"Lay aside all earthly care," is one of my favourite chants in Liturgy. I'm often singing it along my way. It's so important & wonderful to delight in God's law, and meditate therein day and night" (Psa.1:2)--if only we'll take/make the time. We need to still ourselves, and then God brings His stillness and restores & refreshes our soul (Psalm 23:1-3). ~Amen. I read recently in The Philokalia, Vol III, how spiritual things are so readily and abundantly available to us; they're free, and no one is fighting over them. But instead of seeking those things, how much more we busy ourselves with things of this life that rarely satisfy, but rather frustrate, disappoint, and elude us--so true, when we could have real peace, comfort and joy with God if we weren't so caught up pursuing things of this life!
May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️ What does the inner peace mean in Orthodoxy? As far as I learn and still am learning still about it, inner peace is actually one of many good results from the work of the Grace at the very first place and Synergia. When the Grace visits and helps us to repent, the inner peace eventually obtained and it becomes a powerful tool/shield against many attempts from the evil spirits to distract and drag us away from the state of praying and repentant. It becomes the powerful tool to help me to discern the spirits and to help me to continue to experience the work of Salvation, to stay on the narrow, uneasy, challenging path of the Church, the joyful sorrow journey of purification. Glory to our God The Most Holy Trinity ☦️
Amen fr we are sussppsed to be still in the way you describe i was not aware that the roman church called this a heresy i cant imagine why they would considering its in the Holy scriptures
There are parallels, seemingly, but the difference for me is belief, attitude, intention, focus and experience. I believe (actually I know) I am estranged from God and can come to know Him only through the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore I confess that which has estranged me (my sinful nature) and do Penance, partake of the Sacraments and foster an attitude of reverence and humility. That's the ground work. The Jesus Prayer is waiting on God by silencing the mind and repeatedly imploring Him to heal my calloused heart through grace. Grace can come, sometimes dramatically, from simply calling on the Lord Jesus Christ in a moment if one is humbled by some crisis for instance. It doesn't require hesychastic practice to have a conversion experience, but the conversion experience will often create a fervour to know God more fully (theosis). To that end one practices hesychasm. There is an experiential, qualitative difference in the practice in Buddhist meditation and turning the heart to God. The first step is to humbly ask Jesus Christ to show you.
It only makes sense that He who called us forth from nothingness is the one invoked again when we aknowledge our true nothingness (or poverty, to recall a beatitude.) Otherwise what is the point of mental emptiness? To become nothing? A good book for you to read may be Christ the Eternal Tao by Hieromonk Damascene.
@@OrthodoxEthos That sounds quite orthodox. There is no orthodox episcope in this moment. We shouldn't invent one as we become stilists. I'm glad that there are orthodox people in US , people who follow Holy Saints and Holy Cannons. May God bless you! God is Orthodox!
So then, dear Father, where do we find a church that is not under the direct control or indirect influence of ecumenism and it’s many evils? Please, in earnest I request, that you point me to a place where there are bishops and priests who are willing to live and die for and by the faith which has established the universe. Please point me to such holy people and places where Christ’s truth is more important and more precious than being in the good graces of the powerful and the wealthy. My souls cries out and I am drenched in tears for- what I hear from you dear Father and from others I highly respect, and my own experience tells me-is that such people and places are so very, very, very hard to find. My heart is full of grief and pain. No doubt, I am unworthy of such blessings and must continue to wrestle with God. For it is most likely my own blindness that is the problem. Please pray for me a sinner.
@@isaachenke749 You won't find any orthodox episcop. There aren't any. Only some priests who stopped commemoration ( praying together) with those ecumenists(heretics). Most of those priests are in orthodox countries. What you still have ( by God mercy and when I say God I refer to The GOD from the Orthodox Creed) is orthodox books written by Holy Fathers . This was said by Saint Igantie Briancianinov 200 years ago. I'm not saying that.
“Acquire the Spirit of Peace and thousands around you will be saved” -St. Seraphim of Sarov
Powerful words, thank you Fr Peter. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.🛐☦☦
🙏☦🙏 Glory to God for all things!
Thank you, Fr. Peter. You are spot on about our always finding something to do to distract us from stillness in God's presence.
"Lay aside all earthly care," is one of my favourite chants in Liturgy. I'm often singing it along my way. It's so important & wonderful to delight in God's law, and meditate therein day and night" (Psa.1:2)--if only we'll take/make the time. We need to still ourselves, and then God brings His stillness and restores & refreshes our soul (Psalm 23:1-3). ~Amen.
