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I grew up Mormon, converted to Catholicism when I was 23, and now am getting Baptized Orthodox tomorrow at 26. This is a message I needed to hear, thank you Fr.!
Father thank you. As a man with a sinful past I find some solace in your words. I am constantly fighting to stop reviewing my past wrongs but as it says somewhere my sins are always before me. I want to free myself from these thoughts but it is difficult. I agree all sins no matter what they are, distance us from Christ. I'm a sinner and do not judge others since I know they too are struggling. Pray for us as we pray for you.
You don't necessarily need to ''free yourself' of the remembrance of your past sins in the sense of forgetting about them, dear one. remembering our sins AND not despairing is THE WAY forward. We need to free ourselves of our sins in the sense of accepting God's forgiveness. At times, our own pride stands in the way in the most subtle way. Please remember us in your prayers, dear one.
@@mullmonastery Thank you Father. I will not despair. I will instead go to confession, and accept forgiveness after absolution. You & Mull are in my prayers.
“When you are on that cross, you’re not alone, you are with Christ, and you will be condemned, by everything and anyone” Bless you, father, and your soul-piercing words. 🙏
This speaks to me so heavily. I used to take a lot of mdma and remember one night watching my friend sitting in a chair at the edge of the dance floor for the whole night. In the morning I asked how his night was and he said “it was amazing, so much dancing and magic” and I told him that he was sitting down all night and he didn’t believe me. I stopped taking pills then as I realised that the feeling of “authenticity” I was feeling was purely manufactured. I admit that I have only recently stopped taking drugs of any kind as I still thought that things “grown in the earth” were not false, but I this video has made me realise that what I am searching for is for the truth, but to see it with sober eyes and an open heart and not with a veil of drugs showing me what I want to see. Thank you for these words, I am new on my journey to find the Lord but it’s these videos that make me sure I am on the right path. Please pray for me, and thank you for your truth.
Real. We are really searching for something real, thank you for your honesty. You are really aware of who and what we are as human, and we need this messages as young people. Seeing that made me realize that, God is accessible, he understand and some of the priest and monks understand that too. As you said in another video, that there are two ways to reject to world and we have to chose the Christlike. The one that go away to pray more for the people, the one that choose to sacrifice to love more the people. I'm still in school and I hope that God will help me loving my friends, and helpinf them. I really recognize myself in all the people in school who are struggling to.. live? And honestly there is nothing but God that can renew in you the willingness to love, to forgive and to continue to enjoyed the sun, the wind, the flowers, the food and the people despite this heavy feeling that the world is dying and that nothing matters anymore .Be bless, you are so a bless monks because when you speak, trust me, it is really to say something that is real and present i don't know how to say it. You are a human being who loves God and helps us to loves him by recognizing and understanding our weaknesses and our human situation. You are aware of the actuality of our inner selves and that is beautiful.
Thank you for your love and for your blessings, dear one. May Christ hear the love in your heart and may He return it a thousand fold upon yourself and those you carry in your heart.
Glory be to God, dear one. May He always find a way to move us forward, a way to get us closer to Him, a way to convince our hardened hearts to trust Him and follow Him onto that Cross that leads to our Salvation. Please remember us in your prayers.
Glory be to God for all things, my dear one. All good things come from Him, we just need to allow Him to save us. We can learn from each other, support each other, lead each other on the Way to His Love. Or we can (it is our free will) choose to define ourselves through fear of one another, and the hatred it nourishes in our hearts, Please remember us in your prayers.
Glory be to God, dear one. I am grateful that today He gave me the words you needed to hear - this is the way forward to His Kingdom: learning from each other, growing through each other. Please keep us in your prayers.
Amin,amin,amin,! Așa sunt cuvintele inpirate și care merg dela inimă la inimă! Bunul Dumnezeu să vă dăruiască putere, să ne mai hrăniți duhovniceste,părinte drag sufletului meu! Obștei de monahi și monahii toate cele bune și de folos,cu Doamne ajută,amin!
Alcoholics Anonymous says we don’t want to change our personality defects because then “I’ll be like the hole in the doughnut.” Like I will not be me any more. What an excuse that was, learning I couldn’t get sober unless I surrendered my will and my life to God as I understood God.
