THE EVIL WHISPERS OF THE DEVIL: SLANDER and GOSSIP. ARE WE MURDERING THE SAINTS OF CHRIST?
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- 'It was through whispering that the serpent drove Adam and Eve out of Paradise, so he who speaks against his neighbour will be like the serpent, for he corrupts the soul of him who listens to him and he does not save his own soul' - Abba Hyperechius of the Desert Fathers.
Slander and gossip are the fruits of evil and hatred, and their own fruits are division, brokenness and pain. He who slanders goes against Him Who asked us to be One. He who listens to the one who slanders opens himself to the other one's poison, and both of them are condemned as the spiritual murderers of the neighbour whom they slander.
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The video 'THE EVIL WHISPERS OF THE DEVIL: SLANDER and GOSSIP. ARE WE MURDERING THE SAINTS OF CHRIST?' 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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I have gossiped for years. Telling other people about negative things, behaviors and lifestyles. I now feel terrible crushing guilt. Thank you for the video. 😢 I heard gossip was wrong. I never realized how horrible it was. I have a lot to confess. I have been thinking on this video for days now. I have made great strides to change...OMG, THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!
Same. If it doesn't encourage or edify, we shouldn't say it. Lord help us avoid this trap of sin
Dear Father, I'm a Hungarian catholic mother of 5. I find myself in a terrible situation. My husband wants to leave us. Your tender voice, telling about the love of God, is the only consolation a have for the moment. I listen to your sermons day and night. I want to thank You, may God bless You, and may God give You of His Holy Spirit more and more. 🙏❤️
praying for you. i’m so sad for what your facing. may His comfort, peace, His fulness of loving Presence, be with you.
🙏😢 I'M SO VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR TEACHINGS. I FEEL SO MUCH STRONGER AFTER I LISTEN.
Several years ago another Orthodox truck driver parked his truck next to mine for the end of the day. I noticed that he had a small icon of our Holy Mother on the microphone of his citizens band radio. He explained that She reminds me to be careful about what my impulses might otherwise say to all those that may hear on their radios.
I have never forgotten his wisdom.
Christ told those that condemned His apostles for eating wheat on the sabbath as they walked that we are more defiled by what comes from our mouths than by what we put in our mouths.
Va multumesc din suflet, Parinte Serafim!
Rugativa Domnului pentru pacatoasa Olga si familia!
Judec mult si condamn dar ascultind predica Dumneavoastra o sa ma abtin cu Ajutorul Bunului Dumnezeu!❤
Throughout this pandemic this chanel and your words, Father Seraphim, has been, and is, a safe refuge on the internet and a remedy for the hardness of my heart. I am very thankful for it. Christ is risen from the dead!
Dear one, I do not know who you are, but may God bless you for your kindness. ALL we wanted when we started these recordings was to keep the Monastery afloat financially, while offering some sort of joy, some sense of hope to everyone. I remain convinced that this time of common temptation has shown the depth of the hearts of many, and that some of us will come out of this filled with love, while others among us will need to repent for the hatred we poured into the world. A small gesture of kindness and love can help someone get through a day - what more can we hope for? Be blessed, dear one, be blessed.
@@mullmonastery Thank you father for your reply. I am sorry for not singning my name. My name is Andreas Gunnmo. If you would remember me in prayer, as I am praying for you, I would be so very greatful. May God continue to bless you for your work and prayers. I am truly greatful for finding your monastery through the internet. I dream to visit one day hopefully, when the pandemic is over.
@@mullmonastery 🥰
Please pray for my family. We are coming close to Jesus Christ and everyday there is serious problems in our house. Demons are dragging us away from our Beloved Lord. Please please please anyone who is reading this comment, pray for my family. Only through prayer can we strengthen ourselves in Christ.
Praying for you, for your home, your relationships, May God see and shelter and protect...
May God bless and protect you, dear Angela. Take courage from these temptations; they show you that you are moving in the right direction.
Don't give up although it can be difficult push through and Christ will carry you to the other side. 🙏
Patience, patience , patience and With our Heavenly father and our beloved Panagia and the Holy saints we would overcome !!
