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“Living the Orthodox
Worldview” is a recording of a lecture given by Fr. Seraphim Rose at the
1982 St. Herman Pilgrimage at the St. Herman Monastery in Platina,
California.
It was the final pastoral talk of Fr. Seraphim’s life—the
fruit of his spiritual growth as an Orthodox Christian and his matured
outlook as an Orthodox pastor. It contains many of the themes that he
emphasized during the final years of his life: the need to have one’s
Orthodox Faith enter into and transform the whole of one’s life, not just
certain compartments of it; the need to cultivate a loving, merciful, and
forgiving heart, to be simple and innocent in one’s spiritual life; the
need to have a
conscious Orthodox Faith, an Orthodox worldview,
so that one will not be easily influenced by worldly ways of thinking and
behaving; the need to be aware of the signs of the times and of the
totalitarian demands that the modern world makes on one; the need to be
down-to-earth and at the same time to have one’s heart in the other world
with Christ; the need to nourish oneself with the Divine services, the
Holy Mysteries, the Holy Scriptures, the Lives of Saints, and the writings
of the Holy Fathers; the need to
form the soul through the best
artistic expressions of Christian culture, including Western Christian
culture; and finally the need to take lessons from the experience of
suffering Orthodox Christians behind the iron curtain.
“Living the Orthodox Worldview,” is the first
in a series of digitally-mastered audio recordings of lectures and talks
given by Fr. Seraphim.
Compact Disc, 71 minutes,
16-page, full-color liner notes
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Bl. Fr. Seraphim (Rose) 
