This course is what lead to me to become Orthodox, to me and wife becoming Orthodox and with a little one on the way I can’t express fully my gratitude to you , Thank you Brother
Thanks for this. Fr. Seraphim Rose was prophetic. He may be one day recognized as a saint. I'm going to St Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina next week.
@@Kingfish179 we have icons of non-saints as well though. I don't think he is yet recognized as a Saint but I think he will for sure. he has brought many to orthodoxy.
This series alone may be the reason my faith is rekindled and I become Orthodox. The very opening salvos of this reading speak to my doubts and concerns about the various worldviews presented to me. They seem schismatic and based on fallacious concepts and absurd quibblings over minor tidbits in scripture. Even if I reject these many denominations, I am presented with Catholicism, which openly centers around popery and the infallibility of said pope, and I find I cannot willingly accept a religion of half-truths simply because it is more grounded than the rest of the Lutheran churches. I always held positive feelings about Orthodoxy, and I greatly enjoyed the various tidbits of knowledge and quotes that have been passed around at times. But, indeed it feels foreign to me as a Westerner. Perhaps it is that this foreign feeling is because I did not ever have the proper grounding of participation in the only Church that has remained faithful since it's inception. I was raised among heretics after all. I viewed it as Eastern and not really acceptable to me, culturally. I will have to watch this series and re-evaluate my stance. As times grow darker and lunacy has become the new standard of reality, especially with the explosion of New Age thought, I will need the teachings of wiser men to keep me grounded in the objectivity of our reality. Thank you.
The amount of wisdom in Fr Seraphim Rose's teachings is just too deep and advanced to be able to take in one listen. I am so thankful many of his lessons have been recorded so that I can rewind as needed and take time to digest the message.
I grew up non-denominational. I attended those type of mega churches that seemed more like rock concerts than they did places of worship. I have begun to realize that version of Christianity is lacking. It's inauthentic, and clearly not the Christianity practiced by the Apostles and Church Fathers. I'm currently torn between Traditional Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but for some reason, I feel more of a connection to Orthodoxy than I do Traditional Catholicism. Hopefully this series will help me find the way.
Troy D I’m glad you found this channel. God bless you in your journey, I made a pit stop in a nondenominational church as well. There’s a lot of people in the Catholicism vs Orthodox position right now. I think this series is particularly good in addressing that distinction. I would also suggest Jay Dyer’s videos on catholicism as well. He does an excellent job critiquing it.
@@orthodoxreactionary6434 As far as I can tell, both Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism have succumb to the Jews and Freemasonry. They both support Liberalism/Globalism, and Zionism. The Orthodox Church seems to be the only Christian institution that seems unaffected by these incursions, and to me, that proves its legitimacy. But thanks for your encouragement. I definitely plan on learning a lot from your uploads.
@@troyd4235 we have our subverters and liberals as well, but unlike the Protestants we have we have mechanisms via hierarchical authority and councils to expel toxic heresies and etc. Unlike the RC’s our dogmatic authority doesn’t hinge on a single fallible bishop. The Orthodox Church is like a Tree, and any branch can become sick, diseased, and cut off.
Nice. Unmask your social world, was my cry that started in the 90's. He is correct about Western Art as expression of the change in spiritual consciousness. The world was no longer flat and the sun did not rotate around the earth. Im Roman Catholic and this was the bigging of how we got to Pope Francis. We lost the Apostolic Church and these counsels not from neglect but as if they are a collection of antiquated Rare Books or of a Dead Sea scroll vintage. Once the Holy Spirit procession was established there was no looking back. Now, this is a point and grunt old man writing with the IQ of 98 so .... but we RC are paying for not rethinking our direction especially with WWW and the knowledge that is easy to get to. We need you Orthodox to be a living witness for your living witness to these foundational truths we hold true in Christ pulls the Traditional (orthodox) Catholics from the modern world. We are RC are creating the point of no return for union with Orthodox. pray for me, i have the sickness.
I just came across your channel this evening, and am amazed and thankful for this good work that you are doing. God bless you and magnify your labors and their impact!
Excited to see that you’re tackling this series next. I’ve listened to parts of the course before but the audio quality is poor on the other uploads I’ve found. God bless. Keep up the good work. It’s much appreciated.
