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Holy humble night vigils zap the passions and promote calm. Prayer becomes the centre and focus. Pray, work, rest. No time for any other junk...it would mess up the prayers. Great videos.❤
Thank you Father for your videos. I turn to them often for help when l go to you tube😢. Especially when you bring up various saints in dealing with the passions.
Just discovered your channel Father, very informative and great to listen to. I also believe I was at your Ordination in May, I'm a Seminarian at Jordanville, and remember a Father Mikhail being ordained earlier this year. God willing these videos reach a large audience!
Just found this channel and immediately subscribed. Thank you so much Father. I clicked on the channel from a comment you had made on Orthodox Ethos (at the interview with Metropolitan Neophytus video) and came here and then recognized your voice from the Joseph Sciambari channel. Great content. Bless
Hello brother iam from Greece 🇬🇷... very happy for this channel and for orthodox move in America. God bless you all...can you make episode define mindfulness and watchfulness.. because everyone talks about mindfulness awareness but how Safe is it...❤❤
Roman Catholic here, thanks for sharing this doctrine about Nepsis. I have found that, to go beyond some temptations, our answer can only be Nepsis, for passion is the fascination with temptation, and we are either full of passions or full of God. I may be wrong but it seems to me that we can never sanctify passions, only break them in order to work in a metanoetic speed. Any orthodox views on this matter? Holy seculars living in the world and sanctifying personality?
Stay tuned! I’ll have another video in this series about the passions (likely by the end of January), Passions can be “purified” in that for example we practice their opposite. Love as opposed to hate and lust, self control as opposed to gluttony and avarice etc.
Born and raised Protestant here. Researching Orthodox theology. Do Orthodox believe in “deliverance”? Deliverance as in the laying on of hands and praying for instant freedom from sin?
No. In most cases we cannot become free from sin instantly. That’s the inverse of what Christ said when He tells us to pick up our cross and follow Him. Most of this “feeling of freedom” afterwards is just that. A feeling. It’s also a strange and Gnostic kind of view to think that knowledge attained or an instantaneous freedom from sin would ever merit any Christ like virtue. It’s like we want the benefits of good health without the exercise when we approach this way. The laying on of hands never communicated this notion, even in the book of Acts. Thanks for the question though.
Father, evlogite. Thank you for this informative video. I believe you have a Discord server… where can we find the link to join it? May Geronda Ephraim pray to God for us! (Today marks three years since his entry into the Heavenly Banquet!)
The pain of the struggle is real 🙏🏻
The pain of falling and the dirty depressed mind is far and away worse. God bless.
The Jesus Prayer seems to be very helpful since it's simple and easy to remember when the passions assault us.
This is real.
In my experience the Jesus Prayer not only heals us but also protects us. Do not neglect prayer to the Theotokos as well.
Holy Elder Ephraim pray for us
Amen
Thank you Father Mikhail.
Our lives are chained til we finally, finally go to humble war on our sins.
“Repeated sin becomes passion.” Useful heuristic.
Thank you Father
Thank you father ☦️
Holy humble night vigils zap the passions and promote calm. Prayer becomes the centre and focus. Pray, work, rest. No time for any other junk...it would mess up the prayers. Great videos.❤
Thank you Father for your videos. I turn to them often for help when l go to you tube😢. Especially when you bring up various saints in dealing with the passions.
Thank you Fr.
Just discovered your channel Father, very informative and great to listen to. I also believe I was at your Ordination in May, I'm a Seminarian at Jordanville, and remember a Father Mikhail being ordained earlier this year. God willing these videos reach a large audience!
Thank you and yes that would be who you saw ordained at Jordanville. Small world!
Excellent teaching, thank you!
Just found this channel and immediately subscribed. Thank you so much Father. I clicked on the channel from a comment you had made on Orthodox Ethos (at the interview with Metropolitan Neophytus video) and came here and then recognized your voice from the Joseph Sciambari channel. Great content.
Bless
Hello brother iam from Greece 🇬🇷... very happy for this channel and for orthodox move in America. God bless you all...can you make episode define mindfulness and watchfulness.. because everyone talks about mindfulness awareness but how Safe is it...❤❤
Christ bless you, Father. IC XC NIKA ☦️ ♥️
God bless you sir
Roman Catholic here, thanks for sharing this doctrine about Nepsis. I have found that, to go beyond some temptations, our answer can only be Nepsis, for passion is the fascination with temptation, and we are either full of passions or full of God. I may be wrong but it seems to me that we can never sanctify passions, only break them in order to work in a metanoetic speed. Any orthodox views on this matter? Holy seculars living in the world and sanctifying personality?
Stay tuned! I’ll have another video in this series about the passions (likely by the end of January), Passions can be “purified” in that for example we practice their opposite. Love as opposed to hate and lust, self control as opposed to gluttony and avarice etc.
Born and raised Protestant here. Researching Orthodox theology. Do Orthodox believe in “deliverance”? Deliverance as in the laying on of hands and praying for instant freedom from sin?
No. In most cases we cannot become free from sin instantly. That’s the inverse of what Christ said when He tells us to pick up our cross and follow Him. Most of this “feeling of freedom” afterwards is just that. A feeling. It’s also a strange and Gnostic kind of view to think that knowledge attained or an instantaneous freedom from sin would ever merit any Christ like virtue. It’s like we want the benefits of good health without the exercise when we approach this way. The laying on of hands never communicated this notion, even in the book of Acts. Thanks for the question though.
Father, evlogite. Thank you for this informative video. I believe you have a Discord server… where can we find the link to join it? May Geronda Ephraim pray to God for us! (Today marks three years since his entry into the Heavenly Banquet!)
I’ll link it in the description! May we ever have Elder Ephraim’s prayers and intercession
What is the name of the hymn in the intro?
Thank you Fr.
Thank you Father