Eye opening quote: It is more difficult to be a christian for a family man in the city, than for a monk in a monastery. Quotes like that make this film really memorable.
Marvelous! Heroes of the faith. Lampbearers. Rebuilding faith in a country devastated by decades of communism, war, famine, oppression corruption and faithlessness. Spiritual warriors in a barren land. May the Lord bless them and may their work bear abundant fruit for Christ our Saviour. Congratulations to those who made this amazing docummentary available. Greetings from Argentina.
There is so much deep truth here. My youngest boy wants to be a monk of Mt. Athos. At ten years old, he is taking his formation seriously already. He hung on every word he read in the subtitles. This gave him a lot of food for thought (even at his age). Thank you for posting it.
@@katehalpin4826 I don't know why I was never alerted to your question, but at 17 he still seems on course to enter a monastery. Time will tell. He and I plan to make a pilgrimage to St. Petersburg and Diveyevo, Russia late in summer or early autumn.
I am an American convert. My heart and soul ache because of the evils around us and the evil within my heart. These monastics are like a lighthouse in the darkness of a turbulent sea for one such as myself. Thank you so much for posting this video online because I am in need of a guide for what I must do in my insignificant life. May the Lord bless you all.
Excellent documentary. Much love to these brothers. The conditions are harsh and it must be a daunting struggle. They are being tested, but faith will prevail. God bless these good Orthodox men and those who support them in this mighty effort to reestablish the monastic community.
Second time watching this remarkable documentary. May our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ protect and strengthen the Brothers at the monastery, all who Labour in its maintenance and those involved in the making of this film! 🙏☦️
So wonderful to re-visit this documentary -- more charming and yet profoundly beautiful in the depth of Faith in Christ we see them experiencing in many ways. "The Straight Path" not the worldly "wide" road that most travel! This will be added to our Paschal teaching video for 2023 in our Central Coast Public access stations and on RUclips. "Judith Irene Matta" under "Orthodox Christianity: Living in the Kingdom" (original 2014) . We're reprising this for our 2023 Pascha video during Month of March-April. God keep them all sale and comforted in their lives and love for "The Brethren" with Love for Christ!
Such a beautiful lesson and so much reality - wisdom - real wisdom that helps with one's own faith - & beautiful photographs -- I hope the Brothers make another documentary when their Monastery is completed. They are lovely - a Russian Orthodox monk referencing Winnie The Pooh - that is so wonderful- totally lovable. May God Bless spiritually reward them in their lives.
I really enjoyed this video, hearing the monks talk about their experiences, their concerns, their particular attitudes to the religious life and the world outside, the history .... It occurred to me that all this could be put into a book, the history and growth of the monastery, the thoughts and experiences of the monks, their thoughts about the world. Maybe it would inspire others to join them, or at least to give more thought and attention to the state of their souls. It doesn't matter that there are so few of them ... God doesn't care about numbers, as long as their hearts are in a good place. Maybe that's part of God's plan for them, and there is beauty in simply doing the best one can with what is given. God bless them all. And thank you for sharing this lovely video.
We in our Mission (Descent of the Holy Spirit) embrace these darling young monastics - ask for their holy prayer as we experience as they do (in a small way) the attempt to found a monastery/parish where the Lord is glorified in the midst of faithless people who want to find God but often mistake their "leading" for the Holy s Spirit. Humility and meekness are required for our Christian walk with the Lord Who above all is meek and humble of heart! We pray to grow in this and honor these dear brothers in Christ!
beautiful...enjoyed it so very much - so uplifting spiritually - i wish i had the "guts" to also follow monastic life....human wish, but only with God's grace....i love the freedome they have, concentrating on what is important...as opposed to lots of rules & regulations to keep things in order....there should only be one "rule"...and that is living life according to the Gospel...and that is no small task....
"So the question is: what is the purpose of human life? To get prepared for eternal life." BAM! Simple, straightforward, no nonsense. That truly is the purpose of this life and if your life is not geared towards this task then you are wasting your life. And your life is God's greatest gift to you so that you can return this gift to him with interest.
Loved the Winnie The Pooh correlation at the end, I always find it funny when people talk about that story because it is based on a true story from Winnipeg, where I am from.
Is he drinking mate at 6:21? That caught my attention, i am from Argentina from where the mate comes from and its so strange to see it on a place so far away.
