I am struggling with a great addiction to porn. Many men struggle with this. I fear that I am too weak, that i am a traitor to Christ's love. That I cannot change, that I have been given over to a reprobate mind. I have hope and faith that one day, on God's time and God's will, that I will be strong enough to resist this temptation. I fell off the wagon yesterday, and I felt so dark and disgusting. I heard God's voice saying "I know you are trying, but wounds take time to heal. Keep faith in me and and keep moving forward." I know He knows my heart and how difficult this is for me. I know this something I have to swallow my pride and let God handle it. I thank you for saying this. I understand that as a human I know I will fail but this hope and redemption wash away my despair.
This was so timely for me. I have been torturing myself for repeated failures and now realize I still have Christ's love with hope and repentance. Thank you father.
Glory be to God for that understanding, dear Kevin. Only the evil one wants us to feel abandoned and emptied of Christ's presence, because only then he can establish himself as ruler in our hearts. Christ will NEVER leave you, dear one - He died for you, He even descended into hell for you. Trust that Love till the end, while doing your best (small as that may be) to live the life of one who belongs to Him
@@mullmonastery Thank you for your words. Amen. Understanding your absence is one thing, missing your reflections has been tough. Happy to see you back.
I find great support in a story of St. Paisios of Mt Athos (A lot of his stuff has helped me, let's just say there's a reason he's my patron). There was a monk that was a drunkard and caused a lot of trouble with the brothers and pilgrims. One day he died and the monks went to tell Elder Paisios what they thought was good news, that the troublesome monk had died and won't be causing any more problems. St Paisios said "Yes, I already know. I saw the angels carrying his soul to heaven." The monks were bewildered why the angels would carry his soul to heaven since he was such a "bad monk". St Paisios told them: "This monk was born during wartime and his parents gave him small amounts of alcohol with his mink to put him to sleep so that police wouldn't find them wherever they were. This lead to a lifelong addiction to alcohol and when he became a monk he tried his best to quit but couldn't. Eventually, through repentance, he was able to have one less drink a day. This continued for many years. He very slowly was able to drink less but he would still end up drunk. The devil tried to discourage him but he kept repenting and trying to do better." Even if we can't stop sinning completely after repenting once, we can still come back to God and say "I'm sorry Lord, I have done this sin again. Please forgive me and help me next time to resist the temptation more." As long as we truly mean the prayer and aren't just using it as a get out of jail free card, God will honor our patient endurance. Our guardian angels rejoice when we are able to resist temptation, even if we have fallen into it more times than we can count. Like a father proud of his child every time they take a very wabbly step while learning to walk even though he knows the child will fall down soon, so God is proud of us when we resist sinning or turn to Him in repentance after we do sin. I imagine Him saying after we repent of a habitual sin "It is okay, my dear child. I have forgiven you. Look at how long you resisted the temptation this time! You went a day without doing this! You have improved and you will continue to improve if you rest in Me."
We all tend to beat ourselves up emotionally and spiritually after the act of habitual sin. Satan laughs out loud while he accuses us of our inadequacies. Hope and Repentance are two of the most powerful ways to avoid the misery and condemnation of our own foul actions and thoughts.
Forgive me Abba for I am a sinner 😭👈🙏♥️☦️ pray for me brother, I am suffering terribly with a disc bulge and sciatica, drop foot in the left leg. I cannot sleep or walk, 7 weeks I feel it's because of my sin. I hope I can find peace in repentance, forgive me.
Thank you my dear family in Christ, your Grace & words are comforting, I write as I'm crying, I no longer wish to be worldy, his kingdom come ♥️🙏 Forgive me Abba , my world is torment, he's putting me through the fire.........
Mark 9:49, "For everyone will be salted with fire" I have been through the fire, and salted as well. Not pleasant, but be patient. Give Him, who allows this purification, thanks and praise, as both are true in our suffering. Remember that Jesus suffered exponentially greater ills as he entered into His passion, taking on our sins as he went. Call on Him as often as you need; He is your loving and compassionate God. Have faith that this plan for you is perfect, and you will KNOW it when it is over! Personally, the hell I went through was of my own making. As the Church proclaims, it was "...my fault, my fault, my most grevious fault"
I find so much value in the advice that we should not put our trust (or despair) in some "level" of repentance or whatever virtue we think we (fail to) acquire. Only The Lord knows how much we fight or how difficult it is to achieve some change we intend to do in ourselves. It is the honesty of the fight that opens us to the Lord. Some of the Fathers (Saint Isaac the Syrian, for example) are saying that our fight for acquiring certain virtues has as its most important results this communion with the Lord that we acquire while striving to be with Him, beyond our limited possibilities. We build a room for the knowledge of God from the inside out while taking this fight and doing these sacrifices. I feel that the "worldly" evaluation we do of their results is only a reminiscence of our competence-based education, it is not a spiritual mindset in itself.
