These words need to be said over and over. Freedom of speech is not freedom to spread hate! Freedom of speech carries the responsibility to do no harm.
Now I can articulate why I'm so drawn to this UA-cam channel!! 🌈🙏. I feel safe 😌 here as I listen and learn.... Love is not injurious... Walking thru the big issues of life, how else can we grow?
Thank you Father. I'm usually a very independent American, and an artist also, but the hateful comments don't benefit anyone. Just like if we were in a church during vespers, we couldn't tolerate someone screaming or verbally bullying the people next to them. Thank you so much for stopping the anonymous bullies.
@@mullmonastery you give so much love & your words are very comforting. I love listening to your videos, they give me peace & help me to reflect & focus more on God. We, here in Las Vegas, Nevada, like most of the country, are going through very challenging times. Your prayers, your concerns, your peaceful voice is very comforting to hear. Thank you from the depths of my heart. Your reply means a lot to me, you give me hope. Sending my love...celeste
Wise and comforting words like always father Seraphim. Like a warm blanket in the cold and a balm on our soul. But beside that....I like so much that you talk with animals. Now I fee not alone anymore 🙂. Most of the people say that it is weird to speak with animals. It are Gods creatures great and small. Doamne ajuta.
😊 Dear Inge, there is nothing weird in speaking to a goat. I suppose it may get slightly problematic if the goat responds and you actually carry a conversation... but even then, there is always hope 😊 Seriously, it is a sin to engage emotionally with an animal as if that animal were a human being, but it is not sinful to love the animal as an animal, to care for it and to do one's best to facilitate a beautiful, pain-free for them. Be blessed, dear one. Stay safe and healthy.
@@mullmonastery here's a point I'm happy to hear you say. I have three beautiful kitties and I love them very much. But the cat-lover world has become a strange place where people think their animals are people, and they refer to themselves as the cat's mother and the cat as their "babies". Now, we live in very confused times when a lot of people are very messed up about family life, marriage and children, and a lot of people who probably should have married and had children weren't able to, and I can understand wanting to fill an emotional gap any way you can, but we've come to the point where people seem almost delusional about it. And I think it's bad for the animals too, to be treated like children. They're not. I don't keep my cats indoors all the time and this is a big issue for the Cat-crazies out there. But it's because I love them AS animals, and not as children, and not as objects. They're not really my possessions as a book or a chair would be, but living beings with lives of their own and purposes of their own to fulfil, given to them through their nature by God. I don't have a right to deform that nature, and keep them inside all the time as if they were toys or mere objects just to make myself feel better. Because I love them AS cats, and because I'm responsible for my own emotions, I know they have to go out and do their important cat-stuff, catching mice and roaming around. It is true they might and even probably will die earlier than they might if they were imprisoned in the house for my amusement, but they will have lived as a cat should live, as he was designed to live. It also helps that we live in the country, far away from traffic, for my good as well as theirs.
@@hilarywhite2953You mentioned “cat crazies” . I will say that I’m not a cat crazy person but I kept all my cats indoors because that was the best way for me to love and care for them. Outdoors many suffer from diseases, they get into fights with other cats, or other animals, often larger like the occasional raccoon or even fox, these larger predators have come into many larger cities, and I am aware of what food the cats eat. I don’t like to put a label on what love and care looks like for people and their animals.
Oh Fr, I can still see the little kid in you when you were talking about how your Mum sternly spoke to you in childhood. I'm sure she is very proud of you and we all are too.
I guess all we can do is pray for the poor souls who feel so disempowered that they have to bully others online. Those goats are pretty awesome. Although, I am not there with them so.... 🙏😊💖
I actually like them. I tend to like most things, including goaty ones 😊. My only fear regarding them (which is why I try my best not to touch them) is that they sometimes carry ticks, which is a rather annoying little creature. Be blessed, dear one. Thank you for your comment.
I could not stop giggling when you said, "...I have started deleting them..." Thank God, and thank you Fr. Seraphim, for making all the videos that you do. They're very beneficial and are helping me to separate from worldly desires and cares in a Christian way, I cannot thank you enough!
Hello Farther, I love you so much. You bring me great joy. Me and my family have 4 goats and we haven’t named them, but now that I listen to you and your videos I now greet them “hello my dear ones” Thank you Farther for everything you do for us.
I'm cheering you very loudly from far far away. (The cat is looking at me like I'm a crazy goat.) I am so happy. Thank you for saying everything you said here. You give me such hope for the world and the Church.
I get so much comfort in listening to these videos. I am so glad you talk about all the issues surrounding us in this day in age. There is so much information given from psychologist, teachers, politicians, media, etc that don’t share same beliefs and love for others. It is important to listen to hear what the church or what loving people like you have to say. You have much love, wisdom and are at daily communion with God that I would rather listen to your wisdom on these issues than what the world has to offer. Thank you.
