Be Attentive to Yourself - Homily by St. Basil the Great
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2019
- "Be attentive to yourself, lest an unlawful word come to be hidden in your heart" (Deut 15:9). This text serves as the basis for St. Basil's exhortation to be focused on ourselves and our sins, not the cares of this world or the sins of our brother. With beautiful imagery and inspired insight, this homily teaches us the importance of attending to every thought, for it is the mind first that harbors secret sins and it is the Great Physician that is ready to heal us.
St. Basil the Great is known as one of the three Holy Hierarchs of Cappadocia, along with St. John Chrysostom and St. Gregory the Theologian. We commemorate St. Basil on January 1st and 30th.
This is a reading of the following sermon: www.orthodoxprayer.org/Articl...
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It wasn’t till you cleared your throat that I remembered that a man I don’t know took the time and effort to read , record and upload this. Thank you for your efforts and may god bless you
Thank you. This was when I wasn’t editing my recordings. All the recent content should be better quality. May we have St. Basil’s prayers.
I pray that young Orthodox Christians and the Heterodox hear or read this wisdom. The many current wonder of today's technologies UA-cam has helped me find my way back. Wisdom let us be attentive.
Thank you for healing us Amen Hallelujah pls heal my daughter unspoken illness & pls let me walk again allpraise to you 🙏❤️💕🌹🌼🌷💐💕❤️🙏🙏
Saint Basil was a brilliant man in thought but such a SPIRITUAL SAINT... I LOVE simplicity but ST. Basil's words has caused me to be more ATTENTIVE to self..... BROTHER JAMES 🙏☦🦉
St. Basil is one of the Saints who reached the top and tenth rank of Sainthood holiness.
Are there really ranks of sainthood? Where does that notion come from? I'm not familiar with it.
@@vaska1999 Yes all Saints are not of the same rank. You can see it as a level where the Saints will need to pass through. It may not be the same for all the Saints but there is some kind characteristics each level will have. It is divided into 10 level. The first level is where the Saint will be learning and reaching the virtue of silence. The second level, They will start having understanding in their heart, will start to pray with understanding and will not be tired while praying. Then, will start to have tears of repentence. This is not like a small tear, rather will just flow from their eyes and cleaning their heart. Then, will be having a loving heart to love all. Start to know things of future and what is happening in other places or another person's lives. Then, will be starting to see angels in heaven. Lastly even their bodies will be like a fire for demons or small insects. St. Ephrem the Syrian visited St. Basil and one of the signs he saw was an insect was burned while flying near St. Basil. I know the whole concept is really far from our reality because we are very sinful. God's grace to the Saints and the whole humanity is really great. www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2011/01/relationship-of-st-ephraim-syrian-and.html#:~:text=Saint%20Ephraim%2C%20who%20was%20a,and%20speaking%20in%20his%20ear.
No such ranking in Orthodox Christian theology ☦️
Powerful psychotherapy for the soul. This is most helpful!
in deed
Glory to be to God for his wisdom through his saints St. Basil
And thank you for recording this , God bless your service!
St Basil please pray for us 🙏 Thank you for uploading this.
Saint Basil the Great, pray for us all for this word of Deut. 15:9 be kept in obedience all day 🙏🏼⛲🕊️
For the paryers of our HOLY FATHER'S, LORD JESUS CHRIST, have mercy on us💓🙏🏼💓🏳️💓👑🔥
23 - 24+ min = gold!
Thank you thank you for for recording and uploading 🙏 what a great idea to make the church fathers accessible in this way. God bless you!
Sometimes the homilies at Divine Litergy are hard to understand and others they make perfect sense.
Amazing ☦️🙏🏻❤️
Thank you for taking the time to read this and upload it for us to be able to access this ancient and timeless wisdom!
This is so good, it needs an animated video to go along with it as a visual meditation.
Extraordinary content! Thank you so much 🙏
Thank You! A lot! The Mighty God bless You !
Thanks for this recording, may god bless you ❤
Brilliant thank you.