But Father, I am so afraid that if my children rebel against the Church and leave, they’ll never come back. I have seen so many people leave, and it breaks my heart. I know as long as they are alive there is hope, but when I think about my own children leaving, I am so, so fearful for their souls
You are an amazing preacher. I thank you for it. Take good care of yourself and your family there at Iona and Mull. God is helping you and guiding you through what I consider to be these last days.
These ARE the last days, dear one - if not for the world itself, at least for us, as persons made in His image and who will soon (much sooner than we realise) will stand before Him, giving witness to the Love we shared in this world in His name. Thank you for your prayers, dear one.
Thank you Father Seraphim ! Very essential for our life in Christ ! What a video ! Very stimulating to follow the true path, what a joy to hear the truth, it sets us free ! Glory to God for your charism !
thankyou for the deeper inspiraton.. opened my heart with some deeper INsights into corridors of mind that my son might have encountered.. .. bless you for this empowered primordial homily - your ministry is precious in my and many lives.. thankyou 💜
I totally agree with this. What I struggle with is knowing what to do when you try to show love and be the light, to family in this case, for months and months and months and they rip you apart over and over again. At what point to do stop.
Astounding perspectives here,Dear Fr.!We embracing Christ,and Christ embracing us;I love this depiction.Also,hope against hope,even against ourselves.😢Love is everything!Much Love to You,too,Fr.!You bring so much Light into this tragic world!Much needed!May Your name be blessed among men,as it is blessed in the immensity of the Heavens!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Glory be to God, dear one. Glory be to Him for hearing my prayer for a word that may be useful to some, and glory be to Him for finding a way to get this word of His to the right people. May we all be blessed, dear one.
Thank you, Father. I have been struggling to live this tension. I used to finger wag, saw I was crushing others with burdens of "right" and "good," and since I've swung in the other direction, trying to show grace. Sometimes I'm at a loss at how to speak about the emptiness in a way that speaks in a way that others hear. I try instead to live it.
My rule (which is quite simple, because I am quite simple, really) is never to talk about anything (including God's Truth) unless (1) I am asked and (2) I feel there is a genuine desire to learn in the person who asks. This usually feels like having peace in one's heart and a desire to offer anything for the person in front of you.
Please pray God restores all the evil one has stollen heals me protects me, I need a miracle to stay in my home, the thief wants to kill steal destroy and slander been going on years, I am exausted🥲🙏
May He give you the strength to carry one, my dear one. May He teach you the quiet (but life-saving) wisdom of learning to ignore any evil that can be ignored and only face the evil that directly harms you. This would allow you a time to breathe (spiritually) and in that time, your soul may grow above these attacks. Be blessed, be protected, be guided to His Love, dear one.
Been condemned and a slave, my whole life but I know who God says I am😢people just want to take, rebel against doing what’s right, ask Gods help Found out people are not like me, their words are nice don’t match their heart The will use abuse steal leave you for dead
I am so sorry that you are experiencing such pain from the people around you, dear one. Trust me: there are beautiful, good people out there, as well. At times, you just have to survive the harm some have done to you, before you grow (at times, even through that survival process itself) enough to see the beautiful people around you. May you be blessed and protected, dear one.
Glory be to God, dear one. At times, looking deep in one's heart is the best way to address the world. It takes honesty and accepting one's vulnerability, but it is also the most direct way to other people's hearts. Please remember us in your prayers.
Dear father, My daughter asked me what she should do about her best friend at public school that blasphemes God and says ""O my God". My answer was not sufficient but I will play for her @25 min. Bless you father 🙏🏻
God bless you father, your words are always enlightening as I continue my journey of repentance and try and walk the way of my Lord and Savour Jesus Christ, may he forgive me a Sinner. 🙏🙏🙏
The thing's i haven't heard about is spiritual maturity! But maybe you could elaborate on it! But i have no desire to be married or find a monastery to live in! But i love my lord and king Jesus christ! And i have very much loved your video's because it's very helpful for spiritual life!