This is primarily a message for our friends, all those who have made this Monastery possible and continue to support us: you are safe with us, dear ones. We have been safe with you for the last decade, so we shall do everything in our power to keep our Monastery and this UA-cam Channel a safe, decent and civilised meeting place for us all to share our thoughts and prayers. We shall no longer tolerate bullying, we shall no longer allow shameful and violent reactions against people who leave comments in good will and good faith. Free speech is a glorious thing, but we have learnt these last few years that there is a MOUNTAIN of difference between free speech and bullying, between allowing one's freedom of expression and facilitating violence. We THANK you for everything, and we promise to do our best to keep this Channel safe for everyone and a source of love and compassion for everyone.
Thank you for a safe spiritual harbor that I can weigh anchor. I always glean little spiritual gold nuggets, from my visit to your site. God Bless /Slaìnte /🌹OCDS🌹
In the various online places I've been a political writer, the policy is to moderate comments. You have to or the hostility blows all out of proportion. There's something about the internet - maybe the anonymity - that makes people go overboard. Free speech isn't what people think it is. Freedom and license aren't the same thing. The legal concept of freedom of speech that we have in western countries means the GOVERnment can't shut down your speech. Private people have every moral and legal right to not allow this or that thing to be said - or the people saying it - in their own homes or private situations. People like to say "I have my rights!" but no one remembers that rights don't exist in vacuum, but derive from our duties.
It really is dear Father a source of love and compassion for Everyone!!thank you so much!we need your Love your Words all your sacrifice.very good that you don t hurt anyone and you don t let yourself being hurt.nice.may God bless you always.i pray for you.bless me too.we love you.🤗🙏
Thank you so much Father for your beautiful and caring videos. You are a gift and a blessing to this world and I am so happy to have found you. God bless you and the other priests there.
Dear father Seraphim ,I'll always wait for your videos 🤗they are special, because you are special. I'm very dislike that I can't better follow it because there were not subtitles that I always see . I 'm Italian and I know just a bit of English ! I always be grateful you share with us these wonderfull videos with us . God bless you 🙏❤️❤️❤️
I just discovered your channel this week . . . my husband and I worship God in a Vineyard church which is a tiny Protestant denomination . . . we lived in Russia for a few years with our six (now adult) children (so are very familiar with Orthodoxy) and two of our precious children came to us as toddlers from Romania. Thank you for your great love for God and people, your wisdom, your humor, and your encouragement to love God and people well. I thank God for you! :) How very precious is the whole body of Christ, every part, all over the world!
I always get so much out of these little talks! And the goat is precious. I have a fondness for goats. My dad (for reasons unknown to me) decided when I was 8 or 9 that what we needed most was a whole herd of goats. Thus ensued quite the adventure of a lifetime. Goats are never where they SHOULD be. They are everywhere else. Great memories and much hard work later, I still smile when I see them.
Your roof, your rules. Fair enough. Anyone who has a problem with that is simply not being reasonable and I cannot help but wonder how they would feel if treated with a similar lack of courtesy. Best of luck with the goats. 😉
I think, dear Jason, that there is a 'switch' in the heart which one can somehow turn, and that makes you immune to the reactions of those around you. The risk is that it makes you immune to their hatred, but it also makes you immune to their love. This is why I'd rather suffer when someone throws their poison at me, but that suffering does not mean that I also need to collapse under its weight. May we all be blessed, dear one.
@@mullmonastery That puts words to my own dillemma. I know I could flip that switch but choose not to. This leaves me potentially too concerned about pleasing the world to serve in God's Kingdom. I am a recent convert but impatient to be less double-minded. But then the world IS complicated and it's hard for me to think God would rather I ignore that many unbelievers err more liberal than I find I can countenance as a Christian out of love and not deliberate hate. Some Christians assume the latter just as liberals assume the same of them, and they don't tend to bear the fruit of the Spirit as a result. But I will think on your words Father. God bless you.
Up at 5am with the baby, so glad I made a coffee and turned this video on. The end brought a tear to my eye. Love the goats too. May God bless you all.
Thank you Father for inspiring us with your words and the beautiful nature outside the monastery. I am glad that I discovered this channel. It gives me such peace of mind. Also I have always been socially aware and vocal about my opinions. However, being an orthodox Christian myself, I was apprehensive if I am unnecessarily delving into the things of this world. Your channel has encouraged me in this aspect. Much love and prayers for you father and your monastery.
What a wonderful message. I fully support your decision to delete the bullying & hateful comments. We are going through tough times & do not need all this negatitivity. . God bless you & the monastery. Like your friend 🐐 helping you introduce your video and end it too.
Dear Marsha, the very reason why we started these videos was to help people get through this horrid time. How we got from something so simple and human to threats of being beaten and accusations of heresy is beyond my ability to understand. Let us all do the little thing that is in our power which can make someone's life (anyone's life) just slightly better. If we all did that, this time would no longer feel so painful for so many people. Be blessed, dear one.
