SMALL HABITS CHANGE THE SOUL

This Sunday's reading describes Christ's encounter with the possessed man.
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[@thelonias1814]

The most underrated KZbinr ever. Thank you so much for your wisdom. I’m now a catechumen for Orthodoxy because of humble people such as yourself. Pray for me.

[@aurelius1964]

Me too brother

[@shakazulu3279]

Yes, absolutely!

[@BegoMekerTube2127]

This world flock for false and vain teachiing. Most good and pure teachings are heard by a few.

[@danpan001]

Have you considered how doctrines can be affirmed without having a head that represents Christ on earth?

[@lukasg9031]

@@danpan001 I feel like your mistaking Catholicism with orthodoxy

[@GreyMasker]

You frequently seem to bring up topics that are relevant to my struggles at the time. I give thanks to God for it too.

[@aurelius1964]

And there I was, feeling rather pleased with myself. Many thanks as always Father Spyridon; please pray for me, a sinner.

[@oneofjesus]

i thank thee oh father please pray for me a sinner

[@nisha2347]

Believe in Christ . call his name and run away from sin

[@antonkirani2758]

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

[@stefox70]

Valuable snippets of truth, gracefully explained for English speaking Orthodox Christians. Thank you.

[@florinaschilean6143]

Best format, one could listen one of these even in the morning, while getting ready for work.

[@irontarkus7965]

An omelette for the soul. Bless you father

[@michelalkinnab8593]

GOD BLESS YOU FATHER SPYRIDON.

[@lisahyyppa3360]

🙏🔥🥰🛐✝️ Amen

[@stafida8624]

Thank you so much father. Words of wisdom. May God bless you.

[@perrytornado]

Praying that I never lose my liberty, my freedom of mind and of spirit to love God, love Jesus, Mary and Joseph/ We love one another so that we are always in a perpetual state of grace/

[@tessalogan586]

I struggle with mental health and am snared by 2 wrongs , i repent daily. Sometimes we just cannot help it, we still love Jesus & God and all the angels that guide us daily. Lord have mercy on us all 🙏

[@Dd-po2ij]

My nature needs to be restored Father God in heaven please restore My nature in side to fully except your will for my life in Jesus name amen. Thank you for this wonderful message.

[@Andronicus_of_Rhodes]

From your separated son in Christ from the Coptic Church, prayers please, Father

[@SeelenleidArchive]

thank you.

[@Thailova]

God blesss you Father

[@buster2188]

Thank you father for always responding to your suscribers with respect and love.

[@wisdommorepreciousthanrubi8321]

Well said true thank you

[@yuggoof]

Very wise words, I must be more vigilant. Thank you Father Spyridon.

[@johnflorio3052]

Thank you, Fr. Spyridon! This Catholic is VERY impressed.

[@balsamitrovic4346]

Amin

[@primecminc.6296]

Glory to the Father, Son of God/Jesus Christ and the Holly Spirit Amen 🙏 🙌 👏 ❤ 111 Have mercy on me, a sinner, my lord and thank you for all your love and guidance throughout all my years of existence. My wish and dream is world peace, help us all get rid of any darkness in our hearts through Jesus Christ. Help us moisten and soften the heart through trust in and love for Jesus Christ, help us,through prayers, lighten our hearts and see the true path of God Almighty through Jesus Christ. Help us bridge through love[Jesus Christ, God almighty] and spread the light upon the entire world. Hallelujah, Glory to the Father, Son of God/Jesus Christ and the Holly Spirit Amen 🙏 🙌

[@myrtleesther8855]

We must be aware of what is in our heart because God is and no matter how we dress it up on the surface to save face amongst others, sin is sin and like a weed it will grow rampant if given room to thrive in the dark , repentance comes from God's grace to us ,we could not do it without the Holy Spirit convicting us and bringing us to see ourselves in His light then to agreeing with God , being contrite of heart and sorrowful is not pleasant when going through repentance but it does lead to forgiveness and freedom. Even 70 times 7 times a day we must not hide from God but take our struggles to Him and by His grace we will be over comers because Jesus was and He will do what we are unable to when we surrender our will to Him.

[@paulwilliams9207]

Simple words, profound meaning. Thank you.

[@patodwyer721]

Thank you Fr.Spyridon

[@Cube_Ernator1077]

Thank you Father Spyrideon!

