On Not Trusting Oneself - Fr. Moses Berry
VloĆŸit
- Äas pĆidĂĄn 30. 06. 2024
- In this episode, Father Moses Berry discusses the importance of not trusting oneself.
đ FREE eBOOK on Orthodox monastic wisdom:
social.protectingveil.com/fre...
â€ïž SUPPORT this channel: social.protectingveil.com/sup...
This is the second episode from my interview with #Orthodox writer, speaker, and #pastor, Father Moses Berry.
đ SUBSCRIBE and hit the bell: social.protectingveil.com/you...
To learn more about Father Moses's work:
Website:
frmosesberry.com
Church:
unexpectedjoychurch.org/
The Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black:
mosestheblack.org/
The #Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum:
oaahm.omeka.net/
MORE?!
1) đ SUPPORT: If you enjoy this channel, please consider supporting it! There are opportunities for financial and non-financial support: social.protectingveil.com/sup...
2) đ SUBSCRIBE!
Understand your faith better so you can live it more deeply: social.protectingveil.com/you...
3) đ FREE eBOOK ON MONASTIC WISDOM
Interested in the lives and counsels of contemporary elders and Saints of Greece? Download a free abridged version of my book on the Greek elders here: social.protectingveil.com/fre...
4) đïž LET'S CONNECT!
Facebook: / protectingveil
Twitter: / protectingveil
Instagram: / protectingveil
Website: protectingveil.com
5) đč DO YOU LIKE MUSIC?
Iâm writing and recording songs retelling the lives of ancient Saints! The music featured at the beginning of this video is from my song for Saint Brendan the Voyager: âą Navigator (Demo v1)
Music Links:
CZcams: / newhagiography
Website: newhagiography.com/
Facebook: / newhagiography
Twitter: social.protectingveil.com/twi...
Instagram: / newhagiography
Bandcamp: newhagiography.bandcamp.com/
6) đš ARE YOU AN ORTHODOX ARTIST OR PATRON?
Please check out Zosima Society, where weâre connecting Orthodox non-liturgical artists (writers, musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, etc.) and patrons!
social.protectingveil.com/zos...
đ FREE eBOOK on the wisdom of modern Orthodox Christian elders:
social.protectingveil.com/freebook1
I have only recently begun learning about Eastern Orthodoxy, and overall have been very impressed with the expression of Christian Faith that I have seen. These videos and ones like it are so helpful in better understanding Orthodoxy, and my relationship with the Lord. I have been considering attending services, but the nearest Orthodox Church is nearly an hour and a half away. Turns out it is Father Berry's Church! Now I am even more interested in giving it a try.
Thanks to God...glad you found us and that you're finding them edifying! You are not alone in your commute time to church...but you will find it well worth the effort! May God continue to bless and guide your steps!
@@ProtectingVeil I am visiting my parents this weekend, and there is a Church only 40 minutes from here. Heading to the vespers service tonight to check it out. I have seen a general opinion that this is the best time for a first visit. I am both excited and nervous. Again, thank you for the valuable role your ministry has played in making the Orthodox Church more approachable.
I travel an hour to mine. Orthodox people aren't perfect. You'll find many of the same traits as in any Protestant Church. Orthodoxy would be so great if we didn't have so many human beings! You may go (or have been) to services that are perfect...or far from it-from an earthly subjective perspective. But like Novocain from the dentist, be patient and give it time to work. There's such depth here.
Tim Tabor - I became an Orthodox Christian 23 years ago... best decision I ever madeđ God bless you!
@@timtabor1181 How was the vesper?
What a beautiful man, Fr. Moses! And thank you for this wonderful channel! It's very helpful and inspiring.
I am new to the orthodox faith as I have recently heard about it(and I am 39). I am very pleased with the orthodox way of life. Worshiping is such a struggle those days it 's like everything on earth wants you to deny Jesus and his teachings. My thing is that I have been considering going to divine liturgy to learn more and even start my transformation to orthodoxy but I realize that I am an African American single mother in Texas. I will probably be the only African American in the church and I am so scared. I am sad that fear of judgment can make us run away from what God calls us sometimes. Thank you for this channel it is such a grace to follow all those interviews and learn about Christ.
lynda sery - Bet you're received with open arms and hearts! I saw this at my church in Portland, and at many other Orthodox churches I've visited. Keep your eyes on God and let anything else fall by the wayside. God bless you dear Lynda! đâŠïž
I met father Moses at the last brotherhood of St Moses the Black convention. what a blessing! thanks for this interview!
