Timestamps: 0:00 Canonization of Fr. Seraphim Rose? 4:20 Can a convert's prayers bring salvation to his heterodox family? 7:30 Difference between Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodoxy? 10:45 Advice for people who can't find an orthodox person to marry? 12:30 Could the various schisms be lifted by some council? 15:45 Can we pray the rosary as Orthodox? 17:55 What's the point of praying for the reposed if we reject the doctrine of Purgatorium? 21:05 Why does the Church look Jewish? 23:35 Validity of heterodox exorcisms? 27:05 Can you be a tattoo artist if you are Orthodox? 29:25 Will God forgive my ecumenism? 31:55 What to do if I feel guilty praying for things when other people don't even have what I currently possess?
As someone deeply looking into Orthodoxy in Japan, this has to be the most top-tier evangelical channel for the faith. Muslims, Mormons, and other faiths do a great job at proselytizing/marketing on YT and this exceeds any faith channel I’ve followed thus far. May the Lord keep your content edifying ☦️ ☠️ キリストは死を克服する☠️
FROM JAPAN! How wonderful! A dear friend of ours, who reposed a few years ago, was Japanese and grew up in Tokyo. After the war, she and a friend, both protestants, went to the beautiful St. Nicholas Cathedral. They went because they were singers and had heard about the great beauty of the choir. They both loved it, but she experienced something there .... and she never left.. Until after she was married and moved to Hawaii. You may not know the story of St. Nicholas of Japan, a priest who served the Russian consulate, and his first convert. I hope you can find it and read about him .. or watch some videos.. If you wish to, let me know your thoughts about it. ☦💝📿💝☦
Thank you for asking my question. By a miracle of God my wife finally came with me to Church for the first time… on my Chrismation this past weekend (Lazarus Saturday). Praise God! 🙏🏻☦️☦️☦️
It took five hundred years for the church to canonize St Andrei Rublev, and it took the Tsar-Martyr Nikolai to force the Canonization of St Seraphim of Sarov. Let the Bishops do what they need to do in their and Christ's time and in the meantime venerate and ask the intercession of Fr Seraphim Rose.
When praying the rosary there is NO need to use one's imagination, one can look at an Icon as I do. However many Roman Catholics of course DO use imagination as Father John indicates here. I was RC now Orthodox, I pray the Jesus Prayer but also sometimes the Rosary in addition (without using imagination). Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.
Tattoo’s are only an expression of vanity. They are pagan and demonic with a purpose of making the body, a temple of the Holy Spirit and an image of God into a joke and mockery by the demons. They literally are banned in the Old Testament as a commandment. Why do we in the 21st century try to go against what has been in the bible and accepted in the Church and Christian culture up to now. Only now in the last few decades they have crept on a large scale into western atheist culture. Many clergy in the US and former Soviet countries don’t speak up against them only out of ignorance on this topic. St Ignatious has the worl of God “written on his heart in Gold”. This is only done by God and it was a spiritual gift of his immense love for God. This has absolutely nothing to do with tattoos. St Ignatious fought against vanity and would be appalled about having a worldly tattoo. Just go ask monks on Mount Athos, the closest people to the mindset and piety of St Ignatius.
Be advised and corrected; the blueprint that I Am That I Am dictated to Moses is the perfect and true design. Yes, The Orthodox Liturgy and design is absolutely 100 % inline with the original outline from God.
This commentary isn't in a bad way, but when he prunounce the letter 's" the higer frequency is too loud. Maybe the antipop of the microphone isn't that thick or the eq is too loud on high frequency. Salutes from Uruguay 🇺🇾
@@RootsofOrthodoxy maybe is my Phone speaker. Love your work, i'm a protestant introducing into orthodoxy. Hope God help me on the path. Salutes from Uruguay. God bless you all!
I don't know if this is THE reason but I have read that Orthodox men did used to have short hair, but that to keep it that way required regular haircuts to keep it just so. That somehow lead to a preoccupation with one's appearance about having short hair and being groomed. So the solution was to just let the hair (and beard) grow and grow and not give one's appearance anymore thought.
No problem. If anyone else has any further Orthodox reason for why the long hair, I'd like to know. I think I remember also reading something about long hair and long beards being symbolic for signifying the passage of time and gaining wisdom in older age, something like that.