I was brought up in the church of England and then i went my own way until I came to Jesus when I was about 18.. I got involved with the evangelical church and a few years later the community churches which is a church under no particular denomination but is evangelical in practice..i have experienced times of being really close to Jesus and being built up in by him.. however I became unsure about it all not Jesus but the whole church leadership and the judgemental people who like to make you feel like you are a worthless sinner because of my past with drugs and being a bit of a rebel but I have never been in prison or have a criminal record or anything . And now I am not in church and i feel far away from God and I'm not sure about going back to the same place because I end up feeling the same and I end up being hurt.. I have been reading about orthodox Christianity and I have to admit that I don't know anything about it but I want a more personal thing than some crazy happy clappy holy huddle club.. I want to be restored and stood back in the grace and favour of Jesus again..
I am in a similiar boat. Raised with nothing pushed on me but ended up atheist although I always loved visiting churches and have almost always owned a bible. I looked up churches in my area last year but as its England it is all happy clappy Protestant rubbish. With pop Christian music and a 1 milimetre deep interpretation of faith, scripture, and christian themes and symbolism. There is no Orthodox Church in my County. Moving to America in 2 years and the town I am moving to has a Greek Orthodox Church, I can't wait.
@@orthodoxreactionary6434 can you please suggest anything that I can read or watch that would give me some more information and ideas that would be great if you could possibly help me thanks Jamie
Thanks for making this excellent presentation. God bless you!!! The chant at the begging is so beautiful, it is Tone 6 special melody "On The Third Day" I believe it is the Beatitudes. Would you by chance be able to direct me to the original recording of this? It is absolutely haunting and absolute praise. God Keep you! Love in Christ.
How is roman catholicism a sect as opposed to the orthodox church, which itself has split into numerous national churches, and which in turn are not all currently in communion? How do you redeem church disputes without the ability to declare canonical ecumenical councils that the prescence of a central patriarch has, or without splitting further? I understand your rejection of the papacy as it stands. I understand your arguments agains the filioque and for the ordination of married priests. I get that roman catholicism has fallen far, and I respect the spirit of the orthodox church, although I have yet to recieve satisfactory answers to these questions.
Solberg I’m not the best person to ask regarding those sorts of questions. Thank you for being polite though. The best people to ask on Orthodox apologetics relating to Roman Catholicism would be these ppl: Jay Dyer: Twitter: @Jay_D007 His discord is the best place to go for discussions. Link: t.co/auCvdKEK9U @SnekTheRedSun on twitter I have a lot of respect for traditional Catholics, and a lot of empathy for what it must be like dealing with the current pope and general climate in the Catholic Church.
Does the holy spirit speak to you? When you hear Orthodox hymns or prayers are you moved and do you feel love? Does your mind body and soul feel the everlasting love from Jesus Christ? The truth is that you will know where you are by how you are feeling. I remember it like yesterday after I lost my father to cancer and went down the wrong path. I was in a dark place and lost but I knew that God would never turn his back on me. I would always be welcome in Gods eyes. I sat down and started to Pray the Jesus Prayer and I cried. I felt the love and when I stood up I felt new. That is Orthodoxy.
@@radicalgreek99 I pray the prayer of the heart more regularly all the time. My priest gave me a book called "the way of the pilgrim" about the Jesus prayer, which draws heavily on the Father's and Philokalia. Must read, there is an audiobook on TH-cam.. Christ bless friend
29:30 "When a Catholic can get better along with a Lutheran than with an Orthodox..." is often a sad state of our current world but not an essential truth. Groups that hold tight to the Roman Catholic tradition (SSPX, FSSP etc), are in full communion with Rome and definitely get better along with Orthodox than with Protestants (Bishop Athanasius Schneider in Khazakstan could be a current good example). The Catholics that seek common ground with Protestants are very often poorly catechized as a consequence of the bad state of the West or seek temporary alliances during political issues against a secular society/state. It is not an inherent or natural part of Catholicism. The existence of non-Roman Eastern Catholic Churches, (Byzantine, Alexandrian, Syriac rites etc), that however remain in full communion with Rome further emphasizes the point of closer commonality between Catholics and Orthodox.
I live in a western country, I moved recently and find myself right in front of a small Greek Orthodox church. Ever since have I been intrigued, I've often wanted to find God but was always lost in the sea of denominations and what is true, could this be God sending me a hint? Unfortunately, I'm a really timid person, and it seems that the congregation is 98% Greek. I am scared of being an outsider, would they accept me?
