We were once young too father. We also suffered the vices of the generation before us. The history is not history, the history is the present of the future.

GOD Bless You✝️ Father Seraphim always beautiful words from the heart🙏🕯️

What beautiful and harsh truth, let our LORD JESUS CHRIST ✝️ guide all parents and families to LOVE as GOD LOVES THE WORLD✝️🕯️🙏❤️📿🕊️😭😢

Truly He is risen! Thank you Father!!

I turn 22 in 10 days. And im giving up on the world. Ive failed to find guidance. From my parents or so called teachers. Jesus is my father, and my teacher. he Is the only one that has ever truly been there. And my belief in him is the only reason im alive. I wouldn't see any reason to carry on without him

Father Seraphim, Ever since I have adopted Orthodox faith and practices, I have struggled a whole lot. It just gets worse and worse. I am always struggling about blasmephous thoughts and lustful thoughts to everything holy. Saints, the Theotokos, Christ, and the Apostles. I can't talk to my spiritual father because he is too busy, give me your blessing. It's hard living in the West, pray for me Father. Your retched sinner, ~Hendrick Smith

Thank you father for inspiring us.

This would seem to coincide with the height of the Dal Riata.

Being a young person trying to live a wholesome, loving, Christian life, has been hell for EVERY generation. This world is the Devil’s playground - an open air prison where we are born and preyed upon every minute of every day.

'When we knock we know that Christ will answer. Prayer is hard'. Bless you Father for this wisdom. When I was a young adult, my prayer became an obsessive, repetitive daily ritual that caused me angst. I realized somehow that there was more, that Christ should be there in the centre. Just now I am gradually finding my path to Christ. 🙏🙏🙏

Please make a video about our responsibilities in making Disciples and Spreading the Gospel. Thank you 🙂 I want to add that I find you to be the best teacher, that I have ever known & you are a true blessing for me ❤

I agree in part. Certainly we repent. I must tell you that mothers block most of the present age confusion. Included are gender identity, philosophy of life with Christ as prophet only, prayer, acceptance of sin. All the confusion is eliminated on a practical basis. We don’t accept the woke agenda or ideas, we fight against the pending slavery of humanity thru technology etc. Repent yes but remember the mothers. Blessings 💖🌷

I am at the beginning of my journey. I am discovering Orthodoxy. I suffer often from pride and despondency. Your words, Father, guidance and love in Christ, are so helpful, strength to us all. Christ is the Light of World 🙏🙏🙏

Im 18 , extremely interested in orthodoxy because i was non denominational and since watching orthodox videos became much more spiritual , but i also dont want to convert just because of my feelings so can anyone give me some sources as to explain why orthodoxy is the original historical church founded by Christ?

Thank you so much for this message. I’m 24 and this speaks so much to the betrayal I feel from not only the world which is expected but from an older generation of so called Christian’s that live a counterfeit Christ-less life and pass it as the real thing while boasting in themselves and condemning the young beaten sheep looking for comfort and the bread of life which they themselves don’t live on so of course they can’t lead them to the spiritual nourishment found in the blood of Christ.

I have an idea on how to turn things around for the young so that they may become what they should be. But it is for god to help me do so.

Father, it really pains me to say I've never heard anything like this before. I hear over and over how it's the easiest and best time to be alive in all of human history and that us who are young ought apologize for being so ungrateful and such time wasters. The expectations are immeasurably high, yet never communicated to us. "You have so much information in the palm of your hand, use your phone for something useful", but how will we know where to even begin looking without being pointed in any direction? Older people are dumbfounded when kids don't know anything when they themselves failed to teach something. Things generally don't just fall into place, the world isn't a happy accident as most people seem to believe these days. If you as a parent fail to instill your values, you've given the rights to do so to someone else. People will absorb their views from somewhere, so we cannot be surprised when no one remains like a blank slate. For previous generations it may have worked well enough to just outsource the teaching of values to the broader society, while there was still slightly more social cohesion. These days much more fringe and evil views are not only normal on a massive scale, worse niche versions of those evils are more readily available online. Either this lost generation finally takes a step in the other direction and learns to love our children, or we keep repeating the same neglect until the generations of it collapses under its own weight. However poorly we've been treated and however little we've been left, let us not be bitter, but always ready to accept an apology. If it never comes, don't be sad about it. We'll in a sense have to reinvent the wheel whether or not we get an apology. Running to the Church will be essential for anyone wanting to escape the trap. Christ is the only way

