Our TRUE WORTH. The FULL POTENTIAL of our Humanity (On Icons and Flesh)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2020
- Our flesh and blood have the extraordinary potential to contain within themselves the Uncontainable Creator of all. Our flesh and blood can open our spiritual eyes to our own worth, our own mystery. Icons, iconography can reveal to us this potential, can show us our value, our 'worth' as human beings created in the Image of God.
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The video 'MY FLESH and CHRIST'S FLESH. ICONS reveal the FULL POTENTIAL of our Humanity' 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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This is the key to self realization and union with God.
For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
Romans 7:19-22
"But if I do the evil that I don't want it is no longer I that do it." That is key. If we are born from above it is Christ that is born within us and is the inner man of the heart which is our true nature.
This insight comes after we spend some time fighting the desires of the flesh and it begins to dawn on us that what we fight against is not us that we are the inner man of the heart and are already one with God. When we know who we are in the depths of our heart we are no longer tempted because we no longer identify with the carnal nature. The lie only has power over us as long as we believe it but when we come to a knowledge of the truth of our own being the war is over because at that point we are in God and God is in us.
In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
John 14:20-21
Theosis
Thank you father. Because of very good friends that introduced me to Jesus I have found the good life in Him, not only by sunday mass and youth activities but because of you with your encouraging words. I was brought up as irreligious and just recently have become not just interested but fully invested in His teachings and His will and becoming more and more convinced of its righteousness.
It's a long path through deep and unpleasant snow, but I know when I come home it'll be warm and beautiful and I can sleep well knowing I took that path to Him. This is more than just metaphor but an actual event, I did ponder about God while walking through a snow-veiled path through the forest, it truly is beautiful and helpful. Bless your soul and may the monastery live on.
Thank you, dear one. Thank you for your blessing and your prayer. We all need support we all need prayer. I am grateful to Christ that He spoke to you through the little things we have to offer. May we all be blessed, dear one. Be strong, stay focused - if you stand, we all stand.
This message is totally relevant n PRICELESS
Doamne ajută părinte!
Sunt cuvinte izvorăte din suflet, ziditoare de suflet,pentru care Bunul DUMNEZEU să vă înmulțească harul si darul!
Multumim DOMNULUI !
The Holy Spirit speaks to me through you
This is beautiful . I was introduced to icons 2 years ago and it changed my prayer life .
Amen, may our flesh contain God as we walk around all day. Oh that is such a nice thought...indeed.. Amen...
God bless you father ! Your words so touched my soul. My tiny brain cannot fathom the height and breadth and depth of Gods love, humility and that He freely gives Himself to us if we are willing to accept Him, I have no words to thank Him enough, just bow my heart in utter awe of Him, God bless you father and all the brothers and sisters at the monastery ✝️🙏💖 you give us much comfort and strength
I hear the truth in your words. Now to live it
Father Seraphim, I feel you are carring Christ in you. Christ is Love and Truth! As you said you are the chalice. God bless you! I pray for your strength and revelation to teach us more and more! I always carry St Marry's icon in my purse so to remind me whenever I see the Icon not only i exist but my creator been on this earth through her. He is the Truth and I am loved unconditionally so i long his guidance to follow diligently in his path. Glory to God almighty🙏🙏🙏Amen!
How do I convert to Orthodox faith? Please tell me..I feel the urge as I acknowledge it to be the True Christs and the Saints legacy.Can you do a video on this topic,please? BLESS YOU FOR YOUR HONESTY!
Try to go to your nearest orthodox church and speak with the priest there.
The bird is singing that your words are true
Father bless. This is one of the most beautiful things I've heard from you. So beautiful. Glory to God. Thank you!
From Russia with love!
Love returned a hundred fold in Christ.
Thank you father for your beautiful words ❤ 🙏 💕
I like your new cell
😊 my monastic life has taken me to many places, but this 'cell' has travelled with me everywhere. I try to do my best with the little that I have.
