How do you find a spouse? Ask the saints. - Orthodox Sermon 

Pray for me brother! 🙏☦️ That St. Xenia may intercede on both our behalfs!

Just wait til your 30+ 😅

@@danieldefonce absolutely realistic

The Lord is pleased to bestow His good things upon us, as long as we approach with humility, align ourselves with Him, and ask for that which is good. Asking the saints for their prayers and intercessions also avails much when we approach with faith in Christ.

It's always ever been the people who have sex before marriage who get married and the people who don't fornicate who get lectured on what they're doing wrong. The first category actually harms the second, as well. They keep blaming the good ones so that they don't have to offend the ones with the power. Pushing dirt around. It won't work forever.

@@Poodle_GunWhy don’t you call out sexual sin as much as you can. I agree with you but we can’t change every one. I try to do it as much as I can and people are waking up. It’s clear the ones pushing the agenda are evil. But regardless you can have faith that we have a God of perfect justice and humility 👍

@Daniel-jv2tj the clergy have done everyone a great disservice for being cowardly in this, focusing on shaming people into marriage, which encourages this behavior. Sometimes, they'll go to the other extreme and make a perfectionist checklist of spouse traits. They never have the bravery to face these people. I would back a clergyman up on this decision. It can't all be my job, unless they want to have women priests and they force me to do it. Not my job. With women it's like, if we get hit and don't cry, male "leaders" assume it didn't hurt. If I complain, I sound bitter. If I don't complain loudly, they think I must be fine with everything, and they get to ignore it. This policy they've let sit has destroyed my life in so many ways, it would take me books to explain. It has killed me. I'm no volunteer, I do this for myself now.

@@Daniel-jv2tj calling out sin is a start. People need to be abrasive and disliked. I've put in my time, I'm sick. Those are your decisions to make.

Glory to God that His providence leads us to Him through His faithful servants!

I hear you, and I'm sorry that you deal with these issues. I too struggle in finding stillness and love in it all. I hope you find the peace you deserve. Things will be better tomorrow

@JP-ff3vo I'm just critiquing, I'm very grateful and humble for being alive and finding the on true church and having what mercies given to me good and bad, I struggle more with laziness and despondency and I really don't like work, I'm not very good at it nor does it pay enough for the basics but materialism and money isn't everything, I'm nit a fan of people that don't share my morals and worldview so I don't care about love from other, I've been alone my whole life and prefer it but it does have its problems, just like when your not alone and surrounded by others, everything has a trade off, I just wish the churches in America wouldn't kneel to the godless government when they over reach

Wow houses are cheap where you live! I know Orthodox married couples who still live in their parents/in-laws basement because they are still young and don’t have the savings to buy a house. Money is *not* the reason we aren’t married. I too get hit with waves of loneliness, but when the pain subsides I thank God because I know I’m not spiritually ready for the kind of marriage I want yet.

Also, there are people living in poverty in India and Africa who are married and have 8+ kids. We REALLY have no excuse in the west. Money is clearly not the issue. If you were 100% spiritually ready, you wouldn’t have to look far to find a wife. I know young men who are very serious about the faith (and have been for many years) who have parents coming to them after Divine Liturgy to ask him to marry their daughters.

@@nickkerinklio8239exactly in Eastern Europe families prefer their 20 something to marry and have kids and live with them up until they are financially secure It’s best then to date and fall into sexual sin and have babies outside of wedlock

It is likely Catherine of Alexandria since Catherine of Siena is not canonized in the Orthodox Church.

Father John was referring to Saint Catherine the Great Martyr, the one whom the torture device was named after: The Catherine-Wheel. We know from her life that the torturers were not able to use it on her due to an Angel shattering the wheel to pieces.