Orthodoxy Is the Only Remedy - Sermon by Metropolitan Demetrius

Sermon delivered by His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrius of America on the Sunday of the Paralytic, May 13/26, 2024, at Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Monastery, Cobleskill, NY. For more videos visit: / orthodoxtradition
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Thank you for sharing this, Father. I am going through times of soul searching, trying to understand the message of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory to God in the Highest - Amen 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Christ is Risen! May The Lord direct you.

[@TheLorraineclelland]

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[@TheMikeSkvor]

Christ is risen! May the Holy Archangel Michael protect our Geronda unto the ages. Glory to God for all things.

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Truly He is Risen! Amen.

[@irisenamorado]

The world is corrupted. The Orthodox Church is the answers. ❤🙏🏻

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Christ is Risen!

[@AlexandrosRyd]

Christ is risen! Thank you, Geronda, may God protect us. I'm hoping I can one day be a decent Christian man, I don't have answers to certain things, so I pray that God may illumine my darkened mind. Thank you for your beautiful message. Words a sorely needed to hear.

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@elizabethcardinale6255]

Christ is Risen! Thank you Despota, for showing us that we are never alone. No matter how many friends we may think we have, they like us all are flawed. And sometimes we find they either died or just left the friendship, leaving us alone. With our Saviour, we know we are never alone. Thank God for His unending love and mercy.

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Truly He is Risen!

[@OrthodoxChristianTreasures]

Christ is Risen! Lord Jesus Christ and Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary and All the Saints, please pray for and strengthen and protect the Orthodox Christian people and help Monastic life to thrive here in the West.

[@OrthodoxTradition]

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@jakovjanku]

It's so fantastic It's so understandable It's so wonderful It cannot be explain the glory that mankind deliver as Gift. Thank you God

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God bless you+

[@mojjt]

Христос се вазнесе!

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God bless you.

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@@OrthodoxTradition Amen!

[@drjohnashfield3915]

Thank you again

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@solitaryone1536]

He shared Our Death, To Lead us to Life, He shared Our Sorrow, to Lead us to Joy, He shared Our Dark, to Lead us to Light.

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@rhondab9792]

Thank you for these deep insights, Vladyka. Christ is Risen!

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Truly He is Risen!

[@WORKOUTSOLUTIONS]

❤✝CHRIST IS RISEN ☦❤ ❤🕊️🙏✝ GOD GIVES US STRENGTH AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS ☦🙏⛪️💪

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Truly He is Risen!

[@shobudski6776]

Indeed He is Risen! ☦️

[@mores5780]

Lord Jesus Christ forgive me my sins and give me strength and guidance for the dark times I'm facing.

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@ElenaPetrovsky-je8hk]

CHISTOS BOCKRECE THANK YOU FOR THE BEATIFL SERMON PICKING UP OUR cross praying and repenting daily will open our eyes to see how dusty we are inside

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Воистину Воскресе!

[@AreteAskesis]

Finally, after a lifetime of searching, I found a source of truth that is trustworthy ☦️☦️☦️ glory to God

[@OrthodoxTradition]

God bless you. We are very happy that you found our channel.

[@andreafirth577]

I want to thank you all for sharing your channel , I have been joining your vespers etc all through Pascha , and it has been very excellent as I have converted to orthodoxy this last weekend being Chrism and took communion , but I have noticed the posts have stopped is that because it was up to the Ascension? I very much enjoyed joining the livestream and listening to the sermons , such beautiful voices . Excellent teachings too . Thankyou . God Bless you all . ❤️☦️

[@eddiedelisio]

I just saw a video of how the Jews treat the pool of the paralytic today. Absolute disrespect despite that it was a place of the angels in the old testament days as well. Showing their true colors

[@artemios7657]

Christ is risen! Thank you your Eminence.

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@OrthodoxChristianTreasures]

Christ is risen! Lord Jesus Christ please guide us with our decisions through the prayers of Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg and Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker.

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@XiosForEver]

Χριστός Ανέστη. May God protect us all and give our Metropolitan strength and health.

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Αληθώς Ανέστη!

[@sisselrudshaug1106]

Thank you very much for always true words. No doubt that you are of the oldest and true church of our Lord and Savior✝️ Think how wonderful it is that Jesus is risen and HE LIVES💜Messiah has come🎉Holy One of Israel. The King of the true spiritual Jews 🌸

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Christ is Risen!

[@seta2382]

Thank YOU so much, with gratitude for these lessons…

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@nicolaj622]

Was that Brother Nathael at the beginning rushing to his place? God bless you Father for giving us such sermons in this desolated world. Christos anesti!

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Christ is Risen! No.

[@sveltland]

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

[@OrthodoxTradition]

Not through KZbin. You'd have to make a more serious inquiry.

[@sisselrudshaug1106]

Kristus er oppstanden, han lever🕊️💖🕊️

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Christ is Risen!

[@hallegetachew28]

Thank you so much! Christ is risen!

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@henrysmom1742]

I have been interested in Orthodoxy for several years. I was raised RC, switched 30:years ago to an evangelical church. Recently went to two different Orthodox churches in my area, one Greek and one Antiochian. In both of them I felt the congregation was only there for the communion and not interested in everything else. I noted multiple families who showed up perfectly timed to the passing of the Eucharist, but soon left. The Orthodox equivalent of the C&E club, lukewarm overall. The music was beautiful but didn’t feel much to bring me back, sadly

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Look into the Genuine Orthodox Church. hotca.org

[@mary-jodukas7627]

We should look within ourselves for these things that we see and critcize in others. Pick one and attend every service and event for a year. Then form an opinion.

