Don't hide YOU from Christ
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The video 'Don't hide YOU from Christ' was recorded by Fr Seraphim (Aldea) at Iona Monastery (The Orthodox Monastery of the Mother of God and All Saints of Iona), on the Isle of Iona.
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May God bless us all!
Thank you. Lots of blessings to you from Western Norway. Your voice have reached across the Northern Sea. Wish a blessed weekend for your and everyone where you are, from Alv, and my cat Lucis, here. I truly needed every, single, word, you had to say today. Be blessed in all things, amen.
Father, I cannot find a "Register" button. There is only "Log In"
Beloved Fr..More,dead tired,in pain.I feel,not only myself,but all around me,I could say,the whole world.But,I also feel,there s no pain without joy,there s no joy without pain,they are intertwined...😔🥹
@@ninasaabiyeh926 If you scroll down the first page a bit, dear one, you will see the two registration plans. In fact, thanks to your message, we have also added a Community Register button at the very top of the first page and also at the very bottom. Please let me know if you are still struggling to find it and THANK YOU for letting us know - the online community has grown into something all of us, on Mull and Iona, love and pray for.
My wife Cathy is not a believer in Orthodoxy. I would love to join your community. Need a miracle, Father. I love your videos and all of you! God bless you always 🙏
Father, please pray for my husband. He was in a bad motor bike accident that almost killed him. He was lucky not to have head injury but he is recovering from surgery to correct his spleen. The accident caused internal bleeding and damage of organs. A partially collapsed lung, bruised kidney, bruised liver and three broken ribs. People all over have been praying for his recovery and he is doing well. The more people who will pray for him the more he realizes how much God loves him and he is beginning to turn his eyes to Christ. Thank you for your ministry.
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What is his name, my dear one? We shall all pray for him and I have no doubt that Christ will show His power and His mercy
@@mullmonastery his name is Scott. He just came h9me from the hospital but still in pain. Thank you for your prayers and I will keep you updated. I truly believe God has already spared his life from the snare trap of death that was attempting to claim him on Sunday, April 7, 2024. But God did not let it happen. I am so thankful.
Lord have mercy on Scott according to His Holy Will 🙏☦️
I will pray for your husband as well.
My dear Father, as usual your light has shined through. What words of wisdom and love. I have taken them into my heart and they will grow.
May God bless your wish to grow in Him, dear one, and may His words catch deep roots in your heart and bring much fruit
Your videos are always of a massive help. I'm far away but I wish I could meet you and hug you. It's difficult for me to have a bad day after listening to you. Thank you so much for all your work. May God bless you!
That is an enormous joy to my heart, dear one. Not even a day, not even an hour - if your heart feels a drop of joy and renewed courage to approach the Lord, than I also have confidence that Christ will forgive my many sins for the joy and hope you have received.
That’s exactly what I tried to share with my mother the other day. She immediately connected it to skulls and spookiness, got scared and ran away. Of course, her reasons for that are only due to a fault of my own!
Later on that week, we had a lovely talk about Jesus. Today, we are having a great day out on our country land.
Thank you Mull Monastery!
Thank you father
I was preparing for confession and felt so overwhelmed by my inability to change and my repetitive sins and questioned how God can ever use me for anything and who He meant for me to be . Next Sunday in our church is the commemoration of saint Mary of Egypt- an icon of the transformation into our true self in Christ 🙏 I pray for her intercession
St Mary of Egypt must be THE Saint of our generation, dear one. We were born into a world collapsed into lust and we have fallen into all its traps - she is one of the greatest helpers we have. May we all find refuge under the wings of her prayer and intercession before the Lord
It’s me. I’m the one behind the camera who needed to hear this 🖐️
Thank you.
Glory be to God, dear one. On this side of the camera, we all need your prayer and we all send our love in Christ
This is a message a lot of people who are outcast by some churches need to hear.
Thank you for this message. We cannot live false lives. We need to bring who we really are to Jesus.
