I am discerning a monastic calling of my own. I have had it since childhood. Sadly, there are immense hurdles barring my path. If you feel so inclined, please pray for me. Michael. May the Lord have mercy on us all. 💠
Dear Johnson, please take heart. I will pray for you. I hope you find conviction in your call, and find peace in the path where our Lord leads you. Remember you may with trust take on Christ's yoke for you, for then he is with you, and he is our life. This is encouragement from your brother in Christ, who is also considering a calling - either eremitism or monasticism within the Catholic Church. May Christ give you peace and may you find oneness with him, dear brother. Yours in Christ, Tiju Thomas
Brother I am also discerning my call as well, if you see this, pray for me as well brother. For my calling is to Christ, I want to give myself to him and show what strength I have can give to him I know which I have, which our beloved lord gave me, pray for me brothers and sisters.
Holy Fathers use to say about monastic live 1. Some one come to Monastery having total love for our Lord 2. Adders come to clean sol and body from sin and 3. Running from World been disappointed for something. The first 2 have chance de 3 rd less . Very nice story ABBA Triphon please prey for us 🙏 Thaks
I've been wanting to become a monk for half of my life. I only recently started learning about orthodox and the history of it, I love it. I have nothing, no attachment to anyone or anything. I would join today if I had the opportunity.
Abbot Tryphon's recounting of his experience as a therapist reminds me of Jordan Peterson saying that he needed to use religious language to help his patients who were suffering from PTSD.
This article talks about (towards the end) how psychologists recognize that there are some states that can't really be explained in scientific/psychological terms, and so even psych manuals include a "spiritual" category www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/catholic-exorcisms-on-the-rise/573943/
2:36 I swear this is me, i went to uni and studied more but it eventually felt unsatisfying , i literally set on the table and broke bread with some of the most influential men in my country in regards to finding viable solutions to food security & agritech and yet still, nothing , that gaping hole was there...heck, i looked into relationships, found a woman i love dearly but still it stood, i felt incomplete, like i was living for nothing ....now i'm at this crossroads
I want to escape from the world, but I also want to live my entire life for Christ without having to mix in other affairs. I don't love people, but I want to become that beautiful holy pebble, I want to be a man that loves people. I can't tell if I'm the right man for a monastic life or not. I have the red flags but I still feel very drawn to it. PS: I'm not Orthodox yet, I'm not even a catechumen yet, so this is really a future consideration.
@@SimpleAmadeus What do you mean when you say you want to escape the world BUT you also want to live your entire life for Christ without mixing in other stuff? Aren't those two synonymous? Since escaping the world is also escaping its affairs? As for mixing in other affairs, I've wondered often how different people perceive monastic callings. By wanting to be a monk, is a person rejecting the rest of God's creation to focus only on God? Or is it more nuanced than this - that monks aren't rejecting the good things God has made, but that for a time (even if it is one's entire lifetime) they choose to focus uniquely on God, be alone w Him in prayer, appreciate other such good aspects of solitude, and fight one's passions; meaning they still appreciate all other goods (enjoying the company of others, beauty, creation, etc) and even hope to still enjoy them in the resurrection, but feel called to a special kind or degree of isolation and setting apary for a period of time? Which of these two views do you feel describes your monastic calling?
@@AbsurdScandal They are almost the same, but one is a negative reason based on bitterness towards people, and the other is a positive reason based on love for God. My problem was that I couldn’t separate my bad reasons from my good reasons!
@@ryrocks9487 A Rassaphor monk does not vow stability & is free to move around. This is how I ended up in Canada. I became a monk after a 3 year novitiate in the U.S. Late in the 1980's my former monastery was guilty of some sexual abuse. Also introducing strange teachings. For this reason I left. Still Orthodox but have nothing to do with my former monastery. I am a layman once again.
Very difficult...if one is not able to fully accept it...and (apparently) not so difficult if one gives oneself fully over to it (which is, of course, the hard part(!)) And yes, either way, it stands as a prophetic sign for the Church and for the world...
You'd have to be a very eccentric 16 year old to fantasize about, of all things, becoming a monk. An ordinary 16yo would probably want to be a musician or an entrepreneur.
I am 16 and I want to become a nun, I want nothing else in life other than a relationship with Christ such as the monastics have. I know there are other paths, but I long for the monastic path. There are many of teenagers who want this, we just don't know who they are yet but God does.
