Just had a breakdown from a lack of sympathy from my girlfriend, long story short not healthy and I beleive I deserve better treatment and respect. This video has helped me and appeared to me exactly when I needed it, God bless you Fr Mikhail, Have a blessed weekend. Christ is risen!

@Teadrinker-kg4ve

Ай бұрын

You are not alone. Remember that

@Music-Visually

Ай бұрын

Christ hears all your prayers and is with you 🙏🙏🙏

@spikestoyou

Ай бұрын

Leave her

@ICONFESSONEBAPTISM

Ай бұрын

Been there done that She actually kicked me while I was down on the ground haha You can't change crazy people bro

@LadyMaria

Ай бұрын

Lord have mercy. 🙏

Thanks Father. May God continue to bless your ministry and fill you with His grace.

Pride is the root of many passions. Great message to kick off this demonically named month of hedonistic celebration for far too many in our society today. 🙏🏻☦️ Thanks for the much needed content Fr Mikhail

Woody taking a selfie is wild

Love seeing that Romanov book back there. Truly a wonderful work.

I struggle with judgement,I’m asking for Gods,grace,mercy and healing in this area. Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner.

@chippernews

8 күн бұрын

I will include you in my prayers. I struggle with judgement myself.

Cheers for this Father. God keep you n your family.

The thumbnail was hilarious thank you for your words as well

May God bless you Father Mikhail🙏🙏🙏

Well said Father. I suffered greatly from my addiction to the sin of self love. However I'm so grateful that by the grace of God, I'm aware of it and the struggle is what's bringing me closer to God

Thank you Father, this was very helpful to me.

Thanks father. This revealed to me my faults. However, sometimes i try to correct erroneous belief or blasphemy, but do it too harshly and feel guilty. Sometimes i just dont talk, then feel also guilty, sometimes i fall to that Vanity, sometimes to pride and self love. I dont have discrement what to do. Sometimes i just pray and dont talk, but still feel guilty for not speaking up. Very confusing sometimes

Father bless🙏🏿 Thank you for another informative video, God bless you

Thank you very meanigful to me....

As always, an amazing video Fr Mikhail. I really enjoy your straight forwardness on these kinds of things as they force us to confront our issues and give much needed discomfort. Personally I am guilty of hidden pride and the self love your Wife spoke about. Lord have mercy

@living_orthodox

Ай бұрын

It’s a reminder that we all need Christ :)

Thank you for this video father

Thank you so much for this video, God bless you!

Thank you Father, I didn't know how to pray in a more humble way, may God bless you Father Mikhail 🙏☦

Very helpful Father, thank you

Thank you father very much

Thank you father. I'm new, baptised in Sept, having been influenced by pentecostal / methodism for too long.

Thank you very much for making three videos this week, it feels like a treat 😂I, for one, am very appreciative of them. I also kinda like how you keep mentioning roots of Orthodoxy, I really like that channel. As always, God bless ☦️

Thank you,

Thanks Father.

lol, the thumbnail!

Padre gracias. Que Dios Santo bendiga su Familia. Amén 🙏

I struggle with this exact issue. Thank you for posting father. I am glad to see the old rite prayerbook in the background!

If someone compliments me on something that is easy for me, I despise it, because I know that I can do better. If someone compliments me on something that is hard for me, I appreciate it, because I put a lot of effort into it. So, ironically, the worse I am at something, the more I enjoy a compliment, feeling accomplished, even though it's something that I am actually bad at. Pride is a somewhat comical but tragic type of insanity.

Father, bless! My husband and I love your content, and we have a few questions/video topics suggestions. Would I be able to email those to you? 😸🙏🏼 Photini

@living_orthodox

Ай бұрын

Absolutely! fr.mikhail.baleka@gmail.com

That thumbnail 😂

I see that old-rite молитвенникъ.

I try not to have vanity and when I say something wrong to an atheist or a Muslim I think what would Jesus do, he would be patient with them.

Father bless Thank you Father Would you do a video on hiden pride?

Father do you have advice on becoming humble? I don’t know much about this subject

@KnoxEmDown

Ай бұрын

St. Dorotheos of Gaza has excellent writings on the topic of humility. I especially recommend his commentary on the pharisee and the publican

@Holyholyholy-r6c

Ай бұрын

@@KnoxEmDown thanks brother

@KnoxEmDown

Ай бұрын

@@Holyholyholy-r6c You're welcome brother

What text did you say the prayer for the person who offended you is from?

@living_orthodox

Ай бұрын

It’s in the St Tikhon’s Orthodox Christian Prayer book. Just a page or two after page 103

@Jd-808

Ай бұрын

@@living_orthodox awesome! I’ve pre-ordered their next printing.

@living_orthodox

Ай бұрын

It’s a beautiful book! Built to last!

Father, is the following statement true ? : "I don't love God, because if I loved God I would stop sinning". I confessed this to my confessor today and he scolded me, saying that I do love God. He told me not to say this again in my confession. Please help, i'm confused.

@Joseph1207

Ай бұрын

@@vaska1999 Thanks for helping. I need an answer from a priest though. Would you mind asking your priest about my question and tell me what he said ? To be precise, I need to know whether the saints and holy fathers have ever taught something like this. Because the reason I confessed this phrase is because I heard a monk explain this and it made sense in my mind. I'm really confused right now and I need good priests to give me an answer. I'll wait for you, if you are willing to ask your priest, thanks.

@living_orthodox

Ай бұрын

@Joseph1207 don’t listen to her. For one, this isn’t for her to answer. Number two, her response was ignorant and prelest driven. No it’s not quite as simple as we keep sinning, but that we cannot reciprocate perfect love for God if we lack humility and perfect love for our neighbour. Forgive me, this is why St Paul forbade women to attempt to provide spiritual instruction like this. She’s not a nun or an eldress. Your priest shouldn’t be saying such things, but instead should be encouraging you to deepen your love for God. None of us love Him as we ought. Yes, it would mean not returning to sin, but it would also mean being attentive to prayer and not condemning others. The message I gave was drawing from St Maximos the Confessor in the Philokalia

@Joseph1207

28 күн бұрын

@@living_orthodox Okay father. Concerning my situation, what do you advise me ? Should I continue to confess that "I don't love God, because if I did I would stop sinning" ? Or is it a wrong or inaccurate thing to confess ?

Hey everyone look at how humble I am!

This mixing up the facts and teachings to secure more followers or conversions is appalling. This is why I went to the Orthodox faith. You can't change GOD's word to suit your audience. Its lies.

@living_orthodox

8 күн бұрын

You left because you’re ignorant. Not because you understand anything. What’s appalling is that you want to worship a book rather than Christ and you want to believe Christ’s Church needed a man-made reformation. All you Protestants are spiritual atheists who are too afraid of losing paschal’s religious wager.

@chippernews

8 күн бұрын

@@living_orthodox I think you misread my post or perhaps I miscommunicated it. Let me try again, the distortion of God's word IN OTHER RELIGIONS is why I WENT TO the Orthodox faith. I am by no means a protestant & yes I am very ignorant. My entire life I've been lied to by Baptist, Methodist, Protestant, etc. churches. When I discovered the Orthodox church, God developed in me hunger I had never experienced. Which is why I'm here, watching your videos & others like it. I am not a Protestant Spiritual Atheist & I do not want to worship a book. I'm sorry if my first message wasn't clear or was confusing. Oh & I KNOW that Jesus was born both God & man. 💞