I have found that goats are lovely creatures, especially when you have raised them. They have a calming effect when you are around them a lot; and, will sit on your lap when they are grown up. It is a shame that you would be bullied; but, understandable in this world in which we live. Be safe. God Bless you Father and your Brothers.
Well said! (and I hope you got away from that goat). How people talk to others often reflects how they speak to themselves. I guess bullies are no exception, but we should not accept that behaviour; No more than parent accepts bad behaviour from his or her children.
That was something I had to understand, dear Tommi. For some reason, although I would never tolerate that sort of behaviour in our Monastery, I felt I 'deserved' to tolerate it, like a twisted form of repentance. Only then I realised that that acceptance is also hurting innocent people who watch this Channel looking for hope and comfort, not to be bullied by someone hidden behind a screen. May we all keep learning, keep growing, by the grace of God.
@@mullmonastery It is so easy, too easy to be hatefull (in one way or another) "online". Often I have been thinking, would that person say what he (or she) is saying face to face. I too have difficulty replying to someone on facebook who clearly answers to a post from a point of fear or even hatred.
God bless you father, i really love the spirituality the orthodox faith brings too the table....im Roman catholic and i pray ...fervently that the two churches reunite...we truly are greater together than the sum of our parts!....i love you as if you were my long lost brother from my youth that we had been separated in childhood, who have now finally found one another! God be with you,and with your spirit 🙏
Very good said father . People do need respect of others and for them selfs . There no need nor excuses for bullies bad behaviour . I have noticed some priests don't have the proper respect of people you notice this when they talk to them and refferance to there name not father ... And the priest name . I love art 🥰 .how ever in a parameter that is presentable . Some art can be very good yes true and very strange that be a vedios on that topic alone . What is acceptable and what should we as Christian accept by our standards.there are many good art work art sculpture out there . Some items can be appreciated for work out in them and left in that gallery. You have a incredible place there.
Hey you reading this - GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS!! May His divine light shine down on you and heal you, give your soul peace and serenity and give you peace and joy!! #Namaste
This is a great topic. I often wondered why people started saying "what people think of you doesn't matter" in terms of self "expression" when that very type of permissiveness has caused our collective values to be blurred and in some cases completely flipped. I grew up hearing "what will people think!?" Which usually helped to get us to rethink a behavior that wasn't helpful or becoming. Thank you for sharing this. God love you and bless you.
i miss my 3 goats. i dreamt about them not long ago. i miss my ducks too, but not as much. you are surely right to set some rules for the common space entrusted to you, and i cannot imagine that you do this in any spirit except that of Christ. thank you for your hospitality.
Thank you, father, for this video. I always feel at peace when and after watching your videos. Your videos help coping with these dark times a whole lot easier. May God bless you always.
Dear Father I hope that when you watched the video you saw the bird flying behind you, in my country it would be a seagull. I want to say Thank You for sharing your time with us in such a wonderful manner.
i'm so thankful to the Lord i found this channel. Using artistic freedom, by censoring works of the flesh(to protect) and addressing matters of the heart(to serve)...is a beautiful art form to behold, to me.
Evlogeite! Father, your video message is totally in keeping with our Orthodox faith and mindset, and it manifests growth in Christ on this UA-cam channel. To love someone is not to give them what they want, but rather to do for them what is good for their salvation; sadly very few people know this or believe this or practice this. To love someone is to be “patient and kind,” 1 Corinthians 13:4. To be patient is not to endure frustration, but rather it is to recognize things for what they are - which actually resolves frustration and brings peace. To be kind is to do what is good for someone, not necessarily to give them what they may desire. As Christians, we have an obligation to clothe our brother’s nakedness, cf. Matthew 25:36. If you debate and refute and fight against your antagonists, you are not being patient; you are not recognizing the truth, you are not recognizing them for the polemicists they are. If you allow individuals to disturb the peace, you are enabling their sinfulness; this is not kindness. If you allow ugly messages to remain in the comments, you are letting them reveal their nakedness and sinfulness to the world; you are not clothing their nakedness. If you permit ugly comments to remain on the channel you provide both the “near opportunity to sin” and facilitate sinful acts; this is not kind for you would be giving them the audience they want rather than helping them to avoid sin - at least on your channel. We pray in peace and we pray for peace, we extend peace saying “peace be with you;” the very first words of the resurrected Christ were ““Peace to you! ... If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained,” John 20:21, 23. Father, continue to establish peace, to maintain peace, to protect peace, to cover your brothers’ sins, and to forgive them. With brotherly love, +L. (P.S., I fondly recall meeting you a few years ago in Denver.)
