Conversations: Fr. Peter Heers | WAWTAR

[@heavythingslightly]

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[@living_orthodox]

I was raise evangelical Protestant. Thank God my whole family converted to Orthodoxy with me.

[@Beta-XYZ]

A orthodox Romanian here I pray that our Lord Iisus Christos for his holly mother prayers keep you and your family healthy in body and spirit, amen!!

[@DouglasHorch]

This needs to be an ongoing series. Who else makes Fr. Heers laugh?

[@ciaranmurphy6618]

It's his brother, he knows the Father best, lol.

[@parkermize]

I know. Makes me miss hanging out with my brother.

[@G.TheGreek79]

Agreed! Enjoyed this video very much!

[@nbinghi]

It's wonderful to see Fr Peter laugh!

[@ladydiblu1]

❤lol

[@ChristIsKingPhilosophy]

I absolutely ove the brotherly team-up. We want more of this!

[@cyndibee2289]

There are people in my everyday life, not online, who tell me I shouldnt listen to Fr Peter. I just laugh, hysterically, everytime. Of course I'm gonna listen to Fr Peter. He lead me to Orthodox Christianity. Thank God for Fr Peter!! 😄

[@OrthodoxHSMother]

My Spiritual Father gave me a blessing to follow everything Father Peter Heers does. His Spiritual Father is on Mt. Athos and gave him a blessing.

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

AMEN!

[@vanessac.7040]

Amen!☦️💕

[@garthhunt7238]

In the comments section of another video (Orthodoxethos) I asked Father Peter if he would openly discuss his standing, wondering where his jurisdiction was and who his Bishop was. This video explained the situation nicely, and I am very appreciative of that! Father Peter’s videos along with Fathers Tryphon and Spyridon, and other videos on Orthodoxy have all contributed to my decision to convert from Roman Catholicism to Orthodoxy. I very much appreciate them all! And I wish them all the very best of everything, whatever struggles and adversities may come their way! Again, many thanks to these Fathers for giving it to us straight, without the evil b.s. of ecumenism!

[@feeble_stirrings]

I'm only about 15 minutes in, but this is great. Love to see the laughter and brotherly love between you two. It's cool to see a slightly different side of Fr. Peter.

[@stavrouladeessegloria]

Christ is risen ☦️ May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️ Thank you very much for this talk!

[@normadaly7506]

I thank God for you father. Lord help us

[@MrRickkramer]

A little brotherly tease now and then adds character. It’s nice to see Fr. Peter in a familiar setting.

[@agiasf7330]

And please have Fr Peter on more often!

[@Brad-RB]

I'm not Orthodox, and I subscribe to Orthodox Ethos.

[@Livingtabitha]

Man I love FrPeter so much! Just warms my heart.

[@Ria-df3hp]

I too love Fr.Peter so much...now even more with another side of him that I have not been privy to

[@npopm]

The best conversation! You know why? You talked like I imagine brothers should. Glory to God! It's like a balm on my own family wounds! You encourage me to try.

[@william_02]

Amen!

[@TechnoirGraphix]

Fr Peter was super integral to me joining the Orthodox church 5 years ago. 3 years later after being baptized & I can say, I'll never abandon our Lord Jesus Christ & Holy Orthodoxy. God bless you men.

[@geoffrey7656]

Awesome! Thank you Father! Thank you John! Loved it! Laughed to tears!

[@OrthodoxHSMother]

The exercise part had me laughing so hard that I was crying.

[@agiasf7330]

Great show. Thank you for doing this, John.

[@jessicabutler195]

I was listening to this while at the gym and kept laughing out loud at these two! ☦️❤️

[@basilp5179]

Great interview!

[@ronwood788]

Love to see the brothers talk. Awesome to see this, thank you, John! Thank you, Father!

[@Athonite]

Wonderful. These men are so similar, yet very distinct, and it shows even in the wardrobes! Fr. Peter's monochromatic cassock vs. John's multicolor arrangement. No-rim eyewear vs. thick-rim eyewear. Great video.

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

The part about the Holy Spirit guiding us before we become Orthodox from the OUTSIDE is key in helping me understand all the paths I followed in ignorance for decades! It took decades of searching for truth but He guided me! And now He’s guiding me from the INSIDE! Glory to God!

[@oboroth51]

What a great duo!

[@parkermize]

I really appreciate you having your brother on again. I love the dynamic yall have.

