CHRIST CALLS TO THE VERY DEPTHS OF OUR DARKNESS

At the beginning of Bright Week, the choirs of wild birds sang out as I recorded this homily.
Christ is risen!

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[@DAKneesy]

Thank you Father...❤

[@stephentallerico-mg5wr]

I love Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan. You and your videos give me momentary peace in these troubling times. Thank you Father

[@KateKing217]

Just finishing reading the Aliens 👽 one 🤣🙏🏾✨❤️‍🔥

[@kbeetles]

If the birds can call us to joy and cheerfulness and the call of the lamb in the background can call us to peace and love, Christ's voice can call us to life! Hallelujah!

[@scottheld4837]

Beautiful singing indeed. ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

[@senu2053]

God’s Love is self evident 🙏🏽

[@KateKing217]

Praise Him and Amen 🙏🏾

[@olgapedinski6115]

This Orthodox perspective is what the western world lacks. I feel like an alien in the West because I try to live as a Christian.

[@OrthodoxChristian809]

You're not alone in feeling this. Run to Christ as fast as you can ☦️🕊️🙏 we'll be okay in the end ☦️

[@BlackBeardedDuck]

You’re not alone brother. It’s a test to see if we’re loyal enough to our religion.

[@fasustinasmith5414]

Dance for Joy....!!! Who wants to fit in this this "West" trash..

[@mrbuttercup37]

You have to go back.

[@dennisthurman2070]

It's hard I know brother

[@The_Honcho]

It’s amazing how one day you can feel as lifted and holy as a monk, but the next day you feel like you’re almost Judas…and getting out of that hole is a lot harder than it was to fall into. Please pray for me brothers and sisters.

[@darknessinthesun2698]

So true… I sinned and I’m paying with my health. My wife is watching me suffer and it’s hard… Thank you Christ for calling me out from the depths of darkness.

[@ozhunter6708]

None of us can do it alone that's why we need Yeshua to plead on our behalf to the father. We are all filthy and unworthy but rest assured we have been saved from the lamb. Praise Yah whenever you feel unworthy or going to do something dumb.

[@Jesusoverworldly]

I prayed ❤

[@alexandrasymeon5893]

Truly He is Risen!

[@chocolateneko9912]

Christ is King, King of all Kings! ❤️☦️

[@andrewm9221]

Воистину Воскресе!

[@EC66OK]

This resonates so deeply, Father Spyridon. Christ called me out of the depths of 56 years of darkness and death last summer. My wife and I just celebrated our first Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha as Catechumens. Truly, He is risen!!!

[@cyprianofantioch]

Glory to God! ☦️

[@alan-muscat]

Alleluia!

[@katherine3486]

Alleluia !!! May God be glorified in you both !!!

[@orthodox1717]

Glory be to God!! ☦️

[@suzannelove5147]

Christ has TRULY RISEN !!! Alleluia !!! Alleluia!!! Thank you for your informative and Christ-centered videos!!!

[@lukelucas9264]

He is risen indeed.

[@blu9371]

Hristos a inviat!

[@tsarpete02]

CHRIST HAS RISEN CHRIST HAS RISEN CHRIST HAS RISEN On this Great and Important Sunday , I wish to send you a message. HAPPY EASTER Father Syridon and to your family as well. Please keep doing these videos, they make me stop and think about what has been said, also how to be a better orthodox Christian. God Bless Слава Богу

[@TheRaFhone]

INDEED HE HAS RISEN!

[@Rabbitburnx]

SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS.... "THE LORD IS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE"

[@expat2023]

Воистину Воскресе!

[@elizantoinette]

Lord Jesus Christ Son Of God have Mercy on me a sinner

[@1PlainOne]

My first remembrance of someone dying “for what”??? Many years ago I was driving, approaching a funeral home as people were attending. I remember being stopped in traffic, I’m guessing there was a red light. But suddenly it was as if I was a part of the service, but why? I found myself terribly disturbed that this man’s funeral was full of people’s accolades. But there was no reference to life eternal. Right there I was thrust into being exceedingly sorrowful. And my tears were screaming to God to not let this be, to cause it not to be a hell bound service…”just make sense of it all”. And then it happened, what I knew to be a beautiful sun shiny day turned into a monsoon…God’s tears. Right there I realized that I couldn’t come close to being as sorrowful about this man as God was. Then I was back to myself as the rains continued to flood the streets, no one was going anywhere. And then it stopped and the sun shined forth….and my heart was made to receive of Him a place to go to in Him, and I’m still learning how to do that. Love and Peace to all, for Christ’s sake….Be thankful for the Holy Spirit. Have a grateful day. ( forgive me for any typos)

[@onmountaintime5637]

I have truly died spiritually and need to be resurrected like Lazarus, thank you father!