St John of the Ladder speaks of people who cry a river of tears because Christ gave them that virtue, it come naturally to them. By comparison, there are others to struggle to the point of despair for a tear that never falls, but which - in its potential - is more valuable before Christ that the tears of the other. Judging others or even ourselves is always a sign of our fallen nature. Judgement belongs to Christ alone.
Hope and Repentance. Still in the Battle. The path of salvation. Her sincerity and her true desire for salvation, one hour of repentance. It's a great blessing to know that the Lord knows your heart and when His children cry, like a father he comes. I was in a place one time where my body collapsed and I cried, wept like never before and I begged for the Lord's mercy. Not too much time passed, and he lifted me out of the well. Another time I cried a lot over the Saturday of Passover and later that night I had a dream and his image, Christ's image came to my forehead, face to face, no doubt it was Him, and he said, not ready yet. I'm not sure the meaning. If you really Cry, weep, then He will come if you are sincere. His face touched mine bc I'm so blind in one eye I can't see out the other at times.
Thank you for this wonderful teaching! It reminds me so much on my spritual father - "The way to enlightenment leads through hell" he said ... God bless you!
We love you so much!! dear Fr Seraphim💜✝️💜 THANK YOU for your beautiful words and counsel, totally inspired by the Holy Spirit. May our wonderful, forgiving and loving Father, keep on pouring His divine gifts on you and your dear community. In JESUS holy Name, Amen
Thank you for your blessing and good wishes, dear one. We need them, like everyone else. Living in a monastery does not take away temptation; just the contrary. Our prayer for each other can save us all, because Christ is always present where there is love
Dear father, thank you for reminding us of the greatest and most beautiful force in this and every other world - Christ's love and forgiveness. May God strengthen and bless you.
It is a sign of the influence the evil one has on our life (all of us) that we find it so difficult to hold on to this extraordinary Good News of Christ and that we are so ready, instead, to listen to the ugly voices telling us that all is lost and that we are beyond salvation. Find peace and follow it, dear one. Find joy and follow it. Find hope and love and non-judgement and follow them. All that brings darkness in our hearts is not from Christ and that is what we should learn to reject and let go of.
Thank you so much father. I’m a 27yr old Roman Catholic, and I’ve been going to your videos for hope, encouragement, and consolation. I don’t have a lot of hope in myself and I’ve given up many times saying what’s the point, I keep failing. Or what’s the point, I’m too afraid to go out of my comfort zone to share Christ outside. But, after watching couple of your videos, now I know what I need to do. you’ve given me hope again and to not give up and to trust in christ ❤ thank you and God bless you Father
Yes, we must be bold, while also aware that we are not worthy of what we ask. But we must be bold, like a child asking his mum to pick him up in her loving arms
Holy hope and sincere conviction and true repentance . Give us dear Jesus. 1 hour of true return to Jesus. Repentance. Christ never tire of me. 🙏🏽💙😇😇😇💫
I have truly missed the words you speak. They have been greatly missed these last months, and as I have missed you. Thank you for the hope for our salvation. ☦️
Thank you, dear Benjamin, for your kindness and encouragement. They mean more than you know, because we all need some sort of 'proof' that what we do is useful to someone. May God bless us all
Dear Sandra, if Christ wants me to do this, there is no burden. When He wants me to stop, what used to be so easy becomes unbearably difficult and it crushes me
Please pray for me.I keep falling into repetitive sin. I was born again and gave up a lot of my lifestyle. Some habits and ways left me very fast and some I conquer through the strength of Christ and a pure desire to be a better person. It’s as if my strength is gone to resist, that I once had. The world around me makes me very depressed. I once had the strong feeling that I was supposed to disappear from the world and be in continuous prayer but feel I missed my calling. Now I just push through the day in a state of waiting for some spark from Christ to no the path or direction I should go. Please pray for divine guidance…. Gods will not my own!!!
Thanks so much for this. Your talks are a lifeline for me from the depths of addiction and mental health problems. I am so desperate to change my life and escape from this hell. Your words are such a comfort and help. Please pray for me and those with similar problems.
Glory to God for this message, Fr. Seraphim! Glory to God for this great hope! Glory to God for your return to You Tube, and sharing these great truths with us, for our salvation! THANK YOU, for this hope you bring us!
