Monk Arseniye: Ancient Answers to Modern Challenges - Orthodox Spirituality
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2018
- A sermon given by Monk Arseniye Yovanovich (monah Arsenije Jovanovic) in Clearwater, Florida. Fr Arseniye is one of most well known orthodox monk/preacher in the Serbian orthodox church. He was deep into the punk and drug scene of NYC. He later rediscovered Orthodoxy as the only Truth and became a monk, living for a period of over 5 years as solitary desert dweller. Now he's abbot of a monastery Ribnica in Serbia.
Other live sermons (translated as well) of Monk Arseniye, which I highly recommend - about life, the world and orthodox christianity:
--"From the verge of suicide to the life filled with God's love": • From the verge of suic...
-- "Orthodox Monk (God and Rock & Roll)":
• Orthodox Monk (God and...
-- "ORTHODOXY AND SEXUAL RELATIONS +2017+":
• ORTHODOXY AND SEXUAL R...
There're other english audio sermon series of Monk Arseniye "autobiography" on the orthodox Internet radio "Svetigora", called "World of Orthodox Christian spirituality":
arhiva.svetigora.com/audio/by/... - Фільми й анімація
Other live sermons (translated as well) of Monk Arseniye, which I highly recommend:
--"From the verge of suicide to the life filled with God's love": ua-cam.com/video/X9pSEhMbcsc/v-deo.html
-- "Orthodox Monk (God and Rock & Roll)":
ua-cam.com/video/BcgRiyS8otc/v-deo.html
-- "ORTHODOXY AND SEXUAL RELATIONS +2017+":
ua-cam.com/video/VctanrQjd1s/v-deo.html
There're other english audio sermon series of Monk Arseniye "autobiography" on the orthodox Internet radio "Svetigora", called "World of Orthodox Christian spirituality":
arhiva.svetigora.com/audio/by/album/world_of_orthodox_christian_spirituality
Thank you. I was in great need.
lessthandust Yes, brother’s autobiographical videos linked here are excellent. Such a compelling story and so interesting. It is long story...10-12 videos each about one hour long. Worth every moment of listening...many gems. Thanks
Thank you
This father is gifted in lecture
I want to be knowledge more by him
I know about evil, I need to know GOD. Praying for Truth has led me to Orthodox Christianity.
Welcome home sister to the orthodox church.
I am a convert but a long time convert and I rejected my Protestant upbringing and I became orthodox because I stopped looking for a religion that I liked and started searching for the truth. And my Protestant group I always heard people say well I haven't heard one church that believes like I do so I won't be happy until then. And then I realized how completely wrong that was instead of searching for someone who believes like me I searched for what was taught at the beginning and if any church stayed that way until this day and that has led me to the church and now I am
welcome☦️🤲🏼
Me too❤️
Me too
After hearing I wish to be a monk .
I wish this video had more views - from Americans and the whole world. Monk Arsenije is so intelligent, educated, understands the modern world, and he is a good speaker. It's rare to hear such a wise monk talking because they only speak Serbian/Greek/Russian and they are not so dynamic and traveling like Arsenije. He is wonderfully using his gifts to spread the love for God.
Thank you for uploading these videos!
Trust me the better a video the lesser the views. Rememer what Jesus said, the road to heaven is narrow and few will find it. Powerful messages of God hard for most people and they will mostly avoid it. Please upload the most stupid message and you will get millions of views. This world loves straw and throws away the wheat.
I had to search "orthodox christian sermon". I want to convert but have no church. So until I find one I learn through videos like this. By the way I am in America :)
@@summerb860 yes a good solid foundation will help you a lot in your journey. Always remember this is not an earthly matter which we think to have a full control over the course. You have a role of a sheep and God, your Shepherd certainly will be guiding you through all the steps. Just make sure you knock the door and wait.
