My family and I converted in 2006, we are members of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in America However we do attend Holy Trinity, an OCA congregation, Father Lev. Father Lev, is known as Father Love, and Matushka Vicki are the warmest, kindest, lovingest Priest and Matoska. May the Lord bless Father Lev and Matoska Vicki many years. Father Lev and Matoska Vicki have no children, but their love extends to every child of the Orthodox faith. The OCA website, as we converted, was a fountain understanding of the Orthodox faith. May God grant the OCA many years. Christ is risen!
I am OCA and I hope to never need to belong to another jurisdiction. We are really trying to bring Orthodoxy to Americans so they can understand it and make it theirs without abandoning their culture entirely for an Eastern culture. Glad you are a fan! You and your spiritual father are in my prayers! Stay strong brother!
So sorry to hear about your spiritual father. ☦️ Prayers for Fr Dimitri and Phillip. Lord, have mercy. ♥️ The OCA is a perfect fit for us. Glad you like it too.
God be with Father Dmitri. Long absence of a bishopric, from my experience, is not uncommon in America. In my Antiochian diocese, after the repose of Metropolitan Philip, our diocesan bishop, Bishop Joseph, became the Metropolitan of the entire archdiocese of North America, and we have been without a bishop ever since.
Yeah, the word you're probably looking for is "jurisdiction," but I thought of the phrase "internecine warfare" ☻; there's your "dark English" vocabulary lesson for the day....
Lord God have mercy on your priest Dmitri, and by the prayers of the Theotokos and all the saints raise him up from his sickness so that he can praise your name in the midst of his spiritual children. And to you be glory + Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in both worlds and unto the Æon of æons. Amin.
It’s been a while since I’ve prayed for I fell of the ladder lately and went back to my sinful and lazy ways but I want to make up for it and try and get back on the ladder and I will start with this prayer. God, you know I am a very sinful person. A person who isn’t worthy enough to be seen as a image of your Devine presence. I am nothing but a pile of dung or a disgusting blob of chewing gum on a busy street and yet, you died for me. Your blood and water that gushed forth from your secret heart soaked me to the bone and washed away all my sins that I have done in the past and present by going to confession you always had gave me chances and still a million more for I am a disgusting sinful human being who deserves eternal death for my failures to cling to the ladder of faith but you always wait with open arms to welcome my repentance and help me through struggles in life. Lord though I am an unworthy sack of dog dung, I ask you a favor and that is to have mercy on the soul of Bojans spiritual father. His spiritual father means allot to him lord and wishes for him to be well please have mercy oh God for you did not come to punish or to take away but to save and heal. Please forgive his past offenses that he might of done in the past and present as a human being and grant him many graces to carry on doing your spiritual work. Oh most holy theothokos, when I fell of the ladder and went back to sinning again, I knew you would be sad and I am greatly sorry for the piece of worthless trash that I am, I desire to try again and make you happy. Mary you are my mother and I am your son and like a son who argued with his mother wishes to return and apologize and promise to be a good boy next even if I fall of the ladder. Oh most blessed lady of all nations, you are the mother of mercy please look upon bojans spiritual father with kindness and protect him from his worsening ailments and rap him in your loving robes like a mother raps her child in swodling cloths and look after him and also please look after bojan though I don’t know him but I know deep down he is a good, kind hearted and funny guy who thought me all about the true church through his videos. Amen
For God does speak-now one way, now another- though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.
@@BanterWithBojan Thank you. :) These were some of the words of the jung man who listened to the conversation Job and his 3 friends had. In the end he allowed himself to speak and after him God spoke.
This is unrelated to the main topics of the video but your mention of "Christian extremists" is a real phenomenon that sadly, I've seen a lot in social media these days. Usually they are young converts that often occupy themselves with attacking other Christians, usually the Protestants, but sometimes the Catholics as well, besides proudly condemning and degrading other kinds of people of various backgrounds. I know that there are theological disagreements between denominations, but I do find such actions unnecessary and further worsen the divisions that already exist, not to mention inciting hatred as well. It's sad to see people who pride themselves as being devout followers of Christ could think and behave that way, but I also agree, at least they don't go around committing acts of terror unlike other groups of people that are also labelled as "extreme".
Lydia Dani Unfortunately, I’ve seen all that AND slander of some good and faithful Orthodox Priests, who just happen to have a more visible public ministry because they are good communicators of the faith within the culture. 😢
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My family and I converted in 2006, we are members of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in America
However we do attend Holy Trinity, an OCA congregation, Father Lev.
Father Lev, is known as Father Love, and Matushka Vicki are the warmest, kindest, lovingest Priest and Matoska.
May the Lord bless Father Lev and Matoska Vicki many years.
Father Lev and Matoska Vicki have no children, but their love extends to every child of the Orthodox faith.
The OCA website, as we converted, was a fountain understanding of the Orthodox faith.
May God grant the OCA many years.
Christ is risen!
I often find that people who don't have children, but have love, become proxy parents to many. :-)
I am OCA and I hope to never need to belong to another jurisdiction. We are really trying to bring Orthodoxy to Americans so they can understand it and make it theirs without abandoning their culture entirely for an Eastern culture. Glad you are a fan!
