Fr Michael, I watched this video today with interest, thinking how can a Discernment message touch me, as I had other choices of videos to watch. In many times in my life I have "fallen into" messages that have shined a light on my heart ❤ when I needed it. With your video, I experienced that light again today. Thank you for being the voice that God sent me to hear. Your soothing words and wisdom have encouraged me and are helping shine a light on my path.
Thanks for this. I'm in the process of leaving a Protestant church and seeking an Ortho. I personally couldn't find any way to discern as a Protestant. Each was left to discern the Bible according to bias, background whim. I want to submit to a spiritual teacher but how does one know which spiritual teacher has proper discernment if they all have different doctorine and dogma? And who did that teacher submit to? I felt like I wasn't submitting to Christ, but rather some history intellectual academic interpretation of Scripture.
As long as the spiritual father you find is Catholic (Eastern or Western) or Orthodox you can trust the dogma and doctrine came from Christ himself. The difference between Catholic and Orthodox is mostly administrative. Theologically speaking... Catholics think along the lines of what God is and Orthodox think along the lines of what God is not. Whenever the Schism is healed and East/West are working together as ONE, Protestant denominations will cease to exist.
Amen Father!
By far one of the most helpful discernment videos I have ever seen.
Fr Michael, I watched this video today with interest, thinking how can a Discernment message touch me, as I had other choices of videos to watch. In many times in my life I have "fallen into" messages that have shined a light on my heart ❤ when I needed it. With your video, I experienced that light again today. Thank you for being the voice that God sent me to hear. Your soothing words and wisdom have encouraged me and are helping shine a light on my path.
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Thanks for this. I'm in the process of leaving a Protestant church and seeking an Ortho. I personally couldn't find any way to discern as a Protestant. Each was left to discern the Bible according to bias, background whim. I want to submit to a spiritual teacher but how does one know which spiritual teacher has proper discernment if they all have different doctorine and dogma? And who did that teacher submit to? I felt like I wasn't submitting to Christ, but rather some history intellectual academic interpretation of Scripture.
As long as the spiritual father you find is Catholic (Eastern or Western) or Orthodox you can trust the dogma and doctrine came from Christ himself. The difference between Catholic and Orthodox is mostly administrative. Theologically speaking... Catholics think along the lines of what God is and Orthodox think along the lines of what God is not. Whenever the Schism is healed and East/West are working together as ONE, Protestant denominations will cease to exist.