Being young is VERY hard. A message for the old(er) generations
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
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Oh Father I love the passion with which you speak about this. I often felt that as a teenager, I yearned for more
Being a young person trying to live a decent life, getting a decent spouse and have a decent family in this modern world is almost unhopeful and unbearable.
It seems to be an impossible task
Wow…I guess we need to listen to Fr again… when was this world a perfect one to get a decent job, decent spouse and decent life… Jesus our Christ, said you are in world ruled by Satan the Lucifer… ask the Holy Spirit… it has never let me down so far
@@rikkikerr2528 I know, but NOTHING is impossible for God Almighty, the Most High.
Stay faithful, look in your church, God will not leave you standing alone
Just meet the people God puts in your path doing good. Accept God's will for your life. We were created to know God, love God, and serve God.
It's always been an evil world. And I love the sympathy of this priest.
As someone who is just entering into "adulthood proper" (I'm 27):
Hearing ANY person older than me speak about the younger generation with any level of sympathy, let alone an orthodox monk (whom I respect very much) saying that "being young in the world we live in today is HELL", means sooo very much to me, and just goes straight to my heart.
It makes me (and a lot of other people, I'm sure, especially those younger than me) feel seen, heard, and validated. It's enough to brings one to tears!
Thank you and God bless you father! ❤
God bless you. Yes it's very hard for young. I am 57. I hope you keep praying and have hope in our Lord Jesus. Be encouraged
I’m 27 now also and man everything was so bleak before I came to the Lord. I mean truly I was without hope and walking with the thought any day now I’m going to self delete but now I see the Lord and know he has a plan for me.
I struggle breaking free from my sin truly but I know the Lord is working in my hm ind and heart changing my desires. Im grateful for the few older generations who can look at us with empathy because they seem to really see what’s happened to the world.
It's very hard to be young but they are the best years of your life.
I have been an academic since the 90s. I know I contributed to this mess by teaching postmodern theories and advocating a relativistic worldview to thousands of students. May God have mercy on me.
We (the young) forgive you. Y'all did it that with good intentions.
God bless you father
I’m in my 50’s and agree it is difficult to be young in these times. My childhood was simplistic and much purer. I do hope older values somehow return, but fear the metaphorical box has been opened and will not now close. All we can do is turn to Christ and ask for inspiration and ability to help direct younger people on the right path.
I so agree…I’m 56, and definitely feel that our simpler and grounded upbringing gave us a solid foundation and reference point, and I grieve for youngsters today who lack that (through no fault of their own.) Now there is so much noise and brokenness, constant negative assault in all forms, lack of cohesive, functional families and morals. How are they to navigate that? I pray for them all…there may be a Christ-like strength that emerges from them, for I feel strong souls have entered and may very well reverse this trend. Let us do all we can to assist them.🙏🏻❤️
I agree that strong souls have indeed entered. Love and magnetism towards Christ is amplified in many of us who reject evil and unholy earthly pursuits. My fear for young people is with the many earthly distractions and misdirections that put upon them. I pray that Christ’s peace and direction is found by our young.
Agreed. I was chirsmated into ROCOR in America several years ago and it has been a very difficult battle. One of the new young priests at our parish told me that "the cards are stacked against us as young men in today's age". I had another monastic who is a spiritual child of Elder Ephraim of Arizona say that "God will judge us differently today than Christians from a thousand years ago. Keep confessing your sins, receive the mysteries often, and fight for repentance and you will be saved." This world truly has become evil, Lord please save us.
@@user-ty6lj2dv7x Yes, I share that same fear with you. Praying for them all to be able to focus on the narrow path that is true and of Christ, and to shut out the blaring, evil, distracting, cacophony that comes at them from everywhere (media, movies, music, social media, etc.)
Such a harsh mean monk... goodness gracious, brother. You are precious. I love you dearly. I am a "protestant" but deeply "orthodox" at heart. Christ saved me and my girlfriend over a year ago and has indeed shown us great and mighty things. The Lord has brought us many of the lost who we currently try and love and shepherd as best we can being carried by the Holy Spirit and guided by His precious Word. I'm only 30 myself, my girlfriend is 29, but our hearts go out and bleeding for all the younger people around us, things are far worse now than even when I was a child. I never thought I'd see "drag queen pastors".... its no wonder so many young folks don't give the "church" the time of day.
