Why Do Orthodox Christians Repeat 'Lord Have Mercy'?

[@enniomoriconne8068]

I don't know why but I started crying while watching this. I'm not a Christian

[@brotheraugustine]

Words borne of the Holy Spirit can impact our souls on a deeper layer than any rational, logical, or analytical philosophy could ever hope to achieve. Glory to God for sharing a taste of grace with you :)

[@tyxikosgatopoulos3094]

Then with the grace of God.become one.

[@sinfulyetsaved]

The tears you cry my brother are the tears only God gives to a broken and contrite heart. Learn about orthodoxy and begin to heal your soul.

[@tyxikosgatopoulos3094]

@@sinfulyetsaved No one could say it better. God bless you.

[@sinfulyetsaved]

@@tyxikosgatopoulos3094 meh I'm just a dirty old sinner to God be all the glory.

[@johntsialtas1688]

lord Jesus christ son of god have mercy on me a sinner . So happy in my heart and soul that so many people have seen and heard the orthodox faith . As a Greek orthodox Christian to all people peace and love to all . great video

[@vuk87]

John Tsialtas Sorry for interfering, brother, but the more correct phrase would be: orthodox christian of Greek church, or with Greek origin. I'm afraid, although it wasn't your intention, thay people might think there is Greek orthodoxy, or Russian, or Serbian etc. That's why it is important to separate adjectives in a proper way. God bless.

[@wearecitizenstoo668]

Вук М. It doesn't take long to discover that orthodox is one & the Russia, Greek etc aren't divided dominations like the west.

[@kennethhamblett5019]

that's right, sin is a great dirty pollution infecting the sinner, those around the sinner as well. praise God for Jesus Christ. it feels wonderful to repent. i once had a certain addiction since 8th grade. in my mid 30's i got tired of being a slave of that addiction/sin, asked Christ 4 help. now these days, i barely have any desires for what i used to be addicted too, please pray. i also believe i've been called to minister the sacrements too, in time. God bless i love you all, from a roman catholic slowly understanding orthodoxy. hugs! :) xoxoxoxo

[@mimoabs5163]

Is it the porn addiction? I am ashamed to tell it to my spiritual father… :/

[@LoganSewell83]

This starts to make me feel hopeful.

[@masi7iyah140]

i’m a non baptised christian and i want to learn more about the orthodox church and maybe become orthodox.

[@ΔοσίθεοςΤρνηνητς]

I hope God shows you the way. You are wellcome! Hallelu-YAH! ☦️♥️

[@Chatsworth1979]

Thank you +1

[@paulwilliams9207]

Kyrie Jesu Xriste eleison me Kyrie Jesu Xriste eleison me Kyrie Jesu Xriste eleison me 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️Heal my soul for we have sinned against thee. Orthodox church is wonderful, thank you for this lovely post!

[@Caledoniadream]

What the greek word "eleison" means is actually both "have mercy" and "heal me".

[@thestraightroad305]

Beautiful.

[@mariusleroy8895]

Kyrie eleison

[@ethiop_frum]

Греческое "элейсон" происходит от слова "елей", то есть растительное масло. В древние времена застаревшие раны с коростами сперва обрабатывали растительным маслом, чтобы смягчить рану, подготовить ее к лечению. Сегодняшняя медицина уже не использует елей и вино. А в притче о милостивом самарянине Вы можете увидеть буквально, как самарянин обрабатывает и смазывает раны избитого человека маслом! А ещё елеем благословляли гостя, входящего в дом. Также освященным елеем благословляли на священническое служение. Также и на царство помазывали...

[@peteraazar9442]

sooo powerful words very deep and have meaning amazing lady

[@CariBaez]

How I hope roman and Orthodox Church can come together. I feel we are the Church Jesus established and we should be together. We are team. We are Jesus true and only church. I have been watching your videos and it seems so beautiful regarding Orthodox Church since I go to roman church. I like it. May you share a video how can I find a real and good Orthodox Church? Please. Thank you. God bless you! :)

[@kitteehcat]

The divergences are far too big. Read about ecumenism and its heresy. The Orthodox church doesn't want that. We are seekers of the truth.

