Loved this so much!!!!! Yet another beautiful way to show how intentional, significant, and FULL of meaning everything in the Orthodox Church is. Thank you Father Theophan! I wish to take your class in the future God willing. ☦️
Hello Jonathan, I am Alex, a Romanian seeking to dive deeply into Orthodoxy ONCE AGAIN. There is much to share, but to keep it brief, I would love to connect with you to help spread the true faith among my people which I wasn't taught when I was little. Please reach out if you're willing to help me out on this journey.
Amazing video! Have you seen the new documentary on Icons? It’s called “The Hidden History of early Christian art”. It’s on the Harmony UA-cam channel.
Hello! I have question. It is rather unrelated to the topic of the video, but i would like to hear your opinion on this matter. My question is in regards to gluttony. I have come to understand gluttony as overconsumption, or consumption for pleasure (not only in regards to food). However, my question is: where do we draw the line so to speak? For example, it is rather common for parents or grandparents to insist their children should eat another plate, or perhaps even more common for one to buy popcorn when at the cinema. Not necessarily out of hunger, but for pleasure i suppose. Again, where do we draw the line? Kind regards and i look forward to hear from you on this matter!
This is a common problem with all the physical passions, lust and laziness go along with it. Rest is good, laziness is not. Sexual relations are good (within marriage), lust is not. Where is the line? We don't often know where the line is until after we cross it. That is why confession is so effective. You can confess the whole action without knowing exactly when you went wrong. I broke the fast, that's easy. I ate a little too much. Both are forgiven. I hope that helps.
"We are only souls, it is the only thing we are" i would like to share with you my clear dream from yesterday, it is just a dream. i dreamed that I was at some kind of party, with people who looked like they had been drinking, i was accompanied by a friend (who wasn't him), and there were groups of people, a group of dangerous-looking men walked by me, but we were in a "festive" atmosphere. A group of several women approached, they had dirty and torn dresses and clothes, and tired and evil faces, I would say. one of them kissed me on the mouth, in a disgusting way, and right after the kiss, she looked at my face, and told me: "the soul does not exist.." i didn't remember to pray for this, as I always recommend to others, but you see, I forgot... Of course, I answered that beast, "but we are only souls," I said it sincerely and spontaneously. the woman looked at me with hatred, and I stopped dreaming, or remembering what happened next.
What a beautiful soul is Melchizedek, Priest of God the Creator, who knew of the Victory of our patriarch Abraham in the test of the offering of his own son, and who knew of the Victory against the human armies of the false gods Maybe some do not want to undergo the harsh test of power and fame, of knowing that they serve, and prefer only to serve or seek to serve God. Justice brings Peace, they are twinned decisions In my opinion, the last great Priest of the Old Covenant is His Son, God Christ, the first Priest of the New Covenant of God the Creator towards His human creatures. "They were silent", the thunderous silence when faced with the question of whether or not to save the life of a brother, is an infamous decision; and that it will no longer be when a brother's soul is in suspense, and out of pride, it is decided to abandon him In my opinion, in their petty excess, they demonstrate that they are only usurpers of what was the Melchizedek Priesthood, killed by pride dressed in the holy garments of the sacred Priesthood, destined only for the Blessed deeds of God the Creator. Jesus of Nazareth demonstrates that God is with Him, in every Word and in every miracle, and yet, the puppets of pride seek and conspire to murder Him, the dead of the murderer conspiring to kill the Living
"For it is the destiny of men to die once; and after death, judgment." in my opinion, following or trying to follow God Christ involves paying a price and getting rid of many things about yourself: pride, perversity, evil, hatred, resentment, resentment for the past, the cynicism of unhappiness. , the lack of love towards our Eternal Creator and towards his human creatures, our brothers in exchange, God Christ offers us to be Happy with HIM to eternity, enjoying from here, the Happiness that those who serve Him or seek to serve Him carry. if we had a minimum of Wisdom, we would realize that the agreement that the Generous among all the Generous offers us, is more than advantageous in everything. in my mere opinion, they come from the defiled Holy City, as spoils and puppets of dead pride, as usurpers dressed as Priests of God the Creator, to lie and wage war on the One (our Savior God Christ) who is freeing our captive brothers. by the devil, even seeing and hearing his army come out of their souls For dead pride, the suffocate, we are only good for one thing: food for its dead army. So that we have to call him and treat him like a god for eternity, so that he can mistreat us for eternity, in revenge for his unhappiness. When we see a brother act as such, it will be because he serves his infamous guest. evil fights Good, from the Beginning, and evil seeks to use and uses the imitation of Good, in the perverse cunning with which it characterizes itself and of which it dies by causing death, to try to cause greater destruction.