Anyhow. The Lord will return, and the Father of the World to Come will make all things right. I'm so glad He led me to your ministry, my dear brother. Bless you always, from an American "Celtic Christian" brother in Christ.
Tá Críost aiséirithe!
I'm born July 5 1994 and turning 30 years of age in 2024. I stand with you. I agree completely with you. I love you and I love Christ.
I was born July 5th 1992. God bless you brother
I am from Romania, it's the first time I've heard someone older than me being sorry for the hand we've been given. I don't think most of us would ask for a better hand, actually just for admitting that they have failed us in some aspects and to no longer act beligerent and arrogant with us as if they have done everything for us.
As a young (22) Catechumen, as of April, I absolutely appreciate this awareness of the crises facing our youth.
Your words are true and poignant, thank you.
I pray more of my generation turn to Orthodoxy.
As a 50 year old man who never really figured things out himself very well, this talk really helped for me to grant grace to those young people. I never baptized my kids. I feel I robbed them of the tradition of growing up under the church, any church, I never instilled any connection to God, any tradition of Christ, and for that I feel so much shame. There are scores of young adults who were never exposed to the idea of God and they are supposed to have any moral compass? All I gave them was scientism, liberalism, and ego-maniacal reliance on self. Thank you so much for this talk.
If you haven't already, write them, and tell them everything God wants you to say. Better late than never. Call them tell them.
Thank you for saying this. My biological father has never apologized. I don’t think he will.
Please pray for us young people that we forgive our fathers.
With all the love I can give. Thank you
Thank you very much, father. I became orthodox chrisian at 25, it was a special grace of God, because since then i have been struggling to become a christian despite the church and not through the church. The terrible desire of controling people in the church, killing their individual gifts, given them by Christ, is a real hell. My two sons , who are now 19 and 25 do not want to be in the church, there is nothing there to inspire them, nothing to show them the Light. I am trying to become this source of light. May the Lord help me. Please pray for my sons, Adam and Seraphim. Both of them were born by a miracle.
Thank you father. As a younger person I love my older members of my perish but sometimes when they talk down on my generation it fustrates me so much.
Being a young person trying to live a wholesome, loving, Christian life, has been hell for EVERY generation.
This world is the Devil’s playground - an open air prison where we are born and preyed upon every minute of every day.
Thank you, thank you so much! I am a grandmother of a troubled youth, willing to do all that I can to help him. I KNOW that you are right. You are right. Please continue. We need your honest voice. Sending love to you.
I tell my daughter who is 21 that from 18 to 32 are the hardest years of your life. I'm Gen X for reference - we had no guidance and that decade - for many of us was lost in drugs and despair....I love my Gen Z child and recognize that the Boomers sucked the marrow our of the bones of prosperity in the west....with no responsibility towards the younger generations. (We Gen Xers are typically ignored which suits us just fine) The Boomers with their feminism and sexual revolution Beatles vibe are rarely aware of the trauma left in their trail. Lord have mercy on me as I move towards a forgiving heart towards the Boomers. Pray for me, a sinner. ☦️
You seem to have a lot of hatred toward an entire generation, which by the way, helped build alot of the infrastructure we all now enjoy. It is silly to imagine that they could have seen into the future for our benefit. Which generation of people has lived entirely for a future generation's benefit? None.
@@apatheticallyconcerned6574I agree with having sympathy with that young generation making the most of having everything handed to them. The problem is NOW in this day they still refuse to acknowledge their privileged era and laud their accomplishments over the youth with a mindset of “well I worked hard and did it so you can too”, completely denying the different economic, cultural, political climate of their days that enabled their success and holding kids born into an unprecedented technology addicted environment to the same expectations in life.
May Paradise consume you Father.
Thank you for the encouragement
This is a beautiful message! I'm nearly 50 but feel closer to the younger generations and have empathy for them. I think much of what the younger generations are going through today are like what my generation was faced with 30 years ago, only its even harder for them today. Its even more intense today than it was when I was their age.
