Reset your spiritual life. Get out of your comfort zone and go deep.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.พ. 2023
- 'All is well, but I feel dry. Where there was life, I now have only the memory of it.'
We tend to formalise our spiritual life, but Life is not in formalities: Life is in the Spirit-We need to reset our spiritual life to factory settings, jumping out of our comfort zones into a new, living faith.
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The video 'Reset your spiritual life. Get out of your comfort zone and go deep.' was recorded by Fr Seraphim (Aldea) at Mull Monastery (The Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints), on the Isle of Mull.
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I woke up in blood . And my heart nearly stopped . I got alcohol poisoning and it nearly killed me . I beg you my friend help me with your prayers that the lord saves me from myself
May the precious blood of our lord Jesus Christ be poured out to you my brother in Christ, to cure you, to cleanse your body and soul to protect you from all the attacks from Satan from drugs, alcohol pornography etc. Amen 🙏❤️✌️🇵🇹🇨🇮
My sister is also destroying herself with alcohol. Holding both of you in my prayers.
Blessings 🕊️🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙂
I’m one and a half months sober, just about. You can do this. I was drinking for almost 10 years prior
You are alive, and this means He already had mercy on you this time. Please sincerely promise to the Lord that you will do everything to never touch alcohol ever again, this is an evil poison that will eventually kill you if you keep taking it. You cannot take even smallest amounts, absolutely nothing at all.
This world is becoming darker and darker, but there will be light soon. But not yet. Carry on father, you are an inspiration for many
Ye are the light of the world, all else is not rooted in God's truth!
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What One chooses to energetically focus One's attention of energy towards, will be attracted/manifested in the physical realm.
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Be Christ in Spirit with all your might and our Father's will be done, as it is in heaven so on Earth plane.
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When strong Faith becomes inner Knowingness, God's chosen ones will change the world ❤🌍👑
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Be and One shall be resurrected in the Holy Spirit ❤👁👑
I see it so so much as , we are waking up in a new light , science is moving so fast and the world has so much good going on , you just have to look and see it
Your lectures warm my heart and soul. my dear sister just passed away two nights ago and now i am the only one. my sister and i were both Ursulinesisters she for16 years and me 13z. but right now i feel so lost and empty. i have to find my way. please pray for me.
A Protestant brother here. I just wanted to let you know that I have a deep respect for your videos, and they have helped me a lot. Thank you and may God richly bless your time with Him!
Hello from Serbian Ortodox living in Ireland ❤ l never knew there are Ortodox Scotts,wow
Keep your faith, father - you have strengthened mine and many others.
He's reading mail
You should watch the full video, not just the first few minutes. He is reading from a letter he received and then goes on to discuss it.
"Feeling the desert around me" That's the words for the feeling that I couldn't find for trying to reconnect with Christ in protestantism.
I allowed a horrible event to cause me to lose my faith for a couple years. At the time I thought God wasn't listening, wasn't helping me, or had abandoned me. But the following two years I lost my faith, my life elevated, I learned, and grew in ways I never expected or anticipated. In ways that were outside my control and my life overall improved drastically, I truly believe it's providence and God WAS listening, I just didn't wanna hear his answer and see the bigger landscape.
I'm actually crying. I am experiencing exactly what Seraphina is. It is so painful and frightening. The fire I used to have for God feels like embers. I actually cried myself to sleep last night because I am empty and just running on fumes at this point. Like Seraphina, I am unable to say that I don't believe, but I am not believing that I can come back to Christ's heart. Prayer is difficult. I miss church sometimes. There is an deluded arrogance that I can live in the world and in the spiritual world at the same time, even though I know this is impossible.
But you are right when you said it only takes an hour of opening our heart to the world to lose the fire. Temptation struck me and instead of clinging to Christ I practically went over and introduced myself to it. I even knew what I was doing was not in my best interest spiritually. Now the brokenness from before I truly converted feels like it is fighting with me to take me down to nothingness once again.