I don’t blame you for this. We as Christians should be spreading Love, encouragement and uplift one another. I’ve learned though that we should respond with love and not be offended. The ones the bring negativity will turn away. Even though I’m not Eastern Orthodox, we are all the church of Jesus Christ. You are a good teacher and I appreciate you. May God Bless you and your monastery.
I suffer greatly. I have nerve damage that causes hi pain 24/7 and I have other illnesses. I thank God for my suffering because it is from him. I will gladly suffer if it means that I I'm caught in the eye of the Lord. If he sees me because of my suffering it is a good thing. :-)
Bless you I've only recently started watching your channel and I praise God and thank him very much for you I'm not orthodox but I am Christian and I whole heartedly agree with what you say really makes sense and any silly people out thier who think making fun of munks and moking in anyway shape or form are very pathetic and childish 😉 I'm very grateful for the advice and things you share on this channel I'll be watching and listening more God's love and blessings ❤️ 🙌
Thank you Fr. for deleting the bad comments. I love this channel and I cringe when I come across such comments here or on other videos. Thank you for standing up against them and protecting us from having to see them. Pax et bonum!
First of your videos I have seen. Very enjoyable. I think it is very important to understand over what we have authority and have the courage to use it for the common good. It is so much easier in these days of tolerance to let everyone do what they want.
Sir, can you create a list of videos teaching us the lives, teachings and values of the Desert Father's? Would be a great help for us to know more about our Faith.
That is a very good idea, dear one. I have been thinking about that for a few months to be honest, I just do not know if anyone would be interested. I also think that their lives and the examples they left would be scandalous to many Christians today. I suppose an introductory video, explaining how to relate to these stories and how to use them in our own lives, might help with that. Anyway - thank you for your comment, it relights a fire in my heart concerning the Desert Fathers.
I don't recall ever seeing a comments section that wouldn't be full of vitriol. No matter the topic... there would always be at least one person determined to set the comments section on fire.
Thank you Father for being here for us. I pray for you almost every day. I need prayer to endure chronic illness for which the doctors are at an end of what they can do and I have tried everything to get well and nothing improves it. I need strength and grace to endure it and for it to work in me to my salvation. I am being sorely tempted to self-pity and despondency. If I go to Sunday Liturgy, I cannot do anything else the rest of the day including cook a meal for my family. That is where things stand and I am so sad about it right now. Illness is clearly God's assignment for me and I need to be able to accept it.
Bravo Father, even Jesus was not afraid to tell people off when they were in the wrong, including his friend and our first pope Peter. One cannot be effective, if one does not have a spine, bravo.
These words need to be said over and over. Freedom of speech is not freedom to spread hate! Freedom of speech carries the responsibility to do no harm.
Now I can articulate why I'm so drawn to this UA-cam channel!! 🌈🙏. I feel safe 😌 here as I listen and learn.... Love is not injurious... Walking thru the big issues of life, how else can we grow?
Thank you Father. I'm usually a very independent American, and an artist also, but the hateful comments don't benefit anyone. Just like if we were in a church during vespers, we couldn't tolerate someone screaming or verbally bullying the people next to them.
Thank you so much for stopping the anonymous bullies.
Well said Father. I am sorry to hear about the hatred and bullying. And you are so right to eliminate those sentiments.🙏❤🙏❤ GOD BLESS YOU!
Thank you father. May God continuous to bless mull monastery.
Thank you Father for sharing this personal view, thank you for your love & guidance.
Thank you for journeying through this pandemic with us, dear Celeste. Everything feels better when one is not alone.
@@mullmonastery you give so much love & your words are very comforting. I love listening to your videos, they give me peace & help me to reflect & focus more on God. We, here in Las Vegas, Nevada, like most of the country, are going through very challenging times. Your prayers, your concerns, your peaceful voice is very comforting to hear. Thank you from the depths of my heart. Your reply means a lot to me, you give me hope. Sending my love...celeste
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Wise and comforting words like always father Seraphim. Like a warm blanket in the cold and a balm on our soul. But beside that....I like so much that you talk with animals. Now I fee not alone anymore 🙂. Most of the people say that it is weird to speak with animals. It are Gods creatures great and small. Doamne ajuta.
😊 Dear Inge, there is nothing weird in speaking to a goat. I suppose it may get slightly problematic if the goat responds and you actually carry a conversation... but even then, there is always hope 😊 Seriously, it is a sin to engage emotionally with an animal as if that animal were a human being, but it is not sinful to love the animal as an animal, to care for it and to do one's best to facilitate a beautiful, pain-free for them. Be blessed, dear one. Stay safe and healthy.