Please pray for me a sinner 😢⚘️☦️🙏🫂❤️

Do you have a video about physical illnesses and a positive message towards it ? I have many illnesses including allergy to the sun light on my face due to getting burned from lazer hair removal (because I was suffering from cysts because of in grown hairs)and now uv rays blister and burn my skin in an instant . I have kids to raise and its very hard to help my mother and to live a normal life, going out side , church, and getting errands done and to help with other stuff. Im stuck shaving and plucking with severe infections and skin tears everyday , hot sensitive skin, and red and now I have alopecia and I had to almost shave my hair off and I feel disgusted due to the hair loss and weight gain and not looking or feeling feminine. I have had high cortisol problems from a baby and meds made me more sick. I had to stop. (Im a single mother too) also I have a really bad injury in my c section stitches that im 💯 percent sure of which doctors cannot detect. I struggle with mental illness, and its a daily struggle between not wanting to live and wanting to be thankful at the same time. I want to get well for my children . Please pray for me. I really need some spiritual advice. Even if I pray or try to be positive and listen to holy chanting and videos or read saint stories I find myself unwell . (Also cannot sleep at night ).

You are speaking truth. I have been aware of this and Im living in repentance. I grieve and cry daily. No blaming, shaming, judging. Please pray for my adult children.

Bless you too

Love you so much! I messaged you on Facebook. God bless you and your holy work!

Thank you so much for your ministry.

I do agree father with all my heart that repentance is more then important to escape our imperfect human vunerability which is sin in comparison with our Heavenly Father. And yes older generations have sown the seeds that they and their childeren are reaping. But let us not forget that religious leaders have scared the hell out of people so much that in the sixties people escaped through hindoeism,LSD and the beatles etc out of the soficating religion dogma's.. Untill today i hardley ever hear any church denomination explain what Jesus Christ meant when he said IAM the LIGHT of life and the light to the world..untill i heard a orthodox father speak about Christ the uncreated light i was still in ignorance despite the fact that i loved Jesus without being able to explane my love for him as a child then born an raised as a muslim. Lack of knowledge leads often to frustration anger etc..and the new age spirit who told all who where and are desperate enough that we are our own god..Not realizing that no one can be light without the light.. Taking responsability - through the realization that God is allmighty and that we have a choice to choose between christ and satan, and yes the enormous challenge as mortal being where the mortal is abused to devour our spirit by repenting it is so, so so true.. But what iam missing i your message is how this is going to truly empower the ypung and the old.. Because while you are speaking about repentance i hear the message of shame and guilt for the choices the older generations made based on their circumstances..Can you see how that is not going to delivere a yond of us? Making victims out of the young is not a very assuring voice let alone an empowering one... Gods grace i believe is the power to prefend us just from getting trapped between guilt , blame shame and despare making us more and hopeless more powerless Trust me when i say thay i respect you father Seraphim..and i see your love and you move my heart..At the same time i see your pain for a suffering humanity a suffering creation. But i am asking is your pain/ suffering guilt and or christ compassion?. The line in the spiritual realm is very very subtle..But a good and sound measure is this:Guilt is not healing it drowns us making us more desperate more powerless genuine heartfelt remorse and repentance will deliver us and we will rejoice in the bliss of Gods light Jesus Christ while we are in the body of flesh..If not Jesus would not have into the material world ..Iam talking about the bliss of his divine being above and beyond material circumstances... Truly not ever desiring to hurt nor desrepect you or Christ Jesus, i love you and surely love My lord and Saviour beyond words and thoughts can express.. I found so much strenght and home in orthodox church throygh the internet it brought me out of religious wilderness.. But i have a very hard time reading anything else but guilt and blame in your message. It is stronger then your attempt to make me understand the power and importance of true remose and repentance.. Let not your suffering drown you i guilt.. and despare father..you have do much love in you to conquer that robbing force suffering that robs you of your power and strenght is NOT compassion...See what the darkness is doing to you and the may of us..by making us believe that... May nothing but the uncreated light of Jesus Christ be yours for ever and unto the ages of ages...🌷

Thank you dear father! Indeed , Christ is risen!! Wish you lots of happiness and health! Please also pray for my health and to recover! ❤

Christus is opgestaan.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. - Revelation 18:4 The only future I see is leaving the cities, leaving the developed areas and building a humble environment to raise a family elsewhere. Maybe I'm wrong but with the sheer levels of greed and usury choking the young, I'm not sure what else can be done. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

Christ is Risen! The happiest, most blessed time of the year are those 40 days after Pascha Sunday

If I cannot see Christ in my own former/continuing to be in the public according to some my husband almost always not present before me then for sure there is something seriously wrong with me. Christ in the sense of unity in purpose while following Jesus. We remain friends in a very limited sense. Very strange is putting that situation of ours mildly too.

Yes, yes, dear Father. I love this struggling lot of kids. I feel I have fallen very short in my response to their needs.

