I'm born into Orthodoxy, but I'm glad I didn't just blindly follow it. I saw how pure Orthodoxy is in its soul and I just had to follow it. I can't wait to learn more about the revelations we got. Slava Bogu!
*Try this exercise, since we speak about waiting. Try NOT to utter a lie, and speak only the truth, indefinitely long. And if you cannot speak the truth, keep silent. Your soul will be saved.*
St Simeon the Stylite is amazing. But don’t forget those that made his time atop the pillar possible: those who fed him, watered him and removed his excrement, and who informed him of the happening in the world.
I lived in Loma Linda and went to school in Riverside in the 1980’s. It is a beautiful place for your beautiful church. My husband and I want to visit your church one day since we live close in Lacey, Washington. God Bless You Always!
Hi Vicki Good morning. I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌺🌺🌺
Happy new year of Faith, Hope and Love to you Fr. Josiah!🙏 I am Roman Catholic and I love all branches of Eastern Orthodoxy. I have benefited from your witness and teaching on the internet. Thank you for all you do to preach the Kingdom of God.
Thank you father, it is the new year due to St Dyonisius Exiguus an important Saint and author who invented Anno Domini and came from Dobrogea, Romania where I grew up.
I know you get so many thank yous Fr, but this message really speaks to me at this time. I haven't converted as yet and it has been a struggle that weighs me down at times. This is very uplifting and just the encouragement that I need right now. Thank you Fr Josiah & Blessings to you for sharing this comforting inspiration. Peace🙏
I love and miss you so much Father , I watch ever everyone one of these , thank you so much for all your sacrifices Lord Willing will come up on sunday 10/22 for your most magnificent, beautiful l Liturgy, at the most magnificent and most beautiful Saint Andrews ❤️🙏🏻✝️🌷
Thank you SO very much Father...for all you ministry to His Church and Bride. I read R&S as a Reformed PCA/Elder & CREC inquirer, & many podcast (Chrismated H-Sat 2014) before This excellent one. Your Already...then Not-Yet Waiting is excellent...Well Done! YET...I kept waiting for you to lay out Rm 8:18-25 for us! ;-) This passage became daily/memorized & dear to my grief/yearning since my dear wife Debbie of 47-yrs reposed 11/17/2022 (5 yrs HS/College sweetheart! 8-Kids/20-grands!) I love how the Apostle begins with our sufferings With the Creation...then to Us -- groaning/yearning..."for the Adoption, the Res of the Body! But then to your point, and our Hope wrap-up: "But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance!" How wonderful is that...for Your reflection!!! Maybe a quick Addendum is in order here!? Bless and Keep you thriving in His tender mercies Father.
Thank you so much Father! I'm just become you newest subscriber. I'm not Orthodox, just someone who pursues wisdom wherever it might be found, and you have a lot of wisdom. God bless you.
Thank you Father. While listening it occured to me that there is also a parallel with Creation - just as Christ created the world and invited us to fulfil it by bringing the world beyond Eden under dominion, so too He created a new Way, inviting us to embody it. Would you agree?
Thank you for your blessings Fr. Josiah. The Theological Concepts behind Digital Blessings are quite true and profound... Especially since I can re-start this video and receive a Blessing from the Holy Spirit through a Father of Christ :) 🙏 God is Omnipresent. Even on the Internet.
Much respect for your teachings. When I listened to this, a few night ago, I made a note. There is something called the "Mandela effect". And it is changing bible verses. The Lion laying down with the Lamb, as you say at 9.15 minutes, has been changed to the Wolf. I am so glad to hear you use the original version. It confirms, for me, that those of us who are older, remember that version. ❤
My husband and I came into the Byzantine Catholic Church last year after being Protestant for over 40 years. We are Orthodox Christians, we love The Divine Liturgy and The Lord Our God and the Theotokos. ☦️
Byzantine Catholic Church is NOT Eastern Orthodox Church. They are as fake as some group can be... looking and feeling like true EO but in union with the arch-heretic of Rome. PEOPLE.! BE AWARE OF THESE FAKES.!
I have a friend who is still very concerned about going, joining, and becoming a catechumen, and then in the end, deciding it's not for her. She hates the idea of the emotional and spiritual roller coaster it would be.
In case you see this comment, Fr Josiah. Would you please do a video discussing the Holy Eucharist and everything a Christian should know about it? Who can take it? How often? Who can't take it and so on? Thank you!
I am new to the orthodox church, when at confession how do I start it? What words do I use to begin my confession before confessing all my sins? Might be a dumb question but just curious
Father, a major issue I have about Orthodoxy is how splintered it is along ethnic lines. What Orthodoxy in America is multicultural? Or do seekers choose which ethnic tradition to join with?