[@johndannenbrink7590]

I knew when I saw the Brewers hat I was in the right place

[@RealPigeonTalk]

Listened to this twice today, God bless you both.

[@doorman360]

The new music is a big improvement. Well done.

[@Theoria]

Enjoyed this video of Fr Peter and his brother just talking

[@pah9730]

That is good.

[@nathanwoodsy]

Man, I love these brothers.

[@genemyersmyers6710]

This was a good one alot of fun laughing.

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

We were supposed to go to Georgia last Bright Week but it wasn’t time…Pilgrimage to Georgia led by you two!! Yessss 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🌟

[@heavythingslightly]

This is a good idea

[@cindymoran8203]

✨️ Edifying Educational Entertaining✨️ Encore, please!

[@davidtreebeard1787]

Background looking sharp, John!

[@1bonatsos]

God Bless 🙏☦️

[@JAMESKOURTIDES]

10:00 My family is from Halkidiki. Been there many times unawares until relatively recently of the significance of the Holy Mountain in our back yard.

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

This was such a great conversation! Thank you and come see us John….HEERS! 🤣🙏🏻🥰☦️

[@Orthodoxi]

Father Peter just yesterday did a podcast on the Divine Liturgy and some of the documented miracles our Fathers and brethren have experienced. During the reading Father Peter was chanting a bit. The doors of heaven were opened for us, in those moments in the middle of the podcast, reliving the miracles. Unless i am delusional. Probably that. But maybe he actually can open the doors for us. Can you believe it? But don't tell anyone. Christ is risen!

[@Orthodoxi]

Btw John, why aren't you a Father of the Church? I find that very perplexing. Oh well, forgive me please.

[@agiasf7330]

​@D. Anna D'S , where can we hear Fr Peter's podcast on the Divine Liturgy that you mention above?

[@paulrenenichols]

Love this

[@G.TheGreek79]

Thank you for this interview. I thoroughly enjoyed it and truly wished it was longer. The love that you both share for each other creates an amazing atmosphere. I could listen to Father Peter talk for hours. He has been a constant voice in my life over the last year, and with God's grace, that will continue. As a cradle Orthodox, it wasn't until about a year ago that I realized how much I truly did not know about our faith. Father Peter has played a pivotal role in my spiritual growth. I will always have a place in my heart for him. He led me to the amazing contemporary saints, and I have been nourished beyond comprehension! Thank you, Father, for all the hard work and all the time that you put in to edyfing the faithful! May The Lord shine His face brightly upon you and your family!

[@jeffblanro7952]

Awesome

[@michaelbarber5633]

It was great to see the familial banter and background. Thank you for this! And you guys keep in touch with each other more lol.

[@danielrivera4651]

FTF/OE collaboration sounds awesome !!!

[@eliascalisto7247]

I would love to go to this event in November

[@ronwood788]

I’m from Wisconsin, but apart from family and my “up north” cabin culture the Serbian and Sheboygan’s Greek community is mostly what culture in Wisconsin is for me now.

[@Ella-e7n]

St Sava Cathedral is breathtaking! Rural Wisconsin is beautiful too.

[@rhahnabunaid]

This was a lot of fun, thank you.

[@dirtpoorrobins]

FYI You guys are taking me with you to Mt Athos

[@heavythingslightly]

Neil!

[@agiasf7330]

We are we surprised that Babylon does not want to hear & doesn't want anyone to hear anyone relaying what our Saints have said?

[@genemyersmyers6710]

Fr. Peter we have to talk.

[@Ria-df3hp]

So awesome...interesting... enlightening...I wasnt sure what i thought about john...listened to a few discussions because people he had as guests... familiar Orthodox people...i found it interesting john's last name ..so finding this interview with my very favorite Fr.Peter....absolutely so wonderful...i cried thru most of it...because it was so wonderful

[@richardsz9099]

great

[@Livingtabitha]

You like starting stuff 😊

[@thisisgeorge2117]

Hahaha! He turned the car too fast. I experienced a bit of this with him over in Greece. Wow! It started early.

[@OrthodoxHSMother]

GEORGE!

[@thisisgeorge2117]

@@OrthodoxHSMother fancy meeting you here 😆

[@EOShorts]

How often do you come to Minneapolis? Great talk 🙏🏽Love you both.