You and your spiritual father are in my prayers! Stay strong brother!
Thank you so so much for your prayers, Nathaniel! :-)
May the Lord be with your spiritual father during these troubling times. Both of you are in my prayers. God bless.
Thank you ever so much! :-)
So sorry to hear about your spiritual father. ☦️ Prayers for Fr Dimitri and Phillip. Lord, have mercy. ♥️
The OCA is a perfect fit for us. Glad you like it too.
We're mystically connected through the OCA! :-) Thank you for the prayers!
Bible Illustrated Hands You’re so welcome, Bojan. Please pray for me, Elizabeth.
(If Wynona Fudd was my real name, I’d change it !)
May the Lord grant Father many years
Thank you, Sue! :-)
Praying for Father Dmitri, Lord have mercy and preserve and heal him! Holy Theotokos pray for us! And yes OCA is great, I adore their site.
Thank you so much bro! :-)
God be with Father Dmitri.
Long absence of a bishopric, from my experience, is not uncommon in America. In my Antiochian diocese, after the repose of Metropolitan Philip, our diocesan bishop, Bishop Joseph, became the Metropolitan of the entire archdiocese of North America, and we have been without a bishop ever since.
In the Antiochian Archdiocese of Australian, New Zealand, and the Philippines, we also have no Bishop. Only a Metropolitan.
Ah I see that the issue is common to America...
Yeah, the word you're probably looking for is "jurisdiction," but I thought of the phrase "internecine warfare" ☻; there's your "dark English" vocabulary lesson for the day....
There has been an OCA Bishop of Dallas for a few years now, Archbishop Alexander. But it did take several years to replace Archbishop +Dmitri.
Speaking of whom, I made an icon of Archbishop +Dmitri when I was going to visit Fr. Dimitri. :-)
Bible Illustrated Hands 👍👍👍🙂🙂🙂 I hope I live long enough to see his canonization. He is such an inspiration to me.
Lord God have mercy on your priest Dmitri, and by the prayers of the Theotokos and all the saints raise him up from his sickness so that he can praise your name in the midst of his spiritual children. And to you be glory + Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in both worlds and unto the Æon of æons. Amin.
May Lord hear our prayer!
Praying for Father Dmitri
A prayer for Father Dimitri: May angels care for him and the Lord watch over him. May God bless Bojan in the tumult of life.
It’s been a while since I’ve prayed for I fell of the ladder lately and went back to my sinful and lazy ways but I want to make up for it and try and get back on the ladder and I will start with this prayer. God, you know I am a very sinful person. A person who isn’t worthy enough to be seen as a image of your Devine presence. I am nothing but a pile of dung or a disgusting blob of chewing gum on a busy street and yet, you died for me. Your blood and water that gushed forth from your secret heart soaked me to the bone and washed away all my sins that I have done in the past and present by going to confession you always had gave me chances and still a million more for I am a disgusting sinful human being who deserves eternal death for my failures to cling to the ladder of faith but you always wait with open arms to welcome my repentance and help me through struggles in life. Lord though I am an unworthy sack of dog dung, I ask you a favor and that is to have mercy on the soul of Bojans spiritual father. His spiritual father means allot to him lord and wishes for him to be well please have mercy oh God for you did not come to punish or to take away but to save and heal. Please forgive his past offenses that he might of done in the past and present as a human being and grant him many graces to carry on doing your spiritual work. Oh most holy theothokos, when I fell of the ladder and went back to sinning again, I knew you would be sad and I am greatly sorry for the piece of worthless trash that I am, I desire to try again and make you happy. Mary you are my mother and I am your son and like a son who argued with his mother wishes to return and apologize and promise to be a good boy next even if I fall of the ladder. Oh most blessed lady of all nations, you are the mother of mercy please look upon bojans spiritual father with kindness and protect him from his worsening ailments and rap him in your loving robes like a mother raps her child in swodling cloths and look after him and also please look after bojan though I don’t know him but I know deep down he is a good, kind hearted and funny guy who thought me all about the true church through his videos. Amen
For God does speak-now one way, now another- though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.
Lovely put! :-)
@@BanterWithBojan Thank you. :) These were some of the words of the jung man who listened to the conversation Job and his 3 friends had. In the end he allowed himself to speak and after him God spoke.
This is unrelated to the main topics of the video but your mention of "Christian extremists" is a real phenomenon that sadly, I've seen a lot in social media these days. Usually they are young converts that often occupy themselves with attacking other Christians, usually the Protestants, but sometimes the Catholics as well, besides proudly condemning and degrading other kinds of people of various backgrounds.
I know that there are theological disagreements between denominations, but I do find such actions unnecessary and further worsen the divisions that already exist, not to mention inciting hatred as well.
It's sad to see people who pride themselves as being devout followers of Christ could think and behave that way, but I also agree, at least they don't go around committing acts of terror unlike other groups of people that are also labelled as "extreme".
Lydia Dani Unfortunately, I’ve seen all that AND slander of some good and faithful Orthodox Priests, who just happen to have a more visible public ministry because they are good communicators of the faith within the culture. 😢