How C.S. Lewis and Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Shaped My Faith - Fr. Andrew Cuneo

[@gerardgrywacheski1418]

Memory Eternal Metropolitan Kallistos Ware and C.S. Lewis!! 🙏

[@jamesdiluzio9906]

Thank you for these videos. Honestly, my family is the only Orthodox family in our entire county, and when we are not traveling an hour and a half to attend our Church, I watch and listen to Orthodox content like this. Glory to God for all things. Christ is Risen!☦️

[@joanchahine]

@jamesdiluzio9906 where do you live?

[@acekoala457]

This story sounds familiar.

[@craignelson815]

Yep that’s me. I drive 2 hours to go to church. Starting to bring my mom and sister

[@elenalugos4477]

The mor you make sacrifice for Lord and His Church the mor you will grow in Holy Spirit. I remember when I came in USA ,from est Europe,to go to Church,I have take a taxi,train , subway and walk it was the happiest my time I was able to make a little sacrifice for my Lord who made for me an infinit sacrifice for me the ugly sinner. Christ is Risen !❤

[@lindaphillips4646]

​@@elenalugos4477yes! Yes! Our drive time to the Cathedral was about an hour..with no traffic.. but it was a time to let my husband read prayers, etc.. Or just think..a bit like a pilgrimage each time.. But i DO understand the problems because the time/distance limits how often one can be there. 💝📿☦📿💝☦

[@LadderOfDescent]

“Our true selves don’t come ready made. God is making our selves. He is making us into persons. Our personhood is being shaped.” Needed that one!

[@shivabreathes]

That’s awesome. I’ve always had this idea that there is a “perfect me” and the rest of me (the everyday sinful self) is just a set of imperfections that need to be cleaned away (through baptism, confession, prayer, repentance etc). It’s interesting to hear the idea that my “perfect self” doesn’t yet exist and is still being formed (by God). Taking this idea even further, since God is eternal and infinite, would we ever have a fully formed self? Wouldn’t it be an ever evolving process throughout eternity?

[@LadderOfDescent]

@@shivabreathes I don’t know for certain. My guess would be that we are truly a person when we are deified?

[@openocean09181]

What a wonderful talk from Fr Andrew

[@norala-gx9ld]

I love listening to Fr Cuneo. He seems very wise, and Orthodoxy seems very profound and very sane.

[@andys3035]

I am reading The Orthodox Church by Met. Kallistos but people at my parish have recommended his book The Orthodox Way. Thanks for the upload and great content.

[@youngkob3408]

Im finishing that book today, its pretty good, Orthodox Way next! Another good beginner book is Thinking Orthodox, I wish I read that book to inquire at first instead of going online for so much time and having to sift through orthodox and non orthodox sources

[@saosaoldian6742]

Ha I’m reading it as well

[@ThomasCYallouris]

Everything makes sense when reading The Orthodox Way

[@feeble_stirrings]

The Orthodox Way was the first book I read, nearly 20 years ago now, that kicked off my journey into the Church. I’ve read it multiple times and it will always have a special place in my heart.

[@gheiberg59]

@13:08 - yeah, Bishop Kalistos was, and still is such a transformative presence... His clear and comprehensible communications are a blessing to the Orthodox Church.

[@soniah4821]

Just to be clear the word is Nous, the Greek word for “Mind” not Noose (like rope) as spelled in the transcript.

[@joshua_wherley]

Thank you for pointing this out.

[@tylerfast106]

Considering converting. Always been non denominational Protestant leaning. Grew up in traditional Mennonite house 😅…. Not good for a rebellious soul lol. I struggle with passion and addiction like crazy. The advice and guidance I have found through some of the orthodox teachings is EXTREMELY helpful and gives me hope

[@joshua_wherley]

Good afternoon, brother or sister! Not sure which you are haha! I became Orthodox roughly seven years ago and although it has not been easy it has certainly been worth it. Take your time and keep yourself open to Orthodox Christianity 🙂

[@Benjamin-bq7tc]

My last name is Eby. Good Mennonite name. I converted back in the year 2000. Best decision I ever made. There is a way to grow as a Christian, and yet be free at the same time. The Orthodox Church has the teaching of the apostles, and the answers to spiritual struggle.

[@antenehgetnet9991]

Had you ever aspire that your channel could be heard in Ethiopia ... thx God I am getting many blessings from your channel ... God bless you. ክብር ያድልልኝ

[@FatherBasil]

The book mere Christianity started me on the path that led me to where I am today. The Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Way changed m.y perspective on what The Church is. I guess you could say the rest is history

[@MrMann-gt1eh]

Please pray for my wife to accept trying out the Orthodox Church. I’ve been trying to convince her to go for weeks but she’s so afraid of our 3 year old being obnoxious the whole time or not being trainable. She doesn’t realize we’re spinning our wheels at these non-denominational, “feel good” churches. She’s in her infancy as a Christian and doesn’t realize how MUCH catechism will teach her of this Jesus she claims to believe in or who His Father is that He Himself prayed to.