We need to bring who we are before Him, so He can turn us into whom He created us to become. May we all be blessed.
Thank you for another beautiful lesson. Prayers for you all at Mull Monastery.🙏🤍 Amen, Amen, Amen.
Glory be to God, dear one. May God bless you for your love
Dear Father Seraphima,
Glory to God for your obedience to Jesus Christ, feeding his flock.
Words to take as food for nurturing our noose.
My you receive the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ 💗.
May we all be blessed, dear one, and may we all be nourished through the work we all do, in our own way, in our own life, in our own part of the world. May you be blessed by own monastic life, and may we be blessed by your work in the world. This is how we grow, this is how we are One in Christ, and this is how we find our salvation.
Yes father you're tight, you looks like dead BUT dead for the world and his passions. You looks also serious and that is something good, cause we are at state of war against the wicked spirits in high places! And one warrior of the Christ must be serious because the war that we are into in is serious!
Seriousness is always a surprise to me, dear one. I always look so grumpy and upset, although I genuinely am at peace when I speak and I do so from a place of love in my heart. And yet, I always end up looking like I want to eat somebody
Father, thank you for your reply! I have bought the book "Evil thoughts and demonic attacks during prayer" from Mull monastery and this book explains to me a lot and it's good fruit for my soul and support to my prayer life.
I love you Father ❤️
May we all be One in Christ in His Love and His power to raise us into the Saints He created us to be.
Happy to hear and see you,Father!
Please pray for me servant of GOD Olga and family!
Thanks, may GOD bless you and strengthen ❤
May you be blessed, dear Olga, with all those you carry in your heart and in your prayers. Please remember us in your prayers too
God bless you for this timely message. I know it's a couple of months old but I just now listened to it.
The amazing thing is today I shared a screenshot of a video of yours and the comments from July 23rd, 2020... almost 4 years ago. We are on a short road trip through Texas and our son, 9, was sad our daughters, 14 and 13, had girls at this house to play with and he had no one his age or gender. I showed in the comments from that screenshot and video where someone had said, "Christ is risen! We could all pray for your migraine headaches to be removed." Your reply was, "No, please don't. I already feel guilty enough for trying to control the pain through medication. Migraines don't kill. They just bring pain, but pain can be useful. But, my dear one, that is such a beautiful instinct of your heart - may God bless you for it beyond your hopes."
I told our son that God has given him this "pain" of being here at my wife's friend's house for a few days with no one to play with. But that pain does not kill him. It gives him a chance to pray and be at peace and find joy in things like helping our hosts. Thank God it has changed his afternoon.
Then I'm watching this video just now and you mentioned that you still have the migraines. Glory to God for all things! He came out and saw you and asked, "Is that Fr. Seraphim who has the migraines?" I said, "Yes! And he mentioned at the first of this he's still having them!"
I don't know if I've emailed you in the past few years about my sickness and mono. I got it the day after I turned 50 in June of 2022. I slept for 20 hours a day for 7 months. My body was weak when I began to recover. I missed Liturgy and Vespers and everything for so long. But, thanks be to God, my priest, Father Nikolay, gave me the same advice and still gives me the same advice you give here. Do what I can.
He told me I had endured. And that what I can do now is more than I could do before because now I am giving it all I have. Glory to God for all things!!!
Thankfully I was able to do all the prostrations during Lenten services and Pascha. I wept at this joy.
I do not brag. Forgive me if it sounds like that at all. I only say that what you say is true and beautiful beyond the words you're saying. It's an ontological reality. It's something that changes us.
God gave me that sickness, or allowed it, as He gives and allows all things... for my salvation. It is now to me to do with what He has given.
The timing of watching this video after the conversation with my son and on this, the first real trip I've taken since I was sick, is serendipitous. I don't comment or email much ever but I had to comment.
Your and the monks there are truly in my prayers every morning.
May God bless you!!
- Innocent of Albuquerque 🙏☦️
❤much gratitude, respect & love from Ethiopia.
