It's All about the Heart- Sermon by Metropolitan Demetrius

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  • Опубликовано: 2 май 2024
  • Sermon delivered by His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrius of America on Holy Unction & Bridegroom Matins of Holy Thursday, April 18/May 1, 2024, at Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Monastery, Cobleskill, NY. For more videos visit: / orthodoxtradition
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Комментарии • 87

  • @nathanbuhrke3146
    @nathanbuhrke3146 2 месяца назад +36

    I'm not orthodox yet, but your sermons have touched upon my heart. Thank you for sharing these teachings. I'm truly moved

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +11

      May God bless and save you.
      Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

    • @know_not_wickedness
      @know_not_wickedness 2 месяца назад +8

      I have watched the sermons and numerous services all through the last two years both before and after my conversion. They really capture what I think of as true Orthodoxy.

    • @eddiedelisio
      @eddiedelisio Месяц назад +5

      I’m with you. We are blessed to be here receiving these teachings by the grace of God. May we obtain mercy along our journey!

    • @know_not_wickedness
      @know_not_wickedness Месяц назад +2

      @@eddiedelisio Amen

  • @sisselrudshaug1106
    @sisselrudshaug1106 2 месяца назад +28

    I have never known anything about the Orthodox Church, only Protestant and Catholic. I have thought that you are the ones who worship idols, now I know that you worship God, and everything and all the saints in God. While, for example, many celebrities and many in Hollywood are false idols, and that one worships as an example something materialistic. And I thought it was evil to call someone other than God father. Now I know that of course, you spiritual fathers speak God's truth and are in the holy spirit, and then is it God's when we call you fathers. There is also something close safe and familiar about holy fathers. Very interesting and good that such humble people as you are the truth. Good to have found what I have to listen to in order to learn life's most important teachings.

  • @katrinalodaya3906
    @katrinalodaya3906 7 дней назад

    I listen to you everyday since i find your channel, recomended by my Presbiter ...
    Love your teaching so much. Thank you Metropolitan Demetrius..
    As a new convert.. your teaching is very precious to me..❤❤❤❤

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  6 дней назад

      God bless you. Thank you very much. If i may ask, who is your Presbyter?

  • @larap3187
    @larap3187 2 месяца назад +1

    Hristos a inviat !!!🔥🔥🔥

  • @elizabethcardinale6255
    @elizabethcardinale6255 2 месяца назад +16

    Thank you your Grace for all the teachings of our Orthodox faith.
    My struggles this particular fast has been beyond others.
    I’m so unworthy to even say our Lords name. Please continue your teachings. It brings me much hope, that even I can be saved.

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +4

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

    • @paulgentile1024
      @paulgentile1024 2 месяца назад

      thank you for doing divine liturgy in English..!....the words are so beautiful..we must truly understand what we are hearing

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  Месяц назад

      Yes!

  • @felipecardenas-tamara
    @felipecardenas-tamara 2 месяца назад +14

    Christ is the Lord of all the Universe. God is our Lord. Lets praise the Holy Trinity. Thanks for this Holy and inspired words. God bless you Your Eminence and all your monastery.

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +3

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @anthonydunn8199
    @anthonydunn8199 2 месяца назад +11

    O Come, let us worship and bow down before our King and God.
    O Come, let us worship and bow down before Christ, our King and God.
    O Come, let us worship and bow down to Christ Himself, our King and God.

  • @gudarstorst169
    @gudarstorst169 2 месяца назад +1

    Jesus help, set your eyes on jesu

  • @basileiosBbb1
    @basileiosBbb1 2 месяца назад +13

    Thank You, Your Holiness, for all Your words!

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +4

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @drjohnashfield3915
    @drjohnashfield3915 2 месяца назад +10

    Nourishing and informative as usual. Thank you.

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +2

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @ElenaPetrovsky-je8hk
    @ElenaPetrovsky-je8hk 2 месяца назад +6

    Thank you for your beautiful sermon i have been applying all of what you spoke about asking OUR Lord Jesus Christ son God our Saviour for mercy and guidness

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @TranslatedAssumption
    @TranslatedAssumption 2 месяца назад +8

    May Great and Holy Friday bestow many blessings upon you and your dear ones ☦️

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +1

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @OrthodoxChristianTreasures
    @OrthodoxChristianTreasures 2 месяца назад +5

    Most Holy Theotokos please pray for us and strengthen us to repent of our sins and passions and have a peaceful, blameless, and holy repose at the time that God wills.

  • @francinebotton2635
    @francinebotton2635 2 месяца назад +7

    Thank you so much, you spoke directly to my heart!

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @Music-Visually
    @Music-Visually 2 месяца назад +5

    Thank You, Your Holiness - You are shining the Light of Christ through Your words 🙏

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +2

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @OrthodoxChristianTreasures
    @OrthodoxChristianTreasures 2 месяца назад +5

    Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg please pray for and protect us!
    Saint John the Wonderworker please pray for and protect us!

  • @yankaufmann9715
    @yankaufmann9715 24 дня назад

    Thank you

  • @Fotini13
    @Fotini13 2 месяца назад +3

    Thank you, Your Holiness - it is truly a beautiful blessing to be able to hear your words & have your sermons readily available to our eyes and ears no matter what day or time it is… so very humbling & healing.. ❤️‍🩹

  • @richard63204
    @richard63204 2 месяца назад +7

    We are listening. I am a Romanian - Hungarian, living in the UK.
    Thank you

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +1

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @Kikap6001
    @Kikap6001 2 месяца назад +7

    I was Waiting for this Service and Lesson Bless you. KYRIE YESU KRISTO ELEISON ALLELUIA AHMN KRISTOS ANESTI 🌿🌹☦️💜

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +1

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @georgiosrigas4207
    @georgiosrigas4207 2 месяца назад +4

    May God continue to bless you on your journey! Happy Easter and Happy Resurrection!