Also other saints like St John Chrysostem talking about this. Long hair but clean shaven like a women. Apostle Paul was actually warning against men appearing as women and women appearing as men which was common in that pagan time and has come back now.
I hope you will talk to an Orthodox priest about that. He can explain the position of the Church on those things and the nuisances of the decision. ☦💝📿💝☦
What do you mean by 'imagination'... The rosary is pretty forward. Each mystery is clear as the light, because each mystery is accompanied by the verses of the gospels from which it has derived...for example "mystery: jesus is crowned with thorns... passage of the gospel where that is written... one meditates not by imagination, but on the meaning and the importance of that particular mystery...then the Hail Mary prayer is also pretty forward: the faithful is using the words of the Gabriel, and then elevates a personal prayer to the Holy Mother of God... What is there to imagine here? I don't understand.
@George_dom If we went down this road, we would all fall into heresy, because there is no person who just by reading the gospels does not recreate through images what might have happened. The entire art depicted in both Catholic and Orthodox churches is an imagery of what might have happened. There is no film, or audio recording, of what truly happened. Yet our churches are filled with that imagery. What ought to do now, become iconoclasts in order not to "make a God in our own image"? The entire debate between Saint John of Antioch and the iconoclasts, was all centered around this: the fear of iconoclasts that by allowing imagery, that would have caused the human imagination to create a false God, or a god in the image of man. But Christ is that image, Christ is the icon of icons. All this puritanism makes one fall into "phariseeanism" where one ends up to "strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."
@@sfappetrupavelandrei well in philippians and other places it says. Philippians 1:1-2 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Păi, primii creștini erau majoritatea sfinți cu viața lor . Nu ne mai comparăm cu ei. Citiți viețile sfinților și pildele din Patericul Egiptean și veți vedea că trebuie mult efort de curățire și dragoste de Hristos , ca să ajungi un sfânt.
Only God knows who will be saved. We believe that the Orthodox Church is the Church started by our Lord Jesus Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit. So the most secure way for salvation is in the Orthodox Church. But we are not sure even if the Orthodox faithful are saved (except the case of the saints). Only God knows who will be saved.
@donhaddix3770 does Christ not say that the Holy Spirit will guide the Church? Does St. Paul not tell Timothy that the CHURCH is the pillar and ground of Truth? Did the Church not exist before ANY of the biblical texts? Was it not the Church that determined the canon of scripture in Ecumenical Council. Of course all these are the case, but Protestants remain ignorant
@donhaddix3770 Orthodoxy is not a denomination, it's the original Church. It's literally going to be 2000 years old in 2033. No protestant denomination or sect can make that claim haha. Our Church also teaches the exact same teachings today as it did in the first 1000 years. All the Ecumenical Councils and early Church Fathers teach Orthodox theology.
Jesus is the judge. Your prayers will do nothing for the dead. They have already been judged. Are you saying Jesus doesn't judge people correctly and will change his mind?
Modern Protestant ignorance. You ask your friend or pastor to pray for you. It’s the same with the Theotokos and saints in heaven. They are very much alive and participate in the Church.
the Church that venerates the Ever Virgin Mary and all the saints, that asks for their intercession, is the same Church that gave you the Bible you worship.
I met a very holy priest who had been a Protestant pastor. His conversion occurred after meeting Fr Seraphim Rose. This meeting was about 20 years ago. Since then, I’ve read Fr Seraphim’s biography and several of his other works. Fascinating story!
Bishop Nicholas in Georgia has authorized use of certain prayers and Akathists for Fr. Seraphim in his Diocese. Not a total Canonization but he has stated that the Syond is ready to follow through if the American Jurisdictions don't.
Fr John is one of the main responsible for bringing me to holy orthodoxy. After studying at length the Chalcedon issue I chose the Coptic Orthodox Church, for her deep traditions and history and keeping the original faith. I agree with what he very wisdomly said that needs to take place before reunion. But please always keep in mind. Oriental Orthodox churches simply kept the original Cyrillian formula, accepted by all Orthodox Churches, μία φύσις τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου σεσαρκωμένη, "one nature of the Word Incarnate". We of course believe in the two natures, Divine and Human, united “with no mingling, alteration or confusion” (as both EO and OO liturgies profess!)
