"Confession and Depression: Finding the True Self in Christ," by Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer)

[@CarolineJoyAmico]

I love confession. It’s not easy, but I still love how clean I feel afterward.

[@birdlynn417]

I like him very much. I like his style of teaching, and appreciate all that he said. Makes me want to hear more. ;)

[@vickykentrota9031]

Thank you so much.God bless you.Love from Greece.

[@seekingtruth5637]

I was Catholic but haven't recived any of the sacraments in any form for 3 years. Been away from God for awhile, but the last few months, I started to pray again and have been looking back into the Catholic church until I came across some information on the Orthodox church and now my heart desire to be part of the true faith and to be able to go to confession hits so hard sometimes, I need to confess be cleans and give my whole heart to Christ

[@katherine3486]

Hello Seeker. So pleased to read God is warming faith within you, unto Salvation. Have you attached yourself to a parish yet? If you want to contact me with any questions, please do, and also request Catechumen program/classes from your parish. Read at least one chapter of a Gospel each day. Read the lives of the Saints, especially recent ones, and may God bless and protect you ☦📿💕👍 Also be aware the nasty one/s will try nafarious or counterfeit ways to sabotage your efforts. Stay on target ... until your last breath !!!

[@seekingtruth5637]

@katherine3486 thank you so much for reaching out, this has been a long journey for me. Sometimes having a friend that is Orthodox helps with this journey and I will be sure to respond more soon. Thank you

[@franciscafazzo3460]

I'm seeking too

[@OrthodoxStudy-xr2wr]

​@@franciscafazzo3460come home

[@philipgraybill811]

Fr. Abbott Sergius knocks it out of the park. I want to send this to everyone in my contacts. :-)

[@milebarbir6859]

God Bless you all my peoples

[@josephjenkins6693]

Lots of useful wisdom here.

[@zoethegreatfish]

Wonderful talk. Thank you Father Sergius! And thanks for posting Victor Lutes ^__^

[@Rafael_123abc]

Thank you for sharing.

[@TheRealRealOK]

Thanks for uploading this!

[@margokupelian344]

Thank you Father, I enjoyed watching your video. You are a true blessing. 🙏😇 Father, I belong to the Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) Church and I love praying the Jesus prayer, but I also love to pray the Holy Rosary bc first of all, I love our holy Mother, the Theotokos, so very much and bc I find it very inspiring. It’s a meditative prayer as you know, like Jesus’ prayer and it’s very powerful against the Evil one bc Mary is going to crush satan’s head in the end (in the book of Genesis). As you know she appears in Medjugorie every day and she asks her children to pray the Rosary for these end of times. In the apparition of Fatima she identified herself as the Lady of the Rosary. I also pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet which Jesus gave to St. Faustina in the 1930s, at 3:00 pm, the hour of Jesus’ death. It doesn’t matter what denomination I belong to. I believe that Christ’s Church is ONE and I’m looking for that glorious day when the churches will unite: unity in diversity. I don’t know if you are familiar with the messages of True Life in God that Jesus has been giving to this Greek Orthodox lady, Vassula Ryden since 1985 to this day. It’s about the unity of churches. Vatican examined her writings and did not find anything against the Churches teachings, except for some denominational differences. The website is www.tlig.org. Thank you father for feeding our minds and our souls with the heavenly manna. I did not know I should bow when praying the Jesus’ prayer. Now I know. I care a lot for priests and I pray for them every single day. They are very special, they’re anointed. They hold Christ’s body in their hands. What a bliss!

[@jecamai5401]

Thank you

[@jonathantownsend3724]

Thank you very much for this.

[@M3124-t5f]

I'm already feeling better just by listening this God sent video!

[@anthonyanthony4866]

Very nice

[@babac157]

Glory to God

[@thattimestampguy]

