F. Ephraim Dikaios on repentance
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Father Ephraim was born in Thrace, NE Greece, in 1956. He showed an inclination towards monasticism from an early age. He studied in Thessaloniki, Macedonia. A spiritual child of father Ephraim of Philotheou (Arizona). His biological father died when he was 21 and he decided to become a monk at Philotheou monastery, Mount Athos. In 1983 he was ordained a Presbyter and became the Abbot of Philotheou Monastery. From July 2001 until 2023 he served as Dikaios in the Skete of St Andreas Monastery of Vatopedi, Karyes, on the Holy Mountain. He slept on the 30th March 2023. In February 2023 he sent a letter to his spiritual children telling them, "The good Lord has blessed me with three priceless gifts : 1)My pancreas is full of cancer 2)My lungs are full of cancer, this is why I caugh 3) My spine is full of cancer, this is why I can't sleep from the pain. Please pray for me the wretched one". May the Lord place him among His Saints.
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Ahhh I read the box and noticed that the holly father is already in the Kingdom of Heaven!!! 🙏🕯️ May he could help me now with more freedom and power, although I'm not worthy!!! 🙏☦️
Thank you so much for uploading this video.
Thanks for the transcript!
If a priest is a homosexual and worse than that a predator. He is also a father confessor. I definitely could not go to him for confession. Everything gets swept under the carpet. Jesus Christ have mercy on me.
Thank you for this teaching! I wanted to ask the Father what does he think of receiving the heterodox people only with Crismacion, because I came from Roman Catholic church and I begged for the Baptism in the local Orthodox church, but since they belong to the Antiochian Patriarchy they consider the Baptism in the Romancatholic like valid and say it must not repeated...So I go on my journey now without any misteries until I would have certain of what must do 🙏🕯️
my elder EFRAIM DIED 42 days ago he was A SAINT with a lot of miracles that i know.i knew him for about 30 years the question that you ask here is very difficult.but as i know the roman-catholic has no baptism so my opinion is that you have to take the orthodox christian baptism a lot of roman -catholic people took the christian orthodox baptism.the roman-catholic baptism does not exist sorry
@@xristosmitroulakis8607 thank you very much for your words!!! Please pray for me and through the prayers of your holly Elder Lord have mercy on us!!!! 🙏🕯️💖
@@silvina9715pray to him silvina he was my confessor he was a light a HUMBLE GIANT ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN and he will be a SAINT LATER imagine my dear he prophesied the death of my father,he saw him in paradise,he found the name of a man even that he saw him for a first time,he prophesied ALL THE LIFE of a man his name is dimitrios he was able to watch out angels holy mother in the church,he was able some times thru the holy spirit to read the thoughts of the people.13 days before his death he came in my sleep and he said goodbye to me,and of course i saw him after his death too.he was a phenomenon i cried a lot about him GLORY TO THE GOD ,he said=3 gifts GOD GAVE TO ME 3 CANCERS 70 days of AWFUL PAINS no complain no shouts ONLY PRAY..
@@xristosmitroulakis8607 you're so kind for share this precious pearls with me, unworthy and sinner 😭... I'm grateful and of course I'll do what you say! Since now I trust my spiritual needs to the holly Elder with hope and gratitude!!! 🙏🕯️🙌☦️
Iteration of baptism is a novelty and a sin.
St. Vincent of Lerins 434 A.D.:
"Once on a time then, Agripinnus, bishop of Carthage, of venerable memory, held the doctrine - and he was the first who held it - that Baptism ought to be repeated, contrary to the divine canon, contrary to the rule of the universal Church, contrary to the customs and institutions of our ancestors. This innovation drew after it such an amount of evil, that it not only gave an example of sacrilege to heretics of all sorts, but proved an occasion of error to certain Catholics even.
When then all men protested against the novelty, and the priesthood everywhere, each as his zeal prompted him, opposed it, Pope Stephen of blessed memory, Prelate of the Apostolic See, in conjunction indeed with his colleagues but yet himself the foremost, withstood it, thinking it right, I doubt not, that as he exceeded all others in the authority of his place, so he should also in the devotion of his faith. In fine, in an epistle sent at the time to Africa, he laid down this rule: Let there be no innovation - nothing but what has been handed down. For that holy and prudent man well knew that true piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to our children; and that it is our duty, not to lead religion whither we would, but rather to follow religion whither it leads; and that it is the part of Christian modesty and gravity not to hand down our own beliefs or observances to those who come after us, but to preserve and keep what we have received from those who went before us. What then was the issue of the whole matter? What but the usual and customary one? Antiquity was retained, novelty was rejected."
What happens if there is no praying priest available. Not all priests these days lead healthy Orthodox lives.
If you see your priest seriously sinning how is it possible to go to him for confession. It is very difficult.