@@a.b.s. I'm still on my journey. Since that time a year ago, its only consumed me further. Unfortunately due to the pandemic, my local parish has had to restrict how many people can attend. Its my understanding that I could come but that it would mean someone else would be unable to attend? That doesn't feel right. I thought oh, surely another parish would welcome a seeker but I just can't seem to get a response from any of my emails or calls. I think all I can do is continue to pray as close to constantly as I can muster, continue to reach out and be thankful for every moment God allows me to try. After all, who is he that speaks and it comes to pass if the Lord has not commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the most high that woe and wellbeing proceed?
Since I have your ear, please pray for me. That I find my home and that I find a priest that will help me lead my son on the path to salvation, I can't do that alone and need a spiritual father's guidance.
Russian is a beautiful language though.
A true Christian is the happiest person in the world because he enjoys everlasting life always.
I am an Orthodox psychiatrist. When you come into my office you are greeted by an icon of the Theotokos. Fr. Arseni is absolutely right . Eighty percent of psychiatric patients have spiritual illness only 20 per cent physiological illness.
i am looking to combine psychotherapy with Orthodox theology. is there a school of graduate studies that comes close to combining the two?
Can you share any more about this? I find this fascinating to listen to. What kinds of things do people perceive are mental illness that you believe are spiritual illness.
blambert1966@yahoo.com if you would ever have time to help lead.
I have physiological illness and spiritual illness combined. Which looks like bipolar at times. I was having trouble dealing with the spiritual illness until my physiological illness was treated. It’s taken many years of treatment to feel more alignment with grace in my life. I struggle with feeling of inadequacy having a mental illness and taking medicine for a long time. The churches in America shun it and keep quiet about it. I wish I had someone to share it with to get help, but here in America it’s all about money. All the churches are sold out. Religious men have completely failed me and I am left at the mercy of western medicine. So I thank God for science, where religion fails us. I feel completely abandoned by the church.
Dragi Monah Arsenije, volim te sto zbog tebe sam opet nasao Boga. Hvala!
добродошли кући
We need more people like this Monk .
Do you have still this will, this longing to become a monk?
@@lessthandust why do you ask?
@@chrismather5815 Because, P A Johnson said this in one of his comments: "After hearing I wish to be a monk."
He didn't ask you but you said "why do you ask?"
strange
This man is a blessing coming just when I needed.. Thank you so much for sharing the video brother thank you !!
Are you Australian?
So true. We say "I love you" almost automatically at times, never thinking of the deep meaning that the words truly convey. Thank you Father, your passion as a loving/caring person is there for all to see.
I'd recommend listening to Monk Arsenyie channel: the way , the truth.
He has a whole playlist called The way of orthodox Christians of spirituality. It's a really beautiful story.
I'm so glad I came across this channel and now can see him teaching his wisdom.
This speech is so deep! God bless him!
Thank you for this excellent video! I recently travelled on pilgrimage to Serbia and Kosovo, so profitable for my soul. Grateful to be Orthodox.
This man is a true child of God.
Very good monk. May God bless this Monk abundantly.
How valuable and important are these words, this guidance and sharing of lived experience of the Truth.
Pozdrav dagom ocu Arseniju,buducem patrijarhu,Amin❤
Wonderful message. Thank you, Father Arseniye.
True Christians are the happiest people in the world because they enjoy everlasting life always.
Not Happiness, Most Content.
Please come to Boston
Very very very inspiring message , very nice , i love this sermon very much. Please upload more videos.
I pray with you as with the not seen hermits of Mount Athos(Holy Mountain.
A lot of very good insights thank you
0:00 Monks mostly pray for salvation of the whole world 🙏🏼
1:12 Acquiring God’s Love ❤️
1:37 They were ready for death, every single moment of their lives 🪦💐❤️
2:47 Sacrificial Love, actions displaying love, more than words. ❤️
3:17 Show your love ❤️ 👀
3:43 Being, Breathing, Heart-Beating, Thinking. Speaking, being in contact with each other. Mutual Progeminy.
4:13
5:08 Cleansing, Enlightenment, Divinization.
11:03 Young People and their parents and the government.
14:52 “Be Good Economists.” Build up the heart ❤️ with spiritual currency.
15:45 Worrying, Pain 😨
17:04 Disturbed 😧 Empty, Hungry, Alone 😓😣😔
17:52 Healthy soul is more important than healthy body.
