The End of The World - A Talk by Fr Seraphim Rose

[@PriestPhotios]

Every time I read or listen to Fr. Seraphim, I can only wonder what he might have said concerning our current times. I feel the same when I read St. John of Kronstadt and he cautions against distractions. The same goes for all the Fathers and Mothers of the Church; compared to our modern days of instant communication, distraction and gratification, and the omnipresence of it, they had no idea! In other words, they thought things were bad then, imagine how damned they thought we'd all be if they could speak to us now! God help us!

[@adambenedict6155]

Father, I ask for your blessing. I have Fr. Seraphim Rose and St. John of Kronstadt's books on my nightstand next to my bed. I suspect that Blessed Fr. Seraphim Rose (and St. John of Kronstadt no less) would be somewhat distraught by the fact that we (particularly those of us in the west) have willingly subjected our minds and hearts to the distractions of social media, entertainment, internet, 24-hour news cycles, texting and all sorts of manufactured crises and ideas that come out of our cultures. And how all these serve to to hinder our ability to think critically and clearly about what really matters. Further, excessive attention to all these hinders our ability to genuinely worship, love, and serve the Holy Trinity. In the face of unparalleled opportunity to learn more about our Lord through the Orthodox Faith, we squander it for "likes" on Facebook or Instagram or the latest series on TV. Back in 1985, a non-religious author named Neil Postman warned about this in his book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death". May Blessed Fr. Seraphim Rose and St. John of Kronstadt both pray for us. And May the Holy Trinity have Mercy on Us! - Adam in Illinois, USA

[@carolweaver3269]

In Christ, Fr Photios Cooper Would also be interested. It is now another Sodom and Gomorrah type of living in many ways. Hard to not be involved in anyway, and yet we must remain as much as possible " In this world; but not part of this world' My thought is that we are pulling toward Socialism/Communism now, right in the U.S.A.! Anyone in old Russia at time of Communism,(which I was not one, but understand those who were) would know that is not a good direction at all. Much anger and viciousness from those who want t his end is obvious. The love of sin and killing, and allowing terror to be part of us calling it proper. The 'eternal life' is far, far from the minds of most. We, the people who are children of our Lord, will be waiting with enough oil to fill out lamps! He will come for us and we will find our way to peace with Him. Presently, we can do our best to help those who will listen, search and find, we pray.

[@vladimir_vrangel]

Try to find and read words of Saint Paisios of Mount Athos ... He actually described times that we live in right now ... And he gives good advices on saving the soul ...

[@icxcnika9399]

@Revelation "Let no one, by appealing to the weight and multitude of his sins, say that he is unworthy of the monastic vow, and for the love of pleasure disparage himself, excusing himself with excuses in his sins. Where there is much corruption, considerable treatment is needed to draw out all the impurity. The healthy do not go to a hospital." Saint John Climacus

[@kathleankeesler1639]

St John the Wonder Worker of Shanghai and San Francisco. He was Fr Seraphim Rose mentor. St John pray for us sinners.

[@OrthodoxMidwife]

I am a young Catechumen, and I thank God for the ability to record wise talks like this one so that I may listen and learn. Thank you, Orthodox Witness, for posting this for us.

[@vladlivia1846]

Fii binecuvântat de Bunul Dumnezeu! Mă bucur pentru toți tinerii care îl caută și găsesc un drum spre adevăr! Poate fii greu , dar vei primii lumina drept călăuză!

[@gambinalvarezjesusdavid3454]

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on those in the tombs bestowing life!

[@KushDaddy333]

Amen

[@ilonalosaka45]

Amen

[@MikhailKrilov]

Христос воскресе из мертвых, / смертию смерть поправ / и сущим во гробех живот даровав!

[@suzanastojkovska6925]

Амин❤

[@aloofmilitaryveteran5023]

The issue of love growing cold in our society is astonishing.

[@vessietaylor2938]

This means we must worship God more to love as He would as things look dim. Now I call that kind of work...real work lol.. I hope our Lord builds up our strengths and courage to endure what is now or coming. 🕊

[@guineapigsith699]

@@vessietaylor2938 Amen to that

[@maryhowsrd3381]

Yes especially in the family it's appalling the rich get richer and we are no longer family

[@vessietaylor2938]

@@maryhowsrd3381 I see it as the rich keeps getting deeper and deeper down the grave eating and drinking the blood of Saint who was decieved like all of mankind from the beginning to the end. What we lost was communion with our family here and to say we lost them after their physical body dies only God decides. The love ones I lost I make sure they are well remembered for the good things they passed to me to move closer to the things which lifts up our Father who is in Heaven watching all thing unfold. Anger and despair over the concerns of this world is evil. This offence, I believe was what began the very 1st sin and is what needs to be burned.