I Keep hearing that if you are interested in visiting a Monastery that you should do a three day stay? I'm curious what would doing something like that entail of involve.
Find a monastery and see if they have a website which if they do, it will usually tell you their rules and expectations and if not just email or call and ask.
I love this video - i wish i could join these wonderful monks but I am British and cannot travel there. I am orthodox, but I became Orthodox after I am married and therefore cannot become a monk but I practice most of the things monks do...this is the path of true love - loving God above everything else !
Paradoxical is the right word they seem lost and undisciplined unlike the Mount Athos monks but the Athos monks have a large community and older ones to show then younger novices the way hopefully this brethren will get their monastery finished and have more support when a person stops looking for excuses, that's the beginning great words
I wouldn't mind living on the outskirts of a monastery as long as they're honest and trustworthy. Where the infidels I have had to live around, all their debauchery, drunkenness and such isn't for me. Never ever has been.
I would love to have watched this film but the sub-titles are blurred and very difficult to read. PLEASE re-do them so that they are clear and repost what looks like a wonderful film.
I really liked the movie, but how could you not show even one shot of a chapel? Not one prayer service or chant? Not one liturgy? Getting the background stories of the monks was fine, but really this movie should've been twice as long.
"Just as home objects are hidden for safety, “the gifts of desert sanctity are put away in a cell in some desert protected by natural inaccessibility, lest they decay because of exposure to worldliness.” It pleases the Lord to bring his ornament of sanctity from its hiding place when needed. Dwelling in the desert is worthy of our total devotion, of all our love. “Where is it possible to celebrate Easter more freely than in a desert cell. Where is it possible to practice the virtues more easily? I am thinking particularly of the virtue of temperance, which is a sort of desert of the heart. ... Where is there a better opportunity to be still and see how sweet the Lord is, than the desert? ... Where is there an easier place to guard the mind and free it for contemplation? “The new Adam drove off the seducer of the old Adam in the desert." “Where could the heart be more free of concern in order to devote itself to cleaving to God, than in the desert?... “What a triumph for the desert that the Devil, who had been victorious in Paradise, should be vanquished in that far away land.” From In Praise of the Desert, translated by Charles Cummings, ocso; revised by Jeffrey Burton Russell. In the book The Lives of the Jura Fathers, Tim Vivian, Kim Vivian, Cistercian Publications, 1999.
Strange that they always refer to « life in the world » as to some materialistic, pleasure-oriented life. There are many who are like that. But there are many people too who are doctors, exquisite artists, musicians, writers, professors, and who live truly by their duty and keep strict ascetic attitudes, in order to get to the goal. Their life is as much a service to God, and they turn down many pleasures and possibilities in life for the sake of their vocation. Too often, Orthodox monasticism is being presented not in continuity with the spiritual culture of humanity, but in opposition to it...Perhaps it is the case, because too many people who come to monasteries have previously led depraved lives, and so when they talk about « the world », they mean their own life by it. But drugs, addiction and moral foulness is not all there is in the world. Thank God!... Bach, Haendel, Raphael, Victor Hugo, William Blake, etc. is also the world - only, a very different one...
Take Victor Hugo out - he had a problem with women that are too young 😂to put it mildly - you are right about Bach and Händel they loved God extremely 🤗👍
There are things about Catholic orders and Orthodox orders I like, I wish I could somehow take the best of them and create a perfect monastic order. Maybe I'm just a deluded fool, deceived by the devil...
No, get the right people with corresponding personalities, allow monks or sisters to be human, innocent pleasures, ability to laugh again at innocent things. Where the Bible says a bit about laughing and such. But kept within the bounds of decency and innocence. Where the sons of Ham are so profane, using all kinds of vulgar language. Where it's pathetic when society has became such a cesspool of humans where at one time society was much cleaner.
I think he meant St Tiphon perhaps?? They are DEFINITELY Orthodox monks!! Saints are usually referred to also as Holy Fathers in the Orthodox tradition
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. John 6:44 ESV 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 ESV 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame." Romans 10:9-11 ESV 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:1-10 ESV
I stopped watching after the trip to town. Every single time I watch something from Russian Orthodox Church they have to be positive towards their previous regime, this why I avoid them completely. I want to avoid Phyletism but I don't know what is it with these people that they CAN'T get over communism. Lord have mercy.
