I love the quote from Saint John Chrysostom "If all of us were proper Christians there wouldn't be a single pagan left". I would also like to know the answer to the question "how do we know we have a guardian angel?" Will you answer this in a future video?
@@BanterWithBojanits definitely my favorite response you've made honestly, I cant help but laugh with you every time i come back to this for a good chuckle
Hmmm…. I’m a Roman (of sorts) who has an icon of St Gabriel of Georgia who is attractive to me. After reading his biography my parish priests had no problem blessing his icon. I had Roman mass said for a deceased friend who was reared Orthodox. Maybe I’ll be unpleasantly surprised when I’m judged but I don’t think God dwells in the boxes we build. Holy people should be admired and emulated but as you’ve admitted still be seen with a clear eye.
Thanks for sharing your Eastern Orthodox perspective concerning the icons of Our Saints. While I was exploring Orthodoxy I decided to obtain an icon of a post-schism Orthodox saint (Nectarios) that was blessed by an Catholic priest. Unfortunately I don’t know where this icon is anymore. I placed many icons around my house, and I must have misplaced Nectarios. I will admit though that I was a little unsure what to make of the icon, maybe a little uncomfortable knowing that Nectarios was not Catholic. It will be interesting if reunion does happen between East and West, and how we would deal with the Saints. (Like Alexis Toth, a former Byzantine Catholic priest).
Motive. Saint Thomas Aquinas appeared to a Serbian Abortionist, that converted back to Orthodoxy, and is still Orthodox. The story is here on this satanic owned and operated network, which is youtube. ruclips.net/video/5JWZFXVQAH0/видео.html
“From Albania or kosovo”?! LORD FORBID! Bojan has implicitly recognized the independence of kosovo! He has abandoned all that is holy! How will Serbia ever recover! How will the church ever recover?! (I hope the tome makes it clear that I’m messing around here)
There are serious problems with Theresa of Calcutta from an Orthodox perspective. They concern her extremely long 'dark night of the soul' which lasted for most of her adult life. She never felt God's presence and felt total abandonment. It makes her witness to the faith all the more heroic, but leaves Orthodoxy uncomfortable as it is a given in Orthodoxy that such 'dark nights' are only ever temporary. Catholicism says that her prolonged abandonment was a special grace from God, Orthodoxy says this is impossible as it is not a mark of love. The more you meditate on this, the more you see the massive gulf between East and West. You can't keep both perspectives in your head at the same time and remain sane!
I feel very much for Mother Theresa, though do not like how she worshiped suffering and took money from countries that could not afford it. I have followed the calling for a lot of what I've done for many years. Last year, about three months after I donated a kidney, Sister Cecily asked me what my current calling was. I realised I didn't have one. A year later, and there is still nothing. If I were a person of faith, or one who had a personal relationship, I would feel lost and betrayed.
@@HokowhituESOL1 We are all beginners in the faith. The main thing is to learn to truly live where we are and with what we have, and if we master these little things, God may show us greater. We spend too much time romantically looking for a cause to follow in order to put meaning into out lives. Our meaning is right here and now, we just have to learn to live it.
What about Catholic Saints who reposed IMMEDIATELY after the Schism, like mere months after? Also, what about Catholic Saints who reposed in local jurisdictions that resisted the Gregorian reforms longer than the average? Ireland didn’t adopt them until 1179!
How strange. Well, even if this priest did not know who Mother Teresa specifically was, I'm sure he knew what Catholicism is in general. If my Catholic priest blessed and icon of an Orthodox, or a painting of a Protestant, I would presume he knew what he was doing, if I had already told him this guy was a Protestant. It could be that he blessed it to lead you closer to the Orthodox faith, regardless of whether this person was Orthodox or not. Who knows why? There's no need to explain to him though. It's foolish to presume a priest is so stupidly ignorant as to not know what a Catholic is.
on 3:18 - "the official name of Orthodox Church is Orthodox catholic Church " no bro that's not academic replay at all. For the last 2000 years - the official name of Orthodox Church is One Holly Catholic and Apostolic Church !!! There is Roman catholic church as well - patriarchal see of Rome was in communion with One Holly Catholic and Apostolic Church (Orthodox Church)
I have a particular fondness for the Eastern liturgy, and for many of your pious practices. I have such a difficult time with prayers to saints and with what seems to me to be excessive reverence to the Theotokos. I am a devout Reformed Protestant Christian, and we are not amongst the Protestant traditions that disregard Church History, neither are we anti-intellectual. We hold our beliefs in light of the Holy Scripture and in light of Church History. I wish that our theology wasn't at odds with yours, or even with Rome's. However, our desire to be faithful to the God-breathed Gospel and Apostolic Witness, and with our view of tradition, we cannot agree with you on many doctrinal points. I look forward to the day when all error is removed and we enjoy eternity in the presence of our King.
