Absolutely beautiful. Thank you. Unfortunately, I am one of the divorced. It was heart breaking to admit that my husband was drifting further away from what a husband and father should be. After many prayers, he simply got worse and I had to leave with our children as someone would possibly die if we remained. I stayed 20 years but the toil on us was great. We have suffered greatly at secular hands since but I know God knows I was acting as the chosen guardian of my children and not for selfish reasons. I would have loved for the marriage to have worked but it was not willed by God. Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner.
Be encouraged, dear sister! Sometimes people change for the worse and we must move on. I hope you will find safety, peace and healing as you draw closer to Christ.
Father, please tell me if it is possible to pe a third, like i dont want to marry, and i dont want to be a monk, i want to stay clean in Jesus name but in the world. Like there should be this option, i really believe that. Please tell me, thanks!
Father bless, I really appreciate your clarification as to the way the chose is made as to which path. I fell in love with Christ at 15 long before I found the Orthodox faith and knew even then that for me no man would be able to take his place in my affections. Two years ago in part due to heath reasons I made the decision to dedicate my life to God in celibacy with the agreement of my parish priest. Last summer my Spiritual father accepted that I am on this path and has advised me to spend some time in monasteries forming my spirituality as he thinks my path at least for the foreseeable future is as a celibate in the world. It has always been difficult for me to explain why I have chosen my faith over all else as many even in the Church could not understand my love for God, especially when my heath issues and disability's make it difficult to be in church all the time and participating on the way other people do. I do not presume to judge anyone elce's path or way of expressing faith, I just know what I need to do to express my love in a way which is really for me, even when it looks nothing like how other people do it.
May God bless you, dear Phoebe. It is impossible to explain these things, because they are not 'reasonable', in the sense that they do not conform to logical reasoning. This abandonment of reason, in order to act based on faith, is the entry into a life of mortification - this very choice of faith over reason is an act of mortification of our logical reasoning. Please keep us in your prayers.
Phoebe, I think I can understand. I too fell in love with Christ at a young age. I am Catholic and did not feel drawn to join any of our religious orders. I dated when younger and that was good for me but being wife/mother simply was not who I was. So I have lived as a "monastic in the world" (an oxymoron). Then, 5+ years ago, my spiritual director/father led me in privately making vows that affirmed this crazy vocation of mine. I am far from perfect in how I live it and am now in my sixties, but I am at peace. Our stories are not the same, of course, but I want to offer you encouragement as you follow the path laid out for you, which may not be like anyone else's but is still of God. Be blessed.
"You have to be mad in order to give yourself to Christ" Dear Fr Seraphim, saner words were never more definitively enunciated. Once again, after ruminating on a question yesterday while doing the dailies: the yard work, the housework, the laundry and the reckoning of household accounts, I have here received an answer and its resonating details in a tone as pronounced as the single strike on a weighty bell. Thanks be to God for Christ's Infinite Love and Mercy!
Greetings dear Father! Praise be to God. I am so excited to be the first one to message you here today. I just want to say to thank you for all your loving and caring messages. You have helped me change the way I think. The firm faith and clarity of thought in all your messages always puts me on the right track and invites me to learn to truly love everyone.
THANK GOD that you are pointing out that both Marriage and Monastic Life REQUIRE that we DENY ourselves, pick up our cross and DIE with Christ 🙏 NOONE seems to be talking about this MAJOR Biblical Statement 😢
Thank you father Seraphim, I was awaiting a message from you today, Good Friday. My day would not have been complete without you in it. You fill my spirit!
It is wonderful to see your full silliness and I would love to see some monks and nuns frolicking in the field with the lambs! You are so right about marriage. I just celebrated our 50th anniversary and am a totally different person - hopefully a much better person! This is a very helpful video for all of us, whatever life we choose. Last week my priest asked me to make a short video on something relating to the cross and my guardian angel woke me up and told me to talk about your talk on praying when we are weak, ill, sinful, etc. -when we are on our cross and feel as if we have nothing to give. It took a while to locate it in the library of your videos as I couldn't remember the title exactly and gave you full credit for all the wonderful inspirational insights in that video. You definitely look a lot healthier than you did a year ago, as I watched several videos from the beginning of your talks. Anyway, there has been a very positive response to your words and I want to thank you for helping me pray while on my cross and I hope you don't mind me sharing it with others. You have been a very good friend over the past year and I thank God daily for you. Enjoy this strange orb in the sky and may the mad love you have for God increase daily! You are an inspiration to me and so many!