The ONLY one showing anger here is YOU. Piss off to HELL you mental attention seeker. SAD LONELY LITTLE PERSON WITH NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT TROLL PEOPLE ALL DAY.---GET A LIFE. END OF.
Eye opening quote: It is more difficult to be a christian for a family man in the city, than for a monk in a monastery. Quotes like that make this film really memorable.
Marvelous! Heroes of the faith. Lampbearers. Rebuilding faith in a country devastated by decades of communism, war, famine, oppression corruption and faithlessness. Spiritual warriors in a barren land. May the Lord bless them and may their work bear abundant fruit for Christ our Saviour.
Congratulations to those who made this amazing docummentary available. Greetings from Argentina.
There is so much deep truth here. My youngest boy wants to be a monk of Mt. Athos. At ten years old, he is taking his formation seriously already. He hung on every word he read in the subtitles. This gave him a lot of food for thought (even at his age). Thank you for posting it.
Can I ask if you are Greek?
Any change of career path yet? I'm 14 and no clue on whatever I'm doing so I'd love to know if he kept this idea
@@katehalpin4826 I don't know why I was never alerted to your question, but at 17 he still seems on course to enter a monastery. Time will tell. He and I plan to make a pilgrimage to St. Petersburg and Diveyevo, Russia late in summer or early autumn.
@@claytonnorcroft4211 No, I am not. My family are Scots-Irish and Danish. We're members of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
@@Southlander1000 No worries! And That’s wonderful for him I’m glad he’s still going after what he wants!
I am an American convert. My heart and soul ache because of the evils around us and the evil within my heart. These monastics are like a lighthouse in the darkness of a turbulent sea for one such as myself. Thank you so much for posting this video online because I am in need of a guide for what I must do in my insignificant life. May the Lord bless you all.
Excellent documentary. Much love to these brothers. The conditions are harsh and it must be a daunting struggle. They are being tested, but faith will prevail. God bless these good Orthodox men and those who support them in this mighty effort to reestablish the monastic community.
Second time watching this remarkable documentary. May our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ protect and strengthen the Brothers at the monastery, all who Labour in its maintenance and those involved in the making of this film! 🙏☦️
Много Ви благодаря. От един български брат!
Very sincere and natural documental. Thank you all who made it, and who uploaded it! Thank you! Wish to meet brothers, and work with them.
wisdom and sweetness swirled together..44:44 minutes I will never regret.
Great video!! was a huge surprise at 31:45 watch the Monks drinking Mate, a typical infusion from my country. Regards from Argentina!!
Hello, Robert! Yes, it's mate!!! Maybe from Argentina))
Please, please make another movie! Please make short films. These things give me peace and hope.
Beautiful,,,,,,,,,beautiful,,,,,,,,,beautiful. Thanks be to our Lord God Almighty.
So wonderful to re-visit this documentary -- more charming and yet profoundly beautiful in the depth of Faith in Christ we see them experiencing in many ways. "The Straight Path" not the worldly "wide" road that most travel! This will be added to our Paschal teaching video for 2023 in our Central Coast Public access stations and on RUclips. "Judith Irene Matta" under "Orthodox Christianity: Living in the Kingdom" (original 2014) . We're reprising this for our 2023 Pascha video during Month of March-April. God keep them all sale and comforted in their lives and love for "The Brethren" with Love for Christ!
Such a beautiful lesson and so much reality - wisdom - real wisdom that helps with one's own faith - & beautiful photographs -- I hope the Brothers make another documentary when their Monastery is completed. They are lovely - a Russian Orthodox monk referencing Winnie The Pooh - that is so wonderful- totally lovable. May God Bless spiritually reward them in their lives.
Спаси вас Христос за прекрасный фильм!
I really enjoyed this video, hearing the monks talk about their experiences, their concerns, their particular attitudes to the religious life and the world outside, the history .... It occurred to me that all this could be put into a book, the history and growth of the monastery, the thoughts and experiences of the monks, their thoughts about the world. Maybe it would inspire others to join them, or at least to give more thought and attention to the state of their souls. It doesn't matter that there are so few of them ... God doesn't care about numbers, as long as their hearts are in a good place. Maybe that's part of God's plan for them, and there is beauty in simply doing the best one can with what is given. God bless them all. And thank you for sharing this lovely video.
The song at the end was very soothing. Great film
Beautiful - thanks so much for posting this.
