How to fight evil from our hearts in a world of lies and confusion
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The video 'How to fight evil from our hearts in a world of lies and confusion' was recorded by Fr Seraphim (Aldea) at Mull Monastery (The Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints), on the Isle of Mull.
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May God bless us all!
God bless you!! Please pray for my 20 year old daughter, she's in psychiatric unit in hospital. She went there this morning. She's very depressed, she cries every day. She feels like committing suicide a lot. She's away from God, and she has no hope. Thanks so much!! We pray for you too.
God bless you!!!
Joanne
Dear Joanne, what is your daughter's name? I'll pray, we'll all pray and no doubt you are pouring your heart in prayer before Christ, so all will be well. Mental illness of any kind is a painful cross to bear, but it is not a death condemnation. I know from my own experience that one can have a beautiful life, filled with love, despite the occasional clouds of the illness.
Praying for her I’ve been in a similar situation in my youth. Just pray and love her. God bless and help her find her way to him.
The poor child. Lord be merciful to her and grant her peace and hope. ☦️
My dear sister. We are praying for the truly risen Lord Jesus Christ to heal your daughter.
My children are both dealing with mental health problems and hopelessness and are far from God right now too. I think I know a bit of what you feel and will pray for you and your daughter. His peace be with you!
Once again you've spoken straight to my spirit about the exact things I was contemplating. Thank you Father and have a blessed Lent ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Glory be to God, dear one. May this Lent be gentle on us all, and may we all be given all the spiritual fruit is can bring to our souls.
@@mullmonastery Amen 🙏🏼
Blessings and peace to you Father, and everyone in the comment section
..and everyone who listens to this video.
Thank you father. I have been in the Orthodox Church for one year now, and you were a part of my journey. Blessed Lent
Dear Father you have brought me to tears of gratitude for your ability to speak so passionately and clearly about such important issues.
I’m a Buddhist but love the vitality and strength of the Orthodox Church and the clarity of thought and prayer that allows Christ to shine forth. Thank you so much for your service to us and the church. 🙏
Thank you, from a Catholic brother. Although our respective Churches disagree on certain issues, I'll leave the politics to the politicians and the theological debates to the debaters. At the end of the day both of our Churches are holy, apostolic, and sharing the Gospel of our Lord Jesus-Christ. Glory the Father, Glory to the Son, Glory to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Yes...as a Catholic, I see Fr. Seraphim as speaking with and for the Undivided Church. The Celtic Saints are venerated by the Eastern Churches and the Western Church. I have never heard him say anything which would not be in complete harmony with, for example, St. Benedict. Pax!
Thank you for your beautiful comment. Indeed, Glory to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the one and only God for ever and ever.
Thanks you Father Seraphim. I really really really love you dear father. Thank you for your teaching 🙏 ❤ can you please pray for me iam in university and iam suffering from weakness and anemia. May the Lord bless you dear father. ❤
My name is Timothy. What is your name? I also have this condition. Tell me your name. I will pray for you brother.
Hi Timothy my name is Rita. Thank you so much. I will pray for you too dear Timothy.
The icons behind are really beautiful.
Many will hear this message and a lot of what he is saying will go over their heads. If you have the ears to listen you will know that he is being very honest and kind at the same time. This was probably one of the most powerful messages you have ever given Father. Thank you and my ears have listen to what you have said. There is a Church and glad I am part of His Church.
Thank you father❤
This Catholic loves your channel. ❤
Thank you Father for healing me again today with the words that flow out of you mouth through Christ. Thank you.
Amen
The Lord is working wonders through these videos. Healing us in our little lives and little miseries. Thank you Jesus.
Thank you Father, deep reminder. My Salvation can only be done through the church.
Pray father for my health i will be having a thiroyd surgery... pray also for my marriage..God bless you
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Thank you Father Seraphim. Your words are always so powerful.
Thank you, father, for your word. Thank you that you fight for us, together with Christ....
God bless you!
Truth sets you free.....thank you Father for sharing your wisdom God Bless....
So many people need to know and hear this ,very important and useful topic ,consider the coming times,God bless you Father !
