TO REPENT is TO CHANGE. The essence of Lent: from death to the Resurrection through Repentance.
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2021
- Repentance is change, a positive choice to ACT and change one's life. Repentance is not an emotion, a thought or a physical experience. These are all tools to help us express our repentance and to set our repentance 'on fire', to give it strength, to deepen it beyond the immediately accessible. But ultimately, to repent is to look at your life and ask yourself 'how did I end up in this spiritual mess?'. Ask the question, hear the answer in your soul, own up to it and then CHANGE.
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The video 'TO REPENT is TO CHANGE. The essence of Lent: from death to the Resurrection through Repentance.' was recorded by Fr Seraphim Aldea from Mull Monastery (The Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints), on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.
We are definitely not great singers, but we offer to you the Great Canon of Repentance (the Canon of St Andrew of Crete) with all the love God placed in our hearts. It is posted on the Monastery Daily Prayers Channel (link below). Please remember us in your prayers.
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Great singers are not the need but the prayerful presentation and living of the liturgy. Thank you for the gift of the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete as well as these insights/teachings on repentance. You help nurture me. Thank God!
You are In my daily prayers as I attend daily mass praise be to God. Stay blessed dear Father 🙏🏻
Sincere thanks to you and everyone at the Monastery for the precious gift of your prayers, time and love. You are all regularly in my prayers, sometimes even using the prayer rope one of you made! These talks and daily canons have been such a blessing to me and several others I know. May God bless you a hundredfold. 🙏
If t comes from the heart then it is beautiful
Father Seraphim, Your words have been a blessing and source of hope for me for many months now. I just Was not sure if I am understanding entirely, repentance is ultimately an act of changing your ways, whether you constantly lament over those things or not, correct? God-bless you and your monastery and those in your prayers!
Father says, "Hello my dear ones...." I always look forward to that ❤
Same 🤗
I also! I immediately feel protected, loved by the shepherd
Me too
SAME!!!!
I'm so glad someone else is explaining that. Repentance without an understanding that it means "change" towards God was meaningless to me for so long.
The best explanation of repentance and not judging others I have come across. Thank you, Father, for listening to God's Spirit and passing it to us.
I ask for forgiveness and strength on a day when a child of mine is facing consequences of addiction
AMEN
Bless Father, thank you for helping me understand what repentance is and is not. this is practical help. thank you for your guidance.
It's very nice how you sit down and speak to us so personally as if we are right there - it's very meaningful! God bless you today and always! (Canada)
"There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried " St Oscar Romero
You guys are bringing such peace into my life. You live in a beautiful place. I never fail to learn and grow here. You are helping my soul Father. God bless you all.
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ ἐλέησόν με
Everyday I grieve over years wasted opportunities wasted. Why? I was pursuing everything but God. I pray throughout the day do not let me die until I become the Saint you intended. Now when I slip and fall into sin I grieve. I have to get up quickly unless I despair. Why because I have wasted too much time already. I want to move forward into the light. He alone changes and I have to cooperate with the Potter!
Beautifully said. God Bless you.
Be a servant, that is enough.
start where you are,
do what you can,
struggle with all your might! May God bless you in your struggle!
So profound. It was at an orthodox monastery in the Belgian Ardennes in 2000 that I found true repentance. During an all night Easter vigil, when the icon of Christ was strewn with rose petals, and we kissed His feet, I was stricken with repentance. I finally understood The Passion of Christ, and knowing that every one of my sins was a wound upon His body, I was wracked with the deepest grief, and found true repentance. I wept like I have never wept before or since. Then I vowed to change.
What a blessing!
Please, if possible pray for us: Maria, Artemie, Cristina, Gabriel, Sofia, Nicolae, Alexandru ... thank you
God bless yall!
As we are praying for these your loved ones. Please pray for Faith and Emmitt.
Jesus is Alive - "The only choice has always been 'Life' - respecting all life" - God is Love and Mercy - We love You Jesus
Father seraphim..need your prayers, 🙏
🌵🕯☦Most Holy Theotokos save us. Guide me to the path of repentance for I am tossed in the storm of life☦🕯🌵
In my personal experience, sorrow is very much like anger: very difficult to summon over the correct concerns but automatically at hand over trivial matters; near impossible to direct and focus but all too easy to let run wild through the mind indiscriminately; a very powerful tool against our true spiritual foe but most often a temptation to abandon theosis and embrace blindness.