Thank you for this message! I have to remind myself that even though I am a Christian I am still a struggling sinner, yet Almighty God is merciful, compassionate, and forgiving (Book Of Isaiah, 53: 1-12; Gospel Of Matthew, 18: 9-14; Epistle 1 Of John, 1: 1-10)!
I think that the idea of calling everyone we meet, in our heart, with our own name, is extremely helpful in getting us to think of everyone else as being part of ourselves. Our being ONE with every human being is such an abstract idea compared to the contemporary mindset, but this "trick" seems to be quite promising. It completes what Mother Siluana was advising, regarding our saying "Lord, forgive ME (the person's name) for this sin" when someone hurts us or does something sinful against us. I have tried doing this with someone I loved, who used to say horrible words to me when he got mad. The one time I succeeded to say this prayer with full honesty was the only time that the person admitted willingly (without my saying anything to him) to having made a mistake and said "Please forgive me" (the rest of the time he was just pretending nothing happened).
@@mullmonastery Thank you for the answer. Indeed, Glory be to God for the people whom He chose for the work of 'translating' His teaching in contemporary terms. It is an immensely important work in which Mother Siluana was involved and Father Seraphim Aldea continues in many ways. I cannot say what these two personalities mean for my understanding of spiritual teachings. May God bless you and everyone who bears His Word and brings it, with love and wisdom, to the level at which we can grasp it.
Thank you for this video Father! Very glad that you have decided to continue. You have given many people, including myself, a lot of great advise and hope throughout these past years. All praise be to God!
Glory be to God, dear one, and thank you for your kindness. It helps us a great deal to hear that our work is helping someone, somewhere, even just a bit. May we all be blessed
Thank You for the Hope,Fr.!It s so uplifting!I need this!Then I will never let go!May we all, with bright bodies and bright souls, meet in Heaven in the loving arms of our loving God!❤🙏
I love the way you explain to us and the teachings you give, we are struggling so much... We need teachers like you. Thank you and may God wash our sins.
Rejoice in Christ, my beloved father Seraphim! Very informative and useful what you told us in the video. It was what my soul longed to hear at that particular moment. Your words are very helpful. Please, also, make a video about Jesus prayer. How to pray without ceasing? How to pray with the prayer rope? Also, please, make a video about confession, specifically about confessing our carnal sins and accounts. How to confess, for example, sexual sins to our spiritual father, without tempting him? I wish you to be always blessed by God and, please, pray for us your sinful brothers and sisters! Thank you very much! 🙏🙏🙏📿
Many thanks dear father! May our Lord bless You and guide You. It was realy encouraging to hear Your words and those of the fathers and most importantly of our Lord. + + +
Only the evil one hates hope and pushes people into despair, dear one. Christ's message is the 'Good News' because it speaks to our most secret hopes of salvation and it nourishes them
Thank you so much for this video Father... I know they must be hard for you to fit in but I thank God He is allowing you a way to do so.. Your voice is what we all need so much in this world today that we live in.. You help pull us back from the abyss. Thank You Father ✝️✝️✝️
Dear Robyn, that is so kind of you to say and we are all so grateful for your words. I keep reminding people we all need a bit of hope, because it gives us courage and the strength to keep going forward
“If I am to be saved I have to pray that ALL of you are saved because all of you are so much better than I am” this made me shed tears at how much I resonated with this to the core. Glory to our Lord and savior!❤️
Multumim pentru jertfa, parinte Seraphim! Dumnezeu sa va dea putere, rabdare si intelepciune in aceasta lucrare si multe suflete deznadajduite sa primeasca nadejde prin cuvintele Cuviosiei voastre! Va purtam in rugaciune, drag parinte Seraphim!
Glory be to God, dear one. I try my best to always quote one of the Fathers or an example from their lives, because the last thing we all need is to follow our own teaching. Please keep us in your prayers
Thankyou fr Seraphim, sin can be so deceitful in our hearts and gets in our way of communion with God. God wants us to come to him boldly that we may recieve mercy and grace to help. Hebrews 12:1-2 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
I'm a new catechumen to the Church and I have a lifetime of sinfulness that I have been trying to deal with. I have thought about it and would like to, if possible, start a pen-pal type relationship with a monk. I hope one day to be able to share all of my pass with my priest, but I'm too ashamed to do this currently. If anyone could give me some information on how to try to go about this endeavor I would appreciate it tremendously. Thank you and God bless and watch over all of you.
Amen. Thank you so much Father! What an incredible story of that Saint you shared with us, it touched me deeply. I'm so thankful to God that you are back with these videos. God bless you and keep you!