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As a catholic, i of course believe in my church. But i like your teaching. An other angle....
❤ thank you father
Thank you Father
My favorite session of counsel to date. Thank you for the gift. This all starts with the people in our hometown.
Thank you Father Seraphim. I needed to hear this message.
I believe your words, Father! My wife will not even look or learn about the one true Church. Orthodoxy. Amin!
Thank you Father. I have been blessed to have met and married a beautiful American-Greek girl in 1978, came into the Ancient Church that same year from the Roman Western world. In my heart of hearts I know this is “The Church”, even with all its worldly shortcomings.
Wisdom, 🥰🙏I wished I knew years ago, the world is tough, it will devour you🙏😭🥰thank you, heal us , lead us, protect us Father , Son, Holy Spirit.
Amen!
"We will know how to use Love that's within us, How to use anger that's within us". I have anger issue, and that words I was need to hear.
Amen, and may God richly bless you. I'm so glad I have found this channel and a church where I feel at home and called to be at! May the Lord help us stay faithful, loving and may we all walk closer to him daily! Thank you and blessings, Father.❤🙏
I'm Roman Catholic myself and pray for Christian unity - we almost had it a while back but I think our Churches are among the closest in unity and you preach a good nessage. I do not regret subscribing.
Amen, amen, amen.
Thankyou Father, I do not doubt your words help many across the World.
Glory to God!! Your most powerful and on point message to date. The Lord bless you, Father.
Thank you for being so sincere and speaking to us with so much love. I am a born catholic and will always be one, but we basicaly believe the same things.
Thank you for such an important message!
I must be baptized immediately.
Such a powerful message. Glory to Jesus Christ! Слава Ісусу Христу! Слава навіки Богу!
Damn brother you have spoken from you’re heart😍. God bless, father, son and Holy Spirit now and forever unto the ages of ages, may you’re message be fruitful and blessed, amen ❤️🔥🙏
Thank you Abbott Seraphim, very helpful.😊
I love this guy
Thank you Fr 🙏
I have never thought of my anger as a “gift” or “tool” that can be used and transformed for good. At best, I’ve come to think of it as a constant reminder of how much I need God and His forgiveness and grace, but still never as a gift, because I only thought of it as sin. Thank you for this new perspective, for sharing your life and words with all of us, and your prayers. ❤
Blessed are the pure in heart for the shall see God.. May the lord purify our hearts in order to truly see HIM who is THE truth 🙏🙏🙏
If I may: can you one day talk about spiritual growth - it is so hard to feel like you have been the same person for the last 5 years but at the same time Christ safeguards your heart from pride…? Just a suggestion :)
Thank you dear father 🙏
Thank you Father for all kindness and love you send to us ! ❤
Amen❤
You are so precious to me, Fr. Seraphim. You have been very helpful to me, a second Spiritual Father, if i may say so. Thank you !❤
Please pray for us. God knows why. Glory to God. Thank you Father.
Daniel and Cathy
Saru'mana, Părinte!
Cat va prețuiesc fiecare cuvant!
E atata putere si in același timp blandete, atâta profunzime si atata pasiune in ceea ce ne spuneți!
Sufletul vorbește!
Rugati-va si pentru mine,pentru familia mea!
Avem atata nevoie!
Fiti binecuvantat!
Doamne, ajută!
God bless you Father Seraphim! Amen 🙏🏾
Glory to God, I have found the Church!
Amen, thank you my dear friend for your kind message..
Absolutely invaluable videos. Thank you so much for sharing. It takes a lot of time and work, I know. And I really really appreciate your work
there are no Orthodox churches of your caliber anywhere near me, so i follow you and another monk from the UK. I pray for Mull and Iona, and also Moldova ❤
Thank you so much for all this work you do for us. You have helped me greatly over the last two years. You may not ever realize how much I mean that :) but you probably get what I mean, exactly.
