Journey to Heaven | The life of an Orthodox Monastery (Subtitles in 13 Languages)
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2020
- Holy Royal and Stavropegic Monastery of Machairas "Journey to Heaven"
© 2020 Holy Royal and Stavropegic Monastery of Machairas
Subtitles: Ελληνικά, English, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Español, العربية, Türkçe, Pусский, Românesc, Polski, Kiswahili, ქართული.
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Narration: Father Joseph Coleman, Costas Charalampidis, Αlbion (Ilias) Land, Dimitry Rozental (Sag-Aftra)
On this visual tour, you will learn the history and the contemporary presence of the Monastery of Machairas - the buildings, the services of worship, as well as the daily life and various activities of the monks.
Music: Sotiris Karagiorgis, Evagoras Karagiorgis, Audio Network, Audioblocks.
Chants: Vatopedi Monastery, Abbot Arsenios, Machairas Monastery.
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Legend has it that an unknown hermit smuggled one of the 70 icons said to have been painted by Luke the Apostle secretly from Asia Minor to Cyprus. This icon of the Virgin Mary remained in its hiding place until the arrival of two other hermits from Palestine in 1145: Neophytos and Ignatius who stumbled across the icon in a cave. To reach it, they had to machete their way into the cave through the thick plant growth, so the icon assumed the name 'Machairotissa' in reference to the Greek word for knife μαχαίρι (Makhaira). The whole monastery founded on this site takes its name from this icon.
Following the death of Neophytos, Ignatios traveled with Prokopios (another hermit) to Constantinople in the year 1172 where they succeeded in obtaining financial assistance from the then Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos. The initial monastery was then enlarged by the monk Neilos in the early 13th century. He became the first abbot of the monastery (later he even became bishop of Tamassos). The monastery received further grants from two other Byzantine emperors: Emperor Isaac II Angelos granted cash and land in Nicosia and Emperor Alexios III Angelos donated 24 serfs.
The Byzantine era was followed by the period of Latin conquest (1192-1571).
The Monastery of Maheras participated actively in this resistance, and in 1231 two of its monks, Gerasimos and Gennadios received the crown of martyrdom, along with eleven other monks from the Monastery of the All-Holy Virgin of Kantara. In championing the holy faith of the Orthodox Church, these thirteen monks were burnt alive by the Latin conquerors, and have since been declared saints of the Church.
The period of Latin conquest ended with the occupation of the island by the Turks, who held it for three centuries (1571-1878).
During this period, a school was functioning at the monastery, where literacy, arts, and ecclesiastical music were taught. The monastery also contributed to the development of education by granting land for the establishment of the first Hellenic Academy, the Pancyprian High School in Lefkosia. In those years from the Monastery came forth Archbishop Kyprianos. His refusal to flee from Cyprus, to renounce his faith in order to survive, and his martyrdom at the hands of the Turks on the 9th of July, was a vivid example to the Christians, who were inspired not to deny their faith, but to endure the evils of slavery.
The English colonialists purchased the island from its Turkish conquerors in 1878.
During that period, the monastery was connected with the liberation struggle because Gregorios Afxentiou, the second in command of EOKA, often found refuge there and in its surrounding vicinity.
However, upon his having been betrayed, he was discovered in his hideout which is located near the monastery, and after a long battle, they burned him alive on the 3rd of March 1957.
The succession in the abbacy by the Athonite priest-monk Athanasios (1993) was an important milestone, as it marked the beginning of the modern history of the monastery.
The new abbot wholly renovated the monastery, structurally and spiritually, converting it into a coenobium according to the traditional models of the ancient coenobitic monasteries, which have survived through centuries on Mount Athos.
After the election of fr. Athanasios as Metropolitan of Limassol in 1999, he was succeeded as abbot by Archimandrite Arsenios. However, unexpectedly, he died, together with the Patriarch of Alexandria Petros, when the helicopter in which they were traveling crashed into the sea on the 11th of September 2004.
Today, the abbot of the monastery is His Eminence the Bishop of Ledra Epiphanios.
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The Orthodox faith is thriving!
What faith!! God is great and Christ has risen!!
This monastery must be protected at all costs and the monks.
Thank you for this video God bless you.
Glory to God! May God has mercy for His people! Good God, pls, forgive people! Amin
Thank you for giving me the blessing to participate in this beautiful film. Glory to God for all things!
Dear Ilias, the honor was ours to have your exceptional voice in the narrative. It was really professional work and we know you spent a lot of time and a lot of preparation.
Only we forgot to write the name of Fr. Joseph Coleman who narrated the voices of the Elders and this saddened us. Because he also spent a lot of time trying to give the best he could.
We wish both of you every blessing from God!
@@TheUncutMountain Yes, congratulations to Fr Joseph. A lovely voice his.
