Survivors of spiritual persecution 

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Often I have seen Jewish people say, "May their memory be a blessing" about their dear departed. It looks like these elders certainly are. Thank you, Father.

The way that you speak about your Elder's is so experiential and like real family, it is wonderful to hear their perseverance and willingness to suffer for Christ no matter the situation. Something that might seem impossibly difficult to us today, though they prove it is possible. May their Souls rest forever in peace with our Lord and Saviour.

Eternal be their memories Father Seraphim

I love it when you say hello my dear ones so much love nd humility. I would love to travel nd stay at your beloved monastery sometime in the future. God bless you pray for me.

And from us, your disciples in Christ, much love and gratitude, dear Father

Blessed be God forever

Thank you for sharing your wonderful memories, and the important warning to never follow a person or group that wants to eliminate "others".

Thank You so,so much,Dear Fr.!!This is amazing!I m speechless!Much Love,much Light to You,Fr.!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you for sharing these stories. I am in awe of your elders, whose holiness shines through even in photographs. It is so inspiring, such spiritual food, to hear of holy souls whose lives of prayer in silence and darkness sings the loudest and shines the brightest to tell us of the glory of God. May these most holy men smile upon us from Heaven, and pray for the sanctification of our souls.

Thank you, father Seraphim, for sharing these stories. Reminded me to be grateful for the "peaceful" time we are living in. And happy birthday, may the heaven swallow you, may Christ bless you and keep you, amen.

I love you with all my hearth Fr. Seraphim! Thank you and Δόξα τω θεώ!

Hello Father, thank you for sharing these stories with us. I was truly touched by the story of Elder Daniel, sharing the same name as him and having recently recognized in myself my own lack of obedience and discipline. It brought a tear to my eye to hear his story, and how devoted one could be. Having prayed for guidance with respect to obedience and discipline, hearing his story has brought me courage.

Thank you, father

✝️ ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕСЕ ☀️ ❤💪🙏✝ БОГ ДАЕТ НАМ СИЛУ ✝🙏⛪️🕊

Oh father Seraphim I am just crying because you reached my heart, together with your beautiful Elders. There is so much hate and condemnation in the world and to be frank,sometimes I make the same mistake due to fear for the future. There is so much chaos! I hope many people will hear your lovely stories and start loving instead of condemning each other. May God bless you and the monastery forever 💒🙏🙏🙏❤️

Thank you for sharing contemporary lives of saints you knew - it was a blessing, encouragement, and rebuke all in one, in the best possible way. Many years to you as well, from Canada! 🌿

Thank you for these grace-filled words, dear Father Seraphim! God grant you good strength for the journey and beautiful Paradise! Pray for us, as we remember you always with joy and gratitude! Priest Sava

These elders are so beautiful.Thank You for sharing them with us.

God grant you many, many years!

Dear father! ❤ So happy to see you again ! GOD BLESS!!❤❤

Christ love and blessings.

Thanks for sharing that dear Father Tyrannosaurus Rex.😂

Pray for me father Seraphim. I am just coming to the church and in to knowing how bad my life was before I found orthodoxy. I do not think I’m even officially a cacumen. Pray for me. God bless you. By the way I’m 17 just to let you know, if that matters

Old in your 40s??? Father, when you get to your 60s like me, you'll begin to understand what BEGINNING to get old feels like. 😄 Life begins at 60, and you have already explained by the stories of your Elders how true that is. God bless you. ☦

Thank you Father, very helpful, Pax Christi.

God bless you and keep you fr seraphim. May the peace of Christ be with you.

Thank you that was a great story about the elder who pretended to be deaf

Such a funny beginning, Father Seraphim. Thank you so much for all this.

You are a beautiful soul, Father. Thank you for sharing with us. Bless you.

Happy Birthday if it is !! God bless you

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To get that Call and experience inner peace is truly a gift to us...in that Clarity we perceive the world for what it truly is...