[@maryhowsrd3381]

@@vessietaylor2938 I'm having masses after death said for my family the grown children don't that saddens me they donate animal shelter

[@plavaspilja9154]

Serbia loves Fr Seraphim!

[@fansofst.maximustheconfess8226]

Amin!

[@solyoluborovic5751]

☦❤

[@joylarson9040]

And Serbia is loved by us all❤❤❤

[@jorhay1]

Nice to hear and see my old Staretz. I miss the old Platina days, and our horrible singing.. :) Blessed Father Seraphim pray to God for us.

[@icxcnika2616]

You met Personaly Seraphim Rose?

[@harrietharlow9929]

Me, too. I was not cut out for a life in the forest or desert but I remember how wonderful it was.

[@applesnicolle5144]

@@harrietharlow9929 / Wow you were there?! Did Seraphim Rose have clairvoyance?

[@applesnicolle5144]

Jorhay1- 🌷🔆Please tell us was Seraphim clairvoyant & predict what we’re going thru?

[@harrietharlow9929]

You are not the only one. I can hear Fr. Herman singing if I close my eyes and let my mind go back. I can't believe it has been 40 years already and September 2nd will be the 40th anniversary of Fr. Seraphim's repose. I was at Lesna Convent in France when news reached us that Fr. Seraphim had reposed. I pray we may all meet in Paradise one day. When sad I think back to taking a break outside during All-Night Vigil to get a drink of water and hearing the wind in the trees mixed with the sound of singing from the Church. It was Fr. Seraphim and Fr. Herman who introduced me, so to speak, to St. John Maximovitch of San Francisco and Shanghai, who has been a great blessing in my life.

[@lucaazeri1700]

Fr.Seraphim pray for us sinner !!!

[@MadCapMag]

Father Seraphim will hear your prayers, not read your comments.

[@lucaazeri1700]

@@MadCapMag Fr. Seraphim is my confessor . he is my spiritual father. so ., have a nice day !

[@dianaarakelyan8503]

Azeri shit

[@madcyborg1822]

@@MadCapMag Do you think St. Seraphim Rose and God are only bound to the physical realm?

[@followeroftheway8454]

How can you use such an image for your hashtag? Ungodly comes to mind.

[@philotheou7100]

we need wisdom like this now more than ever in these times

[@JulianLife81]

@@danielvanorden230 and some of the people he interviews. Not all but some of them.

[@ameliacampbell5246]

Agreed

[@saso3545]

PRAYER BROTHERS & SISTERS! 🙏🏼☦️

[@OrthodoxyAndEnvironment]

It shocks me as to how incredibly poignant and intelligent Fr Seraphim's audience is - the questions they ask, and comments they make really add to Fr Seraphim's discussion.

[@adrianc1264]

he gives them time to think and clearly articulate their questions without jumping in, which gives them space to be precise or to clarify what theyre getting at

[@user-sl9pt6xm8r]

I agree

[@adrianc1264]

It's very comforting to hear this great man in these trying times. He calms me down

[@Hap674]

Pray for me and all the world Father Seraphim, I feel so sad when I look at the world and see that so many people don’t know who Jesus Christ really is. ✝️✝️✝️

[@dianadallalnctmrcmc9303]

We need to tell them.

[@charliechurch5004]

Me too friend

[@D_R757]

Amazing to hear his voice, we're lucky that God still blesses us with such wise teachers in the modern age

[@dianadallalnctmrcmc9303]

Sounds like a Vineyard Pentacostal service. As a protestant I saw healings in this context but I never saw healings with laughter. I have seen people slain in the spirit as they call it and I myself got slain in the spirit with the Holy Spirit when 2 catholics prayed for me about 35 years ago. I literally felt my godpoured love all over me. I was going through horrific times so this was a great consolation. No one was laughing. I think the enemy destroyed a good thing by using laughter and irreverence. In my mind it's a huge shame. The laughter movement came about 20 years after I attended vineyard. I became orthodox in 1999.I've realized since then God's grace is far bigger and sometimes more strange than we can all fathom.