God definitely heard my cries last night though, because this video showed up in my newsfeed today. My newsfeed algorithm has not been showing any of your videos, except for today.
Thank you for sharing this letter and your heart on this matter. I hope it reaches the souls who are going through this spiritual near death experience.
God bless you all. ❤️
What really scares me is that some of the damage i did to others in the past with my anger and selfishness...cant be repaired. I have regrets and i can never erase the bad memories and pain that i caused. All i can do is pray for the people i hurt but i cant take back what i did and it destroys me.
You are repenting. Not as in blaming yourself, but realizing that you are sinner, as all of us. Seems like you are forgiving the ones that hurted you, and repenting your own sins. One of the thief that was crucifed with Jesus Christ repented his sins hours before he died.
The other thief that was mocking Christ with the question: "If you are the Son of God - where is Father in heaven now?" He said said to him: "You and me deserves our punishment, but he - Jesus - is innocent." Jesus took him to heaven, the other one was sent to hell.
You are on the right path, Sister. Dont blame yourself too much. Your sins - all of our sins - are in front of our Lord. Only God can judge us fair and square. No one else, we cannot judge our self fair. You are confessing, keep on struggling, bear your cross - and pray for me as well.
I am a sinner too.
My dear I have that regrets too. I dont know what to do about it, and it do me such a harm. I cause hurt to my sister. My own flesh and blod, and she wont forgive me. I dont blame her. But sometimes I wish I can dissapaire just to have a little bit of rest, because I have no rest from my consciousness. So I know how you feel and I have empathy. Lord help us in Jesus name! Amen
I have and continue to struggle with that same thing, but nobody gets through life without inflicting pain on other people (especially on the people closest to us). I try to let it motivate me to change and be more loving in the here and now. But I feel for you, it is har.
Be ready, God will give you a second chance. And be ready to be successful with the grace of God.
Forgive your self ✨️ 🙏 use the pain of past mistakes to transform and have a heart full of love. Pray for wisdom and know that God gives each day as a new start
Blessed honesty….
I needed to hear this today. I’ve been taking this stuff called kratom for a year now and its very addicting. The physical withdrawals are terrible but I kept getting this message to reset and stop so I decided this weekend that I’m going to completely reset my body with Christ and go through that pain for him because he asked me to do it for him. I want to get off of this and start doing more for people than focusing on me thank you for this message it was right at the perfect time
The way is not easy. The way is narrow but the yoke is easy and the burden is light.
Just last summer I spent 2 months visiting all these monasteries and if anybody can go there they should go there it's unbelievable it's truly an orthodox world.
God only smiles upon all of us. Any distance between ourselves and the Lord is by our choice.
God let you know he is God. No need creating images in our head. God is Love, if you feel love in your heart, that is God. I love God, or I feel his love, that’s why I think I love him.🙏🏽
My oldest brother was shot in the back of the head and murdered when i was 13. His death pushed me toward God and becoming a NT Christian.
Father Seraphim, thank you and your monastery, I sincerely feel that we are united in our prayer. I send you greetings from Russia, now we are going through tragic times because of the fratricidal war. I ask for your prayers.
Greetings from a Greek in USA, I am so hurt to see two orthodox countries in a war….
Υπεραγία Θεοτόκε, σώσον ημάς❗️
Amen
We give eternal thanks for the healing and liberating Truth.
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My schedule in the US:
Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco, February 9, 7 PM
St Ignatius Church, Franklin, Tennessee, February 11
St Seraphim's Cathedral Santa Rosa, California, February 18
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Father Serpahim, what time will you be in Franklin? I am a few hours away but would like to give you thanks for bringing me to Christ. God bless you and the monastery 🙏.
This is one of the most powerful things I've ever heard. I am not religious, as far as any specific practice, but this is so passionate it verges on madness. It speaks to me profoundly.
You've filled a void that priests and mass were never fulfilling in my life
HAVE FAITH❤
please over me brothers and sisters. thank you.
