“Our Church Leaders are Corrupt…”

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Жыл бұрын

- With Fr. Peter Heers. ☦️
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@Cavirex Жыл бұрын

When Father Peter takes off his glasses you know that things are about to get serious! 😂

@user-oy9fu9db8c Жыл бұрын

And yet he's kind in his words never judging and always concerned about his flock. What a great Priest

@user-eu8ub9cm5t Ай бұрын

Unfortunately Father Peter thinks 1 John 5/16 should be deleted from Bible as well as Jeremiah 7/16 and 11/14 and 14/11

@OrthodoxEthos Ай бұрын

Nope

@raphaelslaysasmodeus Ай бұрын

@@user-eu8ub9cm5t care to provide evidence and not just baseless claims?

@dionemontgomery4133 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Father Peter

@Orthodoxi Жыл бұрын

Fathers like Father Peter will address these problems as our Lord wants them to. I had many reasons in the last four years for grievance over some of the sins ever growing in our Church administration, but because i was seeking our Lords will primarily, He was always able to gently and lovingly guide me away from taking any action. Gently rebuffing me and revealing my own sins instead in ever greater light. Here was a great healing of me by Him! And in forgiving and loving others as a correct stance to their sins, including of course Fathers in the Church, such great healing came to me! It goes on and on...the hardest part is to keep turning to Him as i grow into being transformed into life with Him. So many sins around us to distract us from His living body where there is no sin at all and only mercy for all of us sinners! Can you believe it!?

@justian1772 Жыл бұрын

A timely message. Thank you.

@CosmicMystery7 Жыл бұрын

Very timely message, Fr. Peter.

@colmwhateveryoulike3240 Жыл бұрын

Excellent thank you Father that's actually very reassuring. It always helps me when I am reminded that Orthodoxy is a body of people throughout all the ages united by the Orthodox teachings and traditions and not the collection of living people who currently occupy positions within the Orthodox Church community. All of us living within that community must be struggling to maintain our part of that larger unity under true Orthodox Church and when I look at it that way, I am less fearful of even the fact that a Patriarch or priest may be in error (besides my usual ongoing fear for all potentially lost souls), or of how it affects me.

@evangelosnikitopoulos 5 ай бұрын

If a patriarch is in error you cannot be in spiritual communion with him. Simple as that. It's like if someone offers you poison. You have a choice of whether to accept it. If you do, God will judge you personally for heresy, not the Patriarch. Here's a recap: Constantinople is lost Alexandria and Antioch are openly in union with the Monophysites The Moscow Patriarchate was created by Stalin, preached communism for 70 years and is filled with Renovationists and spiritually illiterate and corrupt ex-KGB bishops and priests Greece and Romania embraced modernism in the 20s and ecumenism in the 60s Bulgaria rejected the WCC but it changed the calendar in the 60s, making it schismatic Serbia was a late hold out but has increasingly embraced ecumenism in the past 40 years Jerusalem used to be a bastion of hope, but it signed on to the ecumenist synod of Kolymbari in 2016 So that leaves the ROCOR not in communion with Moscow, the Greek and Romanian "Old Calendarists" and _maybe_ the Patriarchate of Georgia.

@stavrouladeessegloria 5 ай бұрын

Christ is born, glorify Him ☦️ May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️ Yes! And usually the priest will take a short cut to discard the laypersons who know the teaching of the Holy Fathers. Lord have mercy ☦️ We do pray and take the risk to be slandered because to be silent means consent. Save O Lord Thy people....

@matthew28-acts238 Жыл бұрын

When a Bishop excommunicates a monk who refuses to listen to the lie of Covid, and will not agree that churches should be shut down, that Bishop needs to repent. Pray for our Bishops as they are all under great attack, and some are compromised with the Earthly powers.

@matthew28-acts238 Жыл бұрын

@@alexeios Yes, and the Monk's name is Father Sergiy. He was willing to speak out against man's unwillingness to trust The Holy Trinity to intervene, instead a man of God is now facing seven years in prison because he dared to follow the path of reality and Truth, while other men of God are denying that very God and His ability to protect us all. I believe people were getting sick because they denied the grace and power of God in His Church.

@LeviShinah-gy2fl 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, great elder . Many christian church leaders have always battle agaisnt the monks.