"My hope is the Father; my refuge, the Son; my protection, the Holy Spirit. Holy Trinity, glory to you. I place all my hope in you, Mother of God. Keep me under your protection". Thank you father Seraphim
Oh, Fr. Seraphim, how I needed to hear this. I had forgotten just how timely and reassuring your messages were all throughout the pandemic. THANKS BE TO GOD He blessed us for your past, present, and future councils. ☦️ P.s. I absolutely cherish the prayer rope I recently ordered from the monastery and love that the wool still smells like the earth consumed by the sheep it came from. ♥️ I prayed for the monastery using it during Vespers this evening. Be well, beloved Father, and travel safely. ☦️
This was very timely for me. I am a new subscriber and have been watching your videos. Thank you for all the work you do Father. I have been struggling lately and this was so helpful to me to hear and brought some tears to my eyes as well.
Glory be to God, my dear one. We could not ask for more than this simple knowledge that what we do sometimes is of help (even minimally) to someone out there. Please keep us in your prayers
I am struggling with a great addiction to porn. Many men struggle with this. I fear that I am too weak, that i am a traitor to Christ's love. That I cannot change, that I have been given over to a reprobate mind. I have hope and faith that one day, on God's time and God's will, that I will be strong enough to resist this temptation. I fell off the wagon yesterday, and I felt so dark and disgusting. I heard God's voice saying "I know you are trying, but wounds take time to heal. Keep faith in me and and keep moving forward." I know He knows my heart and how difficult this is for me. I know this something I have to swallow my pride and let God handle it. I thank you for saying this. I understand that as a human I know I will fail but this hope and redemption wash away my despair.
Im praying for you brother
This was so timely for me. I have been torturing myself for repeated failures and now realize I still have Christ's love with hope and repentance. Thank you father.
Glory be to God for that understanding, dear Kevin. Only the evil one wants us to feel abandoned and emptied of Christ's presence, because only then he can establish himself as ruler in our hearts. Christ will NEVER leave you, dear one - He died for you, He even descended into hell for you. Trust that Love till the end, while doing your best (small as that may be) to live the life of one who belongs to Him
@@mullmonastery Thank you for the encouraging words ....my heart is full, thanks be to God.
@@mullmonastery Thank you for your words. Amen. Understanding your absence is one thing, missing your reflections has been tough. Happy to see you back.
How did He descend into hell for me? Just a little confused, I thought that particular action of His was for those in the Old Testament. Forgive me.
I keep thinking of the thief on the cross
This was a great message
How I love these beautiful clips by father Seraphim❣
I never thought I would live to see Orthodox monks or priests on the internet. It is beautiful but it is so unexpected.
I find great support in a story of St. Paisios of Mt Athos (A lot of his stuff has helped me, let's just say there's a reason he's my patron). There was a monk that was a drunkard and caused a lot of trouble with the brothers and pilgrims. One day he died and the monks went to tell Elder Paisios what they thought was good news, that the troublesome monk had died and won't be causing any more problems. St Paisios said "Yes, I already know. I saw the angels carrying his soul to heaven." The monks were bewildered why the angels would carry his soul to heaven since he was such a "bad monk". St Paisios told them: "This monk was born during wartime and his parents gave him small amounts of alcohol with his mink to put him to sleep so that police wouldn't find them wherever they were. This lead to a lifelong addiction to alcohol and when he became a monk he tried his best to quit but couldn't. Eventually, through repentance, he was able to have one less drink a day. This continued for many years. He very slowly was able to drink less but he would still end up drunk. The devil tried to discourage him but he kept repenting and trying to do better."
Even if we can't stop sinning completely after repenting once, we can still come back to God and say "I'm sorry Lord, I have done this sin again. Please forgive me and help me next time to resist the temptation more." As long as we truly mean the prayer and aren't just using it as a get out of jail free card, God will honor our patient endurance. Our guardian angels rejoice when we are able to resist temptation, even if we have fallen into it more times than we can count. Like a father proud of his child every time they take a very wabbly step while learning to walk even though he knows the child will fall down soon, so God is proud of us when we resist sinning or turn to Him in repentance after we do sin. I imagine Him saying after we repent of a habitual sin "It is okay, my dear child. I have forgiven you. Look at how long you resisted the temptation this time! You went a day without doing this! You have improved and you will continue to improve if you rest in Me."
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭x
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story 🙏🏼
We all tend to beat ourselves up emotionally and spiritually after the act of habitual sin. Satan laughs out loud while he accuses us of our inadequacies. Hope and Repentance are two of the most powerful ways to avoid the misery and condemnation of our own foul actions and thoughts.
