I need to do two things. First, we thank you all SO much for your beautiful comments - they give us so much hope and encouragement. Second, you may have noticed that for the last few weeks (turning into months now) I struggle to reply to comments and even emails. This is not only a matter of time, but also a personal health problem. Something is happening with my eyesight (hopefully not related to the steep increase of my migraines) and I can only read / write without difficulty for about 15-20 minutes for a few 'sessions' a day. I am seeing a doctor soon and - God willing - all will be well again, but I still feel bad about not replying to everyone, as I would like to do. May we all be blessed, dear ones.
Bună seara părinte Serafim ,va purtam in rugăciunile noastre! Va inbratisam cu mult drag și va uram însănătoșire grabnică! Maica Domnului cu toți Sfinții sa va ocrotească și să vă dăruiască sănătatea de care aveți atîta nevoie! Va așteptăm cu mult drag să ne bucurați inimile! O seara binecuvintata!
I am sort of addicted to listening to your talks Father. I had mentioned out loud that I wanted to start waking up early before my family so that I may do my morning prayers without being rushed. I had said I wanted to wake up at 5 but lazily set my alarm for 5:30. Well before the alarm went off I found myself laying there waiting for it. Our loving God woke me, a heavy sleeper, and was so merciful to my slothful self. Praise God. But being the unfaithful servant that I am I rather thought to myself, I'll just listen to a talk first while I wash up, etc. I clicked on this video not realizing it was a prayer service. Thank you so much for being the conduit of Gods mercy for me this morning as through your video I was drawn into prayer as "the little troublemaker" sought to pull me away from. Thank you for the gift of this beautiful prayer. My heart is overjoyed. What better way to start the day. I'd also like to say thank you to all who come here and comment as I find these threads a place of fellowship. God bless you all. And though I am ashamed to ask, as I am not very good at praying for others, please pray for me. I will pray for you all now before I can forget 🙏
Its a 38°c hot & dry summers day in Australia... It's a New Years day and I'm still getting used to my Nana not being here to tell me what's happening in Scotland, as she often mentioned Mull and Iiona. I miss her. Lord have mercy on us, Amen. 🕊🙏
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I go to the ortodox church 1/2 times per week dispute work, but you are always on my prays to continue doing what do you do. Thank Thank you Thank you Andreea
Beautiful. Thank you for posting this. As a former Christian, seeker truth , an unbeliever of sorts, one who meditates, I have been blessed by various orthodox persons on TH-cam, orthodox websites. Especially yours. A burning hearts desire, a tightness in my chest when watching some of your videos on Prayer and the Celtic Saints-thaney and mungo and Columba. Powerful. Thank you and god bless.
God bless you, Brandon. Have you seen the film, "Becoming Truly Human" by Nathan Jacobs? It is beautiful and something that you may glean a great deal from. Spoiler alert: the ending makes you cry. ❤️🙏 Keep seeking! You are loved!
Yes I did watch it! I first heard about him on Protecting Veil’s interview. Watched his 3 part lectures on reaching the nones and dimes and his interviews with Paul vanderklay. I would saw I am on a similar path as Tom Holland, author of the book Dominion. I have a long religious history, and interest in religious though and history, especially Christian and more so Orthodoxy. Please for me and my wife and I.. She is not really interested in religion as an agnostic. Thank you and blessings to you.
That was exactly what I was supposed to hear. Praise God, thank God. Thank you fr. Im so blessed to have been apart of this. Fr thank you. Amen! Amen! Amen!
What a vision - the opening minutes of this service! Two images juxaposed - the small grey church standing amidst trees on a blustery day, no sun, merely subdued hues of nature; grey, white, green and blue. The natural vista , a panorama of emptiness, land and sea, wind seemingly resting and inert but for the sound of prayer offered to God, sung by a single voice - Ps50. This vocal addition changed the whole dynamic and dimension of the opening vista. Here , work was being undertaken, prayer for the sake of the world. The pulsating waving trees, grass and flowers seem aware,of the activity of the Spirit was at workd. pROFOUND THANKS for these videos; they speak to us on many lveles and are images for contemplation and of Prayer. By such means, hidden work of prayer, the world will be saved. Blessings abound.