Thanks to God...glad you found it edifying, Matthew!
Thank you Father for this amazing heart warming message.
Fr Moses Berry is one of the true gems of Holy Orthodoxy. Thankyou for helping to bring me to faith âŠïž
Amen Father. When I get to the part of a form that asks "race" I always put HUMAN. And I'm 72.
Always told people, when I got hit in Viet Nam, my blood was red. Same with my black friend Guillory, same with my red friend Ochoterina, same with my Jewish friend Levy, and same with the Vietnamese. And when anyone got hit the medic knew that all the body parts were located in the same place and the same procedures worked, period.
Amen.
As I have said many times when the Lord sees His Children He is color blind.
Greekings from Greece.
Love đđđfrom Southwest Pennsylvania, USA!
âFreely we received, Freely we giveâ
Amen.
Stories of Orthodox Christians are inspiring
Bro you made me cry
Thanks to God...glad you found us, Danny!
Lest we forget...No nortal man nor created spirit can tempt us...Less we let the very thought enter in the chapel of the sacred nous....Oh Lord Lead us not into temptation...Many Years to you!
Greetings from Serbia, bothers and sisters in Christ âŠ
Pomashe Bog!
@@ProtectingVeil Bog ti pomogao âŠïž
@@icxcnikasrb Love đđđfrom southwest Pennsylvania USA!
Love this. Iv s stopped trusting my old self and opened up the our Lords promise of miracles and salvation. I am a Traditional Catholic.
Wow! Powerful testimony. âWe know that weâre all in love with each other.â
What a testimony! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks to God!
God made many of his children with beautiful differences and looks, but the same potential to have a heart in his image
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner
for Gods sake please get off the racial narrative for 5 minutes of your life
@@errorsofmodernism9715 Yes. Truly *Pathetic*
Says the guy with a slave owner as his YT Avatar
@@maychiu1419 how much bitterness do you have in your heart?
Father Moses Berry is wonderful, great testimony. âŠïžâŠïžâŠïž
Thanks to God...glad you found us and that you enjoyed the video!!
We love you Pappa...Your prayers and blessings please.... and Thankyou for the inspiring testimony and sobering words...
This was my favorite episode. Keep up the good work and may God bless you and your family!
Greatings from Roumania.......good life lessons!!!
Indeed! Doamne ajuta!
That was... wow. How true. If only we could live true. Lord Jesus have mercy on us and save us.
Amen...thanks to God...thanks for your note!
So poignant, and relatable. I rarely tear up, but the ending of this with Father Berry stating, âWe know â touched me deeply. It brings to mind a verse from Robert Frosts Spring Poem
For this is love and nothing else is love
For which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends he will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill
Herman thank you kindly for all you do ... your channel is gold my friend
âŠïž đ âŠïž
Thanks to God...thanks for sharing!
The Lord works in mysterious ways! I needed to hear this right now. Promising to change is easy to do, but when the storm passes, it's easy to forget. So change has to be daily, normal, humble.
This is a blessing to me. Thank you and thanks to your guest for this testimony. Praise be the Lord. God bless you both and your ministries.
Thanks to God...glad you found us and that you found it edifying!
Thank you for this.
Wow! Amen!! All praise to God.
Amen!
Riveting! Thank you for posting.
Thanks to God...glad you found it edifying, Virginia!
I love listening to fr Moses. I hope to visit his church at the fall.
What a blessing it is to hear this testimony. It would be an honor to one day come to your church and visit your museum. This testimony was so amazing that l had to hear over again. God love you Father Moses.
Father Moses is a great man! Thank you very much for this video.
Thanks to God...he is, indeed...glad you appreciated it, Stéphane!
Very good video and a very good lesson. Thanks!
Mesmerizing.Christian Orthodaox priest
God bless this dear man, Father Moses. Truly profound wisdom. Thank you.
What a testimony! Blessings upon you!đ
As usual, enjoyed this video too!
Thanks to God...glad you found us, Jerome!
@@ProtectingVeil Amen!
Great !
Thank you Father Berry
Such a beautiful and profound sharing. Thank you so much Father Moses! We need to hear more from you please, God willing. God Bless you!