I read recently in The Philokalia, Vol III, how spiritual things are so readily and abundantly available to us; they're free, and no one is fighting over them. But instead of seeking those things, how much more we busy ourselves with things of this life that rarely satisfy, but rather frustrate, disappoint, and elude us--so true, when we could have real peace, comfort and joy with God if we weren't so caught up pursuing things of this life!
Jesus, in the Eucharist, is the heart of the Church.
I like Stickfigure! The music
Fr is not speaking univocally obviously….
Beautiful thought to illuminate us by God's Grace 🛐☦️🕊️🔥♾️
Excellent! Thank you. ... and yes, I will go to bed now 😔. I have filled my whole evening with "something else to do"... God have mercy.
Amen. Thank you, Father. I like these smaller, bite-sized excerpts from your talks.
Thank you Father..... God Bless you.
May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️
What does the inner peace mean in Orthodoxy?
As far as I learn and still am learning still about it, inner peace is actually one of many good results from the work of the Grace at the very first place and Synergia.
When the Grace visits and helps us to repent, the inner peace eventually obtained and it becomes a powerful tool/shield against many attempts from the evil spirits to distract and drag us away from the state of praying and repentant. It becomes the powerful tool to help me to discern the spirits and to help me to continue to experience the work of Salvation, to stay on the narrow, uneasy, challenging path of the Church, the joyful sorrow journey of purification.
Glory to our God The Most Holy Trinity ☦️
Excellent talk, you are completely right. Hesychia isn't rejected in the west as it used to be.
Continual Eucharistic Hesychia ☦️
Amen fr we are sussppsed to be still in the way you describe i was not aware that the roman church called this a heresy i cant imagine why they would considering its in the Holy scriptures
Lord Jesus Christ, forgive me 😔
♡
I studied Buddhism for man years so I understand the relationship between silence and God, but I cannot figure out where Jesus Christ fits in.
Silence became flesh
Christ is God!
There are parallels, seemingly, but the difference for me is belief, attitude, intention, focus and experience. I believe (actually I know) I am estranged from God and can come to know Him only through the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore I confess that which has estranged me (my sinful nature) and do Penance, partake of the Sacraments and foster an attitude of reverence and humility. That's the ground work. The Jesus Prayer is waiting on God by silencing the mind and repeatedly imploring Him to heal my calloused heart through grace. Grace can come, sometimes dramatically, from simply calling on the Lord Jesus Christ in a moment if one is humbled by some crisis for instance. It doesn't require hesychastic practice to have a conversion experience, but the conversion experience will often create a fervour to know God more fully (theosis). To that end one practices hesychasm.
There is an experiential, qualitative difference in the practice in Buddhist meditation and turning the heart to God. The first step is to humbly ask Jesus Christ to show you.
It only makes sense that He who called us forth from nothingness is the one invoked again when we aknowledge our true nothingness (or poverty, to recall a beatitude.) Otherwise what is the point of mental emptiness? To become nothing?
A good book for you to read may be Christ the Eternal Tao by Hieromonk Damascene.
So can only monks experience the divine?
Where and why did you come that conclusion?
What is your position regarding ecumenism heresy? Did you stop communion with ecumenists? Or you still prey with them?
I do not pray with them or support or follow them.
But neither do I leave the Church, create a parallel jurisdiction, or depart from the patristic method of fighting heresy.
@@OrthodoxEthos That sounds quite orthodox. There is no orthodox episcope in this moment. We shouldn't invent one as we become stilists. I'm glad that there are orthodox people in US , people who follow Holy Saints and Holy Cannons. May God bless you! God is Orthodox!
So then, dear Father, where do we find a church that is not under the direct control or indirect influence of ecumenism and it’s many evils?
Please, in earnest I request, that you point me to a place where there are bishops and priests who are willing to live and die for and by the faith which has established the universe. Please point me to such holy people and places where Christ’s truth is more important and more precious than being in the good graces of the powerful and the wealthy.
My souls cries out and I am drenched in tears for- what I hear from you dear Father and from others I highly respect, and my own experience tells me-is that such people and places are so very, very, very hard to find.
My heart is full of grief and pain. No doubt, I am unworthy of such blessings and must continue to wrestle with God. For it is most likely my own blindness that is the problem.
Please pray for me a sinner.
@@isaachenke749 You won't find any orthodox episcop. There aren't any. Only some priests who stopped commemoration ( praying together) with those ecumenists(heretics). Most of those priests are in orthodox countries. What you still have ( by God mercy and when I say God I refer to The GOD from the Orthodox Creed) is orthodox books written by Holy Fathers . This was said by Saint Igantie Briancianinov 200 years ago. I'm not saying that.