I pray this prayer with you everyday.. May the walls of our heart's, be taken.. By the light of His Glory and grace... I truly, PRAY that you are healed and strengthen in your eyesight... Mother Theotokos comfort and protection of God..
Glory to God for this refreshment of our spirit, filling our hearts with divine love. May we truly love one another with the love of Christ. This will be a quiet place I will return to again and again. May you and the monastery be eternally blessed.
Thank you. Beautifully recorded, beautifully sung, beautifully filmed, and thank you for reaching out and making us participants in this prayer service!
Lovely! With the beautiful scenery I felt as though I was walking around outside listening to the chanting and prayers. So peaceful to listen and see....Thankyou so much & God bless you all - from Canada. +
What a beautiful service! Please do make more videos like this with more services for us to enter into and by which we can be blessed. Grace and peace to you and the rest of the brothers and sisters of Mull Monastery.
Beautiful 21:34 I truly would love to come there sometime. It is a dream that I can ponder on from here on out. I feed on your videos, because Christ is manifesting in them. He is the bread that I want to consume forever.
Thank you SO MUCH Fr.Seraphim for the beautiful Service.I hope from the bottom of my heart that your health problems will disappear.Greetings from Greece.With your blessings Christina
This recording brought such peace! I truly felt transported to these uplifting surroundings. The sound of your chanting voices; the sober, prayerul tones brought calm and tranquility into my space here. I would love to have to opportunity to say my morning and evening prayers along with you, if you are ever inclined to record them. Thank you, Father.
God bless you and grant you COMPLETE recovery. I love your videos. They are so helpful. I LOVE the scenery you provided during the prayers. SO beautiful. Glory to God.
Dear Father Seraphim and Brother of the Monastery of Mull, you offer us your prayers, for each of us and the whole world, through your place of life, asceticism and joy, in the beauty of creation, the work of God, and we can also breathe with you this thanksgiving, these supplications and these prayers that enter us and travel to our cells and the marrow of our bones ! Be blessed, dear ones, and remain present to inspire and stimulate us, participating with you in this humble thanksgiving. Glory to God !
I desperately needed this. Thank you for continuing to be a light and compass towards the love of God for those of us who keep losing our way in the darkness.
Father , what shall I do, when people treat me ugly and they making fun of me, or they don't respect my personality? Great Video! May God Have Mercy On Us All ! Amen.
Pray for them and ask how to forgive them, I didn’t know how to forgive a person and by God’s grace, I was given the freedom to forgive which I could not muster on my own.
I am in Oregon. The state is burning. My kids families are evacuated. This has been a year of such travail. All that is beautiful is being stripped from the world. Churches closed but rioting is okay. I feel heartbroken. It feels like indeed God has removed his Spirit from the earth. I have been a doubter for years. But anymore it feels like doubt is a “first world problem”. We are not there anymore. I don’t know how to come back. I know God is with me, but how do I come back? Is there anything to come back to?
Never give up on God or prayer! The whole world is in turmoil, but God saves. Sorry to hear about the burning and evacuation - hope all are safe! God bless...
There is Love still - the love you feel for your children, the love you feel for all who suffer. As long as there is love in your heart, there is no need for you to even try to go back, because you have never lost Him. God Alone is the Source of Love, and your heart could not love if it were removed from Him. At times, seeing Him is like waiting for the dark ashes of these fires to be cleared before we can see again the beauty of the world. As for the beauty of the world, have trust that underneath all this destruction, the seeds of future beauty are already coming to life. I wish we were closer, so I may hug you - at times like these, I know how unhelpful words can be. But it is all I have to offer from so far away, and I offer them with my prayer, on behalf of all of us at the Monastery. MAy we all be blessed, dear one - in pain and in joy, may we all be blessed.
Margaret I won’t stop praying, I promise! 😊 Thank you for the encouragement. I signed up for The Divine Office prayers on line. Maybe that will bring a sense of connection back. Have you done those before? What do you use?