I think it appears more splintered from the outside than you would experience inside a local church. For example, I have a Greek church near me that I visited several times before becoming a catechumen. They host a greek festival every year and the greek people there do seem to embrace their cultural background. However, they say the Lord’s prayer in about 7 or more languages, and not being greek myself I did feel very welcome there. Hope that helps! You should see what churches are in your local area
Father, I am in South Africa. Do you know or have any connections with any Orthodox Church in the Eastern Cape province that I am limited to because of my studies. I have tried, but I could not find it on campus- Nelson Mandela University.
The series producers and actors support the gay agenda. The series is not Biblical accurate and even quoted the heretical Book of Mormon "I am the law" instead of the "Before Abraham was, I AM" passage, which clearly is an attack on the divinity of our Lord.
Hello, father! Miguel here from Portugal. God bless you and keep you. I was just listening to your exposition on the rapture and I was left with this doubt: satan was bound and thrown into the bottomless pit for a thousand years after Jesus conquered death on the cross. Satan couldn't deceive the nations during that time. So, are we currently in those one thousand years with satan released and under his deceit now?
I apologise for my ignorance but was the Holy Spirit present in the Old Testament or only after the Resurrection of Christ? Did the Old Testament prophets speak directly with God or through the Holy Spirit?
Allegories and parable are timeless in time called vanities looking and waiting for whats in man asleep to Spirit flesh thinks dead. ”We will take a simple little verse and show you why it is not addressed to the natural man, Ecclesiastes 3:15: “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.” The “natural man” cannot grasp that, for to him reality is based only on the evidence of the senses. The man of reason could justify the verse’s end, saying if it has any meaning then the writer must mean recurrence. The sun comes every day and the moon completes its cycle and the seasons come and go. If we took a picture of the universe today, the scientists can compute how long it will take to return to this point in the picture. So the intellectual man could justify the verse; but that is not what is meant, for it is addressed not to the man of reason or the man of sense, but to the man of Imagination. What is it all about? “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been, and God seeks what has been driven away.”
Not just book smart, but spiritually as well and yet humble and loving. He is also an example of Christ in how he lives. A true man of God in these dark and evil days. May God continue to grant him good strength and love to bless and teach us by his faithfulness to Christ our Lord.
@@nullclass0813 I am no scholar but yes and yes. I believe the Eastern Orthodox Church is “The True and Original Body of Jesus Christ” which the Father sent the Holy Spirit to fill the Jewish followers of Christ in the upper room as Jesus told them to wait for so they could preach the gospel in different tongues (languages) on the day of Pentecost to their non believing Jews as written in the book Acts chapter 2. It is the Church complete with all the gifts given by the Holy Spirit, which has continued on in for the last 2000 years and will last forever. I know this is hard to believe, as it was for me and many outsiders and skeptics but if you ask God and study history you will eventually come to this knowledge and certainty. Glory be to God for He never left us nor has forsaken us. He is faithful and true! And the gates of Hell have not or ever will prevail against it! Amen 🙏
I will be baptised tomorrow.
God bless you !
@@voievod9260 Thank you.
That's awesome.
I am finally Home. I was received through baptism and named Timothy.
@@Jonathan_Reuben_G welcome home brother in Christ
Fear and pride, Lord have mercy on me.
Stay Faithful Brother
Thank you Fr Trenham for wisdom. You helped me come to Orthodoxy.
Glory to God!
Finally going to become a catechumen tomorrow very excited.
Happy for you! I hope to start mine soon
Chad Eorlund has left his false gods for the true One!
congratulations!! I became a catechumen last Sunday!!
Glory to God!
Became one last Sunday. Congratulations!
I'm born into Orthodoxy, but I'm glad I didn't just blindly follow it. I saw how pure Orthodoxy is in its soul and I just had to follow it. I can't wait to learn more about the revelations we got. Slava Bogu!
THANKS be to God we have
Fr Josiah !!🎇🥰
*Try this exercise, since we speak about waiting. Try NOT to utter a lie, and speak only the truth, indefinitely long. And if you cannot speak the truth, keep silent. Your soul will be saved.*
God bless you and your flock, Father. Always uplifting!
St Simeon the Stylite is amazing. But don’t forget those that made his time atop the pillar possible: those who fed him, watered him and removed his excrement, and who informed him of the happening in the world.
God be with you as well Fr. Trenham! May your days always be blessed in this wonderous new year! Peace be with you.