The Church and probably Fr Seraphim himself are still waiting for the miracle of the monastery in Plata to repent and return to their mother church in humility. The Saints sometimes used their own canonization as a means to return their flock onto the correct path.
@@johnsambo9379 that's like saying "he/she was a sinner. Why should they be a saint" Repentance, my friend. Everyone is called to it and St Seraphim Rose repented of all his sins.
@@jessemiller6318 1. Canonizations don't have to be Ecumenical. 2. There is a Diocese in Georgia that has allowed for Local Veneration within a Liturgical Setting. Though the Bishop that allowed it said that the Georgian Synod would move forward if the American Jurisdictions don't follow through.
My humble reasoning about the T-Question: According to Apostle Paul our bodies are Temples (or vessels) for the Holy Spirit. I think its apropriate to keep this holy place clean from the inside and the outside, because first it was given to us (its a gift and already perfect) and second when becoming a part of the church, the Holy Body of Christ, i think have to take the best possible care of it.
Past sins before baptism don’t make a servant of God any less holy. Have you ever heard St Mary of Egypt’s story? It is being delayed to prevent his living relatives (including his niece, etc.) from feeling pride that their close relative is a Saint.
Timestamps:
0:00 Canonization of Fr. Seraphim Rose?
4:20 Can a convert's prayers bring salvation to his heterodox family?
7:30 Difference between Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodoxy?
10:45 Advice for people who can't find an orthodox person to marry?
12:30 Could the various schisms be lifted by some council?
15:45 Can we pray the rosary as Orthodox?
17:55 What's the point of praying for the reposed if we reject the doctrine of Purgatorium?
21:05 Why does the Church look Jewish?
23:35 Validity of heterodox exorcisms?
27:05 Can you be a tattoo artist if you are Orthodox?
29:25 Will God forgive my ecumenism?
31:55 What to do if I feel guilty praying for things when other people don't even have what I currently possess?
Thank you!
@@RootsofOrthodoxy No problem ^^
@@RootsofOrthodoxy hi,could you cancel the advertising,it will be nice to watche video without it.
thank you.
As someone deeply looking into Orthodoxy in Japan, this has to be the most top-tier evangelical channel for the faith. Muslims, Mormons, and other faiths do a great job at proselytizing/marketing on YT and this exceeds any faith channel I’ve followed thus far. May the Lord keep your content edifying ☦️
☠️ キリストは死を克服する☠️
Read also the churchfathers like St. Chrisostomos, St. Basilius, St. Gregory, St. Antonius, St. Isaac and of course the New and Old Testament.
Thank you! God bless you on your journey 🙏
FROM JAPAN! How wonderful!
A dear friend of ours, who reposed a few years ago, was Japanese and grew up in Tokyo.
After the war, she and a friend, both protestants, went to the beautiful St. Nicholas Cathedral.
They went because they were singers and had heard about the great beauty of the choir.
They both loved it, but she experienced something there .... and she never left..
Until after she was married and moved to Hawaii.
You may not know the story of St. Nicholas of Japan, a priest who served the Russian consulate, and his first convert.
I hope you can find it and read about him .. or watch some videos..
If you wish to, let me know your thoughts about it.
☦💝📿💝☦
@upsethookerand Fr. Seraphim Bailey and Fr. TRYPHON..☦💝☦
@upsethooker amazing username lol.
seconded and fervently recommending the Royal path with Fr Turbo Qualls
Let's hope he gets canonized soon
Wasn't he a homosexual? Why should he be a Saint?
@@johnsambo9379 should we focus on other people's sins? Even AFTER they repent?
hes canonized in the Georgian Orthodox Church
Thank you for asking my question. By a miracle of God my wife finally came with me to Church for the first time… on my Chrismation this past weekend (Lazarus Saturday). Praise God! 🙏🏻☦️☦️☦️
Father John seems so calm and wise, I enjoyed listening to him. Greetings from Serbia☦️
Hands down qoute of the year..."get Christ tattooed on your heart first!"
Beautifully said ❤
It took five hundred years for the church to canonize St Andrei Rublev, and it took the Tsar-Martyr Nikolai to force the Canonization of St Seraphim of Sarov.