I wish you were my spiritual father
God bless you Father Seraphim
Pray for me.
We can pray for each other, dear one, and prayer unites us in Christ.
me too!
@@mullmonastery question does othrox believe in purgatory if so explain purgatory to me and who/ what types peaple/ what do you have to do to get sent to purgatory also can you explain different between orthodox church and catholic church beliefs to me?
i followed your tube since 2 years , i was disapointed missed you for long time as ,we spend in terrible civil war , prison for long time Ethiopia becoming hell for Christians please keep your preaching
I was really overjoyed to see you come back to TH-cam
Thank you, Understood. This video appeared at the right moment.Difficult but true. Be blessed ! Thank you. I wish you all the best.
Please pray for my sister Erin who has delved into tarot cards and the occult and it has totally torn her family apart she has 4 children and they are getting divorced her youngest is 4 Ty ❤️✝️🙏🌷
I lost a very dear person. But I do not despair. I just pray for him with faith and I believe that after death we'll meet again. I feel it in my soul. And this faith heals...
I know for sure one day you will meet your love one again. My mother and I were blessed to see my father with our own eyes after he passed away a year. I was in a retreat and I asked God to let my dad’s soul to be with me and I was surprised God let me see my dad with my own eyes. I was so happy and I immediately asked God to send my dad to my mom in Vietnam the same way I saw him. After a retreat I immediately called my mom on the phone and I said, “Mom, I want to tell you something but I don’t know how to explain it.” My mom right away started crying and said, “I don’t know how to explain this to you.” She then so excited and explain to me that while praying she saw my dad with her own eyes and he was very happy to see her. I let her know too that I saw him too and was still in shock.
Doamne Iisuse Hristoase,Fiul lui Dumnezeu, miluieste-ne pe noi pacatosii! Amin 🙏
Wow. You are my dear brother
I have just finished reading the Voyage of Brendan the Navigator. Amazing.. What a life! The island of the birds that are fallen angels... Beautiful.
There is NO Video on TH-cam as convincing as Father's speech here with true emotion from the heart and with such priceless grace that we don't see in many around us among the fake cultures we are surrounded by. " Create a secret with Christ" how beautiful is that just came out from Fathers mouth. God unite us all and bless us all.
Peace to you father, all things lead back to our Lord and Father. He refines us like silver so that we may return to him and his light. Please do not despair, for there is no death, only eternal life.
From what I understand this reset button I have pondered on today and the pit of despair I crawled out of makes me want to be a man that can help others reset button I need to reach that button so others can see and that has changed me. Thank you God.❤
Jesus Is the Light. He sent the Advocate, the Living Holy Spirit to us here, to bring understanding, freedom from lies and deception, and healing. Here and Now. AMEN.
Thank you very much and God Bless You
I love God and I have a sense of Him pulling me harder and harder to Him. i submit to Him and Only Him and His Son.
"Christ God is frightening." How true is that. It is frightening because as limited beings we are sometimes unable to recognize this perfect and unconditional love. God bless you.
A video on Moldova would be great if you get the time. .
I lost my oldest daughter three years ago and my oldest sister three months ago… As well as other siblings years ago but losing my daughter obviously was the most horrendous pain anybody could ever experience, there is not even words to describe the pain… It has brought me closer to God because I know the only way to ever see my daughter again is through Jesus Christ… And it is also open my eyes to the immense pain that God had to endure to sacrifice Jesus for what we are… Sinful in nature! Thank you Lord Jesus for your love, mercy and forgiveness!
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Dear Father Seraphim. Your videos are a blessing, a blessing so great you can not imagine. You have opened my eyes and taught me, a not so long ago catechumen, so much about the true faith which I didn't understand before. Because you got up and filmed all these videos despite your migraines and multiple other duties, you have given me a new perspective, a new love for Christ, a new thing to learn each time I watch your videos. You have helped me and continue to help me. I pray one day I will be able to fulfill even a fraction of what you are talking about in my life. I pray for you that you fulfill all your deepest wishes. I also love to be alone, only then it is possible to go deep.