@@mullmonastery here's a point I'm happy to hear you say. I have three beautiful kitties and I love them very much. But the cat-lover world has become a strange place where people think their animals are people, and they refer to themselves as the cat's mother and the cat as their "babies". Now, we live in very confused times when a lot of people are very messed up about family life, marriage and children, and a lot of people who probably should have married and had children weren't able to, and I can understand wanting to fill an emotional gap any way you can, but we've come to the point where people seem almost delusional about it. And I think it's bad for the animals too, to be treated like children. They're not. I don't keep my cats indoors all the time and this is a big issue for the Cat-crazies out there. But it's because I love them AS animals, and not as children, and not as objects. They're not really my possessions as a book or a chair would be, but living beings with lives of their own and purposes of their own to fulfil, given to them through their nature by God. I don't have a right to deform that nature, and keep them inside all the time as if they were toys or mere objects just to make myself feel better. Because I love them AS cats, and because I'm responsible for my own emotions, I know they have to go out and do their important cat-stuff, catching mice and roaming around. It is true they might and even probably will die earlier than they might if they were imprisoned in the house for my amusement, but they will have lived as a cat should live, as he was designed to live. It also helps that we live in the country, far away from traffic, for my good as well as theirs.
@@hilarywhite2953You mentioned “cat crazies” . I will say that I’m not a cat crazy person but I kept all my cats indoors because that was the best way for me to love and care for them. Outdoors many suffer from diseases, they get into fights with other cats, or other animals, often larger like the occasional raccoon or even fox, these larger predators have come into many larger cities, and I am aware of what food the cats eat. I don’t like to put a label on what love and care looks like for people and their animals.
Oh Fr, I can still see the little kid in you when you were talking about how your Mum sternly spoke to you in childhood. I'm sure she is very proud of you and we all are too.
I guess all we can do is pray for the poor souls who feel so disempowered that they have to bully others online. Those goats are pretty awesome. Although, I am not there with them so....
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I actually like them. I tend to like most things, including goaty ones 😊. My only fear regarding them (which is why I try my best not to touch them) is that they sometimes carry ticks, which is a rather annoying little creature. Be blessed, dear one. Thank you for your comment.
Amen. Thank you so much for your standing up for love and truth. I have to say I love in Christ this place of love and learning and your dear self.
Well said my brother in Christ.
I could not stop giggling when you said, "...I have started deleting them..." Thank God, and thank you Fr. Seraphim, for making all the videos that you do. They're very beneficial and are helping me to separate from worldly desires and cares in a Christian way, I cannot thank you enough!
Hello Farther, I love you so much. You bring me great joy.
Me and my family have 4 goats and we haven’t named them, but now that I listen to you and your videos I now greet them “hello my dear ones”
Thank you Farther for everything you do for us.
I'm cheering you very loudly from far far away. (The cat is looking at me like I'm a crazy goat.) I am so happy. Thank you for saying everything you said here. You give me such hope for the world and the Church.
I get so much comfort in listening to these videos. I am so glad you talk about all the issues surrounding us in this day in age. There is so much information given from psychologist, teachers, politicians, media, etc that don’t share same beliefs and love for others. It is important to listen to hear what the church or what loving people like you have to say. You have much love, wisdom and are at daily communion with God that I would rather listen to your wisdom on these issues than what the world has to offer. Thank you.
Thank you for all of these videos. They are a blessing. Although I am not Orthodox , I truly am grateful for your talks. They help, a lot.
This is primarily a message for our friends, all those who have made this Monastery possible and continue to support us: you are safe with us, dear ones. We have been safe with you for the last decade, so we shall do everything in our power to keep our Monastery and this UA-cam Channel a safe, decent and civilised meeting place for us all to share our thoughts and prayers.
We shall no longer tolerate bullying, we shall no longer allow shameful and violent reactions against people who leave comments in good will and good faith. Free speech is a glorious thing, but we have learnt these last few years that there is a MOUNTAIN of difference between free speech and bullying, between allowing one's freedom of expression and facilitating violence.
We THANK you for everything, and we promise to do our best to keep this Channel safe for everyone and a source of love and compassion for everyone.
Thank you for a safe spiritual harbor that I can weigh anchor.
I always glean little spiritual gold nuggets, from my visit to your site.
God Bless /Slaìnte /🌹OCDS🌹
Yes
Love is patient...
Love is kind...
Always
In the various online places I've been a political writer, the policy is to moderate comments. You have to or the hostility blows all out of proportion. There's something about the internet - maybe the anonymity - that makes people go overboard. Free speech isn't what people think it is. Freedom and license aren't the same thing. The legal concept of freedom of speech that we have in western countries means the GOVERnment can't shut down your speech. Private people have every moral and legal right to not allow this or that thing to be said - or the people saying it - in their own homes or private situations. People like to say "I have my rights!" but no one remembers that rights don't exist in vacuum, but derive from our duties.
Thank you for your ceaseless prayers for us. Know that they are bearing eternal fruit.
