@@pah9730 yes I did , within a couple of hours when you posted it. My only concern is thst I hope I can handle the course my english is not that not good. Thank you!
Incredible talk! I was baptized without catechism and I have made a prayer rule and catechising myself. Father Peter has help me tremendously! I will keep you in my prayers! God bless ❤
Thanks for this. I surrendered my credentials as a Baptist pastor last fall after I was in a serious truck crash last summer, not knowing the course and direction of my future, but trusting in the One who had delivered me from the Pit. It's a long story. A couple of months later, in December, and the Lord opened the door to his Church, and my eyes to the truth of His Church. The closest local Orthodox Church is 2 1/2 hours away. I have been in communication with the priest at St. Vladimir's, but have not been able to travel for a visit. Thank you Fr. Heers for your youtube channel and website. I follow you along with a few other channels, and have been learning very much about the one true Church. The sense is that I have returned home. Does that make sense?
Absolutely. You and thousands of other people have said that very thing,: this is my home. And of course it’s your home. Because it is Christ. Christ is the Church.
same here, as I visited the first time the orthodox church, I felt I came home, it was the best feeling I ever had, I wept for almost the whole length of liturgy, so good it felt coming HOME. and I stayed. They took me in after an year of being a catechumen, it was all so overwhelming, and it still is, saturday night when we have vigil and the choir starts, I can die every time so touching this all is, even after all these years. Welcome Home Brother!
It is said for every month of recession it equals 1 year of recovery. I wonder for ex-Protestants (me) what is the equation? I was a Protestant for 20 years. It's gonna take me a lifetime I think. I unfortunately was one of those catachumens that was baptized 8 mo after I found the church, was given 1 book to read and met with my priest 1 time before I was baptized. I woke up 5 years later feeling as if I fell through the cracks. Yet once again, it's going to be God that teaches me. He is the One that lead me to the Orthodox Church. He will teach me how to be Orthodox. He lead me to Fr Peter's online survival course. Fr Peter is doing God's work.
Dearest to Christ, The Lord bless you! We have a saying in Greece: the first 100 years is difficult. Don’t look back. Don’t fret for what has passed. Look up and forward to the Lord and the great things He is preparing you for, in this life, and in the next. May we be made worthy to confess His Name before the nations and suffer for Him. He who endures until the end takes the crown! GOOD STRUGGLES! Prayer, fasting, study of the Lives of the Saints, almsgiving - make these your daily bread and God will do the rest.
If you learn to love others more than you love yourself, then you have Christ in your heart. Until then, we are all trying to learn and how long that takes us depends on our willingness to learn from life.
Fr. Peter my family has been staying home since our Fr. Mandated mask wearing during divine services. Now he wants to meet with us to talk about it. How should I respond? I am a sinner I don't want to come off as arrogant, but wearing a mask during liturgy burns my conscience as does my other weaknesses of course. My plan has always been to attend liturgy immediately after mandatory mask wearing has been lifted as I know Holy communion is what we all need to maintain our unity in christ. Any advice on how my disposition and attitude should be towards this confusing issue and situation. I'd like to further add I am attending a Serbian church. In which both patriarch Irinej and the new Patriarch have not mandated mask. Interesting that our Fr. Would. I would also like to mention our Fr. Would be considered high risk for covid. So I want to be respectful toward him as well. Nevertheless mask wearing during services still bothers me.
You have already given two very good reasons for not wearing a mask: your conscience and your Patriarch. I will add: a good thing cannot happen in a bad way. Masks have no place in heaven and are a distraction for all who ascend.
I could add much more, of course, but I hope that you have access to our lectures on the matter (Orthodox Survival Course) and can see the many Holy Fathers we quote.
We are being tested. How much faith and resolve do we have. Can we rightly prioritize the Commandments of God. . . I will address this in my third podcast.
It is more important to have a soul protected by baptism than it is for them to be perfectly adjusted to all of the mysteries; that is the work of the Holy Spirit. The church is only here to guide us, you think to highly and pridefully of yourselves.
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This channel has become my daily spiritual food
Then let your daily prayer include the sinner who runs it.
@@OrthodoxEthos for sure, I will
How can I support your channel financially?
@@pah9730 yes I did , within a couple of hours when you posted it. My only concern is thst I hope I can handle the course my english is not that not good. Thank you!
“We do not run after the world for which that is perishing”. Beautifully stated!
This is from 1 St John 2:15-17 a wonderful profound scripture. Read also 1 St John 3: 1-3 a glorious teaching!