Ok, why after listening to his book “religion of the future..” does this not sound like the same author. This author doesn’t even sound like he had the same beliefs that the author of “religion of the future” had. This author says things in this book that he himself called heresy in just the last book I read!
"If you interpret Genesis absolutely literally like [Sectarians] would like to, you come to ridiculous conclusions and absurdities." KEEP IN MIND, there are more options than saying Genesis is 100% literal or saying "this didn't happen." What happened in Genesis is historical but not literal.
Yea, that’s not what the Church of Christ is. If you claim such a thing prove why what you say is true. Pythagoras had a cult. Jim jones had a Cult. Christ has a Church.
Anyone who feels this way explain why and I’ll give you a million reason to explain why Jesus Christ isn’t a Cult leader. He’s The Son of The Living God.
Hey brother are you suspended on twitter? I was trying to contact you and the twitter link on here is to a suspended account. Are you on twitter now? Besides email and text I don’t really have anything else except Patreon, but I can’t message you there.
This course is what lead to me to become Orthodox, to me and wife becoming Orthodox and with a little one on the way
I can’t express fully my gratitude to you , Thank you Brother
Thank you very much. God bless you.
Thanks for this. Fr. Seraphim Rose was prophetic. He may be one day recognized as a saint. I'm going to St Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina next week.
I think he's a saint.
@@panokostouros7609 my priest has an icon of him on the Altar.
@@Kingfish179 we have icons of non-saints as well though.
I don't think he is yet recognized as a Saint but I think he will for sure.
he has brought many to orthodoxy.
@@Maverick-ne3mr he can be recognised after 2037, because he fell asleep at 1987
@@vladislavstezhko1864 he reposed in 1982.
This series alone may be the reason my faith is rekindled and I become Orthodox. The very opening salvos of this reading speak to my doubts and concerns about the various worldviews presented to me. They seem schismatic and based on fallacious concepts and absurd quibblings over minor tidbits in scripture. Even if I reject these many denominations, I am presented with Catholicism, which openly centers around popery and the infallibility of said pope, and I find I cannot willingly accept a religion of half-truths simply because it is more grounded than the rest of the Lutheran churches. I always held positive feelings about Orthodoxy, and I greatly enjoyed the various tidbits of knowledge and quotes that have been passed around at times. But, indeed it feels foreign to me as a Westerner. Perhaps it is that this foreign feeling is because I did not ever have the proper grounding of participation in the only Church that has remained faithful since it's inception. I was raised among heretics after all. I viewed it as Eastern and not really acceptable to me, culturally. I will have to watch this series and re-evaluate my stance. As times grow darker and lunacy has become the new standard of reality, especially with the explosion of New Age thought, I will need the teachings of wiser men to keep me grounded in the objectivity of our reality. Thank you.
Thank you for this . I can listen to this while I’m driving. God bless you ☦️😉💗
Thank you so much for doing these I hate listening to the computer robot voice
Drunken Worlock he’s kinda reading like the robot a tho.
Be free man!😊
The amount of wisdom in Fr Seraphim Rose's teachings is just too deep and advanced to be able to take in one listen. I am so thankful many of his lessons have been recorded so that I can rewind as needed and take time to digest the message.
Christ is risen! Thank you for this.
I grew up non-denominational. I attended those type of mega churches that seemed more like rock concerts than they did places of worship. I have begun to realize that version of Christianity is lacking. It's inauthentic, and clearly not the Christianity practiced by the Apostles and Church Fathers. I'm currently torn between Traditional Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but for some reason, I feel more of a connection to Orthodoxy than I do Traditional Catholicism. Hopefully this series will help me find the way.
Troy D I’m glad you found this channel. God bless you in your journey, I made a pit stop in a nondenominational church as well. There’s a lot of people in the Catholicism vs Orthodox position right now. I think this series is particularly good in addressing that distinction.
I would also suggest Jay Dyer’s videos on catholicism as well. He does an excellent job critiquing it.
@@orthodoxreactionary6434 As far as I can tell, both Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism have succumb to the Jews and Freemasonry. They both support Liberalism/Globalism, and Zionism. The Orthodox Church seems to be the only Christian institution that seems unaffected by these incursions, and to me, that proves its legitimacy. But thanks for your encouragement. I definitely plan on learning a lot from your uploads.
@@troyd4235 we have our subverters and liberals as well, but unlike the Protestants we have we have mechanisms via hierarchical authority and councils to expel toxic heresies and etc. Unlike the RC’s our dogmatic authority doesn’t hinge on a single fallible bishop.