It really is dear Father a source of love and compassion for Everyone!!thank you so much!we need your Love your Words all your sacrifice.very good that you don t hurt anyone and you don t let yourself being hurt.nice.may God bless you always.i pray for you.bless me too.we love you.🤗🙏
Thank you so much Father for your beautiful and caring videos. You are a gift and a blessing to this world and I am so happy to have found you. God bless you and the other priests there.
Dear father Seraphim ,I'll always wait for your videos 🤗they are special, because you are special.
I'm very dislike that I can't better follow it because there were not subtitles that I always see . I 'm Italian and I know just a bit of English ! I always be grateful you share with us these wonderfull videos with us . God bless you 🙏❤️❤️❤️
Your English writing is just fine. Keep practicing and you'll soon be great.
I just discovered your channel this week . . . my husband and I worship God in a Vineyard church which is a tiny Protestant denomination . . . we lived in Russia for a few years with our six (now adult) children (so are very familiar with Orthodoxy) and two of our precious children came to us as toddlers from Romania. Thank you for your great love for God and people, your wisdom, your humor, and your encouragement to love God and people well. I thank God for you! :) How very precious is the whole body of Christ, every part, all over the world!
I always get so much out of these little talks! And the goat is precious. I have a fondness for goats. My dad (for reasons unknown to me) decided when I was 8 or 9 that what we needed most was a whole herd of goats. Thus ensued quite the adventure of a lifetime. Goats are never where they SHOULD be. They are everywhere else. Great memories and much hard work later, I still smile when I see them.
Dads are strange creatures, dear Rain. Just like goats 😊 May we all be blessed, dear one - us and all those we we keep dear in our hearts and prayers.
You have no idea how much your videos help me during this pandemic
Edit: well, you probably do. But I'm very thankful for it. God bless you Father
Thank you for the shepherdly guidance. God bless you and the monastery🙏
Thank you, dear Father, for making me feel like I belong! God bless us all!
Bravo! Bless you Fr Seraphim. Your words are always wise and full of love.
Your prayers for us are working, Father. Our suffering is being transformed into our eternal blessing through the Spirit of God.
Amen .
Very tranquil place to be in. Beautiful place ❤️
Your roof, your rules.
Fair enough.
Anyone who has a problem with that is simply not being reasonable and I cannot help but wonder how they would feel if treated with a similar lack of courtesy.
Best of luck with the goats. 😉
I think, dear Jason, that there is a 'switch' in the heart which one can somehow turn, and that makes you immune to the reactions of those around you. The risk is that it makes you immune to their hatred, but it also makes you immune to their love. This is why I'd rather suffer when someone throws their poison at me, but that suffering does not mean that I also need to collapse under its weight. May we all be blessed, dear one.
@@mullmonastery That puts words to my own dillemma. I know I could flip that switch but choose not to. This leaves me potentially too concerned about pleasing the world to serve in God's Kingdom. I am a recent convert but impatient to be less double-minded. But then the world IS complicated and it's hard for me to think God would rather I ignore that many unbelievers err more liberal than I find I can countenance as a Christian out of love and not deliberate hate. Some Christians assume the latter just as liberals assume the same of them, and they don't tend to bear the fruit of the Spirit as a result. But I will think on your words Father. God bless you.
Sounds familiar 😇
Up at 5am with the baby, so glad I made a coffee and turned this video on. The end brought a tear to my eye. Love the goats too. May God bless you all.
Thank you, Father Seraphim Aldea. You truly are an inspiration and source of love and compassion, keep up your excellent work. God bless you!
Amen to everything you said dear Father!
Thank you dear brother for your wonderful messages of truth.😊
I...absolutely...LOVED....this!!!! Amen! (Mother of a monastic nun writing to you, so I feel like you could be my son too! God bless you!)
Thank you Father for inspiring us with your words and the beautiful nature outside the monastery. I am glad that I discovered this channel. It gives me such peace of mind. Also I have always been socially aware and vocal about my opinions. However, being an orthodox Christian myself, I was apprehensive if I am unnecessarily delving into the things of this world. Your channel has encouraged me in this aspect. Much love and prayers for you father and your monastery.
What a wonderful message. I fully support your decision to delete the bullying & hateful comments. We are going through tough times & do not need all this negatitivity. . God bless you & the monastery. Like your friend 🐐 helping you introduce your video and end it too.
Dear Marsha, the very reason why we started these videos was to help people get through this horrid time. How we got from something so simple and human to threats of being beaten and accusations of heresy is beyond my ability to understand. Let us all do the little thing that is in our power which can make someone's life (anyone's life) just slightly better. If we all did that, this time would no longer feel so painful for so many people. Be blessed, dear one.
I have found that goats are lovely creatures, especially when you have raised them. They have a calming effect when you are around them a lot; and, will sit on your lap when they are grown up. It is a shame that you would be bullied; but, understandable in this world in which we live. Be safe. God Bless you Father and your Brothers.