Our natural self is naturally rebellious against the Light...this is our daily struggle in this life as we work out our salvation.Christ will perfect the work that he has begun in us...we must persevere in this endeavour... synergy.🙏☦️❤️
And the second period of my rebellion is when I refused to give up my faith or my peace for a second or third relationship. Is that some unwritten rule or something :D Of course, again I don't know the social patterns, but the number of men that swarmed several months ago around me was weird, and I have to note that, I only go for diapers and to church. I like to sit at home and read. I felt some sort of organized attack. I no longer respond to such unwelcome interest in anorexia, but I walk around in maxi dresses and practice my learned Look - all men are made of glass. Invisible. Nobody can do anything about it. Ts. They say they are divorcing after so many years, it's time to find a lover. Yeah, but not for me. Dare to approach me. God, on the other hand, is definitely not about hypocrisy. It's about the opposite of hypocrisy. Society is about hypocrisy and all forms of social resistance are also hypocritical, more or less, because you sit in your hole and just stick your head out and everyone kicks you.
And this is why I keep coming back to Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus even after my conversion. I think these two philosophers in particular should be read at least occasionally in parallel with the Church Fathers 😉.
Forgive me if it sounded harsh, dear one. It came from love and a genuine desire that we should all treat each other with love and compassion, as ones who are THE SAME in our sinfulness. If we hold that sinfulness before our eyes and not despair, that will feed the humility in us, the inability to judge our brothers and, in time, it will be the source of Love in us. Please keep us in your prayers.
Not at all, it's not harsh 😊❤ it's beautiful seeing father seraphim care for us brothers and sisters salvation ☦️ he truly cares. please pray for us all may the lord Jesus christ have mercy on us all sinners ❤
I haven't still watched the video but i just have to say thank you the Lord has been using you to guide me and not to worry i would just like to ask one thing how do we as ortodox Christians get rid of vertigo or you know the pain we feel ij our forehead i notice it affects prayer and temper
Glory be to God that there is anything in what our Monasteries do that are useful to you on your path to Him, dear one. I am not certain what you mean by your question, but it makes me wonder whether you are not misusing certain 'techniques' of prayer, usually related to the Jesus prayer. I would go back to basics, dear one: prayer is standing before God, aware of His presence, patiently and humbling waiting for Him to manifest His presence in our hearts. There is no stress, no fear, just the joy of anticipating the arrival of the One Who Is Love, the One Who brought me into Being,
@@mullmonastery so nice to have a reply from you regarding my worldly comment. I realized when I typed it the first shall be last but this is just RUclips. Keep me, an unworthy sinner and hardly even a catechumen of the Holy Church, in your prayers. I give thanks for the edification and inspiration you give us. One of my favorites is the Canon of Repentance video…so touchingly conveyed. ☦️📿
I don't think that life in sin is some sort of rebellion, not against society. Society is prepared for sinful ppl :) Until you find your place and niche and you behave accordinly to that niche. You know, the niche. The Intellectual women who do yoga and had three relationships. normal and approved. Promiscuous pretty girl with tattoos, tarot, and three cats. Normal and approved. Mom of three kids, divorced. Normal and approved. But try to live outside the niches and your behaviour will be bad no matter if you do sin or not. As a neurodivergent I don't know about any social patterns of that kind or I find them stupid and this is inappropriate by the main society, which I found strange. For example, in college, I was expected to date, and by dating I meant s.x. I didn't want that and then I was bullied and slandered. Oh, excuse me, I thought I came here for education. That was the first period of my rebellion when I declared to everyone that it was right to live together only after marriage, and I didn't have the slightest desire to believe in any God, that was out of spite. You just can't imagine. I was bad. I was mad. I was evil. I was bad evil prost.tute - because there was no place for my behaviour.
Hitting the nail on the head again Father. Before I believed, it all looked like different cliques of hypocrites waiting for the world to burn. But Christ's words stood much too strong for that to be all.
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I grew up Mormon, converted to Catholicism when I was 23, and now am getting Baptized Orthodox tomorrow at 26.
This is a message I needed to hear, thank you Fr.!
