Fr. Gregory is a gift to the Church!

One of your VERY BEST videos!! SOOO many folks would benefit from seeing and listening to your words. Thank you!!

Also thank you Father Pine. This helped me more than you could know. God bless you

Wisdom 13:1-9 goes well with this wonderful talk. Viva Cristo Rey

7:48 “the great sugar daddy in the sky” just made me spit my coffee out 😂

I like this guy

Stunning. Lucid. Eye-opening. Extremely practical and useful. I was discussing fear today with a friend. Thank you Thomas Aquinas and Father Gregory.

I have been fearing the Lord now more then I ever have.. idk why.. I'm in my 50s and never have felt this fear before.. will watch this video hopefully helps me with this 🙏🤲🙏

Replace the word "fear" with "respect" and it makes more sense to me. Or when your Mom told you "Wait til your Dad gets home", that's how I feel about it. Love your father but fear the consequences if you do wrong.

Could you possibly do a 2024 series on St. Thomas’ 64 virtues? Like ~20min/virtue over a few months!

This was helpful for me. Thankyou.

Great video

So this is probably a weird question. But when Father Pine was talking about the reverential fear and how it's about simply the fact that god is so overwhelmingly existentially rich that would would cease to exist if He merely revealed His full Glory to us. Would this same effect apply to the angels and demons? And if so does this mean Lucifer also has this reverential (or perhaps better is existential, since Lucifer hates God) fear? And if Lucifer does, how would we reconcile that since it's a good kind of fear?

POPE BENEDICT XVI: “The phrase “fear of the Lord” should be understood in terms of awe, rather than dread. In contemplation of the Almighty, the Christian does not experience servile fear, but a sincere and serious respect that prompts genuine and active adherence.”

Ok. I understood this one. Not always the case. So...Not all fear is equal. There are different types of fear. And the only kind of fear that exists in heaven is reverential fear or awe of God.

didnt expect to hear Fr. Pine say "sugar daddy" today 😳

POPE BENEDICT XVI: “”People should not fear God, thinking he is always ready to punish, but rather they should love him because he is always ready to forgive. God is not a relentless sovereign who condemns the guilty, but a loving father whom we must love not out of fear of punishment, but because of his goodness. The Lord is a God who is just, but always ready to reveal himself as merciful and compassionate.”

Ooh see Fr. Gregory Pine video, pursue

Yes

Insufficient reference to Biblical sources and Christs greetings of peace and fear not....but then the Padre is young and , like the rest of us on a journey no doubt.

Also the meaning and hint is in Genesis 22, when God says to Abraham that he feared the Lord, Abraham knew God would raise Isaac from the dead and Abraham knew God is faithful to his promises, so to fear the Lord is to do God's will in troublesome times with faith a greater good will come, maybe not in this life but it will.

Yes, RESPECT the Creator. The Lord doesn't want to be feared. God Bless Us All. Amen.

Only if you are not born again. "Ye must be born again"

The answer is "No"

Makes sense. You can respect someone but act against them, "with all due respect." For instance, I have respect for the office of the Pope, but I don't fear the Pope. And if a Pope speaks against God, I will speak against that Pope. God is the ultimate power in the universe, therefore we should only fear Him and His power/ability, and therefore He is the only real hope since He is in complete control. It starts as fearing the consequences, but as we love Him more it becomes fearing the harming of that relationship.

Hello. How can one be faulted for not being smart enough to figure out Jesus is real? Thanks.

must not fear the demons.

A better question is should i be scared of darth vader

Stand with Bishop Strickland

Whybdo people make the Sign of The Cross nipple to nipple. It looks like an upside-down cross. I always thought it was shoulder to shoulder. 😢

Keep Orthodox ☦️

If the BibIe is indeed correct, we shouldn't "fear" God. According to the Bible, God grants salvation to everyone.

Yeah no. These are the TRUTHS or at least half-truths. We are all the One Infinite Creator and Infinite Creation. Nothing is "partly" GOD everything is completely GOD. Unconditional Love is the most powerful thing in the Universe. It is the basis of reality. This is why men such as Paramahansa Yogananda's body never rotted or why the real loving people never seem truly old. In order for humans to "evolve" we must love each other. We must be the embodiment of love. We are not the only sentient beings in the Universe imo. I know you guys like criticizing/destroying people who questioned and people who had dreams and visions (such as Giordano Bruno). The Annunaki along with others came here hundreds of thousands of years ago, built temples, structures etc. It doesn't really matter whether we are a product of them or if we came from another planet. In fact Yawheh was probably a powerful Annuni, who gave Constantine signs and whatnot. There are densities/levels to consciousness. Even a rock is conscious, it doesn't experience like us, but it is there. Think of a colony of ants. One ant is a complete NPC, forget about it. Just a moving little thing. But a colony of ants. Holy gosh. A colony can do anything. A colony can build towers. A colony can defeat any enemy/predator. Imagine what humans could do as a collective. That is why when many people are in one place (like cities) technological progress is usually made. The higher density beings, yes such as Bashar and Ra are a collective consciousness of many lower-density beings (such as us humans). This might have went completely over your head. But do spend time to read it. It is true, I hope you don't take this down etc. My unconditional love to you too.

I subscribed just after seeing the nice debate about the resurrection being reasonable or not. After seeing this guy I'm unsuscribing. See my comment posted 5 minutes ago.

I can't be fearful of an imaginary superstition that was invented by man.

I know what fear is. Nothing you've said here truly addresses the question "Should I fear God?" That's a Yes or No question. You're welcome to blabber on with your word-salad, but at least preface your baloney with Yes or No. Instead you launch straight into made-up definitions that have no foundation either in the dictionary or the Bible.