[@jacqueschauvin1398]

Amen. Lord Jesus have Mercy

[@jacqueschauvin1398]

@onmountaintime Amen All of us have sinned. Lord have Mercy on us

[@ObiDaveKenobi5587]

I'm a committed evangelical, yet I super enjoy Father Spyridon !!!! Very timely messages :) 🙏⛪🕎🤲✝️🛐🛐✡️

[@Ambooonree]

🕊THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE🕊

[@fmayer1507]

This video nails the issue of the heterodox heresey that totally presents ideas that are antithetical to God's perfect nature. I came to Orthodoxy over 38 years ago, and I never regretted coming into the Church. I know all about other Christian beliefs, and Orthodoxy stands out as totally coherent and logical. I am well into my sixties, and I say this video is spot on.

[@tubalcain6874]

@Francis L Mayer, Christ is risen! I turned 65 last month, and later in life walked away from evangelical Protestantism, converted to Orthodoxy, and never looked back. I used to have regrets about not discovering the fullness of faith and this precious gem when I was a younger man. But I see now that the lord wanted me to be ready in his timing. ☦️

[@fmayer1507]

@@tubalcain6874 AMEN. I feel just as you do.

[@hendersonshuntinglodge1207]

The Protestant heresies are difficult to shake off, this helps

[@allencollins6031]

Live and let live.

[@jamesmedina6015]

Christ is Risen! The tomb is empty ✝️🕊️♥️

[@andrewm9221]

Воистину Воскресе!

[@JosephSaad13]

Christos Anesti ☦

[@matronamilkasavusauna1365]

Alithos Anesti❕️

[@andrewm9221]

Воистину Воскресе!

[@matronamilkasavusauna1365]

@@andrewm9221 Voistinu Voskrése❕️

[@MrSofuskroghlarsen]

Christ is risen. Pray for me a sinner. Pray that we may all run towards Christ, the risen God, so that his love may encounter us in our deepest darkness and redeem our sinful souls. Amen.

[@KatAdVictoriam]

I was reminded of this passage of scripture, at the end of your wonderful homily, Father Bailey -- Colossians 2:13-14 "And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." Kyrie Eleison. Glory to God.

[@lindaphillips4646]

Oh, yes, Glory to God.

[@jamesbancroft2467]

Father it is in part thanks to your work that I was chrismated into the Church on Lazarus Saturday! Christ is Risen!

[@GimbalLocksOnly]

Thank you, father Spyridon. It is primarily through you among others that I have been introduced to orthodoxy. My life has truly been changed.

[@antonkirani2758]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. Thank you for your words Father.

[@theresamartin3629]

Thank you Father. Wonderful homily. Truly, Christ always calls to us.

[@KateKing217]

Dear Father Spyridon 🙏🏾♥️✨ Thank you for this video post. I am from Yorkshire too 😊 I love your messages and I am going to send to my Father who is now in a care home and has had a stroke. Please pray that he will return to our Lord before his soul passes and the body returns to the earth. His name is Konrad and he has 7 grown children, thank you 🙏🏾✨❤️‍🔥

[@SD11-11-SD]

Blessings to you Kate, sending Konrad thoughts and prayers.

[@KateKing217]

@@SD11-11-SD PTL, thank you 🙏🏾 x 10,000 🥲🙏🏾✨❤️‍🔥

[@mattdavis2985]

Amen father I pray and I give him the glory for his return soon 🙏 He give us plenty of time to repent and obey his commitment

[@chaytonhurlow840]

Christ is everything. God bless Jesus. The entire universe is like Christ’s heart, it might die, but it lives forever more.

[@dimitrioskladouchos4876]

May the Light of our Resurrected Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to continue shine and guide us through your wonderful sermons. ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΈΣΤΗ!!! Τhe unworthy from Las Vegas

[@andrewm9221]

Воистину Воскресе!

[@dimitrioskladouchos4876]

@@andrewm9221ΑΛΗΘΏΣ ΑΝΈΣΤΗ!!!

[@blu9371]

TRULY HAS HE RISEN !

[@matronamilkasavusauna1365]

Christ Is Risen❕️ - He Is Risen, Indeed❕️ 💛🧡 Spasibo, our elder Spyridon !

[@RealBobLoblaw]

the birds underscored your words , how life giving!

[@yohasethio7669]

Truly Risen. Bless me Father.

