The Soul After Death - Fr George Aquaro
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- This lecture is called: The Soul After Death and was given by Father George Aquaro and he gives us an overview of the views of the Orthodox-Byzantine Tradition on the ‘state of the soul’ after it separates from the body.and he is the Senior Pastor of of Saint Matthew Antiochian Orthodox Church in Torrance, CA.
This is the first in the 2015 adult catechism series “Acquiring the Mind of the Church” hosted by St Barnabas Orthodox Church in Costa Mesa, CA.
Deadly serious topics approached with love and laughter and life and light. I adore the Orthodox Faith.
Let all Glory be to God for all things +++
Amen!!!
Good pun
John Otis....very simply said...that covers it all
My son died suddenly, when he was young he believed in God and Loved Him, He had many physical and emotional problems, I pray for every day many times. Will God have mercy on him??
Yes God will have mercy. Lord have mercy on him and you!
Joy Larson, God is Love, dear sister. We can only speculate as to anyone's salvation, and as Orthodox we are not to. What we can do, however, is know of God's Mercy through Revelation and trust that He wants us all with Him in Heaven. No one but God can truly answer your question, but take comfort in God's revealed Nature, trust Him, and continue to pray daily. I hope and pray you find peace. God bless!!!
God doesn't take losing a soul to Hades very lightly. God is merciful and wants to keep souls to himself. X
Did your son ever smile? Then there is goodness in his heart. God certainly won't want to lose any soul who can smile even ugly faces, eg like mine. X
Yes "Believe AND have Faith". God loves your Son more than you do. Believe in His love and have Faith in His goodness and mercy. Never stop praying for your Son and your continued love will continually rise up before God as incense.
If you will share your son's name I and I believe others also will add Him to our prayers as well :)
May the Lord bless you and your Son.
1:21 awesome fr Josiah trenham impression 🤣🤣
I needed this Fr. Aquaro seminar for my emotional and psychological comfort. Months ago I had a bad dream where I faced my death and I was not brave and not stoic as I thought I could be. I was terrified to the point of panic and tears. All this despite my beliefs in God and His promise of death yet everlasting life hereafter. It is true. Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die.
Jeffrey Young
As we grow closer to God through prayer repentance etc our small steps are toward godliness ... the ENEMY Satan and his demons don’t allow us to breathe - NOUS- they converge in our mind as if it’s is our own - it’s a trick they use and they have many - even becoming angels of light to give our ego a boost - don’t ever despair - pay no attention to the minds talk and keep in prayer with humility- God knows your HEART +++
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What is there to fear about death except hell and demons?
Dying is not really a problem, it's what potentially comes after it.
If I was to know with certainty for a fact that once I die, I'm gone: no heaven, no hell, no nothing, just - gone, I'd be pretty ok with it, for the most part.
Young,
From the love of God, nothing seperate us. Neither angels, demons, heights or depths, death or life.
Resist evil, he will flew away from you.
Jesus disarmed, every authorities, powers and principalities..
I'm convinced it happens in a moment, you're in your body then you are on the other side. There's no, in between. or waiting to be be reassembled and then "risen up".
Ecclesiastes 12:6-14
King James Version
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
He is so funny, I really like him. Thank you, Father, from Oregon.
He's currently at a Mission Parish in Washington. May be worth the trip to thank him in person.
Wonderful lecture and hilarious accent impressions!
I always enjoy a healthy sense of humour with every serious debate a very nice mix here
Pray for my father Peter☦️☦️☦️Memory Eternal ☦️☦️☦️
0:00 Lighthearted humor
2:41 The topic of death
5:00 Imprecise language, undefined terms
5:25 Heaven
7:25
9:20 Books 📚
13:00 Glamour and Unintended misuse of another man’s work.
13:50 Genesis ☦️
15:30 the tricky term, Soul
17:30 Desire
19:33 Communion lost through Rebellion, (but not entirely lost. Saveable.)
20:30 Blame
24:10 The Human Body
25:40 Sheol/Hades/The Pit
26:05 Once you die, you are dead 🪦
28:30 Ghosts 👻
30:50 Sins, Redemption. Repentance.
32:20 Purgatory is not an Orthodox teaching
32:58 Man without his functioning body.
33:47 Man in Death 💀
34:05 Man falls into his passions in this life.
36:00 Medical Marijuana Card, “we’re overstimulated.”
*What happens with our sins when we die?*
36:41 What happens? What endures death?
