Journey To Orthodox Christianity - What is Holy Tradition and Divine Liturgy?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ธ.ค. 2024
- Fr. Conan Gill, The Priest at St. George Greek Orthodox Church shares his journey into Orthodoxy.
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I don’t know if Father Conan knows this but he was one of the biggest influences for me to become Orthodox and he is my son’s Priest. Father if you happen to read this, that’s why I gave you that Bible. It was the only thing I could do without breaking out in tears if I was to tell you how much I appreciate your influence
let them flow
What a fantastic journey, and you put it in a way thats clear for all to understand - and to relate to! Signed, an Orthodox Catechumen, on his way home from Eastern Catholicism.
Thank you for watching! God bless you ☦️🙏
I LOVE this testimony!
☦️☝️❤️
Thank you for the support!
we want more videos of this priest!!!!! the way he teaches is amazinggg
What beautiful parents you have father. I'm looking into orthodoxy. Would love prayers. Praise God
Soon going to join an orthodox church after I would get an visitation from one of the member of the orthodox church near me to guide me.
From 11 years of protestantism to orthodox church now. I'm really very excited.. To God all be the glory☦️🙌🏼
Simply go along.
How was it?
Your testimony is helping me grow. Thank you.
Eating together after mass to have fellowship in Christ, prayer and fasting, are also New Testament. I didn't understand why we didn't have that in the Lutheran church. Now I'm Orthodox and I feel like I'm home with Jesus Christ.
Feeling? Is it based on emotion?
@@partlysimpson5154 it's based on Scripture. The disciples broke bread together with their parishoners after worship, and Christians are explicitly urged to do the same. Obviously, we share a vocabulary, but we don't share a dictionary, or figurative speech. If you read many books, especially old books, you will find that English and American authors often used "I feel" to mean, getting the sense of something, or becoming aware of something. I try not to engage with semantics, as it's an annoying tactic in challenging someone's assertion, but of late, I've decided to define words, rather than blowing it off, simply because many people enjoy reading the common usage and understanding of words laid out for people who fly off into semantics, as though they were making a point.
@@valerieprice1745 I ask are u now holier? Are u now more spirit filled, are u noticing difference?
I adore Father Conan. May God grant him many years!
Beautifully said! I just starting my journey Into Orthodoxy and like you I also want to do it right like from the beginning. I constantly pray for Truth and correction on my walk w God. Thank you for this video
Brilliant! So helpful! Thank you for posting these videos. This is a great service to the nearly orthodox!
I, a convert from the same tradition as you, am only at 4minutes here, and i am really impressed that your family insisted that you actually go into the Greek church to visit rather than only staying outside..
Beautiful! Very encouraging, thank you Father
Beautiful just beautiful ❤🙏🏻☦️God bless you
Beautifully explained..
"And I said a prayer for all those people I love and I hate"
You are so very loved by God, well done. To pray for those you hate. You are a treasure.
That's everyone's frustration.. Don't ask questions.. just believe.. but there ARE answers and questions don't mean you don't believe.
LOVE this video!
Our first experience was the same in the Serbian Orthodox Church ☦
A wonderful video!
Thank you!! 🤝
Makes me want to become a priest
Please do so and there after come to South-Africa,,, we are desperately in need of orthodox churches in South-Africa ☦️
I’m a catholic, but I wanna be orthodox so bad
Same here
How lovely that your parents encouraged your explorations! 🥰 (Our parish has a "Jimmy," too -- his name is Dennis! I formally met him before anyone else in the parish 😉.
I am contemplating to convert after having gone to Armania. I need to know more about the process of leadership like is it like the catholic church where seminarians are ordained as priests after graduation? I want to know first who my leaders will be like is it the Bishop? How does one become a bishop? And do I get to drink the wine or have the Holy Eucharist dipped in the Holy Wine (Blood of my Lord) during communion?
If someone tells you to stop asking questions... Well, that's when you need to be even more concerned lol
"Better to not ask questions" means "we dont have any good answers"
Please give us an explanation if Mary Magdalen is same or different from Mary, sister of Lazarus
The Icon of the Myrrh Bearers say so.
Miriam was a popular name during that period of Judea due to the emphasis of the Pharisees on Moses.
They are different Mary’s
Mary Magdalene was a wealthy woman, a fervent disciple of the Lord after He delivered her from many demons. She was part of the retinue that provided meals, etc to Him and His Apostles and disciples. Mary of Bethany was sister, along with Martha of Bethany, of Lazarus whom Christ raised from his four-day death. These siblings provided the meals to Christ our God and devoted their lives to Him - Lazarus becoming a Bishop after Pentecost in Cyprus for the flock there. See Orthodox wiki and other historical sources from Orthodox history.