Thank you Fr Seraphim, as a Protestant (converting) getting my nous around the principle of an Icon has been an eluding truth. Well, after a few hours of contemplating the image (your perspective) you shared, it reached a level of tangibility where I was able to share it with my wife in an understandable way. For nearly 7 months (conver'sion/ting') I've been venerating icons with my understanding in deficit to the 'what'(& therefore who) I'm honouring venerating. I've been playing the hypocrite (ignorantly?) I'm pretty certain. St. Silouan the Athonite has been a critical inspiration, how do I love my enemy? To realise that we are all icons of the image of God some brighter some, not so bright but with the resurrection of the blessed incarnation, our precious Lord Jesus Christ, who smothered death with the brightness of His light; the potential of all God's icons to shine is ever there. We are matter(body) like the matter(wood) of the painted icon, we are earth & water of many colours still labouring for the lost by inspiration of the painted image on the wood. Our Lord was earth & water hung on a wooden backdrop, I see why you see flesh & blood. Fr Seraphim, I am so excited at the Lord's reproof through what you shared, I don't want to pretend to be a Christian anymore, why have mercy on this old dog? I've seen some dark days since bright Tuesday (conversion under attack) but this week has been a steady sunrise. Brothers like you are like the sun Ray split to a rainbow off a drop of morning dew, colour & the warmth of the love of Christ, the echo of life. God bless & thank you again.
Please pray for me, St Silouan please pray for me, St Mary of Egypt please pray for me, St Paul the Simple please pray for me, for faith, repentance, humility and that I miss not a single crumb that falls from the Master's table ☦ Amen.
Lol
I love the sound of the bird
She was rather naughty! The problem is that no matter what I think or say, my mind still prefers to listen to a bird or a wave over some silly thought of my own. Which is why I am totally lost when they start singing out of the blue, and I am certain they do it on purpose! 😊
@@mullmonastery Ha!Ha! I am so grateful for your Holy Spirit filled thoughts . I can relate to what you are saying about the sound of waves and singing birds . I am grateful that the Holy Spirit led me to your videos . Thank you very much for taking the time to record them . Your words reach my soul and draw me closer to God . 🙏🏻 I live in the United States and I wish I could visit your monastery.
If Christ returned to earth now everyone would be taking pictures, filming and drawing him.
So truly beautiful is the wondrous creation of the physical world. Thank you Father.
Amazing father.... I know Christ was born from the virgin but like you said the child became man by becoming a cell and transforming into a child... It didn't register in my mind previously
Thank you Father Seraphim, Please pray for me that my praying will grow, I study from every video you upload, I feel so blessed I found your channel! God bless you Father!
Doamne ajută părinte!
Binecuvântați!
how high dignity our body has, how sacred it may become when we bear Christ inside!
Are.in.my.prayers.always..amen.!!!!!!
Loved this all! ❤
Amen and amen and amen....... the holy.icons.are.truly.beautiful.your.explanation.so..much.in.depthed..father, seraphin.you.pour.out.your.heart.to.us.god.bless.you..your.monastory.!!!! you Father all.all.in.my.prayers.......l I've.yalll...
Thomas logia 29 1. "If the flesh came into being because of spirit then it is a wonder "
2. "But if the spirit became into being because of the body it is a wonder of wonders".
3. "Yet I marvel of how this great wealth has settled in such poverty".
We are His Kings and Priests take up your mantle!
Fr Seraphim: thank you for the prayer topics you select. As a catholic, i can relate closely to what you are saying. I reflect on the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Dear Richard, apart from praying and trusting that Christ will always give me a word to say, I purposely make no preparation, because I have always benefited most from imperfect words coming from an open heart. May we all be blessed, dear one.
God spoke to me through these words. Extraordinary... 🌄
Thank God for all these small gifts, dear one. Day by day, He leads us, He shows us the way, He sends us the words we need to overcome the darkness in us and to turn ourselves to the Light in Him. Be blessed, dear one.
Hello Father, I love your videos and the familiarity of my mother with her traditional Greek Orthodox
and icons. I remember as a young child, in our home always have religious paintings on the wall. Like a
painting of The Agony In The Garden and The Last Supper. A lovely time growing up and catholic school
teaching. Yes Father, it is so true about our beautiful icons🙏🔥✨💫❤️Thank you Father Amen🙏
Even catholics like myself can apreciate beauty, style, and greatness of icons. And many of us have icons at home or in parishes, sorry for stealing them....Thanks fr Seraphin
Just discovered this channel and am enjoying the messages so much. God bless you.
We begin living eating and breathing God - 24/7.....God bless from Canada!
Your icons are wonderfulюYou see the suffering of the Christ
Please pray for me
So beautiful and impressive icons of the Lord in this video!!! Both of them.
May you be blessed Father ❤️
Dear Fr. Seraphim, I am so thankful to God that I discovered your channel. It has been like drinking water and not having realized you were thirsty. God uses you to speak to us and we (your audience) are so thankful. I am studying medicine in the US and could offer advise for your migraines, I will try to send at a later time. Praying for you!
