Митрополит Арсеній Святогірський: Чому ми відчуваємо духовне сирітство?

Have our spiritual mentors left us, or have we ourselves left their path? 🌿 The sermon of Metropolitan Arseny of Sviatohirsky says that many great spiritual fathers and elders have departed into eternity, leaving in the hearts of believers a feeling of orphanhood and the loss of the strong support that they were for many generations. 🌿 Full of piety and spiritual strength, these mentors lived a difficult life, hardened their faith through persecution, hard labor trials, and secret services in the most difficult times, supporting monasticism, the clergy, and ordinary people. 🌿 Metropolitan Arseny convincingly proves: it is not the elders who have left us, but we ourselves often forget their instructions, depart from their example and way of life, and this is precisely what becomes the source of our spiritual loneliness. Video content (Timecodes): 00:00:00 — The loss of spiritual mentors 00:01:06 — An example of the elders' resilience 00:04:00 — The feeling of orphanhood among believers 00:05:01 — The life's feat of spiritual fathers 00:08:25 — Who really left — us or the elders?