An Orthodox Explanation of Asceticism

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What is asceticism and why is it so important for Orthodox Christianity? In this video I discuss that very question with Fr. Seraphim Aldea of Mull Monastery.
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Комментарии : 43

@BethanyCoxacbcox 3 года назад

Fr. Aldea is amazing! I have been watching him for a few months and just found your channel yesterday, with the tour of St John Cantius in Chicago.

@mosesbauer5856 2 года назад

Perfectly timed, thanks ominous algorithm. I love your work. Both of you. Love, Light, Life.

@HomoEucharistica 5 месяцев назад

*_Way of the Ascetics_* by Tito Colliander describes very well in my opinion what Christian ascetism looks like

@anastasiatsatsakouli6181 3 года назад

Thank you for dispelling some misguided myths about astheticism. These videos bring peace to my mind and soul. Thank you 🕯️🕯️🕯️🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨

@GospelSimplicity 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@susanlacy5225 3 года назад

I am a married Orthodox Ascetic, living and working on the grounds of a monastery for now, praying to build a spiritual community here with others. Asceticism is focusing on Christ, not material things. It's about "burning away the old man" and becoming one with God.

@JohnJelinek 3 года назад

Which monestary?

@diamondgirl359 3 года назад

God bless you 🙏

@thereccereport1172 3 года назад

Interesting, I am converting to Orthodoxy. I once met a Jesuit priest. He said his mother was discerning monasticism and even lived in a monastery in downtown Cleveland for a week. Then she left and soon afterwards met her husband. The father became a police officer and the wife was a prolific mother. Marrying a man or woman who almost became a monastic must be as marrying an angel in the flesh. I have wondered... Of course, monasticism is greater then married life.

@bad_covfefe Год назад

This seems to me like hiding your light away from the world. There are people out there who need help. How is monasticism not forsaking ways to help others for the sake of your own spiritual "enlightenment?"

@rosepetal-ov7vl 5 месяцев назад

@@bad_covfefehim simply posting this comment has inspired me to draw closer to Christ. So, is he really hiding his light from the world? Is he hiding his light from those there at the monastery? Think about your words

@Linkolite 11 месяцев назад

Wow wow wow. Incredible. Seeing this at the perfect time

@theguyver4934 5 месяцев назад

Just like biblical and historical evidence proves that jesus and his apostles were vegatarians biblical and historical evidence also proves that the trinity, atonement, original sin and hell are very late misinterpretations and are not supported by the early creed hence its not a part of Christianity I pray that Allah swt revives Christianity both inside and out preserves and protects it and makes its massage be witnessed by all people but at the right moment, place and time The secred text of the Bible says ye shall know them by their fruits So too that I say to my christian brothers and sisters be fruitful and multiply Best regards from a Muslim ( line of ismail )

@diamondgirl359 3 года назад

I especially like his point that we must bring our bodies to the state of being in tune with the intention of our souls.

@GospelSimplicity 3 года назад

Yeah! That's a great one

@George-ur8ow 3 года назад

I enjoyed this segment of the interview. It made me think of the following concerning physicality, which is a distinctive in Orthodox theology: When Christ visits the Apostles after the crucifixion, His resurrection is physical. Indeed, we read the Gospel and know it is the same body that Christ inhabited before the crucifixion - Thomas touches the very flesh that the nails were driven through. However, his body takes on a different status in it's place and capability after the crucifixion, it transcends power, space and time. Our bodies shall be conformed to Christ's body after our own resurrection, as the scriptures say. Spirit will be unified in physical matter in a way in which we cannot yet understand at the present time. The final state is the resurrection of all of mankind into a physical body, the same one you and I have now. All shall be resurrected, Jesus did not just die for the "elect". To be clear, yes, all are resurrected, but not all are saved; some go to the resurrection of life, others, to the resurrection of eternal damnation. This is because God, by becoming manifest in the flesh, assumed and gathered unto himself the totality of humanity, a fundamental distinction in Orthodoxy. This is why all men are resurrected. If you understand this, then you will begin to understand the full humanity and full divinity of Christ. This emphasis is found NOWHERE ELSE in Christendom - neither in Catholicism or in Protestanism. One of the main New Testament scriptures upon which this view is based states: "[God's purpose is, in] the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth..." (Ephesians 1:10) Why did God become flesh, to be borne of a young, poor maiden in a manger? To later be unjustly condemned and nailed to the cross? Couldn't God have remained the fearsome Lord, the all-powerful in the cloud above the Tabernacle, as in the days of Exodus? Again, WHY did God come in the flesh? This is a fundamentally important part and parcel of Christian thought that in large part has been lost in Catholicism and Protestanism.