Thank you. I really needed this today. I have people telling me "you should be a monastic," and "you look like them" (probably because I never married, have lived a solitary life, and am now 52 years old), but I never thought of it until they put it in my head about a year ago. Now, I question whether I am called, and I simply do not know. In any event, at least one monastery told me they only accept nuns under 40 years old anyway, so that might answer the question for me if that is common. I appreciate your wisdom with respect to this matter.
I was just thinking of idolatry and it's many faces, and praying to recognize it and put Christ first. I incorporated the prayer found in the newest book of the monastery "O God do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness let me now make a beginning of good."
Only with my spiritual Father from Sibiu happened to think of a certain question and, when going to him to find the answer, often happened to forget about that particular question. But, before leaving, he just answer to that specific question without even ask him. Thank you for all these videos, they are spiritual "food"! 🙏💙🙏 (this is not a "blue" heart, but a serene one).
That is a normal thing with one's spiritual father, dear Laura; those who have been blessed with this gift know it from experience. Speaking of forgetting things I had on my 'list' to discuss with him, I have learnt to trust that God is guiding me even by making me forget those questions - at times, we want answers before we are ready for them, and that would only generate pain for all involved. It is better to forget about them until we are ready to receive the truth, and I am certain that God 'helps' us forget when it is better to forget.
Thank you, Father. I am divorced, with grown children still in my household. My married friends find it perplexing that I am moving forward without looking for another spouse, nor do I feel called to be a monastic. I’m not opposed to being married again, but I truly think my vocation at this moment is “mother,” even to my grown children. I listened to this podcast thinking maybe you would change my mind. Silly me-I need to just keep waiting on God. Thank you! ❤️
Twice or three times a year the sad people of the West Coast Canadian city of Vancouver go into a strange panic. There's mass hysteria in the streets, people running about, taking shelter and screaming in terror, some rooted to the spot gazing in horror up at the sky. "WHAT IS THAT THING!!!??!!" they cry, pointing up at the terrifying burning yellow disk in the sky and the bizarre unnatural blue that has replaced the normal dark grey. The water no longer falls from the fuzzy grey roof! How will we survive without water? they cry! Fortunately, this horrible apparition only lasts a few short hours and normality is restored, and everyone goes back to their Granville st. coffee shop and pops another prozac and all is well.
Father, first I want to thank God and you that you are answering this question. Anyways, my question is: even if we do need to make these decisions with our entire will, do you not agree that one should not make hasty decisions about the monastic path? (and marriage, but I'm focusing on one). Shouldn't one truly think about it and see if he can handle it? Isn't that what the novice period is for? Isn't blindly making a decision dangerous for monastic lust? (Like, delusion).
Father Seraphim, would you be willing to one day speak about fighting against anxiety as a Christian? Your words bring such peace and I feel very lucky to have found your UA-cam channel. Thank you very dearly! God bless you Father.
Dearest Parintele Seraphim, this video was truly a divine message to me, I myself have been considering what my vocation will be. I thank God for this gift to me, May God bless you, Pray for me!
Thank you very much father. I really appreciate everything you do for us. That was lovely and helpful. May God bless you. Pray for me im just waiting for the monastery to open so I can go and stay there inshallah in God's will. 💜☦
Thankyou Dear Father/Bro Thankyou for your very beautiful messages of truth I'm not from an Orthodoxy back ground but I'm thoroughly enjoying all of your messages Godbless you my dear bro.
LOL Father you are being so funny! The white disc! Amen! Seriously! There is no discernment. God calls and if you answer, yes then you find a way to become a monastic.
Lol oh Father you are such a blessing in my and my children's life. You have help make this pandemic glorious. So much learning during this struggling time. Praise be to God
Dear Fr Seraphim, your videos give me strength and courage. Thank you sincerely. What is your advice for those of us who have not been pulled in either direction of marriage or monasticism? If marriage and relationships have failed for a person do you advise them to pursue the monastism ?
