America, Russia, and The State of The World | Father Josiah Trenham 

May God grant you many years

I felt the same way at different times and for a variety of reasons... Lord have mercy on us.

God keep you ☦️

God bless you!!!!

So happy for you, brother 💜

21:58 📠

Exactly.

Coming into Orthodoxy , You are coming into the House of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, our Lord and God. Welcome brother and sister ! ☦️ God bless you ! Amen!

May God bless you! You have started on a difficult but wonderful journey. Just do not get discouraged.

Welcome home!

Welcome home my brother and sister! 🩷

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Many years!

Many years!

Sounds like he loves God, loves truth. Seems like a pastor concerned for his flock. That's how he hits me. Lots of good stuff on his channel that you don't have to be Orthodox to appreciate. Like a new Fulton Sheen of sorts.

Thank you for the lovely compliment!! I am so blessed to be catechized by him :) I would only add that this is the Orthodox journey. Everything in Orthodoxy is aimed at developing this connection it's a very intentional goal.

Qazy, if this is how you feel, come to an Orthodox church and see for yourself. I've been studying for 5 years and started catechism last year. Father Josiah was the 'gateway drug' for me to search out Orthodoxy on my own. It's phenomenal & I've met some truly amazing people

Ive been hardpressed to find many orthodox that dont act like this.

If you like fellow fathers like this I would recommend Father Spyridon a full love for god and speaks much wisdom.

No Baptism? Would Fr. Josiah think this is wise. You will not regret getting an Orthodox Baptism.

​@@cindysmith9087 It's not up to Fr. Josiah, it's up to that guy's bishop. Corrective baptism and re-baptism is dangerous territory for a priest to trod around on. I think what you meant to say is "congratulations!"

My brother christened this upcoming holy Saturday! God bless

Me too!

How long were you evangelical before that?

God bless you! It is the presence of the Holy Spirit, the Parakletos, in the Orthodox Church that has filled your spirit! You have found your home!

How wonderful! Welcome home to Orthodoxy!

Same, I’m in the process of converting from the Protestant church, and have never felt so close to my King Jesus Christ. I have NEVER felt the peace He gives me, through the Orthodox Church, in my life. I haven’t felt even close to this peace since I was a child.

Glory to God!

Fr Tryphon is wonderful as well!

​@@ReimergunsI love his videos and I hope to visit his monastery one day.

Both are so wise 😊

Fr Josiah and Fr Peter Heers were instrumental in my coming to Christ

As a Catholic you should not be attending that parish.

Catholics cant attend Orthodox parishes and liturgy, but you can attend eastern Catholic liturgy

wonderful

So, man with all caps and God with lower case?

Mari Emmanuel goes all the way.

Orthodox news services were reporting on the war in Ukraine ten years before Russia joined in.

Ever heard of Maidan and Donbas?

I agree. Being born in Ukraine it breaks my heart to see an orthodox priest here in the US take this stance.

@@ElonMuskrat-my8jy you have “heard” about it, I lived there and can testify that what you are peddling on here is not the truth. It’s pure pro-Russian Putin propaganda.

Not really. He knows very little about what’s going on.

Amen For those who have ears, let them hear

Glenn Beck is a zionist mormon. Be careful of any "news" sites that arouse the passions.

Come back! haha

@@nate5995 I would love to! I live and go to an OCA church in a different state. But, when I was in LA county, I went out of my way to go to Riverside to go to St. Andrew's. I was visiting family in Glendora. Next time I'm there, I'll be back!

Ohhhhhh..May God Bless you! So moving.

It is not possible, you lost it 1000 years ago. It’s been too long. The salt is over here, come over before we run out - the time is running out.

@@taliatut I'm visiting a Greek orthodox parish soon. Already sent an email to ask what I'll need before I show up.

@@adutchman1403 Godspeed!