Father thank you. As a man with a sinful past I find some solace in your words. I am constantly fighting to stop reviewing my past wrongs but as it says somewhere my sins are always before me. I want to free myself from these thoughts but it is difficult. I agree all sins no matter what they are, distance us from Christ. I'm a sinner and do not judge others since I know they too are struggling. Pray for us as we pray for you.
You don't necessarily need to ''free yourself' of the remembrance of your past sins in the sense of forgetting about them, dear one. remembering our sins AND not despairing is THE WAY forward. We need to free ourselves of our sins in the sense of accepting God's forgiveness. At times, our own pride stands in the way in the most subtle way. Please remember us in your prayers, dear one.
@@mullmonastery Thank you Father. I will not despair. I will instead go to confession, and accept forgiveness after absolution. You & Mull are in my prayers.
“When you are on that cross,
you’re not alone, you are with Christ,
and you will be condemned,
by everything and anyone”
Bless you, father, and your soul-piercing words.
🙏
This speaks to me so heavily. I used to take a lot of mdma and remember one night watching my friend sitting in a chair at the edge of the dance floor for the whole night. In the morning I asked how his night was and he said “it was amazing, so much dancing and magic” and I told him that he was sitting down all night and he didn’t believe me. I stopped taking pills then as I realised that the feeling of “authenticity” I was feeling was purely manufactured. I admit that I have only recently stopped taking drugs of any kind as I still thought that things “grown in the earth” were not false, but I this video has made me realise that what I am searching for is for the truth, but to see it with sober eyes and an open heart and not with a veil of drugs showing me what I want to see. Thank you for these words, I am new on my journey to find the Lord but it’s these videos that make me sure I am on the right path. Please pray for me, and thank you for your truth.
The Jesus prayer comes to mind and I will pray it more fully after this. Thank you.
Glory be to God, dear one. Please embrace us in your prayer, as well.
This is the absolutely BEST homily\instruction I have ever received. This message is from God Himself. Received it! Thank you, Father.
Such help, dear Father! Thank you again and again.
Thank you Father, as a new convert this is perfect timing for me to help navigate the pitfalls of this sin.
Real. We are really searching for something real, thank you for your honesty. You are really aware of who and what we are as human, and we need this messages as young people. Seeing that made me realize that, God is accessible, he understand and some of the priest and monks understand that too. As you said in another video, that there are two ways to reject to world and we have to chose the Christlike. The one that go away to pray more for the people, the one that choose to sacrifice to love more the people. I'm still in school and I hope that God will help me loving my friends, and helpinf them. I really recognize myself in all the people in school who are struggling to.. live? And honestly there is nothing but God that can renew in you the willingness to love, to forgive and to continue to enjoyed the sun, the wind, the flowers, the food and the people despite this heavy feeling that the world is dying and that nothing matters anymore .Be bless, you are so a bless monks because when you speak, trust me, it is really to say something that is real and present i don't know how to say it. You are a human being who loves God and helps us to loves him by recognizing and understanding our weaknesses and our human situation. You are aware of the actuality of our inner selves and that is beautiful.
I am a protestant believer in Christ. And I love this message.
This wonderful man of God always speaks to my heart.
True. So useful. May God bless and protect you and all those that belong to, love and work with your monasteries.
Thank you for your love and for your blessings, dear one. May Christ hear the love in your heart and may He return it a thousand fold upon yourself and those you carry in your heart.
Thank you father for putting in the words the way I felt and explaining to me why I feel light now! God bless you!
Glory be to God, dear one. May He always find a way to move us forward, a way to get us closer to Him, a way to convince our hardened hearts to trust Him and follow Him onto that Cross that leads to our Salvation. Please remember us in your prayers.
Thank you Father God bless you for helping me to find my way to the arms of Christ.
Glory be to God for all things, my dear one. All good things come from Him, we just need to allow Him to save us. We can learn from each other, support each other, lead each other on the Way to His Love. Or we can (it is our free will) choose to define ourselves through fear of one another, and the hatred it nourishes in our hearts, Please remember us in your prayers.
100% truth. So many of us have been through this process. Let us unite to love and rescue the hurt and broken. Thank you Father.
