I struggle with this CONSTANTLY.

@living_orthodox

29 күн бұрын

Many struggle with this. It’s actually better to be honest about Vainglory so that it doesn’t fester in secret

Truthfully being a Priest, and a married one especially is easily the hardest calling on this Earth. God Bless you Fr. Mikhail and all that you do for us! ❤️☦️

Sometimes I struggle with wearing my headcovering because none of the other females do. It's the only parish within 100 miles. I don't want to look holier-than-thou but I feel like it's important to have my head covered.

@retxedjr

29 күн бұрын

Dear sister Christ is Risen! wear your head cover. It appropriate dress in church. As long as you understand but resist the temptation to judge the other women. It's the same for men wearing long sleeves but someone always has short sleeves on. I pray to God to keep me from even noticing it if it be his will. May God grant you the peace you according to his will.

@rhondab9792

29 күн бұрын

@@retxedjr Truly He is Risen!

@Ettoredipugnar

29 күн бұрын

Cover your head 🙂

@jeffdutcher3676

29 күн бұрын

Glad to hear there are women in this world ,who actually care about seeking to please God .

@czuw2967

29 күн бұрын

@@retxedjrmen should wear long sleeves? No one had told me this. I always wear short sleeves as I run quite hot and have to chase children around.

Xristos Vaskres ☦

Thank you Father for this teaching. I have struggled with vainglory and pride for majority of my adult life. Even as I became a Christian, I still used my “righteousness” for the attention and approval from others. I have been humbled by the Lord greatly and now realize how mich this has affected me. Even now as I have become more aware of my sin in thought, word and deed, vainglory and pride is the sneakiest one of them all, I dont realize it most of the time. Pray for me Father that I overcome this with time. Thank you for your content God bless you Father ☦️🙏

Christ has risen ☦️ thank you on this. Appreciate it very much.

@yianniboulas9315

29 күн бұрын

Truly he is risen ☦️

Christ has risen! Thank you, Father. Very encouraging. Great explanation. I'm so glad you wear the cassock out and about. Love the picture with your family.

This is probably the passion second in line after lust that gives me problems. Lord have mercy.

Thank you, Father. Great reminder on the watchfulness of idle talk!

You have a lot of bravery to take on the burden you do. Respect to all orthodox priests who represent Christ every day. GOD BLESS everyone here.

@GuitarJesse7

23 күн бұрын

A good word Father thank you

Thank you Father.

Christ is Risen ! Blessings Fr. Mikhail ☦️🙏🏻❤️

Thank you Father for this beautiful word, I find that a lot of what you had said is applicable to me. Father, I was wondering if you're not too busy, if I could email you and ask for some advice on a situation I seem to be in? If not, that's alright, please pray for me Father.

Thank you for your insight

Christ is Risen! Thank you, Father. I've found your yt channel just recently, but I have to admit that it is the best orthodox channel that I've listened to. Your messages are wise, clear, sharp, yet polite. Thank you for doing this, Father.

@living_orthodox

26 күн бұрын

Truly He is Risen! Thank you and God bless!

Thank you, Father Mikhail

Thank you, for the explanation of this corruption of the mind and poison for the soul..

Christ is risen! Thank you for this convicting word Fr.!

This was a really good lecture on Vainglory, thank you so much!

Father your new hat looks good 🙌❤️

A very wise and humbling message, thank you for sharing father.

Loving these

Thank you father

Thank you

We struggle by seeing ourselves in a "2nd Person" perspective, i.e. we perceive ourselves through the eyes of our neighbors. Contrast this to a 1st Person, in which we view reality through our own frame of reference out into the world, or a 3rd Person perspective which is a kind of zooming out from the 1st Person one. A "2nd Person" perspective can be a helpful sign of maturity if we seek to do right by God and neighbor, but if done out of self-referencial pride, it can be deleterious to our salvation. Narcissists, children, online virtue signalers, for example, mimick proper 2nd Person perspectival behavior, hoping to gain praise and recognition in return from the created world. As inter-subjective beings, we NEED praise and recognition from other persons to exist. Our physiological processes are greatly affected by this. It's also required from an ontological and epistemic perspective to exist at all. As long as our source of this need comes from God, we will be fine. We will feel very secure and if not then woe to us deprived of this Uncreated Grace.

Greetings, Father. May Christ strengthen and keep you. You look frail, like maybe you’re recovering from an illness. Mark Thomas

@living_orthodox

29 күн бұрын

God bless you Thomas! I am doing well! I’ve lost a lot of weight. Which was necessary for healing my hernia I’ve had for two years.

@flemishgiantrabbitlove2869

28 күн бұрын

Can I please reach out to you father I'm struggling with lust so horribly and I fear for my soul and future as a man of God I keep giving into temptation and I feel powerless help me father please ​@@living_orthodox

@kingdomkid7225

28 күн бұрын

Glory to God

@living_orthodox

25 күн бұрын

fr.mikhail.baleka@gmail.com

With regard to baptism of a child of a homosexual couple, what is to be done with the child? I understand why it should not be done, but even if the child will be raised by parent unapologetically living in sin, wouldn't the Baptism help the child eventually turn back to God despite his upbringing? Is it right to withhold the water and the Spirit from a child for the sins of his adopted parents? Even if any homosexual couple seeking such Baptism for "their" child is trying to mock God (or is profoundly mistaken about the reality of sin - I am assuming here that a truly ignorant couple would want to rectify their situation when they learn the truth about what they are doing), should we treat the child as a pawn in the couple's culture-war game-playing such that the child remains unbaptized rather than give to the child what God has given to us despite his "parents'" agenda? Could the Baptism and Chrismation be done privately to still save the child while denying the couple their circus?

@living_orthodox

26 күн бұрын

No. It would be an increased cause for sin. The child’s faith must first come from the parents and then the godparents. The fact that the parents evidently lack the faith in proper understanding and praxis, shows that the baptism shouldn’t have happened. One who receives grace and then loses it because of improper teaching, is much harder to bring into life in Christ than those who fall away because of outside influences apart from family. So yes, we don’t treat baptism like magic. It’s ironic that many cry out in opposition to reception only via baptism and then quickly do an about face on this matter. Baptism doesn’t override free will and it isn’t magic. The two men aren’t ignorant. They’re arrogant and this is a political move to try and introduce an upheaval of marriage and the Law of God.

@hanng1242

26 күн бұрын

@@living_orthodox Thanks, father. So you are saying that such a Baptism would, at best, do nothing because there was never an intention to join the body of Christ, bringing the child into the Church. Is that correct?

@living_orthodox

26 күн бұрын

@@hanng1242 yes. It’s very sad. We must pray for the children. They received baptismal grace, but the weight of the sin will rebound on the parents for failing to raise them. The “parents” will be held accountable for every sin of the children. I honestly pray that they all be converted and live in Christ.

Thank you foe this, Fr. Mikhail