[@paulkouk6629]

Thank you for this wonderful video. GOD bless!

[@johnsiverls116]

❤❤The inner life,, sounds like developing the soul,. But we need the Salvation of the Soul . I can see it clearly.

[@rebeccaharrishunt1181]

Thank you, Father, for your ideas and guidance ... I'm in an interior place just now where I sorely need it. Thank you so much.

[@feeble_stirrings]

This is excellent, thank you!

[@johnsiverls116]

❤❤ Holiness !!! Purifying of the Soul. Stillness and Purify

[@Theoretically-ko6lr]

Glory to God ❤

[@halnicholas3791]

Amazing talk. Thank you so much.

[@mariavlahochristos7756]

Thank you Father for this wonderful reflection. As a Greek Orthodox an important question is “Που είναι το νου σου?”where is your mind.

[@Slavianophile]

​​@@LovingtheTruth856What about your biological father? How do refer to him - Parent No. 1?

[@tanyatapley2416]

"Gentle and profound way to serve God" ❤

[@gheiberg59]

Yes… thank you…

[@cfox109]

This is so beautiful

[@josephhaack5711]

Me too!

[@thinktank8286]

I would love to know more about the way between the intellectual vs emotionalism if anyone could suggest some resources books, links, etc. How to pray as an Orthodox would. Protestant Pastor who's is on the journey.

[@lancelothogben1297]

You have to go to an Orthodox Church and pray there with the orthodox believers. There is essentially no way to understand without noetic worship.

[@matthewsiahaan1312]

☦️🙏🏾

[@JamesFreeman]

I'm sad Bishop Calistos isn't around anymore 😢

[@johnsiverls116]

❤❤ But what about those in the life of Orthodoxy with families.

[@doubtingthomas9117]

@@LovingtheTruth856 I’m not Eastern Orthodox, but I’m pretty sure they preach repentance.

[@NoGreaterLove_3]

I am a bit surprised listening that this dear brother in Christ had studied within a Christian concept of schooling for a while and still didn't know about the spirit, the Nous. It is not the soul (which is emotions, passions), it is the Spirit.🕊️It does confirm that God is never found by the mind (which is intellect, thoughts) only. The soul is not the Nous. All our works are like filthy rags to God, but by working to follow the example of Jesus as set by God we are helped by the reborn Spirit (Nous) for our own sake. We are sanctified by God and led by Him. It is out of His mercy that He enables us by His Spirit to then be able to renew our soul, mind and body. The spirit, the nous is eternal which is the only aspect of us that can totally be reborn anew by the mercy and love of God and it is done so by God Himself. A new heart is another way of saying 'a new spirit'. In scripture heart is refering to the Spirit of God. The eternal Spirit of God absolutely remains untouched by the soul, mind or body but it is the means of mercy and love of God to guide us in renewal of the soul, mind and body according to God's perfect will. Because these latter things are tainted and influenced by the world in which we live. We have to renew these aspects not for God (ours are filthy rags, but God loves us so:), but He does it for us out of His mercy and Love thus we can never boast for example. It is utter humility. This is where we actively listen to the Holy Spirit and work with the Spirit of God in us to renew our mind (intellect, thoughts), soul (emotions, passions) and body. It is what makes us the children of God, and oh God is so beautiful! The path to an individual kind of holiness, 'that clean white robe' is the path of following and obeying of His Spirit, in our heart. Living by the heart is living by the Spirit of our Lord God. Everything within and by His living word which is given us, which is also in the center of us when we receive the new birth in Christ.🤍

[@lancelothogben1297]

No sorry, the spirit is πνεύμα, distinct from νους. Spirit is obviously breath (ruach in Heb.)indicating life. Nous doesn’t have an adequate cognate in English but it is found in Arabic and Persian as nāfs, where it has a somewhat negative meaning akin to what Maximos the Confessor would call the ‘gnomic will’. Orthodox spiritual science is not directly cognate with the Western European tradition, a disjunction which explains why many misunderstand Orthodoxy until they fully engage Orthodox noetic worship in the liturgical setting. It is strictly impossible to know what is meant in the written expression of theology without engaging Orthodox worship. Lex credendi lex orandi est.

[@Jimmyfitzable]

I heard these videos are made by a mere catechumen. The videos are awesome

[@Greeklady58]

​@LovingtheTruth856 Protestants please!!! Just stop

[@LovingtheTruth856]

@@Greeklady58 Protestant? I am not Protestant but born again Christian.

