Orthodox Christian clips & sermons

[Aila]

I also love the way Space - as if made Sacred or as if to depict life in Divine Grace is painted in Golden colour in the many Orthodox icons.

[Aila]

[Aila]

Often the icons with the hymns spoke to people more directly than the spoken word.
Words/mentally created concepts can divide, but the Light and the Reverence created by the hymns united.

Sorry to go on about it:
The 2 founders of Valaam - the Greek Saint Sergius and the Karelian born Saint Herman of Valaam:



https://www.ortodoksi.net/index.php/...rman_of_Valaam


Then the Valaam monks went to Alaska:

Saint Herman of Alaska, ‘a deeply pious, hesychastic monk’:


https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-or...sion-to-alaska

[Kriptc06]

Often the icons with the hymns spoke to people more directly than the spoken word.
Words/mentally created concepts can divide, but the Light and the Reverence created by the hymns united.

Sorry to go on about it:
The 2 founders of Valaam - the Greek Saint Sergius and the Karelian born Saint Herman of Valaam:



https://www.ortodoksi.net/index.php/...rman_of_Valaam


Then the Valaam monks went to Alaska:

Saint Herman of Alaska, ‘a deeply pious, hesychastic monk’:


https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-or...sion-to-alaska

The chants are beautiful! It appeals to me as well, I am postponing my conversion to proper orthodoxy for years, protestant and evangelical churches made me agnostic for many years, and I refuse the catholic church.

[Victor]

Fr. Seraphim Rose - The Soul after Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8r9...&index=15&t=0s