Dear Harri, thank you for sharing with us that this is somehow helping you. I trust that Christ will give me the words He knows are useful, but - because of my sins and lack of faith - hearing that these videos are indeed helpful gives me courage to keep working. May we all be blessed, dear one.

@@mullmonastery I've been drawn to your videos and wonder if you could recommend a monastery in the United States? Thank you for your videos and for explaining everything so clearly. 🙏

@@gwatts5934 Where are you located?

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Тако је, брате Србине! (^_^)

@@II-PodviznickaSlova Ima nas hehe, pozdrav brate.

Beppe---as I was reading your comment, I was thinking to myself, I couldn't have said it better of Father Seraphim and his teachings, for I too learn so much from him--he's powerful in his manner of teaching and holds his truths to his heart, that's a real teacher for sure! Then I read you lived in Italy...just as my ancestors and relatives did (Avellini and Positano by the Amalfi coast)...being raised strict Italian Catholic I feel I have gained deeper knowledge learning also from the Orthodox---I too love this videos....this is some real good Spiritual Food I have been hungering for! God Bless you All!

Dear Andrea, we all have our ministry in the world, and they all lead to Christ if we find the patience and the joy to fulfil that ministry before Him. I am so happy that the booklet and the recording of blessings we have done are helpful to you. May we all grow through each other, and may we all be blessed.

May I suggest that you download the "daily readings" Orthodox app. You will find there prayers for morning prayers, for evening and prayers of the hours on the main page. Then in the menu you could find prayers for every occasion. I have found it such a great help. I have pretty much tried to set my own prayer rule and now just struggle to keep it, lol. Pray in the morning, prayers in the evening and somewhere in between try to pray for my children. By the way, also in the app is the daily Gospel reading. It is my aim to read that daily as well. Luck on your journey! App link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.goarch.dailyreadingsfull

Well, it is true 😊

@@mullmonastery I understand. It's merely the way you say things...naturally funny and dry sense of humor. For sure, the goats bring it out in you!

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Doamne ajută! Cum va putem ajuta cu ceva banuți?.

Thank you for your prayer, dear one. It may be worth keep the rope in a pocket or by your icons. I have one in my pocket and several in my icon corner. Mine get lost, not crushed 😊, so I try to keep them safe. When you order the new one, send us an email and ask that we use one of the shells from St Columba's Bay - they are bigger, but almost petrified, so you will not be able to crush it even if you try! be blessed, dear one.

Dear Sister, I am from Ethiopian Orhodox Church. You comment reminds me my mother. After bringing up her 10 children and all left home, her job was going to church near and far also monstries. Fasting and praying and make herself avaliable for services when she csn. But she had found the worldly obligation pointless as her interest was to stay in the. monstrey pray and serve and have Monstic life. God help you to live the life you want🙏

May God bless you and you family, dear one. Please remember us in your prayers, too.

thank you my brother god bless you 🙏

Look for 'The Saying of the Desert Fathers', dear Maria. There are many translations, editions etc. The one I use most is the one translated by Sister Benedicta Ward. May we all be blessed.

@@mullmonastery Thank you Father.

​@@mullmonastery Dear Father. Thank you for your incredible videos. They have been so helpful. I introduced the Holy Rosary into my Jesus prayer practice and the Mother of God came hastily to guide me into the heart. The Holy Rosary helps make the Jesus Prayer easier for me. Id love to hear your experience using these prayers together.

Doamne ajuta. Nu mai stiu ce adresa este afisata. Folositi ierom.serafim@yahoo.co.uk dar imi cer iertare deja pentru ca va dura inainte sa raspund. Sunt in urma cu toate. Domnul sa ne binecuvinteze

This Young Monk believes Celtic Christianity, the Faith of the early Irish, was Orthodox in inspiration. If you're of a Celtic heritage, you'll just be returning to your ancestral spirituality.

