Oh how I love our Theotokos. Justin, may I ask if you have ever done the Holy Rosary? I have found that in combination with the Jesus Prayer, they are most powerful. Id love to hear on other people experience using theses prayers together ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L2PsbQ5K5go.html
We love Our Beloved Mother The Ever Virgin Mary, The Mother of God here in Ethiopia. Love and so much adore you Father from Ethiopian Orthodox Christian. 💐💚💛❤️
I'm from a small town in the Southern Bible belt, USA... raised Catholic--- I was a minority. I have wanted, my whole life--- to shout it on the mountain tops. If you're a protestant watching and reading the comments. Ask the Holy Spirt to lead you into the truth of Mary! Queen of Heaven.💓
Holy Theotokos, pray for me. My heart is impure and I am plagued by Logismoi. Will you deliver my prayer to the throne of your Son our God and Saviour? Amen
@@ZacharyClause It is a hyperbole or a shorter version of the prayer. If you like, think of it as "Most Holy Theotokos save us [through thy intercession to thy Son]" as that is what is being meant. Christ is the only one who saves us but the the Theotokos is counted as the highest of the saints and the Mother of God, whom Christ honors as his Mother (as you can see when she inspires His first miracle at the Wedding at Cana, with the water being turned to wine. Mary requested something be done about the wine being gone)
@@ZacharyClause If you'd be at all interested and if you use Discord, we have a server that is geared towards answering questions of those inquiring into Orthodoxy. It is called "Kursk Root Lodge" if you ever care to look us up.
Dear Father, thank you for being a true expression of God's Grace, and thereby being a further sign the Orthodox Church will be my home. May God continue to bless you and your sacrifices. 🙏🏼
You are right about the risk of Nestorianism. When I truly appreciated the hypostatic union biblically as a Protestant It was only then I realised the legitimacy of Mary being the Theotokos and so began my exploration of Orthodoxy. Indeed she is the Mother of the Logos!!! Pray for me please.
Bless me father Spyridon... You have earned here on the internet another congregation of the faithful who thirst for your sermons and wisdom of The Church you are expressing. God permitting, please keep it coming.
Glory be to God +++ Fr Bless+ God bless your family , friends and those around you+++ Thank you for these spiritual words - For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed; for He that is mighty has done to me great things (Luke 1:48-49) For the Apostle Paul says: Therefore brethren stand fast and keep the traditions which you have been taught whether by word or our epistle (2 Thess. 2:15) For even the ARCHANGEL saw the HOLLINESS of our Mother of God THEOTOKOS -When the Archangel Gabriel was sent to Nazareth and announced to her that she will bear the Son of God (Luke 1:35), coming to her he called her full of grace and said blessed are you among women (Luke 1:28) On the day of the great judgment -as the psalm indicates by saying Upon Thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir (Ps 45:9) May we ask in repentance for the prayers of our MOTHER OF ALL the ever Virgin Mary “THEOTOKOS “ “Rejoice, Bride, Unwedded." Glory be to God+++
Greetings. Greece has played an important role in the creation of orthodox culture. However, the statistics show a diminishing of faith and church attendance there, and one of the highest abortion rates in Europe. Sadly a determined attack has been aimed at Hellenic culture. I hope you are able to protect your language and traditions.
I have struggled with my faith as a Catholic, but one thing I have never been able to give up In all my attempts to is there Mary is the mother of God and there for most be respected as such. No Protestant church I’ve ever been to (and I have been to many) has ever been able to express with appropriate respect.
St.Thomas was late because he was in India on his apostolic mission. On his way back, he saw St.Mary being carried to heaven. The angels gave him St.Mary's girdle. And when he told the other apostles that he had seen St.Mary being carried to heaven, they opened her grave and found it to be empty. - A St.Thomas christian from India
"He who is devout to the Mother of God will certainly never be lost." Are we talking about _that_ St Ignatius of Antioch who became martyr somewhere in 117 AD, and if yes, where did he say this? I've read his letters, and couldn't find this word, not at least from the compilation I have.
To the unenlightened this all seems like idolatry but to those filled with the Holy Spirit it is none other than the sufficiently of Christ, for those of darkened minds’ also think that the very Christ is an idol.