Every Sunday I receive the Armer of God through his Son every Sunday Praise to Lord Jesus Christ ❤️💠🛡⚔️🔱🙏🍀🙏💠🛡⚔️🔱
Thank you Father for those cautionary words about the devil and the subtlety he has of an accomplished lawyer. Also, thanks for talking about anger and it’s paradoxical good as long as it is against the evil one. God bless you.
We love you, Father. And as always, thank you.
Thank you dear Father Aldea for these words of wisdom. They are especially needed at this time in my life. Love and light I send to you. ❤
One must come to understand Meaning Reconciliation Creation to overcome Deception, Lies and theft
Fr Seriphim. Thanks for the sharing. I plan on going back to the Sacraments at Easter. Ive been away because of the seeming, diabolic quarrelings that have been taking place at my parish, during Holy Mass, right in the sanctuary. I thought, I rested from it awhile/retreat and then go back, and it willfix. Ill know in a few weeks.Like in the movie National Velvet, the man who played the trainer, had to go away from his home awhile, in order to be able to come back again to it. Pray for me. A Catholic friend in Christ, Paul Brady in USA.
Bless you, Father. So powerful. The weedling, twisting machinations of the devil are so obvious when we look with eyes that seek only Christ's light. But most people struggle in the dimness of the world and sin. Thank you for this, father. Very timely, and very comforting.
Amen. A hard word, but a true one. The Church is what salvation is. Asking if you can be saved without the Church is like asking if you can be saved without being saved.
All I know is that salvation is given through the church, dear one. What happens outside the Church is entirely in God's hands and not ours to judge, but no human being who understands what the real stakes are would ever take the risk. My prayer is that we are all saved, but I hear the words of Christ in the Gospel and through His Church about those who are lost. May we all be blessed.
Pray for me as I am converting to Orthodoxy.
So relevant today. God bless ❤
God bless you, always, Father. You always say what I need to hear. Thank you! ❤
Thank you, Father.
I learned a lot from your sermon.
Please pray for us. ☦️
Father, Bless! You are a balm to my soul! Thank you for your posts!!!! Blessed Fast!
Father, im in a really bad period of my life, and i have to make a really though choice, both the solutions i see are painful in one way or another and i do not have much hope left, praying feels really hard and i do not know where im going and where i want to be in my life. Please pray for me.
Gabriel.
God bless you Father Seraphim. Thank you for your guidance.
You’re right father everyone is responsible now for his salvation, because now there is no excuse when we can seek the truth so easily, it takes a little search, the informations nowadays are available for everyone.
I wonder why people spend hours and hours on the internet for multiple purposes except for the factual truth of their beliefs.
Christ is obvious the real authentic church is obvious , the only way for salvation is obvious, unfortunately few are seeking for the truth .
The scriptures refer to the devil symbolically as a serpent because a serpent is a creature who doesn’t move in a straight line - it moves back and forth, left and right, twisting its way through the world.
Even today we might call someone who is two faced, who says one thing but does another, who walks a crooked path, who is difficult to pin down, who has a hidden agenda, who is self interested but claims to be on your side a “snake in the grass”.
This is our adversary; clever and cunning, a master of deception, with whom up is down and down is up, who attempts to invert everything good God creates into its opposite form…men into women, women into men, love into lust, heter0sexuality into hom0sexuality, iconography into p0rnography. To take something God created as good and turn it against Him as a way of spitting in His face, one destined for damnation and willing to drag everything and everyone down with him.
Like Fr Seraphim said, this is the spirit of the antichrist, the inversion of Christ, the one who stands in place of Christ, that is in the world, filling all the airwaves of our lives (internet, media, movies, social media, tv) with his deceptions, inversions, and lies.
AMHN ☦️...KYRIE ISOUY XRISTE ELEISON EMAS TOUS AMARTOLOUS ☦️
Thank you so much for answering the question I have kept returning to: why do we hurt ourselves by doing self-destructive things?
Many prayers to you all 🙏
I got baptized in the Orthodox Church but cannot attend because due to severe childhood trauma, the icons trigger me and I shut down. I was told " you cannot be Orthodox without icons."🙁
So true and beautifully said father: " Don't trow Christ, himself, truth Himself away , because of the mistakes of the the earthly church"..Such a cheap but immens evil way to discourage people to turn away from God our creator sustainer and living Grace..