Father, would this advice be the exact same for deciding whether or not to become a Christian? I have been wrestling with this recently but do feel I am trusting my mind too much to solve the problem.
Dear Ari, yes!!! Becoming a Christian is giving yourself to Christ and deciding to trust Him. It is very much like jumping off a cliff. But with the wings of faith! ❤️
Thank you for this teaching, Fr. Your comparison of the sacrament of marriage and the monastic vocation has helped me see me own marriage in a beautiful new light. Grace and peace +
I have a problem. I recently got married in November, and during that time was learning about orthodoxy and the church. Last month I became a catechumen in the Romanian Orthodox Church. The more I learn about God and the Church, the more I fall in love with them. It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard for me to go to work, because if it’s not going to help me please God or carry out his will, I just don’t see the point. It feels meaningless. It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard for me to look past all the commonplace evil in the world, and as a result I’ve taken an interest in monasticism. However I am married, and I love my wife, but I am unhappy. I want to pursue monasticism after I (hopefully) get chrismated, but I would feel terrible for doing that to her. I don’t want to hurt her or her family. And I know I can’t have both. I feel lost here, do you have any advice for me?
Father bless. St Theophan the Recluse wrote in the »path to salvation« that the monastic life is the narrow and sorrowful way. Of course, the marriage life is also a way to salvation. But the monastic life has more tools to succeed. There is the first step to make the jump. But is it not also possible to go to school for jumping? And that school is the monastery. If I realize that my life should change, is this not a good decision to enter the monastery to be saved? Maybe I will fail - but in the world, I would fail thousands of times more. If you enter monastic life out of mad love, that is fine, but is there not an option to enter monastic life to become saved?
Bless father, I've been watching your videos and love the way you address difficult topics. You really handled the one with wearing masks in Church in a genuine Orthodox manner. About this one, I agree completely, yes, it takes mad love to follow Christ, it takes renunciation of the self to succeed in marriage, be it with another human or with Christ. But how about those of us that have failed in their marriage, don't want to remarry, love Christ, have known Him while married, but cannot enter a monastery for obvious reasons of raising children, at least until the children become able to take care of themselves. The lack of a visible and concrete community can be at times devastating.
Dear Reverend Father, thank you for this wonderful reflection,which has explained many things,it has helped me so very much,steadying me along ..the Way.
Thank you Father. This is encouraging to me in my own vocation that I always doubt, as if I have any other. I've heard you shouldn't look directly at that mysterious white disc and if your skin feels tingly you should retreat indoors!
Fr bless, your prayers. 11:28 hoping for a resurrection for myself and the last remaining son I have to raise. Unfortunately divorce seems to be the best way forward right now. As far as making a choice to marry again discernment always. As much as I love Christ I am not monastic material. Glory to God!
my beloved died four years ago after living a heroic life with progressive debilitating muscle diseaseand is I pray with our Father and Heavenly family. I’m most certain he’s there. He lived selflessly such a beautiful faith filled and devoted life to our faith and our children and me. He was beautiful. Now, I pray daily to know what my Father wants or how He wants me to live daily. Of course, I continue to serve our four children and seven grandchildren. So, as a widow, what is my call? Are there lives of exemplar widows I could read about?
I'm 61 years old. I've clung to the cautious approach, based in self idolatry throughout. Maybe the future will be different for me, or maybe not. I guess I might be on a course that I cannot see, define or name. Hinduism seems welcoming to a totally undefined wanderer such as myself, but I don't commit to that either.
Best advice I have ever heard... .. The fire of desire for Jesus or otherwise. Many youngsters who are not able to make up their mind, will favour from your message . Thank you for these brilliant examples. Stay blessed in the presence of Jesus and please pray for all His children to reach the Kingdom.of God🙏🙏🙏
Please fall in love?. I must disagree 🤷♀️love is feelings and actions marriage is hard work after 40 years it’s still sooo hard... I’d prefer being a monk marriage is madness imho I love you father you teach and help me as I am spiritually alone always 🙏🏼🕯☦️
Fr.Seraphim ....will get to the serious part yet.....must say I laughed and laughed at the disk appearing. I really needed that. Laughter is good medicine! I believe that is in the bible about a merry heart. Thank you and Christ love from u.s.