​@taliatut That, my friend, is a sad statement. Both East and West suffered from the misunderstood schism. Certain charisms of the West did not migrate over to the East and vice versa. Father Trenham addressed this sad loss a few years ago, which became my introduction to his ministry as well as others. You're supposed to pray with humility for your fellow Christians, especially separated family members.

psalm 50/51

Psalm 10 - A Spiritual Psalter - Saint Ephraim the Syrian O Christ my Savior, before your glory, I will proclaim all my inequities and profess your infinite mercies, which You pour upon me according to your loving-kindness. From the womb of my mother I began to trouble You, for I have completely neglected Your grace, because I have disregarded my life. O my Master, through the abundance of Your mercies You have looked upon all my evil doings with patience and care. Your grace has raised my head, although daily it is brought low through my sins. Wicked habits ensnare me as a trap, and I delight in being held. I descend to the depths of wickedness and I take joy in this. Daily the foe provides me new bonds, because he observes how this diversity of shackles delights me. On account of my being chained to my own lusts I should grieve and mourn in disgust and shame. But still more horrible is that I chain myself with the bonds that the foe puts on me, and I kill myself with the passions that delight him. Even though I understand how awful these bonds are, I conceal them under a regal countenance from everybody who might see them. I seem to be clothed in the splendid apparel of reverence, but my soul is caught up with deprived ideas. In front of everyone, I am devout, but within I am full of all forms of filth. My conscience condemns me through all of this, but I behave as though I desire to be free from my bonds. Daily I am anxious and groan about it, but I continue to be ensnared by the same traps. How pathetic I am, and how pathetic is my daily repentance. It has no steadfast foundation. Daily I put down a foundation for the edifice and then I destroy it with my hands. I have not yet made a good start with my repentance, and there is no end to my evil neglect. I have become enslaved in the passions and to the wicked desires of the foe who ruins me. Who will provide water for my head, and fountains for my weeping, so that I will always weep in front of You? O merciful God, send forth Your grace and pull me, a sinner, from the sea, violent with the waves of sin, which hourly wrack my soul. Because my lusts are more grievous than wounds that cannot be treated. I await repentance and trick myself with this empty promise until my end. Always I say, "I will repent," but I never repent. My words appear to offer deep repentance, but my deeds are far from it. What will I endure in the day of sentencing, when God reveals everything in His court. Surely I will be condemned to torture, if I have not found mercy through my tears with You, O my Judge. O Lord, I depend on Your mercies. I fall before Your feet and entreat You. Give me a spirit of repentance and guide my soul from the dungeon of lawlessness. May a beam of light illuminate my mind before I am led to the fearful judgment which waits for me, where there is no possibility of repenting for one's evil doings.

Pray the Prayer Rule of St. Seraphim of Sarov and the Prayer Rule of the Theotokos.

Agreed, didn't expect so much honesty. I mean, I know father is true Christian and everything, but this can pick up a lot of hate among his flock in the US.

​@@sophiamac9100Don't praise Fr. Josiah like that on his own channel. It's a stumbling block and temptation to pride and vanity. Please delete your comment.

@ElonMuskrat-my8jy You're right, but i happen to know he never reads the comments, that's why I wrote it.

The Word of God is not so much to be read as to be remembered.

❤ Same here , Mirela! Love you

Kali Anastasi❤

Russia is shooting missiles into Ukraine cities. Europe is arming itself to deter against Russia.

​@@joekey8464Ukraine was attacking Russians first with help from our glowies in Maidan 2014.

@@ElonMuskrat-my8jy Yes! That war was not just provoked, it was instigated. Pure evil.

@@ElonMuskrat-my8jy Any church that supports a war ("special military operation") of aggression is not of God. "Blessed are the peacemakers because they will be called the children of God.".

​@@joekey8464There is a time for war and a time for peace. That's also in the Bible. We aren't pacifists. We have warrior saints. We also aren't Papists that have a top-down structure that corrupts the entire Church if one Patriarch or bishop goes astray.

AMEN

Amen

Amen

Ecumenism is everywhere … Greece has been infiltrated by masons. The clergy is paid by govt what a calamity . Don’t believe this isn’t on all orthodox doorsteps

Courage is one of the four general virtues, the root word of which comes from manliness.