Please do not to worry to reply pater mas we fully understand. .. In any case we can communicate through the Holy Spirit of God.. After all we are your spiritual children & our father understands us by the grace of God...You take care of yr health & we pray all goes well & your sight . . .We trust shall pray for healing 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 👁👁...Praise God!
Thank you for the beautiful service, Father. Who is the one with the beautiful tenor voice? I miss singing in the choir at my church, where I sing tenor.
Awesome ! I hope very much to be able to get these prayers and hope to put them on an ipod so I can pray wherever I go. Please share all your prayers with us ?
Dear Father, do you have any advice for a person who has a fear towards important life issues and choices, who's in position where God seems to be somehow out of reach? I ask, because that's my situation and sometimes I just feel like I'm wasting majority of my time, standing in one place while problems are storing up in my life because of my laziness and awkwardness.
God only knows what is best for us, dear one. When I am stuck, I try to discern which path comes with peace in my heart. Peace does not mean without difficulty; I am not telling you to look for the easy, lazy choice. But there will always be an option which instantly brings peace, light, even joy in your heart. God is Love - where there is Peace and Joy, there is God's blessing. Nothing is worse than to waste your life stuck at a crossroad - make the sign of the Cross, do your best to see which option brings peace in your mind and move forward. May the Mother of God cover, you, protect you, lead you to Her Son.
5:19 why are you addressing prayers towards queen Elizabeth and the royal family and her government? They prayers resonate but the royals give me goosebumps
When I pray, especially prayers written by the Saints and such, I just feel like the prayers aren’t genuine. I feel like I am not really praying since I am just reciting what I am reading off a page. Is this normal for one who is reciting prayer versus praying personally and organically? How can I make my prayers feel more genuine? I do not want to feel like I am “praying” just for the sake of praying, I want my prayers to matter.
What rite is the monastery? Is it a byzantine rite monastery since I know these prayers as a byzantine catholic. I thought the monastery was using the western latin rite? Or is that a other monastery that is western orthodox in the area?
I need to do two things. First, we thank you all SO much for your beautiful comments - they give us so much hope and encouragement. Second, you may have noticed that for the last few weeks (turning into months now) I struggle to reply to comments and even emails. This is not only a matter of time, but also a personal health problem. Something is happening with my eyesight (hopefully not related to the steep increase of my migraines) and I can only read / write without difficulty for about 15-20 minutes for a few 'sessions' a day. I am seeing a doctor soon and - God willing - all will be well again, but I still feel bad about not replying to everyone, as I would like to do. May we all be blessed, dear ones.
Prayers for you always!
YOU are in our prayers also! God bless you on your visit to the Dr. - Canada.....
Bună seara părinte Serafim ,va purtam in rugăciunile noastre! Va inbratisam cu mult drag și va uram însănătoșire grabnică! Maica Domnului cu toți Sfinții sa va ocrotească și să vă dăruiască sănătatea de care aveți atîta nevoie! Va așteptăm cu mult drag să ne bucurați inimile! O seara binecuvintata!
We love you Father, thank you for letting us know. We will be patient. We will also pray for your health. Peace be with you.
I will pray to St. Lucy for you.
I will always increase Love. ❤
I am sort of addicted to listening to your talks Father. I had mentioned out loud that I wanted to start waking up early before my family so that I may do my morning prayers without being rushed. I had said I wanted to wake up at 5 but lazily set my alarm for 5:30. Well before the alarm went off I found myself laying there waiting for it. Our loving God woke me, a heavy sleeper, and was so merciful to my slothful self. Praise God.
But being the unfaithful servant that I am I rather thought to myself, I'll just listen to a talk first while I wash up, etc.
I clicked on this video not realizing it was a prayer service. Thank you so much for being the conduit of Gods mercy for me this morning as through your video I was drawn into prayer as "the little troublemaker" sought to pull me away from.
Thank you for the gift of this beautiful prayer. My heart is overjoyed. What better way to start the day.
I'd also like to say thank you to all who come here and comment as I find these threads a place of fellowship. God bless you all.
And though I am ashamed to ask, as I am not very good at praying for others, please pray for me.
