Where are our hearts?
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The video 'Where are our hearts?' was recorded by Fr Seraphim (Aldea) at Iona Monastery (The Orthodox Monastery of the Mother of God and All Saints of Iona), on the Isle of Iona.
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May God bless us all!
God forgive us sinners
We are pray for merciful hart’s 🙏🙏🙏😞✝️☦️☦️
We repeat our mistakes
How much I love the beautiful soul of this father. He keeps my faith alive, my faith in humanity too.
I watched this last night and was convicted by this message. This morning I prayed to open my heart more. A few hours later I pulled into a gas station and saw a young couple, obviously quite needy with a sign asking for a gallon of gas for their huge decrepit van. I was going to give them a gallon but heard the Lord tell me to help them. I offered to fill both tanks which they didn't want to do but I insisted and gave them a bit of money. They spoke very little English but were overwhelmed. They told me they were Romanian. Here in suburban Southern California. I thought of you dear Father and thanked God for the opportunity to assist someone so soon after being convicted about my somewhat hardened heart. Thank you Father Seraphim
Thank you Fr for speaking up, this needs to be said and spoken about by all the world, All Christians should be praying for those souls. Our parish said Mass dedicated to refugees and asylum seekers last night. I work with the asylum seekers in the UK and these beautiful souls are suffering greatly especially when they hear about these tragic and preventable deaths. ❤ God bless you Fr and all brothers and sisters of this world 🙏
You are a man of my heart ❤ I had the same feelings of deep grief and outrage when everyone made such a fuss over the five men who died in the capsule trying to see the Titanic but ignored the people who drowned in the Mediterranean the same week
Thank you Fr. Seraphim, from a fellow priest. This hit me like a ton of bricks. To my shame, in my own busyness, this news passed me by. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
God bless you father! Bone Jesu exaudimus nobis
This needed to be said and needs to be spread.
Heavenly Father forgive me for my blindness and hard heartedness. O Holy Spirit soften my heart I pray and teach me to seek out whom and how You want me to help. For Your name’s sake. Amen
This is the first I've heard about the '500'. Lest we forget🕯 ☦️
Same here
God forgive us for our selfsihness...
Amen, my dear one, amen.
Va inteleg ,Parinte, este foarte dureros ce nedreptate se intimpla pe Pamint! Alb e numit negru si negru alb...
Dar va amintiti in Pateric este o istorie unde bogatul a fost ingropat cu muzica si monahul a fost sfishiat de o fiara...
Atunci sa explicat : bogatul sia luat plata in viata si va merge la iad,monahul a dus viata grea cu multe lipsuri si sfirshitul lui a fist tragic si a mers la Rai in Imparatia Domnului!
Sa fim buni, cind avem sansa sa ajutam sa o facem intotdeauna, oriunde...sa nu pierdem shansa! Domne ajuta,va doresc pace si liniste,Parinte! Dumnezeu este cu noi! Rugativa Domnului pentru mine Olga si familia!
Va multumesc!❤
I comment very rarely on TH-cam, but I had to in this case. Not only did you absolutely show me my fallen nature and sin, by this example, but you also showed me in vivid terms the truth of of what it means to be a follower of Christ. I get endlessly lost in analysing doctrine, theology, and other such contentions, when I really needed to turn my face to this. Thank you humbly, Father.
Brother Seraphim. Thank you for exposing the pride I thought was absent within me. To my shame, it was there at your mention of the 'west'.
I cling to the Word regarding matters of the world, to which Jesus spoke to His disciples regarding it in John 16:33.
"I have told you this so that you might have peace in Me. In this world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world."
The Holy Spirit is at work through you. Be blessed as well.
This is very common among developed nations. Where death of a celebrity or politician gets more attention and coverage than hundreds poor people who died tragically. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings about this.
I was thinking along similar lines myself actually, thank you so much for spreading awareness on this issue as there's so many people struggling and getting no attention or media coverage or lobbyists or political pandering and yes just like you said, 5 people at the bottom of the ocean, to see the titanic where all the rich people got the life rafts and the poor died in the ocean with the sinking ship, its truly saddening to see people react in the way they do. As Jesus said, (matthew 6:24) "no one can serve two masters. Either you will hate one and love the other, or you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money"
Dear Father Seraphim, that was a very powerful message. The only way out of this despondency over our own sins is walking through the doors of repentance. Thanks for this reminder which does indeed painfully hit the spot.