@stanyard Жыл бұрын

As a wise man once said... "stop disliking people for what you 'heard' about them and be thankful that God loves you for what He knows"

@user-cp6xu1od6v Жыл бұрын

This was so important. Some are so over-zealous, that they become judgmental not only towards their friends and family, but also towards the Church and the hierarchy of the Church. First you cultivate the orthodox ethos, fight the passions, fight the egoism in yourself. Fighting heresy is a task, only few are able to. One needs true love (not the "love" that is propagated in modern society), deep faith and a lot of discernment to do that. I would say, the easier it is for someone to criticise and judge the Church and its Hierarchs the less he is able or ready (spiritually) to do so. Κύριε Ιησού Χριστέ, Υιέ του Θεού ελέησον ημάς ☦️

@clonez4960 11 күн бұрын

Thank you and Glory to God🙏❤️

@Vartholomeos. Жыл бұрын

We must NEVER judge a decon, priest or bishop on their personal lives, or for that matter anyone! But on dogmatic reasons ie heresy, Orthodox Christians have a right to point out their error!! Nor do we break communion or commemorating of a bishop if they are guilty of personal sins, but in the case of dogmatic issues like publicly preaching heresy as the 15th Canon of the First-Second Council states, you can break communion and cease commemorating them even if they have not yet been formally deposed or and defrocked by an Orthodox synod.

@draganbabic3139 12 күн бұрын

Not only that you can break the communion, moreover you'll be honoured for that, according zo 15-16

@Ag-wu4mi Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clarification.

@millieeee3 Ай бұрын

Christos Anesti🙏☦️🇬🇷

@soulfulplaya5508 Жыл бұрын

Amen Father the spiritual war for us lay people can be strong at times but for the Orthodox church and all Christian faiths around the world the war is never ending ..The Devil will not stop,.Father you and many holy Father's are our first line of defence our rocks ,the Orthodox church is strong and full of Gods grace,but it's only that way because of holy fathers like you and so many others bless you all, may God always protect you . Godbless World Family .

@MrGb1965 6 ай бұрын

I believe I remember hearing Father Hopko say that any false accusations against clergy are punishable by TEN YEARS without Communion according to the canons.

@eleftheria9179 Жыл бұрын

«Το μη κρίνετε, ίνα μη κριθήτε, περί βίου εστίν, ου περί πίστεως» αγιος Ιωάννης ο Χρυσόστομος Father, if you please, translate this quote of saint John the chrysostome. I wouldn't want to make a mistake and confuse our American brothers. Thank you.

@WoodchuckNorris.8o Жыл бұрын

I love the quote you posted by St Gabriel of Georgia

@ArizonaTengu Жыл бұрын

I get in a tone of trouble with my priest. Being a man who never truly worked outside of the family business. My biological father was my boss for 17yrs. My biological father was extremely hilarious but also the most dangerous accident prone man you’d ever meet. So I have a history of criticism and taking strong positions to those in authority, because I’m worried about their safety. This naturally gets me in trouble with my priest. To which I reply, “What kind of son would see his father going astray and not do anything to save him?”

@asentseto Ай бұрын

Well said, father. That’s why we need to submit to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and recognise his authority.🙂

@xenosmann831 Ай бұрын

Yes we have issues with the Bishops of Holy Orthodoxy. What about the fact there's little to 0 actual Orthodox catchesism in most parish Churches? Prayer life isn't stressed, personal opinion and conjecture is used as psuedo dogma. Ok I'm running for a hill

@Renew55574 5 ай бұрын

Its sad to hear this news.😢

@PLE594 Жыл бұрын

Catholic guy here, I will pray for the clergy. Good message Peter

@nikiaivazaki135 Жыл бұрын

Την ευχή σας πάτερ.

@red_words Жыл бұрын

I learned if a preacher or pastor is telling you you should go to church because of some flimsy correlation to a verse and then totally ignores the direct commands to help the widow, the stranger, the orphan etc. They are not someone in line with the scripture.