19:11 Soul & Spirit
Soul: Center of Life, rules over bodily senses
Spirit: Nous, a Sense of The Divine, sense of God’s World.
20:52 Spiritual Life is more important than Physical Life
23:00 To be filled completely with the Holy Spirit.
23:55 How will you prepare your soul for this special moment of departing from this life?
24:28 Fr Arseni’s journey to come talk to people. Sacrificing serenity of his monastic cell to come share the good he found with others.
26:03 Story of a famous monk, a Holy Man, a Great Ascetic, living a very harsh life in the desert 🏜️ consoled by God every day of his life. “Let God’s Will Be.” He was ordained a Bishop ☦️ he opened his heart and his mind, there was no contact with the Lord.
28:01 He offered his usual prayer 🙏🏼 incense but there was no response… Love ❤️ in the wilderness is different from Love ❤️ with fellow man but God is there for both places/circumstances.
30:34 Goal: 80% of problems at psychologist are of Spiritual Nature. Spiritual Problems are Healed with The Holy Spirit, not by psychiatry and medication.
35:35 Through Suffering we realize how Our Fellow Man Suffers. ☦️❤️
36:20 If I really want to love I have to be empty of Egoism 🙏🏼❤️
I remember preparing , 60 ikon boards of all sizes with you on 2nd St in NYC. Huge pots of glue and gesso , you were just starting to paint ikons ... I don’t know if you remember ...
Thanks for posting.
Thank you for this video, very helpful to many people!
Very very inspiring message.
Upload more videos please
Thanks for posting these
I know my fellow protestants may remark that he lacks usage of scripture and relies on anecdotes heavily, but I'd say he uses scriptural logic that we can find in the word, but does not qoute them directly. In this way, I can respect arsonije
bless you monk
Hvala ti puno!
If your heart is full with hate,God's Word will never touch you...Pride,anger,envy...
God suffers, so do we. This is where He connects with us, so we can recognize and learn about eachother before the Time. Amen
Amin!
We will do
From a traditional Latin Catholic, Amen.
Come back to Orthodoxy, Latin Catholics invaded us and burned our churches and monasteries. They even destroyed old Byzantine & Serbian empire and many little Orthodox countries while invading, burning, stealing etc. And Latin Catholic seperated from us because of Venetian merchants money back in days. Only true Christianity is Orthodox Christianity all other types of Christianity are not from the source.
for by it the elders obtained a good report. hebrews 1:2
願耶和華賜福與你
Hi, everyone!
Does the monk have a UA-cam channel or telegram channel?
He is a really interesting person. He has really interesting thoughts. I really hope so, I will be able to have a conversation with him.
And, I've already joined to the monk's podcast on the website. I don't know English very well too, but I think, I'll understand him.
The only God has spiritual food, that can feed our hungry soul. He is only right way in this lost world.
God bless you!
Greatings from Ukraine.
He has a youtube channel.Monastery Ribnica/Manastir Ribnica.But it's in Serbian.
黃金何其變色，純金何其失光
is there a way I can share this and others on my podcast? and link your page.
Yeah, of course, just do it ;)
sorry for my late answer, wasn't very active last couple of years.
I hate the term "partner" too, father.
馬利亞說，我心尊主為大。路加福音第一章46節
你若口裡認耶穌為主，心裡信神叫他從死裡復活，就必得救。羅馬書第十章9節
兩個人就哭了
Tried to view this video 3 days in a row and always cuts out from 20 seconds in and won't start back up until 6 minutes in
Strange. Have you tried with another browser or computer? You can also try with the original and uncut (!) video: ua-cam.com/video/avxZlmS7FRs/v-deo.html
it's both in Serbian & English.
Good Luck Bro
亞伯拉罕因著信 挪亞因著信 摩西因著信 亞伯因著信
Pns p. 189 “bliss awaits those who can possibly make it through the tragedy of what has happened to Christ in the Church.”