What beautiful and harsh truth, let our LORD JESUS CHRIST ✝️ guide all parents and families to LOVE as GOD LOVES THE WORLD✝️🕯️🙏❤️📿🕊️😭😢
Thank you, Father. 🫳😙 This unworthy sinner is listening and praying for you and your monasteries. Lord, have mercy on us all! Glory to God in the highest! Christ is risen!🙏🕊
For the old generation watching this, I (18 soon 19 young guy)... I forgive you guys I know you had good intentions
I’ve told people older than me this very thing for most of my life. I felt like I was just hateful or disrespectful for calling out the lack of responsibility of the boomers, who ruined the world then blamed their kids for failing to succeed in trash/clown world. Thank you so much for saying this. Through the prayers of all the saints, Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy of the boomers and let the repent, and have mercy on their children and let them survive the world the boomers created ☦️
Edit: I wrote the comment within the first few sentences of the video. When you called the boomers to repentance, I started crying. I don’t want to be overly harsh, but my wife and I work 120 hours a week combined at harder jobs that take much more skill and study and training than anything either of our parents did, and only the man of the house worked for them- 40 hours a week at most, and we still can’t afford a house or children. We’re slaves to pay for their Hawaii vacations and booze cruises- yet they blame us. They kicked us out at 18, but they want to be taken care of when they’ve blown our inheritance and sold back their house to the bank through a reverse mortgage. I only know a few people that have relationships with their sibling that have meaning because most of their “siblings” were newly added to the family through divorce and remarriage a year or two before they moved out of the house. Some of my childhood friends get new brothers and sisters every few years, and the other family relations get cheapened as a result. It’s so hard to forgive them and not be angry. God have mercy on us all.
It hursts to hear this message. I did talk down to my boys many times before they turn 20. Specifically when I see them playing games over & over again. My younger one is 23 & in depression. Lord Jesus have mercy on me. I wish I had known better 😢. Thank you Fr.Seraphim for this message 😔
As a young person that I am, I can say that if you are with Christ, life for me is not hell. Of course there are many struggles, many....but Christ fulfills my heart. My trust in Him. Also, my spiritual father and my spiritual friends helps me to feel that we are all a family.
Thank God, dear sister in Christ. Christ is Risen! You are blessed, thank God!. I believe Father Seraphim is speaking to all the pain that he hears in this world from those who do not have Christ in their heart as you do and a supportive community of faithful Christians . I thank God you are in such a wonderful place.
Amen. Good message !!!
Thank you Father, I finally feel understood, converting to Orthodoxy and trying to be decent has been the most difficult thing. Lord Have Mercy on us all 🙏 May The Lord reward you 🙏
Not too long ago I likely would've disagreed with you. Now I see where you're coming from. Even though I've apologized to all of my children for my shortcomings while they were growing up, I've never really seen myself as a part of the larger problem. Yet I am. Lord have mercy!
Truely enlightened by the Holy Spirit.. I do feel guilty/ responsible 😢, yes. May God grant us the strength to truly Repent. May The Mother of God help you help us spread only Love in Truth and show kindness to everyone!
Thank you so much, I am one of those young people trapped in hell also, and I turned this video up so all the people tormenting me could hear it and it helped me so much. Thank you. ❤ ☦️😇
17:19 This is a sign from God, Father Seraphim is the embodiment of the Holy Spirit. I was just thinking about how to describe father Seraphim with one word, with one rule, and the word 'do not judge' came to my mind. And the next second Father Seraphim said it.
Father, it really pains me to say I've never heard anything like this before. I hear over and over how it's the easiest and best time to be alive in all of human history and that us who are young ought apologize for being so ungrateful and such time wasters. The expectations are immeasurably high, yet never communicated to us. "You have so much information in the palm of your hand, use your phone for something useful", but how will we know where to even begin looking without being pointed in any direction? Older people are dumbfounded when kids don't know anything when they themselves failed to teach something. Things generally don't just fall into place, the world isn't a happy accident as most people seem to believe these days. If you as a parent fail to instill your values, you've given the rights to do so to someone else. People will absorb their views from somewhere, so we cannot be surprised when no one remains like a blank slate. For previous generations it may have worked well enough to just outsource the teaching of values to the broader society, while there was still slightly more social cohesion. These days much more fringe and evil views are not only normal on a massive scale, worse niche versions of those evils are more readily available online. Either this lost generation finally takes a step in the other direction and learns to love our children, or we keep repeating the same neglect until the generations of it collapses under its own weight.