Your voice is like a safe and beautiful hug around where my heart resides 💕 thank you 🙏
You did a lovely job. The whole video is a pleasure to watch and to see. Thank you. Your prayers!
Hello how would one join a monastery
Thank you for this documentary. We are far from this natural beauty, fresh air, blue water of Cyprus n the Holy Monasteries constructed in different wonderful ways. Hard life, full of risks, danger to the life Holy Monks, made me tremble. What life, how committed the Monks r to their Lord God. God Almighty pour on all of u Holy Spirit with power fire wisdom n divine protection. Pl pray for us people in India to be Holy n committed n to love Lord Jesus with all our hearts!!! Ilove u all wonderful God loving people
እንዴት መታደል ነው በዚህ ቦታ እግዚአብሔርን እያመለኩ መኖር።ይህን የመሰለ ገዳም በማየቴ ደስ ብሎኛል እግዚአብሔር አምላካችን ኦርቶዶክስ ሀይማኖታችንን ይጠብቅልን
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Oh thank you so very much for this!! In these troubling times of worry, strife and anger, this feels like a glass of cool water on a hot day. I am an Orthodox christian and take great comfort in it - this film has made my comfort joyous!!
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I am touched in my heart ,thank you for this film. Christine
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Happy to know that Cyprus has such wonderful monasteries. I love the video with this kind of content. The monasteries are very beautiful and full of grace. I know how important to have monasteries as we also have many here in 🇪🇹 Ethiopia .They are sources of blessings to us.
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God bless you Ethiopian sisters and brothers. ☦️☦️☦️
My faith in Christ, in our Holy Orthodox Church, is stronger and more fulfilled now after I watched this film. Thank you ☦☦☦
Thank you, dear Zacchaeus. It is our pleasure that you contacted us to share your comment and your faith in Christ. We are glad that you are an Orthodox Christian and we realize that the distances are very small, as long as the common faith makes us one big family in Christ Jesus, our Lord! Thanks.
The most precious treasure that I am grateful to have is the orthodox faith.
Thank you so much for this documentary, hoping to visit Cyprus and its amazing monasteries.
Nicolas from Lebanon 🇱🇧
+ Christos Anesti +
Αληθώς Ανέστη!
I have visited this monastery many times. Thank you for this enlighting documentary ❤
With the way the world is on travel,I thought I'd visit some monasteries via RUclips.loving my trip.Thanks to my tour guide The Uncut Mountain🙏🏽☦️🖤💚❤️
ruclips.net/video/ob1mk0j4JXs/видео.html
PLEASE SEE THIS UNIQUE FILM THAT IS COMING WORLDWIDE SHOW
These monastic communities growing are light to our dark world.
@Anninos Christoforou are you searching to gain views?
@Anninos Christoforou instead of commenting you just put your videos. Seems like you are looking for views. This isn't very nice though.
@Anninos Christoforou ok then, I am sorry.
Minunat realizat! Mi-a bucurat sufletul!!! Slava Domnului și Preacuratei Sala Maici ❤❤❤❤
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Καταπληκτικό βίντεο την ευλογία των μοναχών να έχουμε που χωρίς αυτούς δεν θα είμασταν τιποτα
Amen amen amen our father blessing come to us
Well done. I have had the honor of visiting three of the monasteries mentioned at the beginning of you presentation. Nice to see a documentary of the monasteries in Cyprus.
My kura belongs here, was tonsured in the Holy monastery of Panagia maxairas.ay God bless us all
Dear Father Athanasios, you are our brother and part of our heart!
سلام للمواضع المقدسة الرب يحفظنا بصلواتكم 🙏🕯🙏
Wonderful. Just wonderful.
Makes the soul long to be there, but, alas, for many reasons...
So beautiful
Glory to God! Thank you for this blessing
We thank you!
Absolutely wonderful. Glory to God, Christ is Risen!
Woooow amazing 👏🏼 😍 🙌🏼 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Am so proud to be Orthodox
Thanks for sharing the journey to the Kingdom of God within us 🕊️☦️🔥
Kyrie Iesou Christe eleison me
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Great movie !!! Thanks ! God bless you ! I kiss your hands ! Pray you for us and we pray for you , all of us great parents !!! ❤
Quelle chance d'être moine dans un pareil endroit !
Dziękuję! Spasi Gospodi!!!
დიდი მადლობა იმისთვის რომ ქართულადაც არის.
მადლობას გიხდით, რომ მხარი დაგვიჭირეთ. ილოცე ჩვენთვის. 🙏
Desde España mil gracias a los hermanos monjes gracias y en Español estoy leyendo que Dios les vendida por este video me acojo a sus Oraciones LA PAZ CON VOSOTROS
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Interesting documentary. The commentators voice is so soothing and fatherly, very comforting💕🧘♂️💕
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Incredibly beautiful and inspiring! Glory to Jesus Christ! Thank you for this production-I am greatly encouraged!
