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Beloved Father, thank you for this wonderful message. I praise God for sending me a note of consolation during a time of dryness. How we know these will happen, and even if we feel we are prepared for their onslaught they can take us by surprise. Sometimes a little note like yours is how God reminds us how deeply He loves us. We just need to persevere and trust in His love and compassion. God bless all of you. Suzanne McKenzie, Widow of Prayer
Thank you, father Seraphim. Your words are nourishement for me. I am quite chronically ill, it is sometimes very frustrating and painful, you've just reminded me what I am been taught by the disease. Mainly patience and humility of course. And your etymology of "crisis" is correct 🙂
Thank you for this teaching, I really thought that there was something wrong with me, I thought that because I wasn’t having this moments of bliss I no longer had the Holy Spirit of God, I will read prayers and keep in mind that God knows when to grace me with this moments of bliss.
The Light of Christ is all we have, my dear one. In this darkness of the world, if we ever lose sight of His Light, we are al lost. This is the JOY of the Church: that even when we personally no longer see His Light (because we all go through periods of temptation), we are safely carried forward by the Church Herself until our eyes are open once again. May we all be blessed, dear one.
@@mullmonasteryFr Seraphim. Please pray for my vocation. I was invited on a come and see after many rejections due to my physical and mental health. And my age. I'll be 40 in two months. I'm also repentant for a sex change in my youth. Do you think a monastic life would be too much for me?
Părinte drag, mult ne-am bucura dacă ar exista subtitrare în limba română! Și vă rog, ajutați-ne cu rugăciunea în aceste zile, să ne dăruiască bunul Dumnezeu cele de folos pentru neam, pentru țară și pentru dreapta credință! Iertare pentru îndrăzneală! Rogu-vă, iertați și binecuvântați! Doamne ajută!
Știu că acest video este prezentat cu traducere în limba romană pe site-ul Agenției Basilica, dar eu m-am gândit la toate celelalte prezentări de pe acest canal. Încă o dată, vă rog, iertați și binecuvântați! Doamne ajută!
Thankyou Fr. Seraphim for these videos. As an orthodox christian, I am always reminded that everything belongs to GOD. Thank you for always helping others to understand and learn more about Christ, his teachings, and his beloved orthodox church. Christ be with you.
May your tears be tears of repentance, my dear one, and may they reshape your heart into a humble cave where the Lord Himself may come to dwell, like on that blessed night when He was born in a cave from His All-pure Mother.
I loved this sweet message of yours. It was just what I needed to hear after yesterday, which was Thanksgiving. I wish to thank you for all you do as a Priest and a Monk. I am sure many others who listen to you feel the same. I send you and all of your companions' peace of heart, love and light. I pray every day for your safety and health. May God bless you all.
Dear father , you managed to put into words something I could never describe . I am no saint but the 2 times in my entire life I felt so deeply the grace of God , were preceded by a God led repentance in prayer and confession over my inability to see , feel or love him and my superficial spiritual life. And I without explanation woke up a different person from those 2 moments. I don’t think about them lots because I fear pride but I hold them close to my heart so deeply they drive me when I’m completely dry. 🙏🥰 Thank you for the reminder of Gods bountiful grace ✝️✝️ Where sin is , grace abounds…
There is a very fine line between holding these gifts before the eyes of our conscience, so we may be nourished by them, and not abusing them, which would lead to pride and, a step later, to cynicism and then, immediately, loss of faith. This line can only be walked with fear and humility before the Lord.
Return unto thy rest, o my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. Thank you for your messages of hope and faith, Fr Seraphim. Amen, Amen, amen❤
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, there is a little prayer containing these words 'sanctify those who put their faith in you' - somehow, these words have always touched me more than most other prayers. May we all be blessed, dear one
We are a few days away from the Feast of St Nicholas, my dear one. That is when, by tradition, we start singing Carols - from then on, nothing is 'from here' anymore, everything feels miraculous, beautiful in a way that cannot possibly be of this world. May we all be blessed, my dear one
I was first touched by the Holy Spirit and prayed fearfully shaking while I was lost and living in sin. I've been searching for that ever since and it's led me to Orthodoxy. Thank you Father for this clarification.
The world does NOT need philosophical spirituality that a mere few can understand much less benefit from. We need Padre Pio type spirituality, beautifully simplistic and very effective. “Don’t lose hope, pray often and don’t worry”.
