The Devil’s Work-Pope Francis and the State of Decay of the Vatican.
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I was brought up, born and raised RC. I am 59 and so all I have known is Vatican II. What we of my generation need, who have woken up to what we were never taught, is compassion, comfort and LOTS of prayer. We are wrecked, spiritually AND emotionally. I found the Orthodox Church about a year ago and it bittersweet. JOY at what I found, and profound loss at what I have missed. So when you encounter one of us who are hurting wandering souls, please be kind. The grief is very real. God Bless. and Thank you.
9 years ago, I wondered why I had not found the Orthodox Church when I was young. I was very saddened by what I missed, too. It is a long story, but now it makes so much sense that it brings me to tears.
So you left the catholic church? If so why?
We also left the RCC.
Our only regret is that we didn't do it sooner!
Yes Orthodox be kind. There are thousands of RC's that don't agree with the hierarchy in our Church and everything I even consider your church I hear nothing but uncharitable slants and this has always kept me from proceeding further. Focus on what is good in your own. We RC are not all evil and agree with sinful views but love the Lord.
Peace be with with you.
I converted to Orthodoxy four years ago and I’m so blessed to find the one true faith. ☦️
God Bless, my brother. ☦️💜
My journey to Orthodoxy came through realizing one day that I wasn't insane and that everything was as bad as I thought it was. This also came with the understanding that there was a path to true resistance against the demonic presence in modern society. I knew Christ was that answer but did not know His Church yet. However, I knew quickly Latin Heterodoxy wasn't it. They clearly don't believe in the infallibility of The Word of God. I then turned to random KJV Onlyists on RUclips because they respected the Word of God (even if they misunderstood it) and called out the demonic presence in the modern world. Then I asked myself how the canon of scripture even came to be, let alone the one that excludes the Deuterocanon as 'Apocrypha' which is when I properly looked for where the Apostolic Church was. Orthodoxy is the answer to it all, you don't have to be crazy but you can still see. You don't have to be evil to fight evil. Every action and symbol has meaning but it isn't some perennialist larp. Discovering the Saints has helped me answer many questions about myself.
God bless and thanks for sharing, it's amazing how God shows Orthodoxy to the non Orthodox in this world. For you it was a mix of your own experience, view of society and then youtube....amazing!
Very similar to my conversion story.
Glory to God
Glory to God!@@acekoala457
It worms my heart to hear you talk about the saints. How wonderful to read their lives and draw wisdom !
I was against the Saints but wow was I wrong. Their life and suffering and faith is truly inspiring, and in some cases I could even relate to them. Its so humbling to read what they went through.
I am in the middle of my grieving process now. I joined the Catholic Church because I thought it was the one true church. I grew up Baptist and later became Reformed. After a year in the church, I looked around at the way things were, and quiet Lee was troubled. Then Francis started spouting all of his new heresies and outright rebellion to even with the Catholic Church teaches. I couldn’t believe my ears at first. I knew he was a liberal, but I didn’t expect him to so blatantly walk away from church teaching. I had become a Catholic trad by this point, and I knew that what he was teaching flew in the face of everything that I had learned even in RCIA. This summer, I stopped, going to mass and started attending Divine Liturgy. The road to Orthodoxy has not been simple for me (a lot to unlearn), but it is a sure and study foundation. I look forward to watch the Church could will teach me, but I still mourn the loss of my Catholic faith. I was so sure that I had landed in the right place. I am now an Orthodox catechumen.
Update: I was baptized 2 weeks ago!
If you weren't prepared to actually accept Papal infallibility, why did you become a Catholic? Will you also leave our faith if something pisses you off on our end at some point in the future?
Praise God!
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Thank you for these videos. I am a catechumen to Orthodoxy from Roman Catholicism. This video is true, especially unfortunately the part about the nuns. Prior to becoming a catechumen to Orthodoxy, Glory to God, I came out of witchcraft primarily Tarot reading. After going to confession (Roman Rite) I sought out a convent that did counseling (Roman Catholic nuns). When I called and explained that I would like counseling with my problem of Tarot involvement, I was told not to worry that one of the nuns there reads Tarot. I was also told that there was a nun who did Reiki. I looked into it and apparently there are a lot of R.C. nuns that use Tarot for meditation and guidance. I was so disheartened after talking to the nuns. One of the things that led me back to Christianity was that I began having bad experiences and felt the Tarot was causing it. When the nun told me that you can use the Tarot for good purposes, I was left very confused. At that time, Glory to God, I was finishing up my herbal studies in natural health and came upon a school owned by an Orthodox priest. He led me to Orthodoxy and now I am a catechumen. On another point, I read recently that 60% of Orthodox youth are getting involved in Tarot reading and don't see it as a contradiction to their faith. I would love to see a video on it because I truly believe the Tarot is dangerous.
