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Wednesday
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 9th Hour, Vespers and prayer rope 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM Small Compline with Akathist
Thursday
3:30 AM - 6:00 AM Midnight Office, Matins, 1st Hour, Divine Liturgy (or Typica)
Friday
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 9th Hour, Vespers and prayer rope 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM Small Compline with Akathist
CHRIST HAS RISEN. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE BEATIFUL SERMONS. I am totally satisfied what I hear. From praying fasting repenting humbling is very beneficial to me I am constantly correcting myself
If you don't have Orthodox doctrine, how can you even accept the teaching of Theosis? Orthodoxy is the ancient, Apostolic, True Church. Someone in Egypt started teaching Theosis as Coptic, and he was excommunicated!
Christ is Risen! Lord Jesus Christ and Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary and All the Saints, please pray for and strengthen and protect the Orthodox Christian people and help Monastic life to thrive here in the West.
Christ is risen! Lord Jesus Christ please guide us with our decisions through the prayers of Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg and Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker.
Was that Brother Nathael at the beginning rushing to his place? God bless you Father for giving us such sermons in this desolated world. Christos anesti!
I was confused by this too and did a double take. I’d like an answer because I’m pretty certain it’s blasphemous to say we become gods since there’s only one God. It’s quite literally doctrinally satanic to believe we can become gods… like Mormons or gnostics
@alexiatrott2714 the sermon was so powerful it made me emotional but I just. That one thing being wrong in my perspective could really ruin it. Glad I'm not tje only one
Both. It's actually really interesting, because I think this double meaning only works in English. By belonging more and more to God; we become conduits of His grace. It is only through the grace of God, by faith. This is why the saints have worked so many miracles throughout history. Christ even tells the Church that we will do even greater works than His. So we have the ability to join ourselves to Christ, and become God's, and therefore gods by grace. The difference of what Satan, the Mormons, and Hollywood promise is becoming gods without grace, by our own power and pride.
I'm not Orthodox (yet) though I've read the Eastern Orthodox Church by Kallistos Ware. According to what I've learned, "become gods by grace" means that we become like God in every way apart from by nature (1 John 3:1-2). By imparting grace through the sacrements of the Church and living the Orthodox way, God enables the believer to grow in the characteristics of God like holiness, purity, patience, love etc. This transformation will ultimately be complete when we die and truly overcome sin. And then we will be perfectly in His likeness, morally incorruptible and enjoying His neverending life. But the Orthodox church does not teach in any way that humans will become gods by nature, in the sense that they will share in the very essence of God. This is a heretical teaching similar to Mormonism as has already been stated. The Orthodox are in absolute continuity with St Athanasius of the 4th century, who said "God became man, so that man might become god". If an Orthodox Christian reads this and disagrees with what I've said, I'm happy to be corrected.
MrOlu, this is correct. This is a central teaching of the Orthodox Church. You rightly quote St. Athanasius the Great, but we also read in the psalms: "ye are gods...".
Christ is risen! Thank you, Geronda, may God protect us. I'm hoping I can one day be a decent Christian man, I don't have answers to certain things, so I pray that God may illumine my darkened mind. Thank you for your beautiful message. Words a sorely needed to hear.
I have been interested in Orthodoxy for several years. I was raised RC, switched 30:years ago to an evangelical church. Recently went to two different Orthodox churches in my area, one Greek and one Antiochian. In both of them I felt the congregation was only there for the communion and not interested in everything else. I noted multiple families who showed up perfectly timed to the passing of the Eucharist, but soon left. The Orthodox equivalent of the C&E club, lukewarm overall. The music was beautiful but didn’t feel much to bring me back, sadly
We should look within ourselves for these things that we see and critcize in others. Pick one and attend every service and event for a year. Then form an opinion.