IF we have a God Whom we call the Holy Trinity and Whom we see as an image of perfect love,we must realise how tragic This God is within Himself and how glorious this tragedy and sacrifice are.Because to the small extent to which we are capable of loving one another,we begin to became an icon of the Holy Trinity.
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 " 🎶🎶🎶 quaq quaq quaq ! " , and simultaneously " y o u h a v e t o g e t M a d , t o j o i n t h e m o n a s t i c l i f e ! " 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 ❗
Offffff.....Părinte cît de rău i-mi pare că nu vă pot înțelege ceea ce spuneti, dar ....locul in care filmați și in fundal se aud păsările, se vede natura......CÎT DE MARE EȘIT TU DOAMNE!!!!! DOMNUL a vrut să vă poarte pași acolo, departe, departe de tot, cit mai aproape de El. Știm că pretutindenia,El este dar.....numai trebuie să vrem. Mulțumim frumos pentru cuvîntul de acum 2 zile difuzat de Doxologia.
I have been married and divorced, but I never made this leap. I feel like I missed out on something crucial to that relationship. But it also scares me to try again because who could possibly be worth making that leap for?
Thank you father, you hit the nail on its head, and mine too. Discernment isn't commonly taught early in life outside the family home. Can the sacrament of confession close this gap when logistics rule a household?
Ziua buna parinte drag ! Ma bucur sa va vad zambit si intr-o stare mai pozitiva decat in ultimul video. Dumnezeu sa aiba mila de noi toti ! Post binecuvantat in continuare ! Si sa stiti ca zambetul va vine de minune.
I can understand your points here- however, if one once desired to be married but now doesn’t know if they should be married due to viewing the monastic life as a “higher” calling than marriage. And saying that a human can set your heart on fire or it’s Jesus- it is implying that those who feel that they are called into marriage are weaker and idolizing marriage and their spouse.
My dear Andrea, monasticism truly is the higher path. All the Saints of the Church, starting with St Paul, down to our generation, have treated monasticism as the spiritually higher path. (And, just to clarify, when I talk of monasticism I do not think of myself - I am not worthy to be called a monk for my many sins, but I do look towards true monastics as guiding stars.)
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you. Unfortunately, I am one of the divorced. It was heart breaking to admit that my husband was drifting further away from what a husband and father should be. After many prayers, he simply got worse and I had to leave with our children as someone would possibly die if we remained. I stayed 20 years but the toil on us was great. We have suffered greatly at secular hands since but I know God knows I was acting as the chosen guardian of my children and not for selfish reasons. I would have loved for the marriage to have worked but it was not willed by God. Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner.
Be encouraged, dear sister! Sometimes people change for the worse and we must move on. I hope you will find safety, peace and healing as you draw closer to Christ.
Father, please tell me if it is possible to pe a third, like i dont want to marry, and i dont want to be a monk, i want to stay clean in Jesus name but in the world.
Like there should be this option, i really believe that.
Please tell me, thanks!
I LAUGHED SO HARD at your joke about the sun, I truly thought something was wrong with the weather
Father bless, I really appreciate your clarification as to the way the chose is made as to which path.
I fell in love with Christ at 15 long before I found the Orthodox faith and knew even then that for me no man would be able to take his place in my affections. Two years ago in part due to heath reasons I made the decision to dedicate my life to God in celibacy with the agreement of my parish priest. Last summer my Spiritual father accepted that I am on this path and has advised me to spend some time in monasteries forming my spirituality as he thinks my path at least for the foreseeable future is as a celibate in the world. It has always been difficult for me to explain why I have chosen my faith over all else as many even in the Church could not understand my love for God, especially when my heath issues and disability's make it difficult to be in church all the time and participating on the way other people do.
I do not presume to judge anyone elce's path or way of expressing faith, I just know what I need to do to express my love in a way which is really for me, even when it looks nothing like how other people do it.
May God bless you, dear Phoebe. It is impossible to explain these things, because they are not 'reasonable', in the sense that they do not conform to logical reasoning. This abandonment of reason, in order to act based on faith, is the entry into a life of mortification - this very choice of faith over reason is an act of mortification of our logical reasoning. Please keep us in your prayers.