Thank you Fr and God Bless you.
God bless you, the monastery -- and the man-eating goat!
Father, God bless you! Thank you. Let us talk about this world and how to live as Christ would have us to live in this generation.
Well said! (and I hope you got away from that goat). How people talk to others often reflects how they speak to themselves. I guess bullies are no exception, but we should not accept that behaviour; No more than parent accepts bad behaviour from his or her children.
That was something I had to understand, dear Tommi. For some reason, although I would never tolerate that sort of behaviour in our Monastery, I felt I 'deserved' to tolerate it, like a twisted form of repentance. Only then I realised that that acceptance is also hurting innocent people who watch this Channel looking for hope and comfort, not to be bullied by someone hidden behind a screen. May we all keep learning, keep growing, by the grace of God.
@@mullmonastery It is so easy, too easy to be hatefull (in one way or another) "online". Often I have been thinking, would that person say what he (or she) is saying face to face. I too have difficulty replying to someone on facebook who clearly answers to a post from a point of fear or even hatred.
Indeed
God bless you father, i really love the spirituality the orthodox faith brings too the table....im Roman catholic and i pray ...fervently that the two churches reunite...we truly are greater together than the sum of our parts!....i love you as if you were my long lost brother from my youth that we had been separated in childhood, who have now finally found one another! God be with you,and with your spirit 🙏
Very good said father . People do need respect of others and for them selfs . There no need nor excuses for bullies bad behaviour . I have noticed some priests don't have the proper respect of people you notice this when they talk to them and refferance to there name not father ... And the priest name .
I love art 🥰 .how ever in a parameter that is presentable .
Some art can be very good yes true and very strange that be a vedios on that topic alone . What is acceptable and what should we as Christian accept by our standards.there are many good art work art sculpture out there . Some items can be appreciated for work out in them and left in that gallery.
You have a incredible place there.
This channel is the waiting room for Heaven! 🙏 thank you 😊
Hey you reading this - GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS!! May His divine light shine down on you and heal you, give your soul peace and serenity and give you peace and joy!! #Namaste
Father your light is well and lit for us all to share. 🙏
This is a great topic. I often wondered why people started saying "what people think of you doesn't matter" in terms of self "expression" when that very type of permissiveness has caused our collective values to be blurred and in some cases completely flipped. I grew up hearing "what will people think!?" Which usually helped to get us to rethink a behavior that wasn't helpful or becoming. Thank you for sharing this. God love you and bless you.
i miss my 3 goats. i dreamt about them not long ago.
i miss my ducks too, but not as much.
you are surely right to set some rules for the common space entrusted to you, and i cannot imagine that you do this in any spirit except that of Christ.
thank you for your hospitality.
Well done , my friend!!! Amen, Amen, Amen!!!
I am grateful that you are a good shepherd to your UA-cam flock. God bless you all.
Lovely! Rules are not to be discussed! May GOD bless you and the community at the monastery!
God bless you, Fr. Seraphim!
Thank you for taking this righteous stand.
Another wonderful video. Thank you, father.
Well and wonderfully said, Fr.
Thank you thank you! God bless you.
Thank you, father, for this video. I always feel at peace when and after watching your videos. Your videos help coping with these dark times a whole lot easier. May God bless you always.
Thank you. Greetings from Pennsylvania.
God bless you too. You are full of Gods light and a precious gift to us
Lovely to see you enjoying your bicycle ride in the beauty of your countryside. What a fabulous transportation system! It is one with Nature.
Thank you father god bless you 😇🙏
Come on! Tell 'em, Father! Lord have mercy.
Thank you, Father, for keeping this a clean and joyful place. Delete! Delete! Delete! ❤
Amen father thank you for saying the truth and keep going love your channel 🙏♥️🙏♥️
Well said!i report or delete bullying/violent/distasteful language and behaviour. on social media.love and light!
Amen and God bless
Dear Father I hope that when you watched the video you saw the bird flying behind you, in my country it would be a seagull. I want to say Thank You for sharing your time with us in such a wonderful manner.
I would like to be like that lucky goat and be able to have some kind of contact with this sweetest of human beings!
Amen.
I hope that now the US can begin healing. This is in the best interests for peace.
i'm so thankful to the Lord i found this channel. Using artistic freedom, by censoring works of the flesh(to protect) and addressing matters of the heart(to serve)...is a beautiful art form to behold, to me.
Hello from Tasmanian, and Thank you.
Evlogeite!
Father, your video message is totally in keeping with our Orthodox faith and mindset, and it manifests growth in Christ on this UA-cam channel.
To love someone is not to give them what they want, but rather to do for them what is good for their salvation; sadly very few people know this or believe this or practice this.