What a wonderful, simple and easy to understand explanation of repentance. Thank you again for your videos!
Thank you. Love and peace. Tim
Oh my dear Father, this came at a time when I am in need of serious repentance. This talk really gave me a desire to move forward and make amends. Thank you so much❤️
I'm also changing, deny yourself daily pick up the cross, if you want to see the change in the world you must change yourself first.
Thank you Father , very inspiring for new. God bless you.
Thank you Father for this message of hope. I more than all need this. Pray for me ,
Thank you Fr Serafim! Thank you also for booklet on fighting evil thoughts and images during prayer! Can you please, tell us, something about Gethsemane Prayer as it was explained by Saint Serafim? Wishing you a blessed Lent! We pray for you!
Brilliant analogies to understand true repentance. As a Greek orthodox patron over the last 62 years, l always look forward to hear the beautiful words of this humble Celtic orthodox monk. God love
you.
Love yall and God bless each and everyone of you. Thank you father for this amazing video. May God help us all to repent and may he guide us. Lord Jesus Christ, SON of GOD, have mercy on me a Sinner! Amen
Act as if you have love... ❤️
Sincere repentance is a beautiful thing. Our repentance is asking forgiveness for something that we have gone against our Lord's wishes, knowing full well that the sin we carried out while knowing it was wrong. Moses leads God's chosen people out of Egypt and out of slavery. Everyone knew and could see the miracles performed by God to get the Pharaoh to let the people go. They knew and yet they could not wait for Moses to return from the mountain with the rules for the way our Father wanted us to live by. Committing the ultimate sin. Have no Gods before me. We should be at a stage now in knowing what our God wants from us. Respect Love trust. We are tearful over the death of a loved one as we have spent a lifetime with them and it's a shock. Our faith is tested in believing that the time we are going to spend without our loved one will be short, as we will meet again. Joy is the name. He has Risen. We will rise again in Joy. Too much grieving is bad for your soul and your own mind. Jesus gave his life with suffering so we would have some Joy, even in death.
Amen Amen Amen
Thank you Father
GOD bless you and your monastery
Amen Amen Amen 🙏❤ Father thank you so much for sharing the good words to give us the best hope 🙏❤
Words that soothe the Soul,God Bless
These are very helpful images of my own repentance vs. condemnation of others. It helps me see clearly the silliness and inappropriateness of my condemnation of others. Thank you, Fr Seraphim.
As a Catholic, I am half-way through lent. But this was just what I needed to give me the motivation to increase my effort
I'm Catholic as well, I love Fr. Serafim. This lesson is beautiful truth, exactly what I needed today.
Very good examples for me to remember....thankyou & God bless! (Canada)
Praise God.
Lovely hymn at the end
God Bless you Father. Thank you for this message today.
So deep and beautiful... Dumnezeu sa va binecuvanteze!
Thank you father, you have once again answered, with the perfect explanation, my question.
I love your monastic chant!
Thanks be to God
Thank you so much for your teachings, deep as well as clear and direct. God bless you all!
When I was a kid it hurt me so much seeing folks I loved and knew passing away I didn't understand why it hurt so much as they left, but my dad explained to me that they were tired and they wanted to go home to heaven, but it helped a little a kid still, But as a grew it still hurt, but things weren't good for me anger and hurt and hateful words came out and then the got hurt then I cried and guilt took over to move forward a week ago my 9-year-old great-nephew stayed over where I have to stay with told me that a person that was his grand dad's wife died he loved her very much I wasn't fond of her she wasn't nice to me I sid a few mean things and yes I cried a bit he Idid too I still feel bad I know it's the devil chipping away at me, also I'm empathetic and I will not change satan so do your worse towards me.
Thank you for sharing such profound wisdom for guiding our lives :-).
Thank you so much.
Thank Fr for your words. I depend upon your voice which seems attuned to my hearing and my pathetic heart. I wrestle with the understanding of love greatly. It is a help to know that God has sent these words ‘to act’ out of love even before it is there and being merciful He will fill my heart with what is lacking. Good struggle Father, elizabeth.