May the King that our Eternal Creator grants us, His Very Son, God Christ, always in His Law and only in His Law, despite us defeated in Eden and deservedly expelled from our Eden, be made our King, be placed in our souls, may our decisions bear witness to Who commands and governs in our brief time of trial. May we improve in the only thing we should seek and want to improve: in Holiness. May our Savior, God Christ, hear our improvement, our mouth speaks from our heart. Mother of Christians, Pray for us. Mother of good Example, Pray for us. If we understood even minimally that we are a small eternity, briefly housed in matter to make free decisions, we would take our small eternity and our decisions by which we will be judged much more seriously.
In my opinion, God the Creator will see His creatures with better eyes, when they come with the name of His Son on their face, when the time comes and presented before HIM, they will ask for Their King Our King, the one who promised us His Most High Father, loves us much more than we love ourselves, therefore, we are called to love God above all things "..and is a minister of the Sanctuary and of the true Tent", in my mere opinion, God Christ accommodates those who were His subjects during the earthly trial in the Happy Rest, with the Righteous of His Most High Father, in the Tent holy and heavenly built by the Lord of good souls with love for those of His blessed Gray "These priests are at the service of a figure and shadow of the celestial", in my opinion, right now many of the Priests of God Christ serve Him in the necessary uncertainty for the decision-making freedom in which we all inhabit, and, referring to Them , in the more than necessary to not die in action when seeing the Greatness of Whom they are invoking and serving: God Christ, taking care of His House and His flocks of entrusted souls the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him and shouted: "You are the Son of God." taken by the Mercy of the True God from a defeated brother, they prostrate themselves imploring not to be chained in their place, where they come from, even though they are not telling the truth, they say it in their imploration, because they belong to their father: the lie in their pride the dead beasts call father, and they call god, who is neither their father nor is nor will be god, now they are forced to call their father and their god because that is how they perished with him in my opinion, God the Creator allows it, because they are not worthy of calling Him father.
May we begin to remember how happy good decisions make us, the Sanctification of our little eternity. Let us implore God the Creator, that despite us, a generation of too many miserable acts due to our infamous decisions, always in the Law and only in His Law, we can become a new wineskin for the Goodness of His Son, our Savior. Let us implore God the Creator, that despite our generation of perverse unbelieving acts, we show better certainty in our Savior, than in Prayer, Holy decisions, and sincere and confessed repentance of our sins, at some point, the Holy One of God Come out to meet us while we are in this brief dream. That we who are deaf and because we sin, in a thread of Reason, try to live as a follower of Christ, lest He be Heard even by us. Let us implore God the Creator that, in spite of ourselves, we respect the sacred Body and the sacred Blood of His Most High Son, our King, much more. Let us thank God the Creator, for the possibility and still being in the possibility, of recognizing us as His little children. Liberator of captives, Santa Maria, Pray for us
"God is not unjust", "...it is impossible for God to lie", we will recognize God and those in whom God dwells, because that is how they have earned Him, when we see them deciding with Justice and Truth, through our actions we are convinced. know why we demonstrate ourselves We must fight against the apparent one-time convenience of a lie, because we can cause the corrupt tares to be born and grow in us, which cunningly imitates the good wheat. The hope of many is to be with God Christ for eternity, and from here to live Him, that there may be more of God Christ in our brothers, so that our promised King reigns lodged in our souls, lodged in our bodily houses, in our Families and in all our wide spiritual Family of creatures of the Same Creator, God Eternal Present In the idiocy of a worldly norm passed on as holy, clothed and seasoned with lies, introduced as weeds of apparent virtue by usurpers, what is Truth and what is Justice cannot be distorted. In my opinion, respect for the Commandments for our Holiness is demonstrated by respecting them, not by legislating fatuous, excessively regulatory, insipid, stubborn, sown by the imitator, pernicious, hollow-interior, arrogant and self-righteous norms that are opposite and have nothing to do with them. do with the Law of God the Creator
in my opinion, the life of Saint Paul is the Victory of Victories, the Comeback of Comebacks, the decisions of a grateful soul who loves the Truth. he who is found and awakened by God Christ must feel a new heaven and a new earth, what was is no longer, the world in which you lived no longer knows you, your previous name does not allude you or concern you or talk about you Knowing for eternity that you have decided the Good in the short time of deciding, and have served the Risen One, must be the greatest of Joys and the highest and most distinguished Honor to which a soul can aspire. in my opinion, he who decides as a follower of God Christ, Evangelizes; He who protects and cares for others, by loving God Christ, Evangelizes; He who improves in everything, and offers that improvement to others, out of love for the Holy One of God, Evangelizes; The awakened one who, out of love for the Truth in His Justice, offers to awaken his brothers, Evangelizes. Holy Decisions, removing sin from the decision-making fan, Praying for others, specifically, praying the Holy Rosary, awakens even the worst blind, the one who did not want to see, for sinning
I'm only 4 months in as a catechumin, but I hope to paint icons one day- Good Lord willing ❤ Your works are beautiful, glory be to God.