Father, thank you so much. May God pour out his blessings over you and your monastery.
I love how you said, "Ideally our life is an act of prayer."
I want to be an OR nurse. Even if I can't make that happen, I am glad to be a hospital tech right now. I am glad to have my experience as a volunteer firefighter and EMT. I am glad to be there for my family, dogs, and to be of service to others. I am glad to be charitable and generous with the wealth I have been given and try to wisely invest. I am glad to be a pillar of my community.
The money.....I hardly make much, and even if I make more I am not concerned with that.
I am glad God has driven me to push myself. I pray He pushes me harder, and that one day soon I am not just an instrument of healing in the OR, but an instrument of God's Will with my every breath.
I think some peoples shy to beg but he or she lost everything so
A little earlier, I was watching a video from a Dominican Sister on the Sunday readings of the Roman Catholic church; we are called to be light and salt. She mentioned that sometimes, we may feel our light is dimming, so we get together with our community to help our lights to keep burning. Both in-person and online communities are important to keep each other lit :)
The e-mail you read touched my core and could have been written by and for my present circumstances. Everything you said was a fitting response to what my heart has been speaking but which I felt wasn't being validated. Now it is. Thank you. "Deep calls to deep" (Ps 42) and I must answer. Please pray for me that I discern how to do so.
If I was a younger man. I would love to be at your monastery
I think this would be the best thing,for both of you.If it's possible.
Father, that is a very good analogy, to "reset" ... Bless You!
Ooooh Father, I would so enjoy speaking with you, in person, about my spiritual journey...that has flipped my world upside down, yet I have no doubt of God's hand n mercy carrying me, through the healing process, I am so open to. I am in Rye, NH, yet wandering to find my Catholic community since I lost my house n moved away from "my home" of which I worshipped for decades, and my son received his sacraments, yet at 37 with a wife n three young children has stepped away from the church and the children have yet to be baptised. I myself was discerning with the Carmelites in NH, yet because the community was small and the sisters were now in their 70-90's they were mandated from Rome to disperse, even though there were two of us discerning, yet we were in our 60's. So much of what you are speaking of... speaks deeply within my soul. 🕯️Your Sister in Christ Jesus - On this journey with you!! Thank you for your blessing of my/our uniquenesses!
This resonates with me: to be at a place void of Life; to know life and living only as a distant memory. To be held inside, looking out, removed, and imprisoned by fear and sadness gods love is the only thing I know to be true. It is what keeps me searching the vast darkness for that string of woven light which will pull me out. That in all this loss there will emerge a new self- stronger, more resilient, who will be joy filled through Christ and will reemerge into that state of engagement with Life, living. I try to imagine everything washing off my soul, for the body to be scrubbed clean of all the pain it feels, to be purely just myself again, all layers removed, To breathe free as my true self,, child of God. To imagine this is only a process out of which, through finding my way through, I will reset. I am grateful this video clip popped up on my home page. It feels a gift from God, encouragement to meet the fears and step back into life worth living. To start anew. So I thank you, Father. It is lovely in a world of such secularism with its madness of corruption, greed and untruths there exists those of us who still hold to God. Your video reminds me: Through Christ, never do we walk alone.
I'm a wreck overnight with food poisoning. This is the ideal video to suffer through it 🙏✨
We need to allow ourselves to feel all the emotions and become bigger to hold more of their raw nature. I surrender to this suffering. Thank you for sharing with all of us, reaching those of us alone in darkness. I pray to the Creator to give me the strength and wisdom to give to others 🙏
I am a catholic brother and I feel the love through your message. These questions had crossed my mind specially in lent
Do not lose your faith. As flawed as I am, you have helped me hang tightly to mine.