Hurt and anger is often repressed and buried in us. It remains invisible and controls us. But it's part of our cross to tease it out of its hiding places and allow it to be finally felt and surrendered
There is my sweet brother in Christ. Praying for you! ❤❤❤ Thank you for your sacrifice for our Lord!!
Father, your words are always so encouraging. Thank you so much. God bless you. 😊
Be blessed, dear Maria. Hold on to what gives you joy and hope, and keep your eyes focused on Christ: He is Light, He is Love, and He has the power to transform even us, the fallen ones, into being of Light and Love, in His image. Please remember us in your prayers too
The tears are still flowing down my face as I hear this..thank you.
You're right.. Jesus Christ of Nazareth..
Please pray for me and family dear father! Angela Maria and family! 🙏Doamne Miluieste!
Thank you dear father ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
May we all be blessed, dear one
Praying for you Fr. Seraphim and monks, may God grant you strength and many years ☦️ I cried at the image of someone giving all they can to make a single prostration. A level of humility I lack and yet pray for
I would very much like to be a member of the Community. sometimes i can’t even pray!
God Bless you Father. Blessed are the feet that bring the sound of good news and the love of the King.
Pray for all of us here, dear one. No one is saved alone and we all need the love and support of everyone else.
Yes, I am one who needed to hear your message my dear Fr/Monk Seraphim. Thank you. Bless you. In XC, Louise
Glory be to God, dear Louise. May Christ give you the strength to start anew, with courage and trust in His love and His absolute, unshakable desire to save you. Please remember us in your prayers too
the exact words i needed to hear on this exact day, thank you!
Never have a commented before here. Please know I hear a compassionate hand encouraging us to let the layers melt and greet them one by one to reveal our tasks and duties. with Joy. I am a worrying type too , and .As the snow melts the layers .I hope we are able to drink the water flowing over and revealing layers to help the effects of the fasting to meet the new tasks with a Clear Head.
Thank you just what I needed today 😊 God Bless
Glory be to God, dear Marina - all good things come from Him Who knows exactly what we need and when we need it. Please remember us in your prayers.
With great gratitude, I give thanks to God for having inspired you with these words, these seeds of truth, dear Father Séraphin ! Everything you said here is very important ! May the Lord watch over you and your entire community !
You are so good and blessed...please pray for us..Evangelia...ΚΑΛΗ ΑΝΆΣΤΑΣΗ from Greece
My name is Evangelia
Thank you ❤
Thank you for your talk which came at a good time. I've been personally struggling with migraines which are getting worse as i get older. They have taken over half of each month in varying degrees, and threaten my photography business. I'm not looking forward to growing old with this, and asking for your prayers....The one good thing they have done though is severely limit my screen time, (something I've been fairly addicted to and trying to slow down). Lying in a dark room with no distractions could be really good for prayer, at least whenever the migraine is not too severe.
Dear Father, God bless you! While I'm not a guy who cries easily, you made me cry. I'm feeling completely run down after a few bouts of illness, and I keep thinking, how can I be so useless, being not yet forty? But you're right, one person's 100% is not the same quantity as another person's 100%.
For people experiencing difficulty prostrating, I'd highly recommend practice. It's the ont tip that's been going round the older members of my local community, and even applies for my complaining knees; if you find something has become harder with age, practice. As you said, find a way to get where you need to be in your own time, without haste.
Finally, I'd like to compliment whoever made your hat and jumper. Every time I see them, I think about how much love must have gone into them. They also look very comfortable.
This is what I needed. When I am in despair, I am tempted to put my hope into becoming someone else.
I fully understand that, my dear one. There are two major ways in which we (wrongly) fight despondency: either becoming someone else, or running away from ourselves (and this can be anything from wasting endless hours doing some mindless thing like watching things online to the extreme of self-harm). The only proper way to fight it is to show ourselves exactly as we are, in all our ugliness, before Christ and allow His Love to teach us how to love ourselves again (because really, this is the issue)
Dear Father thank you for this. I wanted to change who I am, to be something that I am not since I've been tired of things in the world, which I won't go through in a youtube comment. I struggle a lot as a young person but I think I see if Christ can grow with this person that I am then I shouldn't try to put on an act and if I change then just in Him.