  • @bobfruit7400
    @bobfruit7400 2 месяца назад +1

    hristos voscrese, voistina voscres!

  • @solitaryone1536
    @solitaryone1536 2 месяца назад +1

    The Kingdom of God, is Like Unto a Fine Landscape Painting. That can Ony be Seen, by Those who Become, a Natural Part of its Scenery.

  • @elenygebru8387
    @elenygebru8387 Месяц назад +1

    Think you lord for everything you do for us and thank you for loving us❤❤ Amen

  • @RA-dx3rl
    @RA-dx3rl 2 месяца назад +3

    You have brought me closer to God! KALI ANASATSI☦️

  • @petergunn9149
    @petergunn9149 Месяц назад +1

    ☦️☦️☦️

  • @OrthodoxChristianTreasures
    @OrthodoxChristianTreasures 2 месяца назад +1

    Most Holy Theotokos please help me to pray for and forgive those who are under the influence of the Evil One and that I am not driven to despair by their actions. Christ is Risen!

  • @svetlanafleming2382
    @svetlanafleming2382 2 месяца назад

    Thank you 🙏 your holiness for your service and knowledge Amen ❤️🙏 l

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @wightclaudia
    @wightclaudia 2 месяца назад +4

    I wish Demetrius was my priest.
    What a lonely internet it is

    • @Fotini13
      @Fotini13 2 месяца назад +4

      What a blessing it is to have the internet and be able to hear him preach ☺️🙏

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  Месяц назад +1

      Christ is Risen!

  • @hokulani8
    @hokulani8 2 месяца назад +2

    🕊🙏🏼❤️

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +1

      God bless you. Have a blessed day. God grant us a blessed Resurrection!

  • @fadianasrallah1915
    @fadianasrallah1915 Месяц назад

    Iam trying to follow god, but i cant complete the way, so I need your help to deliver us a sermon about how we can fight distractions of minds, boredom in spiritual practices like prayers, bible reading and liturgy, and how to cure our heart inclination to mundane things.
    I need a practical steps and canon to follow in our today modern life.

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  Месяц назад

      Christ is Risen! These things have already been addressed in many sermons. Please listen to the sermons that are on this channel.

  • @teresaveal7695
    @teresaveal7695 2 месяца назад +1

    We are told Peter was following Jesus afar off. Then denied he knew him.
    This makes me want desperately to be up close to Jesus having daily crucified the flesh. Oh Jesus cover my black vile sin. I am so unworthy to be your child.

  • @mortalsclub
    @mortalsclub 2 месяца назад +1

    Please help me understand about Judas.
    In the Gospel Judas is said to have repented yet hung himself. What has happened to Judas? I feel so sorry for him.
    The Gospel said he repented. It was in the service of Holy Thursday.

    • @TheMikeSkvor
      @TheMikeSkvor 2 месяца назад +2

      As our Metropolitan has said many times throughout his sermons: he went to the wrong high priest. Since they didn’t care Judas fell into despair and hanged himself. It’s a sad state.

    • @mortalsclub
      @mortalsclub 2 месяца назад

      @@TheMikeSkvor I understand all that. But Judas repented. It’s in the Gospel.

    • @NoeticInsight
      @NoeticInsight 2 месяца назад +2

      ⁠@@mortalsclub repented just means to change one’s mind about something. So he realised his guilt and his wrong, he repented in that sense, but he did not repent in the full sense by going to Christ and asking for forgiveness. Which is a necessary step/part of completing repentance.
      He fell into despair and killed himself. He believed his sin against Jesus was so great that Jesus/God would never forgive him. That is why Judas, unfortunately, will be in hell. Not because God doesn’t want to forgive him, but because Judas is so overwhelmed by despair that he has no faith in God’s mercy. He will never ask for forgiveness because he doesn’t believe God will grant it. So he stays in perpetual guilt and grief. It’s very sad.
      That is why hell is permanent. Not because God hates people, not because He doesn’t want to forgive even those in hell. But because the fire of hell is actually God’s love and glory pouring out on them…but those who rejected God in this life will not be able to bear his glory and love. They will feel his love as burning fire because it is their self guilt and self damnation. They will feel so guilty for having rejected God’s love that they will never ever ask for forgiveness. They believe God won’t ever heal them and have mercy on them. That’s why His love burns them in hell. This is why hell is so teething and why we would never want anyone to go to hell and why we should pray even for the worst people for God to help them and have mercy on them and forgive them.

    • @OrthodoxTradition
      @OrthodoxTradition  2 месяца назад +10

      The translation can be a little misleading. The original Greek does not use the word "metania" which means repentance, but another word which could also be translated, "he thought it over."

    • @mortalsclub
      @mortalsclub 2 месяца назад +2

      @@OrthodoxTradition thank you. The English text should be corrected. Nonetheless He was obviously in distress and his “thinking over it”lead to his suicide. His hanging of himself can be interpreted as extreme despair for his betrayal of our Lord. I’m not condoning suicide. I just see Judas as someone who was seeking mercy and forgiveness- but how could he get it when God Himself is the one he betrayed?