Maria
Thank you for your words, Father Seraphim. We all had to listen to what you've said. God bless you forever and ever. Please, pray for me!🌷🌷🌷
With Saint John of San Francisco feast, I couldn't help but think of the plight of those fleeing homelands due to persecution. Thank you for bringing to mind those whose struggle is far beyond.
Be well Fr. Seraphim, and thank you for sharing with us.
The antichrist is trying to make us lose hope, trying to make us lose sight of all the wonderful people who really do care about these issues. Many people contribute in their own way - charity, volunteering, political action, the quiet love of a mind stilled in prayer and meditation. There are many shining faces, Father Seraphim. You give me hope. May this message give you hope. 🕯 Amen
We love you too, in Crhrist, dear father Seraphim! And we thank God for your words.
Sadly this is a daily reality of our world. The tragedies of ordinary people that suffer and die on a daily basis. Whether it's children and innocent people, being bombed in Syria or Ukraine or people elsewhere.
Or people in lower places, like the coal miners or slaves that labor and are sorely tormented by their burdens. Lord have mercy and fill our hearts with love. God bless you for bringing this to our attention.
Dear Father, thank you for this. I too, have been heavily despondent, but not regarding this issue, but rather PRIDE month in the USA. It’s EVERYWHERE , I can’t go anywhere in my community without it being in my face. What really really gets me is how this movement has children in its grip, beautiful, spotless, innocent children. I can hardly bear coming to grips with the demonic nature of this. I don’t even want to reach out to God in prayer anymore regarding this, like what’s the point, I’ve prayed about this and things have only accelerated and gotten worse. Hopelessness is demonic, so I continue to repent, but I feel the hardening of my heart gripping me mercilessly, with no love towards others accepting or promoting all this.
Greetings from Coptic church in Egypt Father😊
Found your sermons in a time i needed such expressive words.
God Bless you💕
I have been cynical and judgemental and have lacked empathy. I am ashamed and deeply sorry for those 500 souls including mothers and children forgive me God, I repent of this wickedness before in the attitude of my heart .
Thank you for highlighting this hypocrisy .
🕯️i have no words. No excuse for my own cold heart
We don't need excuses, dear one. We need to repent, which is to change, and I know we can do it if we ask Christ Himself to change our heart according to His.
Părinte Serafim, și sufletul nostru este mâhnit, fara a putea exprima ceva, în cuvinte...
“we will fail in our compassion” yes, and we need to repent continually and always try to do better. amazing message Father.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner
Thank you! Thank you for having the hard talks with us and bringing to light those areas in our hearts that are darkened from the world, materialism, society, or pressures. Thank you for loving us and our spiritual journey towards salvation. ☦️💕
God bless you my dear brother and thank you for your words of truth straight from your heart. Truth is often difficult to hear but needs to be said. You are truly blessed, God bless you 🙏🏼
A righteous rebuke.
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner.
Yes, Father Seraphim, this striking contrast of how these two events of "lost at sea" were covered by the media brings home our fallen nature. When I asked a friend who had just returned from a trip to Greece about this tragic event off the coast of southern Greece, she's was not even aware of it.Lord be merciful to me a sinner.
This is the only TH-cam channel I watch that actually brings me to act in real life. Thank you.
asking prayer because I have no family or friends or pourpose. Also if any monasteries need security during these apocalyptic times, I am very NON-lucratively interested because western life is futile. May God help those desperate ppl, may God give this priest the desires of His heart amen
Be strong Father. I offer your heart before the altar of Christ. We need your wisdom and knowledge.
I’ve been struggling with what to say appropriately…and there is nothing that can be said for the selfishness and hardness of heart we can hold even without realizing it…heartfelt prayers to our Lord for all those dear souls…ty for opening our eyes and hearts more, Fr Seraphim…I have you on my daily prayer list, as well…Lord have mercy on us sinners 🙏❤
“It is in our (fallen) nature to treasure spectacle over truth.”
our Lord jesus christ have mercy on all the souls that are lost, all souls that are in trouble 🤲🤲🤲🤲
Help us to overcome Lord 🤲 🤲🤲🤲
Thank you dear Father. I was completely unaware of these poor suffering ones who perished. May the Lord grant them eternal rest with His saints. Amen.
