Ascetic Christianity- Extreme Pilgrim

[@g13flat]

The end is so touching. Father Lazarus has an air of calm and love about him that I find comforting and inspiring.

[@mvj1153]

He says a lot of kind of 'New Agey' or "Progressive" Christianity' type of things that made me wonder why, as a priest, would he think or say things like that...Like @32:11 when he says, "What I can't work out is whether or not we generate the demons from our own belief system." and when he said "My search for enlightenment has ended" and "if there is a devil" and other things. Since the full documentary was about other ascetics from other religions, I'm thinking that he's probably one of those so called "Christians" who believes that there's many ways to God and doesn't really believe that Jesus is the only way to the father like He says in John 14:16, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." If I was a Christian Priest and a true believer that Christ is the only way to the Father, then I wouldn't even be in a documentary researching and promoting other religion's asceticism ( like Hindu Mysticism, wich in Christianity is considered demonic and Buddhists ). He also said at the beginning, "I'm on an extreme spiritual journey to find oneness with God in the eyes of three world religions." ....As a Christian Priest I would think that his search should be over with Christ and that he already has oneness with God through Christ alone. I do think he learned something at the end, although not sure what it is. Just my opinion while watching the film and observing what's going on. Good documentary.

[@kateoneill7226]

Fr Lazarus = spiritual badass. God bless him. Look at the piercing kindness of his eyes. He wants the truth from you, but he isn't there to judge you for it, but to help you with it. Spiritual powerhouse.

[@albertortega7160]

Everything is amazing. i am a Buddhist and the presentation here is very inspiring. Father Lazarus is an amazing man and a huge inspiration.

[@jjcm3135]

Day 20: ""The goodness is the struggle. To be aware it is a struggle. We are constantly making choices. The good and the bad. It is an eternal human struggle. Not to engage in it is to fall asleep; we become numb. And when I came here I was numb. I know that now. I was." Thats is great insight. Carry your cross ! Let it give you life !

[@devdasrai]

Long live the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church is the true and original Church and it shall remain that way for years. From the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt and Ethiopia, to the Byzantine Orthodox Churches in Greece and East Europe, to the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Middle East, we must keep our traditions and keep Orthodoxy the ascetic form of Christianity. After watching this video, I'm very proud to call myself an Orthodox Christian.

[@anthonyl2886]

@Markos pantopolos How so?

[@speezleventis7475]

The Lord blessed us indeed! Glory to Him!!

[@garrettfricke4076]

The gates of hell will never prevail over the orthodox church, it is eternal so saith the lord, bless you

[@Agate2000]

Thank you this is great. Fr. Lazarus is a blessing to all of us. i wish to be at his feet.

[@leggozombieslayin]

"...because you take nothing with you into the grave."

[@Goldensunrise-8]

For 3 years I have been living in retreat in the mountains of Portugal, an accidental hermitess, often during the trials & challenges of my time up here I have remembered Peter Owen Jones & his encounter with himself, the desert & Father Lazarus, today I saw this video after some years & can truly identify with what I thought to be the most powerful of Peters extreme pilgrimages. Thanks for posting, love & blessings for the on going inspiration of St. Anthony, & his sons, Fr. Lazarus & Fr. Peter

[@sudato3502]

Why do you have picture of hindu god? have you renounced Christ?

[@SaintCharbelMiracleworker]

He talks about the battle with demons as being a personal and internal battle and thinks it can be done successfully in the real world full of noise and temptations. Disconnect is real with this one as it is with all in the beginning. If we master ourselves in the silence of the desert we can master anything surrounded by noise.

[@ceemac5656]

Beautiful, thank you Brother Peter Jones. It is a new year and I am watching the journey. Such a beautiful experience with Apostle Lazarus. A reminder that we are here to pray and worship God, and in that worship we find peace, the type that surpasses all understanding, comes only from God. Amen. 🙏🏽

[@jasonsanders8091]

I liked all the Extreme Pilgrim episodes and I too feel this one was the most powerful of Peter Owen Jones ascetic experiences, and the most touching. On my journey I hope towards God, I have experienced the incredible highs and lows within an Ayahuasca church from Brazil, where my secret faults have been laid out before me, I've had a prolonged pilgrimage to Mt Athos, the great monastic centre of orthodox Christianity in N. Greece where I felt like I was having a controlled nervous breakdown. As Fr Lazarus says you have to be able to survive the pressure in such environments. My feeling is God wants us to turn to Him more and more fully, and that is the value in being stripped of nearly all creature comfits, your worldly identity and possessions. God rewards those who keep daring.