Father, please pray for us!
Amen!
Thankyou so much for the Lenten encouragement 🕊🌹
Thank you father everything
I loved first Your idea so plastic about the dead saint in each of us.You are right.Lord rejoices in repented hearts.The sacrifice God demands is to change your heart,take the right way.Furthermore,You said about love.Yes.Jesus said continue to love,always love.Love means we are one.we are walking with Christ,He forgives and accepts us,let us forgive one another.Suffering is always inherent to love,in a world which is disharmonious,ugly,aggressive,violent...Love means death,the shedding of heart blood or physical blood.You shed Your heart s blood for us.I have to shed mine sometimes when some of my colleagues really hurts me.And I fight not to say anything not anymore.If only I could!Always remember You in my prayers!Love You very much.Really,You travelling the world,wherever you go,in every country,on every continent,people yearn and hunger for only one thing:TO LOVE and BE LOVED.It s not true?
I was looking forward to hearing recent talk from you and I am so overjoyed to hear this talk. Wish you can talk more often and more at length. Bless you Father now and forever 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks for your kind help.
I am curious, Father, are those boots you are wearing called wellies over there in the UK? (I wonder if the Celtic monks sewed dried kelp together and called them “kelpies”? 😀)
This is the first year l keep Lent. It's far from easy as a complete beginner but every year will be better. I would like to build a habit of praying more for other people. If any of you would like me to pray for you please let me know.
I would welcome that! I'm Zoticus. I'll pray for you as well, I'm assuming your name is Anna?
God bless you and your journey, Anna. ☦️
Please pray for me as well. Last year was my first Lent, and it was very difficult. It will get easier for sure.
Last year for me was dark and full of sorrow and sadness, but already only on my second Lent I see it with so much more joy. I am sure God will do the same for you, if only you continue on the path slow and steady.
Amen ☦🙏
Doamne ajută!
👍👍👍👍👍❤ Post usor parinte Serafim👍👍👍
Great teaching, great channel (I have found it recently and can't stop watching). That's all true but HOW to change? Knowledge is not enough. I feel that I have wasted my lent (I am a catholic). How to fight against despair. I know there is no place for despair in christian life but it happens anyway. Be blessed Father.
Greetings from Ireland. I wish I could visit Hebrides one day.
Will come Father Hopefully God forgive our sins pray for us father
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But what about people who tend to fall into despair? If it's easy for you to slip into depression, rumination or self-hate, wouldn't this kind of sorrowful repentance be apt to trigger that? I think sometimes I get in a self-hate spiral that's hard to get out of, and that makes it harder than anything else to improve myself and live up to my potential.
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 13And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Be joyful in justification.
With true repentance you need to forgive yourself as God has forgiven you.
Are the paintings your work, father?
Thank you for inspiring talks.
Hello. Your blessings father.
Can you help to explain how we can move forward to change when we cannot see in ourselves what needs to be changed. Can this be from our own stupidity, lack of religious education or from the feeling of safety in avoiding change? Do we trust feedback from those around us who may want us to change but for possibly their own agenda? I suppose to change for change sake and not for repentance is another matter. Who am I to know what I need to change? - that would imply I am something evolved spiritually which I am not. So do we pray for enlightenment from above to know truly in our hearts what we need to change? Do we take the list of sins and try to address one by one and try to stop committing them anymore? Its confusing please forgive that I am lowest of the low on the spiritual chain of salvation and repentance......
I suppose its easier to judge others as a defence mechanism to avoid the pain of judging one's self. To project on others our own sins and thus avoid them? One thing that did help me is hearing" do not judge others because their sins are DIFFERENT from your own" yes that was helpful too because its also an alternative way to know of judging when you cannot project your own sins onto others...please excuse and pray for above mentioned .....may you be thrised blessed the blessings you send us father .
Thank you for your beautiful video father! I would like to begin reading saint Sophrony because you speak so highly of him. Which one of his books would you recommend to begin with?
Va rugam sa fie subtitrat in Limba Română.
It's far more difficult for God to resurrect a dead soul than to create it.