Went to my first Divine Liturgy yesterday. It was beautiful and incredibly different from what I have experienced before (I am an evangelical). I walked in and was so excited to see the icons and smell the incense for the first time. Glory to God for all things!

This is a great truth. Only (!) the Orthodox Church keeps producing saints. This is also why among among the heterodox and heretics the prerequisites for sainthood have been either changed or the whole idea is departed from altogether.

I would so love to visit! ☦

I wonder how many Saints have protestants produce? ZERO.

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Amen. Very edifying and encouraging ☦

These videos are a light in the midst of the darkness that surrounds us. A small request and question. What are the 20th century saints that we goc Christians should avoid? God bless 🙏☦️

Thank God for our Bishops! It’s such a blessing to have them teach us about our faith. So many converts coming to the Orthodox faith. May we be faithful to our Bishops in listening to their teachings. ☦️

Religious leaders like you are the reason parishioners stop going to church and start questioning religion . But that’s something you will answer to God for

Do you accept 39yr old workers who want to be monastics with no Orthodox experience, to live, work, and eventually take part in liturgy?

I listen to you everyday since i find your channel, recomended by my Presbiter ... Love your teaching so much. Thank you Metropolitan Demetrius.. As a new convert.. your teaching is very precious to me..❤❤❤❤

My dear father i would love to know what 20th century saints and elders, that we of the church of goc should avoid. It would really provide to be helpful for us. Amen ☦️🙏❤🙇‍♂️

So true. Thank you for your kind and wise words❤️ love listening to you!

No false union with Rome

No false union with Rome

Most Holy Mother of God and Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg the Fool-for-Christ and Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker please pray for me and help me through this trial and dilemma. I cannot do this on my own.

Most Holy Mother of God save us!

Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg the Fool-for-Christ and Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker please pray for us, guide us, protect us, and strengthen us today.

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I almost scrolled past this, fearful and resentful but i stayed to listen. Your sermon did not elicit fear like the hellfire and brimstone sermons of the Baptist Churches I attended as a child. I currently suffer from unbelief and an unwilling spirit that the Lord in His mercy showed me while praying last year. I want to trust to be willing but at the same time I'm afraid to do so. Please pray for me and other struggling with the same problem.

Help me Lord to not dwell in pain in the past and heal me please, I open up my heart, to have the mind of Christ😭Time to live 🙏🙏🥲🌺

Sometimes things in the past hurt and it's hard to move past it. Even though I prayed many times for those people and asked God for forgiveness in my heart I find myself unable to be friends with them any more because of the hurt I experienced. Am I expected to be friends with them again or is it OK to move on without that friendship?

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Hi father, is there any way to improve the audio?

Where is the line between being in a constant state of repentance for our past sins and forgetting them to look to the future?

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Orthodoxy and America do not mix

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Help me Lord I'm trapped by sin and misery I have no counterpart and I fear the judgement of the Lord but feel as if I have nothing Christ help me and please pray for me

Father why do people bring their kids there without pacifying or managing them properly?

I am consumed with guilt and shame from my past & I cannot let go of how I’m 44 and regret my whole life. And now it’s too late to change it. Really struggling with this.

Thank you, Geronda!

Lord help us protect us to focus on you, give me strength to endure, I forgive Father forgive them they know not what they do, cleanse my heart mind and soul🙏🥰🌺

Than you Father🌺🥰🙏😭😭Never in my life have I heard great wisdom, I have been so brainwashed In Protestant Bible studies yet born Orthodoxy, I searched for God since I was a little girl, but grew up under attack my entire life by evil ones. Help me Lord forgive me teach me and lead me into everlasting life. Help me endure and please heal my trauma

Thank you for this. I was awakened very unusually in the night and saw this on my computer. It was something I really need to hear right now, I just wish I could hear it better, or that someone would edit the auto-generated transcript. I can understand if sound equipment is too expensive, but, while the carpentry and art in your church is absolutely amazing, when we're trying to understand what you're saying, being able to see your lips might help us decipher the words. Despite missing what might be important parts, viewing this right now is priceless to me. Thank you.

I was venerating the myrrh bearing skull of St Sebastian of Jackson CA on Holy Ascension last week. Suddenly the scent of myrrh changed into the smell of death, of corruption. I cried out to God and the saint and the odor changed back to myrrh. This happened several times. God had given me Remembrace of Death as a Noetic gift a few Great Lents ago…do you think I should tell this to my SF? He lives far away and I can’t visit him often. I wondered if it meant that my own death is imminent… what should I do? Thank you Fathers.

Thank you fr God bless

I think it may be demonic when I get mildly annoyed when my older husband gets weak and messes up something or I get scared he’s getting old and I’ll have to do more for him etc… it starts small but it grows into a type of resentment and I lose my charity towards him… Lord of Mercy!

Please pray for me, battled these spells, suffered many years, still hanging on, one grief, one loss after another, I cannot explain it, why do I have to suffer so much, while the o godly are blessed. I am tired, exhausted , it’s hard to wrap my mind around the evil selfish users and abusers. It’s hard to live always in grief, sorrow, trying to be close to God, I am learning I should have been good to me instead of everyone else, the world will strip you, destroy you slander you and laugh at you, when you have no desire to do anything but good for them.

Thank you, I am so happy to have found these videos, Lord , lot of peace comfort healing assurance, holy is the Lord 🌺🥰🙏thank you

Thank you father for all you do ❤

Thank you fr. How can I overcome my fear of rejecting God or ending up in hell which I have sometimes. Usually this is relieved by me praying, but the fear is almost paralysing manifesting physically sometimes when it happens.

Been tormented most of my life, I love God keep going, can’t do anything without Him. While everyone else is getting blessed. Every mistake I make Is severe loss and suffering.

I'm not Orthodox, but I found this to be a wonderful and beautiful sermon. God bless!

I will regret hoping for the furure too.

Thank you Despota! I really needed to hear this. The evil one doesn’t like it when I thank God for all He allows, good,bad. Your sermons and talks keeps me going in the right direction. Glory to God for your faith. ☦️🙏☦️

Wow🙏🌺🌺thank you Father🙏🥰🌺The presents of God in you is comforting, please give me your blessing. Life people loss has done a number on me