Fr. Josiah may this be the year of the Lord in the lives of the faithful amin
I lived in Loma Linda and went to school in Riverside in the 1980’s. It is a beautiful place for your beautiful church. My husband and I want to visit your church one day since we live close in Lacey, Washington. God Bless You Always!
Hi Vicki Good morning. I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌺🌺🌺
Happy new year of Faith, Hope and Love to you Fr. Josiah!🙏 I am Roman Catholic and I love all branches of Eastern Orthodoxy. I have benefited from your witness and teaching on the internet. Thank you for all you do to preach the Kingdom of God.
Thank you father, it is the new year due to St Dyonisius Exiguus an important Saint and author who invented Anno Domini and came from Dobrogea, Romania where I grew up.
I live in wonderment!💕💕
I know you get so many thank yous Fr, but this message really speaks to me at this time. I haven't converted as yet and it has been a struggle that weighs me down at times. This is very uplifting and just the encouragement that I need right now. Thank you Fr Josiah & Blessings to you for sharing this comforting inspiration. Peace🙏
May God give you strength and all of us!
Thanks father I also wish you all the best, happiness and health to you and your family.
I love and miss you so much Father , I watch ever everyone one of these , thank you so much for all your sacrifices Lord Willing will come up on sunday 10/22 for your most magnificent, beautiful l Liturgy, at the most magnificent and most beautiful Saint Andrews ❤️🙏🏻✝️🌷
Thank you SO very much Father...for all you ministry to His Church and Bride. I read R&S as a Reformed PCA/Elder & CREC inquirer, & many podcast (Chrismated H-Sat 2014) before This excellent one. Your Already...then Not-Yet Waiting is excellent...Well Done!
YET...I kept waiting for you to lay out Rm 8:18-25 for us! ;-) This passage became daily/memorized & dear to my grief/yearning since my dear wife Debbie of 47-yrs reposed 11/17/2022 (5 yrs HS/College sweetheart! 8-Kids/20-grands!) I love how the Apostle begins with our sufferings With the Creation...then to Us -- groaning/yearning..."for the Adoption, the Res of the Body! But then to your point, and our Hope wrap-up:
"But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance!" How wonderful is that...for Your reflection!!!
Maybe a quick Addendum is in order here!? Bless and Keep you thriving in His tender mercies Father.
Thank you so much Father! I'm just become you newest subscriber. I'm not Orthodox, just someone who pursues wisdom wherever it might be found, and you have a lot of wisdom.
God bless you.
Fr Bless, thank you!
Beautiful!
Thank you! For your wonderful videos. 🌺🌺I am Baptized orthodox! 🙏🏽
Thank you Father. While listening it occured to me that there is also a parallel with Creation - just as Christ created the world and invited us to fulfil it by bringing the world beyond Eden under dominion, so too He created a new Way, inviting us to embody it. Would you agree?
Thank you for your blessings Fr. Josiah.
The Theological Concepts behind Digital Blessings are quite true and profound...
Especially since I can re-start this video and receive a Blessing from the Holy Spirit through a Father of Christ :)
🙏
God is Omnipresent.
Even on the Internet.
Christ's Kingdom is Vast and Has No End
Much respect for your teachings.
When I listened to this, a few night ago, I made a note.
There is something called the "Mandela effect". And it is changing bible verses.
The Lion laying down with the Lamb, as you say at 9.15 minutes, has been changed to the Wolf.
I am so glad to hear you use the original version.
It confirms, for me, that those of us who are older, remember that version.
❤
My husband and I came into the Byzantine Catholic Church last year after being Protestant for over 40 years. We are Orthodox Christians, we love The Divine Liturgy and The Lord Our God and the Theotokos. ☦️
Byzantine Catholic Church is NOT Eastern Orthodox Church. They are as fake as some group can be... looking and feeling like true EO but in union with the arch-heretic of Rome. PEOPLE.! BE AWARE OF THESE FAKES.!
Great, as always!
WoW! New Year? God bless U ALL!
It's actually almost nice weather here in California desert/few days & other rare things lately
Thank you!
I’m slow and steady towards orthodoxy! I’m reclusive so it’s been hard to tell the priest I want to be catechised and I feel like I’m looking odd.
I have a friend who is still very concerned about going, joining, and becoming a catechumen, and then in the end, deciding it's not for her. She hates the idea of the emotional and spiritual roller coaster it would be.
In case you see this comment, Fr Josiah. Would you please do a video discussing the Holy Eucharist and everything a Christian should know about it? Who can take it? How often? Who can't take it and so on? Thank you!
Amen
Our Lord read from the septuagint
The groaning of the whole creation is all but palpable by now.