Χρονιά πολλά, Πατέρας ☦

Hello, this is the first video that I see from you . I am thankful that you bring this message to the light. Because I could not exactly explain to people why communism was bad until you put the right words for it because I have done the mistake on being one of those yonosabokids, basically the kids from immigrants that came to the USA and we only know what we been taught by the US education system deems good in books and also anything that passes censorship in certain states. I was born in New York City Area and was raised Christian but I always felt like I did not understand why God asked us to do these things. I then ended up becoming lost in the world and became a communist. I had a breaking up with Jesus because the church that I was in failed to protect me and instead blamed me being that church until that point had been all my life. I felt betrayed by God. I ended up some how reading about communism from someone's dating profile not the most ideal place to find out about a philosophy and I talked to them of course they were going to gloss at what they did to Christians to me because many of them wanted to date me and I did not look up what they did to Orthodox Christians I just looked at how Communism could be used in the US and Modern World ignoring completely the history until this year I became an Orthodox Christian after being persecuted for my religion because I was Christian and a male witch abandoned me in the woods after gaslighting me and trying to get me to deny God. I would not stop praying to God and I laughed when I figured out why he had isolated me because he had been trying to get me to try to spiritually attack me. After I would not deny my religion I heard a voice calling onto me telling me it was time and I walked past the woods through an orchard and mountains 54 miles in one day 2 packs of coyotes followed me one after the other I yelled at them I walked with Jesus and they yelped. This year I was told by a witch to come to my mother's house that my ancestors were telling me I had to I told her that unless God closed all my paths I wouldn't and I was sent someone that tried hurting me again spiritually the same way but this time just humiliation and trying to force me into these low emotions that I had enough with people I felt it was God telling me it was time to break up with the world. I left him when in a weird demonic type voice he asks me why I do not want to have improper discourse with him around children and I knew then that was not a regular person. I had been praying to Jesus mind you around him but when he asked me before his religion I said I believed in Jesus he hissed and got all mad and I told him we can agree to disagree but then when I wished a girl from my culture who was getting blessed on her 15 yr old day he got so mad I wished her God to bless her and he made some horrible disgusting remarks and I felt the energy change around him even more he felt the same as the guy from last year. I then ran away to my mother's house and broke up with social media, I stopped using my cellphone all together, I started to read books I found an Orthodox church started to read The Bible again, I felt called to monastic life. I feel that is where I will find peace with Jesus. I saw what communism did and I cried for hours feeling guilty for even giving that horrible ideology space in my head. God have mercy on people who had gotten lost in believing in Satan's lies.

i too became older on 9/21...you are a great blessing to my life, a gift from Hashem...thank you for the videos, i look forward to them every friday...be blessed my dear one, Amen, Amen, Amen...

It's been a while Father Seraphim, but you assure us that God gave you a wonderful sense of humor 🙏

Many years, Father! I must chuckle, as you call yourself a dinosaur. I used to work in a high school, and I would tell the students that I was so old I remember when we invented MUD. I told them it was very easy to make, just mix earth with water. I said it with a very straight face. So fun, those memories. By the way - I remember my 40's...they were rough, but somehow, the 50's get easier!!!

Your Elders were truly devoted, thank you Father for sharing some details of their life, very inspiring Now I understand why many say that I should read the life of the Orthodox Saints but especially that lived closer to our times unfortunately I can't afford it

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂❤

First time I heard someone say "Oh my God" without blashpheming!

God bless you father Thank you for sharing with us the story of these lovely people There’s almost nothing quite impactful in one’s spiritual life as much as meeting and being close by someone who is a loving gospel 🙏🥰✝️

Thank you, Father. I am inspired and convicted by the life of prayer your Abbot experienced in the mines. I need renewal in prayer at work so I will also set aside the time to pray a psalm. Thank you for sharing your love for your spiritual family with us.

Fr Seraphim... this was a beautiful testimony of those Fathers who shaped your monastic journey. I look forward to watching your video every Friday at the end of the working week. I had the opportunity to visit Iona a few weeks ago for a day trip and saw your monastery and a young monk cutting the grass at the front, I was hoping to see you and to thank you in person but i believed you were, from your videos, in Romania at the time. Iona has stolen my heart and i am thinking of going there next year for a couple of weeks so hopefully we can meet in person then. May God bless you in everything that you are doing and may that blessing fall upon everyone who watches your videos. Damian

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Wishing you to get well and lot of health!!

This was so delightful! Thank you so much. Was it very hard to leave?

Please tell us more about your holy elders!

I wish I could be a monk living in a place like Iona.

I feel like ive just been put on trial and found guilty. Tough guy. Hard heart. Judge everything. I go to church because i realized i cant do it myself anymore. There has to be something more. Im no communist, but the opposite, an individual.. but i see now an individual in the worst way. And still try to carry all the weight by myself anyway.. Ill go put my face back in the Gospels and look for my answer. I didnt mean to write a letter here. Ill just say thank you and get back to work

Doamne ajuta Parinte Serafim! Sarut mana! Eu sunt Luminita, fiica duhovniceasca a Parintelui Iulian Nistea de la Cathédrale Mitropoliteana Sfintii Arhangheli Mihail, Gavriil si Rafail din Paris. Va urmaresc cu multa bucurie si cu drag. Va multumesc pentru tôt ce am invatat de la Sfintia voastra si simt ça sunteti un om sincer si ça atunci cand ne vorbiti pune-ti in cuvinte si viata din viata si simtirea Sfintiei voastre. Va rog frumos sa raspunde-ti la intrbarea mea, daca este posibil: Aveti un vidéo in care ne vorbiti despre bucurie, difuzat acum un an. La un moment dat niste fiinte intunecate apar in fundal si incep sa sara. Ce sunt acestea? Multumesc si Doamne ajuta Parinte Serafim

Communist Romania was especially harsh

Blm father.

Fr. Seraphim Aldea-saurus. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Why is the room referred to as a "cell"?

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