Incredible talk! I was baptized without catechism and I have made a prayer rule and catechising myself. Father Peter has help me tremendously! I will keep you in my prayers! God bless ❤
Thanks for this. I surrendered my credentials as a Baptist pastor last fall after I was in a serious truck crash last summer, not knowing the course and direction of my future, but trusting in the One who had delivered me from the Pit. It's a long story. A couple of months later, in December, and the Lord opened the door to his Church, and my eyes to the truth of His Church. The closest local Orthodox Church is 2 1/2 hours away. I have been in communication with the priest at St. Vladimir's, but have not been able to travel for a visit. Thank you Fr. Heers for your youtube channel and website. I follow you along with a few other channels, and have been learning very much about the one true Church. The sense is that I have returned home. Does that make sense?
Absolutely. You and thousands of other people have said that very thing,: this is my home. And of course it’s your home. Because it is Christ. Christ is the Church.
same here, as I visited the first time the orthodox church, I felt I came home, it was the best feeling I ever had, I wept for almost the whole length of liturgy, so good it felt coming HOME. and I stayed. They took me in after an year of being a catechumen, it was all so overwhelming, and it still is, saturday night when we have vigil and the choir starts, I can die every time so touching this all is, even after all these years. Welcome Home Brother!
Welcome home brother. I too am an ex Protestant pastor. Glad to finally be home!
That's exactly the description. Home.
Thank you for sharing your testimony! I’m an ex Protestant too and so grateful for Fr Heery’s Homily’s available online.
This is amazing. This is exactly what my apostolic Bible teacher taught me. This monk is so well-versed in apostolic foundation and doctrines.
A wonderful talk, thank you Father. I wanted to attend this event in person. Glad to finally hear it one year later.
It is said for every month of recession it equals 1 year of recovery. I wonder for ex-Protestants (me) what is the equation? I was a Protestant for 20 years. It's gonna take me a lifetime I think. I unfortunately was one of those catachumens that was baptized 8 mo after I found the church, was given 1 book to read and met with my priest 1 time before I was baptized. I woke up 5 years later feeling as if I fell through the cracks. Yet once again, it's going to be God that teaches me. He is the One that lead me to the Orthodox Church. He will teach me how to be Orthodox. He lead me to Fr Peter's online survival course. Fr Peter is doing God's work.
Dearest to Christ, The Lord bless you! We have a saying in Greece: the first 100 years is difficult. Don’t look back. Don’t fret for what has passed. Look up and forward to the Lord and the great things He is preparing you for, in this life, and in the next. May we be made worthy to confess His Name before the nations and suffer for Him. He who endures until the end takes the crown! GOOD STRUGGLES! Prayer, fasting, study of the Lives of the Saints, almsgiving - make these your daily bread and God will do the rest.
Thank you Fr Peter
If you learn to love others more than you love yourself, then you have Christ in your heart. Until then, we are all trying to learn and how long that takes us depends on our willingness to learn from life.
I would not testify of myself that I have holiness or saintliness. Who of this world can be Holy? But I am with the Father. Who is Holy.
Im an idiot for talking politics probobly when i should have just been preaching christ.
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"It is through their great love for one another that the sinners are saved." The body of Christ is much bigger than the Orthodox church alone.
Fr. Peter my family has been staying home since our Fr. Mandated mask wearing during divine services. Now he wants to meet with us to talk about it. How should I respond? I am a sinner I don't want to come off as arrogant, but wearing a mask during liturgy burns my conscience as does my other weaknesses of course. My plan has always been to attend liturgy immediately after mandatory mask wearing has been lifted as I know Holy communion is what we all need to maintain our unity in christ. Any advice on how my disposition and attitude should be towards this confusing issue and situation. I'd like to further add I am attending a Serbian church. In which both patriarch Irinej and the new Patriarch have not mandated mask. Interesting that our Fr. Would. I would also like to mention our Fr. Would be considered high risk for covid. So I want to be respectful toward him as well. Nevertheless mask wearing during services still bothers me.
You have already given two very good reasons for not wearing a mask: your conscience and your Patriarch.
I will add: a good thing cannot happen in a bad way. Masks have no place in heaven and are a distraction for all who ascend.
I could add much more, of course, but I hope that you have access to our lectures on the matter (Orthodox Survival Course) and can see the many Holy Fathers we quote.
Am I wrong to interpret people closing their churches as a type of avoiding the cross of Christ?
We are being tested. How much faith and resolve do we have. Can we rightly prioritize the Commandments of God. . . I will address this in my third podcast.
They are avoiding conflict with officials
56:17 what is the name you are saying, if possible can you provide publisher as well? Thank you Father.
Synaxarion, Fr Makarios Simonopetra on Athos, author/editor.
@@OrthodoxEthos Thank you!
It is more important to have a soul protected by baptism than it is for them to be perfectly adjusted to all of the mysteries; that is the work of the Holy Spirit. The church is only here to guide us, you think to highly and pridefully of yourselves.
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