This video is over 14 years old and just showed up in my recommended feed today, thanks be to God ☦️

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

Bishop lazar is a very kind and thoughtful man. I met him once. My friend Dustin told me to kiss lazars hand and ask him for a blessing. Then Bishop lazar grabbed my hand with great speed and kissed me on the hand with the pure love of a father and laughed saying "oh! I thought you were talking to me". He blessed me with the genuine love of his heart that acts to be like Christ. His love is great and the reason why he is worthy in the eyes of God for great wisdom. Consideration in the persute of truth is a pure reflection of compassion in the heart and the minds connection to it.

At 70 it seems I still have it all to learn.

I apologize for the long post, but I felt it was worth it for anyone wanting to know who Vladika Lazar Puhalo, formerly Lev Puhalo, is as a person. For the sake of those who have some sense of him, I will add that I grew up in the 1970s in Father Seraphim and Herman's Platina monastery. In the 1980s, I was blessed to have been taken in by Vladika and his monastery, and for the first time, I was introduced to the reality that one could serve Orthodoxy as a monastic, and be sound of mind, body, and soul. In my experience, Vladika Lazar is truly a legendary figure. A spiritual father to countless souls, a true father to a select, privileged few. Looking back now that I am older and 'wiser', what I always found so fascinating about Vladika Lazar, beyond just his compassion and kindness, is his unwillingness to concede to fanaticism in the Orthodox Church. This has resulted in his having to move between jurisdictions, being ever persecuted, ever seeking a healthy bastion of Christianity to stand with. I am unsure if he ever found what he was seeking, resulting in forming his own parish of healthy, like-minded individuals. Jealousy and mental illness in his opponents have been outlandish and downright embarrassing on their part - yet he has always persevered. To know him and those who have countered him, is to respect and cherish him more. If you researched him, you would find pages of 'Christians' calling him anything from Protestant, to living a life incognito of a former identity. Once you read deeply enough, you would see a repeat of nonsensical, stone-casting from people/priests, who were clearly envious of his intellect and clarity of mind. On a related note, Vladika has always had an attitude of 'what would Christ do in this situation?' when it came to translating convoluted dogma, measuring the influences of other religious effects on alleged Orthodoxy, and downright countering people dealing with various emotional issues. If he saw cultism, he called it out. If he saw Augustinian theology posing as Orthodoxy, he called it out. If he saw a priest or bishop misleading their flock, he called it out. And for this, he has earned the respect of many and the enmity and scorn of those he has examined. As I stated above, Vladika Lazar has been outspoken against Orthodox cultism, especially 70s era monastic groups that took advantage of the movements of the time and has countered irrational dogma that was steeped in various forms of canonical extremism. His progressive, seemingly 'liberal' opinion on controversial topics, made him forward thinking long before it was popular to do so. And, as I stated above, he has always had to deal with the repercussions. Sadly, people steeped deeply in a judgmental and clearly un-Christian fanaticism, have quite literally made up anything they could think of to demean him, even down to his very name. Meanwhile, all these years have passed, and he is still one of the most spiritually pure and wise people I have ever had the privilege of knowing. In short, I like to refer to this video as a small token of who the man has always been.

Thank you Father, your message is clear direction on what I should focus on, let my heart allow to connect with my mind. Mind is easy to change, heart is the hardest. You were praying the Jesus prayer while talking to us. May that way of thinking about God shine on me during the time my heart is hard.

I just wanted to thank you for these videos and for the fact they are so regular. I get so much from each one 🙏

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Glory to the SAVIOR

Wow. Just wow.

Bang! I love you.

Amazing Valdika. Thank You

Thank you for posting this. I am Catachumin and this is the biggest wall I'm facing. How to tare down the huge idol called me, Michael, my I self. Thank you for your guidance

Wow. This is important to hear and understand. It would be good to see more information about this video - the name of the speaker, location, etc.

A sideways coment ! One of the ways that I have found out more about myself, is through basic self awarness exercises. Just being aware of my body, my heart beating, aware of my thoughts, feelings and sensations. ' I am aware thereofor I am'. Also agre with you about hating others is a form of hating our reflections. Ar you aware of Bio- spiritual focusing ? I have preactisd this for some time, its an amazing root into self knowedge !

Is there ego in the heart?

Lazar Puhalo spouts blatant heresy

We hide feom ourselves. Do you mean hiding from God. Talking about egotism. Hiding from ourselves!

I would love to be part of orthodoxy, but 20 years of inner and outer research had me understand that, for example, reincarnation is true. This would never be accepted and I would be constantly approached by people that haven't done thourogh and deep research to change my mind.

This looked interesting when I first read the title of the video. But what is this, a priest in a Christian church telling us to think about people we hate and people we think are going to hell? Isn't this bordering on blasphemy? If we see ourselves as Christians, we should love God and our neighbor as yourself and not indulge in hatred and hell! Mark 12:31 Next comes this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these.” Nor can we interpret the scriptures as we think suits our opinions. Jesus teaches us to think critically, also regarding source criticism of the scriptures, please see Mark 10:5 and John 8:1-11. ❤️

No. Our greatest challenge is learning to love unconditionally