[@sibiyelwedlamini1692]

At the very depths of me in pursuit of the world and sin, the Lord Jesus Christ found me and called me. At my lowest Jesus cared for me and filled a void in my heart nothing else in the world could fill. Like the woman at the well, I was seeking for things that cannot satisfy but I heard the Savior speaking, he said draw from my well and never run dry. I thank the Lord for mentors like you father, at the brink of me losing it all God's word ministers to me and constantly reminds me to pursue righteousness and forsake evil. I pray that God's purpose about my life is fulfilled. Amen. We appreciate the work God is doing through you and the many lives impacted by these videos.

[@danielgaley9676]

Your teachings g straight to my heart. Thank you Father Spyridon for your teachings!

[@tinahale9252]

I certainly need to hear this message. I was diagnosed with a fatty liver and who knows what else. My lifestyle, food consumption, weight. Consequences come to us all

[@FacingTheView]

"Today is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it"! What a gift we have, in each monent to not sin. To choose giving ourselves strong health so we c a n "fight rhe good fight"! To exercise self control in every aspect, is us willing our flesh to honor God, to be satisfied by God, to trust God. Please, Father God, I pray "your grace us sufficient for us"... that this world and all it offers the flesh is not what we reach to be satisfied-- but we reject those things and turn to you, reach to you to satisfy our every need and wanting. I pray this for the both of us as I need this to be cemented in my soul just as much as anyone else 🙏🌷🌈🕊💖😇

[@TobiasFlavius]

I have been watching Father Spyridon for a few months now. I was raised in Presbyterian, Wesleyan, Baptist, and Christian Missionary Alliance churches, and my mother is now a Jehovahs Witness, but I am feeling myself being strongly drawn to Orthodox Christianity. I am thinking perhaps Greek Orthodox. I don't have a vehicle at this moment though, so I thank God for Father Spyridon and his videos which are opening a new world for me from the Orthodox perspective.

[@God_is_Justice]

Thank you dear Lord for sending father Spiridon thank you

[@Ella_1994]

Thanks! I really needed this because I was thinking I have sank too deep into the darkness to be resurrected! God mercy is far vaster than our sins!!!

[@eritech]

Yes, father I liked the sound of those birds. But I would like to see them too. Thanks for ur service, father.

[@apantaorthodoxias]

Ευλογημένο!!!

[@ironassaultdrama8938]

It's crazy how the videos you post always relate in some way to what's currently going on in my life

[@allwynfernandes127]

Father please pray for me 🙏

[@BaikalTii]

It is later than you think! Therefore hasten to do the work of God.

[@longprairieofficial]

Thank you Father!!

[@laceygreenwood]

Reminds me of this beautiful passage in Proverbs 8, Wisdom, metaphorically, is Christ: 1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? 2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. 3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. 4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

[@hughmorrison8586]

Thank you Father Spyridon. Your video popped up at the top of my youtube videos this morning, out of the blue. It has come at a time when I am grieving for the loss of my beloved mother; at a time when I am struggling spiritually and battling with sin. I will try my hardest to repent. It will be a fight for what good I have in me. I hope that I will be able to do so. God bless you.

[@qrstfdsa4606]

AMEN 🙏 Father please keep me in your prayers 🙏

[@georgescuvlad5801]

Thank you!🙏🏽❤️In Christ is life!

[@Michael_Fortino]

Thank you for your words Father. Christ has truly risen!

[@iluvchrist]

I may missed the live but, I just want to say God bless.☦️❤️

[@SportsFan918]

God Bless Father Spyridon. Thanks so much for your guidance and inspiration. Thank you Holy Christ ☀️

[@HumanScourgeYT]

I cannot emphasize enough how much I appreciate your videos. You directly tackle questions and thoughts I have had for many years in a way that truly makes sense to me, and I truly think you have helped me understand more things and open my heart even more. I love the way you convey these ideas and ideals. Thank you sir.

[@christinajackson7100]

I have been listening to your messages and am deeply touched and encouraged. Thank you for your work and labor of love.

[@Влади́мирЛе́нин-й2щ]

Thank you Father. Much love from India 🇮🇳

[@reef6826]

Father Spyridon dropping some heat recently

[@WORKOUTSOLUTIONS]

Христос воскрес 🙏☦️ Christos Anesti ☦️🙏 Christ is Risen 🔥🙏☦️ Happy Easter 🙏☦️❤️ God bless 🙏☦️🌟 #easter #jesus #blessed 💪💥🕊️

[@joshnyvox1525]

Thank you so much Father Spyridon….