To love someone is to be “patient and kind,” 1 Corinthians 13:4. To be patient is not to endure frustration, but rather it is to recognize things for what they are - which actually resolves frustration and brings peace. To be kind is to do what is good for someone, not necessarily to give them what they may desire. As Christians, we have an obligation to clothe our brother’s nakedness, cf. Matthew 25:36.
If you debate and refute and fight against your antagonists, you are not being patient; you are not recognizing the truth, you are not recognizing them for the polemicists they are.
If you allow individuals to disturb the peace, you are enabling their sinfulness; this is not kindness.
If you allow ugly messages to remain in the comments, you are letting them reveal their nakedness and sinfulness to the world; you are not clothing their nakedness.
If you permit ugly comments to remain on the channel you provide both the “near opportunity to sin” and facilitate sinful acts; this is not kind for you would be giving them the audience they want rather than helping them to avoid sin - at least on your channel.
We pray in peace and we pray for peace, we extend peace saying “peace be with you;” the very first words of the resurrected Christ were ““Peace to you! ... If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained,” John 20:21, 23.
Father, continue to establish peace, to maintain peace, to protect peace, to cover your brothers’ sins, and to forgive them.
With brotherly love, +L.
(P.S., I fondly recall meeting you a few years ago in Denver.)
I don’t blame you for this. We as Christians should be spreading Love, encouragement and uplift one another. I’ve learned though that we should respond with love and not be offended. The ones the bring negativity will turn away. Even though I’m not Eastern Orthodox, we are all the church of Jesus Christ. You are a good teacher and I appreciate you. May God Bless you and your monastery.
Well said. Bravo
Good for you, Father
Doamne ajuta!
Parinte
Nice peaceful Words of Wisdom, Videos are like a Sanctuary! God Bless!
I suffer greatly. I have nerve damage that causes hi pain 24/7 and I have other illnesses. I thank God for my suffering because it is from him. I will gladly suffer if it means that I I'm caught in the eye of the Lord. If he sees me because of my suffering it is a good thing. :-)
Bless you I've only recently started watching your channel and I praise God and thank him very much for you I'm not orthodox but I am Christian and I whole heartedly agree with what you say really makes sense and any silly people out thier who think making fun of munks and moking in anyway shape or form are very pathetic and childish 😉 I'm very grateful for the advice and things you share on this channel I'll be watching and listening more God's love and blessings ❤️ 🙌
Thanks be to God for you and this channel. We each need to grow up and make the choice to be kind and love one another.
God bless you father seraphim. Also may God bless your work and your monastery.
This is truly a place where you can escape to and learn as well as feel comforted, when in doubt.
You have discovered the burden of Authority. But Authority is necessary for growth and nurturing. Blessings from BC
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One request, Father: please brings snacks for the goats...and PET THEM.
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Thank you Fr. for deleting the bad comments. I love this channel and I cringe when I come across such comments here or on other videos. Thank you for standing up against them and protecting us from having to see them. Pax et bonum!
We all love you so much father and please remember never give those bullies the authority to stress you as they are just dust in the air.
Thank you!
First of your videos I have seen. Very enjoyable. I think it is very important to understand over what we have authority and have the courage to use it for the common good. It is so much easier in these days of tolerance to let everyone do what they want.
Bless you!
God bless you and May the love of Jesus Christ cover you with peace and love
Sir, can you create a list of videos teaching us the lives, teachings and values of the Desert Father's?
Would be a great help for us to know more about our Faith.
That is a very good idea, dear one. I have been thinking about that for a few months to be honest, I just do not know if anyone would be interested. I also think that their lives and the examples they left would be scandalous to many Christians today. I suppose an introductory video, explaining how to relate to these stories and how to use them in our own lives, might help with that. Anyway - thank you for your comment, it relights a fire in my heart concerning the Desert Fathers.
tomorrow I will attend st Gabriel church in Glasgow ! first time to attend Orthodox mass
Peace!
Thank you, so much. May Our Lord bless you and your life and Mull Monastery. We are all imperfect, just here in our weakness, we surrender.
I don't recall ever seeing a comments section that wouldn't be full of vitriol. No matter the topic... there would always be at least one person determined to set the comments section on fire.
Thank you Father for being here for us. I pray for you almost every day. I need prayer to endure chronic illness for which the doctors are at an end of what they can do and I have tried everything to get well and nothing improves it. I need strength and grace to endure it and for it to work in me to my salvation. I am being sorely tempted to self-pity and despondency. If I go to Sunday Liturgy, I cannot do anything else the rest of the day including cook a meal for my family. That is where things stand and I am so sad about it right now. Illness is clearly God's assignment for me and I need to be able to accept it.
Wise words brother.
Bravo Father, even Jesus was not afraid to tell people off when they were in the wrong, including his friend and our first pope Peter. One cannot be effective, if one does not have a spine, bravo.
Lol . Dear bullies . Love conquers all. I love your way of teaching . Love love love . Not fear fear fear .