I will say this, though. I broke with the Church for well over 10 years. Entirely. The people drove me away. During that time I explored a myriad of cultures and religions and learned both the fundamental flaws and fundamental truths in them. The spark of divine essence in every human being and how they see the world.
God takes us down paths we never intended. He sees what's at the end of it, and we just hang on.
Of course I don't *want* anyone to fall away, but perhaps it is a bigger part of God's plan for us. To grapple, struggle, question and doubt. Even now and then to depart entirely.
Do not judge in days that which God views in decades.
Fr. Seraphim, I can’t make it to the places in the US you will be visiting but I would still love a blessing from you!!
Amen. God bless.
Fr I am all alone too. I want to come to the island too and meet you. I really need a reset.
I lost my best friend around November last year his uncle showed me the faith of Jesus Christ and the end times I'm hoping he had been saved I just wished I wasn't driven by drunkenness and sin around the people I'm surrounded by tho Christ is with me always the holy spirit talks to me in a great way where I'm not afraid of death and in some ways of used faith just to trust and see where he chooses me to go and for that my trust in Jesus Christ has driven me further and further and I'm sad my friend has passed but with faith I believe Christ will give me the strength and truth I need to live on amen
Me too I got Fooled
O got back in a mess not Spiritually obeying God. I feel so sick and blinded by world. On the wrong side and body mess up. Why didn't I listen..
This is a great video. Glad to have have found your channel
A very inspiring words for god desiring. Minds...
By the grace of the god within us each and all, someone shows me where to listen next. So that my hands keep opening and my heart keeps growing. Thank you is inadequate but will do for the moment.
So much love
Unfortunately, I will miss you in San Francisco by 2 days. What is most important is I found this channel! Thank you :)
When life calls you to be tough. Meet it. No excuse for weaknesses.
You’re right, it’s hard to grasp sometimes. Naturally we don’t want to bear our suffering, but a place of defeat is not always a bad place to be either, it’s all a matter of perspective.
AFFIRMING: I am fully completely protected
with a huge shield of God's armor/army, and love.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Father Seraphim. (Cecilia, from Italy)
Thank-you Father. Fear of the Lord indeed is the beginning of wisdom.
We're a self-entitled bunch these days and God has to re-shape Himself to our being or He's not being nice to us!
Deny ourselves? Take up our daily Cross? This is hate speech these days!
This is one of the most profound Christian messages Ive heard. Profound in the sense of foundational.
Thank-you forever.
Thank you my brother. I have experienced a great sense of loss, divorce after 34 years of marriage and separation from my family. I once was a family man and loved my wife. I now am without a wife and no family. Though it's been only 5 months without what I've known for years, the pain is unbearable at times. I feel as though God is miles away. Yet, I call on Him. I stay humble before him and not live a worldly life. Please pray for me. God willing, next year, I will take the pilgrimage.
Same here. In the middle of divorce after 18 years together. These videos help me stay focused on Love and not lose It under the pressure of the Devil...
Sending my Love to you brother
@@katiacharny thank you Katya...and blessings back to you....
You truly are a guiding light the world is so desperate for
This was extremely helpful and life changing information. Thank you so very much for sharing ❤️
Thank you Father. You are a bright and much needed light in this time
My brother in Christ, I would love to visit Mt Athos even though I'm not Orthodox.
When this video was recommended to me by youtube, I thought ok and watched. With every word of that precious email, it resonnated with my soul. The only difference was that I didn't lose a friend. Truly, thank you and God bless you for speaking directly to my heart and soul.
Trust in God, Trust Also In Me. -Christ
Regret that I am not near San Francisco, God keep you brother!
You make so much sense. I finally have ears to hear.
Thank you Father seraphim for your beautiful homilys explanation and awesome teaching May Almighty God bless you always.
You are a blessing to me even here in America. I am going thru tremendous spiritual upheaval and feel very much alone. I surround myself with icons as visible reminders that the saints surround me and are praying for me that I do not lose faith and hope. The saints tell me this can happen after a mystical encounter when all your spiritual insides feel ruffled. Youi give me encouragement to continue.