I definitely will do that as part of my spiritual warfare series! Thank you for sharing this with me and everyone here. God bless you and remain firm. Tarot is indeed demonic as is all other forms of new age witchcraft
Thank God I had minimal exposure to witchcraft and the like. God help us!
hear you. been there for a very short time. and realized that this was NOT a good thing. too long a story to go into, but it was a path I had to walk to find Orthodoxy. So glad you found your path of faith. I'll get there one day too.
When I went to the Anglican Church about 15 years ago, the female deacon tried to say witchcraft isn't as bad as people think. That was one reason I stopped going there.
I find that very strange as Catholic priests I have known have warned us against witchcraft and tarot.
I’m meeting with Father tomorrow for coffee and to discuss catechism. I’m taking my wife and children and we are leaving the RCC and joining the true church. God bless you Father. I look forward to being in communion with you and the true church.
May God guide your steps! I look forward to it as well. :)
“The Byzantine rite is the eastern Roman, rite.” Love it😀
I’m so glad someone is finally talking about this! When I first saw it, I thought it was a prank as no religious podcast/ channel was talking about it. I’m honestly so glad I started attending my local Orthodox Church months ago and am finally becoming a catechumen along with my entire family.
God bless Father.
Three words, Lord have mercy....
Two words, Kyrie Eleison 😜
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Κύριε ελεησον
2 words, yeah!
“God Help Us” 3 words
*These words are not mine.* These are the words the Ruach HaKodesh (YAHUAH's Set-Apart Spirit) uttered through me when I prayed to YAHUAH; asking him what *he wants* me to say, knowing the truth. To they with ears:
"Know that YAHUAH is the name of the Most High and YAHUsha is the name of The Son.
Come out of her, my people, who have fallen to the deceit of Constantine. Who know not my name and say they love me. I have made myself known. I have heard you and I am here.
There are many who are yours to be saved. I am he who knows all that you are. Come to me, here are they who are mine. Make haste to come, here are we. Give in to them who speak of me, they are yours. I am here for you. Know that all is for them, here are we.
Give not to them that are against me. I am he who sees all you do. Come to me out of her, all are here for me. Do what I say. Out of her, come. All are here."
Exodus 3:13-15 KJV
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
John 5:43 KJV
43 *I am come in my Father's name,* and ye receive me not: *if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.*
2 Corinthians 6:17 KJV
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and *touch not the unclean thing;* *and I will receive you.*
Isaiah 52:6-7 KJV
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
2 Corinthians 6:1-2 KJV
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Romans 10:1-3 KJV
1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans 10:13-17 KJV
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 *How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?*
15 *And how shall they preach, except they be sent?* as it is written, *How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!*
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. *For Esaias saith,* Lord, *who hath believed our report?*
17 *So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.*
Nahum 1:7 KJV
7 The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and *he knoweth them that trust in him.*
Hebrews 3:15 KJV
15 *While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.*
Isaiah 52:11 KJV
11 *Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing;* go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
John 14:15 KJV
15 *If ye love me, keep my commandments.*
I born in Traditional Catholic Family and i have seen how much the Church has changed the last 20 years into protestantism that's why i converted to Orthodox Church ☦️
One more comment. Father I used to work for U-Haul and the most common mistake our renters made while transporting with an additional trailer was improper connection to the tail-hitch on the moving truck. Make sure you connect those chains properly and plug that brake light in, and at every stop check those connections. If they are doing their job properly they will inform you of this and not just show you how to connect the trailer to the truck. Everything should be gravy after that. God Bless!
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Syro Malabar Orthodox hierarchs really should just pack their bags and leave this Synodality conference. "Gay union" blessings are beyond comprehension and deplorable. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill hopefully could step in and have frank discussions with Bergolio.
Not really worth His Holiness Pat. Kyrill's time, tbh.
@@LadyMaria You seem to be underestimating the damage that will be caused from a Constantinople schism.....they have already destroyed one of our Holy Lands, Mt Athos, whats next? The Hagia Sophia?
I’m actually against same sex marriage.
Please add the Archbishop Elpidophoros to pack his bags as well. I would hope our great Saints like Paisios, Porphyrios, Elder Ephrem and Nectarios would expose their heretical ways so the Greek Orthodox Church can rid itself of ecumenism among other heretical policies of Elpidophoros.
Ya'rub Buhram.
I am glad I didn't make the seemingly mandatory pit stop in Latinland before becoming Orthodox.
Please continue to pray for Raphael.
Wow, you will be ny neighbor! Im in Calgary. I will certianly visit sometime Father and before that once I can find work will help out as i can.