Same, this is my first time hearing this. Horrifying. Theres very similar situations from South Americans and cubans trying to get into the United States. They die or get kidnapped and sold into slavery by the thousands.
This made me realize how cold my heart might be. I do not wish them to die but I do not wish them to go to those nations where I hear so often how much worse the migrants make of those nations. I wish to help fix their nation and their home so they don’t have to abandon it.
This truly disturbed me, to the point that I did not have any interest in the five. One of my friends tried three times to cross the Mediterranean and the last time nearly drowned. He was saved by a miracle.
Thank you for speaking about this, Father. We hear too little about the events that actually have the most meaning and value in this world. We are blessed to have you to remind us where our hearts should be focused. May God bless you always.
Oh Lord have Mercy! Father Seraphim Aldea I share in your sorrow. I cried when you shared this news that I was unaware of. May God comfort us all in our tears and have mercy upon all the souls who have suffered, let us remember our dear brothers and sisters in Christ and who have all been made in Christs image. Lord have Mercy.
Amen❤,
Thank you brother
The death of any human being is an unthinkable tragedy, regardless of whether they are rich o poor, but to be selective in a discriminatory way with one's choice of grief - that is demonic, not human. And we can all blame it on the media, but the media is only a reflection of our own passions. They pushed the submersible story because they knew this is the story we wanted to read; they ignored the other one because they knew we would not respond to it. I pya for you, please pray for us - may we find our way forward through repentance, my dear one.
Bless you and thank you 🌸
The poor will always be with us…. Y heart breaks too no hope in humans I wanna be hermit away from this world.. repenting and prayers for this world
I shamefully admit that I was completely unaware of this shipwreck happening at all. I had no idea about it, which can only mean that my attention was elsewhere, and that's my fault. Time to take a real long, hard look at what else I've not been properly focusing on.
Message received, course correction entirely needed. Thank you so much, Father. 🙏
Dearest Father 😢 what can I say. You are a voice crying in the desert and how I thank you for the blessing of your crying. Be blessed dear Father ... be blessed.
Dear Father,
Thankyou so much for this message. I don’t watch television or even get newspapers but I’m horrified to tell you that I was unaware of this tragedy, all week on You tube it was the drama of the five people lost which commanded the news outlets on You Tube , my prime source of news. Which even that I watch in a limited way in order to see what I am to pray for that day. So often I feel as you do Father….it oppresses me at times ….and I struggle to unite myself in Jesus interior sufferings which were far greater even than His physical sufferings ,so that I can incompetently offer it for the sake of His church for souls and nit least in reparation for my own sinfulness.
Thank you Father Seraphim for this message, I am sorry about these 500 spirits as well, may the Lord have mercy on us 🕯
Thank you father Seraphim. The hope I hold onto are the ripple effects from individuals such as yourself and other Christians telling the truth and becoming more Christlike. This must have some impact on the world. It's had an impact on me if nothing else 🙏
Forgive me FATHER, I know not what I do.
Mine sometimes is in hell and sometimes on earth, sometimes when i pray more deeply i can say heaven.
I suffer from depression and its painfull. I go to church, confess and all, but the pain is still here.
It maked me a week and sad person.
Lord Jesus Chirst Son Of God have mercy on me a sinner 😢
Many have grown cold, and much are falling away from the truth
It is even more tragic that I did not know of this event until watching this video... thank you for this. Praying...
Our Father who are in Heaven, forgive us our trespasses. Dear Father Seraphim, you are in my prayers as we know that we are in yours.
I am sooo sorry, being from the west had not heard of this horrible nightmare will pray for all those lost souls, God was there... don't forget nothing happens without His knowledge, he knows when a sparrow falls how much more children and adults, will continue to pray for this war to stop! Please dont let you heart be troubled, i am so sorry for the families left behind😔
😢this is so sad.May these souls RIP 🙏 where are our priorities?
I love you so much brother 🙏🏼 God have mercy on those poor souls.
Until this moment, I knew nothing of the 500. I know a little about the Titanic because the headline came up in my feed. I don't watch the news anymore. It makes me rethink how I pray. What an absolute, heartbreaking tragedy for so many lost.