May this heart of stone be transformed into flesh by your prayers. Bless you father. Truly this is the way ☦
"If you're still alive, if you're still breathing you still have a chance."
Thank you Fr. I've fallen catastrophically in the past 10 days. Repent & Hope, thank you 🙏
God bless you friend! I'm so sorry about your fall. Know that you're not the only one. Let us help each other up by the Lord's grace!
Forgive me Abba for I am a sinner 😭👈🙏♥️☦️ pray for me brother, I am suffering terribly with a disc bulge and sciatica, drop foot in the left leg. I cannot sleep or walk, 7 weeks I feel it's because of my sin. I hope I can find peace in repentance, forgive me.
May God bless you and heal every weakness and pain and suffering you are going through
Thank you my dear family in Christ, your Grace & words are comforting, I write as I'm crying, I no longer wish to be worldy, his kingdom come ♥️🙏 Forgive me Abba , my world is torment, he's putting me through the fire.........
Mark 9:49, "For everyone will be salted with fire"
I have been through the fire, and salted as well. Not pleasant, but be patient. Give Him, who allows this purification, thanks and praise, as both are true in our suffering. Remember that Jesus suffered exponentially greater ills as he entered into His passion, taking on our sins as he went. Call on Him as often as you need; He is your loving and compassionate God. Have faith that this plan for you is perfect, and you will KNOW it when it is over!
Personally, the hell I went through was of my own making. As the Church proclaims, it was "...my fault, my fault, my most grevious fault"
I have cried out everyday to Jesus, there have been moments of relief..... sciatica is slow to resolve, disc bulge, I pray I may avoid surgery... 😢
Incredible, compassion, and loving instruction........
This helps father, thank you......
"...because all of you are so much better than I am..." 🙏🏻
I find so much value in the advice that we should not put our trust (or despair) in some "level" of repentance or whatever virtue we think we (fail to) acquire. Only The Lord knows how much we fight or how difficult it is to achieve some change we intend to do in ourselves. It is the honesty of the fight that opens us to the Lord. Some of the Fathers (Saint Isaac the Syrian, for example) are saying that our fight for acquiring certain virtues has as its most important results this communion with the Lord that we acquire while striving to be with Him, beyond our limited possibilities. We build a room for the knowledge of God from the inside out while taking this fight and doing these sacrifices. I feel that the "worldly" evaluation we do of their results is only a reminiscence of our competence-based education, it is not a spiritual mindset in itself.
St John of the Ladder speaks of people who cry a river of tears because Christ gave them that virtue, it come naturally to them. By comparison, there are others to struggle to the point of despair for a tear that never falls, but which - in its potential - is more valuable before Christ that the tears of the other. Judging others or even ourselves is always a sign of our fallen nature. Judgement belongs to Christ alone.
Life is more blessed with u with us, father...
That is way too kind of you, dear one. But it does so much good to our hearts. May Christ bless you for your kindness.
May we all be this type of blessing to the world. We are all priests and must minister to others in some real way. ☦️
Lord have mercy ,this ,THIS is my biggest issue 🙏,I get so demoralized ,when I fall in any sin,my ego is depressing
Hope and Repentance. Still in the Battle. The path of salvation. Her sincerity and her true desire for salvation, one hour of repentance. It's a great blessing to know that the Lord knows your heart and when His children cry, like a father he comes. I was in a place one time where my body collapsed and I cried, wept like never before and I begged for the Lord's mercy. Not too much time passed, and he lifted me out of the well. Another time I cried a lot over the Saturday of Passover and later that night I had a dream and his image, Christ's image came to my forehead, face to face, no doubt it was Him, and he said, not ready yet. I'm not sure the meaning. If you really Cry, weep, then He will come if you are sincere. His face touched mine bc I'm so blind in one eye I can't see out the other at times.
Thank you for this wonderful teaching! It reminds me so much on my spritual father - "The way to enlightenment leads through hell" he said ... God bless you!
We love you so much!! dear Fr Seraphim💜✝️💜
THANK YOU for your beautiful words and counsel, totally inspired by the Holy Spirit.
May our wonderful, forgiving and loving Father, keep on pouring His divine gifts on you and your dear community.
In JESUS holy Name,
Amen
Thank you for your blessing and good wishes, dear one. We need them, like everyone else. Living in a monastery does not take away temptation; just the contrary. Our prayer for each other can save us all, because Christ is always present where there is love
God lead me here really needed this right now thank you & pray for me everyone. Im struggling in breaking habitual sin of almost 20 years.
