Fr Seraphim Rose - Russian Documentary/English Subtitles

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UL0H3b1hcTM

“The call of Christ is still coming to us; let’s start listening to him.” These words of Father Seraphim (Rose) - ascetic, theologian, preacher - could not be more relevant today. His books helped to hear this call. Written in the 1970s and 1980s for his contemporaries who were lost in the intellectual wilderness, his works are perhaps even more relevant today, because today’s “intellectuals” wander through much more dangerous deserts of spiritual death.

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Orthodoxy in the USA - Fr. Seraphim Rose
In this talk, Fr. Seraphim gives insight and advice especially helpful for Orthodox Christians in America. He briefly shares the history of Orthodoxy in the US, examines the present state of the Church, and gives advice on how we can live out our Orthodox Faith. Being a convert himself, he knows the common pitfalls that new Orthodox believers fall into and how to avoid them. Any inquirer, catechumen, or baptized Orthodox Christian will gain much help from this talk.

Fr. Seraphim says in this lecture: "St. Tikhon, therefore, gives us a start in understanding what Orthodoxy is: it is something first of all of the HEART, not just the mind, something LIVING AND WARM, not abstract and cold, some thing that is learned and practiced in LIFE, not just in school."

Fr. Seraphim gave this talk at the Saint Herman Winter Pilgrimage, December 12/25, 1979, at Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, New York.

First published by the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood of Platina, CA in The Orthodox Word, vol. 16, no. 5 (94), Sept.-Oct., 1980, pp. 211-236.

The text can be also be found here:

http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/orth_usa.aspx

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RIV6f31AWhY

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Fr. Seraphim Rose: His Journey to Orthodoxy & Advice to a Beginner

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1j9gawSOei0

Fr. Seraphim Rose writes to a woman who was baptized as a child, left the faith, and returned to the Church as an adult. Fr. Seraphim rejoices in her return, shares how he too was far from Christ, and some basic tenants of living the Orthodox life.

Fr. Seraphim writes:

“Coming from a Protestant background, I rejected it completely and became an agnostic and atheist, and then started searching for some meaning to life in various philosophies and Eastern religions, until I finally came to the point where I thought there was no meaning to life at all, and I wondered why I should keep on living. And then I went for the first time to a Russian Orthodox Church, and something in my soul responded to this, and I began a gradual but sure recovery from my spiritual disease of despair and lack of faith.
Many people today say that God has turned away from us and does not listen to us. But I have found that just the opposite is true: it is we who have turned away from God and followed vain philosophies and our own selfish desires. But God remains always the same and is always ready to receive us with great love.”

“True faith comes from a small seed which is planted in our hearts by God Himself, and which is nourished and gradually grows through God’s grace and through our own actions which are in accordance with His commandments and the tradition of the Holy Orthodox Church, which has been given by the Holy Spirit and handed down to us through our Holy Fathers.”

The three practical suggestions Fr. Seraphim gives:

1) Daily Prayers, morning and evening
2) Read every day at least a chapter or even a few verses from the Four Gospels
3) Read a little each day of the book “Unseen Warfare”

“Do not read any books on “spirituality” by Catholics, Protestants, psychologists, or anyone who is not Orthodox, because they will only mix you up. There may be wisdom or insights in some of these, but only in our Orthodox Faith is there to be found the whole path of salvation, the infallible way of coming to God. Many people spend a lifetime trying to find what is only to be found in the Orthodox Church; but God has granted you the good fortune of being born in His Holy Church, and you only need to return to what is yours already. Even I, from a Protestant background, felt that I had “come home” when I found Holy Orthodoxy; how much more you will feel the same way when faith begins truly to grow within you.”

-Letter dated Jan. 23/Feb. 5, 1971

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God's Revelation To The Human Heart (1981): Restored Recording of Fr. Seraphim Rose

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vnnxC2j9CNA

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The Fall of Adam & Eve — A Talk by Fr Seraphim Rose

Fr. Seraphim illustrates the Genesis account: Paradise, our free will, the state of Adam before the fall, consequences of the fall, and what it all means to us.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fJRVJwnhVzI

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Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gkrd76_o00E

1. Nihilism, 2. Orthodox Survival Course, 3. Orthodoxy and The Religion of The Future, 4. The Soul After Death, Genesis Creation and Early Man, 5. Father Seraphim Rose His Life and Works, 6. Lectures and Sermons, 7. Selected Clips of his writings. 9. Christ The Eternal Tao from his spiritual son, pertaining to truths in other religions and philosophy. Follow the link, then all the books by Seraphim Rose on this site will be collected:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...asRcjlDioLzsGJ