Phoebe, I think I can understand. I too fell in love with Christ at a young age. I am Catholic and did not feel drawn to join any of our religious orders. I dated when younger and that was good for me but being wife/mother simply was not who I was. So I have lived as a "monastic in the world" (an oxymoron). Then, 5+ years ago, my spiritual director/father led me in privately making vows that affirmed this crazy vocation of mine. I am far from perfect in how I live it and am now in my sixties, but I am at peace. Our stories are not the same, of course, but I want to offer you encouragement as you follow the path laid out for you, which may not be like anyone else's but is still of God. Be blessed.
"You have to be mad in order to give yourself to Christ"
Dear Fr Seraphim, saner words were never more definitively enunciated.
Once again, after ruminating on a question yesterday while doing the dailies: the yard work, the housework, the laundry and the reckoning of household accounts,
I have here received an answer and its resonating details in a tone as pronounced as the single strike on a weighty bell. Thanks be to God for Christ's Infinite Love and Mercy!
Greetings dear Father! Praise be to God. I am so excited to be the first one to message you here today. I just want to say to thank you for all your loving and caring messages. You have helped me change the way I think. The firm faith and clarity of thought in all your messages always puts me on the right track and invites me to learn to truly love everyone.
THANK GOD that you are pointing out that both Marriage and Monastic Life REQUIRE that we DENY ourselves, pick up our cross and DIE with Christ 🙏 NOONE seems to be talking about this MAJOR Biblical Statement 😢
Helloooo from România 🇷🇴 ! God bless you Father! ✝️
Thank you father Seraphim, I was awaiting a message from you today, Good Friday. My day would not have been complete without you in it. You fill my spirit!
Thank you for this message Father. I especially enjoyed the singing at the end. Blessings on you all at the monastery and everyone watching.
It is wonderful to see your full silliness and I would love to see some monks and nuns frolicking in the field with the lambs! You are so right about marriage. I just celebrated our 50th anniversary and am a totally different person - hopefully a much better person! This is a very helpful video for all of us, whatever life we choose. Last week my priest asked me to make a short video on something relating to the cross and my guardian angel woke me up and told me to talk about your talk on praying when we are weak, ill, sinful, etc. -when we are on our cross and feel as if we have nothing to give. It took a while to locate it in the library of your videos as I couldn't remember the title exactly and gave you full credit for all the wonderful inspirational insights in that video. You definitely look a lot healthier than you did a year ago, as I watched several videos from the beginning of your talks. Anyway, there has been a very positive response to your words and I want to thank you for helping me pray while on my cross and I hope you don't mind me sharing it with others. You have been a very good friend over the past year and I thank God daily for you. Enjoy this strange orb in the sky and may the mad love you have for God increase daily! You are an inspiration to me and so many!
Thank you. I really needed this today. I have people telling me "you should be a monastic," and "you look like them" (probably because I never married, have lived a solitary life, and am now 52 years old), but I never thought of it until they put it in my head about a year ago. Now, I question whether I am called, and I simply do not know. In any event, at least one monastery told me they only accept nuns under 40 years old anyway, so that might answer the question for me if that is common. I appreciate your wisdom with respect to this matter.
Holly, Father has a video you may be interested in. It's entitled, "I have to make a decision. Which way do I go? " The truth in it is so valuable.
@@pantaleimona Thank you for this recommendation! I will watch it! 🙏🏻☦️
I was just thinking of idolatry and it's many faces, and praying to recognize it and put Christ first. I incorporated the prayer found in the newest book of the monastery "O God do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness let me now make a beginning of good."
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Silly and wonderful, wonderfully silly ❤
Some hard but essential truths.
Thank you, Fr Seraphim 🙏🏽
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Thank you so much, dear Father! I love the joy and wisdom in each video.
Thank you Father seraphin it's so beautiful Harmon singing and pray for you all God bless you all amen.thatmade my day!!!!!!!!!!