However poorly we've been treated and however little we've been left, let us not be bitter, but always ready to accept an apology. If it never comes, don't be sad about it. We'll in a sense have to reinvent the wheel whether or not we get an apology. Running to the Church will be essential for anyone wanting to escape the trap. Christ is the only way
Thats correct.
Yes, yes, dear Father. I love this struggling lot of kids. I feel I have fallen very short in my response to their needs.
Father Seraphim, I thank you for all your videos. I watch them from Australia and have got my young sons watching your channel also. Thank you for helping us to understand how to keep God closer to us. May God continue to bless you and your fellow monks at Mull monastery. 😊
Thank you so much for this message. I’m 24 and this speaks so much to the betrayal I feel from not only the world which is expected but from an older generation of so called Christian’s that live a counterfeit Christ-less life and pass it as the real thing while boasting in themselves and condemning the young beaten sheep looking for comfort and the bread of life which they themselves don’t live on so of course they can’t lead them to the spiritual nourishment found in the blood of Christ.
With that said, it should be clarified that any resentment towards older generations goes away when they accept their role in the hell of the current world and we, the younger generation, accept that we would have done the exact same thing in their position.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
The truth is often difficult to listen to and sometimes has to be said forthrightly. Thank you for speaking out on this issue.
May we answer the call to repentance without delay.
I pray that this young generation will be the ones to stop the cycle of spiritual degeneration and become the “wild spiritual beasts” in the world.
Amen.
Father Seraphim,
Ever since I have adopted Orthodox faith and practices, I have struggled a whole lot. It just gets worse and worse. I am always struggling about blasmephous thoughts and lustful thoughts to everything holy. Saints, the Theotokos, Christ, and the Apostles. I can't talk to my spiritual father because he is too busy, give me your blessing. It's hard living in the West, pray for me Father.
Your retched sinner,
~Hendrick Smith
Always keep in mind that God loves you and is always there for you! And He understands your struggle. Trust in the Lord, do not despair! Those are NOT your thoughts, try to ignore them. 🙏🙏🙏
I’ve heard recently from several priests and Orthodox teachers (including some on CZcams), that you should expect more challenges as you become Orthodox.
I share that just to let you know that you shouldn’t be discouraged if this is happening.
As St. Paisios said, thoughts are like airplanes, they can fly over your head, but it's your choice to give them a place to land and stay (i.e. pay attention to them). Sometimes, you might just feel lonely, anxious, sleepy, hungry etc. It might be helpful to find a root cause. But yes, do speak with a spiritual father
We were once young too father. We also suffered the vices of the generation before us.
The history is not history, the history is the present of the future.
Yes. That is very true.
When I was younger something difficult happened and I felt crushed. After it happened I became angry with someone much older than me who had nothing to do with it. I felt bad afterwards and went to apologize. It didn’t matter to me what they said because there was no way they could push me down any farther than I already was. What they did surprised me though. They immediately started trying to lift me up. They said I had no reason to be sorry and they look forward to seeing me every day. I looked at this person I had just been mean to and they were smiling at me and telling how kind they thought I was. This person is the one who lifted me out of my darkness…by loving me even when I fell. They did not instruct or judge me. I have prayed for them every day since then.
The funny thing is I saw a photo of this person on one of your pilgrimages many years ago…still shining their light 💫.
For reals homie. I live on the worst side of town and everyday I see all the worst the hood has to offer. From gang fights to shootings and drug dealers. I was a direct contributor to all this mess. So it’s my duty to help whomever the Lord brings my way regardless of their circumstances.
Para mi gente y los carnalitos en el barrio que están luchando en la vida loca. La culpa es mía. Señor Jesús, en Su misericordia, ten piedad de nosotros.
I love and am inspired by your fire, Father.