Multumesc mult frate!
God bless your father ❤
Thank you Father for the spiritual message 🙏
I always love your message and may God give you a straight to teach us
We love you
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me 🙏
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me 🙏
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me 🙏
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What you have said has been on my mind recently. I am wondering if the anti-christ has already arrived... It strikes me as odd, how traditional church teachings have been subverted in recent years., and erroneous doctrines are being pushed within the church. Where our Christian teachings are being weaponised against; "telling the truth means that you are being cruel to someone". The Jezebel Spirit.
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Matthew 7:21-23 always scares me. Will the Lord not show mercy on those who were led astray by false teachers by no fault of their own, if they truly believed they were serving God?
"No fault of their own" ??? Nope it is and will be their fault my brother !!! We pray that our Lord never let us and not even a single human being be fooled by the evil one and all of his forms and trickeries and lose our soul but also we pray for those who had been or are being fooled by him to return to the Truth our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 🇬🇷💪☦️
Just a comment on Matt. 7:21-23... didn't Judas Iscariot do miracles and cast demons in Jesus' name, even preached the gospel of God's kingdom, like other Apostles? But what separated him from the Lord (and made him the betrayer of Christ) was the fact he was a thief, as told in the Gospel(s). This shows that God can, and does, interact in the world in synergy with imperfect people, but for those people it can happen for their doom if they don't repent - like in the case of Moses, who performed a miracle even though he disobeyed God, and therefore he was denied to enter Promised Land.
But as an answer to your question, how likely is it that you are (supposedly) serving God and worshipping Him but never meeting "other fellow Christians" who systematically oppose your teachings and seek to correct you? The Church has always anathematized heresies since the days of Nicolaitans and Marcionists, and these people undeniably were fully aware of this judgment. And since they were aware of their situation, they needed to explore their teachings in order to check if they are truly sound doctrines and to find arguments for their beliefs... If they sincerely sought Christ, they likely repented and they were taken back to the Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church. Otherwise they actively choose to live in lies. It has been like this for 2000 years, and it also will be like that until our Master comes in His glory.
You are blessed, thanks for the video!!🔥💥
Thank you
Good man. You’re doing an outstanding job. I still think you’re hiding sweet under that hat. God bless
Beautiful words Father. Nobody knows the day or hour. I need to run to church immediately this Sunday. I'm sorry I havent been attending
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I agree with this, but I live in the U.S. and the closest Orthodox Church is a good 45 minute Drive a couple of towns away in the major city. I can walk to countless Baptist, nondenominational churches, a catholic church is 4 miles out, and then there are several what I would call heretical "progressive" churches, of the mainline protestant churches, that look little different from the world, most seem to talk about current worldly issues, instead of the bible, Christ, or tradition. The most of the best Christian people I know don't go to church, not because they do not want to (there are some like that) but there are no good options around.
It would be nice to know what you would recommend for someone in my position, should I go to the Catholic church because it is closer in structure and history to Orthodoxy, pick a good Baptist Church that has some good bible believing ideas, but no real tradition, history, nor structure? Or try to make a road trip every week?
I do read the bible at least 3 or 4 hours a week, pray a lot and think a lot on it all. I also listen to you a lot, since I found you, and a few other knowledgeable people, mostly protestants, that have some wisdom and help me understand the bible as I read it, but there is a lot I disagree with them on, as it often feels they concern themselves more with reformist thinkers, the battle against the worldly churches, or some other ideology apart from Christ, and I think it is because it is not rooted in the historical church but more the 1400-1800's.
It leaves me a little lost, as my community has no real rooted tradition, most of the churches I live around are 20 or less years old, and they look and feel quite plain both inside and outside. I certainly don't want to follow myself nor my heart, and I ask for guidance every day, to follow truth, whatever that may be, as I learn and grow, though my reading, and watching people, like yourself online.
Can you explain the logic behind why we need the man made church in addition to Christs work on the cross for salvation?
I'm very worried about Passover this year. We all know why.