• You
• What your appetites are
• Your appetites remain after death.
• God does not give an amnesia pill 🚫💊
Jesus remembers who He is
*Does Marriage Exist after Death?*
38:20
38:57 *Who We Are Endures*
39:05 Resting In The Bosom of Abraham vs The Rich Man in his Torment.
39:30 _It’s the appetites_ that remain if left unrepented.
40:05 The Veil of The Temple being torn ☦️
• Divinity enters into Hades
• To the right thief “Today you will be with me in Paradise.” The Reward is Union with Christ.
41:00 Christ standing on a set of doors, breaking down the doors of Hades.
42:35 Curing sin. Rooting out the passions. (Underneath the appetites)
*What is it that happens during that experience of death.?*
43:17 Experiences of Death
43:47 Common Experiences
44:37 Psychopomp, a guide in the afterlife.
47:24 Breaking down. Awareness is broken from the body.
47:40 Most Saints will say there us a period of 3-days in which the soul remains present.
50:47 3-Day Soul hangout
_Tollhouses_
52:10 Brief Summary
53:00 What is missing?
54:00 Funeral Services do not mention Toll Houses, but we do mention the Virgin Mary. ☦️❤️
55:22 Is there demonic torment for The Righteous as they go through Death? Maybe? Yeah… uh? Uh huh?
• Different Saints say different things
• You are going through that right now, you just don’t notice it. You get to hide behind your “meat taxi” (your flesh)
1:01:33 _limited basis_ God will allow the dead to contact the living.
1:03:59 Telos, Summary.
1:04:56
“Are you going to sit there and talk to [the demons]?”
“Don’t Talk To [The Demons]!”
1:06:10 “If you feel guilty, you’ll talk.”
*What Happens after all of this?*
1:06:58
+ Education?
+ Relaxation?
The Dead remain dead in their suffering.
1:07:20 St. Mekarios and “The Grand Tour of Heaven of Hell.”
1:07:53 Post-Death Repentance takes longer, when you are separated.
So, Repent In This Life 🙏🏼❤️☦️ where it is more accessible to us ❤️
1:08:21 If you experience something bumping around in your house 🏡 is
1. Tell your priest ⛪️☦️
2. Say a prayer 🙏🏼
1:08:57
You like it
or You don’t like it
1:09:27
Worshipping God because you love him.
Or Remain Tormented by your passions.
*Q&A, Question and Answer*
1:10:00
1:11:25 _The Mission_
1:13:31 Asking for The Intercession of The Saints ☦️♥️🙏🏼
1:17:00 (Are there anyone we should NOT use time to pray 🙏🏼 for?)
1:18:22 “When you die, whether you like it or not, you are Orthodox now.” ☦️
1:19:38 People outside the church’s experience dying “Don’t worry, you will be ok” 🙏🏼 so, pray 🙏🏼 for everyone.
1:21:00 Continual Repentance.
Thank you! How can your comment not get a like?
if tucker carlson was a priest
Funniest Orthodox priest I have seen on internet 😂
Grandfather contacted me in a dream, he was horribly sad and all in black. Didn't want to go away. I wasn't even baptised yet. By the end of that year came to Ortodox Church. And started to participate in the Holy Eukariste. And after that grandfather was freed from that bad place, there he was.
Sound like purgatory
@@anthonygarcia3884Not purgatory at all. Purgatory dogma of RC states it’s a cleansing process before entering heaven where soul are purified thru fire.
Elder Ephriam has shared a story of seeing his reposed dad in a cell but prayed for his freedom. Eventually saw him free from there.
Testimony is on TH-cam
I love to listen to Father Aquaro - WHEN he is actually speaking on the theme. The lengthy prelude about what the sermon was to be, and why that was, before the sermon, almost entirely lost me.
It's Orthodox...always prep before the big event... It's cultural.
Truly like the way you explain this factually and yet allow us to not feel we must accept or reject it, as it is totally up to each one to listen, learn and then allow God to take it from there. We can only do so much and no one can make anyone believe or not. Prayer to see it properly can help a lot, but yet, the person has choices. What more can be said?
@Anninos Christoforou Thank you, Father.
Fr. George and his family are great. East Washington/north Idaho are lucky to have them.
Interesting. Demons are there to distract. Our progress in this life or the next, hinges on this premice. We are seeking union and peace with God.
Demons try hard, but divine plan will succeed
Many ponderings.... I would like to hear a discussion about the Orthodox Saints/Theologians versus Theosophy/Rudolf Steiner.