@BethanyCoxacbcox 3 года назад

We are in the process of "converting" and everything you say about the oneness of the body is perfectly in-step with where we are. I put "converting" in quotes, because I don't feel like we are changing anything. We are simply entering into the fullness of our faith. I love your hunger. Search out the Refiner's fire!!!

@surdino2010 3 года назад

Matthew 18:7-9 is a reflection of this principle which I think, is difficult to achieve perfection, but with God's grace, even if you're in the world , and the world seems to despise you , with Jesus everything is possible, if you take your cross, and do his Will.

@dustindustindontworry-jz8dh Год назад

Huh? He's not making sense. Asceticism such as fasting, prayer, manual labors are the tools Christ provided for his Church to reach spiritual perfection and more importantly to crucify the flesh and it's lust.

@adamhardin9176 3 года назад

Wow, who knew athleticism was such a Godly attribute..jk

@NowhereNN 3 года назад

Interesting interview. Too bad Aldea doesn't practice it.

@GospelSimplicity 3 года назад

What makes you say that?

@NowhereNN 3 года назад

@@GospelSimplicity While Mull Monastery was being built, he used donations to rent a luxury bed and breakfast with a massage room. He also spends most of his time traveling around fundraising for the monastery. Nothing wrong with that on its own but the monastery has had unusually (for a monastery) high revenues without actually producing anything unlike most monasteries and very little reported spending by the monastery. Monks are supposed to try to live frugally, but my question is: if the monastery is making so much money, why isn't it being used for alms giving or other such appropriate allocations? Also, since it isn't (at least on paper) what exactly is happening to the money? Is it just stacking up or is it being used in other ways that have not been reported? If it is being stacked, why? I don't want to accuse my brother out of hand, but Mull Monastery operates in an extremely unusual way when it comes to finances and I'd like to know why. If he can explain sufficiently, I'd be more than happy to admit my suspicion is without merit. I really don't want to be unloving to someone who might be in the right, but I've seen this happen in a lot of other churches and it breaks my heart when well-meaning parishioners are taken advantage of by charlatans (if that is indeed what he is). Also, he was a Soros Scholar, which is not incriminating by itself, but that award is rarely given out to people who are in any way righteous. The unfortunate situation with Aldea and Mull Monastery is that he doesn't have proper oversight from his bishop because of distance and the language barrier (his bishop is Romanian and doesn't speak any English).

@aidan4062 3 года назад

Mull Monastery and Fr. Seraphim are very transparent to anyone who takes the time to connect with them. There have been regular mailings describing in detail how money is being spent. Fr. Seraphim used the funds from his fellowship to pay for his own living expenses while fundraising for the monastery (this was before the monastery had a home) so that he wouldn’t use any donations for the monastery on himself. What’s interesting is that the rumors have been passed around to enough itching ears that you’re now seeing the details of different rumors being mixed and confused - a sure sign that something isn’t quite true. Ask any one of the numerous folks who have taken a pilgrimage to Mull and you’ll find that none of the claims seeking to discredit has any foundation.

@NowhereNN 3 года назад

@@aidan4062 I've check into these rumors or I wouldn't have brought them up. They check out. Mull Monastery is very sketch. If I could change anything, I'd just put Aldea under a bishop in a position to monitor the situation.

@aidan4062 3 года назад

Sam McCrory - saying “they check out”, of course, doesn’t make it true. Calling Mull Monastery “sketch” is an attempt to discredit them without having to provide evidence which holds up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. If you truly feel the Monastery is in error, I’m sure they would welcome your prayers.

@nickhanley5407 3 года назад

The problem I’m seeing here is that you have to do all these works, like fasting on certain days, only eating certain foods, celebrating every feast days, never missing church, and then you can be a vessel for gods spirit. But ye are saved by grace through faith and not of works lest any man should boast. The holt spirit has come down for us all.

@George-ur8ow 3 года назад

No, none is required, you do not HAVE to keep fasts, feast days, etc to recieve God's grace. Orthodoxy does not even claim that there is only salvation through the Orthodox Church. To do so would put an artificial human limit on God's grace and love. Fasting, feasts, etc., are holy traditions that have been kept through the centuries as a way to become closer to God. They are not salvific in and of themselves, they cannot save a man. Orthodoxy believes in faith working through love and that salvation is a lifelong process, it rejects "once saved always saved", a 17th century theology. It does not separate faith and works, it considers such a false paradigm ("For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love." Gal 5:6). This separation is something the protestant reformers did in response to their rightful disgust with Papal indulgences, something that was not a part of Orthodoxy. This separation violates Matthew 25 and James 2. Check out "Rock and Sand" interview here on youtube with Fr. Josiah Trenham, an Orthodox priest & former Presbyterian. You will learn about what Orthodoxy is truly about - most Protestants simply do not know much about Orthodoxy. Edit: typo, originally wrote Matthew 26, it is Matthew 25. Now corrected.