[@daughterofalmasih7013]

Thank you Lord Jesus for this man

[@MrChi31]

من وين انتي؟

[@Simonet1309]

Listening to this I keep find myself saying, “ you ain’t seen nothing yet!”. Lord, have mercy.

[@MargaritaSage]

As do I often repeat this! He shared many great signs in this talk and cleared up some misunderstandings. Grab hold, while there's a hold to grab.

[@guineapigsith699]

@@MargaritaSage zing

[@picarddmp07]

Thanks. Father Seraphim. From Reader Seraphim Picard, Holy Resurrection Orthodox Mission Waynesville, NC.

[@gioulikaripidou6356]

Thank God.Padre Seraphim Rose is alive.

[@alfaq654]

Some combination of nerding out on the band Sleep and dozens of hours of listening to Dr. Jordan Peterson's "The Psychological Significance of the Bible" lecture series led me here. Death to the world. Amen. 🙏

[@David-cz1el]

Check out the band "Om". Definite Orthodoxy influence.

[@alfaq654]

@@David-cz1el Advaitic Songs is one of my favorite records of all times.

[@DiamorphineDeath]

Sleep is always solid, as was Om, but go straight to the source and don’t take anything pertaining to Scripture of sacred texts from Peterson. A materialist will always have a materialistic conception of life, so why use him to relay what other sources do to a much higher degree?

[@alfaq654]

@@DiamorphineDeath I had completely turned my back on the Bible and its teachings until I watched Peterson's lecture series and I'd be willing to bet there are thousands of others out there like me who have reopened their minds to Christ because of it. That being said, I am obviously expanding my search beyond Peterson, otherwise we wouldn't be conversing in the comment section of a Fr. Seraphim Rose lecture! 😉

[@DiamorphineDeath]

@@alfaq654 This is true, I am attempting to point out the bit anyway that it would be doing a disservice to the word to stick with an atheist's conception of Christianity and follow that individual into matters of transcendence/theology when he has no understanding of it as such. Especially with the gnostic aspects of his own profession, with the likes of Jung and Nietzsche being center place to his understanding of ultimate reality, which again, is a materialist conception of his own making. Just throwing that out there dude, as a lot of people can find God, or Logos, or what have you through even an oppositional aspect, as St. Augustine talks about; one just has to be always aware of the fact that the trap can be fallen into when such company is kept beyond the point of usefulness.

[@lmn7130]

We cannot change ourselves although we fight everyday. How comes we want to change others? We want to help them, of course, but God knows our hearts. Do not try to change people if God let us free. My heart is crying for those who do not fight the good fight, for those indulging themselves in darkness but i cannot do anything, just praying, for only God knows if there is salvation for their souls. Jesus Great Love exceeds my limited powers and views. Eternal Glory to our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Son of God! 🙏

[@carolweaver3269]

If you try to help someone as you know they are turning in the wrong direction, in this day, they will block you or leave you and they feel you are toxic. They will not listen anyway and they need prayers many times and that is all one can do you are right. People are taught if anyone disagrees with you or your "choices: they are toxic" and not to be bothered about. So only the Lord could set them straight. Only the Lord can help them. but yet they must be willing to turn from the sins once they see they have gone in the wrong direction. We must try, but not in a way that sounds too strong as many cannot handle anyone knowing something they may not be doing right. Not easy, but must just point it out with an example of your own faults perhaps? Showing you know from making mistakes too Sad but true, how we can't be "direct" in our approach if they are family or someone we may want around us in any way at all. Sometimes we must only pray and leave it to the Lord.

[@SarahBaer-wd7iq]

Better to indulge and get something on this earth and go to hell than try to love God and get nothing on this earth and go hell. Heaven is apparently an option for those who love God every time I tried and trusted my life just got worse and he continually lets other people rape me in multiple ways like financially sexually physically mentally emotionally

[@lmn7130]

What a Wonderful and Lightful Soul he was! I named my little boy after the Father Seraphim! I red some of his books... Fr Seraphim pray for us!!! 😇🙏

[@LA-kc7ev]

I recommend his book, "Nihilism". It is wonderful to hear his voice after reading.

[@georgestathakaros9855]

Have been praying to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to open these ears to his word and have discovered this seemingly out of the blue. Thank you lord.

[@11Popson11]

If a father sees his son coming home he will come half way to greet him. If he cannot see him come towards home he cannot come half way to greet him.

[@adrianc1264]

@@11Popson11 nice

[@anastasiadare9231]

Glory to God for this talk. Holy Spirit be our guide.