Doamne ajută părinte Serafim. Foarte profund și foarte emotionata sa ascult și sa va simt tristetea și durerea din acest video. Doresc numai bine sănătate si binecuvântări de la Domnul nostru Iisus Hristos! Amin 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thank you for your admonishing words brother. I pray for God’s mercy
Father Bless, Thank you for reminding us of the importance of this, it is so hard not to be desensitized especially living on the south coast of England where there are almost daily deaths or rescues of migrants crossing the channel to the point it is not even reported most of the time. It is so easy to be desensitised to the suffering all around us and distracted by the shiny trinkets of this life, it is so important to be reminded that reality is a lot harder but that there is also things we can do both in prayer and practically within whatever situation we are in.
Thank you for this sobering video, Father. I have long felt that my heart has been made of stone, with not a single drop of blood running through me, with no love for God, Christ, others, myself... it is clear that I and many others are more interested in shining spectacles than the reality that 500 people died trying to escape a hell they did not create. I can only hope that they are in a better place and that the Lord will show us mercy.
I love you in Christ and I thank God for you ☦️🤍
We can contribute to the UNHCR, the World Food Program, and Doctors without Borders.
😭😭 parcă suntem într-o stare de beție. Să ne ierte Dumnezeu
Love is the answer .
I didn't even know about the recent refugee loss.
Truly, my heart is stone, cold and black who prefereth this world and is apathetic to the plight of others.
I look to judge every part of every person at all times, including you Father Seraphim. I say ‘I am sorry’ but my heart says not.
I am the one who says ‘Lord, Lord’ and the one who will be said unto me ‘I do not know you’.
Nevertheless, even as I continue to murder with my thoughts and contribute to the hate and destruction of this world.
May I ask for even the slightest of forgiveness for the great deal of trouble I have caused you.
Wonderfully said. I relate to the truth of your message to such a great degree.
O Christ our God be with us, for in times of distress we have no other help but You. Lord of the Powers, have mercy on us. Amen.
So sad, may the Almighty God bless them and rest thair souls in peace 🕊️🕊️🕊️🙏
Hello Fr. Seraphim, I watch majority of your videos. I’m a young 17-year old, that has unfortunately abandoned God. The way up is very difficult and trying to return to Him, seems so far away. I have such a stone heart and I’m in a severe state of indifference causing the lack of fear for Him. Indifference is so deadly and what you say is so true. I’m in a dangerous place spiritually and I have so so much pain. There have been so many moments where I feel like; what’s the point? I keep going because I know if I do stop, an eternity of hell awaits me where I’m so terrified about. Please pray for my wretched soul. I feel so lonely too. I want to change. So much I want to change, but I feel at a lost. Have mercy upon me. If you could say one prayer for my soul, I feel like I could perhaps get up. I need help. Please have mercy upon me.
I've been in bad trouble at times coz I was godless when young. I'm new to orthodox but even before I knew about the Way I was inspired to fast and pray and give... God always got me out of the darkness 🙏❤️☦️
Joana, Fear and being scared is of the evil one, the love of God would never want that for you. He loves you so completely, there are no words to describe ...
He's AWESOME and so are you !!!
The Word put on flesh .... gave up the whole of the Cosmos just for you !!
As if you were the ONLY one ...
He left all that, the rest of the sheep, just to find you,
to make you, ordering all things for your life and salvation,
every hair on your head, every cell in your body, and every tick of the clock, from your parents loins to every breath until the last one, and for all eternity.
LOVE that will NEVER let go ... unless you say !!
Just talk to him, He is longing to bring you HOME and to receiving His life in exchange for your in the reception of the Divine Holy Gifts at Divine Liturgy. Attend tomorrow (and please light a candle for me as I'm awaiting operation next Thursday and cannot travel) XXX
We need and needed to hear this. 💔🗡️ ( I encourage everyone who hears this video to comment so that more people will have the chance to receive this message in their feed)
Thank you, Father, for these words although they hit me with such accuracy. May God grant that the dead find peace, their loved ones find comfort, and the too many of us, of whom I am shamefully first, find the strength and discernment to repent and live out Matthew 25: 35-40 fully.