[@LynElise25]

the Bishop of the Celtic Orthodox, not recognized among the eastern orthodox, understands and explains it best: "Indeed, the Celtic Orthodox Church (the early Christian Church of the British Isles), underwent a sort of death and resurrection of its own. It thrived and lived through a truly Golden Age. But slowly, the Roman Church forced the local Churches into it’s fold and subjected them to the Roman Church’s organization, structure and hierarchy. Ireland remained one of the last bastions of the early Christian Church as it had been founded in the British Isles by the early saints and had not yet suffered the barbarian invasions. The Roman Pope Adrian IV authorized the Norman invasion of Ireland by King Henry II of England beginning in 1169. Following several years of war, in 1172 the hierarchy of the Irish Church finally submitted to Henry II in the interest of political stability. Following this, the Irish Church (the last of the Celtic Churches) began to be assumed into to the Imperial Roman Church. But the spirit of Celtic Christianity was not annihilated completely. That spirit remained vibrant in the people who carried on its traditions and who later protested the Roman Church during the Reformation. Unfortunately, the Reformation of its own force could not restore the sacramental life of the early Celtic Church. In 1866, a Syrian Orthodox Bishop, Mar Boutros ibn Salmo Mesko (later Patriarch Mar Ignatius Peter IV of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch) consecrated Jules Ferrette as Bishop with the intention that he restore an independent Orthodox Church in the Western (Celtic) tradition. Since that time, the former Christian Church of the British Isles has slowly regained her strength and bearings. She possesses the authentic seven sacraments handed down from the Apostles. She professes the Orthodox (same) faith of the early Christians. She is Apostolic. Her mission is to love as Christ loved." . Before that he had wrote, "We are a mission parish of the Celtic Orthodox Church. You may never have heard of the Celtic Orthodox Church, but our history is long and we have many great saints interceding for us in heaven. According to tradition, St. Joseph of Arimathea was a tin trader who imported tin to Palestine from the British Isles. But, as we know, he was also a follower of Christ and gave his own tomb to Our Lord for his burial. Eventually, he was ordained a bishop and established the first Christian community in the British Isles near Glastonbury in 37 A.D. Later, tradition holds that St. Aristobulus also came to the British Isles preaching the Good News of Christ in the later part of the 1st Century. The Celtic Orthodox Church holds both St. Joseph of Arimathea and St. Aristobulus in great esteem as founders of the Christian Church in the British Isles. What is abundantly clear is that while the Roman conquest of Britain was well underway by the year 43 A.D. under the Emperor Claudius, Christianity was still persecuted and would not be accepted by the Roman Empire until nearly 300 years later. During this time the Church thrived among the Celtic peoples. But she was not a “national” church. Rather she was simply the church in her early state, unfettered and unbound by political and national interests. The Celtic peoples were scattered throughout Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany in France. They were country dwellers and had very few large cities. This fact alone greatly shaped their spirituality and the organization and administration of their churches. Prior to their conversion, the Celts practiced a pagan religion known as Druidism. However, the Druids had one particular concept that made Christianity intriguing to them. They believed that God was present in all things. Interestingly, that was precisely one of the primary Christian tenets. From St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians we are told, “[Christ] is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” Christianity saw that indeed God is present in all of his creation and in fact God called his creation “good”. This is one of the reasons for which the Druids readily embraced the primitive Christianity that could easily perceive the divine in all of creation. The Church in the British Isles continued as more or less a federation of small churches and monasteries that remained very local in their administration. Each community with its bishop was independent yet they held a common faith. From the British Isles, after the barbarian invasions, the Celtic saints took Christianity to the European Continent, to Germany, to northern Spain and northern Italy, and some made it so far as Kiev, in Russia. By and large, each newly established Christian community was supported by a monastery. This system of monastic life paralleled the monastic life of the Eastern Church communities. Indeed, there was much in common between the early Church in the British Isles and the Eastern Churches which later became know as the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches. The common elements of the Eastern Churches and the Church of the British Isles can be seen in the common symbols used by both churches (see for example, the Book of Kells and the architecture of the monastic cells on Skellig Michael in Ireland). We adhere to the first three Ecumenical Councils though we accept the teachings of the subsequent four Ecumenical Councils (but we reject the anathemas they promulgated). To understand the word ‘Orthodox’ we must compare it to the word ‘Heterodox’. We are Orthodox precisely because we believe and profess the same faith as the early Christians. We consider those who have changed or altered the faith of the early Christians to be heterodox or of a differing faith. The basic faith of the early Church was clearly established by the third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in the year 431. Certain clarifications were made (or attempted to be made) over the course of the next four councils. But the basic Christian faith and beliefs were already established early in the Church’s history (even prior to the time the scriptures of the New Testament were written and certainly well before the Bible was compiled in its present form). Whether or not the Church would continue to develop new doctrines and beliefs would become a point of contention among the individual churches."