Also where are all these humans coming from that they die and only have one life....why all these births into life on Earth and it's one shot.
Is Hades a place or state of mind?
Question of cremation: What of those that have died/burned in fires? Man was created from dust and to dust shall he return.....
Why do we come into physicality to love and adore God? Don't we do that in the Soul world? What do we do in the Soul world?
This dude is smart
He is not dude but a Priest
When I had an outer body experience when I was probably 12 years old. I was floating from my front room into the kitchen toward a bright light that was moving back and forth. When I got real close to that light then I was back in the body. I am far more convinced that my soul was floating around that morning then I am that it was some kind of dream.
Tell em the truth father that what Jesus wants from us. Tell em besides from praying and fasting we need also to conffes and eventually to take the Holy Eucharistia, but first to confess and say sorry to them but you need to confess to and orthodox priest, not to a papalical priest, because only the orthodox priest have the Holy spirit of God, if they dont want the devils to stay at the borders of the skyes when you die, tell em if they really care about the afterlife not only this life. All people standing there shall ebrace orthodoxy already.
SparkySlow Confess your sins to God IN FRONT of an Orthodox priest, so the priest may intercede for you. Confess your sins to one another so you may he healed of them. ☦️ Remember, we do not confess to the priest, for the priest cannot save us. We confess to the Father and to the Son, with the priest present so he may intercede on our behalf.
I love his honesty.
52:00 beginning of toll houses.
Where does all this folklore come from? Surely not from the Scriptures.
@@chaddonal4331 the church fathers speak heavily on this
@@patrickmartin8783 Wow, apparently so, at least 4th century onward, post Gregory's "vision". Surely Ottowa Archbishop Lazar has it correct to reckon this as false teaching and of pagan origin. That should be the universal appraisal. Where is the discernment against such unbiblical folklore and sub-biblical imaginations?
Gotta love self-appointed theologians and saints 🙄
You do need to read more non-English Orthodox Christian literature on the subject, especially about Judgement. Particular and General. Also Customs. It's all Orthodox teachings. It seems in the west most things that get translated are the very positive things. There's way more than that.
Can you make suggestions? Literature written by early monk's or Father's? I would like to kmow the truth. Thank you.
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AWESOME ....love the full trasperancy...TRUTH of different opinions and teachings with different Saints....love the delivery...your personality...jokes...lightness ...simple...but yet reverence. .knowledge that can be gotten into more deeply...easily...awesome way you handled surprise questions...love your natural ness....which drew me to orthodoxy...our unique individual personhood
Thanks father good humor 🇬🇷
Good stuff! kiere elison. What about the narrow path to the gate? Only will make it through that gate? Please elaborate, and God bless.
1 Thess. 4:13-18. 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve, as do the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, and remain until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Beatriz Martinez thank you. I wish there would have been more scripture reference in his talk. I don’t want to base my beliefs on someone’s opinions and prayers UNLESS I can see the solid scriptural basis for them.
Opportunity for repentance after death is inconsistent with most orthodox teaching. Contradictory teaching in something this important leads to anxiety and fear or even far worse, complacency. God help us to confess and repent in this life and fully submit to Your will and rest in the hope of Your ineffable mercy for everything that happens in the next.
In regards to this topic, Can someone in the orthodox church explain the verses that says “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. “ Im wondering how it ties into this topic Please and thank you
May be for a saint's life.
Or when flesh detaches the soul..
It's ( soul)only concern is it's creator.
But without purification/ illumination, no souls reach its creator..
But a saint in this earth reaches illumination after purification of his/ her passions and receive the fruits and gifts of Holy Spirit.
Those saints & martyrs of Jesus reach the third heaven... @ their physical death.
ie, absence of body, present with jesus
Read the Psalm: where can I go to flee from your presence, Oh Lord? Wherever we are, we are present with the Lord. No different when we die. That may be a very unpleasant prospect for those who've spent their lives hating him and trying to get away from him.
It gets old, priests who want to do stand up comedy. It’s annoying.
I have to say, he has a great opening! :-)
This was a terrible amount to digest. Pray for me my fellow orthodox brothers and sisters for his truth to be revealed
My friend, the truth has already been revealed. You just have to accept it.
@@Mark-yb1sp I think you were misunderstanding my comment. I'm not questioning it, I'm saying it was hard to understand and asking for you all to pray for me so that I can understand it in due time
I come back to this lecture once every few months to remind me of what's really important.