We in our Mission (Descent of the Holy Spirit) embrace these darling young monastics - ask for their holy prayer as we experience as they do (in a small way) the attempt to found a monastery/parish where the Lord is glorified in the midst of faithless people who want to find God but often mistake their "leading" for the Holy s
Spirit. Humility and meekness are required for our Christian walk with the Lord Who above all is meek and humble of heart! We pray to grow in this and honor these dear brothers in Christ!
Beautiful documentary! Very inspiring!
beautiful...enjoyed it so very much - so uplifting spiritually - i wish i had the "guts" to also follow monastic life....human wish, but only with God's grace....i love the freedome they have, concentrating on what is important...as opposed to lots of rules & regulations to keep things in order....there should only be one "rule"...and that is living life according to the Gospel...and that is no small task....
"So the question is: what is the purpose of human life? To get prepared for eternal life."
BAM! Simple, straightforward, no nonsense. That truly is the purpose of this life and if your life is not geared towards this task then you are wasting your life. And your life is God's greatest gift to you so that you can return this gift to him with interest.
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Wow, really philosophical staff. Everybody in this movie is a philosoph on his own way. I didn't see any stamp in their heads.
Thank you so much for this documentary! Truly amazing. Praise and thanks be to God. ❤️🙏🏾
Christ is risen!!!
Христос Воскресе!!!
Χριστός Ανέστη!!!
Воистина воскресе!
amazing living
Loved the Winnie The Pooh correlation at the end, I always find it funny when people talk about that story because it is based on a true story from Winnipeg, where I am from.
Never seen such talkative monks
Dans ce temps, ce n'est pas simple comme cela. Il faut en souffrir pour en avoir.
Is he drinking mate at 6:21? That caught my attention, i am from Argentina from where the mate comes from and its so strange to see it on a place so far away.
I feel somehow homesick for a place I have never been.
Christ is risen, Indeed He is risen.....2013
La vraie foi dans ces hommes du ciel gris noir, sans la vie dans un paradis monastique.
Thank you
MUITO BOM PROGRAMA! DEUS VOS ABENCOE!
muito obrigado. Deus abencoe, tambem, quem gostou do meu comentario. Pax Christi!
Beautiful ☦️
I wonder how the Monastery is doing today ?
Great video. Is there a current one of their progress? I wonder if any of the monks speak english?
Hope!!! Amen brothers...
Real nice.
I Keep hearing that if you are interested in visiting a Monastery that you should do a three day stay? I'm curious what would doing something like that entail of involve.
Find a monastery and see if they have a website which if they do, it will usually tell you their rules and expectations and if not just email or call and ask.
I love this video - i wish i could join these wonderful monks but I am British and cannot travel there. I am orthodox, but I became Orthodox after I am married and therefore cannot become a monk but I practice most of the things monks do...this is the path of true love - loving God above everything else !
Is there a video to see how the building of the church is going ??
Paradoxical is the right word
they seem lost and undisciplined
unlike the Mount Athos monks
but the Athos monks have a large community
and older ones to show then younger novices the way
hopefully this brethren
will get their monastery finished
and have more support
when a person stops looking for excuses, that's the beginning
great words
Monks are the backbone of our faith as catholics
I wouldn't mind living on the outskirts of a monastery as long as they're honest and trustworthy.
Where the infidels I have had to live around, all their debauchery, drunkenness and such isn't for me. Never ever has been.
I would love to have watched this film but the sub-titles are blurred and very difficult to read.
PLEASE re-do them so that they are clear and repost what looks like a wonderful film.
the subtitles are fine, you need glasses.
There was a problem with the device I was watching. OK now thanks. excellent film.
There are two Roman Catholic monasteries in Iceland, which I believe is more north than the Trifonov Pechengsky monastery.
you mistake take a look at the map cola pechegas is more nothern one
I really liked the movie, but how could you not show even one shot of a chapel? Not one prayer service or chant? Not one liturgy? Getting the background stories of the monks was fine, but really this movie should've been twice as long.
There was some tiny bits of it here and there, but it shows they're more focused on prayer in the services rather than bringing the camera with them.
"Just as home objects are hidden for safety, “the gifts of desert sanctity are put away in a cell in some desert protected by natural inaccessibility, lest they decay because of exposure to worldliness.” It pleases the Lord to bring his ornament of sanctity from its hiding place when needed.