Thanks for your work
Sounds good! I look forward to meeting you (God willing). It’s a joy to connect with other Orthodox Christians and worship our Lord
@@living_orthodox I am a newcomer who's had some issues with local churches, God Willing I will meet you as a fellow OrthodoxnChristian
Fr Martin should never have been made a Priest. I am Catholic but Orthodoxy is starting to look attractive.
Truly, the man has no love. No desire to save anyone or to serve.
@@living_orthodox I am starting to think he may serve The Evil One.
@@living_orthodoxMaybe, Fr. Martin is an Atheist and a Homossexual, and he just looking out for his own interests and those of his friends.
"No other heresy has revolted so violently & so completely against Christ & His Church as has the papacy with the dogma of the pope’s infallibility. There is no doubt about it. This dogma is the heresy of heresies, a revolt without precedent against God. " ~ St Justin Popovich
Very interesting, I've chosen to eventually pursue Orthodoxy as soon as a Priest can make it to my city and I had honestly been wondering about Jay Dyer, so it's funny you mentioned him... After discovering Pageau and later Father Heers, I got sent into the algorithms of youtube and have been watching people from all over the US and EU give talks. It's been quite enjoyable hearing all the great content coming out.
Thanks you, Father.
Do not wait for a priest to show up. God is calling you and you should seek HIM out. Either you want communion with Christ or you don't. If you are waiting for God to come to you when he already gave you life, made you a living soul, made salvation possible by his sacrifice on the cross and you want God to show up on your doorstep? How about you move for a change?
Something to think about.
Where are you located?
Me? Northern AB Canada.@@OrthodoxHSMother
Glory to God!
Oh yeah I saw this earlier Father and was waiting for your take on this, and was hoping for a take on that circus side show that was put on at the Vatican. The more I learn from you, Father Peter Heers, and Father Spyridon over in England the more I know my deep dive into Orthodoxy is the righteous and correct one. I am without a car in the middle of Sacramento California and have no idea where to get started in finding a Orthodox Church that I can get to anywhere near me. This has become a spiritual and life goal for me because I know I can't take forever because I won't be here forever and I don't want to be to late.
Holy Ascension in Sacramento is under ROCOR.
Start there.
@@acekoala457 Good to know thank you.
Flee Cali. The Cleveland, Oh area is cheaper and there’s around 19 Orrhodox churches in the Metri area, most on the West side
I was baptized Orthodox this past Holy Saturday. I was brought up in the Presbyterian church, but left it because there were inconsistencies in their teachings.
I'm curious about the inconsistencies you found in Presbyterianism? Thanks. I'm not a Presbyterian but thought about attending it before
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Good call! I'm a former calvinist too but never Presbyterian. I like that they practice infant baptism and have some tradition and church authority. But yeah... calvinism isn't for me
I got baptised this past Saturday too. Glory to God ☦️☦️☦️
This comment thread is a W
Francisco really makes feel ashame of being latino , he does not represent Latin American Christian values at all , his dream is to work for the NATO not to work for Christ.
He's not really Latino.
His Parents are 1st Gen Immigrants to Argentina from Italy.
Don't feel bad.
Find your local Orthodox Church.
I feel the same , in Latin America Christians are fighting against paganism and liberalism and this Pope do not help the Christians
I'm a convert in GOARCH, and I am very concerned about the events that may occur in 2025. Please pray for our priest Father Ioannis, for our hierarch Archbishop Isaiah, for all the clergy and laity at Holy Trinity and Saint George in Louisiana, and all the Greek Orthodox Christians in America. If the false union is declared, I don't know where to go. ROCOR basically doesn't exist in northern Louisiana as far as I know, and the nearest OCA parish is an unrealistic drive away. May the Lord be our shepherd in these dark times.
@drivingbritt9617 Do you have an email address that you wouldn’t mind sharing here where I can contact you?
What does 2025 have to do with anything? I'm not following.
I recently found out that in my home county the Latin Population has been mostly ignored by their bishops and there is only one Priest for the whole county.
God willing he opens their hearts to Orthodoxy if a mission is established here.
What country on the Lord s earth only has one Priest? Yet it has bishops. Where is your home country?
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The county I live in is under the Latin diocese of Seattle. This seems to be a problem in Rural America.
First video I watch on this channel and I am definitely going to stay for more. Father bless.
All my support from Mexico.
I’m RC I was Baptist, really inquiring about becoming Orthodox, the only issue there’s just one Orthodox Church in my country ( I live in Costa Rica, Central America)
Would you be able to move closer to the church?
I thank God for the mission parish in my city, my priest visits at least 1x a month for Confession and Liturgy.
I hope the Lord grants you His mercy!
Save your servant O God who puts his trust in you!! This passage from the Psalms came to mind when I was watching this video!! Thank you for sharing this video!! May God have mercy on us all!!
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I too love my Archbishop; Archbishop Benjamin. I feel so especially grateful to have met and spoken with him.
