Orthodoxy 101

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Fr. Peter Heers PhD, Great Lent Lecture: Saturday 30. March 2019 St Tsar Lazar, Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Alexandria NSW Australia

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Fr. Peter Heers speaks to ROCOR Youth in Australia (December 2023). QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION: (52:39): How can we find a balance between wanting to excel in school, career, wanting to start a business, wanting to go out with friends, or watching a TV show, and doing all these things in life that take up so much of our time, versus praying, reading spiritual texts, going to additional Church services? I find myself trapped in past times and events that make me question “Am I really growing closer to God right now?” Sometimes I think what’s the point of putting all my effort and time into doing these activities when it has nothing to do with any spiritual progress? (58:50): If you were to have an extremely vivid spiritual dream, should you tell someone about it, or be concerned about it, or just brush it off? (1:02:58): My question has to do with your point of our things mostly coming down to pride. Is it a temptation for us, from the devil to say “Are we actually doing it as a religion, not actually doing it for the sense of being in the likeness of God”? I almost feel like it’s pride in my sense, but I want to just, in the end, like achieve salvation, I want to do it but it feels like I’m doing it wrong or am I doing it right? (1:09:59): I’m curious following your successes on social media and YouTube if you find that young Christians rely solely on social media for information about theology, without looking for a spiritual father and a real-life community? (1:13:02): I have recently left traditional Catholicism for Orthodoxy this year. I was wondering… I still got family members and even friends that are close to me and still Roman Catholic and even in other religions (they might be in Islam, they might practice yoga). If they tell me it is all the same that Orthodoxy is all the same to them, like Perennialism, should I admonish them, should I argue with them or should I do something else? (1:17:21): Going back to the dream question, multiple priests say if the sign of the cross is in the dream, that means that it’s a message from God because because the demons can’t do the sign of the cross. (1:18:04): I have found that there are people who are trying to provoke you and they are quite defensive about their religion, whether it’s Catholicism or being Mormon, or Islam. Sometimes I get mentally stuck and I don’t know how to answer and I go blank, even though you have read the Scripture and you read the Bible, and read x, y, z. What do you do when you feel like they’re giving a question you can’t give an answer to? How do you respond in a way that is Orthodox instead of just giving up? Because I feel I sometimes don’t have the answer. I don’t know how to respond because I’m being put on the stand. Join our LIVE Q&A with Fr. Peter Heers every Thursday evening at 8 PM (EST): http://www.patreon.com/frpeterheers Questions? Contact us at team@orthodoxethos.com For more material, find printed works at http://www.uncutmountainpress.com

An introduction for catechumens and newly illumined, covering topics such as how to find a spiritual father, how to start fasting, what is a prayer rule, and more. This podcast will be aimed at helping all of those seeking to go deeper and get well established in the life of the Church -- especially new converts. —With Fr. Peter Heers Originally recorded in May, 2023

(Excerpted from Lesson 7: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle & Evangelist John the Theologian, Series 1, by Fr. Peter Heers)

In this video: 1. The Church is a Hospital, in which sicknesses are healed 2. The Story of the Life-Giving Church throughout the Ages 3. Answers to Your Questions In more detail: 00:00:37 — Introduction: The Church is a Hospital 00:03:09 — Are prayers powerless, the Church unable to save? 00:05:38 — The Life-Giving Spring - A Fountain of Healing since 455 AD 00:13:47 — The Synaxarion: Healing of Soul and Body Daily 00:15:36 — Q&A 1: Different Stances = Different Results 00:17:33 — Scandalizers and the Scandalized 00:19:03 — The Church is in Her Saints, to which we all submit 00:21:06 — Q&A 2: Temptation to Lose Faith in the Church, in Christ 00:27:21 — A Wake-up Call to the Clergy: Do Not Scandalize the Little Ones 00:29:01 — The Temptation Coming Upon the World

A talk given by Archpriest Peter Alban Heers at Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco, at their 2019 Annual Lenten Retreat.