Dwelling in the desert is worthy of our total devotion, of all our love.
“Where is it possible to celebrate Easter more freely than in a desert cell. Where is it possible to practice the virtues more easily? I am thinking particularly of the virtue of temperance, which is a sort of desert of the heart. ... Where is there a better opportunity to be still and see how sweet the Lord is, than the desert? ... Where is there an easier place to guard the mind and free it for contemplation?
“The new Adam drove off the seducer of the old Adam in the desert."
“Where could the heart be more free of concern in order to devote itself to cleaving to God, than in the desert?...
“What a triumph for the desert that the Devil, who had been victorious in Paradise, should be vanquished in that far away land.”
From In Praise of the Desert, translated by Charles Cummings, ocso; revised by Jeffrey Burton Russell. In the book The Lives of the Jura Fathers, Tim Vivian, Kim Vivian, Cistercian Publications, 1999.
и на английском есть классно))
Strange that they always refer to « life in the world » as to some materialistic, pleasure-oriented life. There are many who are like that. But there are many people too who are doctors, exquisite artists, musicians, writers, professors, and who live truly by their duty and keep strict ascetic attitudes, in order to get to the goal.
Their life is as much a service to God, and they turn down many pleasures and possibilities in life for the sake of their vocation.
Too often, Orthodox monasticism is being presented not in continuity with the spiritual culture of humanity, but in opposition to it...Perhaps it is the case, because too many people who come to monasteries have previously led depraved lives, and so when they talk about « the world », they mean their own life by it. But drugs, addiction and moral foulness is not all there is in the world. Thank God!...
Bach, Haendel, Raphael, Victor Hugo, William Blake, etc. is also the world - only, a very different one...
Take Victor Hugo out - he had a problem with women that are too young 😂to put it mildly - you are right about Bach and Händel they loved God extremely 🤗👍
@@studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272 Yes, Hugo should be taken out -- his literary work, however, not!
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Haha, they are not secret naval bases any more ;)
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Pergamum is in Turkey
There are things about Catholic orders and Orthodox orders I like, I wish I could somehow take the best of them and create a perfect monastic order.
Maybe I'm just a deluded fool, deceived by the devil...
That makes two of us...
To go about this and make it a reality is a different matter...
Better just to pick Orthodoxy and focus there.
The perfect monastic order has to live within the person. If this is the case, it will necessarily pour out into some visible form.
No, get the right people with corresponding personalities, allow monks or sisters to be human, innocent pleasures, ability to laugh again at innocent things. Where the Bible says a bit about laughing and such.
But kept within the bounds of decency and innocence. Where the sons of Ham are so profane, using all kinds of vulgar language.
Where it's pathetic when society has became such a cesspool of humans where at one time society was much cleaner.
These guys are Russian Orthodox? They made mention of a Holy Father. I thought they were talking about the Catholic Pope!
+James Francis Travis Most likely a title for the abbot/confessor of the monastery
I think he meant St Tiphon perhaps?? They are DEFINITELY Orthodox monks!! Saints are usually referred to also as Holy Fathers in the Orthodox tradition
Too much complaining dear monks. Sometimes you sound a little pharisaical. Just love your people. That’s enough.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:44 ESV
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1 ESV
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."
Romans 10:9-11 ESV
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1-10 ESV
📖📖👣👣🙏🙏☦️☦️🪽🪽
I think I need a man-kiss now...the plushie russians are adorable.....awwww.
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I stopped watching after the trip to town. Every single time I watch something from Russian Orthodox Church they have to be positive towards their previous regime, this why I avoid them completely. I want to avoid Phyletism but I don't know what is it with these people that they CAN'T get over communism. Lord have mercy.
Michael, You didn't understand. It's joke. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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I wanted to be a monk all my life but Something always got in the way.I prefer the enclosed orders.
They all sure talk a lot.
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--That's a very "Christian" attitude you have there.
The ONLY one showing anger here is YOU.
Piss off to HELL you mental attention seeker.
SAD LONELY LITTLE PERSON WITH NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT TROLL PEOPLE ALL DAY.---GET A LIFE. END OF.
TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL ALERT.
BE WARNED PEOPLE---THIS IS A SAD NO LIFE LITTLE PERSON WHO HAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO IN LIFE BUT TROLL PEOPLE.