I pray for you and your monastery and God bless you Father🙏
This conversation reminds me of the Scripture: "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves." We have this treasure in earthen vessels. What a treasure! What a silly manger for God to choose. 😊
Good point about how we are living chalices for the Holy Eucharist (bodily the earthly Christ) as well as the temple of the Holy Spirit. Again in our limits of human language, we are trying to describe and say things that are beyond our very words. In awe, we (the creation) cannot be separated from the Creator. I can go around and around in my human logic but will never explain the mysteries that is God. So I just pray and not even question. Thank you for your insights and how the Holy Spirit is expressing thru you aspects of these mysteries.
Interesting you have spliced the beginning onto the end or vice a versa.
Dear Father,
I am always moved by the depth of your thoughts. Thank you.
Although in other words it speaks of the same thing the II. Vatican Council as well: “The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. For Adam, the first man, was a figure of Him Who was to come, namely Christ the Lord. Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear. … He Who is "the image of the invisible God" (Col. 1:15), is Himself the perfect man. To the sons of Adam He restores the divine likeness which had been disfigured from the first sin onward. Since human nature as He assumed it was not annulled, by that very fact it has been raised up to a divine dignity in our respect too. For by His incarnation the Son of God has united Himself in some fashion with every man. He worked with human hands, He thought with a human mind, acted by human choice and loved with a human heart. Born of the Virgin Mary, He has truly been made one of us, like us in all things except sin.”
(Gaudium et spes 22)
Thank you for your beautiful words, so truly sincere and straight from your heart.
Glory be to God, dear one. I am grateful that anything that we do can help someone, in any small way. may we all be blessed.
@@mullmonastery your videos help me so much, Thankyou so much
Thank you Father for this beautiful teaching. I will never look at an Icon the same. God bless you.
That bird is encouraging you, speak.. speak...
Yes the birds are wise
🕊 excellent video
Multa sanatate Parinte Seraphim!
Va urmaresc cat pot de mult, Dumnezeu sa va ajute cu misiunea dv. in acele locuri frumoase si linistite!
God Bless our souls!!
What a refreshingly “different”, informative and helpful approach to icons - that they reveal not only mysteries of faith about God, but also truths about ourselves.
Your idea of us being human chalices containing Christ is a good and thought-provoking one.
Another thought-provoking idea that I thankfully note is that we will never solve the mystery of ourselves - who and what we are - in this life.
Father Seraphim -- It was no accident that I saw this video and your helpful explanation of the meaning behind icons. I saw a beautiful Icon of the Theotokos holding the Christ child on her right arm in your video and would like to know where I may obtain one for my prayer room. Thank you. God bless you and all at Mull Monastery 🙏
Father Bless, Thankyou for this message, it has been a timely reminder for me so the creeping thoughts which can overwhelm me at time can be driven off again. Your message about the value is the flesh is important for those of us who have battled with the monster of Eating Disorders as even in recovery it is hard to properly value the body as a temple of God.
Dear Father Seraphim, want to thank you, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Listen to your words. I felt that a lot of knots in my soul, (I was not aware of them) losing there ties, flow away, leaving my body. like a healer who is very scilled give a medicine. Even a cure for things I did not know I had that illness. Feel released from very old wounds, Tears because of the deep thankfullness to God, to Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and to you lovely brother.
When you stopped to say those birds are distracting my birds were going nuts and I was thinking same thing lol crazy.
Father any ways to defeat once selfs pride?
Bless you father and may the holy spirit continue to work through you to reach and help us sinners.
Icons work miracles.
Lately Holy Theotokos icons in several places shedding tears for mankind.
May the Holy Trinity have mercy on us sinners.
Pray for us please.
Your steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car ??? Greetings from Australia.
Thank you, Father, for this work and for your videos. I have prayed with the Orthodox for over two decades, and identify myself as 'Orthodox'. I am, however, officially still Roman Catholic. I may one day make my way into the fullness of the Faith. This was to be the year I spent the Great Fast in the various parishes of this city on the East Coast of the United States. The Pandemic eliminated that self-willed and grandiose agenda of mine. Instead, I have been learning more of my own sinfulness and my own grace.
I shall continue to learn, G-d helping.
Thank you Father for sharing your words and guidance. I was recently attacked verbally because of iconography, accused of being not of God, of being an Idol worshiper. Your words speak directly to me and affirmed my faith and belief. God's blessings be with you.