My flesh is defiant rage, I'm afraid of me, if it weren't for the Lord's choker chain, surely I would destroy and be destroyed 😔
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My prayers are with you for I also fought and lost this intergenerational battle time and time again for many years. Things changed when, by God’s grace, I came to understand that I had to properly cleanse my mind and purify my heart: incessant prayer and fasting a couple of times a week was very powerful and effective in this respect. So, petition your Heavenly Father with incessant prayer, call on Christ and beg of Him to strengthen you to the point of denying yourself (also submitting your will and passion via fasting) so that you might come before Him and His gentle yoke in full submission. From experience I can tell you that the “choker-chain”, which are you referring to is your own will… As long as you rely on yourself, even if just in part, rather than on Him, your struggle will remain a constant two-steps-forward-one-step-back. So, submit to Him in all ways, all things, and He will give you exactly what you need, through the working of the Holy Spirit, to win the fight. Therefore call on your God without fail (I recommend diligent practice of the Jesus Prayer at all times), submit to Him humbly, and behold the enemy will scatter before you. Anger and rage are really symptoms of pride and the lack of humility - feeling wronged, crossed or challenged can only be thwarted by the lowly, gentle heart of Christ. God bless you and all of our prayers are with you!
Lots of very good lessons in here . Thankyou for uploading.
Thanks a lot for this deep teachings for our great old father's, it really enlightens me, please keep posting thoses precious treasures for diffrent topics, God bless u
Can you put more teachings of capadocean father's on certain topics upon Holy Trinity,Cosmic man, Eschatology,Eight paths,etc.,
Thank you!
Thank you
Thank you.
thanks for sharing, very practical!
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Very informative givethanks.
Where can I find more writing by the early church such as this one?
I’d start at ccel.org and newadvent.org for a large group of early Church writings. I don’t recommend the non-Orthodox writings on these two websites, but everything pre-schism should be good. Let me know if you are looking for something else.
@Read Father Seraphim Rose thank you, I will look into it.
It's premeditated is as poisonous as a stalker invading what the enemy has trapped.
Eat your basil and bring the dinosaur.
Looking forward to psalm 138v6
0:08 “God gave us Language, that we may reveal the plans of our heart ♥️ to each other.”
0:24 Communication.
0:41 Meaningful Voice.
1:02 Shipwreck
1:12 Make it Calm 🤫
1:38
- Don’t hide the things signified in obscurity
- Don’t be redundant and empty, turning in all directions while overflowing randomly
2:34 Guard Most the Weakest Parts.
2:58 Actions done through the body need:
+ Time
+ Opportunity
+ Labors
+ Coworkers
+ Other Requirements
3:05 The Movements of The Mind (The Nous)
+ Timeless
+ Effortless
+ Convenient
3:30 The Secret Inward Sins
4:04 Adultery in his heart
4:21 Lawless Hidden Word.
4:33 *Be Attentive To Yourself.*
6:26 Observe Yourself Carefully From Every Side. You walk amongst snares and traps.
6:50 The Keen-Sight Gazelle avoids the traps.
• Lets avoid the snares
7:27 Be Attentive Only To Yourself.
8:54 Be Attentive To Yourself.
9:34
- Flesh and Spirit in opposition
+ Help The Spirit
+ Turn The Scales ⚖️
10:02
10:24 Sick and Healthy
• Be attentive
10:46 Be Attentive To Yourself.
• Many confessions
11:07 Be attentive to yourself
12:20 Be attentive to yourself.
• Make straight my steps
12:38 Be attentive to yourself.
13:41 Be attentive to yourself.
• Boxer, Shield your vital organs
• Stretch forward to what lies ahead
• Struggle against the invisible opponents
• soberly watch over yourself.
14:36 Be attentive to yourself.
15:07 The young fantasies. Dreams of luxury, honor, inflated. Vanity.
16:00 Folly, Lazy, Dreamer. Frivolous.
17:00 Stop scrutinizing others. Keep examining yourself. 17:45
17:58 Some sins, Many Sins
“Oh God, be gracious to me the sinner.”
19:20 The Captive, The King.
19:54 Poor Person, Lowly Life. Do not Despair. Lift up your soul.
20:33 You are a Human Being. Master of Earth and Sea
21:47 Light moon🌕
22:20 Inexpressible Beauty ✨🌠
Where can I find the icon used in the video?
Idk where it is for sale. Try a google image search
In a nutshell be Rocky Balboa, walk the royal road and fix your eyes on the Lord😂
This English is difficult
Could u please speak more slowly in order to contemplate more in the words, especially not all your listeners are native English speakers
@16:00 Well actually visualization is a proven method of goal actualization so he is verifiably wrong here. And it’s actually the work of an active mind, so Basil’s inverse proposition is actually indolence. Unfortunate.
I just want you to know that the only reason I listen to this video is because us heretical Roman Catholics call st. Basil the saint also