Read "The Orthodox Way" by Timothy (Kallistos) Ware. Watch Fr. Spyridon's videos. Both are good for introductions to Orthodox concepts and explain them really well. There's a ton of info out there (and it can get pretty deep), but it's best to attend a local Orthodox church service and speak to the priest. It isn't vanity to call on the holy name of Christ Jesus, God Incarnate, the second Person of the eternal and all-powerful Trinity who took on human flesh for the sake of us sinners and for our salvation-that is, if you really are asking for Him to be merciful to you. The more you become aware of your own sinfulness and utter wretchedness, the more the prayer and its perpetual repetition will make sense to you. Do you think the publican simply said, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" a single time, and then proceeded to walk out of the temple courts? Of course not! Such repetition is never in vain. And the whole point of the rope is precisely so one can *stop* focusing on the number of prayers, on counting, and focus on prayer itself. Are prayers to the saints and the Mother of God in vain, if, as Christians, we know and believe that death is destroyed and trampled upon, and no longer bars us from communion with heaven? Are those who have passed not more alive than we in this earthly life could ever possibly be? If, as St. James tells us, the prayer of a righteous person is effective, and those in heaven are the holy and righteous ones of God who have finished their race _and are in His very presence,_ shouldn't we be asking for their prayers, as we did when they were with us? Our God is not a God of the dead, but of the living. And if, as Revelation describes, the saints and angels indeed pray to God in intercession for those of us still struggling on earth, shouldn't we implore them for the help they willingly offer us? You're certainly not forced to, but I mean, why wouldn't you want to? We really do believe that death is abolished, and our theology and practices over the past 2000 years reflect that reality. One way of thinking about intercession of the saints that helps me is this: picture yourself in the first-century church, a couple years after our Lord's Ascension. The apostles are doing their thing, the gospel has spread throughout the land, and churches can be found all throughout Judea, where you're at. Imagine you have some issue you're really struggling with, for which you'd really appreciate prayer. The miracle-working apostles who walked with the Messiah Himself have already passed through your town, and St. Paul at this point is mostly unknown and way up in Tarsus, where he'll be for the next decade making tents and preparing for his ministry to the Gentiles. Your local bishop is a righteous man and appointed by one of the apostles, sure; he's already praying for you, but you have time on your hands and are willing to search out a truly God-bearing person to help you. You just about make up your mind to travel to Antioch, where a burgeoning Christian community headed by St. Peter the chief apostle is located-and then it hits you! You remember that only a day's journey away in Jerusalem is none other than the mother of Christ herself, the holy Virgin Mary! Hah! Of all the people in the world, He would doubtless listen to the entreaties of she who raised Him, who suckled Him, who loved Him and cooked dinners for Him and worried for Him and, at the cross, wept for Him, and took His bloodied Body down and held Him in her arms, and laid Him to rest in the tomb; whose heart burst with joy at the sight of His Resurrection and who bade farewell for the last time to her Son in the flesh before He ascended into heaven; who was with the apostles in that grace-filled room on the day of Pentecost when the fire of the Spirit consumed but did not burn His people, and who currently lived in Jerusalem under the care of the most beloved of Christ's disciples! And so you head to the city, and the next morning find the house, after consulting some local Christians-only to discover something of a queue outside the door! But, alas, is it really so surprising? you think to yourself... God hears our prayers-even our own measly, paltry prayers. But it's nice to have pure and blameless people to pray on your behalf, because His ears are especially open to their prayers. We need all the help we can get! And so we thank our Lord Jesus that whether its our earnest pleas to Him for His grace or to His all-pure Mother and His saints for their intercession, He is always pleased with us when our hearts are set on Him. I hope some of this helps. I'll link some verses of Scripture as well. Again, please join a church for Divine Liturgy (which has been served basically word-for-word since the fourth century, and is based on the Liturgy of St. James from the first century) if you really seek to understand the fullness of the truth that Holy Orthodoxy possesses. As Philip once said to Nathanael, "Come and see!" Genesis 21:17-18 Zechariah 1:12-13 Matthew 18:10 Luke 16:19-31 Hebrews 12:1 Rev. 5:8, 8:3-4 1 Kings 2:13-20 “...In this way is he [the true Christian] always pure for prayer. He also prays in the society of angels, as being already of angelic rank, and he is never out of their holy keeping; and though he pray alone, he has the choir of the saints standing with him [in prayer].” St. Clement of Alexandria _(Miscellanies, _*_[A.D. 208]_*_ )._

Yes, I believe Father Seraphim is saying that repetition of prayers can be vain when there isn’t obedience, though the discernment that comes with handiwork may come upon you rather than the grace that comes when the mind and heart work together. He was actually illustrating it in the video. He was doing the mindless work of making a prayer rope while giving his talk.