May the rest of the world also recognize him as a Saint of the Church.

That's how we title him! St. Seraphim, my conscience humbly forbids me to describe, introduce, or mention him in any other way! May it be blessed, his SAINTHOOD that is...He is more than "Blessed"!

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FYI he is not a canonized saint yet

​@@Hoodinator17 ...yet

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​@@Hoodinator17 He is a Saint. A Georgian metropolitan has canonized him locally. And even Metropolitan Neophytos of Corfu has said that St Seraphim Rose is a Saint.

He was born into a Protestant family? Please pray for us St. Fr Rose, who come from similar situations. I will study his life closer.

Keep looking into Orthodoxy, and read the words of St. Seraphim Rose. He is a light to our disillusioned generation.

Brother (or sister) read the lives of the saints especially the modern ones they bring so much comfort. God loves you and He will give you strength to make it through these trials. May He bless your journey! 🙏🏻☦️

Be strong brother

Lord Have Mercy On You ❤

Praying for you, brother. It's my hope a year later, that you haven't given up on being joined to the body of Christ. Never give up. The Lord has pulled me out of depths of darkness as well. I'm with you.

Αμην

Child of Charismatic renewal parents out of Roman Catholic and Episcopalian, was always interested in Greek philosophy and culture, wandered a great deal also, investigating Bhagavad Gita and as far as Zen, Watts was familiar to me also. Studied Jungian psychology also, even led into astrology from that point. Always had an interest in classical music, overtone singing, medieval music, and gregorian chanting... it took a particular woman Simone Weil to lead me back into what I would call Christianity, who I felt nearly diagnosed my condition which was similar to hers. Became baptized by pastors who ministered to me in my youth, and 7.5 years later I found myself in an Eastern Orthodox church, after spending those 7 years investigating my faith and examining it. Seraphim Rose is recognizable to me as a Saint in these modern times, similar to how Simone Weil felt like a Saint to me for all those outside of the church.

thats an amazing book!

@Οράω nice - I knew a diocese in Georgia has. Has anyone else?

@Οράω there has not been a single Synod that has canonized him. The monastery he was at switch from ROCOR to Serbian. Neither Moscow or Serbia has canonized him. Neither has Georgia

A metropolitan in Georgia declared him a saint and it is recognized only within his diocese. Hopefully this will lead to an official synod and his glorification will be recognized by the whole Church.

​@@danfsteeple He is a Saint. A Georgian metropolitan has canonized him locally. And even Metropolitan Neophytos of Corfu has said that St Seraphim Rose is a Saint.

Don’t forget all true believers are saints with a small s. I, too see him as a capital S. Orthodox are notoriously slow in confirming Saints.

He probably meant 1973 to 1976. Some kind of typo in the script perhaps.

Don't listen to the bishop.

@@ioannagiannia1742 I'm not a Bishop, I kinda don't have a choice

@@infinityarcangel5972 you have a choice: listen to Jesus

I had this same question. Very confusing.

​@@louishurr393 This has been garbled by whoever is reading the text. The "Gregory" narrating this did not meet Seraphim Rose personally. Instead, as a quick websearch will tell you, it should read "around the years 2003-2006 I had the honor of spending time with, praying with and listening to the spiritual words of a truly humble man who loved Orthodoxy with all his heart. I speak of Dimitri Langeron, who lives with his wife Irene and their son Nicholas. Dimitri is Fr. Seraphim Rose's godfather and a most pious and God-loving man." He spent time with Dimitri during 2003-2006, and his information on Rose is based on the testimony of this Dimitri.

A Metropolitan in Georgia acknowledged him as a Saint within his diocese. But a synod has not been called yet to make his glorification "official" throughout the whole Church.

@@zakcaldwell8465 Hmmm. This seems like a slippery slope, and very much non-Orthodox. I’m not denying the likelihood of Fr. Seraphim’s sainthood being inevitable, but when we start bending the standards to suit our own emotional desires we lose the proper order and boundaries that exist for everything else. Canonization is ultimately an event, not a blurry window of time. A woman doesn’t take the name of her husband before she is married even though she is engaged. We don’t sing Christ Is Risen during Holy Week just because Pascha is a certainty. We don’t call a future priest Father before he is ordained, even though the bishop has planned the ordination.

That's why he consulted with two canonists of the Church beforehand, to make sure what he was doing had canonical precedent and he could indeed do so.

@@louishurr393 Canonization typically begins at the local level.

He was not "a gay man". He indulged in homosexuality before he found Christ. After he became Christian, he did no longer practice homosexuality and he described the period during which he did as follows: "I was in hell". This is a redemption arc of someone moving from depravity to holiness, and you have the gall to describe it as "a gay man who loves Christ"?

You're wrong

​@@ecgwineicling2543 Exactly! I agree with you

Grace illumined him.

@@iliya3110 I mean his illness. He was/is a secret bishop ordained by Christ himself.

@@seraphim3TN Yeah, who knows. That’d be kinda crazy if he was. I thought he basically died of appendicitis

I would not be surprised

He is a Saint. A Georgian metropolitan has canonized him locally. And even Metropolitan Neophytos of Corfu has said that St Seraphim Rose is a Saint.

@@TheCelticSlav sainthood is declared when all of the synod decides to it

@@MJDahling Sainthood is RECOGNIZED by a synod. But he is already seen as a Saint by many of the Church Laymen of America. God is the one who makes saints. St Seraphim Rose is a Saint. Even if he is not recognized by the world it matters little. Especially when he wrote against both Ecumenist modernists and against the rigorist super correct schismatics. It makes sense that he is not recognized by modernist bishops. The only people I've seen question his sainthood are modernists. We have other Saints that are recognized by the laymen yet not by the hierarchs yet. Like Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona, Elder Aimilianos, and Elder Joseph of Vatopedi. All of these Saints have also wrote against modernism and ecumenism.

Agreed!!! This is dangerous to disregard the process just because we think it should be. He very well WILL be a saint when he is formally cannonized. But we live within the boundaries of time and order in our earthly existence and even within the Church. “Will be” and “is” are not the same. Otherwise you just have disorder, confusion, and chaos. Remember, patience is a virtue.

@@TheCelticSlav This is NOT Orthodox.