Only with my spiritual Father from Sibiu happened to think of a certain question and, when going to him to find the answer, often happened to forget about that particular question. But, before leaving, he just answer to that specific question without even ask him. Thank you for all these videos, they are spiritual "food"! 🙏💙🙏 (this is not a "blue" heart, but a serene one).
That is a normal thing with one's spiritual father, dear Laura; those who have been blessed with this gift know it from experience. Speaking of forgetting things I had on my 'list' to discuss with him, I have learnt to trust that God is guiding me even by making me forget those questions - at times, we want answers before we are ready for them, and that would only generate pain for all involved. It is better to forget about them until we are ready to receive the truth, and I am certain that God 'helps' us forget when it is better to forget.
Thank you for this answer, dear father. Now I understand a little bit deeper what father Ilie Cleopa used to say: "Răbdari! Răbdari! Răbdari!"...
Thank you, Father. I am divorced, with grown children still in my household. My married friends find it perplexing that I am moving forward without looking for another spouse, nor do I feel called to be a monastic. I’m not opposed to being married again, but I truly think my vocation at this moment is “mother,” even to my grown children. I listened to this podcast thinking maybe you would change my mind. Silly me-I need to just keep waiting on God. Thank you! ❤️
Twice or three times a year the sad people of the West Coast Canadian city of Vancouver go into a strange panic. There's mass hysteria in the streets, people running about, taking shelter and screaming in terror, some rooted to the spot gazing in horror up at the sky. "WHAT IS THAT THING!!!??!!" they cry, pointing up at the terrifying burning yellow disk in the sky and the bizarre unnatural blue that has replaced the normal dark grey. The water no longer falls from the fuzzy grey roof! How will we survive without water? they cry! Fortunately, this horrible apparition only lasts a few short hours and normality is restored, and everyone goes back to their Granville st. coffee shop and pops another prozac and all is well.
Father, first I want to thank God and you that you are answering this question.
Anyways, my question is: even if we do need to make these decisions with our entire will, do you not agree that one should not make hasty decisions about the monastic path? (and marriage, but I'm focusing on one).
Shouldn't one truly think about it and see if he can handle it? Isn't that what the novice period is for? Isn't blindly making a decision dangerous for monastic lust? (Like, delusion).
Father Seraphim, would you be willing to one day speak about fighting against anxiety as a Christian? Your words bring such peace and I feel very lucky to have found your UA-cam channel. Thank you very dearly! God bless you Father.
That was a great analogy about jumping the chasm. Flying on the wings of Love.
Dearest Parintele Seraphim, this video was truly a divine message to me, I myself have been considering what my vocation will be. I thank God for this gift to me, May God bless you, Pray for me!
Why are priests called 'father' when Jesus himself said "call no one on earth father because you have one father who is in heaven" (Mathew 23:9)
Thank you very much father. I really appreciate everything you do for us. That was lovely and helpful. May God bless you. Pray for me im just waiting for the monastery to open so I can go and stay there inshallah in God's will. 💜☦
Thankyou Dear Father/Bro Thankyou for your very beautiful messages of truth I'm not from an Orthodoxy back ground but I'm thoroughly enjoying all of your messages Godbless you my dear bro.
LOL Father you are being so funny! The white disc! Amen! Seriously! There is no discernment. God calls and if you answer, yes then you find a way to become a monastic.
Lol oh Father you are such a blessing in my and my children's life. You have help make this pandemic glorious. So much learning during this struggling time. Praise be to God
Dear Fr Seraphim, your videos give me strength and courage. Thank you sincerely. What is your advice for those of us who have not been pulled in either direction of marriage or monasticism? If marriage and relationships have failed for a person do you advise them to pursue the monastism ?
Father, would this advice be the exact same for deciding whether or not to become a Christian? I have been wrestling with this recently but do feel I am trusting my mind too much to solve the problem.
Dear Ari, yes!!! Becoming a Christian is giving yourself to Christ and deciding to trust Him. It is very much like jumping off a cliff. But with the wings of faith! ❤️
Thank you for this teaching, Fr. Your comparison of the sacrament of marriage and the monastic vocation has helped me see me own marriage in a beautiful new light. Grace and peace +
brother you call the disc of light a problem can you please explain
Like your kind of humor..
What about people with mental illnesses who are rejected for both marriage and by monasteries?