Ws p. 64 “As I now see it Christianity has perpetuated a shortsighted view of Christ and, consequently, a shortsighted view of the rest of us. Christ’s passage was the revelation of the passage of every human being, and any misreading of him is a misreading of the whole of humanity. Investigating Christ’s human experiences in terms of consciousness or self opens up a whole new dimension of his Truth and revelation, and not only his, but our own and that of the whole of creation.”
Rc p. 282 “The mind can find no definitive satisfaction or fulfillment with mere concepts and hearsay. What man is seeking is the living experiential reality of the Truth, his own immediate experience of this truth. Until he does, he will go right on questioning and being dissatisfied. Even if man knew the truth, he could never be fulfilled by merely ‘believing’ it. He is only fulfilled by experientially living it - knowing it firsthand.”
Ws p. 107 “To say that Christ’s self or consciousness was eternal gives an entirely different picture and meaning to Christ than if we say his self or consciousness was not eternal…I think the West will come upon its own set of problems when it faces the impermanence of Christ’s self or consciousness, but, at the same time, this will reveal an entirely new dimension of Christ’s revelation - of this I am certain.”
Ws p. 156 “But who can understand death and resurrection coming after a life of union and oneness with God? Who can understand the true nature of this death and what the resurrection reveals of Christ’s divine nature? Because of this mystery I regard Christianity as the most difficult and mystical of all religions; Christ is the most unbelievable and unknown Truth there is - and the most difficult of all Truths.”
Rc p. 78 “Sometimes the impression is given that Christianity has a monopoly on forgiveness, salvation, savior, eternal life, God’s Spirit, grace, and so on, when, in fact, Christianity took all this straight from Judaism! The revelation of ‘Christ’ had nothing to do with any of this and changed none of it.”
Rc p. 83 “Basically, there is no such thing as ‘Christian mysticism’ because Christianity - transformation into Christ - is the essence of mysticism.”
Rc p. 140 “To think the anthropomorphic biblical interpretation of God ‘generating’ or ‘begetting’ an Uncreated ‘Son’ could have justified a transition in the Church’s whole understanding of the Trinity and Christ, can only be put down as the most flagrant wrong turn in the entire history of Christianity.”
Rc p. 144 “There has to be God (Logos) before there is any incarnation of the Logos - before there is any Christ and before there is the created man Jesus. No question, the Creed must be totally restated, Christians today are not the semi-polytheists of yesterday.”
Rc p. 157 “To my knowledge, however, the Greeks never agreed hypostasis meant persona - and indeed it does not. In time, however, in the West at least, hypostasis and person were used as synonymous terms. So due to this error, there occurred another switch from the original hypostasis to person - a monumental wrong turn as regards a true understanding of the Trinity and Christ.”
Rc p. 170 “Like the fathers, Christians would be horrified to think they were polytheists or believed in three gods. But this is why the Trinity is kept at a distance, declared a ‘mystery’ incapable of the human mind to grasp. This is also why the Trinity means relatively nothing to the average Christian and plays no part in his spiritual life.”
Rc p. 201 “Sometimes we wonder how Western civilization ever became so self-oriented compared to other civilizations that were more oriented to the benefit of everyone over their individual selves. Well, who invented the individual and particular ‘person’ or self, and who gave it ontological priority over everyman’s common human nature? Christianity!”
Rc p. 242 “What few people realize, however, is that the official Church or Christian language is totally premised on this use of idioms instead of on the truth of Christ.”
Rc p. 248 “No question, the C of P is the most deceiving ruse in all of Christian history a ruse responsible for totally wrong views of Christ, the Trinity and the man Jesus.”
Rc p. 249 “Yet the more divine one makes the Logos’ human nature, the more Christ fades from the picture and the more Christianity deteriorates to a Jesus-cult.”
Rc p. 257 “But who knows what people think they are praying to or worshiping? We can probably say for certain they are not praying to the dual natures of Christ!”
Rc p. 279 “Eliminate the term ‘person’, and how is Christ to be envisioned as a single being? Without theology’s absolute dependence on person as an individual being, its Christologies would go down like a row of dominoes.”
Rc p. 291 “this is exactly what the Incarnation is telling us: not only is mankind not that bad, but rather, it is of greatest worth to God.”