Dear Father, in this spiritual sense I am a severely malnourished and crying child who has seen a beautiful face and stubbornly refuses a bottle of milk. Thank you for your advice, even though I have already heard it from my father. I hope I will survive. Please pray that I may begin to eat spiritually.
May God forgive us all, may His Love cover all our sin and may we all open ourselves to His Light before darkness comes for each of us. May we all be blessed, my dear one.
11:46 God is too good and it's like because of my repeated, conscious sin and don't want to believe that his greatness is on me . Sorry for theses awful words but the only thing i understand is that i'm sick of me. And I don't understand why God keep weaking me up everyday. He gives me chances and i dont want to despair but it's so hard. I feel like am praying for repentance for similar sins EVERY DAY. And when am reading the prayers of saints, i feel so bad saying >. Feeling so hypocrit and bad because i'm so bad in spiritual life and when i > at something BOOM pride. I don't know. Glory to God for his mercy
This was such a beautiful video Thank you Fr Seraphim. We ask so much of our Lord who is so loving and merciful, but what do we give back? Thank you again.
Dear Fr Seraphim thanks sincerely for these uplifting words. Its really helpfull in this world of evil. I noticed a clear uptake in evilness since 2020. It looks this world has gone completely wild and for many it has become excruciating heavy..
We’ve been reading about the different layers of prayer and kinds of prayer in “The Inner Kingdom” by Kallistos Ware, in our catechumen class (which I still attend, even 10 years after converting to Orthodoxy! ) It has been very helpful. Thank you for this video.
Metropolitan Kallistos was a wonderful human being, my dear one. He had both the knowledge and the experience to speak of these things, and he is a sure guide forward in our faith for all of us. May we all be blessed.
Father, please can you make a video on coming back to God's grace after falling to despair? Everyone says not to despair but no one seems to address how to come back after experiencing despair. Please father, I misunderstood the gospel, through my own pride I thought that God wouldn't forgive willful sins, this caused me to despair(or at least feel despair) but I haven't stopped praying and fighting to come back to Christ. Please father, I have no one to talk to about this or get advice from. I know God can heal me, I just struggle to accept God's grace God bless
Take heart Brother. I have also thought similairly becuase of my own terrible pride. If we step into the orthodox church and become a part of it, we will no longer interpret things as we think but the truth of the church will guide us from evil delusions, i am sure of it. Just keep praying and have faith in God, who died on the cross, who goes after the lost sheep, who searches for the lost coin and rejoices when it is found, that if you call to him in humility he will accept. To be honest I struggle with this alot as well but we must believe the words of the saints are true. God Bless you.
Although I pray two often three times a day, misfortune, financial desperation, attacks on my mind are getting really serious and cause a severe perilizing effect on my daily life. Today it got so worse i shouted out and said to Satan and all his evil spirits that they are as stupid as they come and have only capacity to harm the innocent and that they are even more stupid fighting Christ before they where thrown out of heaven. I pretty much declared war on them for what misery they cause world wide.. I also cried out to Christ why hé abbandoned me, at least the last month it feels that way…I feel lost..
I have been watching these incredibly profound and spiritually insightful videos of yours for a few months now; I must say, I have a growing desire/inclination to speak with you, in person or otherwise. How is it that I can make contact with you, if at all possible?
Thank you Father I've had the experience of the fork in the road and I've seen where both forks go. But I work everyday with atheists. So after a while you start to think you might just be delusional. To hear someone else put into words what you know to be true is efficacious.
Hello Fr Serpahim, im dealing with spritual struggle and with the evil one, i have commited a sin, and i feel that i have not been forgiven, ive been constantly fighting, with no end, but i feel like their is no salvation? is this a fake fight, feeling or faith, please Pray to the Lord For me for Guideance.
Father Seraphim thank you for your wonderful videos! I have a question and as ive seen many others are in the same boat as me. Is online piracy (reading free books,watching free movies online) sinful? Are we stealing in any way? Ive been really bothered by this question and i feel like i have no one to ask. I enjoy reading and it can get particularly expensive but i don't want by any means to put it over my relationship with God. If you could answer this question i would be more than thankful!