@@BanterWithBojan This is a direct result of our understanding of Divine Grace and election. When one believes that even one's Faith is a gift from God, and that it was given according to God's own purposes and not because one merited that gift, one must be humble. We're all sinners in need of a Saviour. I hope to see all those who truly confess that Jesus is Lord in the New Jerusalem.
@@marcokite The Tanakh and the Apostolic Witness give no indication that excessive reverence to anybody but God Himself is permissible. In fact, the Scriptures would seem to condemn it most strongly.
This sounds like a combo of a believer from the US and a priest from Siberia, I don't know how else it could happen. Also, boooooo for statue of Pio, boooooo.
Teacher: No question is a stupid question!
Also teachers:
Your laugh is contagious
I love the quote from Saint John Chrysostom "If all of us were proper Christians there wouldn't be a single pagan left". I would also like to know the answer to the question "how do we know we have a guardian angel?" Will you answer this in a future video?
"Blessed it wholesale" 😂
Ok, I clearly don't know what a busybody is.
I meant that they were always up and about.
A "busybody" in American slang is someone who is concerned with everyone else's business.
To add to the previous reply, it's a pejorative term. One would not like to be called a 'busybody,' particularly if one is actually a busybody!
Bojan laughing is fantastic! It’s so infectious! He should show that side of him more often.
Maybe this is an opportunity for the Catholic people and the Orthodox people to come closer together.
This made me cry laughing
Your responses to viewer questions are always so well done. But I just confess I have watched this one more than once just to laugh along with you!
This one's definitely one of my favs :D
@@BanterWithBojanits definitely my favorite response you've made honestly, I cant help but laugh with you every time i come back to this for a good chuckle
Hmmm…. I’m a Roman (of sorts) who has an icon of St Gabriel of Georgia who is attractive to me. After reading his biography my parish priests had no problem blessing his icon. I had Roman mass said for a deceased friend who was reared Orthodox. Maybe I’ll be unpleasantly surprised when I’m judged but I don’t think God dwells in the boxes we build. Holy people should be admired and emulated but as you’ve admitted still be seen with a clear eye.
If you don't pray to her at least you could meditate on how she lived the will of God in her life and how we can live the will of God in ours.
Thanks for sharing your Eastern Orthodox perspective concerning the icons of Our Saints. While I was exploring Orthodoxy I decided to obtain an icon of a post-schism Orthodox saint (Nectarios) that was blessed by an Catholic priest. Unfortunately I don’t know where this icon is anymore. I placed many icons around my house, and I must have misplaced Nectarios. I will admit though that I was a little unsure what to make of the icon, maybe a little uncomfortable knowing that Nectarios was not Catholic.
It will be interesting if reunion does happen between East and West, and how we would deal with the Saints. (Like Alexis Toth, a former Byzantine Catholic priest).
Motive.
Saint Thomas Aquinas appeared to a Serbian Abortionist, that converted back to Orthodoxy, and is still Orthodox.
The story is here on this satanic owned and operated network, which is youtube.
ruclips.net/video/5JWZFXVQAH0/видео.html
Context:
The priest is from Mount Athos and has never seen a woman
Except for the Theotokos, of course.
@Katherine Jovovic 😂
@Katherine Jovovic
🤣😂
Great video! Thank you for sharing personal anecdote about Catholic St's Vianney and Pio
“From Albania or kosovo”?!
LORD FORBID! Bojan has implicitly recognized the independence of kosovo! He has abandoned all that is holy! How will Serbia ever recover! How will the church ever recover?!
(I hope the tome makes it clear that I’m messing around here)
Thanks for the advice man, but wow 😂😂😂
It's you lol
There are serious problems with Theresa of Calcutta from an Orthodox perspective. They concern her extremely long 'dark night of the soul' which lasted for most of her adult life. She never felt God's presence and felt total abandonment. It makes her witness to the faith all the more heroic, but leaves Orthodoxy uncomfortable as it is a given in Orthodoxy that such 'dark nights' are only ever temporary. Catholicism says that her prolonged abandonment was a special grace from God, Orthodoxy says this is impossible as it is not a mark of love. The more you meditate on this, the more you see the massive gulf between East and West. You can't keep both perspectives in your head at the same time and remain sane!