[@speezleventis7475]

Greetings from a Greek Orthodox brother! Glory to Christ our Lord and God! May He bless us all and our Holy Church! ☦️

[@andrewcorbett5729]

One of my favourites. Living in the world I come here to remind me

[@TheLostwhisper]

this is so inspiring. Thank you

[@rosagomez1097]

It would be so cool to meet father Lazarus - so inspiring and humble

[@sivanandasivananda]

The inner Spirit is the way to I AM within and without

[@helentucker6407]

Remarkable journey, glad to have seen this. I love how Peter Owen jones shares his doubts and questions.

[@benbrewer5853]

has anybody noticed that sometimes you'll be praying and all of a sudden you'll be thinking of a worldly thing

[@tonethetallbaldy5039]

Of course most of the time. Seems we are being tested.

[@filadosfilados2151]

It needs more prayer with guidance but once you increase your prayer never let it go continue until you see difference may God guide us Amen 🙏🏼

[@zyaicob]

When this happens say 3 times "my soul magnifies the Lord" and get back to your prayer

[@g-floyd-d8572]

Thanks for sharing this. G

[@OfTheNarrowPath]

Christ is risen ☦️

[@andrewcorbett5729]

Those bedouin were just amazing. I wish to spend time with some

[@abeliever1843]

God Almighty. Have mercy on us all.

[@muhammadfadly8338]

How is father Lazarus doing now?

[@garrettfricke4076]

Im wondering the same

[@benbrewer5853]

That lizard is fast

[@vijayalakshmi970]

The dog travelling with them in the desert till the end!As per spirituality is concerned, we can learn a lesson or two from faithful animals ! faith again remember!

[@herrbrucvald6376]

Egypt and other ME countries used to be ground zero for monasteries and Christianity. I say used to be. Thanks inherently violent Islam! Well done!

[@romanmason6677]

How do I contact Father Lazarus???

[@HolyBalkans]

Contact the monastery in egypt and they can guide you! God bless you!

[@corybodybycorina4355]

LOVE IT ❤❤❤💜💜💜❤❤❤

[@GnosisMan50]

"18:35 it's how we actually distinguish what's a healthy desire and not so unhealthy desire" Karl Marx would agree to this distinction. As he said: _"Every man speculates upon creating a new need in another, in order to force him to new sacrifice, to place him in a new dependence, and to entice him to a new kind of pleasure. Everyone tries to establish over others an alien power in order to find there the satisfaction of his own egoistic need. With the mass of objects, therefore, there also increases the realm of alien entities to which man is subjected. Every new product is a new potentiality of mutual deceit and robbery. Man becomes increasingly 'poor' as man . . . This shows subjectively, partly in the fact that the expansion of production and of needs becomes an ingenious and always calculating subservience to depraved, unnatural and imaginary appetites_

[@nikitaprice1780]

absolutely brilliant #taylortanaka

[@rigavitch]

God doesn't send Satan...shame he didn't get to the heart of Orthodox Christianity!

[@samchandra8258]

PLEASE HELP!, Can anybody tell me what he is saying at 35:55?

[@mrv1991]

Lord have mercy

[@TurtleTurtlez]

Thanks for the mirror :)

[@tylerwhitney3443]

@26:00 Father Lazarus....some holy vibes from that dude, despite my disagreements with the whole sin notion/God/Sky Daddy faith path he chose.

[@Joseph-jo6rm]

Matthew 23:9 King James Version (KJV) 9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

[@SearchingTheArchives]

Peace be with you Joseph. We have one Father in Heaven, indeed. God is our Father. However, spiritual fatherhood is consistently referenced throughout the New Testament by St. Paul and St. John. I'll even quote from the King James Version here: 1 Corinthians 4:14-16 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 1 Thessalonians 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 1 Timothy 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 1 John 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 1 John 2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. The Bible doesn't contradict itself. It's the proper interpretation which is tricky. We need guides. Acts 8:30-31 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. Read the "Church Fathers" to learn what early the Christians believed.

[@jasonshapiro9469]

What can you accomplish in a cave for 3 weeks..lol..3 years maybe..3 weeks isnt even a phone bill..

[@vikrambmw007]

all these rituals,postures,process,monkhood comes out of hinduism to others

[@undaunted7]

Hinduism and Christianity are not the same

[@krPeter2010]

Jesus' Presemce hangs like a cloud in the Blessed Sacrament chapel at Westminster Cathedral....why travel to Egypt?...travel to London lol

[@paulomatos2776]

Tava magrino aí heim, pastor.