Suffering very much lately. Looking forward to vespers and liturgy 😔
Thank you Father Seraphim. Very important message.
Truly he is risen!
Truly He is Risen indeed!
Yes, we should not judge the younger ones. And the younger ones shouldn't judge us, who are not taking action to prevent this hell getting worse.
I used to judge the older generations for not doing more for my generation, and then I see I fall and I don't do anything for the younger generation.
Judgement is a horrible, spiritually counter productive sin. Only God has the right to judge the elder, the younger or even ourselves. I need to repent, not to judge myself.
God bless, Father Seraphim.
I'm 22 a year old Originally from New Zealand now living in Guatemala, me and my Wife have been attending the divine liturgy for about 5 months now, I have been curious about orthodoxy for around a year. And yes I can say the landscape I grew up in was hell, you could no believe how sinful I am, how sinful my generation is at our young ages, its nothing but a tragedy. Being young in this day an age is extremely difficult, every single thing in this life today is either some kind of distraction from the spiritual life or a direct attempt to attack it. As for me I was an atheist for 20 years, it is so easy to fall back in to old habbits, its almost imposible to not engage in some worldly activities in some way. I live in a constant state of anxiety and at times the devil himself makes me almost feel assured of my place in hell. Please pray for me, my family and the world.
Praying for you and your family. Remember that God has found you and has chosen you, so do not be afraid or anxious. Have total trust in Him that he will lead you and guide you even when you fail. I have children in their 20s and it is very hard for young people in this world. Satan and his demons are nothing compared to the power of our awesome God. So don’t be anxious and afraid of Satan and rebuke him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when you’re afraid or anxious. Pray to our Lord for his peace, his divine love and joy. 🙏☦️
Thank you Father Seraphim, ☦️🙏
Thank you Father for your words and message. I am 68 years old and still trying to come to terms with my past. It is sooooo difficult for me to change. Why, as I grow older, is it so difficult to change. Please pray for me Father.
What a powerful message thank you
Amen, amen, amen❤
Truly He is risen! Thank you Father!!
I am so thankful and inspired by these words. God bless Fr Serafim!
Amen
Thanks for your insightful words
In love with Christ. Thank you, Father.
Thank you Father!
GOD Bless You✝️ Father Seraphim always beautiful words from the heart🙏🕯️
Amen, amen, amen!
You are speaking truth. I have been aware of this and Im living in repentance. I grieve and cry daily. No blaming, shaming, judging.
Please pray for my adult children.
Thank you so much Father for your honesty and this talk is deeply meaningful.
Wow - powerfully and primordially TRUE - Thanku - 🙏🏽
Your words brings peace to my heart Father... God bless you
Great topic. Thank you, Father, for talking about this.
I am Gen X. My parents did a poor job of passing on the faith to me. And now, I have to pass it on to my daughter. I sense that faith in Jesus is very important, but I struggle with true faith. As wounded by failures by my elders as I am, how do I form my daughter in the Faith? How do I teach her the truths of the faith and give her an example to follow when I don't know what I am doing?
I have an idea on how to turn things around for the young so that they may become what they should be.
But it is for god to help me do so.
Thank you father for inspiring us.
I agree in part. Certainly we repent. I must tell you that mothers block most of the present age confusion. Included are gender identity, philosophy of life with Christ as prophet only, prayer, acceptance of sin. All the confusion is eliminated on a practical basis. We don’t accept the woke agenda or ideas, we fight against the pending slavery of humanity thru technology etc. Repent yes but remember the mothers. Blessings 💖🌷
Please make a video about our responsibilities in making Disciples and Spreading the Gospel. Thank you 🙂
I want to add that I find you to be the best teacher, that I have ever known & you are a true blessing for me ❤
Hello I am 16 Years Old and live in a small village in germany and can not go to the orthodox church because there is no one near me only a catholic church I should not go to any church or to the catholic church I am at a loss, please pray for me that I hold out until the end and hope on the lord (I'm not Orthodox but I want to become one)
Try visiting a monastery at some point. There are a few Orthodox ones in Germany. You could stay a few days.