There's one comment he made that I have to correct: Siddhartha is not about the prince who became Gautama Buddha. It's about another young man who rejects all of the spiritual teachings and sets out on his own, but who eventually meets the Buddha. Siddhartha shares the Buddha's name, but he rejects his teachings and continues on his own journey. His friend however leaves him and becomes a Buddhist monk. Siddhartha ends up leaving his ascetical life and getting involved with a woman who begins a sexual relationship with him, and he becomes very worldly after years of following monastic practices. They end up having a son together, but Siddhartha has become unhappy by this point and runs away from her before he knows she's pregnant. Later on he meets his son and raises him after her death, but the boy runs away after realizing his father wants to raise him in the jungle, away from any type of city life. The boy wants more than a monastic type of life, which Siddhartha had returned to. At that point in the book he is raising his son with a man who transports people across the river, a boatman. The boatman believes the river has taught him everything he needs to know in life so he never leaves its side, and Siddhartha stays with him and returns to the ascetical life. The young boy rejects this life and runs into the nearby city, and despite Siddhartha's attempts he's unable to be found. Siddhartha ends with two old men living their lives by the river, both knowing that searching for spiritual meaning and fulfillment is all that really matters. It's an excellent book and one I highly recommend, but I wanted to clear up Abbot Tryphon's misunderstanding of it.
This so call abbot cant live with no one no one can live under him so many try but could not. Only 3 monks are in that so call monastery .a other guy who is gay wearing a monks robe
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Your messages has reproved me many times over. My monastic calling cannot be ignored.
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I am discerning a monastic calling of my own. I have had it since childhood. Sadly, there are immense hurdles barring my path. If you feel so inclined, please pray for me. Michael. May the Lord have mercy on us all. 💠
Dear Johnson, please take heart. I will pray for you. I hope you find conviction in your call, and find peace in the path where our Lord leads you. Remember you may with trust take on Christ's yoke for you, for then he is with you, and he is our life. This is encouragement from your brother in Christ, who is also considering a calling - either eremitism or monasticism within the Catholic Church. May Christ give you peace and may you find oneness with him, dear brother.
Yours in Christ, Tiju Thomas
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Does anyone know where this monastery is? I am looking to become a monastic and I’d like to visit English speaking monasteries
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At the very BEGGINING of the video, we are told the name and the location of the Monastery.
Brother I am also discerning my call as well, if you see this, pray for me as well brother. For my calling is to Christ, I want to give myself to him and show what strength I have can give to him I know which I have, which our beloved lord gave me, pray for me brothers and sisters.
Holy Fathers use to say about monastic live 1. Some one come to Monastery having total love for our Lord 2. Adders come to clean sol and body from sin and 3. Running from World been disappointed for something. The first 2 have chance de 3 rd less . Very nice story ABBA Triphon please prey for us 🙏 Thaks
Amen...thanks for stopping by!
I've been wanting to become a monk for half of my life. I only recently started learning about orthodox and the history of it, I love it. I have nothing, no attachment to anyone or anything. I would join today if I had the opportunity.
Beautiful. I love Abbot Tryphon so much!
This is the sweetest human! Bless Him, Lord☦
Abbot Tryphon's recounting of his experience as a therapist reminds me of Jordan Peterson saying that he needed to use religious language to help his patients who were suffering from PTSD.
Yes...finding the right language to talk about faith is tricky...but foundational(!)
This article talks about (towards the end) how psychologists recognize that there are some states that can't really be explained in scientific/psychological terms, and so even psych manuals include a "spiritual" category
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/catholic-exorcisms-on-the-rise/573943/
2:36 I swear this is me, i went to uni and studied more but it eventually felt unsatisfying , i literally set on the table and broke bread with some of the most influential men in my country in regards to finding viable solutions to food security & agritech and yet still, nothing , that gaping hole was there...heck, i looked into relationships, found a woman i love dearly but still it stood, i felt incomplete, like i was living for nothing ....now i'm at this crossroads
I want to escape from the world, but I also want to live my entire life for Christ without having to mix in other affairs.
I don't love people, but I want to become that beautiful holy pebble, I want to be a man that loves people.
I can't tell if I'm the right man for a monastic life or not. I have the red flags but I still feel very drawn to it.
PS: I'm not Orthodox yet, I'm not even a catechumen yet, so this is really a future consideration.
Same for me
Same situation man, pray for me
@@user-ub5mx4nf4j Will do, brother. What name should I use? May our loving God tenderly guide your steps! 🙏🏻
@@SimpleAmadeus What do you mean when you say you want to escape the world BUT you also want to live your entire life for Christ without mixing in other stuff? Aren't those two synonymous? Since escaping the world is also escaping its affairs?
