Christ is Risen! Lord, save and preserve Your clergy. God keep you, Father, and bless us. Thank you for continuing to nourish us sinners in these desperate times. Prayers for you and your family.
Thanks for the guidance and wisdoms! With prayers from NZ we are grateful for the few positives of the internet such as access to this! Ha! To those reading. Please join your local Orthodox Liturgy or Vesper service, (shorter) if you didn't already! and you will find a place of great healing. No reason to be afraid 😊🙏 Blessings, Christ is Risen
Thank you for this reflection Father. I am very grateful for your videos. I really needed to hear this. I am praying for you Father and I hope you could say a prayer for me as well.
@@living_orthodox As of now, I am just an inquirer, but when I do get baptized I was hoping to either be baptized under the name Hippolytus or John after either Saint Hippolytus of Rome or Saint John the Theologian. Most likely John at this point so if you would like to use that name during your prayers you can, but Hippolytus would also work. Thank you so much Father.
Thank you Father. I have an unrelated question: What is a prayer rule? How do I establish one? I think a video could be very beneficial to explain to other beginners in the faith. Lord have mercy.
In my personal life I've suffered greatly from anger, and hate since early in my life. It's not natural and not rational, it's something I need to face. Many times I've told myself that "I wasn't born this way", and it's just been a non-stop battle..
With gluttony, this is very hard when you live with a person that buys junk food all the time. My husband is not orthodox & buys cookies, chips, etc. Aside from gluttony, these things are horrible for the human body anyway. Any suggestions to combat gluttony in this situation?
Are you in the U.S.? Did you know every branch of the U.S. mil itary has at least one Orthodox chaplain? You can find a list of them and I suggest sending yours an email, I know one of them and he LOVES hearing from Orthodox service members and inquirers!
It can be, but most often it comes from pride and intemperance. Pride when it’s wounded, causes anger to be directed at the offender, rather than one’s own faults. Intemperance with things like food, leads one to the inability to control their emotions and their responses.
@@TheOrthodoxOnion Are you suggesting that protestants and catholics do not bear fruit? Interesting claim. Here's a counter-question. Does anyone but God have the ability to truly cut off a branch? Like not just politically, but spiritually. You really think a man has the power to do that?
@@theTavis01 The papal protestants severed themselves from the true vine, the church, and fell away into delusion as a result. As to bearing fruit, the fruit of the protestant reformers and the papists is spiritual schizophrenia and its effects are evident in society.
@@theTavis01 Men have done it through being ecumenist, being liberal, throwing books of the biblical cannon away, like Luther: you've got it twisted, the protestants churches broke off and became heretical sects who had countless different interpretations and sects within them, some so-so, and others who try to be more conservative. I'd say historically, especially in European nations, yes, it was the seemingly better, easiest choice that they had. Root cause? They didn't want to be Catholics. Why didn't they want to be "Roman" Catholic? There's many reasons why they drifted from Catholicism, rooted in theology, Christology, ideologies, the hierarchy of the "pope", there's many videos on it, you should watch them. Jay Dyer who is a good Orthodox apologist, he discusses it regularly.
