Metropolitan Anthony Bloom - Interview on the CBC - On Suffering (1973)

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  • @rak2332
    @rak2332 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    I am an Orthodox Christian from India. Last year I visted Met. Antony Blooms tomb at Brompton Cemetery. The cemetery being vast, it was almost impossible for me to find the tomb. I prayed and made the sign of the cross and requested God to help me. Immediately, two aged men passed by and I enquired about the tomb of a Russian Bishop. They said they knew a tomb with Russian inscriptions, but did not know whose tomb it was. Thankfully the tomb they guided me to was the tomb of Met. Antony Bloom.

    • @Razamaniac
      @Razamaniac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      and this is faith :D

    • @johnadams8322
      @johnadams8322 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wonderful!

    • @SV-mr5ux
      @SV-mr5ux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Even I’m Orthodox Christian from Kerala, India. God bless you all!🙏🏽

    • @reeafu9290
      @reeafu9290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So beautiful and heart warming your experience, thank you for sharing with us. I believe he is a saint, he is so delicate and loving.

    • @gigig2492
      @gigig2492 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God is so good. 🙏🏻☦️

  • @marydecaire4662
    @marydecaire4662 7 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    I saw this interview on Roy Bonisteel's show Man Alive way back in 1973. It blew me away completely and ultimately led me to learn more about Eastern Orthodoxy and become Orthodox . I have never regretted that. I have told others about the effect of his words on me, and have often wished I could see that show again . Thank you so much for posting this.

    • @maxwellr447
      @maxwellr447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Very nice that you shared with us your story. Thank you.

    • @ORTHODOX-PATH
      @ORTHODOX-PATH 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@maxwellr447 thank u too im also greekorthodox

    • @reeafu9290
      @reeafu9290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So beautiful.

    • @marymarysmarket3508
      @marymarysmarket3508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes..this video is life-changing.

    • @dianahomsi7717
      @dianahomsi7717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your story ! This is heartwarming

  • @jeffreyhoward6319
    @jeffreyhoward6319 11 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Its amazing how he turns every loaded question into a good question and how he gives and even better answer than the question deserves.

    • @TheGerogero
      @TheGerogero 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think the interviewer is respectful and excellent.

    • @ES-kq5fh
      @ES-kq5fh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So true ! ❤

  • @shirleysue228
    @shirleysue228 9 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    A Saint. You can see and feel the Holy Spirit working in this man. Makes me tear up.

    • @johnadams8322
      @johnadams8322 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He was so holy

    • @CB-sn4xh
      @CB-sn4xh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes he is Filled With The Spirit. Powerful Holy Man, you can just sense it in him🙏

  • @angelafinnigan6668
    @angelafinnigan6668 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    He reveals the jewels of our Christian faith. ❤️

  • @robertattaway3119
    @robertattaway3119 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Wow! What a great interview. I'm a brand new Orthodox Christian, and this is the first time I've had the privilege to hear Metropolitan Anthony. What a man of God. Hearing him helps to strengthen my faith in Christ and His Holy Church.

    • @reeafu9290
      @reeafu9290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Look for his boom "God and Man", please. I am very happy you chose this path.

  • @kotemura9090
    @kotemura9090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    *A few touches to the interview.*
    Metropolitan Anthony passionately loved his homeland Russia, but he lived almost all his life in France and England.
    By education, Metropolitan Anthony was a doctor, he graduated from the Sorbonne University.
    He was fluent in Russian, English, French, German.
    Metropolitan Anthony was unmercenary and gave away everything that was given to him.
    Often he ate only what grateful parishioners brought him.
    He was a man of a deep sense of humor and knew how to laugh at himself.
    He was a modest watchman in the temple and cleaned it himself.
    Metropolitan Anthony didn't write a single book of his own.
    All books are based on recordings of sermons by his volunteer assistants.
    All his life people came to him for help and he did not refuse anyone, taking them for many hours.
    Even non-religious adults, when they first met him, often began to sob with feelings.
    Metropolitan Anthony could become the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990.
    There is also a very famous BBC interview with Marghanita Laski, on the basis of which the book was published.
    I think that until now his personality has not been appreciated today.

