CHRIST CALLS TO THE VERY DEPTHS OF OUR DARKNESS

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Published 2023-04-18
At the beginning of Bright Week, the choirs of wild birds sang out as I recorded this homily.
Christ is risen!

All Comments (21)
  • This Orthodox perspective is what the western world lacks. I feel like an alien in the West because I try to live as a Christian.
  • @The_Honcho
    It’s amazing how one day you can feel as lifted and holy as a monk, but the next day you feel like you’re almost Judas…and getting out of that hole is a lot harder than it was to fall into. Please pray for me brothers and sisters.
  • @kbeetles
    If the birds can call us to joy and cheerfulness and the call of the lamb in the background can call us to peace and love, Christ's voice can call us to life! Hallelujah!
  • @EC66OK
    This resonates so deeply, Father Spyridon. Christ called me out of the depths of 56 years of darkness and death last summer. My wife and I just celebrated our first Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha as Catechumens. Truly, He is risen!!!
  • Christ has TRULY RISEN !!! Alleluia !!! Alleluia!!! Thank you for your informative and Christ-centered videos!!!
  • @tsarpete02
    CHRIST HAS RISEN CHRIST HAS RISEN CHRIST HAS RISEN On this Great and Important Sunday , I wish to send you a message. HAPPY EASTER Father Syridon and to your family as well. Please keep doing these videos, they make me stop and think about what has been said, also how to be a better orthodox Christian. God Bless Слава Богу
  • @pxbkw
    Powerful words that I really need to hear. I'm living so deep in sin and yet i am yearning to get back to God. Please pray for me.
  • @Ambooonree
    🕊THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE🕊
  • Father it is in part thanks to your work that I was chrismated into the Church on Lazarus Saturday! Christ is Risen!
  • @fmayer1507
    This video nails the issue of the heterodox heresey that totally presents ideas that are antithetical to God's perfect nature. I came to Orthodoxy over 38 years ago, and I never regretted coming into the Church. I know all about other Christian beliefs, and Orthodoxy stands out as totally coherent and logical. I am well into my sixties, and I say this video is spot on.
  • @1PlainOne
    My first remembrance of someone dying “for what”??? Many years ago I was driving, approaching a funeral home as people were attending. I remember being stopped in traffic, I’m guessing there was a red light. But suddenly it was as if I was a part of the service, but why? I found myself terribly disturbed that this man’s funeral was full of people’s accolades. But there was no reference to life eternal. Right there I was thrust into being exceedingly sorrowful. And my tears were screaming to God to not let this be, to cause it not to be a hell bound service…”just make sense of it all”. And then it happened, what I knew to be a beautiful sun shiny day turned into a monsoon…God’s tears. Right there I realized that I couldn’t come close to being as sorrowful about this man as God was. Then I was back to myself as the rains continued to flood the streets, no one was going anywhere. And then it stopped and the sun shined forth….and my heart was made to receive of Him a place to go to in Him, and I’m still learning how to do that. Love and Peace to all, for Christ’s sake….Be thankful for the Holy Spirit. Have a grateful day. ( forgive me for any typos)
  • Thank you, father Spyridon. It is primarily through you among others that I have been introduced to orthodoxy. My life has truly been changed.
  • Christ is risen. Pray for me a sinner. Pray that we may all run towards Christ, the risen God, so that his love may encounter us in our deepest darkness and redeem our sinful souls. Amen.
  • Thank you Father. Wonderful homily. Truly, Christ always calls to us.