That’s just what I need a big miracle not because of me/my family but in-spite of us. ❤
Dear father, thank you for reminding us of the greatest and most beautiful force in this and every other world - Christ's love and forgiveness. May God strengthen and bless you.
It is a sign of the influence the evil one has on our life (all of us) that we find it so difficult to hold on to this extraordinary Good News of Christ and that we are so ready, instead, to listen to the ugly voices telling us that all is lost and that we are beyond salvation. Find peace and follow it, dear one. Find joy and follow it. Find hope and love and non-judgement and follow them. All that brings darkness in our hearts is not from Christ and that is what we should learn to reject and let go of.
Thank you so much father. I’m a 27yr old Roman Catholic, and I’ve been going to your videos for hope, encouragement, and consolation. I don’t have a lot of hope in myself and I’ve given up many times saying what’s the point, I keep failing. Or what’s the point, I’m too afraid to go out of my comfort zone to share Christ outside. But, after watching couple of your videos, now I know what I need to do. you’ve given me hope again and to not give up and to trust in christ ❤ thank you and God bless you Father
So bold, yet very tender is this account.
We must be bold in asking for his forgiveness. For our Lord is tender with us. He loves us 🕊️.
Yes, we must be bold, while also aware that we are not worthy of what we ask. But we must be bold, like a child asking his mum to pick him up in her loving arms
Holy hope and sincere conviction and true repentance . Give us dear Jesus. 1 hour of true return to Jesus. Repentance. Christ never tire of me. 🙏🏽💙😇😇😇💫
Dear Kathy, may Christ hear and fulfil your prayer. Please keep us in your prayers
I have truly missed the words you speak. They have been greatly missed these last months, and as I have missed you. Thank you for the hope for our salvation. ☦️
Thank you, dear Benjamin, for your kindness and encouragement. They mean more than you know, because we all need some sort of 'proof' that what we do is useful to someone. May God bless us all
Blessings to you father and blessings to all brothers & sisters in Christ . . .
☦️ Through the prayers of our Holy Father's~LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR GOD have mercy on us and save us Amen~
May Christ hear and fulfil your prayer, dear one
Father, your teaching is very useful to us, also filling the missing gap of Protestanism. Deep tks
How wonderful to see your videos again. I hope we are not too much burden to you. 🙋🏻♀️
Dear Sandra, if Christ wants me to do this, there is no burden. When He wants me to stop, what used to be so easy becomes unbearably difficult and it crushes me
@@mullmonastery Thank you sincerely 🙋🏻♀️
Please pray for me.I keep falling into repetitive sin. I was born again and gave up a lot of my lifestyle. Some habits and ways left me very fast and some I conquer through the strength of Christ and a pure desire to be a better person. It’s as if my strength is gone to resist, that I once had. The world around me makes me very depressed. I once had the strong feeling that I was supposed to disappear from the world and be in continuous prayer but feel I missed my calling. Now I just push through the day in a state of waiting for some spark from Christ to no the path or direction I should go. Please pray for divine guidance…. Gods will not my own!!!
You reflect the beautiful light of Heaven!!! Thank you Father Seraphim..
Thanks so much for this. Your talks are a lifeline for me from the depths of addiction and mental health problems. I am so desperate to change my life and escape from this hell. Your words are such a comfort and help. Please pray for me and those with similar problems.
Oh dear Father! This is you talking to me!
Hope in Jesus... He will bring us to our Reward!!!
Thank you, Father for this Explanation of Repentance .
I struggle with lust to the point that I glance at a woman i feel ive sinned this video gives me hope thank you
Very much needed during these trying times father seraphim. Thank you your videos always humble myself. Thank you father
❤️🙏❤️ From Serbia!!
Dear Father
May God bless you, dear Marko.
God bless and watch over you father.
You are so theologically sound. Praise the lord for brothers like you. Thank you for sharing the gospel.
Very great wisdom, Father. Thank you for the love and hope you bring us. Hope and Repentance. Glory to Christ.
Glory to Him forever, dear one. May He bless and protect us all
I love love love your videos!!! May God bless you! ❤ ☦️
Glory to God for this message, Fr. Seraphim! Glory to God for this great hope! Glory to God for your return to You Tube, and sharing these great truths with us, for our salvation! THANK YOU, for this hope you bring us!
It's in good moment before Nativity Fast, that you post this. Thank you
Thank you for this message! I have to remind myself that even though I am a Christian I am still a struggling sinner,
yet Almighty God is merciful, compassionate, and forgiving (Book Of Isaiah, 53: 1-12; Gospel Of Matthew, 18: 9-14;
Epistle 1 Of John, 1: 1-10)!