[@danbos7465]

Truly Christ has Risen

[@girihajifan5321]

Thank you very much for this particularly deep and moving talk, Father Spyridon. Christ is risen indeed.

[@carlarankel5663]

Thank you father 🙏

[@tanyar2965]

Fr bless, thank you for this. Your words are most edifying.

[@marshajones8685]

Thank you Father

[@blu9371]

CHRIST HAS RISEN !

[@pesteenpopa]

thanks father, as a catholic I only have one word: ORTHODOXY!

[@ZennyReacts]

Amazing content. Thank you. Love the birds too the beautiful music of nature with God as the conductor

[@76DoNtTReADoNmE1931]

Thank you father for sharing your wisdom it really helps to have you in the world and continuing to share these messages.

[@TByronK]

Thank you once again Fr. Spyridon for this important message. Christ is risen! ☦

[@Hidesinmud]

Wow, that was a great meditation. Sharing this 🙏🏻

[@angiekereakes6551]

Amen. Thank you.

[@iliesculiliana5846]

THANK YOU DEEPLY FOR THE DEPTH OF THIS HOMILY. YOU ARE SO RIGHT WITH THE CONTENT OF YOUR MESSAGES. I MREALLY GRATEFUL ICOULD HEAR THIS MESSAGE IT IS AS IF GOD SPOKE TO ME THROUGH YOU FATHER.DEEPLY APPRECIATE. BE BLESSED

[@luischavez5846]

Thank you for sharing, father. Blessings to you in Jesus Christ name amen.

[@luciamixon4156]

Thank you. Amen.

[@kathleenwindasgoodwin9165]

Truly He has risen

[@andrewm9221]

Воистину Воскресе!

[@frankdisilvio9131]

Thank you Father.

[@jdesarro73]

So beautiful! 🙏 thank you.

[@orthodox1717]

Father bless. Thank God.

[@davidfaith3605]

12:30! So true, when the stain of the sin is both a terrible feeling and force against our repentance, it is a sign that we must humble ourselves before Christ. Yet too many take it with pride, and will not let go of that which is destroying them.

[@chrisrobinson1671]

Beautiful

[@krpx-imp-sys]

Thank you Father

[@baboon_bandito]

Great sermon. Thank you and God bless you.

[@johnalanwalker]

Thank you so much. Bless you.

[@arayaweldegebrial8700]

Christ is risen!!

[@shirleysue228]

Thank you FR. Truly one of your best messages.☺

[@rosemarydonnelly5953]

Thank you Fr. Spyridon

[@Orthodoxy.Memorize.Scripture]

We are called to respond in faith. Faith is belief, trusting in, and fidelity, which has a synonym of allegiance. I love the word allegiance because it is a word that includes all these words that describe faith. We are called to give our allegiance to the King, an allegiance that repents from all other former allegiances.

[@stvn0378]

thanks for teaching the word!

[@stephani3]

So beautiful Father Amen ! Thank you and God continue to bless you Our Lady be with you 🙏🏼 I pray to be able to surrender entirely to my Lord and Savior. The law and word of God are the love of our lives a love that will never die. Thank you Jesus. ✝️☀️🕊️

[@rabby-u]

Amen🙏

[@JehovahRaphasammyisrael]

Amen. Thank you. May God bless you for all your messagess.❤❤

[@ardyjeen6144]

Amen.

[@calibour2550]

Needed this, thank you and God bless you☦☦

[@rosemarydonnelly5953]

Christ is Risen🌿

[@TheThinkersBible]

Very encouraging and inspiring message. You're right, as long as we feel safe, the reality of death is something we've not yet encountered. Regarding Protestant teachings, actually Christ did save us from God's wrath (Romans 5:8-9) and is the propitiation to God for our sins (1 John 2:2). That's what atonement is, and that is what Christ did. Not to pay off the devil, who owns nothing and has no eternal power. But yes propitiation and to save us from God's wrath. According to scripture that's why Christ died among other eternal reasons like the overcoming of satan's tyranny that you mention as well. But yes, Christ can and does reach for us in the very depths of our darkest times and hours, including when we're facing death. Praise be to God.

[@bluebiegrace1828]

Beautiful ❤

[@Dhshagakausuda]

God bless you

[@benben-sl7hi]

Thank you again Fr. Spyridon for your words of inspiration. Thanks be to God!

[@juliebittinger46]

Thank you so much for this talk.

[@Ortho_pilgrim]

God bless you Abouna Spyridon!

[@NJP9036]

Your book on this topic helped me a lot. Thank Father Spyridon.