Fr. Seraphim Rose

[repentant]

New never before seen pictures of Fr. Seraphim Rose..

http://www.deathtotheworld.com/seraphimrose/index.html

[Protoevangel]

Those are great, than you Repentant!

[ClementofRome]

Indeed. I have seen them before, but not in a while. Thanks for posting the link.

[repentant]

No if you scroll down the link, they are brand new pictures that no one has seen before unless you are in the inside or something..

[ClementofRome]

No if you scroll down the link, they are brand new pictures that no one has seen before unless you are in the inside or something..

AHHHHHH! Eureka! Thank you indeed!

[Mary of Bethany]

Thanks for that, Repentant!

Father Seraphim died so young. :(

Did he have cancer?

Mary

[Tsarina]

Yay! Thank you for sharing.

[Thekla]

great articles, too ! thank-you :)

[jckstraw72]

thank you so much Repentant. Tom Anderson, who knew Fr. Seraphim from the time he (Tom) was a child has a massive photo album of Fr. Searphim over the years that he had at the recent retreat at St. Herman's -- Im assuming those pictures come from that.

Fr. Seraphim did not have cancer -- basically his intestines died and eventually so did he.

[buzuxi02]

Thanx Repentant,

From viewing the large color photos of his repose, i now know what eyewitnesses meant about his incorruptible body at his wake, here is one account:

"Lying in state in a crude wooden coffin in the humble monastery church, not only did the body remain soft and lifelike in the summer heat, but so comforting was his face that one could not bear to cover it, in the traditional monastic way. Even childran could hardly move away from the coffin since the body brought such internal peace and suggested such love. Everyone was aware that, in our times, among us, a holy man, had left in his body a phenomenon that challenges science and hearts".

[BenedictSeraphim]

Blessed Fr Seraphim died of a blood clotting problem, which caused necrosis of his intestines and resultant multiple organ failure.

[Mary of Bethany]

thank you so much Repentant. Tom Anderson, who knew Fr. Seraphim from the time he (Tom) was a child has a massive photo album of Fr. Searphim over the years that he had at the recent retreat at St. Herman's -- Im assuming those pictures come from that.

Fr. Seraphim did not have cancer -- basically his intestines died and eventually so did he.

Blessed Fr Seraphim died of a blood clotting problem, which caused necrosis of his intestines and resultant multiple organ failure.

Thanks to both of you for your answers to my question.

Mary

[Dorothea]

Thanks, repentant. I'm reading some of his writings/speeches in the site. Very interesting!

[Sacrum Silentium]

""Let us not, who would be Christians, expect anything else from it than to be crucified. For to be a Christian is to be crucified, in this time and in any time since Christ came for the first time. His life is the example--and warning--to us all. We must be crucified personally, mystically; for through crucifixion is the only path to resurrection. If we would rise with Christ, we must first be humbled with Him--even to the ultimate humiliation, being devoured and spit forth by the uncomprehending world.

"And we must be crucified outwardly, in the eyes of the world; for Christ's Kingdom is not of this world, and the world cannot bear it, even in a single representation of it, even for a single moment. The world can only accept Antichrist, now or at anytime.


"No wonder, then, that it is so hard to be Christian--it is not hard it is impossible. No one can knowingly accept a way of life which, the more truly it is lived, leads more surely to one's own destruction. And that is way we constantly rebel, try to make life easier, try to be half-Christian, try to make the best of both worlds. We must ultimately choose--our felicity lies in one world or the other, not in both.


"God give is the strength to pursue the path of crucifixion; there is not other way to be Christian."

[Cyprian31]

Thanks! I've seen most of those before (fairly recently, too) but it's always nice to see them again. Fr. Seraphim's writings were pretty much what "sold" me on Orthodoxy.

[SeraphimSarov]

I hope Fr. Seraphim Rose is officially glorified before my chrismation.

Thanks for posting this.

[SpyridonOCA]

Why do I love Father Seraphim so much? It's something that I can't explain.

[jckstraw72]

Why do I love Father Seraphim so much? It's something that I can't explain.thats a pretty easy one methinks -- he's a Saint!

[Sacrum Silentium]

Why do I love Father Seraphim so much? It's something that I can't explain.
I believe he's a patron for all of us who live in his generation. A true light of Christ and of Orthodoxy in a world that didn't deserve him, but needed him more than ever. I love him.

[SeraphimSarov]

I believe he's a patron for all of us who live in his generation. A true light of Christ and of Orthodoxy in a world that didn't deserve him, but needed him more than ever. I love him.
Does that mean I can have him for a patron saint? :)

[jckstraw72]

my friend John had St. John Maximovitch before he was canonized -- he was at the canonization of his own Saint -- thats pretty cool

[-Kyriaki-]

Does that mean I can have him for a patron saint? :)
If he's glorified before your chrismation yes ;)

[-Kyriaki-]

my friend John had St. John Maximovitch before he was canonized -- he was at the canonization of his own Saint -- thats pretty cool
That's so cool! ^_^

[SeraphimSarov]

my friend John had St. John Maximovitch before he was canonized -- he was at the canonization of his own Saint -- thats pretty cool
I was just joking before -- is it actually possible to take someone as a patron saint before they've been glorified? I'm guessing it was already established that St. John Maximovitch would be canonized at the time your friend was brought into the Church?

[SpyridonOCA]

Fr. Seraphim is an iconic figure among Orthodox youth, like how the commies have Che Guevara. He's really like a rock star.

[SeraphimSarov]

He's really like a rock star.

I'm pretty sure our blessed hieromonk would take great exception at such a comparison :P, but yeah, in a way you're right... it's really cool that he's got such a following among DTTW folks.

[Mary of Bethany]

He reposed on my birthday, so I lay claim to him, too. :)

Mary

[jckstraw72]

I was just joking before -- is it actually possible to take someone as a patron saint before they've been glorified? I'm guessing it was already established that St. John Maximovitch would be canonized at the time your friend was brought into the Church?

he's a cradle, 25 or 26 yrs old now, so its quite a few years before St. John was actually canonized.

[SeraphimSarov]

he's a cradle, 25 or 26 yrs old now, so its quite a few years before St. John was actually canonized.
Hmmm.....