May you have discrrnment in the battle and overcome through the blood of The Lamb
I have been exploring Orthodox Christianity for a few years while belonging to a protestant church. Earlier this year I was taught about the horridness of gossip. I was volunteering at my church event to raise funds for something we needed for the building and overheard women gossiping about me. Immediately I prayed for calmness and God impressed upon me to remember how this gossip harmed me and from now on to refrain from this terrible behaviour. I left that protestant church and continue to study Orthodox Christianity. There is no Orthodox Church close to me so I am praying for guidance. I appreciate your channel, thank you.
i went thru something similar in June...really hurt and threw me for a loop. But i have found Orthodoxy because of that experience, so i am thankful. This channel has been one of the greatest blessings in my life. Blessings sister, with love, kristyn
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I always ask myself if this is what God the Father would want me to say when making a comment on the internet. I end up deleting a lot.
Mary Fortin Sometimes, when someone posts an offensive comment, it's good to let off steam and compose a real stinker of a response where you abuse the other person, his friends, his family and their dog, and then go and have a nice cup of coffee ... and don't type a thing. You get all of the satisfaction of really sticking it to him (in the comfort and privacy of your own skull) with none of the backlash. 🤣😂🤣
@@Clodaghbob I feel this is still counterproductive and even dangerous to become accustomed to
Against You, You only have i sinned and done what is evil in Your sight...
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner. Amen!
Dearest Father Seraphim and friends at Mull Monastery, please pray that i may always taste my own words before i carelessly share them with others. Thank you and God bless you always and in all ways Amen 🙏
Be attentive, my child, that you not judge any soul. For God permits the one who judges his neighbor to fall, so that he learns to have sympathy for his weak brother. The mercy of God supports all of us, but if we become proud, God will remove His grace and we shall become worse than the others.
It is one thing to condemn someone and another to be fought by thoughts of condemnation. To condemn is a terrible passion, but to be fought by such thoughts and to fight back-this is an occasion for crowns.
Each person must bear the weaknesses of others. Who is perfect? Who can boast that he has kept his heart undefiled? Hence, we are all sick, and whoever condemns his brother does not perceive that he himself is sick, because a sick person does not condemn another sick person.
Love, endure, overlook, do not get angry, do not flare up, forgive one another, so that you resemble our Christ and are counted worthy to be near Him in His kingdom. My children, avoid condemnation-it is a very great sin. God is greatly saddened when we condemn and loathe people.
Let us concern ourselves only with our own faults-for these we should feel pain. Let us condemn ourselves and then we shall find mercy and grace from God.
-Geronda Ephraim of Arizona of blessed memory-
What you say is very true and enlightening. Thank you.
Lord have mercy on me, I needed this. Thank you.
Today I awoke with the words.. be careful, be quiet, and stay in your cell. Thank you Father Seraphim. Your friend in the Love of Christ. May He give me tears of repentance. Mrs. Hutchinson, (Andrea) God bless you all there and keep you warm .
May we all be blessed, dear Andrea. And may we all be given the gift of tears - there is nothing as sweet, nothing as loving as this grace. Please stay safe and healthy, dear one.
Thank you , Father
Thank you, Father.
Thanks Fr. Seraphim for explaining in detail regarding sin of whispering and gossips. we all often read verses regarding sin of gossips but couldn't understand its deepness without any example. today you mentioned a best example of whispering of serpent to adam and eve in Eden which results in exodus from garden of Eden. God bless you.
Dear one, the depth of Christ's teaching and His commandments is beyond what we can understand in this fallen state of our hearts and minds. This is why the best approach is to embrace them in FAITH, not based on logical understanding. But we are SO blessed to have the experience and teachings of thousands and thousands of Saints who lived before us and who have travelled the same path as we do. By their prayers, may we all be blessed.
It amazes me how each evening when I say my prayers after a challenging day I find comfort and solutions in your welcoming words. I believe Our Creator must love you very much. Isn’t it wonderful that He spared your young life for such a higher purpose ... when the Holy Spirit speaks through you, it brings solace
to millions of people in desperate need of guidance.
I so needed to hear this...Father forgive me!
Father you preach the heart of compassion ❤
God bless you Father and all at Mull Monastery, including the nuns.
I am thankful the cannon of repentance comes right after this video in the playlist. It is very valuable to hear this video so close to the time after the pandemic ended.