[@paulalancornelius8671]

I'm glad I'm me 😂

[@anthonylangford8575]

Great

[@kejijeng17]

Muslims did not adapt the prostration from the Orthodox Christians as mentioned here by the host aka the traveller Mr Owens. Jesus was a Muslim prophet and one of Allah's messengers. Every one of Allah's prophets prostrate before Him and taught their followers thats how it is to submit to The Creator. It wasn't what being said that Jesus was separate from all other messengers of Allah.

[@user-ym9wb2mk5e]

You must not be familiar with the bible my friend, lol. Many people prostrated themselves in submission to YHWH and also worldly leaders as a show of submission. Jesus was no Muslim, he was a Nazarene. And to say he would be so is crazy! Jesus's message was to love thy neighbor, forgiveness, even though he did show anger and sadness. I don't think the koran falls in line with what Jesus taught, unless I overlooked the part where he was directing people to slay the infidel and to treat women like slaves.

[@yohananverwalensis7822]

Why is it all about YahShua? It's not all about Him, it's all about us! Why would Holy God need to descend from on high if it wasn't about us, AND about our finding the Way back to our home? Granted Vicar, we realise your question was perhaps rhetorical, for our benefit. Having once lived as an ascetic in an ashram in Pennsylvania, it wasn't until the leader-Swami Sri Kripalvananda came to spend time with us that he told me to leave and follow Jesus. I don't believe anyone else knew, but I believe he also sent others away with the same instructions. As you know, the goal of an Hindu ascetic is to reach Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the total liberation of the soul from all karma and passionate attachment and absorption into eternity. It was at this Pennsylvania ashram where Bapuji attained this state after practicing Sādhanā twelve hours a day in a small bungalow. During this time, he read and studied Gospels.

[@bashpr0mpt719]

"I'm seeking the spiritual enlightenment that we in Britain once had but have since lost." - yeah because you fetishize Indians and Asians rather than even investigating your OWN ethnic group. I guarantee you he hasn't read the Anglo-Saxon chronicles. I bet my left nut he hasn't read the Havamal or the sagas of his--the Germanic peoples--own ethnic group. Germanic people are the only peoples on earth who are, from a very early age, encouraged to ignore their own identity. They're even told "You're just 'white' - you don't have a culture." And so they don't look. It's shameful.

[@brookestephens4450]

Don't you understand that God doesn't have an ethnic group?

[@VMist-vy8qg]

Have you read the cloud of unknowing

[@samchandra8258]

PLEASE HELP!, Can anybody tell me what he is saying at 35:55?

[@Slippyroad]

Kyrie Eleison www.dictionary.com/browse/kyrie-eleison

[@aerofox124]

The literal translation is "Lord, have mercy (on me)" - It is used throughout the Coptic Orthodox Christian (Fr. Lazarus' Religion) prayers. Certain prayers consist of this word repeated several times to a tune in order to seek mercy, but also to enter into a contemplative and meditative state with Christ. I hope this helps!

[@christinadelacroix2370]

The proper Old Greek Orthodox prayer used to be " Jesus Christ Son of God have Mercy on us ( me ) " and you can add " and heal me ( us )" it sadly was MUCH later changed to " on me a sinner" which is not good for us...as we are supposed to emphasize positivity, not negativity according to the Bible that verse i forget but : " whatever is good, whatever is true ...think on these things.." so sinner is not a good thing to use as it kind of berates ourselves.

[@jzzanetis]

Κύριε ελέησον - Lord have mercy

[@samchandra8258]

PLEASE HELP!, Can anybody tell me what he is saying at 35:55?

[@christinadelacroix2370]

this is the PROPER ancient prayer : " Jesus Christ Son of God have Mercy on me " and you can add " and Heal me " ...the new prayer is have mercy on me a sinner - which i would avoid.

[@christinadelacroix2370]

Kyrie Eleison " Lord Have Mercy" is the song he is repeating

[@rigavitch]

@@christinadelacroix2370 why?

[@christinadelacroix2370]

@@rigavitch because it's negative to put yourself down as unworthy of God, God loves us and to keep reminding yourself you are a sinner over and over is not helpful for your self worth... You will feel better to say " Jesus Christ son of God, have mercy on me and Heal me " - such words are soothing and not self- incriminating. I hope that helped x