As for mixing in other affairs, I've wondered often how different people perceive monastic callings. By wanting to be a monk, is a person rejecting the rest of God's creation to focus only on God? Or is it more nuanced than this - that monks aren't rejecting the good things God has made, but that for a time (even if it is one's entire lifetime) they choose to focus uniquely on God, be alone w Him in prayer, appreciate other such good aspects of solitude, and fight one's passions; meaning they still appreciate all other goods (enjoying the company of others, beauty, creation, etc) and even hope to still enjoy them in the resurrection, but feel called to a special kind or degree of isolation and setting apary for a period of time? Which of these two views do you feel describes your monastic calling?
@@AbsurdScandal They are almost the same, but one is a negative reason based on bitterness towards people, and the other is a positive reason based on love for God. My problem was that I couldn’t separate my bad reasons from my good reasons!
Thank you Herman for this lovely and gracious interview with Abbott Tryphon, who eloquently and simply explains the path to Monasticism .
Thanks to God! Glad you found the channel, adelfé!
LOVED the analogy of rocks in the tumbler, then Jesus opens the door!
Thank you Abbott Tryphon and PV for another great video 💕☦️🙏🏼
Beautiful image of the christian life! Thank you brother!
As a former monk. Best description of monasticism that I've ever heard.
Former monk? Where you a novice?
@@ryrocks9487 I was an old calendar Greek Orthodox Rassaphor monk.
@@johncarsone1579 I’m curious, did you leave, or become a monk elsewhere?
@@ryrocks9487 A Rassaphor monk does not vow stability & is free to move around. This is how I ended up in Canada. I became a monk after a 3 year novitiate in the U.S. Late in the 1980's my former monastery was guilty of some sexual abuse. Also introducing strange teachings. For this reason I left. Still Orthodox but have nothing to do with my former monastery. I am a layman once again.
@@johncarsone1579 interesting, thanks for sharing your experience. So sorry for your pain.
Thank you for your hard work ☦️ God bless you
A great interview! Thanks Protecting Veil & Abbot Tryphon.
Thanks to God! Stay tuned for more!
Very nicely said. Monasticism to me seems very difficult, but if life is not that way in general, maybe we are not doing what we should be. . .
Very difficult...if one is not able to fully accept it...and (apparently) not so difficult if one gives oneself fully over to it (which is, of course, the hard part(!)) And yes, either way, it stands as a prophetic sign for the Church and for the world...
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Wonderful presentation. Herman I look forward to every Friday, and your new addition to the Veil .... always grand lessons.
Thanks to God...thanks for tuning in!
This is a wonderful channel.
great video I appreciat the clearity and honesty of the Abbot. Also his testimony was great as well. thank you!
Great!
Very glad you found it edifying!
You'd have to be a very eccentric 16 year old to fantasize about, of all things, becoming a monk. An ordinary 16yo would probably want to be a musician or an entrepreneur.
I am 16 and I want to become a nun, I want nothing else in life other than a relationship with Christ such as the monastics have. I know there are other paths, but I long for the monastic path.
There are many of teenagers who want this, we just don't know who they are yet but God does.
Man do I need some polishing.
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There's one comment he made that I have to correct: Siddhartha is not about the prince who became Gautama Buddha. It's about another young man who rejects all of the spiritual teachings and sets out on his own, but who eventually meets the Buddha. Siddhartha shares the Buddha's name, but he rejects his teachings and continues on his own journey. His friend however leaves him and becomes a Buddhist monk. Siddhartha ends up leaving his ascetical life and getting involved with a woman who begins a sexual relationship with him, and he becomes very worldly after years of following monastic practices. They end up having a son together, but Siddhartha has become unhappy by this point and runs away from her before he knows she's pregnant. Later on he meets his son and raises him after her death, but the boy runs away after realizing his father wants to raise him in the jungle, away from any type of city life. The boy wants more than a monastic type of life, which Siddhartha had returned to. At that point in the book he is raising his son with a man who transports people across the river, a boatman. The boatman believes the river has taught him everything he needs to know in life so he never leaves its side, and Siddhartha stays with him and returns to the ascetical life. The young boy rejects this life and runs into the nearby city, and despite Siddhartha's attempts he's unable to be found. Siddhartha ends with two old men living their lives by the river, both knowing that searching for spiritual meaning and fulfillment is all that really matters. It's an excellent book and one I highly recommend, but I wanted to clear up Abbot Tryphon's misunderstanding of it.
So... Siddhartha chose his own path yet he is denying the same to his own son... how considerate.!
Well, it was a very long time ago that I read the book, so, I guess I stand corrected.
Probably because the book is fictional and in real life Buddhism Gautama Buddha's birth name was actually Siddhartha.
God help your former patients!
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This so call abbot cant live with no one no one can live under him so many try but could not. Only 3 monks are in that so call monastery .a other guy who is gay wearing a monks robe
So?
I have to say, Matt, your words speak more about you than they do about my monastery. God help you.