It seems that rebellion against God is obedience is obedience to the world, but obedience to God is rebellion against the world.
One of the most profound and powerful message I've heard. Thank you.
Wow This was right on needed to hear this
Glory be to God, dear one. I am grateful that today He gave me the words you needed to hear - this is the way forward to His Kingdom: learning from each other, growing through each other. Please keep us in your prayers.
Amin,amin,amin,!
Așa sunt cuvintele inpirate și care merg dela inimă la inimă!
Bunul Dumnezeu să vă dăruiască putere, să ne mai hrăniți duhovniceste,părinte drag sufletului meu!
Obștei de monahi și monahii toate cele bune și de folos,cu Doamne ajută,amin!
Cu Domnul inainte. Va multumim pentru rugaciune, Domnul sa ne pastreze pe toti in Dragostea Sa.
@@mullmonastery AMIN!
Doamne ajută,tuturor!
This made me cry. Bless you Father. I wish I had the riches to support your Island. I will keep you in my prayers, although I am the most rubbish one.
This videos my life commentary thank you
Glory be to God, dear one. Please remember us in your prayers - we depend on each other, no one can walk forward alone.
Thank you so much for guiding me through my spiritual journey 🙏🏽 may Jesus Christ bless you always
Alcoholics Anonymous says we don’t want to change our personality defects because then “I’ll be like the hole in the doughnut.” Like I will not be me any more. What an excuse that was, learning I couldn’t get sober unless I surrendered my will and my life to God as I understood God.
But Father, I am so afraid that if my children rebel against the Church and leave, they’ll never come back. I have seen so many people leave, and it breaks my heart. I know as long as they are alive there is hope, but when I think about my own children leaving, I am so, so fearful for their souls
God bless you for your faith & love. Such a blessing to me as a grandparent with teen grandchildren. Praying to share this video with them. +++
thank you God.
Always. For everything.
11:10 "As long as you condemn, in the secret part of your heart you are not a Christian."
You are an amazing preacher. I thank you for it. Take good care of yourself and your family there at Iona and Mull. God is helping you and guiding you through what I consider to be these last days.
These ARE the last days, dear one - if not for the world itself, at least for us, as persons made in His image and who will soon (much sooner than we realise) will stand before Him, giving witness to the Love we shared in this world in His name. Thank you for your prayers, dear one.
@@mullmonastery Be safe on your journey dear Father.
Greetings, Glory to God for all things, dear father seraphim. out of the heart comes life or death.
That is as true today as it has always been, my dear one. Please keep us in your prayers.
Whoa! Powerful! Thank you Jesus! Thank you Father. Pray that you and all the people working with you at the Monastery are blessed and protected.
Wonderful to see and hear from you 🙏
Glory be to God for all the love and care be pours upon us all, dear one. Please remember us in your prayers.
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Powerful, thank you.
Glory be to God, my dear one. Please keep us in your prayers.
Thank you Father Seraphim ! Very essential for our life in Christ ! What a video ! Very stimulating to follow the true path, what a joy to hear the truth, it sets us free !
Glory to God for your charism !
Thank you Father Seraphim and thank our Lord for sending this message to us through you. God bless you.
Awesome beard Father. Keep fighting the good fight.
We need to keep vigil
God bless
This is sooooooo important. Thank you.
thankyou for the deeper inspiraton.. opened my heart with some deeper INsights into corridors of mind that my son might have encountered.. .. bless you for this empowered primordial homily - your ministry is precious in my and many lives.. thankyou 💜
Thank you for the timely reminder, Father bless
I totally agree with this. What I struggle with is knowing what to do when you try to show love and be the light, to family in this case, for months and months and months and they rip you apart over and over again. At what point to do stop.
Astounding perspectives here,Dear Fr.!We embracing Christ,and Christ embracing us;I love this depiction.Also,hope against hope,even against ourselves.😢Love is everything!Much Love to You,too,Fr.!You bring so much Light into this tragic world!Much needed!May Your name be blessed among men,as it is blessed in the immensity of the Heavens!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Father.
Glory be to God for all things, dear one. Please remember us in your prayers.
