Through a Monk's Eyes

By Fr. Seraphim Aldea, and Ancient Faith Ministries

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Kir
 Apr 12, 2019

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Looking at the World from the Celtic Shores of Scotland—and Elsewhere

Episode Date
A Daily Exorcism: How to Battle Demonic Influences From Hearts and Minds
Aug 22, 2025
The Struggle for Deep Peace in the Midst of the Noise
Aug 15, 2025
What Is the Measure of Love?
Aug 08, 2025
The Weapon of Love
Aug 01, 2025
How to Survive When Your Faith Is Dying
Jul 25, 2025
When We Take a Step Toward Christ, He Runs a Mile Toward Us
Jul 18, 2025
Be Your Real Self, Pray Your Real Prayer
Jul 11, 2025
Your Prayer Is Your Own
Jul 04, 2025
When Our Faith Barely Breathes
Jun 27, 2025
The Wrong Battlefield
Jun 20, 2025
Should We Ever Ignore Habitual Sin?
Jun 13, 2025
Knowing Your Own Worth as a Christian
Jun 06, 2025
Am I Praying Against God's Will?
May 30, 2025
Bad Thoughts? Don't take the bait.
May 23, 2025
When you are too exhausted to pray after work
May 09, 2025
Move Past Skin-Deep Prayer and Pray from the Core of your Being
May 02, 2025
Live a Smaller Life and Find Peace
Apr 25, 2025
Forgive and be Forgiven
Apr 04, 2025
Jesus Christ Belongs to Sinners
Mar 21, 2025
The Fearsome Joy of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ
Mar 08, 2025
The "Medieval" Faith of the First Christians
Mar 01, 2025
Praying from the Heart in times of Crisis
Feb 22, 2025
Blasphemous Thoughts During Prayer
Jan 25, 2025
Can Bad Prayer Harm You?
Jan 18, 2025
Why doesn't my prayer feel real?
Jan 10, 2025
Spiritual Elders
Jan 04, 2025
Silencing Thoughts in Prayer
Dec 27, 2024
Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils?
Dec 20, 2024
Stay Honest Before Christ
Dec 13, 2024
A Renewal of Holiness
Dec 06, 2024
Surviving Our Own Hypocrisy
Nov 29, 2024
Don't Fall for the Devil's Entertainment
Nov 22, 2024
Why We Must Practice Obedience to Have Faith
Nov 15, 2024
Reading versus Lived Experience of Jesus Christ
Nov 08, 2024
Don't Let Expectations Define You
Nov 01, 2024
The Voices You Listen to Shape Your Life
Oct 25, 2024
Jesus Christ: The Only Path to Salvation
Oct 18, 2024
The One True Christ... and the many false ones
Oct 11, 2024
True Christians Have No Enemies
Oct 04, 2024
Having Constant Spiritual Ups and Downs?
Sep 27, 2024
Procrastination and Self-Worth
Sep 25, 2024
Unnatural Associations
Sep 13, 2024
Being Young is VERY Hard in this World We Made
Sep 12, 2024
"Low" Periods Hide a Spiritual Treasure
Sep 06, 2024
What Does an Orthodox Holy Altar Look Like?
Sep 03, 2024
On the Blood of Martyrs
Aug 20, 2024
Don't Hide You from Christ
Aug 15, 2024
Fasting for God Opens Our Spiritual Sight
Aug 12, 2024
Learning About Spirituality from the Celtic Saints
Aug 07, 2024
How to Fight Evil from our Hearts in a World of Lies and Confusion (w/ Fr. Seraphim Aldea)
Aug 06, 2024
Everyone Wears a Mask. Don't Enter This Battle of Lies.
Jun 03, 2024
You Need Time and Space ALONE for a RESET of your Life
Apr 16, 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 31, 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 28, 2021
How To Fight Against Lust
Apr 22, 2021
The Three Entry Gates for Lust
Apr 15, 2021
A Gate for demons, or for God?
Apr 11, 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 25, 2021
The Spiritual Benefits of Fasting
Mar 20, 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 10, 2021
Love Will Show You God
Mar 06, 2021
The Psychological Pain around Us
Mar 06, 2021
Don't deny your doubts and your struggles. Be who-you-are before Christ, so He may save who-you-are.
Mar 04, 2021
How to go Deeper during Lent
Mar 03, 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
When the Saints depress us with their Perfection
Feb 18, 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 13, 2021
The Greatest Danger and the Greatest Hope
Feb 10, 2021
Stay in the Fight - On Stability and Growing Roots
Feb 09, 2021
The Fire in Us
Feb 09, 2021
Dead to the World = the Beginning of Life
Feb 07, 2021
What would happen if we were all martyred for the Truth of Christ?
Feb 07, 2021
On Violence and Power
Feb 07, 2021
The Day When Our Souls Are Cleansed and We Reflect the Perfect Image of God
Feb 06, 2021
How Work under Obedience can save a Fallen Soul
Jan 14, 2021
The Evil Whispers of the Devil
Jan 14, 2021
How to Pray when there is no Life in You
Jan 13, 2021
How to Pray when You feel Dead Inside
Jan 13, 2021
The Stuff that Makes Saints
Oct 16, 2020
How to Find a Spiritual Father
Jul 16, 2020
The God Who Does Not Love
Apr 27, 2020
Losing Hope Because of Temptation
Mar 18, 2020
Winter Silence
Mar 18, 2020
Should Post-Procreative Couples Live As Brother and Sister?
Dec 30, 2019
Sacrament
Oct 29, 2019
Should We Fear or Welcome Death
Oct 05, 2019
The Spiritual Life of the Unborn (On Forgiveness, pt. 2)
May 18, 2019
The Need to Be Forgiven (pt. 1)
May 13, 2019
St Brendan: the Questioning Heart
Mar 23, 2019
Fr. Seraphim Returns to Podcasting
Feb 28, 2019
Leaving the Holy Mountain
Feb 16, 2019
The Sacrifice to Get a Spiritual Father
Feb 01, 2019
On Thin Places and Thin Persons
Jan 23, 2019
Fasting Part Three: Fasting as a Rehearsal of Death
Dec 28, 2018
Fasting Part Four: Fasting, Prayer and Surviving Death
Dec 28, 2018
Fasting Part One: Fasting and Discernment
Dec 27, 2018
Fasting Part Two: Fasting as Action and War Zone
Dec 27, 2018
On Prayer 5 - The Role of the Body / Prayer by Night
Nov 13, 2018
Sacred Space
Apr 06, 2017
On Prayer 4 - Trying the Impossible
Jun 21, 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
What Are You Fighting For?
Mar 17, 2016
Forgiveness and Reflection
Feb 10, 2016
Continuing in Confessional Growth
Jan 26, 2016
Confessing to Grow Closer to God
Jan 22, 2016
Secular Worries
Dec 15, 2015
Making Sense of our Failures
Nov 06, 2015
Understanding the Celtic Saints
Oct 28, 2015
On Pilgrimages
Sep 22, 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 14, 2015