Hebrews 11:23-26 Living Bible 23 Moses’ parents had faith too. When they saw that God had given them an unusual child, they trusted that God would save him from the death the king commanded, and they hid him for three months and were not afraid. 24-25 It was by faith that Moses, when he grew up, refused to be treated as the grandson of the king, but chose to share ill-treatment with God’s people instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He thought that it was better to suffer for the promised Christ than to own all the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking forward to the great reward that God would give him. Much love in Christ Jesus forevermore (🥰 in ✝️) as i live and love to Praise Him✝️. i am grateful to see you well Dear Father 🥰Spyridon. May the Grace of Jesus be with you and your loved ones.
Think about how Jesus was contrasting His Mother with the other “mother of the son of god, Empress Livia.” Bethsaida was dedicated to Livia in AD 29. He had to be careful with Roman authorities. Mary loved and gave up Her Son to crucifixion. Livia wanted to be worshiped as a goddess.
Hi Fr. Can you do a video about old and new calendar. I get confused about this because we celebrated the Dormation 2 weeks ago and only during pascha we celebrate that together. I just want to know why we have to have old and new and can not just have one that all orthodoxy follows? Thank you Fr. It never occurred to me to ask the heiromonk that was here visiting from Saint George monastery the holy mountain Greece.
Elijah was also assumed and some interpret that Enoch was also assumed but scripture is less explicit on in his story so it is a controversial interpretation.
Father, I would like to ask a favour on behalf of all believers. I believe that Hadassah, who became Esther, was not unlike the Theotokos in some ways; of course, not in all ways but certainly she was a woman of great faith and dedication to God.
Would you pray about passing along a call to extra prayer and fasting on the 3 days over Sept 9 - Sept 11? We are facing an onslaught that, too, is in my opinion similar to the one that God's people faced at the hands of Haman. The luciferian agenda and the 'pan' demic go hand in hand, and we need to stand with great boldness against these enemies, including those who are pushing propaganda, lies and vaccines that are laced with pure evil. May God see to it that our enemies become like Haman, hanged on his own gallows.
In a way, queen Esther is truly a type of Holy Theotokos - I have sometimes used her as an example about Virgin Mary's status and roles in the Kingdom of God.
Hello Father but why must we ask her to intercede for us. When we can directly go to Christ. Don’t think I’m trying to debate I am very intrigued by orthodoxy and have been studying more.
im really drawn to orthodoxy but matthew 1:25 makes me struggle with her VIRGINITY, she is truly the mother of God but i cant read matthew 1:25 and trust church fathers over scripture
Moses died and was buried. Enoch and Elijah will come to earth during the time of Antichrist, will preach, be martyred and then resurrected. The only ones in Heaven who (at this moment) have resurrected bodies are the Mother of God and her Son our Lord Jesus Christ.
@@kylebrogmus8847 I see. The origin of the two witness seems to come from an apocryphal gospel, so I'm not sure about that, but it makes sense that Mary is unique in that regard. Moses though did come back to life though, as seen in the transfiguration.
Alfredo Lebron That was Moses’s spirit not his body. The transfiguration revealed that Christ is the God of the living (e.g. Elijah) and the dead (e.g. Moses).
Hello Jacob, the rosary is not something I have ever used or been taught about simply because it doesn't belong to Orthodox tradition. As an Orthodox I believe the Church has everything needed to attain salvation and so I do not investigate practices out side of it like the rosary.
There are some rosary-like traditions in Orthodoxy too (one being from Dimitri of Rostov, "Devotion to the Five Sorrows of the Theotokos", and one possibly from St Seraphim of Sarov), but these are very late practices and I don't know whether these are independent traditions or deeply originated and shaped by Western influences. But I'd say (as a simple layperson) that doing the Rosary as it is known from Catholicism does not belong to Holy Orthodoxy.
Father, this is probably a strange question. But which Bible to study? Are all Bibles the same...or there is a specific Bible I should look for? Thank You!
Certain protestant translations were changed by Jewish printers to remove references the to divinity of Christ. This has led to all kinds of heretical thinking in the West. The King James version and the orthodox Study bible are very reliable.
@@FatherSpyridonROCOR "A house divided against itself, cannot stand." and "They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment." As an Orthodox hermit it saddens me deeply to hear an orthodox monk talk like this. The holy mysteries with in the Catholic church are felt and honoured deeply, just as in the orthodox church!