Fr I would like to ask as one yet baptised is it possible to attain a level of prayer prior to baptism? And by level I suppose a real and I deluded prayer. I’m very deluded and often puffed up
Părinte, blagosloviti! Ma numesc sora Oana, stau în lume, în Craiova, nu în mănăstire.Cum as putea discuta cu Sf V, pt îndrumări, sfaturi duhovnicesti?Iertați!Sora Oana
Forgive me for saying this, but referring yourself as nothing is not humility, I see the wholeness of the Father and Son in you. If Pride is money, then confidence is the proper management of it, to donate it all unto the poor as a spiritual Father leaves the children to follow in seeing themselves with the same nothingness. Wholeness is whole. I could be wrong, but my own mother and father made the same mistake in me, and the pain of seeing them in nothingness while I was whole left me feeling a nothingness versus the fullness when they had it and I remembered it. Forgive me again, I don’t mean to stumble if I do, but I must point at you as I see the Son and the Father, as Good and Whole, without Pride, but with confidence.
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May God bless us all!
Cred Doamne ajută necredinței mele!
Amin! Amin! Amin!
Beloved Father, thank you for this wonderful message. I praise God for sending me a note of consolation during a time of dryness. How we know these will happen, and even if we feel we are prepared for their onslaught they can take us by surprise. Sometimes a little note like yours is how God reminds us how deeply He loves us. We just need to persevere and trust in His love and compassion. God bless all of you. Suzanne McKenzie, Widow of Prayer
Thank you, father Seraphim. Your words are nourishement for me. I am quite chronically ill, it is sometimes very frustrating and painful, you've just reminded me what I am been taught by the disease. Mainly patience and humility of course. And your etymology of "crisis" is correct 🙂
Please pray for me☦️ Peace be with all of you☦️
Thank you for this teaching, I really thought that there was something wrong with me, I thought that because I wasn’t having this moments of bliss I no longer had the Holy Spirit of God, I will read prayers and keep in mind that God knows when to grace me with this moments of bliss.
deeply appreciated.. being in communion with the Lord beyond words.. feels sacred and holy.... thankyou
Amin!!!!!. 😌🤌💕.
I'm dying spiritually for so long I'm begging God for mercy and still say Jesus I trust in you.
Thank you Father, your videos are a consistent reminder of the light of Christ.
Glad your spine has healed up, God bless you to the core of your being
The Light of Christ is all we have, my dear one. In this darkness of the world, if we ever lose sight of His Light, we are al lost. This is the JOY of the Church: that even when we personally no longer see His Light (because we all go through periods of temptation), we are safely carried forward by the Church Herself until our eyes are open once again. May we all be blessed, dear one.
Powerful. Thank you, brother. Praying for you.
Truly Christ has risen
Thanks Father. You teaching me to stay in my cell was so helpful. I will,listen and learn from,you. In gratitude from Tasmania
Thank you Father. I'm studying to become an Orthodox Christian and your talks are very helpful 🙏
Blessings to you and happy holidays father!
Thank you dear father, you are so wise beyond your years. God bless you and your monastery!
May God bless us all, dear one. May Christ return upon you a hundredfold the love you have for our Monasteries.
@@mullmonasteryFr Seraphim. Please pray for my vocation. I was invited on a come and see after many rejections due to my physical and mental health. And my age. I'll be 40 in two months. I'm also repentant for a sex change in my youth. Do you think a monastic life would be too much for me?
Părinte drag, mult ne-am bucura dacă ar exista subtitrare în limba română! Și vă rog, ajutați-ne cu rugăciunea în aceste zile, să ne dăruiască bunul Dumnezeu cele de folos pentru neam, pentru țară și pentru dreapta credință! Iertare pentru îndrăzneală! Rogu-vă, iertați și binecuvântați! Doamne ajută!
Știu că acest video este prezentat cu traducere în limba romană pe site-ul Agenției Basilica, dar eu m-am gândit la toate celelalte prezentări de pe acest canal. Încă o dată, vă rog, iertați și binecuvântați! Doamne ajută!
Sfinte Apostole Andrei ai mila de poporul tau si ne uneste in pace si armonie! ❤
Amen 🙏 God bless you
✝️ ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕС ☀️
✝️🙏 БОГ С НАМИ ПРОТИВ ЗЛА И ИСКУШЕНИЙ ✝🙏⛪️🕊️❤
It's Deep❤️
Binecuvântați, părinte! Rugați-vă pentru neamul nostru românesc atât de dezbinat în aceste clipe!
Sfantul Andrei sa ne uneasca si sa ne ajute! Amin
The Holy Spirit is in every one of these messages, I am certain.
Thank you so much.
Thankyou Fr. Seraphim for these videos. As an orthodox christian, I am always reminded that everything belongs to GOD. Thank you for always helping others to understand and learn more about Christ, his teachings, and his beloved orthodox church. Christ be with you.