I will pray for you all now before I can forget 🙏
I pray that it's a normal thing for this to make me weep. Thank you for the good and cathartic cry.
Its a 38°c hot & dry summers day in Australia... It's a New Years day and I'm still getting used to my Nana not being here to tell me what's happening in Scotland, as she often mentioned Mull and Iiona. I miss her.
Lord have mercy on us, Amen. 🕊🙏
I pray that our Lord and Saviour heal you and be your comforter during your times of suffering. Amen.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
I go to the ortodox church 1/2 times per week dispute work, but you are always on my prays to continue doing what do you do.
Thank Thank you Thank you
Andreea
Beautiful. Thank you for posting this. As a former Christian, seeker truth , an unbeliever of sorts, one who meditates, I have been blessed by various orthodox persons on TH-cam, orthodox websites.
Especially yours. A burning hearts desire, a tightness in my chest when watching some of your videos on Prayer and the Celtic Saints-thaney and mungo and Columba. Powerful.
Thank you and god bless.
God bless you, Brandon.
Have you seen the film, "Becoming Truly Human" by Nathan Jacobs? It is beautiful and something that you may glean a great deal from. Spoiler alert: the ending makes you cry. ❤️🙏
Keep seeking! You are loved!
Yes I did watch it! I first heard about him on Protecting Veil’s interview. Watched his 3 part lectures on reaching the nones and dimes and his interviews with Paul vanderklay.
I would saw I am on a similar path as Tom Holland, author of the book Dominion.
I have a long religious history, and interest in religious though and history, especially Christian and more so Orthodoxy.
Please for me and my wife and I.. She is not really interested in religion as an agnostic.
Thank you and blessings to you.
@@brandorev added you and your wife to my daily prayers! 🙏
That was exactly what I was supposed to hear. Praise God, thank God. Thank you fr. Im so blessed to have been apart of this. Fr thank you. Amen! Amen! Amen!
I listen “nightly to these prayers,” cannot thank you enough🙏🏻
This is beautiful, Father! I (and others, I am sure) would not be upset with more of these videos. Pray for me, Anthony.
Multumesc parinte Serafim, pentru ca impartasiti bucurii sufletesti cu noi!
What a vision - the opening minutes of this service! Two images juxaposed - the small grey church standing amidst trees on a blustery day, no sun, merely subdued hues of nature; grey, white, green and blue. The natural vista , a panorama of emptiness, land and sea, wind seemingly resting and inert but for the sound of prayer offered to God, sung by a single voice - Ps50. This vocal addition changed the whole dynamic and dimension of the opening vista. Here , work was being undertaken, prayer for the sake of the world. The pulsating waving trees, grass and flowers seem aware,of the activity of the Spirit was at workd. pROFOUND THANKS for these videos; they speak to us on many lveles and are images for contemplation and of Prayer. By such means, hidden work of prayer, the world will be saved. Blessings abound.
Restoration of the Monasteries is the revelation of a God of Love - God is Love
I pray this prayer with you everyday..
May the walls of our heart's, be taken..
By the light of His Glory and grace...
I truly, PRAY that you are healed and strengthen in your eyesight...
Mother Theotokos comfort and protection of God..
Amen Amen
Your voices in praying and praising are very beautiful and calming. Thank you and God Bless you all in every moment of every day.
Glory to God for this refreshment of our spirit, filling our hearts with divine love. May we truly love one another with the love of Christ. This will be a quiet place I will return to again and again. May you and the monastery be eternally blessed.
May💜 God❤️ Be💙 With💚 Everyone❤️ Always 💙Much 💚Love💚 Blessings ❤️Always ☺️ 🎇 🌈 🌐 💯 ✌️💯💯💙❤️💜💜💜💜💜💜❤️❤️❤️
Thank you. Beautifully recorded, beautifully sung, beautifully filmed, and thank you for reaching out and making us participants in this prayer service!