I think that the idea of calling everyone we meet, in our heart, with our own name, is extremely helpful in getting us to think of everyone else as being part of ourselves. Our being ONE with every human being is such an abstract idea compared to the contemporary mindset, but this "trick" seems to be quite promising. It completes what Mother Siluana was advising, regarding our saying "Lord, forgive ME (the person's name) for this sin" when someone hurts us or does something sinful against us. I have tried doing this with someone I loved, who used to say horrible words to me when he got mad. The one time I succeeded to say this prayer with full honesty was the only time that the person admitted willingly (without my saying anything to him) to having made a mistake and said "Please forgive me" (the rest of the time he was just pretending nothing happened).
Glory be to God for M Siluana and her teaching,dear Ioana. I know many people who have been greatly blessed by her wisdom.
@@mullmonastery Thank you for the answer. Indeed, Glory be to God for the people whom He chose for the work of 'translating' His teaching in contemporary terms. It is an immensely important work in which Mother Siluana was involved and Father Seraphim Aldea continues in many ways. I cannot say what these two personalities mean for my understanding of spiritual teachings. May God bless you and everyone who bears His Word and brings it, with love and wisdom, to the level at which we can grasp it.
Oh I love reading Mother Siluana's advice!
Amazing, profound words!
So glad you are back Father.
May God continue to Inspire, Protect and Strengthen your
Holy Priesthood.
🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for this video Father! Very glad that you have decided to continue. You have given many people, including myself, a lot of great advise and hope throughout these past years. All praise be to God!
Glory be to God, dear one, and thank you for your kindness. It helps us a great deal to hear that our work is helping someone, somewhere, even just a bit. May we all be blessed
I needed to hear this today. Their are some things i am having trouble repenting of
Thank you. It's so good to have you back with such essential advice again.
Thank You for the Hope,Fr.!It s so uplifting!I need this!Then I will never let go!May we all, with bright bodies and bright souls, meet in Heaven in the loving arms of our loving God!❤🙏
I love the way you explain to us and the teachings you give, we are struggling so much... We need teachers like you. Thank you and may God wash our sins.
Thanks a lot for inspired words! Glory be to God and Peace be with you
Just keep fighting for us and our blessings will come for you!
Rejoice in Christ, my beloved father Seraphim! Very informative and useful what you told us in the video. It was what my soul longed to hear at that particular moment. Your words are very helpful. Please, also, make a video about Jesus prayer. How to pray without ceasing? How to pray with the prayer rope? Also, please, make a video about confession, specifically about confessing our carnal sins and accounts. How to confess, for example, sexual sins to our spiritual father, without tempting him?
I wish you to be always blessed by God and, please, pray for us your sinful brothers and sisters!
Thank you very much! 🙏🙏🙏📿
Oh, this is so priceless! I cannot put into words, how much this talk means to me!
Many thanks dear father! May our Lord bless You and guide You. It was realy encouraging to hear Your words and those of the fathers and most importantly of our Lord. + + +
Only the evil one hates hope and pushes people into despair, dear one. Christ's message is the 'Good News' because it speaks to our most secret hopes of salvation and it nourishes them
Thank you Father. I really needed to hear these words. God bless you.
Good to see you back, Father.
Good to be back, dear one. Thank you for welcoming us, and for all the prayer and support.
Thank you Fr. Seraphim. We love you and pray 🙏 that the Lord continues protecting you and providing you with all the graces you need.
Thank you father seraphim your teaching gave me a new understanding of my saviour
Christ is Love, dear one. Self-sacrificing Love, always waiting, always hoping that we may give Him a chance to forgive us
Thanks May God bless you
It's good to see you back! Thank you!
Thank you for having me back, dear me. May Christ bless all of us
Be forever blessed, dear father!
My Wings Are In Despair ....... x .
I praise God for you, my dear brother.
Thank you Father for these words of incorgment
Powerful. I thank the good Father is back to doing videos again.
Thank you so much for this video Father... I know they must be hard for you to fit in but I thank God He is allowing you a way to do so.. Your voice is what we all need so much in this world today that we live in.. You help pull us back from the abyss. Thank You Father ✝️✝️✝️
Dear Robyn, that is so kind of you to say and we are all so grateful for your words. I keep reminding people we all need a bit of hope, because it gives us courage and the strength to keep going forward
Thank you. I’m grateful to hear your voice again. I’ve missed your videos.
Thank you Father for this dear message. 🙏
Thank you so much for this, Father Seraphim.
Thank you for this encouraging message! I will always remember the two wings of the bird:) Hope and repentance:)
This is wonderful, I'm so glad you're making videos again. God bless you Fr.