[@mitrovdan]

@@kitteehcat very true, a coming "together" isn't neccesary... Rome left the house, they what they should do to come back, nothing more nothing less

[@whiphess7658]

The repetition of "Lord have mercy" was one of my favorite parts of attending an Orthodox service; the reverence they show towards God is unmatched.

[@bnf1210]

I hope people understand what really means to be sinful person and what means repentance and asking for mercy to Jesus Christ. The explanation of Frederica Mathewes-Green is very good. God have mercy on us all.

[@alishasiddikii2296]

If I could like a thousand times)))

[@johnsonbob720]

I pray "Lord have mercy"three thousands times.

[@dharmendrajuvvala6763]

Well crafted words dear lady.... Greetings from India....

[@सत्यमेवजयतेनानृतंसत्येनपन्थावि]

We Orthodox still love our Catholic younger brothers & sisters who left our Church centuries before because of the confusion in opinion about Nicene Creed.

[@mingcheung5428]

Lord, pls keep us pure🫂💒✝️

[@dharmendrajuvvala6763]

For some, these traditions seem to be for Idol worshippers but going deep, we find out the roots from and in the Bible itself...... These beautiful and extra ordinary prayers and practices are found in Orthodoxy and Catholism..... Grazie....

[@georgiosa.9893]

Κύριε Ιησού Χριστέ ελέησόν με

[@johntsialtas1688]

my brother i agree and thank you in correcting me . ΧΡΉΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΈΣΤΗΣ

[@michaelaladra2371]

you are the best God bless you

[@jonathanreeve7823]

Wonderful my dear Frederica

[@abhishekdanes78]

Very true..it from the references made in bible that the phrase is used. I am from kerala a syrian church member. Was lucky that our parish priest taught us that. Many people never get to know these reasons.✌good for sharing it

[@2610paul]

This is one of the best understanding of what sin really is and what it does to the people generally. So often especially in the Protestant culture sin is seen as an offence against the righteous commandments of God. It is an offence no doubt. But more then that sin is a plague that has infected our origin. Man is not born in sin as AugustanIan misperception that has so infringed western cognizable understandings. But it's a produce of a weakness in humankind ever since the fall. We can't relate to one another especially to God because we have been weakened in our nature . Like what happens when we get sick physically we find it a task to function in the usual regularity when we had our health. Sin is dangerous because it undo God's sacred commandment that is for our own benefit. God is angry whenever His sacred commandments are broken by mortal man. But He understands in a way because He knows that the whole creation is infected with this virus called sin that destroyed the 'live' that was in our first parents . So our dear Lord Jesus the wonderful hero of all mankind by his death on the cross defeated the virus so we who believe in His awesome name can once again began to live !!! Praise the Lord a million !!!