Facing East😊
I am new to the orthodox church, when at confession how do I start it? What words do I use to begin my confession before confessing all my sins? Might be a dumb question but just curious
Father, a major issue I have about Orthodoxy is how splintered it is along ethnic lines. What Orthodoxy in America is multicultural? Or do seekers choose which ethnic tradition to join with?
I think it appears more splintered from the outside than you would experience inside a local church. For example, I have a Greek church near me that I visited several times before becoming a catechumen. They host a greek festival every year and the greek people there do seem to embrace their cultural background. However, they say the Lord’s prayer in about 7 or more languages, and not being greek myself I did feel very welcome there. Hope that helps! You should see what churches are in your local area
Have you visited your local parishes? If not, start there.
@@kenroohr nearest is 50 miles away
@@suem6004 I guess that's where you'll go.
Father, I am in South Africa. Do you know or have any connections with any Orthodox Church in the Eastern Cape province that I am limited to because of my studies. I have tried, but I could not find it on campus- Nelson Mandela University.
Hello, there is an Ortodox romanian Church în Johannesburg!
@@gigistetco9941 see if I can make it there this festive season. Thank you.
Look forward to Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the Future World...
Amin.
🙏
Samo Napred e Gore!
Dear Fr. Trenham do you livestream services somewhere? Thank you for all of your insights!
What does fr Josiah think of the series ,,The Chosen"?
The series producers and actors support the gay agenda. The series is not Biblical accurate and even quoted the heretical Book of Mormon "I am the law" instead of the "Before Abraham was, I AM" passage, which clearly is an attack on the divinity of our Lord.
Hello, father! Miguel here from Portugal. God bless you and keep you. I was just listening to your exposition on the rapture and I was left with this doubt: satan was bound and thrown into the bottomless pit for a thousand years after Jesus conquered death on the cross. Satan couldn't deceive the nations during that time. So, are we currently in those one thousand years with satan released and under his deceit now?
@@brianluis4248 God bless you
Had to look up Isaiah 65, to double check: It says the WOLF and the lamb shall lie down together.
Mandela effect?
❤
I apologise for my ignorance but was the Holy Spirit present in the Old Testament or only after the Resurrection of Christ? Did the Old Testament prophets speak directly with God or through the Holy Spirit?
Holy Trinity is eternal. So to answer your question, yes, Holy Spirit was present in the OT times. Prophets were inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Amen🙏😌Father❤️🔥🪐🔥🎺☦️🇭🇺✝️🇺🇸
Algorithm boost.
Padri I have started calling it Abrahamic destiny.
Is the philokalia heresy?
No lol don’t know where you got that from.
Do you mean the filioque?
Allegories and parable are timeless in time called vanities looking and waiting for whats in man asleep to Spirit flesh thinks dead.
”We will take a simple little verse and show you why it is not addressed to the natural man, Ecclesiastes 3:15: “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.” The “natural man” cannot grasp that, for to him reality is based only on the evidence of the senses. The man of reason could justify the verse’s end, saying if it has any meaning then the writer must mean recurrence. The sun comes every day and the moon completes its cycle and the seasons come and go. If we took a picture of the universe today, the scientists can compute how long it will take to return to this point in the picture. So the intellectual man could justify the verse; but that is not what is meant, for it is addressed not to the man of reason or the man of sense, but to the man of Imagination. What is it all about? “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been, and God seeks what has been driven away.”
We are waiting for Christianity to become Unitarian again, as Jesus himself was.
Booksmart dude
Not just book smart, but spiritually as well and yet humble and loving. He is also an example of Christ in how he lives. A true man of God in these dark and evil days. May God continue to grant him good strength and love to bless and teach us by his faithfulness to Christ our Lord.
Are you Charismatic or pentecostal?
@@nullclass0813 I am no scholar but yes and yes.
I believe the Eastern Orthodox Church is “The True and Original Body of Jesus Christ” which the Father sent the Holy Spirit to fill the Jewish followers of Christ in the upper room as Jesus told them to wait for so they could preach the gospel in different tongues (languages) on the day of Pentecost to their non believing Jews as written in the book Acts chapter 2.
It is the Church complete with all the gifts given by the Holy Spirit, which has continued on in for the last 2000 years and will last forever.
I know this is hard to believe, as it was for me and many outsiders and skeptics but if you ask God and study history you will eventually come to this knowledge and certainty.
Glory be to God for He never left us nor has forsaken us. He is faithful and true! And the gates of Hell have not or ever will prevail against it! Amen 🙏
Waiting for the orthodox to call another ecumenical council where all the patriarchs are united under the seat of Peter
How come 6th Ecumenical Council excommunicated Pope.? Were they infallible from the beginning or they acquired that delusion only later and when.?