Rc p. 300 “Even the best of theologians are reluctant to admit any radical existential change in human nature - much less an ontological change. Instead, they assure us everyone will go on just the same - only better, of course.”
Rc p. 318 “The day Christianity lost this understanding of deification as the way man is saved, is the day it lost Christ.”
Rc p. 323 “That down the road, Christianity was turned into the narrow, naïve and childish view we have today - i.e., only the man Jesus is Christ, only Jesus could ever be eternally one with God - is the inevitable loss of the whole revelation of the Incarnation, and, consequently, of Christ and Christianity…Christianity’s exclusive, boxed-in view of Jesus and Christ, not only aborts man’s spiritual journey, but will be its own undoing - why? Simply because it is not the Truth of ‘Christ’.”
Rc p. 335 “To say Christian theology is ‘complicated’ is the understatement of all time. It is an unadulterated mess. It so defies common logic as to require man to forfeit his intellectual integrity in order to ‘believe’.”
Rc p. 465 “What is unfortunate, however, is those who write the history of the early development of Christian thought and doctrine, consistently rely on the present-day Aristotelian rendition of it. It could be said this is a deliberate attempt to eliminate any possible ‘Platonic’ understanding of Christ as a universal in order to make Christ solely one particular man - Jesus, of course.”
Rc p. 486 “Loss of self is the very foundation of Christianity.”
Ecc p. 82 “The primary purpose of my writing, however, was less the subject of no-self than to put into the field of Mystical Theology a whole stage of the spiritual journey presently missing.”
www.bernadetterobertsisnotmyguru.com She mostly prayed for the salvation of the world.
You say that she prayed fot the salvation of the world. How did she pray? Like the orthodox saints?
In the orthodox church a saint is able to love like God loves. An expression of this love, is perfect spiritual compassion, where we can experience the sorrowful cosmic unity with the whole humankind, which is expressed well by Saint Silouan the Athonite:
"He who has the Holy Spirit in him, to however slight a degree, sorrows Day and Night for all mankind (with many tears). His heart is filled with pity for all God’s creatures, more especially for those who do not know God, or who resist Him and therefore are bound for torment. For them, more than for himself, he prays Day and Night, that all may repent and know the Lord."
Not even the lamentation of a widow who has lost her only son can be compared with the lamentation of these saintly ascetics. The pain of their soul becomes metaphysical, and the cry of their distress resounds in all the deserts of this world and becomes the most powerful prayer.
Did Bernadette have such a depth in her prayer and love...? It's not enough to have wise words, but one should prove his words with his holy life. That's why I have choosen the orthodox church: there are the most holy saints, compared to other religions & spiritual traditions.
yes, exactly like that...
I believe mankind has another enemy never mentioned. The serpent and it's descendants. the curses God rendered to the serpent in the garden cannot apply to a fallen angel, they can only apply to a physical being.
不可偷盜，不可姦淫，不可殺人
Can Roman Catholics commune and confess in the Orthodox Church? What is the canonical basis?
Thanks!!! If you clarify me as possible as soon ?
Dear Stephen, no, it's not possible, because there's no canonical communion between them. The schism is still there and unfortunately the restoration of the lost unity haven't yet happened. If Roman catholics want to partake in the holy mysteries of the orthodox church they have first to be chrismated.
@@lessthandust I was born a Catholic, although I am of Serbian orthodox origin on my father's side, in any case he [ my dad] and his sister and brother were raised as Catholics by their Italian mother. As a child, after my first communion, wanting to be a priest, I faced problems be I later learned because a great heresy: modernism. Well, in the meantime I sought out the Patriarchate Orthodox outside Russia (an aunt of mine married to a russian Orthodox from Harbin, she frequented it), and I was allowed to frequenting the Divine Liturgy in Orthodox Church this Patriarchate , I went welcome . Over time I noticed that there was little or no doctrinal teaching - I just attached religion by ancestry, I gradually got out of religion and did not become orthodox. About five years ago, I returned to the Church through the old Roman rite of the Mass ( Motu Proprio of Benedictus XVI , and gradually I mingled with the traditionalist Catholics of a community of SAJM or Resistencia in Brazil, dissidents of the SSPX, meanwhile I attend a chapel of the SSPX ( various problems with progressists in Brazil and heretic and scandalous Bergoglio, also many contradictions , I chose the tradicionalism ) . It happens that they or we live a dilemma in relation to the papacy and the official authorities, for me it brings discomfort to their sectarianism, issues aside, the sedevacantists are right. I thought about going to the Orthodox Church again, I remember that the Russian Orthodox priests said that my baptism was valid and heard my confessions. I have a lot of doubts in relation to both sides, and at a certain moment I need to decide, I'm 35 years old. Thanks!