[@mhatter5]

Thank you so much I really needed this one. Bless you Father.

[@antonkirani2758]

Thank you Father. Please pray for me a sinner.

[@Beyondabsence]

Thank you Father Spyridon. Those few minutes of guidance and wisdom are a balm and a loving warning to the soul. God bless you always.

[@agus3111]

Thanks Father Spyridon...we love you...may God bless you always...

[@daddycool228]

Really connected with this, thank you. We are legion.

[@donmiller4885]

Wonderful words of wisdom thank you brother !!

[@MH-yx1pv]

This is very convicting. Thank you for sharing this.

[@francinejohnson3110]

Thank you father

[@aleksandarn.2798]

God Bless You Father Spyridon

[@hightower6546]

Thank you, Father Spyridon.

[@jp2861]

Thank you Father

[@silviawassef504]

Very wise words. Thank you Father fir sharing and guide us on this journey full of temptations.

[@carolynnrichards9737]

Thank you Father. So grateful for your videos.

[@lawrenceakech520]

Grace and peace of Christ, fr you inspire me a lot by your sermons

[@m-bronte]

this was very good

[@EmSiGer]

Thank you, Fathr Spyridon. Greetings from Sofia, Bulgaria! I hope someday I meet you in person and have conversation with you

[@MoonFlowerCreations]

I definitely needed to hear this. Thank you.

[@dannywoody7266]

God’s blessing always Father Spyridon

[@andrewjoukhadar4758]

I'm a sinner . Please pray for me father spyrdon.

[@er29121]

Beautifull teaching. I take these words as MAXIMS in my life

[@dioscoruskhalil1756]

God bless you and all monks around the eastern and Oriental othrodox monasteries and ofcourse all humanity.may your words touch the hearts of those who have turned away and those who have yet to hear the word of TRUTH..please keep the persecution of the Coptic church of Egypt in your prayers..God protect you always..love from Australia 🙏

[@rbeck3200tb40]

Father Spyridon is not a monk .He is a priest in the UK

[@korecha]

Your teachings touch my heart, always. It goes a long way in the kind of world we are living. I hope and pray many benefit from it. In the traditions of Ethiopian Orthodox Church, we have a Christian name with which the Church identifies us. Mine is Berhanemeskel (it means light of the Cross). Remember me in your prayers and May God bless your service!

[@kingnolson92]

Great Video

[@chrisoulaargiris7105]

Thank you ☦️☦️

[@DJKOSTAS1000]

Thank you father very good video I just want to add to this That some times if you pray to God for him to take this habits a way that if he is not answering is because you have to think what if he does take all of it a way what will you have to fight for? What will you have (Να Ταπεινώνεσαι )? Humiliate your self with ? Is very important because is the cross that we carry as Christians the point is who ever doesn’t give up on this fight will be saved according to his work on earth We fall we get back up again and again and again That’s why our lord Jesus said don’t forgive one time but 75 and more Glory to God in the highest ☦️🙏🏼 Orthodox Christian ☦️☦️☦️

[@Andrew-hr9qe]

How can one read the Bible prayerfully, discovering the meaning within what is written, such as what many Saints have written, as you have presented Fr. Spyridon? Or is it best to read a commentary along with reading? Thank you

[@FatherSpyridonROCOR]

Hello Andrew, I find reading a small amount and giving myself time to reflect on it is useful, rather than tearing through too much at one time. But it is good to read the fathers so as to gain a true perspective - after all, the early Church not only decided which texts should enter the canon of Holy Scripture but they left us plenty of writings to guide us in our understanding of them. Without this rudder we are free to turn and take any direction in our interpretation which happens to feel right to us - trusting our feelings in this way can be dangerous. But being open to them and allowing the text to influence our mind and heart is invaluable. I find reading them as simply as possible is useful, allowing the stories, events and teachings to iive with me for a while. God bless you.

[@charleslascari7191]

Father Spyridon Hello Father. I have tried to access your blog and Facebook pages but the links appear to be broken. Is there any way we can communicate with you or keep current with your wonderful teachings?