Let the Bishops do what they need to do in their and Christ's time and in the meantime venerate and ask the intercession of Fr Seraphim Rose.
Im getting baptized with him as my patron Saint and I’m taking his name in the OCA
I was also baptized Seraphim (Platina) last year in the OCA! God be with you!!
Soon? ☦💝📿💝☦
@@user-yv4fp4do8m I still pray to him
This video touches on so many different things I need to think about. Please pray for me.
What's ur name?
The tattoo answer was fascinating and ingenious.
Fr. Seraphim Rose is a Saint.
It probably won't be recognized officially until most of the rest of us have met him at the Heavenly Liturgy.
Wasn't he a homosexual? Why should he be a Saint?
@@johnsambo9379
"These things you were"-St. Paul
Well maybe so. Many pious people where never canonized or God wants is to be patient and wait and learn some more.
He is a saint. He always has been. It’s only a matter of time. May he pray for us all. ❤️☦️📿
This is truly so beautiful. I sincerely hope this page continues to consistently put out such high quality videos to inspire us all!
What was said about conversion of family really hit me.
When praying the rosary there is NO need to use one's imagination, one can look at an Icon as I do. However many Roman Catholics of course DO use imagination as Father John indicates here. I was RC now Orthodox, I pray the Jesus Prayer but also sometimes the Rosary in addition (without using imagination).
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.
I still don't understand this part, of not using imagination..... I can't make a rosary to ask for health for a person and think of him cured?
An excellent podcast .
Please keep up this helpful work .
Glory to God .
I’ve really enjoyed the videos with Fr. John and hope to see more of him on the channel in the future.
I'm actually a tattooer who has been seeking an Orthodox answer to that question... I've been thinking about quitting for years.
Most recent episode of Counterflow with buck johnson went deep on exactly that, the interviewee was an Orthodox iconographer/tattooer
Tattoo’s are only an expression of vanity. They are pagan and demonic with a purpose of making the body, a temple of the Holy Spirit and an image of God into a joke and mockery by the demons. They literally are banned in the Old Testament as a commandment. Why do we in the 21st century try to go against what has been in the bible and accepted in the Church and Christian culture up to now. Only now in the last few decades they have crept on a large scale into western atheist culture. Many clergy in the US and former Soviet countries don’t speak up against them only out of ignorance on this topic. St Ignatious has the worl of God “written on his heart in Gold”. This is only done by God and it was a spiritual gift of his immense love for God. This has absolutely nothing to do with tattoos. St Ignatious fought against vanity and would be appalled about having a worldly tattoo. Just go ask monks on Mount Athos, the closest people to the mindset and piety of St Ignatius.
Fr Seraphim pray to God for us 🙏🏼
I have met this man 2 weeks ago. God bless this man.
Glory to God ❤
I'm loving this channel. I just wish that each question + answer was broken up into separate videos, instead of these whole big sessions
Regarding tattoos: A priest told me, "We don't draw on icons."
Very true and they are banned in the Old Testament with this commandment accepted throughout Christianity up to now.
I’ll sign that petition 🔥
Be advised and corrected; the blueprint that I Am That I Am dictated to Moses is the perfect and true design. Yes, The Orthodox Liturgy and design is absolutely 100 % inline with the original outline from God.
☦️🕊🔥📿🙏
Fr. Daniil Sosyev too!
This commentary isn't in a bad way, but when he prunounce the letter 's" the higer frequency is too loud. Maybe the antipop of the microphone isn't that thick or the eq is too loud on high frequency. Salutes from Uruguay 🇺🇾
Noted. I’ll try and fix this for future uploads, thank you!
@@RootsofOrthodoxy maybe is my Phone speaker. Love your work, i'm a protestant introducing into orthodoxy. Hope God help me on the path. Salutes from Uruguay. God bless you all!
I have a random question. Why do some priests have long hair if Paul says it’s a disgrace to man? 1 Corinthians 11:14
I don't know if this is THE reason but I have read that Orthodox men did used to have short hair, but that to keep it that way required regular haircuts to keep it just so. That somehow lead to a preoccupation with one's appearance about having short hair and being groomed. So the solution was to just let the hair (and beard) grow and grow and not give one's appearance anymore thought.