I converted to Orthodox Christianity 19 years ago in Greek Orthodox Church in North Carolina after I returned home from Iraq. I have attended Greek Orthodox Churches ever since then. If Patriarch Bartholomew joins with the Roman Catholic Church (without them becoming Orthodox) I will leave my Greek Church and find one not under the Patriarch Constantinople. I will weep like a child, while doing so, but I will have to.
The majority of us in GOARCH would never go along with it. It would be such a dumb idea just because of the mere fact they would lose most of their parishioners in the archdiocese.
Go to Russian Patriarch
Glad I left the Catholic Church for Eastern Orthodox ❤
This video has aged like fine wine, in all seriousness, God have mercy on us!
Thank you father 🙏. I was baptized protestant. Did attend church only in my childhood. Since 2020 there were things happing I couldn't explain. And I came a long lots of orthodox info. And started looking into it. Only problem there is no orthodox church in Swedish lappland so I went to a katholiek church. From the beginning it didn't felt good. I stopped going a few weeks ago and I'm now in the process of buying a house in russia and move there. I hope to attend the orthodox faith and living as soon as I arrive there. I'm already starting with reading church father's, listening to podcasts, learning about the rules of orthodox living and fasting. I feel so blessed and a emptiness is now filled. Thanks to the lord. I wish you and your familie good luck with everything. 🙏
amazing!!! Russia seems beautiful I would move there if I could from Canada. An amazing Orthodox land. God bless!
@@sofijaantzaras4970 thank you. You can if you want, there are more and more people emigrating from the west. Americans, Canadians, European they all seek the families values and respect that's lacking in their own country. Western media does not tell you this but it's real. God bless 🙏
@@connyalbers6032 I LOVE that about Russia, yes indeed I've heard they are making villages for Americans/Canadians to group together and speak English together etc. as newcomers to Russia. It is amazing. Sadly my family all lives here and I cannot leave them, my parents are getting older and I need their help with our young kids, one of whom is disabled. It unfortunately doesn't seem possible right now. But if it were I would absolutely go. I would feel so happy and comfortable there.
Catholicism has fallen, now only Orthodoxy stands.
Eventually there building there way up some may say oh but he’s not talking about marriage imma bet eventually there gonna bless gay marriage.
"Blessing the Touching of Hot Dogs" is how Jay put it.
Struggling to find orthodox churches in my area :(
Where are you from?
Orthodoxy stocks are up 📈
I hope Rome comes back into the TRUE orthodox church some day.
They WONT, revelation describes that
And ROME NEVER has been with christ ALL THROUGH OUT HISTORY, RIGHT IN PEOPLES FACES AND THEY STILL CANT SEE, catholics ARE SPIRITUALLY DEAD by following teaching of a devil.
Another great one Father Mikhail! I will definitely add this to my channel playlist called "Truth of Orthodoxy vs. Catholicism." As a former trad Catholic myself, I can confirm what you said about fear of damnation for "leaving the bark of Peter" is very prevelant amongst them.
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This is the separation of the sheep from the goats and a wake up to faithful Catholics that the time to become Orthodox has come and gone long ago. Soon those from within Orthodoxy that oppose it will leave to join with the schismatics. Orthodoxy will hopefully flourish after that.
Father, love your content!
May God help him to see the truth
@@living_orthodox yes indeed father
Michael Lofton is a big Popesplainer. This latest debacle of Bergolio is a doosy!
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Copesplaining
You spoke about the Council of Carthage. I would like to know which one because there were many.
Is it during the time of St Cyprian about the Lapsi, or the one which condemned Pelagianism or the other against Donatism ?
Thank you.
I love pope francis. He is such an evil man that he causes many catholics to leave catholicism and convert to Orthodoxy. He is one of our greatest apologists.
Orthodoxy that is not in comunión with Rome are heretics catholicism is the real church established by Jesus Christ that’s why there are 1.6 billion Catholics and only 200 million orthodox
@@sharkgaming4320Sadly, the Roman church gave up claims to being One, Holy, Catholic (whole), Apostolic and Orthodox in AD 1014, officially in AD 1054.
Numbers don't matter to Truth. That's a fallacy. Even if there were just 1 Bishop, 1 Priest and 8 laity, the Orthodox Faith would be true in Christ.
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Judas was a Bishop Ordained by God.
The Pope hasn't had Apostolic Lineage since the 11th Century when they committed Schism.
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I was Baptised Antiochian. The See of Peter. Rome is a pretender to St. Peter since it has abandoned his Confession.