Apply to University here in Romania. There are many courses taught in English. Come to an Orthodox land! In the mean time, pray, pray the Psalter, pray for the dead and give yourself to the Mother of God, she will sort it all out for you!
It'll be okay, take a deep breathe and remind yourself that the Lord will take care of everything. There's no rush, just trust on the Lord, He will help you in His timing. In the meantime, love others, pray, and live with joy, knowing that He is there with you and He knows your situation :)
Glad to see someone my age watching these videos. I'm 18 and also from Germany, so if you ever need to talk about these things, let me know. Don't give up, it will get better!
@@Katya-od9vv also ich weis nicht ob du orthodox bist denke aber schon so meine frage war ja ob ich in die katholische kirche in meine nähe gehen soll bzw in meinem Dorf gibt es nur eine protestantische eine freikirche und eine katholische und ich habe gehört das wenn man Jesus so gesagt liebt geht man in die kirche und will auch in die kirche aber ich weis nicht ich in die katholische oder protestantische kirche, ich denke halt das die katholische näher an der orthodoxen kirche ist also so mit Gottesdienst
Thank you Father this is beautiful!
Thank you Father. What an amazing message. ❤
Dear Father, I am the mother of 2 daughters and I have very often come to the same conclusion - we have messed it up not our children. Nonetheless I can rarely find enough love to understand them entirely and I find myself complaining very often. Să ne trăiești, Părinte!
Yes, and it really isn't much of a consolation that life sucks and then you die, either!
Thank you dear father! Indeed , Christ is risen!! Wish you lots of happiness and health! Please also pray for my health and to recover! ❤
I do agree father with all my heart that repentance is more then important to escape our imperfect human vunerability which is sin in comparison with our Heavenly Father.
And yes older generations have sown the seeds that they and their childeren are reaping.
But let us not forget that religious leaders have scared the hell out of people so much that in the sixties people escaped through hindoeism,LSD and the beatles etc out of the soficating religion dogma's..
Untill today i hardley ever hear any church denomination explain what Jesus Christ meant when he said IAM the LIGHT of life and the light to the world..untill i heard a orthodox father speak about Christ the uncreated light i was still in ignorance despite the fact that i loved Jesus without being able to explane my love for him as a child then born an raised as a muslim.
Lack of knowledge leads often to frustration anger etc..and the new age spirit who told all who where and are desperate enough that we are our own god..Not realizing that no one can be light without the light..
Taking responsability - through the realization that God is allmighty and that we have a choice to choose between christ and satan, and yes the enormous challenge as mortal being where the mortal is abused to devour our spirit by repenting it is so, so so true.. But what iam missing i your message is how this is going to truly empower the ypung and the old..
Because while you are speaking about repentance i hear the message of shame and guilt for the choices the older generations made based on their circumstances..Can you see how that is not going to delivere a yond of us?
Making victims out of the young is not a very assuring voice let alone an empowering one... Gods grace i believe is the power to prefend us just from getting trapped between guilt , blame shame and despare making us more and hopeless more powerless
Trust me when i say thay i respect you father Seraphim..and i see your love and you move my heart..At the same time i see your pain for a suffering humanity a suffering creation. But i am asking is your pain/ suffering guilt and or christ compassion?. The line in the spiritual realm is very very subtle..But a good and sound measure is this:Guilt is not healing it drowns us making us more desperate more powerless genuine heartfelt remorse and repentance will deliver us and we will rejoice in the bliss of Gods light Jesus Christ while we are in the body of flesh..If not Jesus would not have into the material world ..Iam talking about the bliss of his divine being above and beyond material circumstances...
Truly not ever desiring to hurt nor desrepect you or Christ Jesus, i love you and surely love My lord and Saviour beyond words and thoughts can express..
I found so much strenght and home in orthodox church throygh the internet it brought me out of religious wilderness..
But i have a very hard time reading anything else but guilt and blame in your message.
It is stronger then your attempt to make me understand the power and importance of true remose and repentance..
Let not your suffering drown you i guilt.. and despare father..you have do much love in you to conquer that robbing force suffering that robs you of your power and strenght is NOT compassion...See what the darkness is doing to you and the may of us..by making us believe that...