[@musicandvoice9244]

What a wonderful contribution from you - please continue to make more videos like this one - very clear and spiritually of help to me and doubtless many others. Thank you very much.

[@bellanina1271]

Beautifully explained. Im a new subscriber. Thank you

[@fastandeffective]

Also this short and powerful prayer keeps away demons, because it burns them. So Orthodox Monks keep reciting it continuously.

[@mariosagrofilakas6372]

Kirie eleison

[@MalikaIC]

The longer i focused on God on Jesus Christ the less i understand why we ask God for mercy while we read in scripture that God's mercies are new every morning...Instead of asking for forgiveness as we fall short to HIS Glory....And thank HIM for his never ending mercy and love despite our sins...

[@itwasagoodaccountmate1497]

Господи помилуй ,Господи помилуй ,Господи помилуй

[@simonskinner1450]

"Lord have mercy", it says what it means, as our Lord Jesus judges us when we die as Hebrews 9:27 it is only by his grace and mercy he will cover past sins and certain death.

[@semabera2485]

Lord Jesus Christ☦💒☦, Son of God, have mercy 🕊up on me, a sinner (×♾) 🕊🌿🙏

[@ethiop_frum]

The Greek word "eleison" (have mercy) comes from the word "oil", in the sense of "vegetable oil". In ancient times, old wounds with scabs were first treated with vegetable oil to soften the wound, prepare it for treatment. Today's medicine no longer uses oil and wine. And in the parable of the Merciful Samaritan, you can literally see how the Samaritan treats and lubricates the wounds of a beaten man with oil! And they also blessed the guest entering the house with oil. They were also blessed with consecrated oil for priestly or prophetic service. Also, the king was anointed to the kingdom. We must not forget that the word Messiah also means "Anointed One.".. ☦️♥️🇷🇺

[@1985LISS]

and the devil hates when we say it, it gives him a headache and as we can't touch a hot iron, when we say this, the devil is like whooooo I better back out. He can't take Jesus name so he fears and dissappears!!!!

[@ΔοσίθεοςΤρνηνητς]

Amen! ☦️♥️

[@diedertspijkerboer]

I was raised protestant and then became an atheist, but now a seriously doubting atheist. This is the first description of sin that actually makes sense to me. I think we are inherently flawed and I think that the word disease is pretty accurate. A genetic illness we all carry, so to say.

[@simonskinner1450]

Sin denies grace and mercy. Sin is a death sentence for transgressions of Gods law, and asking for mercy is part of admission of sin in repentance, such sin cannot be repeated.

[@musicandvoice9244]

Would anyone be able to point me to where I might be able to find/buy the excerpt from the choral anthem that is playing at the start of the video? Thank you.

[@Theoria]

ProFee Xperts try the Liturgy cd, here: www.holycrossonline.org/music-library

[@markwatson7515]

I have a question. I understand the Lord Have Mercy idea. But can you explain why we have to keep asking for forgiveness if everything has been forgiven with Christ's death?

[@AwesomeWholesome]

Good question. It's because forgiveness is not the only thing included in the Lord's mercy. Quoting Maria's comment from above: "What the greek word 'eleison' means is actually both 'have mercy' and 'heal me'." Likewise, it could also be asking for grace. It's a beautiful, short prayer asking for all the good from the Lord.

[@richardsoka2400]

As a Catholic I feel comfortable with the Orthodox liturgy! These two denominations should unite or rather come much more closer.

[@LynElise25]

The people want unison. The head popes in control, which is really just a form of Pride, do not. Perhaps if they let Christ be head and in control, their can be a unison with the common thread of CHRIST.

[@ddddoc7078]

Our differences are 1,000 years in the past. I have a feeling we will reconcile before 2054

[@jimmyross4352]

markos824 I want to say; The pope and the dems, none of them want to budge.....It's all satan's agenda. But praising God's sovereignty, as stated in Je. 10;23, is for me ,much more nourishing. ''I know the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh to direct his paths''.