[@Stephanie-el4sx]

You came to minneapolis?! I wish I would have known! 😩

[@auroravirgen6525]

❤

[@Ag-wu4mi]

Is it possible that Father Peter Heers is right about the dangers of secularism on Orthodoxy

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

John Heers when you gonna visit us? The St Silouan ROCOR monastery will be turning into a women’s monastery very soon (part of the property) Lord willing! I can’t say details yet but it’s going to be very exciting! You will see!

[@heavythingslightly]

You guys want to throw a Georgian Supra?

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

@@heavythingslightly sure! But I need to know exactly what that is! You definitely can stay in our 40 foot RV (nice one!) and we must take you to meet Mother Catherine at the new ROCOR women’s monastery. The church is being painted and flooring going in soon! It’s still not being publicized much… come!

[@Hannah-if3cn]

Mr. Heers, l would love to know where your restaurant is located. I am often in South Carolina.

[@heavythingslightly]

So sorry so long ago... I hope you get this: Greenville SC, Hampton Station. Keipi. See you there!

[@orthobro4806]

☦️☦️☦️

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

I love Mothra! My dad raised me on all those movies and all Christopher Lee Dracula movies!

[@parkermize]

There's always a second time for everything😂

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

I feel like you guys are from NY too! I actually am! I’m a Bronx baby! RC parents met at Fordham… then threw their faith away and destroyed our family after they hit Berkeley in 1964🤦🏻‍♀️

[@heavythingslightly]

Ouch. But New York is the jam!

[@FirstnameLastname-py3bc]

For some reason they look alike...

[@living_orthodox]

It’s almost as if they’re…brothers? ;)

[@RandallSGregory]

@@living_orthodox waiting for the window story

[@parkermize]

31:33 100%

[@Aquaticphilosophia]

Lol. That hat contrasted with your brother

[@MrTadfortitude]

Dude I can't believe it, Father Peter was an actual person once LOL

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

I have the ear ringing thing… it’s like a train going through my head from left through to the right… it’s weird. I just pray it’s not the sound of brain cells dying….🙏🏻

[@genemyersmyers6710]

Fr. Peter did you meet Joe Shiedler ?

[@pah9730]

Yes! Indeed. I invited him to our events, spoke with him together at events, and joined him in Chicago for events. Beautiful soul.

[@RedShnow]

Where can I find this Lidometer test it looks like something invented by John right?

[@heavythingslightly]

Invented never. Scientifically born from a primal truth sludge. Here you go first-things.org/lightometer

[@stavrouladeessegloria]

People here in Bali are for worldly pleasures ...

[@Theoria]

“Let’s talk.” I’ve asked Fr Peter to talk personally 6-7 times now. One time I called him. And he hung up on me after I said “Hello Fr Peter, this is Ben how are you”… so… there’s that.

[@Theoria]

@@pah9730 Hello there - there was no bashing. Simply a reflection on what had happened. As for being polemical, I've not called for deposition, etc. if I have then I certainly do not remember but I'm fairly certain this is incorrect. That said, one could argue that your own work is "polemical" - and so the yard stick you're using is a double standard here.

[@Theoria]

@@heavythingslightly that’s the point. I called bc I thought a private call would do good.

[@Theoria]

@@heavythingslightly I believe if you were to look at my work you will find your answer.

[@paisios2541]

Ben don't pretend like you haven't behaved in a totally deranged and obsessive way towards Fr Peter. You've posted private information about his kids on your Twitter, you've made fun of Fr Peters physical appearance. You've attempted to dig into every possible aspect of Fr Peters personal life to post "dirt" about him online. You did delete some of these posts and you did well to do that, but you need to take a look at yourself my brother.

[@Theoria]

@@paisios2541 I do not recall posting anything about his kids. I posted a photo of his beard I believe, with no comment? That is the extent of it.

[@davidtreebeard1787]

You guys have the same parents or what?

[@ivansince91]

Yes they are brothers.

[@strugglingathome]

Lol this question made me laugh

[@davidtreebeard1787]

@@ivansince91 Lol, I know. It's great how the similarities accentuate the differences

[@thisisgeorge2117]

Plug into the mushroom/fungus train. 😆

[@genemyersmyers6710]

We did a lock and block her in Col. OH.

[@pah9730]

When was that?

[@KingPhilipF]

More again.. Fr Peter is...human?...weird warm fuzzy.. not sure. Lend little bro some beard.