Thanks be to God
Always and for everything, now and to the ages of ages, dear one,
Hello, Dear father Seraphim.God Bless you.
May God bless you for your love, dear one. May we all be saved for each other's prayers.
Thank you so much for this message.
Thank you 🙏
Glory be to God, dear one. Glory be to Him for hearing my prayer for a word that may be useful to some, and glory be to Him for finding a way to get this word of His to the right people. May we all be blessed, dear one.
Gratitude 🙏 Thank You Father 🕊Peace. Be with you always and the protection of the holy 🕊Amen🙏Amen🙏Amen🙏✨🛡💠⚔️🔱
God bless you 🙏 ❤️ 🙌 all
May we all be blessed, dear one! Please remember us in your prayers.
God bless you always
Thank you father
Thank you, Father. I have been struggling to live this tension. I used to finger wag, saw I was crushing others with burdens of "right" and "good," and since I've swung in the other direction, trying to show grace. Sometimes I'm at a loss at how to speak about the emptiness in a way that speaks in a way that others hear. I try instead to live it.
My rule (which is quite simple, because I am quite simple, really) is never to talk about anything (including God's Truth) unless (1) I am asked and (2) I feel there is a genuine desire to learn in the person who asks. This usually feels like having peace in one's heart and a desire to offer anything for the person in front of you.
❤✝ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝❤
❤💪🙏✝ GOD BE WITH US AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS ✝🙏⛪🕊
He is risen indeed! May Christ hear your prayer, dear one, and may we all be blessed.
🌹✝🌹
AMEN AMEN AMEN
Please pray God restores all the evil one has stollen heals me protects me, I need a miracle to stay in my home, the thief wants to kill steal destroy and slander been going on years, I am exausted🥲🙏
May He give you the strength to carry one, my dear one. May He teach you the quiet (but life-saving) wisdom of learning to ignore any evil that can be ignored and only face the evil that directly harms you. This would allow you a time to breathe (spiritually) and in that time, your soul may grow above these attacks. Be blessed, be protected, be guided to His Love, dear one.
🙏🏻
Been condemned and a slave, my whole life but I know who God says I am😢people just want to take, rebel against doing what’s right, ask Gods help
Found out people are not like me, their words are nice don’t match their heart
The will use abuse steal leave you for dead
I am so sorry that you are experiencing such pain from the people around you, dear one. Trust me: there are beautiful, good people out there, as well. At times, you just have to survive the harm some have done to you, before you grow (at times, even through that survival process itself) enough to see the beautiful people around you. May you be blessed and protected, dear one.
@@mullmonastery thank you Father
Happy Friday everyone
Thank you Father a splendid video.
Glory be to God, dear one. At times, looking deep in one's heart is the best way to address the world. It takes honesty and accepting one's vulnerability, but it is also the most direct way to other people's hearts. Please remember us in your prayers.
Dear father,
My daughter asked me what she should do about her best friend at public school that blasphemes God and says ""O my God". My answer was not sufficient but I will play for her @25 min. Bless you father 🙏🏻
🙏❤️🔥
All my love to you
May Christ bless you for your love and prayers, dear one. May He return it upon you a thousand fold, when you need His help most.
God bless you father, your words are always enlightening as I continue my journey of repentance and try and walk the way of my Lord and Savour Jesus Christ, may he forgive me a Sinner. 🙏🙏🙏
The thing's i haven't heard about is spiritual maturity! But maybe you could elaborate on it! But i have no desire to be married or find a monastery to live in! But i love my lord and king Jesus christ! And i have very much loved your video's because it's very helpful for spiritual life!
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Hated by all in this world 🌎
And placing oneself on a Cross for the salvation of that very world that hates us: that is the definition of a Christian, dear one.
Sin is distance. God is love.
Our natural self is naturally rebellious against the Light...this is our daily struggle in this life as we work out our salvation.Christ will perfect the work that he has begun in us...we must persevere in this endeavour... synergy.🙏☦️❤️
Love is always the answer❤️🙏
Repentance of the world is at the heart of our problem for those who can relate to what's being said.