Please know you are not alone, i do not know why i feel a call to write this but ive learned through my life is when the divine may speak. I gave thanks to our father for showing me humility, for i have been the greatest of sinners and should not be worthy of his love. Yet he is a loving and merciful father and i feel loves us more deeply then we love ourselves. Your journey is yours alone but as odd as it may sound you b are not ALONE.
Bless Father Seraphim. When will you be on pilgrimage to the monasteries of Moldova? I look forward to receiving your blessing.
" Begin again!" --Saint Teresa of Avila (A " word of life" she addressed to every nun who emerged from confession!) +Praying For you!+
Ha I posted a comment before I watched so you answered my questions! i’m so sorry I’ll miss you in Santa Rosa but I at least I got to see you at the cathedral! May God bless a pilgrimage someday to your Monastery and your homeland because that looks beautiful please make a video when you go
Father bless, you have managed to put into words what I experienced in the final months of doing my masters thesis and the revelation and return/reset I had in my visit to the monastery in October last year which helped me reset to the love my faith grew from, which brought me to Orthodoxy.
It has also been very profound for me in the last two weeks as I spent eleven days in Greece with my Godmother visiting various monasteries and holy sights along with the experience of a Greek parish church (a normal Sunday is something special, but when there is a wedding and a bishop in the same service it takes on a level of holy madness). Visiting monasteries which care for the relics of great saints modern or ancient was a blessing. The experience of an Athonite six-hour vigil is something else and creates an encounter with Christ I have found nowhere else, (this made me remember the comment you made when I was staying at the monastery) as something special happens at two in the morning in a frescoed church lit by oil lamps with the wonderful chanting of the sisters, the separation between earth and heaven disappears and words become unable to contain what happens.
Thank you, Father!
Thank you Father for always trying to set our feet on the narrow path. We sometimes are annoyed when someone calls us out accidentally and hits us where we live.
You are a gifted speaker/preacher and always quite intense. No one would fall asleep while you are preaching. May God continue blessing you and your monastery.
Wonderful.
Words go straight to the heart. Beautifully said. And I am not yet a Christian
What is stopping you, sister?
Thank you father.
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Thank you for extending that offer of hospitality father. If ever we stop by your neck of the woods, we would gladly and graciously take you up on such a wonderful opportunity. You are truly a gem.
So good reminder for all of us. Thank you Father, from the heart. Asking for your blessings, always.
please stand , better to know a special person than not to know at all , none of us are promised tomorrow Hang in there please 🙏🏻
This video found me exactly when it needed to. Thank you father for putting words to the feelings that I have been experiencing. Knowing that the eb and flow of relgious zeal is natural and now knowing the return path, is precious. Now I must return to the marrow of my being and I know exactly how. I cant express how much gratitude I feel for all my brothers and sisters who are striving towards the same end, you make it all so much easier.
Wow. Thank you so much for sharing this heartfelt letter and giving it an appropriately weighty response. I had to pause in the middle of listening to go before God jn prayer to ask Him to help me find my spiritual center and foundation anew, because I have been similarly adrift recently. It is easy for me to get distracted when I am surrounded by so much noise of the world. Thank you for your guidance, father. I have lifted up prayers for you, your monastery, and your upcoming pilgrimages. And may God's blessings be with your spirit.
Dear father Serafim,
A cold shower can be very helpful to break the comfortzone 🙂
Love from Holland
D.
Father thank you for this, it really gave me the clarity I needed, glory to Jesus Christ.
Philippians 2:12-13, Paul writes, “Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed - not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence - continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his purpose.”
When we are shaken we awaken and when we shake in the cold dark depth of ourselves we are brought back to warmth.
Boy do I wish I could come
Very good. thank you
God bless you father please pray for me.
Thank you for helping me to hear my core Father.