Draw close to Christ and trust him to care for you.
I have a problem. I recently got married in November, and during that time was learning about orthodoxy and the church. Last month I became a catechumen in the Romanian Orthodox Church. The more I learn about God and the Church, the more I fall in love with them. It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard for me to go to work, because if it’s not going to help me please God or carry out his will, I just don’t see the point. It feels meaningless. It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard for me to look past all the commonplace evil in the world, and as a result I’ve taken an interest in monasticism. However I am married, and I love my wife, but I am unhappy. I want to pursue monasticism after I (hopefully) get chrismated, but I would feel terrible for doing that to her. I don’t want to hurt her or her family. And I know I can’t have both. I feel lost here, do you have any advice for me?
Multumesc Bunului Dumnezeu milostiv pentru ca cerceteaza gandurile inainte de fapt sa ne cunoastem adevaratele framantari .
you have such a loving energy, instant peace and joy installed the second you say: HELLO DEAR ONES!
❤ love to hear the brothers and sisters singing!
I believe god gives you the desires of your heart,im glad you love jesus.oneday he will wipe every tear away
Ive heard you,brother and understand you,thxs
Father bless. St Theophan the Recluse wrote in the »path to salvation« that the monastic life is the narrow and sorrowful way. Of course, the marriage life is also a way to salvation. But the monastic life has more tools to succeed. There is the first step to make the jump. But is it not also possible to go to school for jumping? And that school is the monastery. If I realize that my life should change, is this not a good decision to enter the monastery to be saved? Maybe I will fail - but in the world, I would fail thousands of times more. If you enter monastic life out of mad love, that is fine, but is there not an option to enter monastic life to become saved?
Bless father, I've been watching your videos and love the way you address difficult topics. You really handled the one with wearing masks in Church in a genuine Orthodox manner.
About this one, I agree completely, yes, it takes mad love to follow Christ, it takes renunciation of the self to succeed in marriage, be it with another human or with Christ.
But how about those of us that have failed in their marriage, don't want to remarry, love Christ, have known Him while married, but cannot enter a monastery for obvious reasons of raising children, at least until the children become able to take care of themselves. The lack of a visible and concrete community can be at times devastating.
God is with us always and forever and everwhere and I trust in God!!!!!!!
Thankyou for the beautiful message Father! May we have your blessing 🙏
Dear Reverend Father, thank you for this wonderful reflection,which has explained many things,it has helped me so very much,steadying me along ..the Way.
Love and peace. Tim
Praise God for your “silliness” and joy! You are such a gift!
Thank you Father!
Glory be to God if this helped you in some way, dear Lily. Please keep us in your prayers.
I loved this video. Thank you father. Always in my prayers.
Thank you Father. This is encouraging to me in my own vocation that I always doubt, as if I have any other. I've heard you shouldn't look directly at that mysterious white disc and if your skin feels tingly you should retreat indoors!
Thank you Father!
Beautiful hymn at the end ❤️😍
Happy Holy Friday from Ireland.
I love the beautiful scenery. ❤️
Such a beautiful song at the end! I have a playlist that I save all the Mull videos that have singing so I can quickly go back and listen again often.
This film is definitely for me. God bless you!
Thankyou :)
heehee Thank you for the joy, Father!
God has been so generous with us these two days of sunshine, I feel we should try our best to spread this joy, dear Pantaleimona 😊
@@mullmonastery With the wonder of Your love,The sun above always shines
Fr bless, your prayers.
11:28 hoping for a resurrection for myself and the last remaining son I have to raise. Unfortunately divorce seems to be the best way forward right now. As far as making a choice to marry again discernment always. As much as I love Christ I am not monastic material. Glory to God!
my beloved died four years ago after living a heroic life with progressive debilitating muscle diseaseand is I pray with our Father and Heavenly family. I’m most certain he’s there. He lived selflessly such a beautiful faith filled and devoted life to our faith and our children and me. He was beautiful. Now, I pray daily to know what my Father wants or how He wants me to live daily. Of course, I continue to serve our four children and seven grandchildren. So, as a widow, what is my call? Are there lives of exemplar widows I could read about?
I'm 61 years old.