Amen ❤thank you father for your prayers ❤
May you be blessed, dear one. Please remember us in your prayers too - we all need support from each other
Feeling so much love as a result of your message, Fr. Seraphim. Thank you for modeling authenticity and encouraging ours.
Please remember us in your prayers, dear one. If you found a drop of joy and hope in this message, I am thankful to Christ that He has given me the words your heart needed, dear one. Hold on to the little treasures of joy Christ gives you, my dear one - they will grow in your heart and they can totally transform you.
Pausing the video to write this: I broke down sobbing when Fr. Seraphim described the old ones making their prostrations, painstakingly, with infinite patience. Before he even said to “go slowly,” I remembered how I had already come to the realization, gradually, that I was taking everything at a pace five times faster than I could truly manage; that I am desperately hiding from others, from myself and from God, how much time it takes me to do honest, worthwhile labor-hiding because I see what I cannot unsee and I that now things cannot remain the same: I must begin to transform.
It was out-of-body and utterly alien: as I sobbed, my thinking mind, my inner observer, watched, unaffected for a moment, like a scientist watching from behind glass, as my body shuddered and shook, and my heart lay broken-open and disgusting. The “me” that thinks and explains and labels, usually full of words, was briefly mute and inarticulate and silly.
When I hear about about the joy which belongs to those old monks and to all those who persist when they can no longer hurry, it is not hard to believe, because I have already tasted that joy. I know about the beautiful thing that happens when I put down my need to “measure up.”
How then am I so slow to repent? How deep is my pride?
If this resonates with you, in any amount, in any way, hear that I am saying a prayer for you, for healing. And with my meager faith, I ask you to pray for me. Glory to God for all things, brothers and sisters!
Okay, returning to the video😬
That was so beautiful!! So helpful. So insightful. Luvu Father.
Glory be to God that you found something useful for your soul, dear one. None of us can stand alone, we all need each other to help us 'cross the road' to the other side, the side of the Kingdom. Be blessed, dear one.
Greetings from Greece ✝️🇬🇷 i just wanted to say that i thank you from the bottom of my heart. U help me and lift me every time especially now in a difficult stage of my life 🙏 we are so blessed to have you.
Hugs! This conflict between this world and our hope in Eternity becomes more and more sharply in focus as we age. May we have a good death! But until then we serve, we pray, we fast and we do what we can. Call this the widow’s mite. Hugs! So we may become death to this world.
I want to be with Christ. That's really all I want.
Thank you father, for reninding us to be truly ourself and not to pretend..God can not be deceived...And God knows our brojen and fallen world in which we found ourself trapped..Thank you for inspiring us to not to give up on ourself nor on our God and Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord....May God blesz you and your brothers and sister deeply and watch over you all..
Thank you, Father, for your beautiful words. I never understood prostrate oneself before the Lord, until now. You explained it beautifully. I'm going from protestant to Catholic and will take Catachism this year. Please keep me in your prayers. I pray for you, especially for those migraines, they can be debilitating. Your love for Christ in all situations is a beautiful example to us all. I will keep praying my Rosary. Please take care of yourself and may God be your constant strength and His instrument in teaching His children. God blessing be upon you always...🙏✝️🙏🕊🕊
Well, i think just continuing to love as you can is the answer. I am not sure God cares if we gesticulate and bow down or not...but he cares about where our hearts are.
I feel like laziness is the first sin that lets us into our fall
Thank you, father. Your words are true. 🙏
Thank you, Father. Yes, this has been wonderfully helpful and encouraging to me.