A very necessary and helpful video. I think it's a clear explanation of why not just gossip and slander are bad, but also why schadenfreude in general shouldn't be indulged in. I will confess and ask God for forgiveness and be more careful with my words going forward. Thank you, Father!
Looks like it's cold there, Father. Take care of yourself please.
Thank you fro your care, dear Cassaundra. It was rather chilly today, you are right. But I am careful and God does take care. May we all be blessed, dear one.
@@mullmonastery You are freezing inthere!!😪
Thank you Father Seraphim for bringing us God’s wisdom.
Now I wish to use the most dangerous button on my phone. It is SEND. Let’s use this button with love and wisdom.
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It makes my heart hurt. It is a loss we should not allow. Thank you for these good words. ❤🙏
It is a loss that affects all of us, dear one. Without the grace of ONE Saint, we are all weaker and we love a bit more of our natural beauty as humans created in the Image of God. Please keep me and the Monastery in your prayers, and may we all be blessed.
@@mullmonastery I will pray for you and the monastery Father Seraphim. May God bless you and have mercy on us all 🙏❤
Words of Light. God bless you!
His Love will overcome it.
thank you for this. Father forgive them they know not what they do 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
AMEN
I happened to stumble onto your videos and I must say you have blessed me. I listen daily and I pray Jesus helps me continue the walk of Christianity. You are very wise and thank you for blessing me.
I love the reality of the "Little Eden" in our hearts we must protect in order to keep God's peace.
Amin, amin ,amin,
Bunul Dumnezeu să vă binecuvinteze ,frate Serafim!
Ca de fiecare dată, cuvinte cu adânc ecou în inimă,pentru care MULTUMIM!
Thank you for this wisdom
GOD bless u father your teaching is Amazing PS pray for me & my family for GOD Protection Amen 🙏🏾
May God bless and protect you, dear one.
I love Mary and Moses. By their lives there is hope more me. Thank you. Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.
Father i Love you, thank you so much for helping me
So true. People are not helping People.
God bless you Father Serafim. St Mary of Egypt is dear to my heart. This is a hard word, and it's scary that we all receive this poison everywhere. This made me cry with the strangest and most confusing sadness I've ever felt.
We're praying for you to receive exactly what you all need each day. We send our Guardian Angels to assist!
Thank you Father Seraphim for your teaching about the “soul” and our soul hurts when we do harm or indignation to our brothers and sisters. We need to respect our soul given by Almighty God for our
sake and salvation Amen🙏🇭🇺🇺🇸❤️
It looks very cold where you are, we can see your breath. The setting is striking and looking out the window behind you is profound.
Intense message. You know, I am very very isolated. Right now, like your friend, the internet is almost my only human contact, and it’s true - Christians, when one is so hungry for Christ - are not the best place to find Him. Reading the comment sections of speakers who DO speak CHRIST into ones heart can fill one with despair for ever trying to come back to the world of men. So I thank you, Father, for the words of your heart so faithfully offered knowing you too are criticized and slandered, a prayer of protection for you, and the light you hold out into the dark.
It isn't that cold, dear one. And I do like it a bit cold, to tell you the truth. That little room is the Vestry Room of Kilninian, we are now trying to repair the windows, add some insulation to the stone walls etc. I would not have addressed this topic if I had not seen how damaging it is to so many people. There is a great danger that we'll carry the hatred we are being fed through the internet during this time of separation into the real world, into our real lives, when we shall finally be able to meet again in person. We need to step away from all this poison, so that we may greet each other with love and an open heart when the time comes.
Very important message
Τhis came at the right time...
On learning about Miriam I began to fight against my complaining mouth. She was influenced by her friends. I've had to retreat in many occasions when tongues begin to wag. On occasion I have to repent all over again. Lord help us, bring to light my sin. Amen
God bless from ireland
Truly this is the way +++
I was blessed to have a grandfather that the only slander I heard from him was "they are just having trouble "
It took me years to understand what he was saying. I should add that his peace was overwhelming always.
Thanks for your teachings. May God bless you. Greetings from Argentina.
Nobody can tell me that the devil does not exist. My family is being attacked as I type this. Both physically and spiritually. It is all so insane with all of this evil running around the world right now.
praying for you and your family. may wisdom and true love fill your heart.