Lovely! With the beautiful scenery I felt as though I was walking around outside listening to the chanting and prayers. So peaceful to listen and see....Thankyou so much & God bless you all - from Canada. +
What a beautiful service! Please do make more videos like this with more services for us to enter into and by which we can be blessed. Grace and peace to you and the rest of the brothers and sisters of Mull Monastery.
thanks be to GOD. thank you for praying for us. amen, amen, Amen
Glorious His name! In any language gives the same tears... A 1000 thanks! Lord save us wherever we are! Lord have mercy on our souls!
Beautiful
21:34 I truly would love to come there sometime. It is a dream that I can ponder on from here on out. I feed on your videos, because Christ is manifesting in them. He is the bread that I want to consume forever.
Thank you SO MUCH Fr.Seraphim for the beautiful Service.I hope from the bottom of my heart that your health problems will disappear.Greetings from Greece.With your blessings Christina
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Thank you, Fr Seraphim and all of you at the monastery. Peace be with you.
Your voices and the cadence are very soothing, as well as the prayers. Thank you!
Amen! Thank you for sharing this beautiful prayer for an increase in love in the world 🙏🏻
Blessings
Thank you for this prayer service I now pray with you all every morning. It has been such a blessing for my daily walk in the Lord.
Thank father for the beautiful prayer God bless 🙏 ❤
Glory to God. Thank You from an unworthy one. ♥️🙏
Beautiful. God bless you and the monastery. God willing my wife and I will be able visit there in the summer.
Most beautiful Prayer I have ever heard! Thank you very much!
This is sooooo beautiful!!
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever!
Oh, how we need these prayers! Thank you. ❤️☦️
Beautiful. Thank you. Be well soon, Father.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I sent to to many family and friends. Glory to God!
This recording brought such peace! I truly felt transported to these uplifting surroundings. The sound of your chanting voices; the sober, prayerul tones brought calm and tranquility into my space here. I would love to have to opportunity to say my morning and evening prayers along with you, if you are ever inclined to record them. Thank you, Father.
God bless you and grant you COMPLETE recovery. I love your videos. They are so helpful. I LOVE the scenery you provided during the prayers. SO beautiful. Glory to God.
Dear Father Seraphim and Brother of the Monastery of Mull, you offer us your prayers, for each of us and the whole world, through your place of life, asceticism and joy, in the beauty of creation, the work of God, and we can also breathe with you this thanksgiving, these supplications and these prayers that enter us and travel to our cells and the marrow of our bones !
Be blessed, dear ones, and remain present to inspire and stimulate us, participating with you in this humble thanksgiving. Glory to God !
Glory to God thank you for putting this on TH-cam most peaceful
I desperately needed this. Thank you for continuing to be a light and compass towards the love of God for those of us who keep losing our way in the darkness.
Bless Father
Thank you 🙏🏼
Glory to God
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Thank you so much for this. Next time I'm in the altar at church I'm going to see if we have the volume that contains this gem. Your prayers!
Father , what shall I do, when people treat me ugly and they making fun of me, or they don't respect my personality?
Great Video!
May God Have Mercy On Us All !
Amen.
Pray for them and ask how to forgive them, I didn’t know how to forgive a person and by God’s grace, I was given the freedom to forgive which I could not muster on my own.
Voices from islands
I am in Oregon. The state is burning. My kids families are evacuated. This has been a year of such travail. All that is beautiful is being stripped from the world. Churches closed but rioting is okay. I feel heartbroken. It feels like indeed God has removed his Spirit from the earth. I have been a doubter for years. But anymore it feels like doubt is a “first world problem”. We are not there anymore. I don’t know how to come back. I know God is with me, but how do I come back? Is there anything to come back to?
Never give up on God or prayer! The whole world is in turmoil, but God saves. Sorry to hear about the burning and evacuation - hope all are safe! God bless...
In Russia we know the tragedy of Oregon and praying for you
There is Love still - the love you feel for your children, the love you feel for all who suffer. As long as there is love in your heart, there is no need for you to even try to go back, because you have never lost Him. God Alone is the Source of Love, and your heart could not love if it were removed from Him. At times, seeing Him is like waiting for the dark ashes of these fires to be cleared before we can see again the beauty of the world. As for the beauty of the world, have trust that underneath all this destruction, the seeds of future beauty are already coming to life. I wish we were closer, so I may hug you - at times like these, I know how unhelpful words can be. But it is all I have to offer from so far away, and I offer them with my prayer, on behalf of all of us at the Monastery. MAy we all be blessed, dear one - in pain and in joy, may we all be blessed.
