Stumbling Blocks in the Orthodox Christian Spiritual Life - Hieromonk Gabriel
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2020
- In this episode, Hieromonk Gabriel discusses the dangers of abstraction in the spiritual life, and the need to learn unswerving obedience and patience.
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This is the fourth episode from my interview with Orthodox priest monk and blogger, Hieromonk Gabriel of Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, WV.
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Thank you for reaffirming what I originally thought and believed. Lord please deliver me from the misapprehension i have been under. Anastasia 🕯️🙏☦️
Of all the wonderful and not-so-wonderful Orthodox content on youtube, this was one of the most edifying talks I've heard.
Thanks to God!
Met. Jonah was and is a great teacher.
Met Jonah was one of the first orthodox teachers I was exposed to via RUclips. He helped me much and helped lead me on the path to conversion.
I've made myself so bipolar and depressed over my sins. There's so much self hatred that I just don't want to be alive, please keep me in prayer, I am told that I'm "under attack" because i want to go home to my Lord and Savior
God loves you...never forget that...go back and read the parable of the prodigal son...good strength!
God loves every child of His, if you truly repent from your heart and soul~You will be forgiven~Pray to God through Jesus Christ~God be with you and may your angels watch over you 🙏❤️
ASMR Lord have Mercy...prayers for you
God loves you , we all are sinners but when we surrender to god when we truly repent and live in repantance everyday god will forgive all our past sin and living in repantance u will start to sin less until the ego starts to "die" . Dont focus on your sins , focus of christ and darkness will go away automatically
THANK YOU FATHER GABRIEL! ALL OF GOD'S BLESSINGS ALWAYS!! I AM SO BLESSED TO HAVE MET YOU AND HAD PRAYERS FROM YOU!! ☦🙏☦🙏
It is not " out of our reach" because it is the Lord Who comes and knocks at our door. If we open His Wisdom does guide us IF we trust and love His Love for us. You are very young still Father. We are called by the Lord to become our unique self in and with and for Him and our neighabour. That is learned through the Mystery of His Love and our humility, over Time...a true journey to become who we truly are.
I agree with you that it cannot be learned from books..they may help..but this is totally the Holy Spirit living in each heart. A Huge and often painful Adventure to discover and recover your life in Christ and its not anything we can guess about. Courage! Go ! follow Him within your soul in all joy and love and tears.
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God bless father amen 🙏🏼☦️☦️☦️
Excellent message, presuming the spiritual father is trustworthy. Too many stories of abuse and malpractice. Heartbreaking that it has to be so, but the faithful should be warned about that danger.
Alas...yes, this presupposes a great deal of trust. I try to remind people that authentic Christian spiritual life never subverts one's free will. Abusive relationships always subvert one's free will...life in Christ should be full of light and spiritual oxygen.
@@ProtectingVeil God bless you brother. Glory to our Lord Jesus Crhrist. Tank you very much!
This guy is deeply impressive
Christ is deeply impressive.
Bless you, this is very encouraging x
Wonderful. Thank you.
Bless Father Gabriel.
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Glory to God!
As someone who has been feeling unworthy of pursuing the church lately, this was nice to hear. Thanks
Much needed. Glory to God! 🙏☦️
Always like Hieromonk Gabriel’s perspective
Very helpful, thank you.
God bless you for sharing this encouraging teaching with us!
Wow.. This answered every question I had. I'm so grateful for these words
Life sometimes feels like being between the rock of ages and a hard place.
Just want to add that Jesus is my help, just my silly mind falls into this trap sometimes.
@Protecting Veil, Dr. Middleton, I think it would be wonderful to do an interview with Dr. Eugenia Constantinou on her new book, Thinking Orthodox, which is about acquiring the Orthodox phronema.
Thank you for the wonderful videos! Many years to you! 🙏☦️
This was both good and, on a certain level, discouraging because of what seems to be a major dearth of spiritual fathers in America. And it seems like many priests are struggling to keep up with all that is asked and required of them already.
I sympathize...that said, (as one example) according to St. Sophrony, St. Silouan did not have a formal spiritual father...he simply confessed to the monastery's confessor and was in obedience to the abbot. St. Sophrony's bigger point is that God blesses one's obedience and can use nearly any confessor priest as a vessel of grace (regardless of the personal virtue of the priest). It's certainly better to have an experienced spiritual father, but God does not abandon us, if we seek Him earnestly...
Thank you for sharing this wisdom!
Just awesome ...
Thank you. This is really helpful. God Bless.
the voice russia 2015 brought me here!
I thank God for my spiritual father constantly.
Believe hard enough and things become true in your mind, AMEN!
Thank you. Do you believe that confession must happen with a priest?
Who else could hear Confession? Only certain priests have been given the authority to absolve sin in Christ's name. There are extremely rare occasions where holy people (such as St. Silouan the Athonite) take *something* of the role of spiritual guide, but even St. Silouan couldn't offer absolution.
@@ProtectingVeil thank you. Is it recommended or supported to have a 1on1 relationship with Jesus? The orthodox perspective. I'm asking because I don't know anyone here in Greece who has one and I see many Christians in America for example Cultivating one, talking to Jesus all day long.
To everyone here:
What do you think of the tripartite version of man, spirit, soul and body.
Is important to separate spirit from the soul?
“ To cut off our understanding”? Are you talking about the spiritual life of a monk or a regular layman, Father? Unfortunately, there are so many priests who should not been ordained. Who has a real spiritual father these days? Matthew 15:14.
💚Good people of all religions must understand that other religions are just other approaches for people to get over themselves. The woke people that we have to live with are 80% selfish ego defilement, delusion and maybe 20% truth. This is what happens when you have no means to get over yourself, like worshiping God.
The teaching in the video above about abstraction sounds in harmony with the teaching of the Buddha that isn’t personally Jesus’s approach but it is Jesus’s teaching at the level of human wisdom.
Instead of God in Buddhism they train their minds to transcend abstraction so that they can humble themselves as the very abstraction of “self” is let go of. It could be said that God is moving through them when they transcend the concept of “self” or “ego”. People mistake Buddhism for narcissism or something, BOY is that ever wrong.
Might be a good monk but oh boy does he get what Catholics and Protestants believe completely wrong.
Not from my experience
He’s spot on from my experience
Wonderful words....Lord have mercy on me a sinner.