Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video, Fr. Seraphim Cardoza tells us how bells call people to prayer, mark sacred moments in worship, while the beauty of the church itself points to God's Kingdom on earth.

An honest and heartfelt conversation between Orthodox Priest Fr. Seraphim Cardoza and Evangelical Pastor Perry Atkinson. Rev. Archpriest Seraphim Cardoza was a former evangelical pastor of a hippie church who found his way to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. In 1995, he was ordained and assigned to minister to a small ROCOR congregation in Medford, Oregon, US.
Fr. Seraphim Cardoza passed away in October 2023.

Video source: theDoveTV (August, 2015), watch the full interview here:
youtu.be/QmwqREvEoK8

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Read the full English transcript here: otelders.org/special-moments/why-do-orthodox-bells-ring-that-way-a-priest-explains-fr-seraphim-cardoza

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