@@irene1234 that makes so much sense. Thank you.
No problem. If anyone else has any further Orthodox reason for why the long hair, I'd like to know. I think I remember also reading something about long hair and long beards being symbolic for signifying the passage of time and gaining wisdom in older age, something like that.
Also other saints like St John Chrysostem talking about this. Long hair but clean shaven like a women. Apostle Paul was actually warning against men appearing as women and women appearing as men which was common in that pagan time and has come back now.
I still don't understand this part, of not using imagination..... I can't make a rosary to ask for health for a person and think of him cured?
Well... according to Paul, we're all saints.
Do Orthodox Christians recognize the visions of Mary that the Catholics believe ?
do a google search using this- orthodox understanding of the virgin of guadalupe
No
I hope you will talk to an Orthodox priest about that.
He can explain the position of the Church on those things and the nuisances of the decision. ☦💝📿💝☦
What do you mean by 'imagination'... The rosary is pretty forward. Each mystery is clear as the light, because each mystery is accompanied by the verses of the gospels from which it has derived...for example "mystery: jesus is crowned with thorns... passage of the gospel where that is written... one meditates not by imagination, but on the meaning and the importance of that particular mystery...then the Hail Mary prayer is also pretty forward: the faithful is using the words of the Gabriel, and then elevates a personal prayer to the Holy Mother of God... What is there to imagine here? I don't understand.
@George_dom If we went down this road, we would all fall into heresy, because there is no person who just by reading the gospels does not recreate through images what might have happened. The entire art depicted in both Catholic and Orthodox churches is an imagery of what might have happened. There is no film, or audio recording, of what truly happened. Yet our churches are filled with that imagery. What ought to do now, become iconoclasts in order not to "make a God in our own image"? The entire debate between Saint John of Antioch and the iconoclasts, was all centered around this: the fear of iconoclasts that by allowing imagery, that would have caused the human imagination to create a false God, or a god in the image of man. But Christ is that image, Christ is the icon of icons. All this puritanism makes one fall into "phariseeanism" where one ends up to "strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."
Everyone is pushing him so aggressively online they definitely have their agenda
Is this body incorrupt?Or did it decompose
That is not a standard for Sainthood.
My Patron Saint doesn't have an incorrupt body but he is still a Saint.
The scripture says all who believe in Jesus are saints not a particular person
@@sfappetrupavelandrei well in philippians and other places it says.
Philippians 1:1-2
Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Păi, primii creștini erau majoritatea sfinți cu viața lor . Nu ne mai comparăm cu ei. Citiți viețile sfinților și pildele din Patericul Egiptean și veți vedea că trebuie mult efort de curățire și dragoste de Hristos , ca să ajungi un sfânt.
Are protestant Christians not saved?
Only God knows who will be saved. We believe that the Orthodox Church is the Church started by our Lord Jesus Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit. So the most secure way for salvation is in the Orthodox Church. But we are not sure even if the Orthodox faithful are saved (except the case of the saints). Only God knows who will be saved.
only God says who is a saint.
yeah, through the Church. The Holy Spirit guides canonizations
@@ThomasG_Nikolaj not biblical.
@donhaddix3770 does Christ not say that the Holy Spirit will guide the Church? Does St. Paul not tell Timothy that the CHURCH is the pillar and ground of Truth? Did the Church not exist before ANY of the biblical texts? Was it not the Church that determined the canon of scripture in Ecumenical Council. Of course all these are the case, but Protestants remain ignorant
Thomas G (Николај)
church does not mean a denomination.
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@donhaddix3770 Orthodoxy is not a denomination, it's the original Church. It's literally going to be 2000 years old in 2033. No protestant denomination or sect can make that claim haha. Our Church also teaches the exact same teachings today as it did in the first 1000 years. All the Ecumenical Councils and early Church Fathers teach Orthodox theology.
Jesus is the judge. Your prayers will do nothing for the dead. They have already been judged. Are you saying Jesus doesn't judge people correctly and will change his mind?
I think you confuse the judgement after our death with the final judgement, at the end of times.
Only Jesus can save. A Saint can not intercede for you. Jesus is the only judge.