Dearest Father. Your eyes are always smiling! That's Christ in your heart! ❤🙏
Sărut dreapta părinte, atât de mult imi doresc să va cunosc,,, sper ca Domnul sā ma ajute sā ajung la dv, sunt in Londra de 3 ani, când puteți mai faceți câte un video si in română cā tare mā chinui sā traduc toate-s cuvintelele sfinției dv,,, Iertați si binecuvàntaţi,!
Please help me Father I’m orthodox and I’ve falling into despair. All my sins are my own afflictions. I want to be a good Christian but I just want to give up
Pray for me father. My soul is exhausted. I struggle with so much sin . I hide from the lord because I donot want him to see me. I am filthy with sin and beaten down. I stink of dirt and I donot think his Almighty deserves to have someone unworthy as me in his presence. When I hear that lord loves me even in my sinfulness, I struggle to believe it. I often regret after sinning and I go back and do the same things again. The cycle is so tiring. There are just so many obstacles to reach him and I sometimes feel like he is way too far from me. Another days , I feel him right next to me wipeing my tears when I am down. It puzzles me why he wants a person who has been dragged through the mud and broken inside. I am not Worthy of his time or love but where can I go without him. He created me. I just wish one day, I can truly belong with Him and not to this world. I thank you lord for giving me courage to get up over and over. Even until I take my last breath, I will continue to fight. Even I cannot make you happy, I will continue to apologize for my short comings. My lord my Almighty, I have so happy to know that you have so many angels and people that praise u. You are kind and loving. You love and forgiveness and wider and deeper than the ocean. I will be at far distance watching you and wishes for my eyes to see you and to sit next to you, to praise you. Even though I am not worthy of you, I will be one day by your grace. Father, I pray that to look after those who struggle like me that they do not lose hope and surrender. May you continue to strength them. Amen. I thank God for your videos. God bless you.
God will bring you through all your trials if you just trust and give him all the power. Let go and constantly offer him praise and be grateful for all your blessings. I too struggle every day but I take comfort in knowing that He is in charge. If you are willing, please offer your first name so I may include you in my daily prayers. May God bless you.
AmeN🙏❤️🙏
Thank you, Brother; this was exactly what I needed to hear at this exact moment. God bless you 🙏
Father, how can I help a friend that once used to go to church but now he says he doesen't feel anything and doesen't go. He said that I am a warm and affectionate person and he loves me, he is happy when I go to church, but he doesen't feel anything. I think that prayer is the best solution, isn't it?
Fortunately or unfortunately (I don't know) he falls in love with me and me too...
Feelings are irrelevant, my dear one. If one only follows Christ when one feels like it, the reality is that that person is only following his own comfort. The best way is for you to continue to grow in the Lord, as a living witness to his soul of what he is missing, while keeping him in your prayer. You may also take upon yourself some small sacrifice on his behalf - an extra day of fasting, an addition to your rule of prayer, a few prostrations etc - but only do this is and in the manner in which your spiritual father blesses it.
Thank you.
I like your seriousness in tvr the look
God bless you father ❤
Thank you again Fr.Seraphim. You always speak our mind, may the lord give you long life so we can feed on you.
your words are like nectar to my soul. thank you father Seraphim. your words bring light and hope. please pray for me and my family.
Doamne ajuta

Yes these words were heaven sent. So keep “rambling” thoughts coming 😊
“Own up to your own mortality”, thank you Father Seraphim. I look forward to your talks.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us❤
It was for me, Father. Glory to God for your open being.
Yes Father, but you live the true life, which is contant struggle
there is no other better purpose in life
Părinte, ai murit pentru lume, eu mor zilnic pentru păcat. Mila Domnului peste toți!
God be with you, fr Seraphim ❤☦
Father, you are a blessing to many. I find this video very helpful, spiritually inspiring. God bless you and keep you well. 🙏Amen.
Thank you precious brother. Reminds me of the buddhist words, better than a thousand clever words is a single word, rightly spoken, which brings peace.