Thankyou again, Father. Hope and Repentance. 🕊🤍🕊
Glory be to God, dear Eden. May Christ bless all of us
Fatherrrr
May God bless you
Thank you so much
For everything
Glory be to God for all good things, dear one. Please keep us in your prayers
@@mullmonastery May God be with you and fill you with his blessings
I love you so much Father Seraphim
Please keep me in your prayers as well
“If I am to be saved I have to pray that ALL of you are saved because all of you are so much better than I am” this made me shed tears at how much I resonated with this to the core. Glory to our Lord and savior!❤️
God bless you brother! Thank you for sharing the truth!
Thank you for your blesing, dear John. May Christ hear it and multiply it in our lives, and yours and everyone else's.
So nice to hear back from you, it has been a while with Covid that you missed to podcast to us. But now you are back, and it is a Blessing!
Thank you for having us back, dear one. By the grace of God, May we support each other in prayer
Multumim pentru jertfa, parinte Seraphim! Dumnezeu sa va dea putere, rabdare si intelepciune in aceasta lucrare si multe suflete deznadajduite sa primeasca nadejde prin cuvintele Cuviosiei voastre! Va purtam in rugaciune, drag parinte Seraphim!
Sărut mâna pentru rugăciune și pentru toate cuvintele bune. Să le primească Domnul si sa le înmulțească înzecit și însutit pentru lumea toată
Love your teaching's Father 😇 Thanks be to GOD !
Glory be to God, dear one. I try my best to always quote one of the Fathers or an example from their lives, because the last thing we all need is to follow our own teaching. Please keep us in your prayers
Absolutely beautiful thank you Father Seraphim may God bless you and us all 🙏🙏🙏
Thankyou fr Seraphim, sin can be so deceitful in our hearts and gets in our way of communion with God.
God wants us to come to him boldly that we may recieve mercy and grace to help.
Hebrews 12:1-2 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
I'm a new catechumen to the Church and I have a lifetime of sinfulness that I have been trying to deal with. I have thought about it and would like to, if possible, start a pen-pal type relationship with a monk. I hope one day to be able to share all of my pass with my priest, but I'm too ashamed to do this currently. If anyone could give me some information on how to try to go about this endeavor I would appreciate it tremendously. Thank you and God bless and watch over all of you.
Amen. Thank you so much Father! What an incredible story of that Saint you shared with us, it touched me deeply. I'm so thankful to God that you are back with these videos. God bless you and keep you!
Thank you Father for this awesome video as always, thanks
Thank you father
Thank you Father Aldea, this was very restorative and necessary for me at this moment. Be blessed dear one 🙏🏼
"My hope is the Father; my refuge, the Son; my protection, the Holy Spirit. Holy Trinity, glory to you. I place all my hope in you, Mother of God. Keep me under your protection". Thank you father Seraphim
Oh how much I love this video! So much good wisdom. Thank you!
Glory be to God for all things, dear one. Please keep us in your prayers
@@mullmonastery I will certainly keep you all in my prayers, and would feel blessed if you kept me in yours as well.
Oh, Fr. Seraphim, how I needed to hear this. I had forgotten just how timely and reassuring your messages were all throughout the pandemic. THANKS BE TO GOD He blessed us for your past, present, and future councils. ☦️
P.s. I absolutely cherish the prayer rope I recently ordered from the monastery and love that the wool still smells like the earth consumed by the sheep it came from. ♥️ I prayed for the monastery using it during Vespers this evening.
Be well, beloved Father, and travel safely. ☦️
Thank you so much for this, Father! Praise be to the Lord!
Thank you for making this video, Father Seraphim! 😊✨🙏☦️💖
Christ is in our midst 🙏
I love you and everyone in the monastery dearest Father ❤
The worst sinner Rania
God bless you and your monks Father! These words come into my hearth!
This was very timely for me. I am a new subscriber and have been watching your videos. Thank you for all the work you do Father. I have been struggling lately and this was so helpful to me to hear and brought some tears to my eyes as well.
Glory be to God, my dear one. We could not ask for more than this simple knowledge that what we do sometimes is of help (even minimally) to someone out there. Please keep us in your prayers
Prayers being lifted father. Thank you
That was beautiful.
I came across your channel a few days ago, and I cannot tell you how much help you have been to me.
Thank you father! So happy to be watching you! 🙏 ✝️
Thank you for your kindness and for taking the time to leave this comment, dear one. It gives us courage and courage keeps us going
Thank you father hope and repentance
Beautiful story and beautiful words as always!