Hanning john; people wonder how saints endure the extreme conditions i.e. St Mary of Egypt, 40 years in the desert or St Paul of Obnora who spent the entire winter in northern Russia inside the hollow of a linden tree. These saints endured these extreme conditions by the power of faith and the warmth of the Holy Spirt. All things are possible for those who LOVE God with all their heart and soul. May we all come to understand the true power of faith.
Thank you for this. I really needed to hear this message. My wife had an affair with a friend of our family 2 years ago and we have been going through a very acrimonious divorce. I have criticised her and slandered her behind her back to our friends and my family because I felt so betrayed and felt so much pain for both myself and my children. I have criticised her to our children too, feeling vindicated because I have never told them about her ongoing affair, but pointed out all her other flaws and hypocrisy not thinking for a moment how much I am sinning and hurting them and my ex wife and to those that listen to me slander her. I am so sorry for this. The pain has been immense and I don't even know where to begin to make things better. She has shown absolutely no remorse and has been ruthless in our divorce proceedings and this has made me hate her but at the same time would forgive her in an instant if she showed remorse. I am lost. Please pray for me and guide me if possible. (This is not my real name by the way, I use it incase my children ever stumble across this video)
Perhaps feeling justified more than vindicated in criticising her....
I had a similar experience like you discribed. And after almost 20 years I still feel so immensly sorry for what I told to the children about their father. My ego could not take the betrayal and so I slandered my husband and felt even good about this, it released me a bit I thought at this time and even it is so common in our world to do and to think in this way. It took me several years to recognize ....
If I may recommend you something: begin and continue with true, radical forgiveness in your heart, even she does not show remorse towards you! We cannot see in other peoples heart, we are not the ones to judge, it is all up to God! And besides, we never know why this happened, even we feel betrayed and free from guilt ........ God sees more!
Take care of you! I will pray for you and her!
If you can, put it in your heart that she has already shown the remorse you need, dear Dorinel, and move forward in peace. At this point, you are hurting yourself more than anyone else. Sooner or later, her heart will repent, but that repentance will be before the eyes of God, not before your eyes. Put it in your heart that she has already repented before God, so you do not waste even more of your time in bitterness and anger. Live now the life you would live after her repentance. You can do it. It is only a matter of allowing yourself to do so. May God bless you, dear one.
@@mullmonastery thank you for your help and prayers
@@margareta7439 Thank you Margareta, thank you for your prayers and support
Wow!.....woah! This is heavy!this is beautiful thank you for teaching us Father♡
WOW! what a thought about St Mary of Egypt.
Father bless! Thank you for this. Indeed I have wondered this very thing often since my confession and repentance of March 25th, 2019. My journey into Orthodoxy has been beautiful. My house is in order. My wife and children feel and experience my love for them. I am not claiming to be even one bit of a "Saint" but my past is indeed dark and the change is real and actual. My older sister said it was as if I was Saul and am now Paul. Glory to God! My thoughts have often wondered if the people who knew me before, "the old me" as my wife calls it, and how they may be prone to say, "Is this not the man who did this and that?" Praise God for His Church. For the Body of Christ where true healing happens. While I have wondered what some might say if given the chance I do not worry or dwell on that. Forgetting what is behind I strive forward for the prize ahead! Thank you for these words. For me, the true sinner, they are a balm! God bless you!
Amen Brother! Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ! The holy spirit is truly opening my ears through his work in you. The holy spirit has revealed such a blessed way of speaking to resay what we have heard a thousand times but can finally hear it!! Thank you Lord for making him a vessel.
Gracias. La experiencia del Espíritu es un don que ayuda a los demás. No condenemos a nadie. Acojamos a todo el mundo en la situación que se encuentre, también en su pecado y debilidad. La acción de los sentidos: acoger misericordiosamente. Huir de condenar. Paz y Bien. Gracias por los Padres del Desierto. Bendiciones.
Very challenging. Much needed. Forgive me, a sinner. Thank-you for this prophetic word.