Be encouraged!
This is wonderful. All these years and I had no idea this went into the writing of icons.
Thank you Father.
CHRIST IS BORN! ⭐
GLORIFY HIM ! ❤
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all Orthodox Christians ☀🇷🇺🇷🇸🇲🇰🇬🇪🇵🇸🇧🇾🙏✝🕊🦾
Loved this so much!!!!! Yet another beautiful way to show how intentional, significant, and FULL of meaning everything in the Orthodox Church is. Thank you Father Theophan! I wish to take your class in the future God willing. ☦️
Wow, incredible video! Keep up the great work, Father!
The cadence and tone of the priests voice is so similar to Zac Galifinakis that I expect the conversation to reveal a dead pan punch line
Now I cant unhear it!!
I'm always so incredibly blessed by your videos. Keep it up!
Fantastic video! I'm studding to be an Iconographer myself and this was very helpful. Glory to God!
May it be blessed!
I love this interview! May God bless you Father Theophan.
The tutorial section is so well explained. I’m so grateful for the lessons and inspiration. Thank you.
This video was amazing, thank you 🙏☦️❤
Oh, I was watching from Georgia (country) and got startled a little. St.Ilia the righteous was and is the father of my nation. 🙏🇬🇪
Thank you, Fr. Keep going.
Excellent explanation. I found this video because I’m trying to work out which pigments to buy.
Beautiful!
Wonderful
Great video
23:04 "You can make mistakes. That's all part of the spiritual journey - making mistakes, and recovering from them." - Fr. Bob Ross, 2025
I do not mind the comparison at all.
Hello Jonathan, I am Alex, a Romanian seeking to dive deeply into Orthodoxy ONCE AGAIN. There is much to share, but to keep it brief, I would love to connect with you to help spread the true faith among my people which I wasn't taught when I was little. Please reach out if you're willing to help me out on this journey.
Hi Alex, how can I help? Please email me @rootsoforthodoxy@Gmail.com
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us.
BEAUTIFULLLLLL JESUS RULES
Amazing video! Have you seen the new documentary on Icons? It’s called “The Hidden History of early Christian art”. It’s on the Harmony UA-cam channel.
А можно с переводом на русский ещё сделать? ❤❤❤
В настройках есть опция перевода бегущей строкой, нужно выбрать русский...
BRAVO
BON DEBARRAS
Hello! I have question. It is rather unrelated to the topic of the video, but i would like to hear your opinion on this matter. My question is in regards to gluttony. I have come to understand gluttony as overconsumption, or consumption for pleasure (not only in regards to food). However, my question is: where do we draw the line so to speak? For example, it is rather common for parents or grandparents to insist their children should eat another plate, or perhaps even more common for one to buy popcorn when at the cinema. Not necessarily out of hunger, but for pleasure i suppose. Again, where do we draw the line? Kind regards and i look forward to hear from you on this matter!
This is a common problem with all the physical passions, lust and laziness go along with it. Rest is good, laziness is not. Sexual relations are good (within marriage), lust is not. Where is the line? We don't often know where the line is until after we cross it. That is why confession is so effective. You can confess the whole action without knowing exactly when you went wrong. I broke the fast, that's easy. I ate a little too much. Both are forgiven.
