Thank you Father for delivering your child from this deception I’m glad to hear you are headed the right way. Many blessings ☦️

you are a lying christian

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Thank you for sharing your testimony. Keep spreading your testimony as it glorifies God. ❤

Glory to God!

They don’t go because of pride, spite, not “fashionable”, parents & priest don’t know anything 😞

Many Priests and a few Bishops were once secular psychologists and psychiatrists too! They can take the knowledge they got for their doctorate and transform it with the teachings of the Church to help people. 🤗

​@pennyk1943 maybe it didn't occur to them, maybe they're confused, lost. Maybe it's pressure. It's a bit unfair to assume people don't seek counsel from their parents and priests because they're selfish. Seeing as though most parents and religious authorities I've spoken to have destroyed my trust

If you can replace a therapist with a priest, it means that you never needed a therapist. You just did it because that was popular.

If you think it's okay to come to the monastery for that, then yes, but maybe it would be better to think about the whole concept of Orthodoxy, because I personally think that it's the only way to touch the heavens.

Bless you! ❤

God bless you. Thank you for sharing your story.

Congratulations your story was inspiring

2 Corinthians 3:18-- Continue to spend time beholding the glory of God so that you become transformed into His image from one degree of glory to another.

Congratulations. Unfortunately the devil has alot of people in his grasp. Glad you escaped and found god.

God bless! What a great gift to your daughter.

the curse of the celebrity kids too

She'll have a much healthier neurology as well. Those who grew up on phones are literally neurologically addicted to interactive screens

I feel very fortunate to have grown up in the 80s and 90s

This is why the only thing I use is KZfaq I don't really consider it social media. I don't have a Facebook I don't have a Twitter I don't have an Instagram I don't have any of that trash. I really think social media is one of the most evil bad things that you can have on your phone. Phone's themselves are very addicting.. when you slap on something like social media and then being all obsessed with your online presence you have a dangerous combination especially for kids or for people who are grown ups but not grown up emotionally and mentally and there's a lot of those out there.. You should just quit social media. Stop fasting from it just quit it. I am so much happier since I quit it back in 2016. And I used to be a heroin addict.. I think if I was still using social media even though I've only been clean for 141 days. I think if I was still using social media it would be 10 times harder for me to stay clean because it would have been 10 times harder for me to cut all the people I needed to out of my life and it would be harder to hide from those people. You know how people are when you try to distance yourselves they tend to pop back in your life or try to find ways to pop back in your life. I had to smash my phone change my number all kinds of crazy stuff but I'm glad I did it. Now I've graduated from trade school(CNC). I'm about to start my apprenticeship at an awesome tool and die shop. I just got my first credit card 40 days ago about. I just financed my first vehicle an SUV and literally just got it two days ago. I don't think I would have any of those things because I wouldn't be able to stay clean and sober if I had social media. It's just too hard to distance yourself with social media from bad people or people that you want to distance yourself from. Even if you block them you still are going to get the temptation once in awhile to speak with them one day or they might just make a new profile there's just too many variables. When you get rid of it outright, not only are you freed from caring about your worthless online presence that literally means nothing but you have the opportunity to escape from everybody that you really don't want to associate with, completely. Not only that you don't have to worry about seeing stuff that you don't want to see reading stuff that you don't want to read. You don't have to worry about being censored. You don't have to worry about the online you at all. Unfortunately KZfaq itself is getting really censory. I've seen my comments get deleted days later even weeks later but I've seen them go bye-bye if I'm talking about a certain thing. I've watched them get deleted in real time minutes after posting. I've watched myself post comments say they're posted and then they don't post. I've had it just say that it can't post it because there's some error. Anytime I talk about something too heavily God related on most videos it gets deleted or it just will not post. I've started to notice other people talking about this a little bit more in the comments on random videos. I stopped making comments much of the time because it's just not worth it because I can't truly say what I want to say most of the time. I wouldn't be surprised if this disappeared. there's been so many times that I've checked back on previous videos from months back or weeks back and tried to search for my comment under a certain post or just look through the comments if it was my opening post and in both situations I've seen them just be gone.. and it's always because I'm either talking about God and doing the right thing in accordance to God's will or it's when I'm talking about being clean and sober from drugs or when I'm talking about conservative values. Give KZfaq five more years.. you won't even recognize it. You should just get off social media. Why fast from it? It's not a necessity like food. That's like fasting from smoking.. or fasting from dope.. why not just quit?. I'm not trying to hate on you I'm not talking smack about you I'm just giving you a suggestion because I think you would be a lot happier if you just dumped it all together. I have nothing but respect for you for taking fasts from social media but I think the right thing to do and if you really pray about it and talk to God about it he will tell you the same thing, drop it altogether. The best part about that the void that will be left over from not having social media God will fill that with something righteous and good he always does.

