Questions and Answers: 2023-12-11 Questions and answers, after Compline at University of Texas, Dallas (UTD). Compline is usually nightly, Mon-Frin, and Fr Seraphim sometimes serves. There are always questions after he serves. YouTube: https://youtu.be/0MvBRstnLOk ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MvBRstnLOk

Video: https://youtu.be/7WUpP9ybmo4 Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/saints-07-13_2022+fathers-6-councils+that-they-may-be-one.mp3 On the Sunday commemorating the fathers of the first six ecumenical councils,we read the high Priestly Priestly prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ. Certain aspects of this prayer “jump out.” Jesus said that the work he was ggivenwas finished. What does this mean? He also said that he could give eternal life to as many as his father has given him. What does that ***practically*** mean for us? We forget and need to be reminded. He also said that He had manifested the name of His Father and that His disciples had received the words. How do we receive the words of God? It is not an intellectual activity! And how do we live so that His prayer that we would be one with God is realized? 2022-07-31 Partial Timestamps 2:28 – 4:58 What to do if reading the Scripture is hard, and confusing, and things do not “jump out”. 5:14 – 10:19 “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” (John 17:1-2) 10:19 – 12:04 “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” (john 17:4) 12:06 – 14:44 “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.” John 17:6 14:44 “- 16:44 “For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.“ (John 17:8) 16:44 – 17:48 There is no “must”. There is no “should”. 17:48 “Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are” John 17:11 20:11 – end “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” John 17:12-13 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUpP9ybmo4