I hope that helps.
WELL DONE
LONG LIFE PALESTINE
"We are only souls, it is the only thing we are"
i would like to share with you my clear dream from yesterday, it is just a dream.
i dreamed that I was at some kind of party, with people who looked like they had been drinking, i was accompanied by a friend (who wasn't him), and there were groups of people, a group of dangerous-looking men walked by me, but we were in a "festive" atmosphere.
A group of several women approached, they had dirty and torn dresses and clothes, and tired and evil faces, I would say.
one of them kissed me on the mouth, in a disgusting way, and right after the kiss, she looked at my face, and told me: "the soul does not exist.."
i didn't remember to pray for this, as I always recommend to others, but you see, I forgot...
Of course, I answered that beast, "but we are only souls," I said it sincerely and spontaneously.
the woman looked at me with hatred, and I stopped dreaming, or remembering what happened next.
There's something uncanny about the Prosopon style
What a beautiful soul is Melchizedek, Priest of God the Creator, who knew of the Victory of our patriarch Abraham in the test of the offering of his own son, and who knew of the Victory against the human armies of the false gods
Maybe some do not want to undergo the harsh test of power and fame, of knowing that they serve, and prefer only to serve or seek to serve God.
Justice brings Peace, they are twinned decisions
In my opinion, the last great Priest of the Old Covenant is His Son, God Christ, the first Priest of the New Covenant of God the Creator towards His human creatures.
"They were silent", the thunderous silence when faced with the question of whether or not to save the life of a brother, is an infamous decision; and that it will no longer be when a brother's soul is in suspense, and out of pride, it is decided to abandon him
In my opinion, in their petty excess, they demonstrate that they are only usurpers of what was the Melchizedek Priesthood, killed by pride dressed in the holy garments of the sacred Priesthood, destined only for the Blessed deeds of God the Creator.
Jesus of Nazareth demonstrates that God is with Him, in every Word and in every miracle, and yet, the puppets of pride seek and conspire to murder Him, the dead of the murderer conspiring to kill the Living
"For it is the destiny of men to die once; and after death, judgment."
in my opinion, following or trying to follow God Christ involves paying a price and getting rid of many things about yourself: pride, perversity, evil, hatred, resentment, resentment for the past, the cynicism of unhappiness. , the lack of love towards our Eternal Creator and towards his human creatures, our brothers
in exchange, God Christ offers us to be Happy with HIM to eternity, enjoying from here, the Happiness that those who serve Him or seek to serve Him carry.
if we had a minimum of Wisdom, we would realize that the agreement that the Generous among all the Generous offers us, is more than advantageous in everything.
in my mere opinion, they come from the defiled Holy City, as spoils and puppets of dead pride, as usurpers dressed as Priests of God the Creator, to lie and wage war on the One (our Savior God Christ) who is freeing our captive brothers. by the devil, even seeing and hearing his army come out of their souls
For dead pride, the suffocate, we are only good for one thing: food for its dead army. So that we have to call him and treat him like a god for eternity, so that he can mistreat us for eternity, in revenge for his unhappiness. When we see a brother act as such, it will be because he serves his infamous guest.
evil fights Good, from the Beginning, and evil seeks to use and uses the imitation of Good, in the perverse cunning with which it characterizes itself and of which it dies by causing death, to try to cause greater destruction.
May the King that our Eternal Creator grants us, His Very Son, God Christ, always in His Law and only in His Law, despite us defeated in Eden and deservedly expelled from our Eden, be made our King, be placed in our souls, may our decisions bear witness to Who commands and governs in our brief time of trial.
May we improve in the only thing we should seek and want to improve: in Holiness.
May our Savior, God Christ, hear our improvement, our mouth speaks from our heart.
Mother of Christians, Pray for us.
Mother of good Example, Pray for us.
If we understood even minimally that we are a small eternity, briefly housed in matter to make free decisions, we would take our small eternity and our decisions by which we will be judged much more seriously.