[@soare5182]

Fr. Peter, your tinnitus may be caused by a vitamin b12 deficiency.

[@Hannah-if3cn]

People think you are with GOC because you live part time in Greece and the time near St. Anthony's.

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

Ya, growing up in Berserkly was insane… I got arrested at SUNY Stony Brook for helping lead a strike for higher stipends! Not as noble a cause as yours!

[@alephzahir5608]

Pontius Pilates lol

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

You’re a wannabe Athonite like I was a “wannabe nun”! My hubby the former Deacon calls me that. Lol

[@StephSchLDD]

Since you cracked the door open, why did the big O guy in Jerusalem provide the oil for the King thing if O people think the C o E people are heretics? That has been boggling my mind a bit. I get he has some Greek genes, but still, it seems odd to me. Too much wine involved in that decision???

[@edwardkay999]

You're not going to believe this, but wait until you hear about what O people's savior did for heretics!

[@StephSchLDD]

@@edwardkay999 Silly me! Where I come from O people simply throw superb food festivals and other than that I'm clueless as to what O people do to heretics.

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

Wait!…..Like It’s ok to be goofy as an ascetic struggler???? Thank you Jesus!

[@SM-oe2po]

His tactic is to call it slander when someone says he has no bishop and is not a priest according to Holy Canon. Game the system to remove the comment.

[@pah9730]

Your tactic is the continuing slander. It’s not true.

[@OrthodoxEthos]

You are slandering him. NO ONE says he is not a priest according to the canons. The communique doesn't say that. Read it again. And stop slandering a priest. Bad idea.

[@SM-oe2po]

He may be a priest but not in the Orthodox Church. That is not slandering.

[@pah9730]

@@SM-oe2po Sin upon sin you heap on your head. Of course, he’s in the Orthodox Church. No one denies this.

[@SeraphimGoose]

Evil.

[@OrthodoxInquirer]

32:55 Fr Peter, I think people have told you what's wrong. You've told people they missed out on something if they were Chrismated instead of rebaptized. I think the Bishops have all balked at the fact that you are commenting on things that are outside your perview, and won't stop even if it's causing spiritual problems for people. I'm giving you another chance because I want to like you and especially want to forgive you, but I am still hurt. A friend of mine left Orthodoxy for the RCC and said it started with the comments you made at retreat you gave. I could see my mom's negative perspective on Orthodoxy after that retreat. If she had been there, it would have been the end of any hope I had of her becoming Orthodox. I went from loving everything about Orthodoxy to seeing every flaw and it feeling very cliquish and small. Your topic was asceticism but you just kept saying everyone else was a heretic and laughing at other Christians. I wish you could see this is a problem instead of constantly defending it. I'm still here listening and trying to forgive or see if it's something in me. I think people who come from Protestantism and Catholicism have a real issue with your hardness of heart towards how Christ has interacted with them in their lives, and you refuse the moderate yourself at all just because you quote some Church Fathers speaking at the time of the schism or something. Saying someone can't have the Holy Spirit without an EO baptism just flies in the face of people's personal experiences.

[@wisewomanhealing]

Peter Heers as been declared uncanonical by the bishops. You know the people we all took a vow of obedience to when we were baptized? We are instructed not to listen to him or read his writings. So, if you are Orthodox you are in disobedience to the bishops. And no, I did not listen to the interview. You popped up in my feed. This is going to be remedied.

[@charmormorr7719]

Two of the most lovingly Orthodox people I know. Would those bishops be the cowardly souls who closed our churches and kept us from communing with our Lord? Christos anesti!!!

[@Orthodoxi]

In heaven there do not seem to be any bishops. Only Fathers. But i could be wrong.... of course. God help us either way.

[@joseonwalking8666]

This is utterly false. Every Bishop involve agrees that Fr. Heers is a canonical Priest. They dusagree with who he falls under and are working to rectify this issue.

[@JaguwarSims]

Mostly this us just a conversation between brothers. Even if this were true, which it's not, you have deprived yourself from real and genuine conversation. Fr Seraphim would have much to say about this, I think

[@heavythingslightly]

@@charmormorr7719 Chucky!

[@Hannah-if3cn]

Mr. Heers, l would love to know where your restaurant is located. I am often in South Carolina.

[@Ella-e7n]

Greenville SC, Keipi Restaurant 💚