I am a recently baptized member of the Genuine Orthodox Church (GOC). My parish (part of the GOC) is in a small rural community along the east coast, but I did not grow up there. Instead I grew up in SoCal. Every year, my family and I travel back to visit my extended family and I have attended many Orthodox parishes on various Sundays (none of them were of the GOC, fwiw). All were much bigger than my parish back home where everyone knows everyone as tends to happen in smaller communities. At these bigger parishes, I noticed similar things as you. I do not know the situations of those people, so I try not to judge them, and I do not know the degree to which such behavior is tied to the size of the community, but I would have been less impressed by the faith if I had first attended those parishes. God willing, we are traveling back again this summer and hope to make a longer trek to the closest GOC parish to where we are staying. There, I am sure I will find the same spirit I love so much here at home. May God bless you ☦️
Christ is Risen! Thank you Despota, for showing us that we are never alone. No matter how many friends we may think we have, they like us all are flawed. And sometimes we find they either died or just left the friendship, leaving us alone. With our Saviour, we know we are never alone. Thank God for His unending love and mercy.
Christ is risen. Your eminence Demetrius. I always watch your sermons. For many years. I'm a Lebanese Rûm Catholic, a catechumen to Orthodoxy. My friend a member of GOC is helping me spiritually. But a Goc Lebanese and french fathers told me to go to an Antiochian monastery to take a Conservative father as my spiritual father for a while until a catacombs Church is established here in Lebanon(Like the sspx did by praying in homes). I need your help what should I do to be baptised and saved. Pray for me. ☘️☦️🌾
Christ is risen! ☦️🕊 Glory to thee, oh Lord. I have so much gratitude for these sermons. They are so impactful! So much critical knowledge is given to us. Our sin is heavier than our Cross. We must repent. We must patiently endure as did the paralytic. In our Cross we can find peace. Only in the Orthodox Faith can we find the cure-all. All the beautiful words spoken here to us are from God, through His servant. May God give strength, bless and protect M Demetrius and all the Father's and Sister's in Christ and those seeking. ☦️🙏🏼❤️
Thank you very much for always true words. No doubt that you are of the oldest and true church of our Lord and Savior✝️ Think how wonderful it is that Jesus is risen and HE LIVES💜Messiah has come🎉Holy One of Israel. The King of the true spiritual Jews 🌸
My wife and I have been struggling with infertility - we both have different situations on our ends where it's very unlikely for us (but not impossible). This sermon touched on our struggle a bit, that we do need to pick up our cross on this. But I am a bit confused on sickness being because of sin - unsure if that's to be understood as particularly our sin (me and my wife), or Adam's sin / man-kind's sin. I would appreciate an elaboration on that - if possible.
Thank you for sharing this, Father. I am going through times of soul searching, trying to understand the message of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory to God in the Highest - Amen 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I Really Realized That Absolutely Absolute Fact When I Officially Converted To Byzantine Rite Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church ☦️ ⛪️ On 🎄 Day, Monday, December 25th, 2023 By The Holy Rite of Chrismation Into The Tier One and Only, Holy, Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Antiochian Orthodox Christian ☦️ Church ⛪️ By And Through The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (AOCANA). KRISTOS ANESTI ☦️⛪️🕊🕯🙏☦️‼️
Praise God for the tone He has given you to speak with. It brings me much peace. I live with terrible anxiety. Yes, be anxious for nothing... i pray every day. I was born without the gift of loving parents. Yet, how much love i have for others, amazes me bc I seek to love God and people. Beginning with my family every day. Please pray for me. I ask God to take this from me every day. Thank you for your love for Jesus. It is felt in my heart with every syllable. 🙏🕊🌷🌈🕊🌈😇
This is one of the most meaningful sermons I have heard. Thank you Father for your hard work in making these videos. You don't know how much they help some of us.
Christos Anesti! Most Holy Theotokos please send thy servant Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg to pray for us and protect us and strengthen us by her holy prayers to Christ our God.
CHRIST HAS RISEN. I THANK YOU FOR THIS BEATIFUL SERMON our Lord Jesus Christ Son of God offers us so many suggestions to improve ourselves for our salvation we must be patient