In my opinion, God the Creator will see His creatures with better eyes, when they come with the name of His Son on their face, when the time comes and presented before HIM, they will ask for Their King
Our King, the one who promised us His Most High Father, loves us much more than we love ourselves, therefore, we are called to love God above all things
"..and is a minister of the Sanctuary and of the true Tent", in my mere opinion, God Christ accommodates those who were His subjects during the earthly trial in the Happy Rest, with the Righteous of His Most High Father, in the Tent holy and heavenly built by the Lord of good souls with love for those of His blessed Gray
"These priests are at the service of a figure and shadow of the celestial", in my opinion, right now many of the Priests of God Christ serve Him in the necessary uncertainty for the decision-making freedom in which we all inhabit, and, referring to Them , in the more than necessary to not die in action when seeing the Greatness of Whom they are invoking and serving: God Christ, taking care of His House and His flocks of entrusted souls
the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him and shouted:
"You are the Son of God."
taken by the Mercy of the True God from a defeated brother, they prostrate themselves imploring not to be chained in their place, where they come from, even though they are not telling the truth, they say it in their imploration, because they belong to their father: the lie in their pride
the dead beasts call father, and they call god, who is neither their father nor is nor will be god, now they are forced to call their father and their god because that is how they perished with him
in my opinion, God the Creator allows it, because they are not worthy of calling Him father.
May we begin to remember how happy good decisions make us, the Sanctification of our little eternity.
Let us implore God the Creator, that despite us, a generation of too many miserable acts due to our infamous decisions, always in the Law and only in His Law, we can become a new wineskin for the Goodness of His Son, our Savior.
Let us implore God the Creator, that despite our generation of perverse unbelieving acts, we show better certainty in our Savior, than in Prayer, Holy decisions, and sincere and confessed repentance of our sins, at some point, the Holy One of God Come out to meet us while we are in this brief dream.
That we who are deaf and because we sin, in a thread of Reason, try to live as a follower of Christ, lest He be Heard even by us.
Let us implore God the Creator that, in spite of ourselves, we respect the sacred Body and the sacred Blood of His Most High Son, our King, much more.
Let us thank God the Creator, for the possibility and still being in the possibility, of recognizing us as His little children.
Liberator of captives, Santa Maria, Pray for us
"God is not unjust", "...it is impossible for God to lie", we will recognize God and those in whom God dwells, because that is how they have earned Him, when we see them deciding with Justice and Truth, through our actions we are convinced. know why we demonstrate ourselves
We must fight against the apparent one-time convenience of a lie, because we can cause the corrupt tares to be born and grow in us, which cunningly imitates the good wheat.
The hope of many is to be with God Christ for eternity, and from here to live Him, that there may be more of God Christ in our brothers, so that our promised King reigns lodged in our souls, lodged in our bodily houses, in our Families and in all our wide spiritual Family of creatures of the Same Creator, God Eternal Present
In the idiocy of a worldly norm passed on as holy, clothed and seasoned with lies, introduced as weeds of apparent virtue by usurpers, what is Truth and what is Justice cannot be distorted.
In my opinion, respect for the Commandments for our Holiness is demonstrated by respecting them, not by legislating fatuous, excessively regulatory, insipid, stubborn, sown by the imitator, pernicious, hollow-interior, arrogant and self-righteous norms that are opposite and have nothing to do with them. do with the Law of God the Creator
(Colossians 1,15) "He is the image (Greek: Icon) of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation."
in my opinion, the life of Saint Paul is the Victory of Victories, the Comeback of Comebacks, the decisions of a grateful soul who loves the Truth.
he who is found and awakened by God Christ must feel a new heaven and a new earth, what was is no longer, the world in which you lived no longer knows you, your previous name does not allude you or concern you or talk about you
Knowing for eternity that you have decided the Good in the short time of deciding, and have served the Risen One, must be the greatest of Joys and the highest and most distinguished Honor to which a soul can aspire.
in my opinion, he who decides as a follower of God Christ, Evangelizes; He who protects and cares for others, by loving God Christ, Evangelizes; He who improves in everything, and offers that improvement to others, out of love for the Holy One of God, Evangelizes; The awakened one who, out of love for the Truth in His Justice, offers to awaken his brothers, Evangelizes.
Holy Decisions, removing sin from the decision-making fan, Praying for others, specifically, praying the Holy Rosary, awakens even the worst blind, the one who did not want to see, for sinning
Awesome