Through a Monk's Eyes

By Fr. Seraphim Aldea and Ancient Faith Radio

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Kir
 Apr 12, 2019

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Looking at the World from the Celtic Shores of Scotland—and Elsewhere - Have you ever wondered what the world looks like through a monk's eyes? Priest-monk Seraphim shares his stories of the places he visits and the people he meets as he travels the world to found the first Orthodox monastery in the Celtic Isles of Scotland in a thousand years.

Episode Date
Evil Thoughts and Bad Habits: How to Break Free
May 01, 2024
You Need Time and Space ALONE for a RESET of your Life
Apr 09, 2024
We need a short break: Going for a spiritual reset to the Moldavian monasteries in Northern Romania
Aug 18, 2023
The Hermit, his Cave, and his Island
Aug 11, 2023
Dead Tired
Jul 28, 2023
The Island of St Brendan the Navigator
Jul 21, 2023
When Reason Goes against Faith
Jul 14, 2023
St. Morwenna of Cornwall
Jul 10, 2023
Pray from the belly of hell
Jul 07, 2023
Where are our hearts?
Jun 30, 2023
Joy and jokiness: acquiring and losing the Holy Spirit
Jun 23, 2023
When your heart aches for prayer: simple advice to help you pray again
Jun 16, 2023
Two Ways to Reject the World: Demonic and Christ-like
Jun 09, 2023
Family Against Faith? When Our Loved Ones Become Our Enemies
Jun 02, 2023
AI and Antichrist: We Enter an Age of Spiritual Darkness
May 26, 2023
The subtle way of the Antichrist
May 19, 2023
A horrible realisation: our spiritual state
May 12, 2023
When God speaks to you: How to hear God’s Voice and receive His guidance
May 05, 2023
The story of a miracle: how God healed me and then poured a mountain of grace over us
Apr 28, 2023
The ‘Exciting’ Spirituality of Non-Believers
Mar 10, 2023
Embracing the Impossible through Lent
Mar 03, 2023
How we pray: Our Reality vs Christ’s Teaching
Feb 24, 2023
How to do things for God
Feb 17, 2023
The Unforgivable Sins
Feb 10, 2023
Reset Your Spiritual Life
Feb 03, 2023
Why is prayer SO HARD for me?
Jan 27, 2023
Why did God create this Hostile World?
Jan 20, 2023
The ‘Perfect as You Are’ Heresy
Jan 13, 2023
Remember the Devil: His Eyes Are Fixed on Us with Endless Hatred
Jan 06, 2023
Why it is impossible to stop sinning in this generation?
Dec 30, 2022
Be Blessed This Christmas, My Dear Ones
Dec 23, 2022
I Suffer from Anxiety and Low Self-Esteem. All I Want is to Love and Be Loved.
Dec 16, 2022
“I fear my marriage is failing” — Marriage as a tool in the hands of Christ
Dec 09, 2022
A Fall Too Far? Spiritual Survival Between Our Two Brains: the Faithful and the Sinner
Dec 02, 2022
Gripped by Sin. Why doesn’t Christ help?
Nov 25, 2022
Habitual Sin: How To Move Forward
Nov 18, 2022
Monastery Update: Tonsures and New Properties
Nov 11, 2022
Why we stopped, and why we are restarting the podcast
Nov 04, 2022
Like a Paralyzed Man on the Roof of a High-Speed Train
Apr 27, 2021
How To Fight Against Lust
Apr 20, 2021
The Three Entry Gates for Lust
Apr 13, 2021
A Gate for demons, or for God?
Apr 09, 2021
God’s “Obsession” with Lust
Apr 06, 2021
A Matter of Faith and Mad Love
Apr 02, 2021
What is God’s will for us?
Mar 30, 2021