    • @talentvarvara8515
      @talentvarvara8515 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you very much for your summary! I didn't know many things, although I am Russian. I have a German-translated book based on the interview with Laski, but I didn't find the Video. Do you think it's somewhere to find on the Internet?

  • @TomorrowWeLive
    @TomorrowWeLive 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    'If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.' St Gemma Galgani

  • @richardsimpson8466
    @richardsimpson8466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    13:30 "Death is the test of your readiness to love" Wow.

  • @nikolaosnikolaoy6101
    @nikolaosnikolaoy6101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Very powerful speech! It made me cry

  • @OCamp-gz8co
    @OCamp-gz8co 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    this video changed my life

    • @reeafu9290
      @reeafu9290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amazing, so glad to hear.

  • @Mrm1985100
    @Mrm1985100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    12:37 Journalist:"Do you think God wants us to suffer?"
    Anthony Bloom: "I would say... I'm sorry to be so stubborn... I would say he wants us to love, not to suffer, but suffering is always inherent to love in a world which is disharmonious, ugly, violent, aggressive and so forth. He does not want us to suffer he wants us to love."

  • @chrisw3288
    @chrisw3288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The icon at the beginning is the one used for confession, I saw him on TV as a child in the 1960's . I always remembered him saying that he no one enters his room behind the Iconostasis . So when I finally went to the Church in the 1980's I was always aware that he would retreat at the end of the Liturgy and greetings into solitude. He was also the Church Warden and received £800 a year to live on, not much even in those days! He brought many to Christianity, and think still does! xxx

    • @user-ht3xe5kp7o
      @user-ht3xe5kp7o ปีที่แล้ว

      Can you give me the name of the icon in the beginning? Would love to see all of it

  • @johnadams8322
    @johnadams8322 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love this man so much

    • @reeafu9290
      @reeafu9290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He is a saint for sure. Please look for his book God and Man.

  • @dropsofink1336
    @dropsofink1336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is a Brilliant and Enlightened adept of Christ's wisdom and mercy. I am so thankful I found this interview. These truths are so hard to find in the "modern world".

  • @maskof
    @maskof 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    What a blessing to have had such a Metropolitan. It's like wisdom coming from a 300 year old man! Fantastic audio quality. Too bad we couldn't watch the complete interview.

  • @vickykentrota9031
    @vickykentrota9031 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A true Saint!!Memory eternal 🙏🙏

  • @meereslicht
    @meereslicht 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    An extraordinary document. Profound in every posible sense. The interviewer was no less remarkable.

  • @elioftheforest
    @elioftheforest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Beautiful and timely.

  • @mikeporro3311
    @mikeporro3311 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Beginning to Pray!!! Great little book.

  • @araghazarossian289
    @araghazarossian289 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Greatest interview I ever heard God bless your soul brother Antony Bloom

  • @eastudio-K
    @eastudio-K 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    God Bless Metropolitan Bloom

  • @flawlessvic
    @flawlessvic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    @ 18:00 I'm moved deeply by this whole train of thought. Will carry this forward, and rest of the talk on pain and really our response to it. Thanks for the video.

    • @RexArul
      @RexArul 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mega dittos, especially on your thoughts. I am a Roman Catholic, since birth. But, I always find a filial love towards Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, who is clearly a Saint that has walked on earth. What a depth of profundity, humility, and pastoral Christian mansuetude this Holy Man possesses! Be it this video or his two-part exegesis on "The Prodigal Son" you can see his measured, thoughtful, noetic and deep-plumbing words of theological wisdom, literally carrying you away, no matter, how many times you watch them. This cannot be the words of an ordinary man. Which is what makes me bear this filial attachment to him, no matter what.

