Thank you very much Father for your words of wisdom every time I feel discouraged I re-visit this segment and I feel energized and motivated to continue your walk with Christ.
“…the spiritual life needs to be serious but a little bit relaxed,intense but constraining, full of strive but not anxiety…”, our focus should be “…how to love Christ more and how to heal our soul…”. Indeed I hear the Lord speaking to me as I’ve been very discouraged lately in my walk with Christ through Orthodoxy being a Catechuman at the Greek Orthodox Church in Singapore. I’ve been noting mostly my inability to be a more virtuous person every in retrospect that I started to feel like I will never be able to become a “good” Christian. I even started to doubt if Orthodoxy is for me! Your words Father have certainly been God-sent to me, to let me know that whatever I’ve been struggling with (Nativity Fast included) might have been self-willed! I am certainly encouraged and re-energised to continue in my walk with Christ!
I've also been struggling with this, it is exhausting and very discouraging. Mostly because I feel the Lord is mad at me and that I dissapoint Him. What has been helping me as well is calling Our Lady to be the rock of my spiritual life as a guide as I feel I need one
Fr Paul Truebenbach 0:01 Memories of Christmas 🍪👩👦 2:28 Childhood Love 2:50 A Spirit of Love overcoming inescapable imperfection. 3:33 Christ pushes forward a Spirit of Love; The Ruler of The Synagogue believes in exacting standards and lack of conformity. 4:26 Where do we act like this Ruler of The Synagogue? (I act like this with myself.) 5:36 Prim and Proper. Trying to do a selfless good deed even if it wasn’t done perfectly. 6:23 Cookie Cutters 🍪 6:52 Decorating The Christmas Tree 🎄 7:12 “My one young boy… tags all his superhero ornaments in one spot.” 7:42 Putting Exacting Standards on Ourself puts Exacting Standards on Christ. 8:17 Our Loving Lord 8:37 We Have To Avoid Exacting Standards. 8:47 We Need To Be Humbled By Failures 9:57 Avoid unnecessary anxiety. 10:20 If I can’t give 45 minutes give 30 minutes 11:03 Balanced Spiritual Life Serious but Relaxed Intense but can’t be Constraining within Us Full of Striving everyday, but not full of anxiety. 11:26 Love ❤️ For Children 👨👩👧👦 Love For Christ 💕 Good Success bring Grace Good Failures bring Humility
This is assuring for those who suffer compulsive thoughts
As someone who struggles with anxiety and scrupulosity I appreciate this.
Thank you very much Father for your words of wisdom every time I feel discouraged I re-visit this segment and I feel energized and motivated to continue your walk with Christ.
“…the spiritual life needs to be serious but a little bit relaxed,intense but constraining, full of strive but not anxiety…”, our focus should be “…how to love Christ more and how to heal our soul…”. Indeed I hear the Lord speaking to me as I’ve been very discouraged lately in my walk with Christ through Orthodoxy being a Catechuman at the Greek Orthodox Church in Singapore. I’ve been noting mostly my inability to be a more virtuous person every in retrospect that I started to feel like I will never be able to become a “good” Christian. I even started to doubt if Orthodoxy is for me! Your words Father have certainly been God-sent to me, to let me know that whatever I’ve been struggling with (Nativity Fast included) might have been self-willed! I am certainly encouraged and re-energised to continue in my walk with Christ!
I've also been struggling with this, it is exhausting and very discouraging. Mostly because I feel the Lord is mad at me and that I dissapoint Him.
What has been helping me as well is calling Our Lady to be the rock of my spiritual life as a guide as I feel I need one
Great sermon!
Fr Paul Truebenbach
0:01 Memories of Christmas 🍪👩👦
2:28 Childhood Love
2:50 A Spirit of Love overcoming inescapable imperfection.
3:33 Christ pushes forward a Spirit of Love; The Ruler of The Synagogue believes in exacting standards and lack of conformity.
4:26 Where do we act like this Ruler of The Synagogue? (I act like this with myself.)
5:36 Prim and Proper. Trying to do a selfless good deed even if it wasn’t done perfectly.
6:23 Cookie Cutters 🍪
6:52 Decorating The Christmas Tree 🎄
7:12 “My one young boy… tags all his superhero ornaments in one spot.”
7:42 Putting Exacting Standards on Ourself puts Exacting Standards on Christ.
8:17 Our Loving Lord
8:37 We Have To Avoid Exacting Standards.
8:47 We Need To Be Humbled By Failures
9:57 Avoid unnecessary anxiety.
10:20 If I can’t give 45 minutes give 30 minutes
11:03 Balanced Spiritual Life
Serious but Relaxed
Intense but can’t be Constraining within Us
Full of Striving everyday, but not full of anxiety.
11:26 Love ❤️ For Children 👨👩👧👦 Love For Christ 💕
Good Success bring Grace
Good Failures bring Humility
Communion with God is found in silence not minutes of prayer.