The Devil’s Test for the World
Mar 27, 2021
Addicted to Happiness
Mar 24, 2021
The Spiritual Benefits of Fasting
Mar 19, 2021
To Repent is to Change
Mar 16, 2021
The Struggle to see Goodness in All
Mar 12, 2021
A Lesson from the Trees on the Coast
Mar 09, 2021
How to go Deeper during Lent
Mar 02, 2021
Why do we lose God’s gifts to us? We forget what we don’t use.
Feb 24, 2021
The Self Destructive Cycle of Shame, Despair and Pride
Feb 19, 2021
How do I drag myself out of sin and back to prayer? How soon can I ask for God’s forgiveness?
Feb 17, 2021
Afraid of Change?
Feb 12, 2021
The Greatest Danger and the Greatest Hope
Feb 10, 2021
Love Will Show You God
Feb 05, 2021
The Psychological Pain around Us
Feb 02, 2021
When the Saints depress us with their Perfection
Jan 29, 2021
Stay in the Fight - On Stability and Growing Roots
Jan 27, 2021
The Fire in Us
Jan 23, 2021
Dead to the World = the Beginning of Life
Jan 19, 2021
Don’t deny your doubts and your struggles. Be who-you-are before Christ, so He may save who-you-are.
Jan 15, 2021
What would happen if we were all martyred for the Truth of Christ?
Jan 12, 2021
On Violence and Power
Jan 08, 2021
The Day When Our Souls Are Cleansed and We Reflect the Perfect Image of God
Jan 05, 2021
How Work under Obedience can save a Fallen Soul
Dec 24, 2020
The Evil Whispers of the Devil
Dec 17, 2020
How to Pray when there is no Life in You
Dec 10, 2020
How to Pray when You feel Dead Inside
Dec 03, 2020
The Stuff that Makes Saints
Apr 08, 2020
The God Who Does Not Love
Apr 01, 2020
Losing Hope Because of Temptation
Mar 25, 2020
Winter Silence
Mar 18, 2020
The Spiritual Life of the Unborn (On Forgiveness, pt. 2)
Apr 01, 2019
The Need to Be Forgiven (pt. 1)
Mar 26, 2019
Should We Fear or Welcome Death
Mar 19, 2019
Should Post-Procreative Couples Live As Brother and Sister?
Mar 04, 2019
Fr. Seraphim Returns to Podcasting
Feb 25, 2019
Leaving the Holy Mountain
Feb 18, 2019
How to Find a Spiritual Father
Feb 11, 2019
The Sacrifice to Get a Spiritual Father
Feb 04, 2019
On Thin Places and Thin Persons
Jan 15, 2019
Fasting Part Four: Fasting, Prayer and Surviving Death
Dec 24, 2018
Fasting Part Three: Fasting as a Rehearsal of Death
Dec 17, 2018
Fasting Part Two: Fasting as Action and War Zone
Dec 09, 2018
Fasting Part One: Fasting and Discernment
Dec 02, 2018
On Prayer 5 - The Role of the Body / Prayer by Night
Jul 05, 2016
On Prayer 4 - Trying the Impossible
Jun 20, 2016
On Prayer 3 - Killer Prayer
Jun 07, 2016
On Prayer 2 - Sin and Prayer
May 23, 2016
On Prayer 1 - To Pray is to Follow
May 10, 2016
Continuing in Confessional Growth
Jan 26, 2016
Confessing to Grow Closer to God
Jan 19, 2016
Forgiveness and Reflection
Jan 14, 2016
What Are You Fighting For?
Nov 23, 2015
St Brendan: the Questioning Heart
Nov 16, 2015
Making Sense of our Failures
Nov 05, 2015
Understanding the Celtic Saints
Oct 28, 2015
Secular Worries
Oct 20, 2015
Sacred Space
Oct 06, 2015
On Pilgrimages
Sep 22, 2015
Sacrament
Jun 23, 2015
Imitating Monastics
Jun 17, 2015
Freedom
Jun 08, 2015
Marriage vs. Monasticism
Jun 02, 2015
On Monasticism: Part 3
May 26, 2015
On Monasticism: Part 2
May 19, 2015
On Monasticism: Part 1
May 12, 2015