Soul Food: How Music Changes Us

[@PomazeBog1389]

The more I listen to church music, the more I realize how every other type of music doesn't matter.

[@BillBakas-f3v]

And the more you listen to church music the more secular music will make you feel hollow. Chanting is after all prayer. Food for thought. - BBC Tuesdays at five.

[@pavlos1048]

@@BillBakas-f3vWdym BBC Tuesdays at five?

[@paulr5246]

Most of my life I have had songs playing in the background of my mind, Now they are Orthodox Chant!

[@dj393]

Me too, and often I wake up with a chant going through my brain.

[@OrthoNektarios]

In my days away from God, not knowing Christ. I would listen to hip hop and R&B and this was all that was on my mind all the time. It was in my words and my dreams and my actions. But now all I have is Orthodox chants and it’s helps me and inspires me to remember God and to repent

[@sadieslays_]

Well this video popped up into my feed immediately after a two hour KZbin binge of Nine Inch Nails. Message received.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

Good on ya. I was traveling in Asia a long time ago and in Ulan Baator, Mongolia I turned on the hotel tv and saw Trent Reznor singing in a leather skirt and thought, “Oh my GAWD don’t expose these nice people to this tortured soul’s work!” Mongolians wouldn’t have any cultural background to help them fend off the ickiness.

[@maciejrzepczyk6562]

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other, than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul/mind" - Johann Sebastian Bach.

[@zachtrix8428]

The local grocery store that I work at plays classic rock the entirety of my shift. It exhausts the soul, especially after eight hours a day.

[@s.d.berquist6866]

I play the cello professionally and can attest to the either positive or negative effects of different styles of music that I have played. I have to guard myself when playing some of the music that is put in front of me. However, much of symphonic music is positively inspiring and can bring one closer to God, if one is open and desirous of spiritual blessings in Christ. I try to remember to ask the Holy Trinity to bless my efforts and guard me. Thank God, I have been protected and blessed.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

What kind of music gives you trouble? I remember someone told me that her spiritual father told her not to listen to classical music as it would lead to delusion. I thought that was really bad advice. I find I don’t like jazz on the radio anymore as the tonal vocabulary of the tunes they play just annoys me. Lately I find romantic music of the XIX c. very pleasing whereas I didn’t much care for it before. I play J.S. Bach and A. Vivaldi on electric guitar and get a real kick out of it. The challenge of learning to play it is a great hobby that takes me away from petty problems. It’s good to obsess over craft and satisfying to produce difficult music.

[@Sijilos]

​@@claesvanoldenphatt9972there's a particular beauty in classical melodies played in shred guitar that few things have. I guess it's not a matter of a what, but of what for; and in this all elements of sound, harmony, rythm and lyrics aand intentionality of a oiece music matter to the soul.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

@@Sijilos the piquancy of distorted electric guitar is a new flavor in the world of serious music. It should be embraced by serious composers as their antecedents embraced advances in acoustic instrument construction. W. Carlos’ Switched-on Bach was the most popular recording of ‘classical’ (actually baroque) music ever pressed (sold millions) because Carlos’ voicing of the Master’s music revealed it afresh to contemporary listeners. We await guitar virtuosi who will do similar miracles of art on unapologetically amplified guitar.

[@Sijilos]

@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 I present you, Anton Oparin:

[@Sijilos]

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[@thattimestampguy]

0:37 Coffee Perkilation 1:05 God Himself is The Author of The Sounds of Nature. 1:35 Sound's Natural Rhythms. 2:26 St. John Chrysostom. 3:16 God Established The Psalms. The Words Of The Psalms Purify The Mind. 4:26 - How many teenagers memorize horrible degrading lyrics of rap songs? 5:22 Song Words Are The Soul's Food. This it's Ornament. This it's Security. 6:51 Alex Capuso _Music and Your Emotions_ 8:05 Music can alter moods. 8:27 Monk Cassiodorus of Rome 9:27 + Improve Eyesight + Elongate Concentration + Affect Pulse and Respiration + Increase Metabolism 10:00 ^ Dynamogenic Effect Effect 10:39 + Music Can Cure Depression 11:23 + The Trumpet is a Mustering For Battle, Stirring Up The Heart To Drive Out Fears, Amplify Willingness To Self-Sacrifice. 12:19 A Misuse of Music --> Acid Rock in Iraq. ACDC. Screamers. 13:35 King Jephosaphet. 14:28 Fr. Josiah's Personal Experience with The Psalms. "Let God Arise." "Christ Is Risen From The Dead, Trampling Down Death By Death. And Upon Those In The Tombs Bestowing Life." 16:07 Music is Powerful, Food For The Soul. 16:17 Choose Well What You Listen To and Sing.