3:38 Authenticity 4:28 Inner Hypocrisy 4:48 The Heresy of Being Nice 5:19 Inauthentic Living creates Hypocrisy which tears us apart. 5:53 Ignoring needs. Discerning what we need and what we want. 6:34 Mistaking what we want for what we need. 7:12 Discerning Need and Want. 7:42 Becoming Understanding of The Mind of Christ ☦️❤️‍🔥 8:50 How to think 💭 9:59 Popular Culture garbage 🗑️ ideas 10:37 The Fullness of Christ is Orthodox Christianity ☦️ 11:43 Encountering and experiencing God. 12:51 Repression is not The Orthodox Way, it’s about Redirection and Reorientation. 13:21 Be angry 😠 and sin not. 😇 13:45 Be angry 😠_so_ you sin not. 😇 14:23 Difference between our needs and our wants. + Getting council ☦️🙁😇 15:03 Don’t we all need lots and lots of help. And if we can’t admit that, there’s something wrong. 16:25 Technology, used to an excessive degree, can separate us from each other. 16:45 The Devil wants to divide us and conquer us. 😈 *Confession* ☦️ 17:39 Confession is a Great Gift. An opportunity to become authentic. 18:44 Confessing, opening yourself to someone else, opening yourself to God. 19:37 Utter Transparency with one other person in this world is a big help! 20:10 Opening up, saying what’s wrong, saying what we’ve done. Freedom in transparency. 21:21 Spiritual, Mental, Emotional. 22:13 Sometimes we ourself don’t even know our own story. Authenticity makes me whole. 23:00 The journey of self-discovery is a long one. 23:42 10-minutes with God to figure out what’s going on inside my heart ❤️ + Give it time + Give it space 24:51 It’s hard work. We need to do it. In the face of fear, we have to do it. 26:22 Your story deserves to be told and only you can tell it. - In The Next life, time is no more. 27:36 Nobody in this room is ok. We all have problems - Sins - Problems - Past - Pain 28:37 Embrace ❤️☦️ of The Prodigal Son and His Father. 29:55 A Consuming Fire 🔥 30:49 Our Task is to be open to the work. If we don’t do it, it will produce depression inside of us. 32:07 Internal Ugliness 32:59 The Scary truth 😨 By thinking evil we become evil 🤔💭😈 34:12 God Help me to be nice to this person. Love Your Neighbor 34:44 ❤Will The Highest Good for those you come into contact with, even when I don’t want to. 34:36 Love: Willing The Highest Good 36:13 *Internal Disposition of how you’re singing.* 🎵 37:19 _Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives_ by Elder Thaddeus of Vatovnika 39:27 Name The Problem 41:43 My Grace is made Perfect in Weakness ❤️‍🔥☦️ 45:19 Death 💀 Corrupts Man. Death is Unnatural. Man chose to sever Communion with God. 46:27 Godly Sorrow ➡️ Repentance Wordly Sorrow ➡️ Death 💀 47:30 ☦️ Remember Me O Lord In Your Kingdom 48:54 2 Other Things: (1) Prayer 🙏🏼 a Bridge over despair. 50:47 Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy On Me A Sinner. ☦️🙏🏼 51:33 Jesus Prayer for 5 minutes. 52:20 It’s Dialoguing with God, and it’s essential to Love the one invoked. 53:05 + Gospel every day + Jesus Prayer every day As little as 5 minutes 53:58 Hesychia. Be still ❤️🙏🏼 55:27 We’re not human doings. We’re human beings. ❤ 55:59 Listening with God. Present to God. 🙏🏼❤️ 56:46 We are not our thoughts. 57:26 Disregard Sinful Thoughts 💭 if it keeps coming back, talk to your parish priest. 58:55 Become Whole 🙏🏼❤️ Bring your troubles to The Lord. ☦️🙏🏼❤️ 59:59 Talk to God more. Talk to yourself less.

[@kornelia1084]

Thank you very much, God bless you

[@alexdahn5329]

This is why Jesus said we must receive the Holy Spirit baptism. He leads us into all truth which is the peace of Jesus.

[@judyrussoniello1497]

Thank you Blessings

[@wmnoffaith1]

the entire talk I kept gazing at those beautiful icons and wondering if anyone knew whether they were Greek, Russian or what. I would like to find prints. If I could wake up to my wall looking like this it would be easier to keep Christ in my mind every minute (i am a housewife)

[@katherine3486]

Forgive me but I do wish, with the microphones then and now, a mic could be attached to clothing so everything near the camera is not interfering with so good a homily. Can the sound be split from the video or is there a better recording somewhere ?? So frustrating that he is so far away from the recorder ...? Archimandrite Zacharias book "Remember Thy first love" is worth devouring ... he told me about the 3 stages during our meeting for a word at The Monastery in Essex about 18 years ago and I never forgot ... it was such a joy to see the word made into his thesis paper, then made into a book. The point Father made about separating us from our fellows was exactly what the China virus mandate was all about, and was lies, bc the World Military Games were held in Wuhan, September, October and November 2019. .. the participants got sick and then well, and returned to their 100 plus countries and sickness from December to February gave the global nefarious agenda the excuse for separating us all. My experience confirmed the mistrust I felt about what we were being ordered to obey. PLEASE do not allow it ever again.

[@CarolineJoyAmico]

The devil divides and conquers. Good info!

[@ralph7545]

What is the name of the patron saint of depression? Video audio is really low.

[@VictorLutes]

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.

[@ralph7545]

@@VictorLutes Thank you.

[@tinapassis]

Great about repression

[@McIntyreBible]

15:31, technology can be a good thing, but it can also be a negative thing.

[@banditnip0345]

I found it hard for me to focus on what he was saying because the microphone was amplifying every little noise in the room. Like chairs moving.

[@fonsedyr]

Which book is he showing? I can't see the cover properly

[@mgkos]

Pause video & take a screen shot. “Remember thy First Love” Archimandrite Zacharias From a good Independent bookstore not Amazon or it’s subsidiary Booktopia.

[@beabichara9338]

where can we subscribe to the Mailing List Archimandrite was talking about?

[@VictorLutes]

+Bia Bichara All I can suggest is to visit their website: sttikhonsmonastery.org

[@banditnip0345]

He forgot to mention Ikea when listing the I's.

[@katherine3486]

Did he say Patron of depression St Tikhon of Zadonsk?

[@polyglossia3671]

He said he thinks St. Tikhon would be if we had a patron saint of depression.

[@wmnoffaith1]

St. Dymphna is also a patron saint of depression I'm told.

[@iliya3110]

@@wmnoffaith1 St Dymphna (pronounced Daphne...it's Gaelic) is the patron saint of mental illnesses in general, including depression.

[@svetlanabarrow6026]

Depression happens from abuse.

[@svetlanabarrow6026]

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