❤ Dear Lord have mercy on us !🙏
I started crying listening to this video thank you so much, god needed me to see this video. May god bless you until the ages of ages.
May your tears be tears of repentance, my dear one, and may they reshape your heart into a humble cave where the Lord Himself may come to dwell, like on that blessed night when He was born in a cave from His All-pure Mother.
Bless you Father, praying for you daily from across the water in County Antrim.
I will put this in my heart and continue to seek Him. Thank you.
Remember us in your prayers, dear one, and may we all be blessed.
I love your ministry Father seraphim, may the Lord nourish and keep you.
Daer Father, plaese pray for Sarah. Thank you. Charlotte.
I loved this sweet message of yours. It was just what I needed to hear after yesterday, which was Thanksgiving. I wish to thank you for all you do as a Priest and a Monk. I am sure many others who listen to you feel the same. I send you and all of your companions' peace of heart, love and light. I pray every day for your safety and health. May God bless you all.
Dear father , you managed to put into words something I could never describe . I am no saint but the 2 times in my entire life I felt so deeply the grace of God , were preceded by a God led repentance in prayer and confession over my inability to see , feel or love him and my superficial spiritual life. And I without explanation woke up a different person from those 2 moments. I don’t think about them lots because I fear pride but I hold them close to my heart so deeply they drive me when I’m completely dry. 🙏🥰 Thank you for the reminder of Gods bountiful grace ✝️✝️
Where sin is , grace abounds…
There is a very fine line between holding these gifts before the eyes of our conscience, so we may be nourished by them, and not abusing them, which would lead to pride and, a step later, to cynicism and then, immediately, loss of faith. This line can only be walked with fear and humility before the Lord.
**The message of the last few minutes of this video are SO important…🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
what a beautiful video father, thank you so much! ❤☦
Return unto thy rest, o my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. Thank you for your messages of hope and faith, Fr Seraphim. Amen, Amen, amen❤
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, there is a little prayer containing these words 'sanctify those who put their faith in you' - somehow, these words have always touched me more than most other prayers. May we all be blessed, dear one
True. ❤
The first time I’ve ever been this early! Thank you for your wisdom Father! May you have a blessed nativity fast.
We are a few days away from the Feast of St Nicholas, my dear one. That is when, by tradition, we start singing Carols - from then on, nothing is 'from here' anymore, everything feels miraculous, beautiful in a way that cannot possibly be of this world. May we all be blessed, my dear one
Thanks always Father Seraphim ❤. I love your videos they bring me much comfort and help. Praise our Lord Jesus Christ ❤
Glory be to God for all good things. my dear one. Please keep us in your prayers. We all need love, we all need support.
@ I treasure your reply dear Father Seraphim. You are all in my thoughts and prayers ❤️
I was first touched by the Holy Spirit and prayed fearfully shaking while I was lost and living in sin. I've been searching for that ever since and it's led me to Orthodoxy. Thank you Father for this clarification.
The world does NOT need philosophical spirituality that a mere few can understand much less benefit from. We need Padre Pio type spirituality, beautifully simplistic and very effective. “Don’t lose hope, pray often and don’t worry”.
May God bless all.
God bless
Our love in Christ, dear Andrei. A blessed and happy Feast on your Name Day!
Thank you Father and God bless you.
Dear Father, in this spiritual sense I am a severely malnourished and crying child who has seen a beautiful face and stubbornly refuses a bottle of milk. Thank you for your advice, even though I have already heard it from my father. I hope I will survive. Please pray that I may begin to eat spiritually.
Thank you as always.
Thank you, Father. I needed that. Fri. 29/11/24.6.40p.m.
Glory be to God, my dear one. Please remember us in your prayers.
Thank you brother. For, look! I create new heavens and a new earth; for past troubles will be forgotten, hidden from my eyes. Praise Yeshua.
May God forgive us all, may His Love cover all our sin and may we all open ourselves to His Light before darkness comes for each of us. May we all be blessed, my dear one.
11:46 God is too good and it's like because of my repeated, conscious sin and don't want to believe that his greatness is on me . Sorry for theses awful words but the only thing i understand is that i'm sick of me. And I don't understand why God keep weaking me up everyday. He gives me chances and i dont want to despair but it's so hard. I feel like am praying for repentance for similar sins EVERY DAY. And when am reading the prayers of saints, i feel so bad saying >. Feeling so hypocrit and bad because i'm so bad in spiritual life and when i > at something BOOM pride. I don't know. Glory to God for his mercy
Please pray for me
This was such a beautiful video
Thank you Fr Seraphim. We ask so much of our Lord who is so loving and merciful, but what do we give back? Thank you again.