LORD JESUS love you
Lord have mercy ! and comfort those who survived. What excruciating anguish and pain. Lord forgive us all for our indifference and coldness of hearts that will pave our way to hell. We can blame the media or the west and we probably wouldn’t be wrong but May the lord lead us all to an individual repentance of heart so deep it would change us one by one and lead to collective change . May our Heavenly Father and the protector of orphans and widows hear their cry and comfort them. 🙏
Thank you, Father, for sharing this with us! For myself, I was never even aware of this happening, and neither was my wife, until seeing your video. I have to say though, that much of the blame really should be more on the media, for keeping this from us. Perhaps placing this kind of blame on the general populace of your followers for "not caring" might be a bit misplaced. I'm sure that if we had known, many of us would have seen the true horror in this situation and would have responded accordingly. But now that we have been made aware, hopefully many of us can respond accordingly, even if it is later than it should have been. At the very least, we can pray. Does anyone have any thoughts on some practical things we could also do, in response this horror?
Deeply moved by your shared intimacy of heart - Thanku for your ‘realness’ Thanku for your sincere exposure of truth of our times - we are living within a modern day expression of sodom and Gomorrah - I bow to your prayer of truth - amen 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Dear Father, we live in the information age and we are presented daily with a deluge of information from all over the world..... Our grandparents didn't have to deal with this. I'm not disagreeing with you but what about the neighbour down the street or the homeless person in our town..... Surely it's wiser generally to focus on those in our neighbourhood...... Our families first of all. God is wisdom and understanding.
God bless you for your words of wisdom father
Lord have Mercy, Christ have Mercy
Father, your words remind us to to look to our failings as brothers & sisters to one another. We fail to see as we're so brain washed & accepting of the media that feeds us & that we allow ourselves to be fed by it. How difficult it seems to be for us to comprehend the deaths of so many people and how easy we appear to mourn for the deaths of so few. As you said, if we repent, if we see how blind we have become, if we go to the door & knock, Christ is always waiting for us, always ready to accept us & accept our true repentance. We must continue our learning of how to love one another; something that we still seem to find difficult. My sorrow for all those how have died and the lives they will not live. Bless us all, for we have sinned. Amen, Amen, Amen.
Thank you so much for speaking about this Father. It needed to be said. I was thinking about this during that whole ordeal, how selective the narrative is in favoring one group of people over another. I really appreciate you speaking out. Bless you and everyone at the Mull and Iona Monasteries.
Thank you ❤
wow! i now understand your despondency and the pain. it is disgraceful that it does not affect us here in the west. thank you father for the needed words🙏
I honestly had know Idea, they all are in my prayers 🙏
Wow. Out of all the videos in your channel I watched, this is one of the best. Thank you for bringing this to attention.
Lord have mercy on all of us. Absolutely needed this message today, you are completely right. I was gripped by the adventure gone wrong, I’m so easily lead astray. May we all repent of our hard hearts and say prayers for those lost in the sea ☦️🙏
It's true!!!! 😭 The sadness and compasion that you, Father, express af course is the heart of Christ that live in you and doesn't abide in the mayority of our cold and no-human but beasts have...Lord have mercy on those souls that died over the decades and no one cares! Lord have mercy on they families that lost they dear ones .. Lord have mercy on us and change our hard an dead hearts!!! 🙏🙏🙏🕯️🕯️🕯️
Father, I too am despondent as I witness the hordes of people attempting to cross the southern border of the USA from Mexico. The risk their lives and lose their lives migrating from many countries with nothing, and here I am paying for a storage unit full of things I do not need. I want you to know that you are a light in my life. I look forward to the Holy Spirit that that speaks through you. Thank you for continuing and fighting through the sadness, it helps me.
Praying for you father, sharing your pain helps us
Thank you for this video.
El Pais: Greek authorities were tracking the ship for more than 12 hours and never activated a rescue operation, even after the ship's engine broke down.
What a powerful truth you speak, what a clear mirror you hold up to us, if we dare to look. A sermon on the mount for 2023. Blessed are those who tear our hearts open with truth, that we see the pain of our brothers. Your gift of pain is welcome and I commend your words of courage. I accept your challenge… one tiny drop in a sea of dead bodies.
Lord have mercy. +
Am I the only one who didn’t even know this tragedy had happened? I don’t watch regular news on TV, but I have not seen anything about this. Lord have mercy!
Dear Fr. Seraphim, they are heroes of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Rejoice for their souls, for they are with him in heaven. Do not have remorse for those who are alive with God, but for those who are here spiritually dead. Pray for us our dear Fr. Seraphim and may we all rejoice in Christ's mercy and love for all.
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Satan is really messing with us right now but I'm standing firm.