This helped me make sense of the intense reaction I felt when I realized how badly I was slandered. It’s a primal ancient transgression. I almost left my job of 10 years. My life depends on the truth. You remind me of my best friend, himself a desert father. He always received me in his simple home and it was so full of love I could see my breath and knew I was still closer to god in his presence. He offered to shelter me from my tormentors but died this summer
Hearing your message has blessed me deeply. From the very depths of my heart ❤️ thank you, thank you, thank you ~
Shalom ~
Dear Father, thank you again for speaking about a sin that torments me all the the time: judging and gossiping my bretherin. This is really painful, to think about how many saints I potentially destroyed. I can only pray now that God saves what I destroyed. So nothing is lost because of my wickedness. May God help us all in fighting this horrid sin!
I thank you for your beautiful words! God bless you abundantly.
Thank you Father Aldea for this very thought provoking sermon. May God heal us from all occasions of slander and condemnation and may we be the compassionate people you urge us to be. Bless you for your work.
Thank u for sharing this message. I am fearful of what I have spoken to others. Need prayer to resolve thus issue in my heart.
Thank you for this.
Thank you Father Seraphim for your words of wisdom and encouragement. Something I have needed to hear for years.
I tried to commit in another video regarding evil and how to stop thoughts. I beg to disagree when a child of 10 yrs old attacked physical, mentally and spiritually. Asleep and woken with a stench so wretched . And until this day I’m now in my sixties. Sometimes no thought needed he comes ( Satan) . Ty
Thank you. It touched me deeply for I am the sinner you talked about. I realise I need Christ more in my life as I cannot do it on my own. With Christ all things are possible. Thank you for opening my eyes. God Bless 😊🙏❤️
Father bless, this was as ever a potent and needed message. I have been on the receiving end of gossip and slander so often during my life I learnt to avoid it before I knew Christ, as I knew in myself how much it hurt. Now I always think of the saying of one of the desert mothers, that when you have a dead body in your own house you do not go and weep over your neighbours, to remind me not to judge and to repent of my own sins of which there are many.
It is not easy to reject gossip and I am pretty certain there has been some about me in parishes where I have herd gossip about friends and told the person saying it that they are sinning by slandering another (especially when the person slandered was a priest).
If we could all love a bit more and judge a bit less it would be a far better world to live in, and a few more saints might emerge within our number.
Lord have mercy on us all.Our prayers for all and God Bless us all.Thank You Father for keeping all of us in your prayers.🙏
Amen ,Amen thank you Dear Seraphim God blessed you always.
Father, please pray for my son Luis Miguel; for his conversion and for him to stop procrastinating, and start to put his plans into action. Please father, also pray for the dire financial situation my family is in. We might even end up losing our home eventually because of a Reverse Mortgage my dad mistakenly did a few years back; I don't know how we are going to pay it back😢🙏
Thank you so much Father. Your videos have been a blessing to me and I am deeply grateful to you. I am struggling in my walk with God because I am being led to believe that I am unworthy of Him, that my sins are too great. I know this is untrue and I am being distracted by "something" else to look away from the love of God. Your video on "demonic attacks during prayer," has been helping me a lot. Thank you
Thank you fr seraphim for enlightening
Thank you so much for your teaching, Father. In my own household God has allowed me to await patiently for the transformation and growth of a potential saint😆 God never ceases working on each of us! It is so good to know about this! And it is trying to love under perseverence, then we can say we are slightly closer to get to know God. I will be mindful to open my door to God instead to the whispers of the demon! May God bless us all.
Powerful!! Thank you Father🙏🏻🙏🏻
So true. Also, see Frances de Sales who says the same, Introduction to the Devout Life, 3:29, Slander: "Rash judgments lead to disquiet, contempt for others, pride and self-complacency, and a hundred other evils, amongst which slander stands prominent, the very pest of society. Oh, for a live coal from off God's altar, wherewith to touch the lips of men, that their iniquity might be taken away and their sin purged, even as the Seraphim purified the mouth of the Prophet Isaias (Is 6:6-7). Whoever unjustly deprives his neighbour of his good name is guilty of sin, and is further bound to make reparation, according to his slander; no man can enter heaven with another's goods, and of all worldly goods none is equal to a good reputation. Slander is a kind of murder, for we have three lives: the spiritual life, which consists of the grace of God; the corporal life, which is in the soul; and the civil life, which consists in reputation. Sin destroys the first, death the second, and slander the third; but the slanderer is guilty of a triple murder with his tongue: he destroys his own soul and that of his auditor by a spiritual homicide, and deprives the object of his slander of civil existence."
looks cold there
Thank you Father. I happened upon your message today and it was just what I needed to hear. I've been brought low by "living life on the Internet" as well so I obviously need to remove myself from the poison found therein. Stay well Father and God bless you.