Just started watching your channel, and being a newly baptised Catholic(TLM), I really do appreciate your direct, clear responses of Church teachings! I can't tell you how upset I am with the Popesplaining. Utter nonsense. So frustrating. Wrong is wrong. God bless you! 🕊️
I converted to the actual Orthodox Catholic Church a year ago after being a papist. While it’s sad to see what’s happening especially because some people with weak faith may abandon Christ altogether, it has been a long time coming and not something new. I just pray that all people brought up with heresy or people who found papism as a bridge from protestantism or the purely demonic religions find the Church of Christ.
I do not know if this is even possible but if James Martin is made Pope after Francis we are all so screwed.
Impressive analysis,Father.
A fraternal hug from Italy from a future member of the Orthodox Church❤
I was so upset when I became Orthodox and realized that so many of our Saints are pre-schism and they were removed from the Catholic calendar!! When I was with the Missionaries of Charity we would read from the Lives of the Saints book. Often there wasn't even a saint for the day and if there was, the stories were so short. Now we have The Great Synaxarion and I have always been amazed at the number of saints for each day. I too was brainwashed into believing that if I wasn't with the Pope then I was going to hell. I think this keeps so many Catholics from leaving. It's so sad to see the mental gymnastics it takes to stay there because of all the garbage Francis spews.
Wait really? I had never heard this before.
I’m a traditional Catholic supporter of the SSPX and I agree with you about Vatican II and it’s consequences
Vatican II is the natural result of all the other innovations and derivations from tradition and the Church itself. Bit by bit they have lost more and more of what once echoed at truth. Vatican II was the destruction of what Ecclesiology they even had in concept before.
According to vatican 1, you as an SSPX are anathema
Lord have mercy, this is really sad
I have a few issues. Infallibility is the first. I generally call him the bishop of Rome, his original title.
Sadly, they struck the title Patriarch of the West. To be clear I love many Catholics. I pray they come home to the truth.
Scriptum est: “Erit enim tempus cum sanam doctrinam non sustinebunt sed ad sua desideria coacervabunt sibi magistros prurientes auribus.” 🙏
It is written: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.”✌
Cruel to be kind Fr. Mikhail
Exactly, a centralised structure is so easily subverted from the top. We can see that in all hierarchical organisations.
Not all. This is a unique issue to Papal Supremacy and the top down structure it uses.
The advantage the Orthodox Church has is that our center is The God-Man, Christ, and He will never be Subverted.
Fr lookin' extra smart today.
Holy god, holy mighty, holy immortal ❤
Father. I have been unsubscribed twice not of my own doing! Congrats on being over the targetn I guess!
Haha no worries and thank you for tuning in!
God bless fr mikhail for your take on this situation 🙏🏼
Thank you Father☦️
I left the Episcopal Church in 1990 for the Orthodox Church. About 4-5 years ago I was down with some health problems so I decided to visit a Catholic Church about 4 miles from me ( the Orthodox Church is about 25 miles from me) anyway when I went I couldn’t believe what I saw, I thought I had accidentally went to the Episcopal Church that I had left (which actually only about a mile from there). I was telling my grandmother about it (she was a x-Catholic; God rest her soul) she couldn’t be it, she grew up pre Vatican 2).
As an orthodox you shouldn't goto any church besides orthodox
You should mention your diversion to your confessor...
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Started with Peter, ended with Mr. Papally Infallible Francis. Poor Latins.
Hello, I totally agree with you. I'm wondering who are the kind of people that will ask a priest to bless their sinfull ways...
In Russia, there is a similar kind of problem, that is linked. People in the military ask for a blessing of their weapon. How could someone bring an automatic rifle and ask to a men of God in order to have it bless?
Father, can you give me your thought on this, thanks?
Simple. People make mistakes. We shouldn’t bless weapons. It’s actually forbidden to do so.
@@living_orthodox Thank you father, do you have some sort of cannon for the interdiction? Even if it would be some common sense, the priest is the one bringing up peace. Because due to a tragic situation in Ukraine, this kind of "blessing" appears a lot (on both side), and it hinder our apologetic mission toward protestant.
@@hll97fr16indeed. I have found much in Russian Orthodox spirituality that is Christ-centered, but Pat. Kiril seems as much Russo-centric and reliant on Putin - who is intelligent enough to recognize that Russia needs Orthodoxy. It didn’t help that it’s possible that the CIA was involved in Bartholomew splitting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church … now it’s costing so many lives on both sides.
20:11 Right Here happens way too often
Amen Father. Important to speak truth.
As someone who loves his Greek Orthodox parish, I will have to reluctantly leave it, huh? I went to a ROCOR in Georgetown, TX and the priest was a good guy but I didn't like his parish and it was too far. I love my current parish and her priests. I hope Bartholomew doesn't go through with wanting to be Pope of the East, essentially.
Best to pray and talk to your priest. Nothing to prevent him from making sure the parish doesn’t become a part of the new Unia.
@@living_orthodoxUnia? I've never heard of this word. Thanks for responding, father.
