Just had a breakdown from a lack of sympathy from my girlfriend, long story short not healthy and I beleive I deserve better treatment and respect. This video has helped me and appeared to me exactly when I needed it, God bless you Fr Mikhail, Have a blessed weekend. Christ is risen!
Pride is the root of many passions. Great message to kick off this demonically named month of hedonistic celebration for far too many in our society today. 🙏🏻☦️ Thanks for the much needed content Fr Mikhail
As always, an amazing video Fr Mikhail. I really enjoy your straight forwardness on these kinds of things as they force us to confront our issues and give much needed discomfort. Personally I am guilty of hidden pride and the self love your Wife spoke about. Lord have mercy
Well said Father. I suffered greatly from my addiction to the sin of self love. However I'm so grateful that by the grace of God, I'm aware of it and the struggle is what's bringing me closer to God
Thanks father. This revealed to me my faults. However, sometimes i try to correct erroneous belief or blasphemy, but do it too harshly and feel guilty. Sometimes i just dont talk, then feel also guilty, sometimes i fall to that Vanity, sometimes to pride and self love. I dont have discrement what to do. Sometimes i just pray and dont talk, but still feel guilty for not speaking up. Very confusing sometimes
Father pray for me, I hear about the great humility and recognition the Holy Saints had of there sinful nature and I want to emulate them but when I also say I’m a terrible sinner in my heart I don’t feel the words I say I just say them. Lord have mercy on me
Thank you very much for making three videos this week, it feels like a treat 😂I, for one, am very appreciative of them. I also kinda like how you keep mentioning roots of Orthodoxy, I really like that channel. As always, God bless ☦️
If someone compliments me on something that is easy for me, I despise it, because I know that I can do better. If someone compliments me on something that is hard for me, I appreciate it, because I put a lot of effort into it. So, ironically, the worse I am at something, the more I enjoy a compliment, feeling accomplished, even though it's something that I am actually bad at. Pride is a somewhat comical but tragic type of insanity.
Father, bless! My husband and I love your content, and we have a few questions/video topics suggestions. Would I be able to email those to you? 😸🙏🏼 Photini
Father in regards to vainglory when you said it’s when you want to be accepted by everyone without offending anyone. Can this also apply to matters completely away from the faith? Like if there’s a person at school you want to be friends with but they do things that aren’t right and instead of keeping your distance you still want to be friends with them?
Father, is the following statement true ? : "I don't love God, because if I loved God I would stop sinning". I confessed this to my confessor today and he scolded me, saying that I do love God. He told me not to say this again in my confession. Please help, i'm confused.
@@vaska1999 Thanks for helping. I need an answer from a priest though. Would you mind asking your priest about my question and tell me what he said ? To be precise, I need to know whether the saints and holy fathers have ever taught something like this. Because the reason I confessed this phrase is because I heard a monk explain this and it made sense in my mind. I'm really confused right now and I need good priests to give me an answer. I'll wait for you, if you are willing to ask your priest, thanks.
@Joseph1207 don’t listen to her. For one, this isn’t for her to answer. Number two, her response was ignorant and prelest driven. No it’s not quite as simple as we keep sinning, but that we cannot reciprocate perfect love for God if we lack humility and perfect love for our neighbour. Forgive me, this is why St Paul forbade women to attempt to provide spiritual instruction like this. She’s not a nun or an eldress. Your priest shouldn’t be saying such things, but instead should be encouraging you to deepen your love for God. None of us love Him as we ought. Yes, it would mean not returning to sin, but it would also mean being attentive to prayer and not condemning others. The message I gave was drawing from St Maximos the Confessor in the Philokalia
@@living_orthodox Okay father. Concerning my situation, what do you advise me ? Should I continue to confess that "I don't love God, because if I did I would stop sinning" ? Or is it a wrong or inaccurate thing to confess ?
This mixing up the facts and teachings to secure more followers or conversions is appalling. This is why I went to the Orthodox faith. You can't change GOD's word to suit your audience. Its lies.
You left because you’re ignorant. Not because you understand anything. What’s appalling is that you want to worship a book rather than Christ and you want to believe Christ’s Church needed a man-made reformation. All you Protestants are spiritual atheists who are too afraid of losing paschal’s religious wager.
@@living_orthodox I think you misread my post or perhaps I miscommunicated it. Let me try again, the distortion of God's word IN OTHER RELIGIONS is why I WENT TO the Orthodox faith. I am by no means a protestant & yes I am very ignorant. My entire life I've been lied to by Baptist, Methodist, Protestant, etc. churches. When I discovered the Orthodox church, God developed in me hunger I had never experienced. Which is why I'm here, watching your videos & others like it. I am not a Protestant Spiritual Atheist & I do not want to worship a book. I'm sorry if my first message wasn't clear or was confusing. Oh & I KNOW that Jesus was born both God & man. 💞
Seems prideful and lacking humility to think you know better than everyone in Church history. I suppose biological sons should call their fathers, father? Seriously.