May nothing but the uncreated light of Jesus Christ be yours for ever and unto the ages of ages...🌷
Christ is risen, dear holy Father! Could you make a video related to this that we can share with our youth?
Food for thought dear father indeed
I’m a so called servant in church for a group of 17-19 year old . The responsibility to be ‘ the aroma of life that leads to life ‘ is terrifying. I hope and pray my service is judgment free. You made me deeply think about whether I’m trying to quench their fire and simply create well behaved citizens . Any thoughts on how to not fall in that trap as their servant would be appreciated 🙏✝️ pray for us all
I love you
Father can you Share with us your Past Experience with Our Lord Jesus Christ , Thank you Father for everything you do .
Christos Anesti ☦️
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. - Revelation 18:4
The only future I see is leaving the cities, leaving the developed areas and building a humble environment to raise a family elsewhere. Maybe I'm wrong but with the sheer levels of greed and usury choking the young, I'm not sure what else can be done.
Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.
True
Yes very true. I agree.
❤️
Father Seraphim, is there an Orthodox Christian version of the Four Sons of the Haggadah, a text recited during the Passover Seder in the Jewish faith? I feel like it's apropos given the subject of this video.
Im 18 , extremely interested in orthodoxy because i was non denominational and since watching orthodox videos became much more spiritual , but i also dont want to convert just because of my feelings so can anyone give me some sources as to explain why orthodoxy is the original historical church founded by Christ?
Dear Father Seraphim, please, what is this one flaming, burning criterion that you mentioned at around 10:00? Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your videos. You have answered a lot of my burning questions and prayers through them. May Christ keep you safe, and all the monasteries, monks and nuns, always, on your beautiful islands. Thank you 🙏💓 Christ is risen ✨✨✨
I think I ask also because I ache for such a direct encounter as well, something strong enough to get me out of my old habits and guide me on my path as surely as you have been guided. Thank you 🙏
I’d also like to know this, it would be so valuable to hear, if he considers it okay to share.
Go back to 9:27... The criterion Fr. Seraphim was referring to was his encounter with Christ. He would not have been a Christian had it not been for that encounter.
To encounter Christ... this is the key.
The only thing I am not fully in agreement about here, is I have been fighting this world for 25 years or so. I am not perfect and I could do better, but I have still been losing, as most Christians have because the world offers a fun alternative, at least in the short term. I do try to love all and be better, but I also know I have opposed the worldly desires of our generation for a very long time.
You imply here that we all gave up, or were involved in the creation of this mess, and yes we should work to do and be better, but I, and many good Christian much better than I, have been working on combating this world. It's hard to blame the small numbers who have been fighting for a more Christian world, because the secular world is larger, and seems to be leading for now. I do agree fully we need to love more, and be better guides, but I think many have opposed the world, but the desire of the freedom to sin of the world, is stronger than our ability to show them the truth in Christ.
Love conquers all. Praying for our loved ones, who are going with the world, instead of judging them. Love and unity is the only way they will see the Love of Christ. A priest in my community often says that our attitude affects even the environment. We are being called to love, and know that we are loved exactly as we are, sinners. Christ loves me, even though I'm weak and sinful, giving into temptation. This is the good news for everyone. This is what we should shout from the rooftop, instead of taming everything into, be good and everything will be ok.
It doesn't matter who shares the good news. It can be the worst sinner, as long as that sinner realises he/she is loved by Christ, even while in sin. This love has already conquered the world. We just need to believe it and more importantly, experience it.
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What do you mean by "encounter with Christ Himself"? Was it a vision?
The nature of man is sinful due to the fall of Adam. All have fallen and are sinners by conception
Our only hope is Jesus Christ the Lord
And the only way any one of us appropriates the benefits of Christ is through a personal relationship with Him
We are brought into union with Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit
The Spirit of God causes us to be born again so that we do enjoy the benefits of Christ -- we are regenerated, adopted, and made holy
Trust in the triune God!
Looks like a serpent in the tree behind you. 😮
Thank you father. I was in need for what the holy spirit said on your tongue. Pray for me a sinner and weak. Your son Joseph.
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Thank you for this message. Blessings.
People need to be reconciled with divinity