God bless you Father and thank you for your most powerful testimony.
Thank you Father.âŠ
From the Ozarks as well, nice to see someone similar
Love it!
love fr Moses
Beautiful.
powerful story. God bless
Powerful video! God bless you Father Moses!
Riveted in tears. Thank you, thank you Fr. Berry!! I wish I could go to your church and meet you.
I have the book, Virtue of the Unseen Warfare. Amazing book. âŠïž 8:00 Amazing poem.
Thank you for sharing Father Moses
His homily was wonderful thank you.
Thanks to God...glad you found it helpful, Sue!
Very moving testimony thank you for sharing it.
Thanks to God...glad you found it edifying, Timothy!
Nice.
Heâs in my StateđŠ
What church does Fr. Berry serve at?
Look on the OCA diocese of the Midwest Kansas City deanery page
@@devinlawson2208 i will, thank you!
@@cherylannetuggle9925 thank youâŠ
Unexpected Joy Church in Ash Grove, Missouri.
Would a person be loved and respected and most of all be listened to and not looked down upon by orthodoxy if one would be of gnostic cathar christian faith or essene esoteric faith?
Gnosticism is the very antithesis of Orthodoxy.
@@bobburroughs7490 Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no.
Both have their purities and their misconceptions.
Looked down upon, I don't think so. But you couldn't commune in the orthodox church mostly because gnostic views get in conflict with the creed, or so I think
@@irreadings Thank you for answering. I think so to. And, in my opinion, is the antithesis of how Christ himself would have acted. He would never exclude a human but let them join and trust that the Holy Spirit can go deeper and fuller in persons we least expect. I think most churches are filled to the brim with pride and self righteousness.
@@Mika-El- well, I think one should consider that the church is an institution, and to be able to join it you must declare the creed. So if you want to commune on the church while remaining a gnostic you'd have to lie when declaring the creed, and that would also be a lie to yourself IF the way in which you view Christ contradicts the creed (for example, some gnostics don't say that Christ is God and whatnot).
A gnostic friend of mine said some interesting stuff about the concept of heresy. Here's what he told me:
Heresies were created to make propositions that couldn't be verified. How could you know whether or not Jesus had only one will, or whether he was always God or was adopted upon baptism? The mistake in these heresies is the arrogance of declaring to have such knowledge, because these are things one cannot know.
But there's another problem: If you declare these things to be WRONG and say that they're heretical, how can you know that as well? How can you know that Christ DIDN'T have only one will? So there would be a mistake of arrogance both in declaring such knowledge from the part of the heretics, and also from the part of the contra-heretics, because both make doctrines out of propositions that are unverifiable (to a certain extent).
Now, I think this view of his is very interesting, and I think it would be nice if it were considered by the church (not that it should be accepted, but at least debated). However, I think some doctrines were declared heretical because they would make some practices and some types of worship meaningless. For example, the orthodox church thinks the Roman catholic claim that Mary was born without original sin is heretical. If she was born without sin, then she is not equal to the other humans (not in status, but in potential -- for she is considered "the holiest of all humans"), and that makes the worship of her to be... Odd. We worship her because, while still being entirely human, she managed to be the holiest of them all. If she had never inherited original sin, then her holiness and purity wouldn't be an achievement, but her own nature, and so she wouldn't be human, or like other humans. Certainly revering such a being still has value, but then she would not be an example, but an unnatainable ideal. So I think declaring it a heresy would make sense.
But in the same vein, how can you know that she was or was not born with original sin?
I think heresy is not only a matter of ontology, but of making sense of our worship. Ontology and logic does come into play, but there are places where it's not logic that is being used, but meaningfulness. Some things are declared heretical if they make the sense of worship less meaningful, I think. That is the pattern I have noticed.
I would really like to have all Christians commune together, but first we have to straighten out problems such as these, I think. Because we're talking about institutionalized religion, I don't think this is a matter of what Christ would or would not allow (though it should be), but of how can we endure living in the same space in the presence of our disagreements.
Si se poate traducÄ Ăźn limba rumana multumesc
Not bed
The bishop was from peculiar mo thats crazzy I live like 6 miles from there this is no peace of undigested meat no Sir
Father Moses is wrong on the races being all the same. We all need Christ and His Church but we're far from all the same...
If you're looking through the lens of materialism.
Not even just in a materialistic philosophy.@@Justin-qn3ro
Great!