[@nemanjapesut6152]

Respect.

[@SimpleAmadeus]

The music I listened to before I discovered Christ was mostly melancholy, with a dissonant undertone of desperation and bitterness. This had a certain healthy aspect to it, in the sense that it kept stirring up the sense that life was not okay, preparing me for repentance. Now that I've found the true Church, however, this music no longer has any benefit to me. I no longer have need of sadness and despair, it is now joy and hope that I must learn to cherish. I experience thoroughly that this is, in large part, what the hymns and chants are for.

[@MrRickkramer]

I’m gonna make me some coffee before continuing the video, you had me with the percolating sounds…

[@joshbanker8743]

Thank you Father.

[@feralandroid]

I've always loved music that crescendos. It gives a feeling of reaching towards something greater, something powerful, and encourages me to continue struggling. It was something that lead me from atheism to seek a higher meaning. I just felt like there has to be a reason my soul yearns to climb like the music.

[@cigance91]

Feeling very convicted rn... Good message

[@joshbanker8743]

This is helpful because I was just praying about this and then this video came up.

[@yankaufmann9715]

Thank you

[@bananabread888]

I can’t thank you enough for this video.

[@myckee]

Thank you Father. Very good explanation.

[@reef6826]

Today in the shower I out of curiosity just started to rap from memory lyrics of 90s - 00s hip hop music, crazy how much junk is stored in my brain whole songs lyrics of violence sex and drugs just all filed away. Modern music is just the Psalms of Satan, I will be honest there is not a single Psalm I can remember of my heart, but there must be a easily 100+ songs I know…

[@s.d.berquist6866]

Thank God you realize this. I need to memorize Psalms as well.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

In the OCA the Prokeimenon melodies of the Znamenny tradition make psalm verses infinitely memorable. They often used to come to me at odd times amd warmed my heart. A good and striking melody helps imprint an emotion, and bad settings with weak melody make you want to forget. This latter is my sad experience in the Greek churches.

[@nicksalvador9729]

Music is very powerful, in both good ways and bad ways. It is almost like a form of magic with how it can stir emotions and memories. Very interesting video. Thanks again, Fr Josiah.

[@dustinneely]

Thank you! 🙏

[@biblicalpsalmodyaudio]

Wonderful reflection.

[@JesseRickett-no7di]

Amen!

[@Chrisc-sn6uh]

Glory to God

[@TruOrthoAus]

Blessed.

[@savinggift158]

Thank you father it took a while but I got there only singing blessings into my life and not curses See what happened to Kanye West in his life with his lyrics I am humming the Magnificat instead The almighty has done great things for me Holy is his name ❤

[@Aaron.T2005]

I am a Lutheran but I listen to Orthodox chants mostly. Ever since I have been doing so I have been more at peace.

[@lancevance60]

Bach wrote what is probably the greatest religious music of all time and he was a Lutheran. The opening of the St. John Passion is one of the most powerful musical experiences you'll ever have.

[@orangeswell1469]

Really great subject. This is so fascinating and inspiring.

[@watchaddicts1213]

Excellent reflection, Father.

[@eddiedelisio]

An auditory spiritual charm is a good explanation of music. It’s a significant choice. Another edifying reflection thank you Fr JT!

[@johnnada1917]

Beautiful!

[@misko933]

Honestly I asked my spiritual father about this and he told me to listen to whatever I like, doesn't matter that much. I just don't listen to some new music over here in my region, or music that promotes sin. Otherwise, I'm fine with everything else.