Father, if I may ask for a bit of advice.. I have been courting a lady, April, for 5 months and I can see she will be such a good mother and wife. I also will be proposing to her very soon. My family says I am moving fast but, I am certain of her and my family is not really practicing their faith as her and I are. How can I overcome their thoughts/words from making me worry or being hesitant about loving her fully? I just want them to see how she brings me to Christ and is such a good woman as I do.. also, I'm maybe a bit hesitant too because it is such a big step. But, I know she is a blessing to me from God. Thank you,
Nikolas
Your smile comes from your heart. I see it. I'm "dead"too.
Brother, your spirit glows of Christ...
Much of what you say in these videos is helpful. Thank you
❤Thank you father!
Just be yourself.
Thanks, very relevant and much needed
Thank you for these words, Father; I very much needed to hear this right now. It is a big temptation in this day and age to try to be a person we weren’t created to be. We must instead try to give our whole, true self to Christ. Please keep me in your prayers, as I am such a sinner
I understand that, my dear one. There is so much pressure to be someone we are not, to act in ways that are not our own, to say things that do not come from the truth of our hearts - and then, the spiritual self-harm is that we carry this lack of being ourselves into our spiritual lives, into our prayer, into our standing before God. Be blessed, my dear one, be blessed.
Thankyou so much, your words have been a tremendous - and practical - blessing. I hope you will find more and more strength ... to rise up on eagles wings
May God bless you, dear one. The only thing we can hope is to give each other hope, to guide each other a little bit further through the darkness and confusion of this world. Please remember us on Mull and Iona in your prayers
You are super helpful
Love to you brother thankyou
Draga Parinte, cred ca ati aratat cu degetul spre mine, mesajul mi-era adresat. Altfel, de unde vine atata bucurie? De unde simt atata dragoste? As imbratisa nu doar toti oamenii, dar chiar si toate furnicile... E o nebunie frumoasa si vi se datoreaza. Multumesc.
PS Nu am stiut ca am o inima asa de mare, sa incapa toti oamenii si toate furnicile :)
Doamne Miluieste-ne!
Blessed Father 🙏🏽Thanku
Remember us in your prayers, dear one. May we all be blessed
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Thank yuo so much. I forget about this 'hiding myself from Chrisst. ' I forget that first he sees me all the time and he Loves me all the time and that is such a secret security for u.
I hope your migraines subside... water helps if you are only fasting from food. Lots of water.
Would you answer that ? Is fasting from water brings us to the point of migraines is it
the right thing to do?
Hello to all on Mull and Iona, i love saying Mull and Iona, anyway, i am already donating monthly, is is possible to join the online community without creating a separate donation account ?
You may look dead outside, but we are more dead then you inside, father.
You suffer and become like gold in fire, more shinnier and strong.
I have migreins too, and when i take Solpadeine pills its a red box everything goes away.
I recomend you, my doctor prescibed me.
By the grace of God, I do have medication, my dear one - pills, injections, all sorts of supplements, even a strange mask that would scare anyone if they saw me wearing it :) But they still come, as God allows them to come. By now, I am grateful that they do come and also grateful that they are not something that can kill you. It's just pain and pain can be good, if it doesn't crush you. I pray for you - may your own pain be taken away or may you find a way to keep your peace and grow through it.
This is a prayer that I love so very much. It is powerful. I wanted to share. It’s the prayer of St. Patrick
As I arise today, may the strength of God pilot me, the power of God uphold me, the wisdom of God guide me. May the eye of God look before me, the ear of God hear me, the word of God speak for me. May the hand of God protect me, the way of God lie before me, the shield of God defend me, the host of God save me. May Christ shield me today. Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit, Christ when I stand, Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. Amen.
St. Patrick pray for us
Thank you Beth. I'm going to say this prayer every day. ❤️
Im a little bit confused father about the part being yourself, what does It mean exactly, you brought up about being someone were not but falsely think we should be, on what level or scenario in life(In our jobs or what aspect), could you explain it with a practical example?
Im sorry If I might have missed something in the video. God bless father.