[@robertnewell4054]

@Jimmy Ross ...... the fact that you mentioned the Dems without the GOP also illustrates confusion & misplaced allegiance. The Republican Party has long been the Money Changers in the Temple

[@jimmyross4352]

@Kyria Well said, only Christ would have enough power to dispel the 966 years of momentum Simon says initiated :)

[@mariansmith8747]

but why do you ask three times in a row always? I understand why we ask for mercy but I don't understand why 3 times? Please will you tell me this. Thank you

[@undergroundskeptic2916]

Well, I unfortunately haven't been to an Orthodox Church yet, but as a current Roman Catholic (by birth… I start to see the light in this Church) I can say that we also say "Lord have mercy" three times. I'm from the youth, so my interpretation would be very basic… I guess we say it three times because we affirm that the Lord is in the three persons of God - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. But other than that, I have no idea haha

[@wearecitizenstoo668]

Marian Smith one for the Father one for the Christ one for the Holy Spirit. Some churches will have middle mercy addressing Jesus: Lord have mercy Christ have mercy Lord have mercy

[@simonskinner1450]

Wow. I sense a ministry of self-deception to set aside reality and join make believe, to falsely comfort ourselves when we shall be judged if we kept our oath not to sin.

[@YeomanLocksly]

I am a Roman Catholic, in our "Kyrie" we also say "Christ have Mercy"... is that included in the Orthodox Kyrie?

[@ΔοσίθεοςΤρνηνητς]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, sinnful man. Is the fully prayer, that we ALWAYS repeat.

[@niccoloaccovacciato3898]

We use a κομποσκοίνι and say Κύριε Ιησούς Χριστέ, Υιέ του Θεού, ελέησον με των αμαρτωλών.

[@ΔοσίθεοςΤρνηνητς]

Same in Serbian. Gospode Isuse Hriste, Sine Božiji, pomiluj me grešnog. → Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinnful man.

[@dimitrytsalinka7203]

What is the Intro Hymn title?

[@JoshAlicea1229]

By sinning, death is infused into the soul. Christ is the ONLY antidote. He is the life of man placed back on the tree, (the cross), that we are then allowed to access the tree of Life. Thus, humanity and divinity share in the communion that was lost in the garden. "The righteous will live by faith."

[@simonskinner1450]

A true believer is already forgiven if they keep their promise not to sin, else their oath is false and they become a hypocrite. Check the parable in Romans 7:1-4 "adulteress"?

[@davidacharles1962]

How can there be a video that speaks of the Lord's mercy on sinners without speaking of the Lord's death and resurrection to give the answer to the request by sinners?

[@morgant.dulaman8733]

As this is part of a series for understanding Orthodox Christianity, I believe the video itself is made with the understanding that one will have the gist of the Christian history.

[@davep2103]

She sounds exactly like a traditional Catholic.

[@brotheraugustine]

Orthodoxy is the true Traditional Catholicism :)

[@DysmasTheGoodThief]

500th

[@googlearedogshitnomoreaute7674]

Why is a woman teaching? And having her head uncovered, in the temple no less?

[@OldeCountryHomesteading]

Because she is a Nun? Maybe' And she is not in the temple, its a green screen with a background. :D

[@dimitrap5615]

Women can’t be priests or deacons but they can teach. Where does it say that they can’t? As an orthodox Christian I think that’s just silly. And yes, her head is uncovered. The church doesn’t say it’s MANDATORY that women cover their heads, it’s respectful certainly, but not law. (It also depends on the majority. For example the women at my church don’t wear headscarves but at my old church they did, thus I did too. Besides, I hardly think it matters. I can’t say the exact quote but I remember Jesus saying something about how the way you dress won’t even come into the equation on judgement day. It’s about your love for him, willingness to the right thing and ask for forgiveness when need be- tradition is good but love is better) :)

[@LynElise25]

The bible says women should cover their heads while praying or prophesying, which she is doing neither in the videos.

[@Caledoniadream]

She´s explaining.