@@skittenhund it's very unfortunate that many Catholic priests don't have the GUTS that this Orthodox priest has.

❤️ Let’s transcend denominations ❤️

@@SanktSvensson you're crazy.

@@skittenhund protestant here, I agree!

Please pray the Rosary150 to save souls from the Jewish Hell and to build up your spiritual protection. Deam Matronam Nostrae please protect me during my silence. In Nomine Deum Jesum Christum et Deam Matronam Nostrae et Deum Patrum Spiritum Sanctum. Oh my Deum Jesum Christum please pardon my sins and save me from the fires of hell. Please deliver all souls from purgatory especially those in most need. (3x) Deam Matronam Nostrae et Deum Jesum Christum et Deum Patrum Spiritum Sanctum (Ask God for what you want / intention) Ave Deam Matronam Nostrae gratia plena. Deum Patrum Spiritum Sanctum tecum. Deam Matronam Nostrae Matram Deum Jesum Christum miserecordia pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et en hora mortis nostrae. (150x) In Nomine Deum Jesum Christum et Deam Matronam Nostrae et Deum Patrum Spiritum Sanctum. Please practise chastisement and don't obey the demons! 🙏

Lord have mercy. 🙏

I’m sure that was a very hard decision. May God bless you and watch over her.

You made the right decision. Be there for her. I know it’s not easy with the emotions of a relationship clouding things but if you can keep those feelings aside and be there for her spiritually, maybe you can help her back on the path. Peace be with you.

I'm sorry to hear that, pray that the Lord deliver her from whatever is ailing her mind to make this decision

@@georgematta1700 and meanwhile he hurts himself. the better is let her go and let her do her. we give advice for good but if people do not want to listen we cannot do anything about. let her exercise her fr3e will. we cannot obligate no one to do anything, God do not obligate us to do nothing ¿who are we to do it?. Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14 New King James Version

It became so normalized, it’s terrible. It so crazy to see society stray from God and the Church because they feel it’s too restraining or it evokes suffering and then they go and put themselves under so much suffering for other reasons, it’s really really sad.

I am glad you left, what is afterall an ideology :) as a woman I really thank God that as an adolescent I didn’t had money for plastic surgeries, we are so fragile and vulnerable at that age 🙏

Yes! And if you notice extreme body modification has become normalized within the trans and plastic surgery communities. And it's truly an addiction to fulfill what you believe your ego should appear as. Funnily enough though everyone, trans or not, ends up looking the same... I don't know if you've ever seen or read Laughing Man but this desire to mold the flesh into something entertaining really reminds me of the comprachicos.

@@ritaamor283I agree I had a guy tell me he didn’t want to be saved because he wanted to be free. He felt Christianity was too restraining. Little does he know true freedom is in Christ.