[@crazykyy]

I am a recently baptized member of the Genuine Orthodox Church (GOC). My parish (part of the GOC) is in a small rural community along the east coast, but I did not grow up there. Instead I grew up in SoCal. Every year, my family and I travel back to visit my extended family and I have attended many Orthodox parishes on various Sundays (none of them were of the GOC, fwiw). All were much bigger than my parish back home where everyone knows everyone as tends to happen in smaller communities. At these bigger parishes, I noticed similar things as you. I do not know the situations of those people, so I try not to judge them, and I do not know the degree to which such behavior is tied to the size of the community, but I would have been less impressed by the faith if I had first attended those parishes. God willing, we are traveling back again this summer and hope to make a longer trek to the closest GOC parish to where we are staying. There, I am sure I will find the same spirit I love so much here at home. May God bless you ☦️

[@henrysmom1742]

I am in So Cal! One church was in Anaheim and one in Long Beach. The nearest GOC church is No Cal sadly​@crazykyy

[@toothless-tiger]

I get more of the word of God from the way Mari Mari Emmanuel present the message

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☦️☦️☦️

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@Z3rk]

My wife and I have been struggling with infertility - we both have different situations on our ends where it's very unlikely for us (but not impossible). This sermon touched on our struggle a bit, that we do need to pick up our cross on this. But I am a bit confused on sickness being because of sin - unsure if that's to be understood as particularly our sin (me and my wife), or Adam's sin / man-kind's sin. I would appreciate an elaboration on that - if possible.

[@kathleenmorrison8450]

CHRISTOS ANESTI! ALITHOS ANESTI!!!

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@ИвайлаКотуклиева]

Кой е превел богослужебните тескстове на английския език?Имали то Евангелието и св отци на Английски език?

[@seraphimwieber3893]

Христосъ Воскресе! This monastery uses the Holy Transfiguration Monastery (from Greek) translations for most services, and Saint John of Kronstadt press (Slavonic) for the rest. The Gospel is KJV, with some corrections. The Menaion is a combination of the Athonite and Russian Menaion.

[@ИвайлаКотуклиева]

ВОИСТИНА Воскресе!Благодаря Ви!

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Христос Воскресе!

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​@@OrthodoxTraditionВоистина Воскресе !

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

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Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

[@Meoooweww]

The best thing is to chant the name of ICXC... all the rest is juggling theological balls...one may be good at impressing others that can't juggle....but a simple cure is to chant the name of Christ with love and devotion...then all things will fall into place through grace. People get lost and burnt out with Byzantine psychology...make it simple!

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Christ is Risen!

[@thebullymac4742]

What does he mean by "theosis we become gods" is it God's as in we belong to him. Or gods as in holy ones?

[@alexiatrott2714]

I was confused by this too and did a double take. I’d like an answer because I’m pretty certain it’s blasphemous to say we become gods since there’s only one God. It’s quite literally doctrinally satanic to believe we can become gods… like Mormons or gnostics

[@thebullymac4742]

@alexiatrott2714 the sermon was so powerful it made me emotional but I just. That one thing being wrong in my perspective could really ruin it. Glad I'm not tje only one

[@seraphimwieber3893]

Both. It's actually really interesting, because I think this double meaning only works in English. By belonging more and more to God; we become conduits of His grace. It is only through the grace of God, by faith. This is why the saints have worked so many miracles throughout history. Christ even tells the Church that we will do even greater works than His. So we have the ability to join ourselves to Christ, and become God's, and therefore gods by grace. The difference of what Satan, the Mormons, and Hollywood promise is becoming gods without grace, by our own power and pride.

[@MrOlu109]

I'm not Orthodox (yet) though I've read the Eastern Orthodox Church by Kallistos Ware. According to what I've learned, "become gods by grace" means that we become like God in every way apart from by nature (1 John 3:1-2). By imparting grace through the sacrements of the Church and living the Orthodox way, God enables the believer to grow in the characteristics of God like holiness, purity, patience, love etc. This transformation will ultimately be complete when we die and truly overcome sin. And then we will be perfectly in His likeness, morally incorruptible and enjoying His neverending life. But the Orthodox church does not teach in any way that humans will become gods by nature, in the sense that they will share in the very essence of God. This is a heretical teaching similar to Mormonism as has already been stated. The Orthodox are in absolute continuity with St Athanasius of the 4th century, who said "God became man, so that man might become god". If an Orthodox Christian reads this and disagrees with what I've said, I'm happy to be corrected.

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MrOlu, this is correct. This is a central teaching of the Orthodox Church. You rightly quote St. Athanasius the Great, but we also read in the psalms: "ye are gods...".

[@M-i-k-a-e-l]

It does not become true just because you guys repeat yourself. Many many many humans have reached theosis without a single minute as an orthodox.

[@ServantofGod-zj3jd]

If you don't have Orthodox doctrine, how can you even accept the teaching of Theosis? Orthodoxy is the ancient, Apostolic, True Church. Someone in Egypt started teaching Theosis as Coptic, and he was excommunicated!

[@MRXRISTIDIS]

Could you please name a few examples?

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Christ is Risen!