The Orthodox Church is like a Tree, and any branch can become sick, diseased, and cut off.
pray Troy.. you'll find an answer..☦️
Similar story. Stay on this path. The truth of Orthodox Christianity. God Bless. ☦🙏❤
Thank you for doing this! I paint icons and good stuff like this to listen to while painting helps so much!
One day you will paint Father Seraphim Rose
Nice. Unmask your social world, was my cry that started in the 90's. He is correct about Western Art as expression of the change in spiritual consciousness. The world was no longer flat and the sun did not rotate around the earth. Im Roman Catholic and this was the bigging of how we got to Pope Francis. We lost the Apostolic Church and these counsels not from neglect but as if they are a collection of antiquated Rare Books or of a Dead Sea scroll vintage. Once the Holy Spirit procession was established there was no looking back. Now, this is a point and grunt old man writing with the IQ of 98 so .... but we RC are paying for not rethinking our direction especially with WWW and the knowledge that is easy to get to. We need you Orthodox to be a living witness for your living witness to these foundational truths we hold true in Christ pulls the Traditional (orthodox) Catholics from the modern world. We are RC are creating the point of no return for union with Orthodox.
pray for me, i have the sickness.
God bless you Steven, I'll pray for you.
Absolutely based. Thank you for doing this
These are so good, Thank you ...
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this was great, im fairly new to orthodoxy and find Fr. Seraphim Rose very helpful
Thanks for doing this. Awesome!
I just came across your channel this evening, and am amazed and thankful for this good work that you are doing. God bless you and magnify your labors and their impact!
Excited to see that you’re tackling this series next. I’ve listened to parts of the course before but the audio quality is poor on the other uploads I’ve found.
God bless. Keep up the good work. It’s much appreciated.
God bless !
for other curious seekers; the namesake of the 12th century artist spake of at 32:43 is spelled "giotto"
Does anyone know what the name of the chant playing in the background is?
I was brought up in the church of England and then i went my own way until I came to Jesus when I was about 18.. I got involved with the evangelical church and a few years later the community churches which is a church under no particular denomination but is evangelical in practice..i have experienced times of being really close to Jesus and being built up in by him.. however I became unsure about it all not Jesus but the whole church leadership and the judgemental people who like to make you feel like you are a worthless sinner because of my past with drugs and being a bit of a rebel but I have never been in prison or have a criminal record or anything
. And now I am not in church and i feel far away from God and I'm not sure about going back to the same place because I end up feeling the same and I end up being hurt.. I have been reading about orthodox Christianity and I have to admit that I don't know anything about it but I want a more personal thing than some crazy happy clappy holy huddle club.. I want to be restored and stood back in the grace and favour of Jesus again..
May God bless you Jamie. I think you’ll find a spiritual home in Orthodoxy.
I am in a similiar boat. Raised with nothing pushed on me but ended up atheist although I always loved visiting churches and have almost always owned a bible.
I looked up churches in my area last year but as its England it is all happy clappy Protestant rubbish. With pop Christian music and a 1 milimetre deep interpretation of faith, scripture, and christian themes and symbolism.
There is no Orthodox Church in my County. Moving to America in 2 years and the town I am moving to has a Greek Orthodox Church, I can't wait.
@@thechongwolla wow that's amazing may i ask you where in the UK you live and also how on earth have you come to be moving to the US you are so lucky
@@orthodoxreactionary6434 can you please suggest anything that I can read or watch that would give me some more information and ideas that would be great if you could possibly help me thanks Jamie
Thanks for making this excellent presentation. God bless you!!! The chant at the begging is so beautiful, it is Tone 6 special melody "On The Third Day" I believe it is the Beatitudes. Would you by chance be able to direct me to the original recording of this? It is absolutely haunting and absolute praise. God Keep you! Love in Christ.
Thank you for reading this. Before all I could find was a computer voice which was hard to understand.
Fr Kevin Allen on Spreaker did a series on this book, was pretty good. It was more of a lecture type overview with some good insights.
Alex P I found that recently by accident. This gives me more reason to check it out. Thank you for the insight!
Do you mean Fr Steven Allen?
@@orthodoxreactionary6434 Hello. Do you happen to know what the name of the chant playing in the background is? Thanks!
i am 46, catechumen, finally home
Thank you so much for doing this. Are there more lecture series of Father Seraphim Rose's that will be coming this year?