Thank you very much, father. I became orthodox chrisian at 25, it was a special grace of God, because since then i have been struggling to become a christian despite the church and not through the church. The terrible desire of controling people in the church, killing their individual gifts, given them by Christ, is a real hell. My two sons , who are now 19 and 25 do not want to be in the church, there is nothing there to inspire them, nothing to show them the Light. I am trying to become this source of light. May the Lord help me. Please pray for my sons, Adam and Seraphim. Both of them were born by a miracle.

I tell my daughter who is 21 that from 18 to 32 are the hardest years of your life. I'm Gen X for reference - we had no guidance and that decade - for many of us was lost in drugs and despair....I love my Gen Z child and recognize that the Boomers sucked the marrow our of the bones of prosperity in the west....with no responsibility towards the younger generations. (We Gen Xers are typically ignored which suits us just fine) The Boomers with their feminism and sexual revolution Beatles vibe are rarely aware of the trauma left in their trail. Lord have mercy on me as I move towards a forgiving heart towards the Boomers. Pray for me, a sinner. ☦️

May Paradise consume you Father. Thank you for the encouragement

It’s much easier to forgive those who are older than us when we see how the evil one hides the brokenness of The World. If they are unaware, and do not believe in Christ, they never stood a chance. Lord have mercy on those who are ignorant, they do not know what they are doing. Bless them instead! ❤️

Thank you Father Seraphim, ☦️🙏

Dear Father, I am the mother of 2 daughters and I have very often come to the same conclusion - we have messed it up not our children. Nonetheless I can rarely find enough love to understand them entirely and I find myself complaining very often. Să ne trăiești, Părinte!

I’ve told people older than me this very thing for most of my life. I felt like I was just hateful or disrespectful for calling out the lack of responsibility of the boomers, who ruined the world then blamed their kids for failing to succeed in trash/clown world. Thank you so much for saying this. Through the prayers of all the saints, Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy of the boomers and let the repent, and have mercy on their children and let them survive the world the boomers created ☦️ Edit: I wrote the comment within the first few sentences of the video. When you called the boomers to repentance, I started crying. I don’t want to be overly harsh, but my wife and I work 120 hours a week combined at harder jobs that take much more skill and study and training than anything either of our parents did, and only the man of the house worked for them- 40 hours a week at most, and we still can’t afford a house or children. We’re slaves to pay for their Hawaii vacations and booze cruises- yet they blame us. They kicked us out at 18, but they want to be taken care of when they’ve blown our inheritance and sold back their house to the bank through a reverse mortgage. I only know a few people that have relationships with their sibling that have meaning because most of their “siblings” were newly added to the family through divorce and remarriage a year or two before they moved out of the house. Some of my childhood friends get new brothers and sisters every few years, and the other family relations get cheapened as a result. It’s so hard to forgive them and not be angry. God have mercy on us all.

17:19 This is a sign from God, Father Seraphim is the embodiment of the Holy Spirit. I was just thinking about how to describe father Seraphim with one word, with one rule, and the word 'do not judge' came to my mind. And the next second Father Seraphim said it.

You are not harsh, you radiate love and your words are felt deeply every time

I love you

As a 50 year old man who never really figured things out himself very well, this talk really helped for me to grant grace to those young people. I never baptized my kids. I feel I robbed them of the tradition of growing up under the church, any church, I never instilled any connection to God, any tradition of Christ, and for that I feel so much shame. There are scores of young adults who were never exposed to the idea of God and they are supposed to have any moral compass? All I gave them was scientism, liberalism, and ego-maniacal reliance on self. Thank you so much for this talk.

As a young person that I am, I can say that if you are with Christ, life for me is not hell. Of course there are many struggles, many....but Christ fulfills my heart. My trust in Him. Also, my spiritual father and my spiritual friends helps me to feel that we are all a family.

Thank you Father, I finally feel understood, converting to Orthodoxy and trying to be decent has been the most difficult thing. Lord Have Mercy on us all 🙏 May The Lord reward you 🙏

Father Seraphim, I thank you for all your videos. I watch them from Australia and have got my young sons watching your channel also. Thank you for helping us to understand how to keep God closer to us. May God continue to bless you and your fellow monks at Mull monastery. 😊

Amen

Father can you Share with us your Past Experience with Our Lord Jesus Christ , Thank you Father for everything you do .

Thank you Father this is beautiful!

What a powerful message thank you

It hursts to hear this message. I did talk down to my boys many times before they turn 20. Specifically when I see them playing games over & over again. My younger one is 23 & in depression. Lord Jesus have mercy on me. I wish I had known better 😢. Thank you Fr.Seraphim for this message 😔