Interceding for you != Judging. Mary intercedes for us, and she is closer to God than any of us because she is God's Mother.
@johnsambo9379 Did Abraham intercede through prayer for the people of sodom and gomorrah?
Modern Protestant ignorance. You ask your friend or pastor to pray for you. It’s the same with the Theotokos and saints in heaven. They are very much alive and participate in the Church.
the Church that venerates the Ever Virgin Mary and all the saints, that asks for their intercession, is the same Church that gave you the Bible you worship.
Don't you ask your friends to pray for you?
No one's ever asked you to pray for them before?
This channel is some of my main current spiritual food before I can go to the Church. I watched every video lol.
I met a very holy priest who had been a Protestant pastor. His conversion occurred after meeting Fr Seraphim Rose. This meeting was about 20 years ago. Since then, I’ve read Fr Seraphim’s biography and several of his other works. Fascinating story!
11:00 what exactly does this mean? How does one do that?
“Devote yourself to Christ as the true bridegroom.”
But wasnt Fr Seraphim Rose canonized somewhere in Georgia i couldve sworn i seen a video of it. ( ive only seen 20 seconds of the video)
Bishop Nicholas in Georgia has authorized use of certain prayers and Akathists for Fr. Seraphim in his Diocese.
Not a total Canonization but he has stated that the Syond is ready to follow through if the American Jurisdictions don't.
Fr John is one of the main responsible for bringing me to holy orthodoxy.
After studying at length the Chalcedon issue I chose the Coptic Orthodox Church, for her deep traditions and history and keeping the original faith.
I agree with what he very wisdomly said that needs to take place before reunion.
But please always keep in mind. Oriental Orthodox churches simply kept the original Cyrillian formula, accepted by all Orthodox Churches, μία φύσις τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου σεσαρκωμένη, "one nature of the Word Incarnate".
We of course believe in the two natures, Divine and Human, united “with no mingling, alteration or confusion” (as both EO and OO liturgies profess!)
Thank you for this. May God bless Fr. John.
The Church and probably Fr Seraphim himself are still waiting for the miracle of the monastery in Plata to repent and return to their mother church in humility. The Saints sometimes used their own canonization as a means to return their flock onto the correct path.
He was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church.
When, where and could you supply a source, please?
Wasn't he a homosexual? Why should he be a Saint?
He was but it has to be ecumenical
@@johnsambo9379 that's like saying "he/she was a sinner. Why should they be a saint"
Repentance, my friend. Everyone is called to it and St Seraphim Rose repented of all his sins.
@@jessemiller6318
1. Canonizations don't have to be Ecumenical.
2. There is a Diocese in Georgia that has allowed for Local Veneration within a Liturgical Setting. Though the Bishop that allowed it said that the Georgian Synod would move forward if the American Jurisdictions don't follow through.
😨 thought he was already canonized. Well, let's see what details this video gives. 🙏🏻
I have an icon of Fr. Seraphim I got from Uncut Mountain supply. As far as I'm concerned Fr. Seraphim is a saint. He's a big reason I became Orthodox.
AMEN ❤❤❤
My humble reasoning about the T-Question: According to Apostle Paul our bodies are Temples (or vessels) for the Holy Spirit. I think its apropriate to keep this holy place clean from the inside and the outside, because first it was given to us (its a gift and already perfect) and second when becoming a part of the church, the Holy Body of Christ, i think have to take the best possible care of it.
You guys should go to Montanika . Great Clergy to interview there.
For more on this topic, No King But Caesar & The Return Of The Melchisedec is available online at Advantage Books. Peace to all.
Love Fr. John!
I suspect that it’s clearly related to assertions from Rose’s niece regarding his past prior to entering the Orthodox fold.
Besides homosexuality is there anything else?
@@jessemiller6318 Nothing that I’ve heard of…
Past sins before baptism don’t make a servant of God any less holy. Have you ever heard St Mary of Egypt’s story?
It is being delayed to prevent his living relatives (including his niece, etc.) from feeling pride that their close relative is a Saint.
It likely has more to do with the monastery he founded becoming uncanonical for a time after his repose.
He also took the Protocols of the Elders of Zion seriously, which is quite troubling.