@@Mavvyd96 refers to the Uniates. So-called “orthodox” in communion with Rome. This is primarily referring to Melkites and Ukrainian Catholics. They look Orthodox and sound Orthodox except they uphold and support ever heresy the papacy embraces.
@living_orthodox ahhhh....I was wondering about the Ukrainian Catholics. Have been raised Protestant (Baptist/Church of Christ) most of my life (about 49+ years) just recently started going to OCA....it's a challenging conversion, but learning alot.
Two Paths by Michael Whelton is an excellent book which, using primary historical sources, lays out the reasons why the Orthodox Church is Christ’s true Church, as opposed to Roman Catholicism. I used to be a traditional Roman Catholic and, by the Grace of God, became Orthodox 28 years ago.
I live in the UK. Catholic churches are pretty much the only option of orthodox Christian practise, there next to no orthodox churches in the county, especially not any near my home town. The Catholic church in my home town comes close but still falls short. What would you recommend that I do? Because of my country and where I live you either go Anglican or find the rare Catholic church that might not even be that good.
Hello! I also live in the UK, there are plenty of Orthodox Churches here, don't worry! They're all over the country. Search up any canonical Orthodox jurisdiction (ROCOR, Sourozh diocese of the MP, Greek Archdiocese etc) and when you find their site you can find the parish directory and find the parish nearest to you.
@AlexanderP901 the closest ones are in the next towns over or are hours away from me. I'm a young person and don't drive, so they're very hard to get to. I'm just worried that I'm not spiritually fulfilling myself, orthodxy claims to be the true apostolic church, but it seems like it's impossible for me to connect with it. I don't want to sound like I'm just fishing for excuses not to go to church, and I truly appreciate the help. God bless you
@@rohanbamsey6767 No problem! Have you tried getting in contact with a priest in the UK before? Or emailing the closest diocese to you? I'm also a young person in the UK and I understand it's not always easy or cheap to get anywhere on public transport. If you contact the local diocese and they put you in contact with the nearest priest, perhaps there's someone living nearby you who goes to church and they can give you a lift?
Or just write to the closest ones (even if they are far away) and tell them your situation - they'll help!
@AlexanderP901 I sent an email to the Greek archdiocese. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a good solution sorted out. Thank you for your help, may God bless you
Thank you Father for this.....from a catholic priest....
May God help and comfort you
This side of the Border there is much respect for Archbishop Gabriel too.
Hey Fr.
I just discovered that almost all of the jurisdictions are involved in the world council of churches.
Is this something to be concerned about?
Of course. We pray that God resolves them and corrects this error. ROCOR isn’t on the WCC (which upset the MP at one point), and Georgia isn’t either.
@@living_orthodox if you can send any resources to help me see, I’d appreciate it. It is pretty concerning and confusing for me.
@@LadderOfDescent worry more about your soul. Judas and his ilk will always walk among the disciples of Christ. We don’t abandon Christ because of Judas.
@@living_orthodox I try my best. This is part of worrying about my soul. If ROCOR is a member of the wcc what does that mean for local parishes? Can that influence not trickle down?
Sorry I’m new, so I’m not well versed on how the church government works.
@@LadderOfDescent no and again ROCOR doesn’t have any members who sit on the WCC. The MP does. We refuse to be part of it.
It's the beginning of the end of the RC church 🤦🏻♀️
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Hey, I'm really shotty with my Councils and Cannons. What do you mean that Pope Stephen/Steven was overruled?
As in the council overruled the popes verdict on the matter. Showing papal supremacy over councils did not exist.
@@Desertfox21 example?
Father, I am an Orthodox from Romania.
What do I do if the Patriarch of Romania joins the catholic orthodox reunification in 2025 therefore pushing us into a false union we Orthodox do not want.
What should we do?
Can Patriarch Bartholomew decide for every orthodox country to join the Catholics?
Can he decide for himself?
God bless you father !
He cannot decide for every Orthodox Church. He truly only decides for himself. Those who follow him do so willingly. At that point it is time to come under a faithful Orthodox bishop. If one follows their bishop/patriarch into schism they are as well. Stand firm in Christ. He is who we follow.
@@living_orthodox Thank you !
I am also Orthodox from Romania and I share your concerns. I feel Orthodoxy here is very compromised. But it will survive, we are just called to be saints and it may involve a lot of suffering. We have survived worse. Răbdare, răbdare răbdare!
Unfortunately, I just read that the patriarchates of Romania, Serbia, Alexandria, and Constantinople requested to attend the RC Synod on Synodality.
Well, they’re not the Church. However, remember not to despair. Remember St Mark of Ephesus…
& Serbia? Must be some worldly/political angle to this. Maybe just an inside view of what they’re all up to.