[@rodboy4461]

LIGHT FROM THE WEST ST SERAPHIM ROSE SLAVA BOGU ZA SJA!

[@virginiaday2934]

Father Seraphim Rose pray to God for us!

[@Boricode]

His humility is so admirable and humbling. What a person. All the best to monk innocent.

[@nickfury5339]

Walking the walk upsets the lost. Facing martyrdom just comes with the territory & when you wage war on Satan's kingdom, the attacks increase. This man is good, and his information lines up, but meek Christians have their place. We all have our callings. He's a good teacher. God bless!

[@j_shelby_damnwird]

Blessed Father, you were so right. Lord have Mercy.

[@JulianLife81]

How could someone 'thumbs down' this video? My goodness, what is wrong with people....

[@elenihelenmelb]

Julian Glory be to God+++ ...narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be who find it (Mt 7:14) A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecute Me, they will persecute you; if they have kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all this they will do to you on My account, because they do not know Him who sent Me (Jn 15.20-21) For “indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim 3.12). Most likely random trolls with no WISDOM Glory be to God+++

[@merlinidlehands3302]

@@elenihelenmelb your sure not loving and are judgemental I dont need what you got you dont seem any different from the Unbvelivers

[@lmn7130]

Who love the dark, let them stay in dark if they want it, who love the light let them growing up in light...

[@seraphim3r]

@@merlinidlehands3302 it's funny how atheists seem to think "don't judge" means we aren't supposed to call out bad behavior.

[@merlinidlehands3302]

@@seraphim3r Some of the harder teachers I ever had were Orthadox priests and I loved them ,some need the truth like me who are not so bright lol

[@gabrielwarkencharczuk3750]

The ressurection troparion in the start is very touching and powerfull.

[@fred68109]

Amazing. Thank you for posting this!

[@nickykeightley9355]

Father Seraphim, please pray for our sins.

[@pistiagapi850]

არაფერი მესმის მაგრამ შემძრა მისი ხმა რომ გავიგონე. ქართულად ვკითხულობ და მიყვარს უსაზღვროდ❤

[@oanagrossu1532]

what a beautiful rare document! wish I could turn it louder - wonder if it be trancribed - I love the way Fr Searphim clears his voice - his matter-of-fact, down to earth tone, his masterful way of argumentation - thank you, ORTHODOX WITNESS!

[@OrthodoxWitness]

You're welcome, Adriana.

[@dovganjuk]

There is a transcript in Russian. azbyka.ru/otechnik/Serafim_Rouz/pravoslavnoe-mirovozzrenie/

[@olgathehandmaid]

I’ve boosted the volume to this recording on my channel if you’re still interested.

[@oanagrossu1532]

@@olgathehandmaid Oh but I AM! How's to be done? Thank you ever so much!

[@olgathehandmaid]

@@oanagrossu1532 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHSsfX2dh7akia8

[@user-uv1rr5xk8i]

Please pray for me, to be back with my family.

[@BecomeAnOrthodoxChristian]

31:40-31:55 I can't help but think of Seattle with the Capitol Hill autonomous zone.

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Explore this truth Trayvonhoax.com Presented by Joel Gilbert. Roots of today's racist propaganda

[@l21n18]

@@kathleankeesler1639 ok there love how you’re the mirror image of those you dislike

[@joer9156]

@@l21n18 how does showing the lies of racists make someone racist?

[@l21n18]

@@joer9156 because your claims are silly and just the mirror image

[@Kathy12Ray]

Listening to this on 3rd January 2021. How timely a sermon.

[@kakhag]

Orthodox teaching is beyond time it is always modern

[@panokostouros7609]

@@kakhag Based

[@emmaschauer5409]

Just finished reading Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. This talk was referenced in the Epilogue. I'm so thankful to have found it. Thank you for making this talk available.