2 Corinthians 7:10
My Father 🙏🏼🐳
Be blessed, dear Katia. Every thought of yours, every heart beat, every bone - may Christ bless you all the way into His Kingdom.
And the second period of my rebellion is when I refused to give up my faith or my peace for a second or third relationship. Is that some unwritten rule or something :D Of course, again I don't know the social patterns, but the number of men that swarmed several months ago around me was weird, and I have to note that, I only go for diapers and to church. I like to sit at home and read. I felt some sort of organized attack. I no longer respond to such unwelcome interest in anorexia, but I walk around in maxi dresses and practice my learned Look - all men are made of glass. Invisible. Nobody can do anything about it. Ts. They say they are divorcing after so many years, it's time to find a lover. Yeah, but not for me. Dare to approach me. God, on the other hand, is definitely not about hypocrisy. It's about the opposite of hypocrisy. Society is about hypocrisy and all forms of social resistance are also hypocritical, more or less, because you sit in your hole and just stick your head out and everyone kicks you.
And this is why I keep coming back to Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus even after my conversion. I think these two philosophers in particular should be read at least occasionally in parallel with the Church Fathers 😉.
this was harsher than usual, but that is needed sometimes
Forgive me if it sounded harsh, dear one. It came from love and a genuine desire that we should all treat each other with love and compassion, as ones who are THE SAME in our sinfulness. If we hold that sinfulness before our eyes and not despair, that will feed the humility in us, the inability to judge our brothers and, in time, it will be the source of Love in us. Please keep us in your prayers.
Not at all, it's not harsh 😊❤ it's beautiful seeing father seraphim care for us brothers and sisters salvation ☦️ he truly cares. please pray for us all may the lord Jesus christ have mercy on us all sinners ❤
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I haven't still watched the video but i just have to say thank you the Lord has been using you to guide me and not to worry i would just like to ask one thing how do we as ortodox Christians get rid of vertigo or you know the pain we feel ij our forehead i notice it affects prayer and temper
Glory be to God that there is anything in what our Monasteries do that are useful to you on your path to Him, dear one. I am not certain what you mean by your question, but it makes me wonder whether you are not misusing certain 'techniques' of prayer, usually related to the Jesus prayer. I would go back to basics, dear one: prayer is standing before God, aware of His presence, patiently and humbling waiting for Him to manifest His presence in our hearts. There is no stress, no fear, just the joy of anticipating the arrival of the One Who Is Love, the One Who brought me into Being,
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May you also be first in Heaven, dear one, and may I also be saved for your prayers.
@@mullmonastery so nice to have a reply from you regarding my worldly comment. I realized when I typed it the first shall be last but this is just RUclips. Keep me, an unworthy sinner and hardly even a catechumen of the Holy Church, in your prayers. I give thanks for the edification and inspiration you give us. One of my favorites is the Canon of Repentance video…so touchingly conveyed. ☦️📿
I don't think that life in sin is some sort of rebellion, not against society. Society is prepared for sinful ppl :) Until you find your place and niche and you behave accordinly to that niche. You know, the niche. The Intellectual women who do yoga and had three relationships. normal and approved. Promiscuous pretty girl with tattoos, tarot, and three cats. Normal and approved. Mom of three kids, divorced. Normal and approved. But try to live outside the niches and your behaviour will be bad no matter if you do sin or not. As a neurodivergent I don't know about any social patterns of that kind or I find them stupid and this is inappropriate by the main society, which I found strange. For example, in college, I was expected to date, and by dating I meant s.x. I didn't want that and then I was bullied and slandered. Oh, excuse me, I thought I came here for education. That was the first period of my rebellion when I declared to everyone that it was right to live together only after marriage, and I didn't have the slightest desire to believe in any God, that was out of spite. You just can't imagine. I was bad. I was mad. I was evil. I was bad evil prost.tute - because there was no place for my behaviour.
Once again thank you for all your hard work in Christ and may God bless you and your family
Hitting the nail on the head again Father. Before I believed, it all looked like different cliques of hypocrites waiting for the world to burn. But Christ's words stood much too strong for that to be all.
Thank you, Father
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Excellent.. thankyou Father.. !