God bless you, Brother! You just gave me strengh only by listening you!
God bless you, Father Seraphim ! ♥️
Thanks be to God
Thank you! Please keep posting, you help me so much
Thank you very much, I needed to hear this.
God bless you
Thankyou.
What a brilliant talk on the effect of slander .I am greatly touched by your amazing delivery on such an important topic . You are very blessed by God , and so are we who listen to your brilliant videos . Be blessed Father . May we all try to rise from committing sin and show more love to our brothers and sisters
Wow beautiful!
Thank you for this message. I have been slandered online in a terrible manner to which I am blameless. By people I know briefly. Yet I have a great faith in God whom pays debts without money. Amen.
Being a troll online is like decorating the outside of cathedrals with gargoyles (though I’m not sure if that’s a thing in the orthodox tradition :/ ) Or decorating with macabre jack o lanterns at Halloween. Evil to ward off evil. Let sister know that it’s a contemporary way of scaring the troll out of our real life interactions, and not to be disheartened by the customary online negativity :)
Nonetheless, your words and attitude have inspired me to stop feeding my own inner troll with a lot of negativity. It feels better to be tolerant and kind. Thank you!
That hit the mark. Thanks
Absolutely Beautiful! I want to thank you father for this video! This is something I needed to hear for a while now!
Awesome video, awesome God! May God bless you and your family keep up the good work ✝
Amenx
My heart goes out to the slanderers for I know that those of us who are slandered are invisibly protected at the time of testing by the grace of the Holy Spirit who is so gentle in His care and eventually shows a way out. The slanderers on the other hand are not chastised by God through the indiscretionate behavior of others but face the possibility of a sudden death where there is no room for repentance. Christ nurtured any glimpse of humility or repentance wherever he saw it in a person, be ye rich or poor, sinner or of good reputation. Also, I like the icon of Saint Nicholas, who stood up to the unrighteous dramatically, and the book "The Sayings of the Desert Fathers," translated by Benedicta Ward. I have owned a copy of that book for about 23 years and sleep with it about a foot from my head.
Somewhere, St John Chrysostom wrote that he envied the drunken men fallen in the street, for their sin was visible, whereas the sin of most of us remain hidden, like a cancer that continues to silently work its way through our being. I know what you mean, dear one, and you are right. The slanderer is also our brother / our sister, and we should not exclude them from our love. But we do need to understand the gravity of the sin, so we may keep ourselves free from it. As for St Nicholas - that icon is a gift from a wonderful friend of the Monastery, who knows how deeply in love my heart is with St Nicholas.
I know what you are saying brother, but don't worry, no Saint will be "prevented" from achieving their destiny because of the wicked, because God is in control and He is our Defense. But to be slandered, just as Christ was slandered and called Beelzebub, is a GREAT Blessing, and a sign that our Reward is GREAT in Heaven, for we partake in the sufferings of our Lord. Satan can never overcome the saints, God is ALONE SOVEREIGN over this world, and He never allows us to be tested beyond what we are able to handle, when we are in Him.
If a hand is rottened by satan, it is still better to cut out the hand, than loosing the whole body. Jesus did not bring peace with satan, but He came with a sword and with a whip, to save the real temple.
INRI X
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Thank you Father slander os murder like Christ said
Today is the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Just try to imagine if she were born today, in this troubled time of slander and gossip, propagated through the powerful Internet. The news outlets would call her a psychotic who sees visions of angels. Maybe Jesus would never have been born? He certainly would be rejected again--over and over again....
Father pray for me for lust and anger
I think we all agree,but we are all so guilty of this....It's so hard not just to shut my mouth,but also to pray for people being accused in front of me,and I know,my brain knows this is my fallen state,this is the devil,this is my trial,but still...
Is another proof that I'm not on the right path
Thank you for all you do for us. Truly beautiful messages. God Bless!