[@anastasiadare9231]

may worldliness not occupy our Orthodox Faithful

[@elenihelenmelb]

Blessed Fr seraphim Rose your prayers+ Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you . . . (Lk 6.27-38) Let all Glory be to God+++ 28Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29/ but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30/ and so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31/ In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. 32/ Remember Lot's wife. 33/ Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it (Luke 17:28-33 All sin is truly forgiven / can be forgiven - blasphemy of the +Holy Spirit cannot- How can one be forgiven if he/ she wants no true forgiveness or repentence - Gods mercy is GREAT but not without our free will to accept righteousness through faith and works+++ Glory be to God for all things+++

[@lenacrang4025]

the 'Annihilators' of the past 2000 years of Christian Persecutors was and is as real today - we all need to consecrate ourselves to the church to survive out of the onslaught of such thinkers! - systems of belief - we are stronger now as humans surviving out of knowing what to do - Jesus confronted the 'apocalyptic' activities of his day, and for the same reason as his followers we all need to say 'no' - keep walking quietly away from such dynamics of abuse (physical, emotional, financial, narcissism) - knowing when to say no to such covert and overt dynamics - and to be away clear of their lead - leads that deter away from the truth - the only choice has always been life - God is Love - the 'Great Schism' in theory did succeed - Jesus

[@zechariahlynch9635]

Thank you so much for posting this! Such lights must be set on a table for all to see.

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Thank you for this gift.

[@stanley1554]

he had such peaceful eyes.

[@TW-fs3fj]

May Fr Seraphim's memory be eternal ☦️

[@Loved291]

We Georgians 🇬🇪love father seraphim ☦️💗

[@ΦωτεινήΣκλιβάνου]

Πολύ θα σας παρακαλούσα να βάζατε ελληνικούς υπότιτλους, για εμάς που δεν γνωρίζουμε αγγλικά!!!! Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ!

[@zoejay]

I wish my Greek was better to do the translation but unfortunately I would struggle a lot. I pray that someone who is fluent both in Greek and English does this.

[@swavvy1]

Such a beautiful and wise video. May God bless you for posting this.

[@Abs22415]

I love this God bless you ☦️

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Blessed John, the wonderworker *book by Seraphim Rose.

[@devattack]

Speaks the Truth

[@MyWorld-bu4ib]

I recommend the book Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan from Father Spyridon Bailey. It's sort of a spin off from Fr. Rose's book, where he writes about current times, particularly the New World Order, banking, secret societies, mind control via media, education, etc.

[@noway165]

Agree. Important book.

[@Smiley_Face0]

His KZbin channel is very important. All Orthodox Christians should be aware of Satan and his cabal conspiring

[@katherinecross8059]

Christ Is Risen!! Glory to God! Please add to the description when this was recorded and where.

[@ProphetPX]

Listening to one of his audience members mention the old TV show "That's Incredible!" makes it clear that this audio recording is somewhere from the 1980s. Wow.

[@AFlamingSword]

Loved that Show! Fran Tarkenton FTW.

[@joeskill4663]

Good observation..👍🏽

[@05091959]

It would seem that this talk was given around 1977-79 as he speaks of Russia being 60 years into their 70 year experiment with communism.

[@annapugachova2376]

God gave Russia 70 years for every member of Saint Nickolai's family - 10 years for Zcar, 10 - for his wife Alicks, and 10s for Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasiya and son -Alexei. 7 *10=70.

[@annapugachova2376]

Thats what St Pasha of Sarov monastery said. the prophecy.

[@SocratesPh.D]

it had to have been given in 1981 because he talks about the New York blackout that happened "four years ago" and that happened in 1977

[@panokostouros7609]

Very astute of you. Father Seraphim passed away in 1982 so it's definitely possible

[@colindree9802]

As a former communist, wow, his explanation of communism completely changed my view of it.

[@carolynpagliuca5657]

Yes he knew about much even the plague which would change origin to give a wrong design. Tel a vision changing channels Right St Seriphim Rose❣😇

[@Noone-rt6pw]

It doesn't really matter when the world ends as everyone worlds end when they die. What matters is where you stand with God when you die. I have to come back and say, If Choki Motobu was such a solid figure and so well skilled, he may have trained to evade take downs, as well as establish his base, where with fists conditioned by makiwara, not to mention his elbows and body by dancing, where I think I saw it said he was called Monkey Man because of climbing around the roofs of houses or something like that. All that, with base established, he may have been able to deliver some punishment. Anyone have any more information? I forgot to finish, with a life time of karate training, he still died. Where self defense is good, but devotion to preventing harm and death still does not stop death. Living right with others is part of the course for everlasting life.

[@Romios_]

Αθάνατος!

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Lord have mercy on my soul.

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Thank you.

[@OrthodoxWitness]

You're welcome, Kathlean.

[@spoocyguy]

Orthodox Witness how many recordings of father seraphim are there ya think?

[@scottnorris5683]

It's coming!