& Fr. Mikhail isn’t the true church Christ’s mystical Body, such that individuals can remain in a heterodox confession while transcending that to be In Christ?
I live in rural Co. Even if I do leave and I may, there are no Orthodox Churches anywhere near me. There is a Roman Catholic Church in every town in the U.S. We have wait for the Church to be purified. There is no place to go. Spiritually and physically.
Move towards a city within commuting distance of an Orthodox Church. There is a lot in the USA. Convenience doesn’t equal truth nor salvation. The papist church won’t be purified because it isn’t the Church. I would even advise you to look up the nearest Orthodox Church and call the priest. Many priest will travel to help long distance.
"Wherever 2 or 3 are gathered in my name, there am I also" MUST be considered against the commandment
"THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE LORD'S NAME IN VAIN"
I am suddenly very afraid for heretics and the heterodox ...
This is why I make these videos. To warn them and encourage them to the Truth.
Ortodox brothers pray for us, for Catholic. The Catholic Church is perishing
The catholic church has been spiritually dead for 1000 years. We pray thar catholics convert to orthodox
The adversaries favored method is to foment conflict/crisis to act as a catalysts of change . Agents of the adversary work to foment contending interests/sides in the conflict and create the conditions by which their deceitful satanic ends may be achieved as a resolution to the conflict they themselves created.
We have been conditioned to perceive this process as natural and arising of its own accord but this is not true, Conflicts do occur but this well trodden repeating pattern that we see being used again and again to coopt institutions to intact their ends.
We must all be on guard to see this pattern so as to not succumb the deception and also so we can perceive the children of the lie who work them and know them for who they serve..
Don't worry about the Papists doing WORRY about the damage it is doing to the Orthodox flock
May God Bless you for standing up against the evil one who’s time is near. We are blessed to be witnesses of this age, the end of times. The evil one is in rage for he knows his time is short. This is why all the signs have increased dramatically in the last few years. Holiness unto The LORD now and forever! Amen.
The orthodox church isnt even in communion with itself. M
Russia / greek schism and oriental / eastern
That’s a nonsense argument. Breaks in communion aren’t schism and the orientals (according to the revisionist view of the RCC), would be your problem as their schism occurs as a result of the 4th ecumenical council.
@@living_orthodox that's literally what schism is "On 15 October 2018, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, meeting in Minsk, decided to cut all ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate. This decision forbade for any member of the ROC (both clergy and laity) joint participation in all sacraments, including communion, baptism, and marriage, at any church worldwide controlled by Constantinople.[2][3] At the time of the schism.." orthodoxy is a joke , I should convert my shed into a chapel and declare myself patriarch
All I can say is that it's nice to be Orthodox and not Catholic.
We are Both in Truth. And not in Falsehood like the Latins.
Orthodox Catholic Church.
Three words, religious internecine war
To Catholics who are saddened by the current state of the Roman Catholic Church: Orthodoxy has the Western Rite without the creeping modernism and secularism of Vatican II
Could you please tell me what rite that is?
If you look it up on RUclips you can actually watch a western rite liturgy for yourself.
I submit to no earthly authority or church.
Only to God through Jesus and the Holy Spirit granted by God's grace.
Humanity is inherently corrupt.
Then you think Jesus is corrupted because he assumed human nature. You can’t even submit to what was written in scripture. You and Satan have a lot in common.
@@living_orthodox 😂
I know and understand more scripture than you could ever fathom.
Get behind me satan, the ultimate accuser.
You couldn't sit in my presence for 10 minutes.
Fool
I chose the Episcopal church i from Catholic
algo push
Actually i'm Greek and converted to Catholicism from orthodoxy a few years ago in my teens. And yea i've read all the history from the apostles to councils to schism to Vatican II etc. But Rome always made more sense to me and i always found Orthodoxy insufferable, the liturgy awful, the art annoying, their divisions of national churches ridiculous. But i don't claim to hold absolute truths. I am talking about me. That being said some developments in the Church are a bit disappointing.
That’s the problem. You’ve equated your feelings, opinions and intellectual pride with facts. You haven’t read all the history.
Pope Francis has done quite a few things that show he is not Christian. Like worshipping the pagan goddess Pacha Mama. Or making mocking comments on the Holy Trinity.
I've come to view Matthew 26:40 as a prophecy. Peter has fallen asleep.
Pray for our Catholic friends that the Lord leads them to the true faith. 🙏☦️
But did not you make it ok for your priests to marry? Is that orthodox?
Once a priest you can't marry. There are celibate priests in the orthodox church.
Married men can become Priests but Priests cannot become married men.
This is the Stance of the Ancient Church, even within the Unia of Rome.
@@acekoala457 Thanks I misunderstood
I was Roman for one month before deciding to join the Holy Apostolic Church
Lets not forget the priest in America who baptised a gay couples baby.