@aldousbrawndo996 Ай бұрын

The recipe for bread today and the recipe for bread when the church began our different recipes clearly the overlord class can't starve its people of bread but they can keep them just alive enough to be slaves to them of course the bred in this analogy is understanding of the spiritual reality of this world

@user-os4ef7ow9r Ай бұрын

100% ORTHODOX answer

@ICXCCunnii Жыл бұрын

The Lord has told us we are ALL fallen, so why harp on it? Wishful thinking that the clergy would be above this, but St. John Chrysostom has already spoken of this, it's not new. But that's the spirit of this age, call-outs, exposing, debating, etc. We must work with what the Lord has given or let to have, figure it out with the Lord in mind, do what we are blessed or allowed to do, make your choice...

@nastjavk 5 ай бұрын

I admit that this is very hard to do.. Not to judge them. Especially cuz you wanna trust them. But yea, we are people, we are sinful. We have to love sinners but hate their sins. And yes. Pray to repent.

@georgeduncan8946 3 ай бұрын

💥💥💥....devil knows🤔

@vasiliossmith2616 Жыл бұрын

Father Peter I will not judge his personal life eg homsexual or pornography . But it our duty to speak up when the cannon's of the Church are been trotten . Saint Paul saids clearly If an Angel of God come and teaches something different to what we have been given ANATHEMA if i teah something different ANATHEMA me too.

@mina6753 2 ай бұрын

من فضلك ابونا تكلم ببطئ لأن الترجمه حسب سرعة كلامك...من الأراضي المقدسة

@AnthonyKypros Жыл бұрын

This was slightly lost on me. Sorry. Personally I just call a spade a spade. No ifs, no buts.

@user-ji2on8eg3l Жыл бұрын

Saint Matthew 7:1-6 Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye. “Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.

@PLE594 Жыл бұрын

How come you say don’t judge him but you judge the pope and the Catholic Church?

@living_orthodox Ай бұрын

They’re not in the Church.

@nikolaj3927 4 ай бұрын

But should we not excommunicate people especially patriarchs that are heretics. Patriarch bartholomew is a heretic, we know that, so shouldn’t he be excommunicated?

@sakellarioudimitris7439 3 ай бұрын

No,but we can speak against them

@raybeshara1403 18 күн бұрын

Goodbye

@nohface7565 Жыл бұрын

"we do not judge people" meanwhile "gay baaad"

@BS-np8xt Жыл бұрын

Opposing the sin is not equivalent to judging the sinner. Sin and sinner are separate things; We want homosexuals to be saved and to repent of those destructive lifestyles.

@cheeseface6328 11 ай бұрын

So you think it's a good thing then? Please explain why.

@gritsteel3225 Жыл бұрын

Then my understanding is, to be silent regarding ecumenism?

@serbanandreimarin5988 10 ай бұрын

He literally said to draw attention onto false teachings and how that is perfectly legitimate

@greg8884 Жыл бұрын

Are saying we can't judge a priest who is known to be an active homosexuality.

@ChiRhoLabarum 6 ай бұрын

If judging is condeming/ having hatred towards him in your thoughts, yes. If judging is writing to your bishop to disipline the preist, then no.

@sofiebult6687 Жыл бұрын

Hair splitter

@georgekosich5563 18 күн бұрын

He's clearly a defender of Ecumenism, heresy and the power of heretical Bishops. He's now the newest member of my list of "Orthodox" clergy to avoid. Bye, bye!

@waseemch6347 10 сағат бұрын

You have no clue sir

@user-do1yo4yu8l Жыл бұрын

I’m a Roman Catholic priest. You are so wise. I love your theology and your words. Never judge. Yes ❤

@jonerlandson1956 Жыл бұрын

Christianity is only two things... if you know those two things you know the entire universe.... the greatest law.... humanity is not people... it never has been people... people are socialism and communism.... humanity is vision... because with it you can see the future is in division.....

@johnsambo9379 Жыл бұрын

That's false and you are spreading heresy.

@jonerlandson1956 Жыл бұрын

@@johnsambo9379 you're accusing me of heresy?... i'm not the one who said *_"All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments"..._*

@jonerlandson1956 Жыл бұрын

@@johnsambo9379 them two things were ordered #1 and #2.... it is the same story as in Noah.... humanity is NOT people... humanity is vision....

@user-pw1rr2vm8b Жыл бұрын

'People are socialism and communism?' are you sane?

@jonerlandson1956 Жыл бұрын

@@user-pw1rr2vm8b well mr sanity... explain to me why people are important....