@@user-wc6eb4ez2x Dear Stephen, thank you for sharing your story. What do you mean with "Over time I noticed that there was little or no doctrinal teaching"? There were no sermons about doctrinal teaching in the church?
I can really imagine that you are now deeply longing for a place where you can take roots. And I can understand your discomforts with SSPX and Bergoglio. But yes, just try things out & I hope that you may find a place where you can grow spiritually. In my case, I decided for Orthodoxy in part because Theosis seems to actually happen in the Orthodox Church quite regularly and in a way which seems to me quite authentic. Sometimes there comes to me "clear" thoughts about correctness of the roman catholic faith - but I prefer to listen to the depth of my heart (remembering the story of Cleopas) than to my (fallen) mind. And sometimes I'm annoyed by the ethnocentric structure of the orthodox churches ( it became especially a problem by the orthodox migration process of the last 150 years). But I'm convinced that the orthodox church will face this "new" problem in near future.
On www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/ you will find a good forum where you can maybe discuss some of your doubts. And because your last name is Popovitch, who knows, maybe it can be for you useful to read some books of the newly proclaimed orthodox Saint Justin Popovich. But I think the most important thing on your journey may be this: keep humbly knocking with resolute praying & fasting.
@@lessthandust I am the one who sincerely appreciate the interest. Responding to the absence of doctrinal teaching in the Orthodox Parish I attended:
The sermons were in Russian, I didn't speak nor speak Russian. I wanted to give the priest an idea of taking courses in catechesis and apologetics, he implied that this did not costume with orthodox in that parish The frequenters regular were almost all elderly, Russians or immigrants from Eastern European countries and Russian colonies in China, those who understood Russian were first generation in Brazil. Young people and teenagers went only on the most important days, usually Easter, not even Christmas and Theophany , I was a novelty there. I know that things have changed today in Orthodoxes Churches.
(Protestants- heretics, obivous- in my opinion are have always been very efficient with their Sunday schools).
In the Catholic Church according to both Roman and Eastern Tradition (Sui Iuris Churches) the sermons, as well as the epistle and the gospel of the Traditional Mass must be said in a language that the people understand by whether it is the master Church acting. Even if the liturgy is in languages dead (Latin in the Catholic Church of the West) because these are public prayers aimed at Our Lord and He and the priest in persona Christi is the one who must understand. Returning about my experience with the Orthodox, I tried to go to Antiochian and Greeks Churches, but in Brazil they a relaxation of customs and tradition similar Church of Novus Ordo or '' conciliar '' Church. We always between two worlds in Christinism crisis : the rigorism or lack of circumstantial adequacy and on the other side progressivism with ruptures in the essential, relaxations , loss of sacral etc
A serious problem pre-conciliar that triggered subterfuges for Vatican II and New Mass, is that there was really little doctrinal instruction for the people: catechesis and apologetics, so initially some conservatives looked favorably on the damn Council and even the treacherous reform of Paul VI ( the first version before 1969).
I may be wrong, but from what I've researched since ancient times, preaching through classes and sermon has always been of paramount importance, as well as the preservation of prayers in an old and dead language to avoid corruption textual .
I will think about what you wrote to me. Thanks!!!
@@user-wc6eb4ez2x Now I understand the situation of the Russian orthodox church which you visited. Yes, it could be that the situation has changed now. On the orthodox forum, which I posted above, there is an active & very friendly forum member from Brazil - "RaphaCam" is his forum-name - he maybe knows where you can find a suitable orthodox church, which you can try to visit. Or just to exchange your experiences.
