here outside the “West”, there are a lot of enquirers, displaying more piety than a babushka or a yaya, donning merchandise from Orthodox channels and sites, etc. When talking to them, they seem eager to talk about theosis, but don’t fast at any time of the year. They show up periodically, for they enjoy alternating jurisdictions. They seem well meaning, but seem to be getting their catechesis online or from books and to be content with that, disregarding instruction by the priest in front of them and becoming part of a parish. Something about it doesn’t bode well for their enduring conversion. Alas, all things are possible to God.