This guy seems like an ex-episcopalian
toll houses are from the ancient Egyptian book of the dead
Popular internet priests...
So the Orthodox can never be assured of their standing before God (saved or unsaved) in this life?
To say one is saved and will be going to heaven is prideful. It's up to God to decide. We must remain humble.
@@nothingnewunderthesun3524 “But of that day and hour no one knows..”
I have lost trust in Kallistos Ware.
For what reason? I'm just curious.
Brilliant 😂🤣😂
Hades is not gonna hurt a soul with demonic power.
Jesus emptied hades, took it's key and freed all souls.
We(souls) may repent in hades..
That's it.
From the love of God, nothing can seperate us, neither angels or demons.
Neither height or depths
Neither death or life.
Said by Lord Jesus... Coz it's Love.
Luke Chapter 16 Verses 19-31. When you die, it's too late.
That passage says that Lazarus was being kept safe and unable to go into the place of torment.
There is one caveat. The Story of Lazarus in the Book of Luke was told by Jesus before the New Covenant of course and before the resurrection. Not every death is the same. Jesus actually raised some people up before the crucifixion. Certainly Jesus can raise people up even today for many have come back and told the tale.
His peaking voice is very nice -- I am an educator and I should know. I remember several years ago that I called St. Tikhon's Seminary and talked to a professor with a very heavy, overly-exaggerated received pronunciation. After listening to him for ten minutes I could no longer bear it and stated, "I am sorry, I am from the midwest, could you Americanize and midwesternize your accent -- you are very hard to listen to -- just speak normally"!
Father George Aquaro has an open mind to salvation.Death is so final to Christian as a whole and yet father George A says you are still Orthodox and there is hope. Regarding suicide father George A sees hope.
I think that the clergy of the church should be ashamed that they have drained salvation as the reason for our faith. I know of a cruel environment which tormented an innocent person to take his life, and yet the church will see the sin of suicide and yet forgive those who pulled the psychological trigger.The Pharisees were similar to the modern Cristian churches preaching strict laws to salvation. God is all loving and he is all forgiving. Who are we to judge ? If we believe that salvation is limited to this world then we do not believe in life eternal.
The only sin which cannot be forgiven is denying the Holy Spirit. I suppose that although we sin if we love the Holy Spirit there is salvation even after death. Judas turned away from God and placed his salvation in the hands of evil men and for that reason he could not be saved.
So much UNBIBLICAL false doctrine in the comment section... Goodness.
Not everything comes from the Bible. The church came before the Bible. To understand true dogma you need to look into the words of the church fathers and the saints
@@FilmnAura The church didn't come before the Torah. Yet, another false comment. Church Fathers are fallen men. Being a "saint" doesn't mean one isn't susceptible to error. We see in scripture accounts of the early church falling into error and false teaching. To understand true doctrine we have the scriptures and the Spirit and plenty of sound teachers.
@@dustindustindontworry-jz8dh the scriptures didn’t come before Jesus established the church. The church was formed and after time the Bible was put together. Stop pressing heresy with this sola scriptura mindset. Just because some heretical Protestants fell off from the original church doesn’t mean you can disrespect the church fathers and the saints
@@FilmnAura The TORAH came before the church. JESUS literally quoted from the old testament and he read the scriptures in the temples. Acknowledging that the church fathers were not perfect in their understanding shouldn't be viewed as disrespect. For even scripture tells us we only see in part.
@@dustindustindontworry-jz8dh Yes Jesus quoted scripture but that’s NOT the full BIBLE we know today. I keep saying Bible because that’s what im talking about, not the Torah. The church is the reason we even have the Bible we know today. And obviously Lutherans REMOVED books from it. The only preserved Bible comes from orthodoxy
so funny about the accents!
1:10:00 First question from Mr. Kevin Allen, host of The Illumined Heart podcast (check it out)! We lost him in August 2018 to ALS. With the saints give rest, O Christ, to the soul of Thy servant Kevin, where there is no sickness, sorrow, nor sighing, but life everlasting. Memory eternal!
Pay the demons by saying the Jesus Prayer, that should get their attention fast and they will gladly let your soul pass. X
Pete, it’s interesting that you write that. Whenever I am distracted with ungodly thoughts I pray the Jesus prayer and I get a reset. I’m back on track. 😄
@@Mark-yb1sp I am a wretched sinner. I had no control over my temper. I often lost it, when i saw red. I was hooked on porn of the worst kind. I have always been thoughtful, gentle, kind, prayerful and compassionate.