Dear Fr Seraphim thanks sincerely for these uplifting words. Its really helpfull in this world of evil. I noticed a clear uptake in evilness since 2020.
It looks this world has
gone completely wild and for many it has become excruciating heavy..
We’ve been reading about the different layers of prayer and kinds of prayer in “The Inner Kingdom” by Kallistos Ware, in our catechumen class (which I still attend, even 10 years after converting to Orthodoxy! ) It has been very helpful. Thank you for this video.
Metropolitan Kallistos was a wonderful human being, my dear one. He had both the knowledge and the experience to speak of these things, and he is a sure guide forward in our faith for all of us. May we all be blessed.
Father, please can you make a video on coming back to God's grace after falling to despair? Everyone says not to despair but no one seems to address how to come back after experiencing despair. Please father, I misunderstood the gospel, through my own pride I thought that God wouldn't forgive willful sins, this caused me to despair(or at least feel despair) but I haven't stopped praying and fighting to come back to Christ. Please father, I have no one to talk to about this or get advice from. I know God can heal me, I just struggle to accept God's grace
God bless
Take heart Brother. I have also thought similairly becuase of my own terrible pride. If we step into the orthodox church and become a part of it, we will no longer interpret things as we think but the truth of the church will guide us from evil delusions, i am sure of it. Just keep praying and have faith in God, who died on the cross, who goes after the lost sheep, who searches for the lost coin and rejoices when it is found, that if you call to him in humility he will accept. To be honest I struggle with this alot as well but we must believe the words of the saints are true. God Bless you.
Although I pray two often three times a day, misfortune, financial desperation, attacks on my mind are getting really serious and cause a severe perilizing effect on my daily life.
Today it got so worse i shouted out and said to Satan and all his evil spirits that they are as stupid as they come and have only capacity to harm the innocent and that they are even more stupid fighting Christ before they where thrown out of heaven. I pretty much declared war on them for what misery they cause world wide..
I also cried out to Christ why hé abbandoned me, at least the last month it feels that way…I feel lost..
Exquisite teaching ❤❤❤
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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I have been watching these incredibly profound and spiritually insightful videos of yours for a few months now; I must say, I have a growing desire/inclination to speak with you, in person or otherwise.
How is it that I can make contact with you, if at all possible?
Thank you Father
I've had the experience of the fork in the road and I've seen where both forks go. But I work everyday with atheists. So after a while you start to think you might just be delusional. To hear someone else put into words what you know to be true is efficacious.
Hello Fr Serpahim, im dealing with spritual struggle and with the evil one, i have commited a sin, and i feel that i have not been forgiven, ive been constantly fighting, with no end, but i feel like their is no salvation? is this a fake fight, feeling or faith, please Pray to the Lord For me for Guideance.
Does God still interviene divinely..do Miracles still happen when people are very ill?
Father Seraphim thank you for your wonderful videos! I have a question and as ive seen many others are in the same boat as me. Is online piracy (reading free books,watching free movies online) sinful? Are we stealing in any way? Ive been really bothered by this question and i feel like i have no one to ask. I enjoy reading and it can get particularly expensive but i don't want by any means to put it over my relationship with God. If you could answer this question i would be more than thankful!
Fr I would like to ask as one yet baptised is it possible to attain a level of prayer prior to baptism? And by level I suppose a real and I deluded prayer. I’m very deluded and often puffed up
Părinte, blagosloviti! Ma numesc sora Oana, stau în lume, în Craiova, nu în mănăstire.Cum as putea discuta cu Sf V, pt îndrumări, sfaturi duhovnicesti?Iertați!Sora Oana
Forgive me for saying this, but referring yourself as nothing is not humility, I see the wholeness of the Father and Son in you. If Pride is money, then confidence is the proper management of it, to donate it all unto the poor as a spiritual Father leaves the children to follow in seeing themselves with the same nothingness. Wholeness is whole.
I could be wrong, but my own mother and father made the same mistake in me, and the pain of seeing them in nothingness while I was whole left me feeling a nothingness versus the fullness when they had it and I remembered it.
Forgive me again, I don’t mean to stumble if I do, but I must point at you as I see the Son and the Father, as Good and Whole, without Pride, but with confidence.