  • @mikeferara2939
    @mikeferara2939 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Suffering serves the purpose of GOD, Who helps us to give up our pride, to deny ourselves, to take the Cross and to follow the Lord Jesus Christ ! It is what helps us to separate from our ego ! To help us get rid of our passions !!!!! We cannot love and forgive perfect if we still have passions !!!!!!! The suffering is the best way to get rid of our passions and to get the TRUE LOVE AND TRUE FORGIVENESS !!!!!!!

  • @florinapleter7804
    @florinapleter7804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "LOVE NEVER FAILS"💓🕊️🙏🏼

  • @Mrm1985100
    @Mrm1985100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    7:20 Very powerful point.

  • @elliotthope1
    @elliotthope1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When Satan goes to sleep, he checks under the bed for Anthony Bloom.

    • @CB-sn4xh
      @CB-sn4xh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Totally agree. What Power he commands in his demeanour. Met. Anthony has left such a powerful impression on me since viewing this video. Wow! God's Grace

    • @n8g496
      @n8g496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha!

    • @juliusbakker4415
      @juliusbakker4415 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I burst out lathing when I read this

  • @tallmikbcroft6937
    @tallmikbcroft6937 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Metropolitan Anthony please pray for us

  • @Mrm1985100
    @Mrm1985100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    10:52 "I knew that I had met Christ alive, and if I had met Christ alive, then, all the Gospel was true" Anthony Bloom

  • @irenearholekas9411
    @irenearholekas9411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much for this. I heard this today Clean Monday. It is such a powerful witness to the truth thatbChrist is love and it is His faith in us ultimately that brought Him to shed His blood, because He knew that some of us would respond in kind. Glory be to Thee Oh God. Where to find a spiritual father such as this?

  • @trishsieckman7148
    @trishsieckman7148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Listen to his series of 36 talks. They are fantastic. He was older - same depth

  • @thelastshallbefirst3653
    @thelastshallbefirst3653 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It feels as if the interviewer was try to trip up and trap Met. Bloom the whole time, but it is clear the Holy Spirit was giving Met. Bloom the words because the interviewer could not argue you with or attempt to discredit anything that was said. Just as when Christ spoke to the pharisees, their mouths were wired shut and they were made to look utterly foolish in the presence of Truth Himself.
    Memory eternal Met. Bloom, I pray to meet you one day if I am worthy after my passing, to thank you for the wisdom you imparted onto me through your video series.

  • @hoser949
    @hoser949 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Interviewer is Roy Bonisteel.

  • @benjaminangrignon3916
    @benjaminangrignon3916 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i dont think he blinks

  • @eastudio-K
    @eastudio-K 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "the greatest example of suffering was Jesus on the cross" this guy just was not a good listener he kept having his own narrative. This is the greatest example of Love as the great Metropolitan was saying very clearly

  • @d46512
    @d46512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back when CBC wasn't fake news.

  • @annemcquade7185
    @annemcquade7185 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting point:" Pure Love is God" so you are missing out the Divinity which connects us both.
    Further and perhaps a note on the different forms of "Redemption:" while I was called to Lourdes in France to help sick people (who obviously "suffered"), She i.e. the Mother of God:our Lady of Heaven, who always leads one to Her Holy Son Jesus, in the earlier part of my visit by a "unique type of vision thing" showed me or certainly illustrated to me there definitely was and is the higher Realm of Heaven- this was done by a sort of "spiritual revelation vision" which absolutely indicated without a word the Truth of what I just text there, honestly!
    Further there does seem to be varieties of variables concerning : "suffering" and "love"! It is not about a different group getting it right or wrong! It is about understanding that God asks us to Love Him and one another, and thus in so doing the "process" itself, and God, certainly teaches us both "suffering "as well as "love!"
    Please note for certain that God's Love, individually and collectively is more than remarkable! Truly!
    Thank you too.
    Lots of Love in God Anne xxx
    (From Scotland UK)
    God Bless, Love, Protect and Guide you all eternally.
    In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
    Praise the Lord Almighty! Alleluia! Alleluia!