[@Zzzz-h1r]

Love will always win 🥇

[@nathanland8246]

34:47 - For the rebuilding of Babel a black block (akin to a burnt brick and bituminous mortar see Gen. 11:3) seems appropriate. Having rejected The Cornerstone, the UN fashions it’s own and bows down to it.

[@katherinecross8059]

Have you seen the EU building in Brussels. Built exactly like the Tower of Babel. Thank God the UK have left, and not increase in transition period. Glory to God !!

[@Rasmajnoon]

Black cube,even the kaaba in mecca,,saturnian cube,satanic symbol,4th dimensional hell

[@zoejay]

@@katherinecross8059 UK is the most occultic country ever. Leaving EU was just a part of deception.

[@ulfcarlfinnes2820]

At all times, people have believed to predict the destruction of the world. Yet, the world has gone underneath each and every one of us when our trip has come. What happens when we die there are also many who think to know what will happen, but I personally think that we will be accounted for how we have lived our lives. If this is a right resource, I can not know but still choose to believe it, because this philosophy I think is for the benefit of ourselves and our fellow human beings.

[@thelastshallbefirst3653]

@Bert Clayton I don't know if I'll make it because of my wicked past, but I love God and I'm trying to love people more. The world is more wicked then ever, and almost nothing is pure in these days. But each day i will try, no matter how maddening this world is. God bless you, keep me in your prayers.

[@choux1969]

@@thelastshallbefirst3653 You have already made it...you have recognized the true way of redemption is changing not only your behaviour but your heart towards your fellow man...compassion for another is the ultimate form of love and by recognizing God in me is your surrender to the love of God for all...the past has always been gone, you are not made up of a past but only this point forward and its "present" opportunities...blessed be King James

[@billybenson3834]

I wish that someone could clean up the ambient noises that plague his discussions. That would really help with getting out his teaching to others.

[@milagroman75]

Are you having trouble understanding? I have software that is often effective in suppressing high and low frequency noises that can distract. If you’d like I could attempt to do so and send you a copy. God Bless

[@asamanthinketh5944]

@@milagroman75 upload it in your channel please

[@stuckmannen3876]

Thanks for sharing!

[@followeroftheway8454]

The falling away from Christ and God, a falling away from our faith, and following Satan instead, has caused the downfall of humanity. All from the garden of Eden. We are indeed in the end of times.

[@user-sl9pt6xm8r]

The internet of things, machine learning and artificial intelligence all come to mind.

[@iktomi5]

Very good another gift. cheers. The poor quality, my hearing & a tape recording, surely made it a piece of work! little comfort... grace hu? have to listen again. Peace ⚜🕊🕯💯

[@kathleankeesler1639]

St. John the Wonder Worker of Shanghai and San Francisco was Fr Seraphim Rose mentor. ST JOHN pray for us sinners.

[@farriss-h2c]

listening to this after he was canonized hits different

[@drdexter33]

Thank you so much for posting this important lecture by Father Seraphim Rose. Do you know the history of when and where this talk was given? Thanks and God Bless you!

[@mitchelfischer2571]

He says that Solzhenitsyn gave his talk at Harvard "two or three years ago." That famous commencement address happened in 1978, so this must be roughly 1981.

[@MikhailKrilov]

For those interested, this talk is now corrected without the background noise on my channel for you to also hear. Please let me know if you would like a new copy to upload here. A.Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address mentioned here is also on my channel. Blessings and Glory to God. Christ will come again.

[@juliasaunders6866]

If you opened this for Community Contributions, I could fix the (pretty bad) captions

[@OrthodoxWitness]

Hi Julia. Thank you for your offer. It's now open.

[@juliasaunders6866]

@@OrthodoxWitness Working on it...!

[@juliasaunders6866]

I hope you got the corrected captions. They might not be perfect but I think better than the automated ones.

[@OrthodoxWitness]

@@juliasaunders6866 Thanks. Are they showing? I never saw the original captions. Also, I just read this: support.google.com/youtube/thread/61967856?hl=en

[@juliasaunders6866]

@@OrthodoxWitness Hi, no, I'm afraid the automatic captions are the ones that are still showing, with many errors. When i submitted mine, a message came up saying that they would have to be checked by someone - I assumed that would be you (and the link you provided shows why). If you use KZbin studio, the community captions (rather than automatic captions) would have to be selected. I hope it works because it took me a few days to do! Good talk, though. I thought it was definitely worth making it more accessible.