Lot more to it than that lots more rules that needed to be upheld throughout life before death otherwise...nope you ain't getting in the only ones that do like that are babies

​​@@etherealbladerx8153 I believe there are cases where you can have a death bed repentance. The most important thing is having a change of heart and realizing that you are in error and that salvation comes through Christ. While not exactly related to death bed repentance, Christ does have a parable for repenting later in life. Matthew 20: 1-16

​@@etherealbladerx8153faith isn't work. The only way to the father is through Jesus. He loves us and forgives us, and all we have to do is accept this love.

@@etherealbladerx8153Christ forgives all sins if one is repentant so thats not true.

This is the problem today, Jesus never said go ahead and sin even when you know it's bad and I'll forgive you. Glad you were there for that woman, and of course no need to worry her before death. But on a theological and practice level, Jesus never said go ahead and sin.

That's so beautiful! Just curious, what's the symbol at the end of your comment?

I am so thankful that you shared that memory, it really moved me 🙏

You felt his love? Lol. You felt what you felt.

I'm a transsexual hunny stout true protestant Yankee dandy in intellect, quaker in heart, and southerner on foot. Beware of foreign influence, stupid. I use head and shoulders for shampoo and mixchicks for conditioner. lol

⁠@@skittenhundIt’s the Cross… the three-barred cross is traditional to Orthodox Christianity, especially to the Russian Church. The top bar is the sign above our crucified Lord’s head that read _King of the Jews;_ the long bar in the centre is where His arms were spread out; the bottom bar is the footstool where His feet would rest as He hung there on the cross.

What is a catchumen?

God bless you and yr journey ❤️

​@chucksolutions4579 a "catechumen" is a learner, someone who is under instruction before baptism. "Catechesis" comes from Greek κατήχησις meaning "instruction by word of mouth."

You will get a church one day, even if it is one you build. Maybe you are the young man who becomes the Father who brings Orthodoxy to the Philippines? Pray on it. God bless you and the Philippines! Christ is risen!☦

​@@IosuamacaMhadaidhfantastic response

lying christian

The screen is allowing me to listen to you. ☦🙂

fr ☦️🔥🔥

Thank God for Fr Paul, you can actually watch him become wiser, more assured, dialectically stronger, and more based over time by watching old vs new videos featuring him. Another great example of imperfect humanity, but ascent through humility and ever growing knowledge.

Wards

I think it's great you are open to opinions!

As mankind we are so caught up with our egos that we have a distorted view of what love is. Fr. Paul is absolutely correct on this teaching. I have found a lot of churches teach what we must do to be saved. I have found that salvation is mercy extended to us. And mercy and love is the Orthodox Church. Some “Christians” will condemn and judge out of spite and this superiority complex which is not true Christianity. We can judge with righteousness and love and we are commanded not suggested to love our neighbor as ourselves. That commandment alone is so powerful and changing when we tap in to what it truly means. Mercy and love. Not tolerance for evil things but mercy and love and compassion. I highly recommend you go to your nearest Orthodox Church. Don’t worry about if it’s Russian or Greek or Antiochian. Just go. My first liturgy I was in tears with how powerful it was and what God showed me that day.

We’ll be here with open arms once you’re ready. In the meantime, peace be with you.

I'm praying for you

„but my heart is open“.. how nicely you worded that 🩷 I hope it stays open

I wish it

Hi! Is there a book you can recommend when you want to read about the saints? Maybe a collection?

@@sebastianf3861 i know the question is not for me but, i recommend you to read the confessions of st augustine.

Yes, they are.

(De)(nom)inations, see that bro?

This is Fr. Paul Truebenbach, you should find more of his videos! He is amazing and has lots of wisdom to share.

He is a priest. 😊 The Orthodox tend not to just preach and do pastoral work, but Live in such a way to inspire others. The unseen warfare is difficult, but so worth it.

For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.” -Jesus

polytheist

@@louisdeniau8571 Monotheist*

Well stated. Thank you.

Father Seraphim is really a shining example of swimming against the current!

It should not be orthodoxy that we should strife for, The Way And The Truth Is Jesus Christ Only And His Word The Bible ❤

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"Not I, but the Christ within."