Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video, Fr. Rafail Noica explains how people should fulfill God's will not out of obligation but out of love. God's commandments are not harsh orders but loving guidance, and our sincere love for Him naturally leads us to live according to His desires.
Fr. Rafail Noica is a disciple of St. Sophrony the Athonite, living now as a hermit in Romanian mountains.

Video source: doxologia.ro youtube.com/watch?v=yagFnE7NcHk
Conferința "Părintele Sofronie Saharov, staretul meu", November 13th, 2016

Read the English transcript of this homily on our website: otelders.org/theology-and-spirituality/stop-thinking-god-is-a-dictator-gods-commandments-are-not-orders-fr-rafail

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