Greetings from Greece brother 🇬🇷 ☦ There is not new Testament without Old Testament, Jesus use to the read the Old Testament his entire life , i´m glad you left protestantism fake christianity to join the real Christianity ☦
He said that he prays for the people he loves and hates. That is profound. Specifically the last part.
He’s just following what Jesus said.
I am curious about the adjustments from Jewish worship to the orthodox worship. How and why were the changes made to become Christ centered? I believe Christ guided Moses in writing the Torah and showing the Jews how to worship, so why has that changed?
Oldest two known liturgy texts were written by St. Mark and St. James.... yes... Gospel writer and Epistle writer. Guess Who guided them to write texts of the first Christian worship services.
St James, the "brother" of the Lord Jesus, gathered the prayers for the Eucharistic "breaking of the Bread" after Pentecost - the title given to the Liturgy and fulfillment of the Passover Lamb Who is Christ, as He is shared among His flock in order to nourish them with His Own Life and Divine Energies! See more from our Orthodox theology on our Channel: youtube.com/@JudithMatta?si=vM35I-HHZo3oJ5y-
I attended the Divine Liturgy for two months. I wanted to experience a different service so my family went to a Friday night service to honor St John of Shanghai. Very few people there. After an hour and a half I was told I could leave if I wanted. The choir director said this to me in front of my wife and child. Needless to say I left and never went back. The Orthodox need to work on being inclusive. They can be closed off and not welcoming. My wife would even cover her head in the church which is a custom.
Every Orthodox Church is different!!! Some are more evangelical some are old school... You can't judge an entire community by one person!!! I took a road trip for a year and a half went to many different Orthodox Churches they are as different as we are!!! Try another church
U know them by their fruits.
To be honest, I watched this video because I am curious what exactly these this are and I literally still dont know know this told me nothing. Didnt explain or demonstrate anything. The search continues.
Go to a church and see
People seeking redemption by any other way than being "born again" is futile. Most run from cult to cult looking for another way to God, rather than obey the gospel, preached by a man ordained of God to preach. A lot of religious groups have almost eliminated preaching, for theatrics and tradition.
Those “theatrics and traditions” existed for centuries before your precious gospel did lmaooooo
@@SabbathPriest33 SBP, and people have been going to Hell for centuries. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved by the Blood of the Lamb of God.
@@GodsServant1953 Dude, I am a Christian. If your stance is that orthodoxy and Catholicism are pagan idol worshippers then you’re calling the apostles themselves pagan idol worshippers because all the traditions of the Orthodox Church are passed down directly from the apostles themselves. Dude the church had already existed for 4 decades before the Bible was even written. How do you think they worshipped the lord without the Bible?? Through tradition like Divine Liturgy and the sacraments, kinda dumb to expect people to interpret the gospel for themselves when at the time most people couldn’t read😂😂
@@GodsServant1953 No one has gone to hell yet. Haven't you read the bible? Or is that something you learned from.... Theatrics?
Where is kissing icons in the Bible?
it doesnt have to
Sorry it is a silly argument to say we don't have alter and priesthood like in the old testament and then jump to Revelation.
The point is right there earthly priesthood service of old testament are over when the high prist ( Jesus Christ) enters into heaven.
In revelation it is in heaven not on earth.
You seem to imply we are supposed to act differently on earth than how we should/will act in heaven. This is absolutely silly.
St Paul says “i am a priest ministering to the people of God” in Romans 15.
Another apostle (one of the 70), Clement of Rome, refers to the bishop as the high priest of the church, and the presbyters as the priests.
Hebrews 5 says “let no man take this office unto himself saving he who is called of God as Aaron was called.”
St. Paul describes ordination as a sacrament.
Presbyters are priests to the church. Hebrews says “we have an altar”. St Paul mentions the “holy table” to the Corinthians.
The didache repeatedly refers to the Eucharist as a sacrifice.
God is totally against icons!
The Second Commandment against idolatry is recorded in Exodus 20:4-6:
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them nor serve them; for 1, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments
Christ was the first icon
Just money eaters.....
Lol, compared to the mega churches, televangelists, or Romans with literal treasure vaults?
God is totally against icons!
The Second Commandment against idolatry is recorded in Exodus 20:4-6:
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them nor serve them; for 1, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments
Icons aren't idols or graven images though. Nor are they worshipped or served. They are a tool as to show the beauty of the Bible and the Saints.