Glory to God! Thanks!
So beautiful and inspiring! I too belong to a contemplative Order. Hence this vedio of remarkable beauty really brought a sort of revivla in my own spirit! Muchas Gracias! Viva Cristus!
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Wunderschönes Porträt! So kennt man Klöster gar nicht... danke für diesen aussergewöhnlichen Einblick.
God bless you for these good works! Please continue to share these jewels!
Thank you, we will!
This was so wonderful to watch, thank you very much! The inspiring story, the narration, the filmography. I love everything about it :) Glory to God!
Many thanks 🙏 Glory to God!
A unique film from the monastery on Mount Athos, which was shot in 4 chroma, is coming to cinemas worldwide
Please spread the word ruclips.net/video/ob1mk0j4JXs/видео.html
An awesome video ! Thank you so much 🙏
is it just me? or is this AWESOME?!?
Great docu!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
Lol the hobbit music in the back
Im glad someone else noted this 😊
GRACIAS DESDE EL FONDO DE MI CORAZON GRACIAS
Ιερά Μόνη Μάχαιρα το καταφύγιο των Χριστιανών έχω λάβει πολλά θαύματα από την Παναγία μας την Μσχαιριωτισσα την τιμώ και τη δοξαζω
Είμαστε πολύ τυχεροί που έχουμε τέτοιους Άγιους Γέροντες όπως τον. ΆΓΙΟ ΓΈΡΟΝΤΑ Αθανάσιο και τον Άγιο Γέροντα Επιφανειο που κρατούν την Ορθοδοξία και την Κύπρο μας Ζωντανή και για μένα εινε το οξυγονο
Αμήν!
Christ is Risen.
He is risen indeed!!!
Glory to God. What a beautiful video. God bless all who worked so hard on it. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a sinner 💖 🙏🇦🇺
The birds singing is obviously put here as it's steady through the start.
Which nature does have her own orchestra. Which it'd be nice to be where there's plenty of food in the wild. It'd be good to have friends on an even keel, no worldly pecking order, where of others do not act like fools, it really isn't needed.
Wonderful movie! Please add العربية in the description, subtitles section, to reflect that arabic subtitles do exist for the video. God bless!
Dear Maher, the العربية was added, thanks for your reminding. And thanks for your help on creating the subtitles. Also please thank Gregoria (Roula). Without your help it was not possible to add the subtitles!
You are very welcome, God bless 🙏☦️
My lovely Meteora!
Замечательно
Russian version here: ruclips.net/video/9zApT4t_odA/видео.html
that's it... i'm going!
Hellelunyai🙏🙏🙏🙏
Looks good. Which the Orthodox also have a skate, which is a monastery but is made for couples. It would seem ideal for me. But finding a woman that is compatible and desires such?
9:48 One has to be a metallic soul-less machine to kill one of these bearded soft plushies...These monks are so soft and fluffy...I want to snuggle him in my arms....
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The screen is not showing up.
Which screen?
@@TheUncutMountain Now today it is. The screen where the video is shown. My computer buffers a lot, I think the trouble was probably on a slow connection on my end. It's fine now and I'm looking foreward to watching the video. From the comments here, it sounds wonderful. I just got in the mail today "The Lost History of Christianity" by Philip Jenkins, which goes into the 1,000 years of Early Orthodox Christianity that most
"Western European" Christians like myself know nothing about.
Hope you will like it
Soundtrack please 21:00-22:10 🙏
"Cold Mountains" by Sunna Wehrmeijer
@@TheUncutMountain Thank you 🙏
At least, as an alternative, women can go on these pilgrimages in place of Mount Athos. ❤
I don't bow to icons nor do I kiss any man's hand nor do I call anyone Father nor Rabbi. Yeshua taught His followers this and to call only ADONAI-Father and to bow only to ADONAI and to call Yeshua-Rabbi. I live Monastic in America alone with ADONAI. Such peace indeed to follow ADONAI and not man made religion.
Do you have pictures of your loved ones? When you miss one, don't you kiss his photo? Does that means worhiping them? Kissibg the icons is sopmething that happens in the church from the early years.
Not the place to proselytise or spread your heresies, depart in peace.
These monasteries are not as one living in poverty as true Monastics do. It's luxury in these monasteries. No suffering there🤓
It's easy to say that when you live alone. The real struggle is when you live among brothers and you do hospitality for all the people that love Christ and are coming to the monastery. This is the real struggle, not when you live alone and making your own will.
Rejoice in the Lord.
Glory to God ❤