[@Greeklady58]

@@LovingtheTruth856 turn to Eastern Orthodox, the true faith 🙏

[@LovingtheTruth856]

@@Greeklady58 No, I will not turn to Orthodoxy, the false faith. You should turn to Christianity, the true faith.

[@Greeklady58]

@LovingtheTruth856 nothing from America is the true faith. Christ came from the Middle East, Christianity came from there. Eastern Orthodoxy, started by the Apostles as taught by Christ. Orthodox ☦️

[@Vinsanity997]

How was the first Christian to speak about the nous in the same way that modern orthodox do?

[@Slavianophile]

First Christians did not speak of many things that later theologians discourse on. They did not need to. Just like we do not talk about air until we begin to suffocate. Saint Matrona of Moscow, a blind illiterate peasant woman, was like a first Christian - she did not discuss fine points of theological theory - she just loved God, the Holy Virgin, saints, prayed to them and talked to them like to her friends or relatives. She also suffered enormously for Orthodox faith. And in answer to her prayers God worked great miracles.

[@Vinsanity997]

@@Slavianophile thank you for your comment but I am still curious about who was the first Christian to present the evangelion like a modern orthodox Christian, especially relating to the nous

[@JamesFreeman]

Without the eternal, meaning becomes ephemeral, and doubt fatal.

[@d.o.7784]

I would like to get introduced to Orthodox theology, where do i start? A book?

[@makariospaschalidi9560]

Not books brother,go to a church and ask your questions in a priest ❤

[@lancelothogben1297]

GO TO CHURCH. there is nothing that compares to noetic worship.

[@donmorrissey1453]

Wish I could go to an orthodox church, but nothing here in Ireland

[@johnnyd2383]

Belfast and Dublin have for sure...

[@lancelothogben1297]

There are Romanian , Russian parishes all over Ireland, and Coptic churches as well. Just do a cursory search on the web!

[@Saint_nobody]

【O Lord Jesus Christ, set the hearts of your priests in fire wet zealous love for You, that they may seek Your Glory; give them strength the they may labor unceasingly in Your earthly vineyard for salvation of our souls and for the glory of your All-Honorable and Majestic name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever unto she's of she's. Amen】 Brethren in Christ (sisters reading as well), salutations this fine spring Friday evening. I've been reading that (as well as others within the same burgundy book) prayer quite often in my travels recently, figure it would be only fair to share it for an actual orthodox priest (the prayer, respectfully, is given by churches I pass by on foot). Now, I go on to listen again to the Prophet, President Nelson's nose recent talk. Before I go, though, it's worth asking. Has Brother Lewis been officially canonized by the Anglicans, Catholics, or any regional holy orthodoxy yet? 🙏🏻

[@captainsleeman9787]

Candles and Saints communicate to children? What?

[@Pilgrim06]

Yes! When one has a pure heart! And lives with faith through Grace without analysing everything with the mind. That’s how St Paul walked on water until….

[@JanuarySquires]

Perhaps the tools of holiness and sanctification are closer to what you’re talking about…but the tools of salvation are believing with your heart and confessing with your mouth that Christ is lord.

[@lornadoone8887]

Hebrews 12:14 teaches that “without holiness (sanctification), no one will see the Lord.” From an Orthodox and fully NT perspective these aspects of our salvation in Christ are never divorced from one another as in modern thought. Can you imagine being “saved”, but unable to perceive the Lord? How does that work? Unless our personal “salvation” is effectively also our transformation from glory to glory in union with Christ and His death and resurrection, it seems hard to me to think of it as personal salvation in any truly meaningful sense. This does not mean Orthodox believe the working out of our salvation in Christ or our cooperation with God earns our salvation or obligates God. Our salvation in all senses is the freely bestowed gift of God. He just doesn’t force it on anyone.

[@eotpatriarchs]

I am a priest according to the order of Melchisedec. Now that I know why you are this kind of “new” Orthodox, and NOT the authentic Orthodox. It is because, as you yourself stated it in this clip, you wanted to learn about history and see where you fit. However, the REAL and GENUINE Orthodox of old was, FIRST OF ALL and BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE ALL ABOUT GOD. God planned the plan of salvation, He worked it out, He offered it to us, and He put the eternity into our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11) drawing us to HIMSELF - NOT to any of the tens of thousands of denominations and religions in the world. Now then, to make it clear, whosoever listens to that let’s call it emitter set into his heart by God, and submits to the voice of the Holly Spirit that whispers, will become A CHILD OF GOD, “born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:13), born of the very SAME God that Jesus was born of (Hebrews 2:11), by repentance, believing in the Gospel and baptized AFTER believing (Mark 16:16). But whosoever looks around with his/her own eyes as a sinner born in sin and iniquities (Psalm 51:5), will become one of tens of thousands of religions and denominations in the world, including the Orthodox one. At that time the word “Orthodox” it was not an official word. This word, Orthodox, entered in its use around year 500 (see Fr. John Anthony McGuckin, Handbook to Patristic Theology, 2004). One more thing, the Orthodoxy took its departure from its origin at no more, and no less than 180 degrees. And it is so because people looked with their sinful eyes where do they fit, in other words which denomination it will accommodate better their fleshly desires.