Инок Варнава This meant so much to me. It puts things in perspective. Thank you! 🥰
Margaret I won’t stop praying, I promise! 😊 Thank you for the encouragement. I signed up for The Divine Office prayers on line. Maybe that will bring a sense of connection back. Have you done those before? What do you use?
Amin! O seara binecuvintata! Mulțumim!
În ce oraș locuiești în Irlanda?
With yr blessings pater.
Thank you for your prayers...
Lord have mercy ! 🙏🏻
Glory to God Almighty🙏🏻
Please do not to worry to reply pater mas we fully understand. ..
In any case we can communicate through the Holy Spirit of God..
After all we are your spiritual children & our father understands us by the
grace of God...You take care
of yr health & we pray all goes
well & your sight . . .We
trust shall pray for healing 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
👁👁...Praise God!
Thank you for the beautiful service, Father. Who is the one with the beautiful tenor voice? I miss singing in the choir at my church, where I sing tenor.
Thank you thank you so much for this beautiful beautiful prayer and chanting and scenery God bless both of you amen.!!!!
Please make more videos like this.
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Thank you.
Awesome ! I hope very much to be able to get these prayers and hope to put them on an ipod so I can pray wherever I go. Please share all your prayers with us ?
Thank you. Praying this particular prayer with the monastery like this brought peace into my heart. The video was beautiful as well. Again, thank you.
God bless you!
Thanks be to God , 😇
How beautiful. Thank you for posting
Peace💙 and💛 Blessings ❤️Too 💜My 💙Brothers💛 May ❤️God💜 Bless 💚Everyone💛 Always 💜May God💙 Bless ❤️Everyone 💜Richly💜 with 💙everything❤️ they 💜need💜 Always💛 Much❤️ Love💜 Blessings💛 Always ☺️ 🎇 🌈 🌐 💯 💜💜❤️💛💙💙💙💛💛💛💛
Thank you so much for this. How I wish I could be there to pray it with you. Do you have a link to the text?
Dear Father, do you have any advice for a person who has a fear towards important life issues and choices, who's in position where God seems to be somehow out of reach? I ask, because that's my situation and sometimes I just feel like I'm wasting majority of my time, standing in one place while problems are storing up in my life because of my laziness and awkwardness.
God only knows what is best for us, dear one. When I am stuck, I try to discern which path comes with peace in my heart. Peace does not mean without difficulty; I am not telling you to look for the easy, lazy choice. But there will always be an option which instantly brings peace, light, even joy in your heart. God is Love - where there is Peace and Joy, there is God's blessing. Nothing is worse than to waste your life stuck at a crossroad - make the sign of the Cross, do your best to see which option brings peace in your mind and move forward. May the Mother of God cover, you, protect you, lead you to Her Son.
Where can I find the words for this? I’d like to celebrate this service. -Fr Photios
I beg you Father pray for Danni and Joey to convert and be faithful to Jesus and to grant me Vivienne Andraos holy death and forgiveness of sins. 🙏🏻
5:19 why are you addressing prayers towards queen Elizabeth and the royal family and her government? They prayers resonate but the royals give me goosebumps
Maybe praying for them not to be so... Well you know.
Where do you find the canon for repentance?
When I pray, especially prayers written by the Saints and such, I just feel like the prayers aren’t genuine. I feel like I am not really praying since I am just reciting what I am reading off a page. Is this normal for one who is reciting prayer versus praying personally and organically? How can I make my prayers feel more genuine? I do not want to feel like I am “praying” just for the sake of praying, I want my prayers to matter.
What rite is the monastery? Is it a byzantine rite monastery since I know these prayers as a byzantine catholic.
I thought the monastery was using the western latin rite? Or is that a other monastery that is western orthodox in the area?
The icon on the right side of your wall--a man kneeling...who is that?
Thank you.