I agree that we are always between two worlds in Christinism crisis and I think that the orthodox church could so far hold on tradition succesfully - even the people appreciate that & they don't want a pogressive spirit in the church. They are a lot of examples and fields of pogressivm within the church & faith, but one I really really don't like is that when we mix our christian faith with other beliefs. I'm disturbed when I see that some roman catholic monks and also people use techniques like centering prayer, some sort of meditation or look upon that favorably. The way of prayer is becoming vague unfortunately, which the last amazon synod demonstrated again :(. In the orthodox church we don't have this problem, because we're holding on firmly on the ancient way of praying, so we don't even use imagination during prayer, which is practice in roman catholicsm since some centuries, if I'm not wrong.
I don't know if preaching through classes was a practice in Early Christianity. I just see the problem within the protestants where there's a clear overemphasis of preaching - just filling the mind with words and emotions without finding a deep spirituality within their heart. Somehow to keep the golden mean. Preaching through sunday sermons is a good basis but to have additionally catechisis through classes wouldn't be bad but our priest in our church don't have enough time for this unfortunately. Otherwise most people in my parish have a good understanding of the faith which they gained through books and online-sermons. But also in general most faithful people in orthodox churches hesitate to speak about the faith too deeply, because they don't want to show their spirituality and they want to avoid falling in pride. So in the first year in my parish I thought I'm the only one who have a close "relationship" with Christ, because nobody spoke about that - but it's a different mentality than in the protestant churches.
When you are ready to accept other faiths are also in relation to God, that the truth is not exclusively in the Orthodox church, I will be ready to become part of your church.
New world order religion enjoyer…
Don't worry, orthodox church is not obsessed to convert anyone. If you want to become an orthodox YOU have to adapt to it not otherwise. The church is not going to lie, present half truths or cover it with washed words that can be acceptable for anyone. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow as the orthodox church is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. If you're not ready to adapt yourself to the church then stay where you are. The way we worship God is nothing about us, its about God so stay where you feel home.
This video in amerika?
yes, just read the description of the video ;)
@@lessthandust I mean does it take place in amerika..
@@slobodan5168 Yes, a sermon given in Clearwater, Florida.
@@lessthandust oh ok, thank you
+Bobo The Barber
next week I will probably upload a new video of Fr Arseniye in english ;)
Bobby Monk used to play football in the UK and when he scored a goal he would kiss his team mates and jump on their backs in celebration! One day, however, the ball hit him between the eyes and he saw the light! The ball then rolled over the line and scored a goal - but Bobby Monk did not celebrate this time - instead he responded with inner composure and outer humility. This is why Serbia produces good monks but is shit at football - Ahmen
Thanks monk! But a belief in jesus christ, but , a Christian, but not monk.
christian monk
saw 45 seconds.... No a monk doesn't try to save his soul. A monk is a human trying to cast away its humanity in order to become an angel, filling out the ranks of the fallen order. This is why tries to have no free will, other than God's Will. On the other hand, faithful humans try to save their souls by following the ultimate archetype of a the perfect man, the son of Father. I'll try to watch the whole video.
"A monk is a human trying to cast away its humanity in order to become an angel, filling out the ranks of the fallen order." --> Imagine if he as a monk would say something like that in front of an normal audience, he would look like quite boastful. Of course he could give a more appropriate definition. Saving his own soul is also a part of being a monk or being a christian. If we lose sight of that fact we can easily fall in pride...
After watching the whole video I'm curious what you think about it...
@@lessthandust I have just saw your answer, I didn't watch the whole video. I will though and maybe post another reply :)
@@lessthandust I tried and watch up to 22.48 He is trying, he is doing a good job, he should continue spreading his "knowings" and "learnings". There is no reason to tell where I disagree or any points I have, there will no good come out of this. BUT... this kind of videos are better than "new age mambo jumbos" and "secrets" and "by my book to become the god you deserve in 4 days with no effort". Keep uploading.
@@paulman79 ok, thanks for watching and commenting :).
I will.