[@susannahkelpyotter5595]

Thank you for this

[@WarInHeaven]

I like how he says to a question america is no more significant than the spiritual life of Uganda. It is really cool to hear that sober take because so many people think america is the special boy at the end of the world which is a very drunk eschatology. Don’t get me wrong as an American it is only natural to contemplate our role in it all but I just really like how he doesn’t just give in to apocalyptic visions of America only

[@ДимитърЧервенаков]

Hi, everyone. May I ask, is there a text document with the full speech of Fr Seraphim Rose? I mean, the speech to be written down somewhere. Because I'm not a native English speaker and it's a bit hard for me to understand everything when hearing... But if it is written text, I could understand much better. Thanks in advance.

[@zoejay]

There is a transcription of the video. Click on the link belove the video that says 'more'. Scroll down a bit and you will see a link for the transcription.

[@s.d.berquist6866]

The transcription is not completely accurate. I suggest you reach out to St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, CA. They probably have these transcripts in book or booklet form.

[@konstantinjvakine8310]

Fr. Seraphim's writings and speeches are available as books at Jordanville Monastery's online bookstore. Best wishes!

[@richardkasper5822]

Fig trees symbolically represent the wealth of a family.

[@danielbrowniel]

My problem with Amillennialism.. the description that during that reign, if a man died under 100 years old, it would be as if a child had died.. pointing back to the antediluvian times where people lived 700+ years, and that restoring of the earth.. If the millennial reign is to just be a metaphor (which I agree is a beautiful one), would you say these additional descriptions have meaning in your metaphor, or are they abnormally specific vestigial details. In either case, I am satisfied in my God, and like David, I will not be fully satisfied until I awake in His likeness.

[@katherinecross8059]

You are Eternal if you are Baptised into Christ and recieve the Holy Gifts unto Eternal Life as Orthodox.

[@George-ur8ow]

Premillenialism has been heresy for 1700 years. Christ brought the Kingdom of God with him, and "His Kingdom shall have no end"

[@danielbrowniel]

@@George-ur8ow than why did Christ pray, "Your kingdom come"? if it was already on earth? I look around, I see darkness.

[@danielbrowniel]

@@George-ur8ow heresy to who? the same church that set up a pope? I wouldn't mind what the whore of babylon thinks.

[@Jere616]

@@George-ur8ow Do you know where the official document(s) that condemn chiliasm (AKA Premillennialism) as a heresy can be found?

[@Unseen.Warfare]

I’m home.

[@laceygreenwood]

Sure hope the subtitles can be fixed! They're terrible! I see one person volunteered to fix them! It would be better to remove them completely than to leave them on this excellent presentation from Fr. Seraphim. .

[@treenelson4063]

It could be KZbin's audio too text generator. It's like asking Satin to translate a monks words to you.

[@laceygreenwood]

@@treenelson4063 It's obviously done by a very poor computer program, that's for sure. Not sure if Satan can access computer programs, except indirectly through human means.

[@treenelson4063]

@@laceygreenwood Well said.

[@iTZxaFRo]

God please forgive us

[@bradleykrebs9911]

His voice sounds really similar to Timothy Leary

[@joshua_finch]

He was a student of Alan Watts. They and the beats, the American accent of that time and place just sounded like this.

[@theclassic6198]

Timothy Leary is whack. Father Seraphim Rose the Hieromonk is a speaker of Truth.

[@merlinidlehands3302]

@@theclassic6198 BIG DEAL

[@gabrielibrahmbreivikrobich3956]

Is any of this will come soon i m not hearing that seraphim waking disney land . Fking rollercoaster show

[@helgihorvatsonn7445]

I am dead inside. I love noone, nor myself. I believe in nothing, yet I have a fear in me because of that. I am a sinner like no other. adultery, sexual perversion, lies, racism etc. are a part of me and feel like dirt impossible to wash off. I sometimes watch these kind of videos in hopes to learn something or to find some explanation for my questions, but so far nothing clicked in me. I have a contempt for God, I have a contempt for the devil, even though I don´t believe in none of them. Every day I live is a monotonous hell, and the world around me and the people seem to make me feel worse. Father Seraphim Rose had something in his life I don´t. He bouth a pice of land in the Californian wildernes and lived alone in peace. I wish I could do the same. Why am I typing this? I have no idea. If there is a God, I believe I have sinned so much and transgressed so much against him that he couldn´t possibly forgive me any of it.