I found that in moments of temptation, the Jesus Pray instantly made the temptation cease, it didn't matter if it was anger or lust, bad thoughts, or any sin.
The Jesus Prayer has given me so much peace and has always worked. Saying it has become natural to me.
I believe that the Jesus Prayer removes me from wherever I am and places me in the presence of my Lord Jesus Christ, my Creator, Saviour and King. Its like Jesus is less than a skin's breath near to me.
I recite the Jesus Prayer silently even if I'm eating or mostly vocally every minute of the day, everyday. I go to sleep saying and I awake up saying the Jesus Prayer. It is truly a Divine Holy Prayer. No demon can stand up against the Jesus Prayer.
God Bless You Mark. Amen. X
Do people really believe that demons are on the path from Hades to Heaven for the righteous in Christ, and may need to be paid? Is this not outrageous?
@@chaddonal4331 I too find it strange. There have been a few things that i found strange eg like the Church doesn't believe in ghost, even though, when Jesus appears to the disciples after rising from the dead, eats a piece of fish so that they would not think he was a ghost. Amen.
@@chaddonal4331 i once heard an Australian Orthodox priest lecture that the the miracles at Fatima, Portugal, were made by demons.
I wonder how Our Blessed Mother feels about his comments.
I think that any priest who needs to bad mouth or call into disrepute miracles of the Roman Catholic Church needs to look carefully at his beliefs, if that is how he expects to win people over to the Orthodox Church. Shame on him. Amen.
After this speech, I think I understand more about the RC teaching on purgatory, than I understand what the Orthodox teach about the afterlife...
of course RC beliefs are easier to understand but it most certainly doesn't make it true. the Revelation of Christianity is not easy. but it's as easy as God can make it for our minds. there are things beyond us so far beyond we can never understand.
but we accept the Revelation (not the book, the faith) for what it is... God revealing Himself in as much as we can understand.
Similar but not the same. RC Purgatory also entails Indulgences for lessening time in purgation.
To be absent from the body is to be with Christ Jesus..if one is saved and has put their faith and trust in Christ Jesus..if one isn't saved,they will reopen their eyes in hell awaiting judgement at the great white throne after Christs millennium reign here on earth...we must be prepared for eternal life..we don't know our next breath of life.. Christ spoke more on hell and damnation while He was here in this wicked fallen sinful world..be careful of man's religions and traditions..all of humanity are born into sin..bad blood..you cannot and should not confess your sins to another sinner..repent and confess all your past present to our Lord Jesus Christ..for He is the Way the Truth and the Life..amen.. maranatha
the idea of Purgatory comes from 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 "each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire."
Guys three things
Purification of soul
Illumination of soul
Reaching deification/ theosis.
Every soul will reach eternity.
Coz God is perfect love.
Eden will be restored... Divine plan
A lot of imagination about things we know practically nothing about. I prefer the Baha'i approach to the subject.
The advice I would give to this priest would be this. Ask someone who is already died and come back. You really have no idea what you're talkin about
Correct we need to talk to Jesus about this
This is a really bad layout for learning. We are all tired of lectures -- can't they just teach the word like Jesus did? Why not have it in a conference room with tables and comfortable chairs? Would that be so difficult?
Go to a soulless Protestant church then
mgbsecteacher Yeah, like Jesus taught crowds while they sat in comfy chairs.
“Can we just teach the word of God like God did?”.......
Good Luck
@@DysmasTheGoodThief As a Protestant I take great offense at your comment.
2GrowDaily Eastern Orthodoxy is not about comfort. It’s about truth, knowledge, obedience and getting ready to meet Christ. I’m studying it more
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
It’s really hard to grasp the enormous amount of spiritual delusion necessary to make someone ordained to be a priest of the Most High utter the abysmal idiocy that after death everybody is a Christian.
…the demons also believe, and tremble.
He didn't say that after death everyone's a Christian. He said that after death everyone's Orthodox, in terms of Orthodoxy being the true and ancient faith and whatever happens is according to Orthodox teachings. This is impossible for Protestants to grasp, this adherence to what the Church believes over what individual believers choose to believe. I've been both and much prefer the Church as my authority.
St.Joanna Excellent response.
@@st.joanna2120 I am a Protestant and I understand perfectly what he meant.
@@2growdaily181 I don’t think it’s that black and white ... time