You mean a certain archbishop
do you mean that recent incident where the roof of the temple collapsed?
RC Priests do that all the time and in Germany have been blessing same sex unions. Pope doesn't care.
The Archbishop you mentioned was reprimanded by the Metropolitan of the Diocese he did that in. In RCism it's too common to reprimand.
@@alex-volkonskithe same temple where the blasphemy happened?
I still DO NOT like pope Francis, it’s just way too ridiculous of what he had approved such a thing.
If you're roman catholic you need to realize that for what you just said you are de facto excommunicated according to the dogmas of the roman catholic church. To be roman catholic is to submit to the pope and all his teachings according to vatican 1.
Was this ex-cathedra?
No one can define what is ex cathedra.
@@living_orthodox Could you elaborate this, I am not very familiar with this topic. Thanks in advance.
@@OrthodoxRomanians basically, there's very generic and vague guidelines on what "ex cathedra" statements are. If you read vatican 1 tho it says a roman catholic has the duty to submit to the pope on all of his teaching.
@@Desertfox21 isn’t the definition as simple as from the chair?
@@OrthodoxRomanians right but what does that mean. Does it mean when he's sitting in a literal chair? Does it mean when he's simply in the office of the pope (all the time)? You can ask 100 different roman catholics what qualifies as an ex cathedra statement and you'll get 100 different answers
I am glad I am not Catholic. I know why we can't to blows. I would have had more fun than the real Elizabeth did..fun, fun and more fun. " I feel THE EARTH..MOVE.. UNDER MY FEET..I FEEL THE SKY..TUMBALIN' DOWN, UH..TUMBALIN' DOWN!"
Father bless:
I was actually raised both Catholic and Orthodox..my father was Polish and my mother Russian..so they tried to appease both sides..I'm a faithful Russian Orthodox Christian now, but with all do respect, and I do have all deference and honor towards yours and your holy office...but to talk about how the Catholic Church was complicit in working in concert with not the most noble of intentions with temporal powers and not mentioning the east and the ceasaropapism that occurred, with many stories of not so noble actions from people high in the Church, working with the government to meet purely selfish and scandalous agendas..then this took on a very severe form when Peter "The Great" abolished the Patriarchate and basically made the Church part of his government, like a cabinet..in all humility if I'm wrong, a thousand Gospodi Pomiliuj and please correct me and tell me where I'm wrong..again no disrespect..love your videos, get a lot from them, and God bless your priesthood and you as a priest and your Matushka
May God bless you.
One cannot be both Orthodox and Catholic. The elevation of the Palamite synods to ecumenical (universal status) literally makes that impossible aside from the many other issues. Ceasropapism doesn’t apply to the east. That’s a term that explicitly describes the attempted assertion of power on the part of the Roman pontiff. I am glad you like the content but I will say, I think you may not understand this issue to the depth required to try and refute what is plain to see in Papism. It’s heresy. Ultimately, I cannot cover the breadth of history in a video this length and that isn’t the point of it. There will also be a “but this, or that”. The content is exactly what it presents itself to be and I have certainly been honest about our own problems.
@@living_orthodox father I do sincerely apologize and meant no disrespect at all..and I'm aware that one can not be both Catholic and Orthodox at the same time..I was simply stating what my parents were trying to do to make both sides of the family happy..I received the sacraments/mysteries in both Churches and respectively we went both to the Polish Church and the Russian Church...while my parents may have had good intentions, I do admit it was objectively unwise and even heretical..but ultimately I'm a practicing Russian Orthodox Christian in ROCOR along with my wife and two kids now and have been for years now, even though ive been objectively Russian Orthodox from birth. Also I may not understand quite a bit of stuff, but ultimately while trying to remain humble, I feel as if I am quite knowledgeable in Church matters and history..probably not as much as you Father, and especially not comparable to theologians with doctorates etc...that said, while I feel, and I may be wrong in this, that I'm at least semi-knowledgeable in ecclesiastical matters and history, I always have had a tough time expressing and articulating myself..and again I'm so sorry if I sounded insulting or being irreverent..God bless and the angels protect you and your matushka!!!☦️
Shame on James Martin! He truly is a deceiver and is doing the devil’s work!
The decline of the official Church began when John XXIII refused to obey our Mother of Fatima's instruction to reveal the 3rd secret. Today we are facing the end game. It is still being argued whether an apostate who wants to destroy the Church can be a legitimate pope. It is an irony of history that the Christian Occient can only be saved by the African cardinals. They have always had strong representatives. In my time, it was Cardinal Gantin, whom we already feared somewhat, but thought highly of. We regretted that he did not become pope. He would have destroyed the gay mafia and the freemasonry in the Vatican without hesitation
Look back further. The ecclesiology you’re hinting at is more Protestant than anything.