[@Adam_Wilde]

I know Jesus, and I obey Him who was designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. But who are you?

[@eotpatriarchs]

@@Adam_Wilde I am a priest after the order of Melchizedek, made priest by Jesus for His Father (Revelation 5:9-10). And like my Great Priest, I do NOTHING of myself as He says in John 5:19, NOTHING that comes from ANYBODY on Earth, but ONLY what the Father from Heaven tells me in His Holy Words. Now, I don’t say that I am perfect, but I talk about the way that I live. And the church that I attend it is the same, like it is specified in the Bible. What about you?

[@lancelothogben1297]

You are not a priest you are insane. Get help. Seriously.

[@lancelothogben1297]

A psychopath apparently.

[@eotpatriarchs]

@@lancelothogben1297 Prove it. But, if you don't prove it, I'm sorry, you still prove something, namely, that you are the one, by calling your own name, worths of being called as such.

[@konstantinoskalemkeridis730]

the Orthodox way?I am a Greek Orthodox and I am not seen any orthodoxy in my church special these days that anything goes like homosexuality acceptance transgender and most of my liturgy is around theotokos the panagia ever virgin save us very sad to say

[@Agenda-2016]

Be ware of unholy Ecumenism, syncretism.

[@lancelothogben1297]

Keep your paranoid maundering to Heers’ comment section. Absolutely unwelcome here!

[@lancelothogben1297]

When Fr. Andrew mentions ‘contemporary dalliance with socialism’ as though it (academic and economic-theoretical) had anything to do with XX c. Soviet and Maoist despotism is absurdly undisciplined. Outing himself as a rightwinger does not do his arguments any favor. Reassessment of socialism can be a conscientious process of solving the problems of late capitalism which is tending toward neofeudal excesses of rent-seeking in the era of high-tech oligarchy. Socialism is a totally valid alternative to serfdom.

[@almedhamorton4369]

Kallistos Ware ? unsubscribed, Thank you for exposing yourself. I thank the Lord.

[@thekatarnalchemist]

What's your problem with Meteopolitan Kallistos?

[@daphnepearce9411]

​@thekatarnalchemist There's seems to be some troll making this almost exact same fill in thr blank outrage and unsubscribe comment on different ortho videos. Ignore.

[@almedhamorton4369]

@@thekatarnalchemist kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4OYfoaip9t8qqc

[@almedhamorton4369]

@@thekatarnalchemist LGBT/Women in ministry/ Ecumenism Etc etc

[@stuckmannen3876]

@@almedhamorton4369yeah, I agree. But to be fair kallistos did not hold those views all his life... and there are lots of people influenced by him, for the better, when he actually held to the teachings of the church. Its sad that he departed from that later in his life...

[@christianclassicsongs9527]

The Catholic called in the orthodox called her, both not biblical. I don’t know of any dog by theirs. It’s in the Bible not even the Trinity is not the King James version the rest of the Bible you can throw in the garbage because they’re corrupt, but you won’t find the word even those corrupt Bible she won’t find the word Trinity definition, three persons and all this other nonsense there’s only one God his name is Jesus Jesus is the father son and the Holy Ghost Jesus said I come out of my father‘s name Jesus said if you seen me, you seen the father, Bible says for him dwell with all the fullness of the God had bodily, and you were completing him, which is ahead of all principle, and Jesus said before Abraham was I am, and when God spoke to Moses, he said that Moses, who shall I say Sammy he said say that I am but I am and Jesus said I am so which one you know Jesus is the father in the book of Isaiah John That there’s no one beside him that he’s the only savior so who’s the savior whether one in the same we have a body soul in the spirit you human being but we were one person OK and his father unholy goes in their one that’s all we’re made in the image of guy. We’re not three person even though we have a body so in the spirit so there’s one God names. Jesus Jesus said in the Bible says if you have the son you have the father also if you have not the son, not the father Jesus, the word that I speak I speak out of myself, but the father dwell in me, do it the word the God was in Christ, the body, the flesh the word made flesh the word. God made the word the world through his word through Jesus through the word the word was made flesh and it is beautiful. There’s no three persons like the three amigos, you know what I mean

[@lancelothogben1297]

Another lunatic.