I feel very much for Mother Theresa, though do not like how she worshiped suffering and took money from countries that could not afford it. I have followed the calling for a lot of what I've done for many years. Last year, about three months after I donated a kidney, Sister Cecily asked me what my current calling was. I realised I didn't have one. A year later, and there is still nothing. If I were a person of faith, or one who had a personal relationship, I would feel lost and betrayed.
@@HokowhituESOL1 We are all beginners in the faith. The main thing is to learn to truly live where we are and with what we have, and if we master these little things, God may show us greater. We spend too much time romantically looking for a cause to follow in order to put meaning into out lives. Our meaning is right here and now, we just have to learn to live it.
It is not true that she never felt God's presence. Yes, the dark night lasted for most of her adult life, but not all her life.
There are way more alarming issues with Teresa than just her dark night experience.
@@IAMFISH92 Very true.
She was born in Skopje Macedonia
What about Catholic Saints who reposed IMMEDIATELY after the Schism, like mere months after? Also, what about Catholic Saints who reposed in local jurisdictions that resisted the Gregorian reforms longer than the average?
Ireland didn’t adopt them until 1179!
1:22 best answer😂😂😂
Mother Teresa is from North Macedonia, did they mean the icon was from Jerusalem?
FYROM =/= Macedonia
You mean west Bulgaria right?
You mean south Serbia right?
Wholesale blessings 🤣
How strange. Well, even if this priest did not know who Mother Teresa specifically was, I'm sure he knew what Catholicism is in general. If my Catholic priest blessed and icon of an Orthodox, or a painting of a Protestant, I would presume he knew what he was doing, if I had already told him this guy was a Protestant.
It could be that he blessed it to lead you closer to the Orthodox faith, regardless of whether this person was Orthodox or not. Who knows why? There's no need to explain to him though. It's foolish to presume a priest is so stupidly ignorant as to not know what a Catholic is.
Umm... What? I told him who she was but I believe he misunderstood what I said but at least the icon was ridden of some demons I never knew about.
@@awfulwallyinterscopes5883 yeah. I mean that's kind of the final takeaway. It's been blessed. Don't worry about it much further than that.
What's about Petro Mogyla?
on 3:18 - "the official name of Orthodox Church is Orthodox catholic Church " no bro that's not academic replay at all. For the last 2000 years - the official name of Orthodox Church is One Holly Catholic and Apostolic Church !!! There is Roman catholic church as well - patriarchal see of Rome was in communion with One Holly Catholic and Apostolic Church (Orthodox Church)
NO HANDS!!!???
*smiles with his front teeth missing*
@@BanterWithBojan why is your front teeth missing?...
Simple: Don't bless icons
YOU DIDN’T SAY HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahaha
LOL
she was an Albanian from Macedonia :)
I know many people saw Mother Teresa as virtuous woman but was she really that bad Like the critics say?
no she wasn't
I have a particular fondness for the Eastern liturgy, and for many of your pious practices. I have such a difficult time with prayers to saints and with what seems to me to be excessive reverence to the Theotokos. I am a devout Reformed Protestant Christian, and we are not amongst the Protestant traditions that disregard Church History, neither are we anti-intellectual. We hold our beliefs in light of the Holy Scripture and in light of Church History. I wish that our theology wasn't at odds with yours, or even with Rome's. However, our desire to be faithful to the God-breathed Gospel and Apostolic Witness, and with our view of tradition, we cannot agree with you on many doctrinal points. I look forward to the day when all error is removed and we enjoy eternity in the presence of our King.
Amen! It is still nice to see that someone's gut reaction is not open hostility :-)
@@BanterWithBojan This is a direct result of our understanding of Divine Grace and election. When one believes that even one's Faith is a gift from God, and that it was given according to God's own purposes and not because one merited that gift, one must be humble. We're all sinners in need of a Saviour. I hope to see all those who truly confess that Jesus is Lord in the New Jerusalem.
as far as Our Lord is concerned there can be NO 'excessive reverence to the Theotokos' - His Most Holy and Beloved Mother
@@marcokite The Tanakh and the Apostolic Witness give no indication that excessive reverence to anybody but God Himself is permissible. In fact, the Scriptures would seem to condemn it most strongly.
Al si me nasmejao
Mother Theresa was born in Albania. I find your laughter a bit disrespectful. Blessings to you.
This sounds like a combo of a believer from the US and a priest from Siberia, I don't know how else it could happen.
Also, boooooo for statue of Pio, boooooo.