@@j-pdebeer6747 So, you are an "Orthodox hermit" in favour of ecumenism who spends his time leaving comments on RU-vid. The lack of Orthodox ethos in your comment suggests you may not be all you claim to be J P de Beer. You shouldn't make claims to monasticism - God will surely judge you for this.
@@lukelucas9264 You are right! I rightly deserve to be judged for I am a wrecked, wicked and sinful man. My soul is filled with stench and filth. I am not worthy of Christs mercy. You are probably much more worthy than I am :( May Christ have mercy on my soul. It will be wise to consider that The Holy Presence of Christ and the Theotokos is felt deeply in Orthodox and Catholic services alike. Who are we to oppose Christ!
@@j-pdebeer6747 Your exaggerated false humility in order to make a criticism tastes decidedly un-Orthodox. No orthodox monk or hermit would speak like that. As for your claims of those outside the Church having feelings - as any orthodox monk would know, the Church fathers warn us again and again not to trust in feelings of any kind, but most especially so-called spiritual feelings. The demons work to comfort those outside of God's grace in order that they don't seek salvation. Similarly they give nice feelings to those who practice yoga and meditation. Keep your fake humility to yourself, stop pretending to be something you are not.
Father may i ask if orthodox churches have an issue with accepting westerners in, i have been trying to start a conversion path for me my wife and little girl but churches here (i'm from Italy) have been painfully indifferent pretending we don't exist.
even though pope Francis and his cronies are betraying the Faith it is the (Roman) Catholic Church founded by Christ and we should be in communion with him (even a joker like Francis). Ave Maria!
Well...yes and no.....the human Christ I think was more of a recepticle (or a vessel) of the Christ Himself so Mary is more the mother of the body of G-d on earth but not of G-d Himself, who is immortal and has neither beginning nor end. So much error has sprang up about her limited role because when people look at the Gospel they say "Seriously? She was just a servant of God with no other role?" They want MORE and thus the erroneous theology of the cult of Mary which G-d has condemned as a MAJOR HUGE SIN!!!!! In fact there is a direct connection between the Cult of Mary and the Cannaanite Queen of Heaven cult. G-d calls it an abomination very clearly and repeatedly but the sinful Catholic and Orthodox won't listen. You CAN LOSE YOUR SALVATION IF YOU WORSHIP MARY!!!!! Stop being idiots, worship G-D ONLY!!!!
@Herman of Alaska When we first call heretics to repent, be gentle with them Herman. If they refuse to repent of their evil then anathema. This protestant may well have a genuine longing for God but has been led astray by the western heretics. having encountered and heard the truth of orthodoxy, they have no excuse but to answer to god for their rejection of His Son - for he who rejects the Mother of God cannot know her Son. She gave birth to God - she is truly mother of God.
I do respect Mary but i do not recognize her as God Has any of the Apostles in the New Testament mentioned her to the churches or in the book of Revelation There is God, the lamb and the 24 Elders There is no mention of Mary the mother of God as you say it
After 300 years after the Lord's resurrection the catholic church under constantine was formed and it was catholic It was there that the talk about Mary as the mother of God came about No apostle has mentioned her anywhere The only One that is most important is the Lord Yeshua
God has no mother and to think that is foolish Christ is the Son of God God is God the Father. THE CREATOR the Son is the light of his Father in this flesh and word of God his Father made flesh. You people are blasphemous out the wazoo. You lean to hard to ERROR
Oh how I love our Theotokos. Justin, may I ask if you have ever done the Holy Rosary? I have found that in combination with the Jesus Prayer, they are most powerful. Id love to hear on other people experience using theses prayers together
Father Spyridon, thank you for speaking on the Most Holy Blessed Virgin and reminding us that she is truly the Mother of GOD. Sadly, there are so many Christians who not only do not believe this truth but outright reject it. If you have not already done so (I have not seen all of your videos yet), please speak on the truth of the Mother of GOD being our mother also, who loves, cares and prays for us as her own children. Thank you.
psalm 45 the queen is at right hand o fGOD/she is figuratively the theotokos becomes the very throne of CHRIST/bleesed is the womb of wisdom/your name is precious perfume of cedarwood