Thank you for this teaching . Remember me in you’re prayers I’m am learning to write Icons . God Bless you .
How do i contact the monastery for prayer... I have sinned against God and my parents. I got angry and said some horrible things to them. I need prayer and forgiveness from God and Jesus.. please pray for me and I keep you in prayer as well. Christ is risen.
Love to you and to the bird! Thank you as always for sharing this with us.
What you say is true. We are made in the image of God. God also speaks to us in brother bird. Grace is everywhere.
As far as I remember I was overhelmed by the buty of icons. Dear father, you exactly described what I expercienced during last 3 weeks. 2 days ago I finished painting my first icon - Christ Pantocrator. The time I spent working on it was so special. What struck me most - we didn't get a sketch but we had to design it on our own. We've learnt a lot about the proportions of human body and the the ways of drawing it. Suddenly in one moment I realized that I can draw myself or any other person using the same rules as I'm using when I draw a face and the rest of the body of Jesus. In that very moment I saw Him in different light. In our human nature we are similar. I can't even express it here, how I felt. And now I'm listening to you and you open my eyes..Thank you so much. Your videos are precious. Love from Poland! Be blessed +
Kinga Hruszka oh! I am painting too! I’m trying to gather courage for an icon. I am indebted to you for saying this, and adding to my courage!
Love you too ❤️❤️ thank you
You can say the same thing about SAYING vocal payer or being in the presence of the Holy Tabernacle
the bird just want to join conversation. it has also something to say about the topic :-)
I thought the same thing
🩸🌊 thank you, Fr. Seraphim
I am grateful for all things, dear one. I am grateful I had this moment in the car, and that God has given me something to offer you. I am grateful that there is anything useful in anything we do - that always surprises and humbles me.
@@mullmonastery you are so visceral that you remind me of this writer Fr Hamrock’s outlook who wrote a book about preaching as the oral icon of Christ. I just love that you intertwine the visual with the spiritual with the insight you teach specifically when you speak of the deeply humanizing effect of icons’ figuration of Christ’s anatomy while serving most seminally as a portal and catalyst. Like I am a meat doll that can be saturated in Divine juices whose fragrance i can carry and share with others in this common bodily truth we all share
Hello Fr. Seraphim,
I listened closely to your video and I Would like to better understand the ideas of Orthodox Christians when it comes to the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, Mary the Theotokos.
Can you clarify this for me please?
Louise
Yes, I was confused when I heard that bit. It seems like he said she didn't have personal sin, but she did have the consequence of original sin.
With all due respect but Orthodox christians don't adhere to the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Theotokos. That might be the cause of your having found the Father's remarks a bit confusing.
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i am very new to this all, and have a sincere question in reference to the 12:50 mark regarding the bodily resurrection: what happens to my loved ones who have been cremated to ash, who also were believers of Jesus until their day of death?
How is the resurrection then, possible for them?
Is there any way to have the eucharist with churches closed at the moment?
It might be possible for your priest to bring you communion at home, it is a matter of asking. Most priests will be willing to, it will of course depend on what the bishop has said about it. It is worth being honest with your priest though about how you feel about receiving communion.
Părinte, vă rog să mă credeți că îmi vine să plâng de supărare , când văd cât suflet puneți în tot ce spuneți, iar eu nu pot înțelege nimic. Iertați-mă părinte.
Să-l rugăm pe Părintele să ne dea și nouă cuvîntul in limba română.
Imi cer iertare pentru ca nu putem traduce. Ar adauga intre 3 si 5 ore de munca in plus pentru fiecare video, timp pe care pur si simplu nu il am. Daca ar fi cineva care sa faca munca asta pentru Manastire, as accepta cu mare drag. Nu facem asta din lipsa de iubire pentru limba romana, ci pentru ca suntem doar 3 care vorbim romana la Manastire (inclusiv eu) si abia razbim sa facem ce avem de facut ca sa nu intrerupem slujbele in Biserica si ascultarile noastre zilnice.
@@mullmonastery Iertare Părinte!!Avem nădejde că va rindui si pentru noi Domnul.
It seems God reveals His Humanity in His suffering on these icons. The Shroud of Turin and the icon of Guadalupe both show the infinite depth of human suffering. Our humanity can only be redeemed by the suffering humanity of God in Jesus Christ. If I start to think of our humanity being redeemed in any other way it doesn’t reflect the humanity I see in God.
Do you have any account for massage like messenger or some think