[@SF.B]

Smart farmers use classical music to increase milk production. It's easy to check.

[@orangeswell1469]

Wow that was quick! 😮 Looking forward to listening later.

[@birukhailu7113]

Tgank you

[@frricklawrenceangaleria7942]

Nice mug Abouna

[@davidgravy2007]

Forgive me. I only know Psalm 50 by heart, yet I know the lyrics to many songs by Beastie Boys, Tool, Sublime, Beatles, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and CCR.

[@HomoEucharistica]

Don't worry! The more you listen to psalms recited and sung (in evening vespers and liturgies, but also in your everyday life) and read them in your personal prayer life, the more you also come to know them (at least passively) by heart. We remember better the lyrics that are meaningful and influential to us (I think that's a partial reason why you currently know only Psalm 50 by heart) and that we hear more often, and thus it is relatively easy to shape our customs... I know only Psalm 50 by heart too, but I also know parts from Psalms 37, 102, 103, 129 and 135 (Polyeleos) because I hear them so often in the church.

[@AdamPaulTalks]

My playlist now consists of either Mount Athos monks chanting… or elevator music 😅

[@BrettSayles]

I think I need one of those coffee cups!

[@Zoro-fl2mn]

Is it possible to know the instrumental songs used by PNP in intros and outros?

[@savinggift158]

I would play Gregorian chants and next doors dog would calm down

[@richardsz9099]

How can i learn to sing the Psalms? Psaltery according to the seventy is ok? and is there patristics interpretation of the Psalms?

[@brandorev]

Also the Americans blasting that type of music during Iraq War 2 , was to instill fear in their opponents, and create something offensive almost as means of torture.

[@orangeswell1469]

"If you want to be just in your military ambitions, listening to AC/DC is not a good idea".

[@60Singing]

I don’t think the description in the caption matches what Fr. Josiah is talking about in this video.

[@ge0x1]

What if we don’t understand the language?

[@robertamann2093]

спасибо спокойной ночи

[@theluckygumbyno9620]

Father, care to comment on Protestant assertions that the Rapture is coming ?

[@Kostas_Dikefalaios]

The rapture is a heretical teaching unknown prior to Protestanism. That should already tell you enough.

[@ashleydavis5775]

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[@ashleydavis5775]

He has a video on that, I linked it above

[@jamesthayer3969]

I wonder if the abandonment of traditional church music (of Gregorian chant in Catholicism and metrical hymns in Protestantism has led to the loss of faith because of the banality of modern church music and, thus, the degradation of worship.

[@sureiajergman6408]

❤️ 💀 🥀 ☦️ 🤍

[@andreafirth577]

In my experience ‘man made music’ it’s carrying terrible sorcery 🐍 in much of it 🇬🇧❤️‍🩹🗡

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

Percolated coffee? Maybe it sounds good but that’s the worst way to brew!

[@tronical7276]

no more ken carson

[@yoseph8919]

Father is all non Christian music sinful?

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

beautiful melodic secular music exist, there are other kinds of secular music that digs into what is beautiful in man and embodies what is perverse instead.

[@bradvincent2586]

Absolutely not. Also many “Christian” songs are nothing more than secular philosophy in the name of Jesus

[@s.d.berquist6866]

One must use discernment

[@myeyeshearyou]

@@bradvincent2586I think you got that backwards…many secular songs are taken straight from biblical concepts and beliefs. There is no greater way to describe unconditional love, joy unspeakable or the peace that surpasses all understanding than to read what God has spoken in Holy Scripture. Hollywood and the secular music industry know it well…and then take credit for something they could never put into words unless spoken by God Himself first.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

@@bradvincent2586the musical swill they call ‘worship’ on those Protestant radio stations is an instantaneous hurl trigger. I literally can’t listen to one bar of it. Terribly misplaced idea of religious music. Look at the harm Hillsong, et. al. have done spiritually and aesthetically. Training people to live by emotions. Might as well go to a rave.

[@milenadimovska6510]

Dearest father, Please reconsider drugging your self with coffee 🙏just like alcohol and cigarettes it is a legal drug, but still very potent, highly addictive and harmful to the kidneys and the brain😳