[@danielcarlsen8975]

What you just described is exactly how I feel most of the time as well.. and I’m a christian! I wrestle with my faith quite often and some times wish I was atheist so I could become more worldly and happy as a result. Believe me, I’ve sinned as much as you- WHILE being a so-called christian.. that’s even worse. If he forgives me he can forgive you too. Only thing separating us is what we believe.

[@truckdriver8416]

The Fig Tree to be green is most likely talkin about the state of Israel. Remember the fig trees represents Israel so if it's getting green meaning it's coming back to life the end of the world is near.

[@MM-qk9wx]

Do we know what year this lecture was given in?

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Marcus Martin YES I was at this lecture 1981 UCSC

[@weemouse1959]

Can someone please let me know what translation of the Bible Fr Seraphim Rose is using. Thank you. 💖🕊️😇

[@guineapigsith699]

1:16:19 - fandom as religious expression, embeds deeper each generation - consider if this is the value of Disney making an endless string of terrible sequels; not to make money, but to keep the mythology of Star Wars linking the generations in order to implant a false reality through a false religion. The spongy human soul internalises it, where the conscious mind may laugh it off as good fun. And like epigenetics, for each generation that expresses the behaviour, the behaviour becomes more like natural.

[@Metallislayer1]

Thank you for sharing this enlightening observation

[@guineapigsith699]

@@Metallislayer1 My absolute pleasure, thank you for the compliment! It was really just a note for my own reference later. I know very little of the Orthodox Church. I've been watching a lot of End Times stuff lately. This is my 2nd Fr Seraphim video and my 1st lecture of his. What a fascinatingly insightful man.

[@Unseen.Warfare]

@@guineapigsith699 yea, he is. But it’s very easy to miss the point of it all and lump it into the “world” religion category.

[@guineapigsith699]

@@Unseen.Warfare I may have missed the point then. What do you mean? Please explain.

[@micahjobbins7041]

❤

[@junesilvermanb2979]

Sacred Heart wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Heart

[@oscrates9879]

Anyone know what year this talk was recorded?

[@oanagrossu1532]

when was this recorded? is it really Fr Seraphim/s voice?

[@oanagrossu1532]

thank you so very much!

[@c.d.3230]

1981

[@c.d.3230]

Yes it is Seraphim Rose voice

[@prayunceasingly2029]

I wonder when this talk was given? The 1960's?

[@jamesbancroft2467]

he mentioned “since 1974” so it’d be after then

[@elon_bust]

He mentions the 1977 New York blackout being 3 years ago so

[@prayunceasingly2029]

@@jamesbancroft2467 Oh ok thanks

[@prayunceasingly2029]

@@elon_bust Thanks

[@elon_bust]

@@prayunceasingly2029 🙏🏻

[@JRR821]

The discussion Could end after minute 14, and 22 seconds

[@goldersgreen2177]

Just read "the root of of the revolution of the modern age", obviously a very intelligent man

[@hannahs1683]

What is it being sung at the beginning?

[@casiana7410]

Paschal Troparion: Christ is risen from the death, trembling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.

[@hannahs1683]

Casiana thanks

[@yannisch4741]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iprRnaGDf72Zpsk The Greek Orthodox version (same words, in Hellenic)

[@cuttlefisch]

Orthodox Easter hymn.

[@Spookyjordan]

What book about music is he talking about? It seems like he said it was written by Frankenstein???

[@randyw.8781]

I would state rev 11 is a sign that can't be mistaken. 1260 days in Jerusalem as I read. Its end of the age not end of the world.

[@panokostouros7609]

Perhaps. Could mean THE end or AN end. Regardless the solution is the same for both: Deep and cathartic repentance.

[@yannisch4741]

According to orthodox saints, Jesus Christ will come again to renew all life and the cosmos. It will be the end of everything as WE know it.

[@Orthodoxcuber]

Is this a real recording?

[@biljanamiljkovic4646]

Just wondering , does anyone know if there is a written version of this talk? Thank you.

[@martha-anastasia]

His books... worth buying

[@biljanamiljkovic4646]

@@treenelson4063 Thank you all!

[@davidj.maryl.bechtle3766]

Is this available in a printed format?...thank you...

[@adrianc1264]

I'd like that too

[@stevennjeruh]

Where can one get it in written form?

[@elenihelenmelb]

Steven Glory be to God+

[@Kathy12Ray]

@@elenihelenmelb Thank you! Just found the link.