I've clung to the cautious approach, based in self idolatry throughout.
Maybe the future will be different for me, or maybe not.
I guess I might be on a course that I cannot see, define or name.
Hinduism seems welcoming to a totally undefined wanderer such as myself, but I don't commit to that either.
Best advice I have ever heard... ..
The fire of desire for Jesus or otherwise. Many youngsters who are not able to make up their mind, will favour from your message . Thank you for these brilliant examples. Stay blessed in the presence of Jesus and please pray for all His children to reach the Kingdom.of God🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for your wisdom filled videos. You are so helpfuL. Thank you again from a Romanian in the USA.
Please fall in love?. I must disagree 🤷♀️love is feelings and actions marriage is hard work after 40 years it’s still sooo hard... I’d prefer being a monk marriage is madness imho I love you father you teach and help me as I am spiritually alone always 🙏🏼🕯☦️
Thank you Father, this was a great message. God bless! Please could you also pray for me?
Beautiful humming. Thank you for the hymn. For God is with us. 🙏
Fr.Seraphim ....will get to the serious part yet.....must say I laughed and laughed at the disk appearing. I really needed that. Laughter is good medicine! I believe that is in the bible about a merry heart. Thank you and Christ love from u.s.
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IF we have a God Whom we call the Holy Trinity and Whom we see as an image of perfect love,we must realise how tragic This God is within Himself and how glorious this tragedy and sacrifice are.Because to the small extent to which we are capable of loving one another,we begin to became an icon of the Holy Trinity.
I have an idea for You. If You will be recording in car, You can make the 360 grade video. Then we can lookng at You or looking at environment.
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" 🎶🎶🎶 quaq quaq quaq ! " ,
and simultaneously
" y o u h a v e t o g e t M a d ,
t o j o i n t h e m o n a s t i c l i f e ! "
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Offffff.....Părinte cît de rău i-mi pare că nu vă pot înțelege ceea ce spuneti, dar ....locul in care filmați și in fundal se aud păsările, se vede natura......CÎT DE MARE EȘIT TU DOAMNE!!!!! DOMNUL a vrut să vă poarte pași acolo, departe, departe de tot, cit mai aproape de El. Știm că pretutindenia,El este dar.....numai trebuie să vrem. Mulțumim frumos pentru cuvîntul de acum 2 zile difuzat de Doxologia.
can the chanter prayer in the end be found as a separate recording somewhere?
I have been married and divorced, but I never made this leap. I feel like I missed out on something crucial to that relationship. But it also scares me to try again because who could possibly be worth making that leap for?
Nobody is I only Jesus 😇🕯🙏🏼☦️
Thank you father, you hit the nail on its head, and mine too. Discernment isn't commonly taught early in life outside the family home. Can the sacrament of confession close this gap when logistics rule a household?
The first minute were by far the most English thing I have ever heard in my life, hats of to you Fr and great Video for the vocation
All war is for romance. Peace be with you.
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You encourage so much! Thank you, Father.
Thank you for the Wise Words Father. This topic has been on my mind a lot lately
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Ziua buna parinte drag ! Ma bucur sa va vad zambit si intr-o stare mai pozitiva decat in ultimul video. Dumnezeu sa aiba mila de noi toti ! Post binecuvantat in continuare ! Si sa stiti ca zambetul va vine de minune.
Great intro! You got me going!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
God bless you father!
Thank you Father ☦
Please pray for us☦
Thank you and Thanks be to God
Wonderful sunshine ☀
Amen.
Glory to God
FOR GOD IS WITH US
I can understand your points here- however, if one once desired to be married but now doesn’t know if they should be married due to viewing the monastic life as a “higher” calling than marriage.
And saying that a human can set your heart on fire or it’s Jesus- it is implying that those who feel that they are called into marriage are weaker and idolizing marriage and their spouse.
My dear Andrea, monasticism truly is the higher path. All the Saints of the Church, starting with St Paul, down to our generation, have treated monasticism as the spiritually higher path. (And, just to clarify, when I talk of monasticism I do not think of myself - I am not worthy to be called a monk for my many sins, but I do look towards true monastics as guiding stars.)
Hahaha!
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Please what is your email!??