"If you see a Saint, your heart will explode because our human heart cannot contain the love for us!" Amen! They love us and root for us as we are all tied together through the Holy Spirit
I want to share a personal experience somewhat related to your posted phrase. During my PhD, I always struggled with theoretical content and most of the time I was in constant psychological pain due to my inability to keep up with my supervisor's expectations. I prayed for Holy Wisdom for many months and one day as I was reading a complex book on stochastic processes, I felt a rush of heat in my head and I started to read books and equations as if they were a novel. I switched to another topic I was stuck on and again it read like a novel. I felt overjoyed, thinking to myself "A month of this state of mind and I'm done with the PhD". The next day, I woke up and couldn't move, my body felt heavy and exhausted as if I had run many miles. Took me a few days to fully recover, and started to realize that it was not my own intellect interpreting, but a complementary enlightenment. Whenever I pray God for the wisdom of the Saints it is granted, but my body cannot sustain it for more than a day. May God bless your path and choices.
This is so right! We should all have certain prayers, hymns and psalms memorized! There WILL be times in our life when we cannot pray! Our own words won’t come to us. Memorized prayers, hymns and psalms… along with the Jesus Prayer will always be there. There have been two times in my life, during an extremely difficult and stressful time, when I had a panic attack. I was so upset, I could not begin to concentrate to pray. The ONLY thing that helped me was to grab my prayer rope 📿 and pray with all my heart, “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me!” The Prayer of the Heart, the Jesus Prayer, was the only thing that calmed me and brought me peace and relieved the panic attack! Glory to God! Δόξα τω Θεώ!
Yes, I understand this, when God takes away his gaze from you, even as a test, for a moment, you feel estranged from everything that is good. Even breathing will becoming impossible. You can be ill, but if when you are ill, the support of God leaves you, everything turns to ash. And praying becomes impossible. It is a different kind of darkness heavier than earthly woes. The only thing you can do from that point is admit your own smallness, your own inability to do good. I believe in our life we encounter many such tests, and at the end, the biggest of all. If hell is for eternity, an infinite existence away from the Love of God, what bitter tears must we weep, knowing the suffering of even an instant away from Him. The vastness of this realization is terrifying. Hence we Love and fear God. And we must pray of each other always.
Yes...just a glimpse of that darkness shows us that God is our complete life and we can do absolutely nothing without Him. Thank God for the prayers of Panaghia and His Holy Ones!
Great clip. Just wondering though. Said he was in the hospital for 59 days. From Covid? Then he said he was visited by St Iakovos who heard his confession. St Iakovos reposed about 30 years ago. It was a posthumous visitation? Wow.
@@nicholasroth2804but what does faith mean? To say Jesus is God, or to take up your cross and follow Him? Come out from that anti-papist catchphrase and live truly
We always have access to prayer. Nothing can take this from us.
"If you see a Saint, your heart will explode because our human heart cannot contain the love for us!"
Amen! They love us and root for us as we are all tied together through the Holy Spirit
I want to share a personal experience somewhat related to your posted phrase. During my PhD, I always struggled with theoretical content and most of the time I was in constant psychological pain due to my inability to keep up with my supervisor's expectations. I prayed for Holy Wisdom for many months and one day as I was reading a complex book on stochastic processes, I felt a rush of heat in my head and I started to read books and equations as if they were a novel. I switched to another topic I was stuck on and again it read like a novel. I felt overjoyed, thinking to myself "A month of this state of mind and I'm done with the PhD". The next day, I woke up and couldn't move, my body felt heavy and exhausted as if I had run many miles. Took me a few days to fully recover, and started to realize that it was not my own intellect interpreting, but a complementary enlightenment. Whenever I pray God for the wisdom of the Saints it is granted, but my body cannot sustain it for more than a day. May God bless your path and choices.
I can listen to this priest talk all day long. I seriously am as thick as two planks because “ [I] don’t get it”
Jesus I love you. All I have is yours. Yours I am yours I want to be. Do with me whatever you will.
The saints are filled with the Holy Spirit. 😊
Love it.
These words are so true! Thank you so much Father for posting this. It is so deep.
AMEN!
This is so right! We should all have certain prayers, hymns and psalms memorized! There WILL be times in our life when we cannot pray! Our own words won’t come to us. Memorized prayers, hymns and psalms… along with the Jesus Prayer will always be there.
There have been two times in my life, during an extremely difficult and stressful time, when I had a panic attack. I was so upset, I could not begin to concentrate to pray. The ONLY thing that helped me was to grab my prayer rope 📿 and pray with all my heart, “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me!” The Prayer of the Heart, the Jesus Prayer, was the only thing that calmed me and brought me peace and relieved the panic attack! Glory to God! Δόξα τω Θεώ!
Glory to God for all Things! Amin, Amin, Amin!
Yes, I understand this, when God takes away his gaze from you, even as a test, for a moment, you feel estranged from everything that is good. Even breathing will becoming impossible. You can be ill, but if when you are ill, the support of God leaves you, everything turns to ash. And praying becomes impossible. It is a different kind of darkness heavier than earthly woes. The only thing you can do from that point is admit your own smallness, your own inability to do good. I believe in our life we encounter many such tests, and at the end, the biggest of all. If hell is for eternity, an infinite existence away from the Love of God, what bitter tears must we weep, knowing the suffering of even an instant away from Him. The vastness of this realization is terrifying. Hence we Love and fear God. And we must pray of each other always.
Yes...just a glimpse of that darkness shows us that God is our complete life and we can do absolutely nothing without Him. Thank God for the prayers of Panaghia and His Holy Ones!
από τα πιο αισιόδοξα μηνύματα!
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Amen, great word!
Great clip. Just wondering though. Said he was in the hospital for 59 days. From Covid? Then he said he was visited by St Iakovos who heard his confession. St Iakovos reposed about 30 years ago. It was a posthumous visitation? Wow.
Saints are very much alive, very much
If saints "interacted" with me in my 1 year of active Church life, imagine this holly person
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH
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Where to watch full video? Thanks!
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I love Fr Banglit
Algorithm boost.
The loud, distracting chant severely dilutes the message. Less is more, OE.
If you've been born again you are a saint!
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@@Maria-Ortodoxa then why does Paul address those in his letters he writes as saints? Clearly the Orthodox church is not of Christ but of Belial
@@nicholasroth2804 The Eastern Orthodox Church is the Body of Christ.
@@raymondcannon2141 is it by faith do you enter in the kingdom of heaven or is it by works does one enter?
@@nicholasroth2804but what does faith mean? To say Jesus is God, or to take up your cross and follow Him?
Come out from that anti-papist catchphrase and live truly