[@mariamaria152]

Hello Father you said the most beautiful things in world from the bible 🌸thank you

[@jennifercuddy5663]

Oh yes, what is the meaning behind walking on water? Christ had them all do this but Peter looked down and fell. It seems it might be a message about our fallen nature, to doubt, to look down, to fall, etc..But why Peter? He is usually the apostle who most closely resembles ourselves.

[@lawrencerose256]

Guess who my Patron Saint will be.

[@DJK-cq2uy]

You're an excellent so wise. Do you have a channel or app?

[@villiamkarl-gustavlundberg5422]

The daily sins soil one's hands the most.

[@edwinconstantin851]

Hi Father Spyridon, I have an apparent paradox that has been bothering me. Jesus Christ gave to the apostles the power to forgive sins and this power was passed down to today's priests obviously. But the bible says that if you do not forgive everyone around you, the Father will not forgive you. But if you go to a priest a confess and he forgives your sins, and you do not forgive everyone around you. After his prayer, your sins are forgiven. But your sins are not forgiven, because Christ said God the Father won't forgive you unless you forgive others. How do we settle this contradiction?

[@invisiblefiddle1645]

Simple: if you want to be forgiven then forgive others. Besides we have all sinned. Who am i to withhold forgiveness from my brother when i committed sin as well? Who is truly able to withhold forgiveness from a any man but God only. Since God is sinless i feel He only has the right to withhold forgiveness from anyone. Basically by the verses you used, we can see that the Lord is saying these things to prove a point. The point is that we don't have the right to withhold forgiveness unless we are willing ourselves to remain unforgiven, seeing we all sin and it would be prideful hypocrisy for me to withhold forgiveness from my brother. The one who realizes how much he has been forgiven cannot help but freely and lovingly forgive others. In fact, he would weep for them. Like Christ weeps for us and pities us remembering that we are but dust. However, maybe when he says "if you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven, if you do not forgive the sins of any they are not forgiven." This 'might' have something to do with the apostolic authority that paul used when "delivering such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh" (when gathered together with my spirit and with the power of the Lord Jesus Christ) or like alaexander amd hymaneus he delivered them to satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. It seems that when people in the body of Christ did not repent of practiced sin that the apostles would "deliever them over to Satan together with the church present AND with the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. This could be what Christ Jesus delivered to the apostles when he breathed on them. Authority to do this very thing if need be. But i have never heard anyone preach it since i have grown up in pentecostal circles all my life. Maybe there is some orthodox material on this subject that pre dates my speculation hopefully? (sure there is).

[@edwinconstantin851]

Thank you for your reply. God bless you. :)

[@lawrencerose256]

Pewdiepie

[@edwinconstantin851]

Father Spyridon, why do you speak of "small" and "large" sins? Is this not a view of sin held by the Roman Catholics? Does Orthodoxy maintain such a view as well? God bless.

[@FatherSpyridonROCOR]

Hello Edwin, you raise a good point. There are some sins which may remain outside of us, and though we must repent of them, the damage they do to our soul may be limited. However, St. Paul warns that some sins such as fornication, which involve the body, may cause a deeper wound to us. Also, those sins we each allow to become a habit for us, whether of action or thought, may be difficult to repent of because they become so ingrained in us. Speaking of sin in this way is to move away from the Roman idea of sin as a legalistic concept, but rather recognise the different degree of injury they bring us.

[@edwinconstantin851]

Perfect! Thank you for that amazing response, Father Spyridon. God bless you.

[@kennethflores93]

Father Spyridon father could you repeat the reply for some reason I’m unable to view it and I very much would like to read and be editors by it

[@martinniceski4032]

@@kennethflores93 can you still not open it? I know im 8 months late, but if you want i can send it to you trough instagram or messanger. God bless you!

[@lucidlagomorph5809]

Never pray to the Angels always through Jesus Christ - this man has some good teachings but - this is heresy

[@ReptieeeR32]

May I ask when he said that? I haven't found the part when he does

[@davidjones8043]

This clown needs to adopt some small habits to changing his DIET. Sorry, "call no man thy Father" still applies. Another wolf going against the word he claims to uphold.

[@ReptieeeR32]

Why do you say such foul words against him? We are all sick, you can't judge someone for a specific sin while you too are a sinner. Check out his recent videos, maybe he did indeed lose weight but still you or any other person have no right to judge him or any other person because of their sin, for we are all sinners

[@antonkirani2758]

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