How is roman catholicism a sect as opposed to the orthodox church, which itself has split into numerous national churches, and which in turn are not all currently in communion?
How do you redeem church disputes without the ability to declare canonical ecumenical councils that the prescence of a central patriarch has, or without splitting further?
I understand your rejection of the papacy as it stands. I understand your arguments agains the filioque and for the ordination of married priests.
I get that roman catholicism has fallen far, and I respect the spirit of the orthodox church, although I have yet to recieve satisfactory answers to these questions.
Solberg I’m not the best person to ask regarding those sorts of questions.
Thank you for being polite though.
The best people to ask on Orthodox apologetics relating to Roman Catholicism would be these ppl:
Jay Dyer:
Twitter: @Jay_D007
His discord is the best place to go for discussions. Link: t.co/auCvdKEK9U
@SnekTheRedSun on twitter
I have a lot of respect for traditional Catholics, and a lot of empathy for what it must be like dealing with the current pope and general climate in the Catholic Church.
@@orthodoxreactionary6434 Thank you for your understanding, and thank you for the links! God bless you!
Solberg You’re welcome man, I hope that helps!
God bless you as well ✝️
Does the holy spirit speak to you? When you hear Orthodox hymns or prayers are you moved and do you feel love? Does your mind body and soul feel the everlasting love from Jesus Christ? The truth is that you will know where you are by how you are feeling. I remember it like yesterday after I lost my father to cancer and went down the wrong path. I was in a dark place and lost but I knew that God would never turn his back on me. I would always be welcome in Gods eyes. I sat down and started to Pray the Jesus Prayer and I cried. I felt the love and when I stood up I felt new. That is Orthodoxy.
@@radicalgreek99 I pray the prayer of the heart more regularly all the time. My priest gave me a book called "the way of the pilgrim" about the Jesus prayer, which draws heavily on the Father's and Philokalia. Must read, there is an audiobook on TH-cam.. Christ bless friend
29:30 "When a Catholic can get better along with a Lutheran than with an Orthodox..." is often a sad state of our current world but not an essential truth. Groups that hold tight to the Roman Catholic tradition (SSPX, FSSP etc), are in full communion with Rome and definitely get better along with Orthodox than with Protestants (Bishop Athanasius Schneider in Khazakstan could be a current good example).
The Catholics that seek common ground with Protestants are very often poorly catechized as a consequence of the bad state of the West or seek temporary alliances during political issues against a secular society/state. It is not an inherent or natural part of Catholicism.
The existence of non-Roman Eastern Catholic Churches, (Byzantine, Alexandrian, Syriac rites etc), that however remain in full communion with Rome further emphasizes the point of closer commonality between Catholics and Orthodox.
So good!
thank you
Thank you!
Wow no more robot.
Why is Chris Langan in this playlist? As an exemplar of heresy?
7:30 he basically describes Jay Dyer followers (not all of his fans are followers)
can you detail please?
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I live in a western country, I moved recently and find myself right in front of a small Greek Orthodox church. Ever since have I been intrigued, I've often wanted to find God but was always lost in the sea of denominations and what is true, could this be God sending me a hint?
Unfortunately, I'm a really timid person, and it seems that the congregation is 98% Greek. I am scared of being an outsider, would they accept me?
Brother, you read about the disconnect with western music, and then you use that outro.
Disconnect, indeed.
Ok, why after listening to his book “religion of the future..” does this not sound like the same author. This author doesn’t even sound like he had the same beliefs that the author of “religion of the future” had.
This author says things in this book that he himself called heresy in just the last book I read!
The music at the end bro 🤦♂️
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"If you interpret Genesis absolutely literally like [Sectarians] would like to, you come to ridiculous conclusions and absurdities."
KEEP IN MIND, there are more options than saying Genesis is 100% literal or saying "this didn't happen." What happened in Genesis is historical but not literal.
Coptic Christians in Egypt are probably the closest
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Yea, that’s not what the Church of Christ is. If you claim such a thing prove why what you say is true. Pythagoras had a cult. Jim jones had a Cult. Christ has a Church.
Anyone who feels this way explain why and I’ll give you a million reason to explain why Jesus Christ isn’t a Cult leader. He’s The Son of The Living God.
Hey brother are you suspended on twitter? I was trying to contact you and the twitter link on here is to a suspended account. Are you on twitter now? Besides email and text I don’t really have anything else except Patreon, but I can’t message you there.