https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgzDcw3o6cI
What do you think the liturgical calendar of modern man is? It’s kind of a funny question. What’s a liturgical calendar for those who don’t know? Right, so when the Orthodox Church has a liturgical calendar, every day, every week, every month, every year, there’s a cycle. There’s a cycle of things we celebrate—feasts and fasts, for example. But it even happens every day. Every day there are prayers that monks do at certain times of the day: the third hour, the sixth hour, the ninth hour, matins, vespers—all this kind of stuff. Certain prayers correspond to the certain needs of certain times of the day, as well as certain events that happened in the crucifixion of Christ. This is what happened to him at the third hour or the sixth hour, and we’ll have prayers about those. That’s what happens on a daily basis.
On a weekly basis, obviously not just Orthodox Christians but even Protestants celebrate Sunday as the day of the Resurrection. That’s why we go to church on Sunday. Wednesday and Friday are days of fasts. Why are they days of fasting? Because during the week of His betrayal, Wednesday is the day Christ was betrayed by Judas, and Friday is the day of His crucifixion. So we honor that in fasting on those days. That’s something that happens every week. There are other days of the week that have certain prayers; for example, Monday—I believe it might be Tuesday, but I believe it’s Monday—is a day for commemorating the angels and the bodiless hosts. Things like this create a weekly cycle, and of course, there’s a yearly cycle. There are Saints’ days nearly every day—well, actually every day there’s some kind of saint, maybe very minor.
There are big events, of course: Easter, the fast or the Feast of Feasts, Christmas, the Dormition of the Mother of God, the Apostles’ Feast—all of those are preceded by fasts to get you ready for these events. If you’re living in an Orthodox Christian society, obviously every year, at any part of the cycle, there is a mood to how things are. In Lent, it might be a little somber; there might be more repentance. There might be more, I don’t know, a little—not necessarily sadness, but there’s anticipation for something exciting to come. This is the mood of the society, and everyone is on the same page. For example, you don’t want to be too extreme, exorbitant, or too excited in Lent, too indulgent in Lent. Obviously, you don’t want to do that.
Now, what is modern man’s liturgical calendar? I’ve explained what a liturgical calendar is, and I’ve come to believe that, you know, obviously, people in America have holidays—right? Barely any. They have like two or three holidays. The Calvinists got rid of most of the liturgical calendar; that’s why America doesn’t have these things. We basically have Christmas, even though it’s really about presents now, and we basically have Thanksgiving. For those who don’t know, who aren’t American, Thanksgiving is a very important holiday for Americans. It’s where they celebrate being allowed to be off work for two days in a row in a week. That’s amazing! That’s unheard of in America. Sometimes even three, if you have certain jobs. You have three days off; it’s very rare in America. That’s what Thanksgiving is all about. And then Halloween, of course—you know, it’s the day you dress your little boys up as serial killers and you dress your little girls up like strippers, and then they ask for candy. That’s basically the state, unfortunately, of Halloween nowadays.
But that’s not the liturgical calendar; that’s not the same thing. These are just days that happened; they’re not actually that important to American society, but also the West in general. What really is the liturgical calendar? Here’s what I think. When I think about what got me excited when I was a kid, with anticipation for things to happen in the future, I have to say when I was seven years old, it would have to be the products I looked forward to consuming. What I mean by that is I would have been so excited if you told me—and of course, people did tell me—there’s going to be a Star Wars Episode I. It’s coming out! It’s going to be great! It’s going to be everything you’ve always thought about. Like, what’s going to happen in Star Wars now? You’re going to know! It’s going to come out! Remember whichever date that’s coming out; that’s going to be the big day.
All of society—it’s not specifically about Star Wars, but it’s about these kinds of consumeristic events. All of society doesn’t have a liturgical calendar in the way that the Church does, but they get excited for these kinds of events. That is the anticipation. You’re counting down the days until the release of the next movie you want to see in a long series of sequels. It’s definitely not going to be the same; it’s going to be totally different; it’s going to be way better. That’s the thing you’re looking forward to, and you’re going to be disappointed. Maybe sometimes you won’t be. You were disappointed with Star Wars Episode I, and then II and III, and all the other ones. But, you know, that is the thing that people look forward to as a community, not just as individuals.
You know, that’s important to remember. It’s not just one person sitting up for this; it’s that you go out in public, right? You go out in public, and instead of seeing people decorating for Lent, preparing for Easter, decorating for Christmas, something like that throughout a whole season, you see ads all over the place for the next product. Maybe it’s the next iPhone, you know? I really think it’s not as organized, but I think that, unfortunately, is how most people are now oriented. That’s how I was oriented as a child. It’s been a long time. I mean, looking back at it, it’s now very clear that those were the things I was excited about. I wasn’t excited—I mean, sure, I was excited to get stuff on Christmas, but you know, not really for Christmas itself.
There is a feel, there is a Germanic feel to Christmas—something nice about it. Even Christmas in America to this day, I think, still has a little bit of it. You know, there’s something, I don’t know, something wintry about it, something cute. But that’s not really what people were looking forward to then. Unfortunately, it’s just getting stuff, and the consumer culture we live in—that’s all what it’s about. So we have these things because we don’t have what we should have. We don’t actually have a real liturgical calendar. We don’t have people looking forward to excitement, and not just on a yearly basis. Again, remember there are certain types of times of day; there are certain days of the week that we have totally lost the spiritual importance of them.
Now, instead, our new liturgical calendar in America—I mean, listen, this is not automatic; it doesn’t always happen like this—but obviously in America and most other Western countries, you work Monday through Friday, you get Sunday and Saturday off. Okay, why? I mean, that’s an accident of history. We think of it as just how things have always worked, but it’s not. In the Roman Empire, that’s not necessarily how things worked. In other societies, it isn’t either. Obviously, a lot of modern societies have acclimated to the way that Westerners have of doing things—the kind of calendar we have. But the world itself, you know, we all want to be on the same page. We all want to look forward to things in anticipation.
In our spiritual vacuity, our lack of a true liturgical calendar, we substitute that or we substitute something else for that—something that’s a pale representation that’s not really going to have people excited for the—I mean, it’ll have people excited for the future. It’ll always have you excited for the future, and you’ll always be disappointed. Unfortunately, that’s how it is. It puts your faith, it puts your consciousness, your nous in something that is just going to be disappointing because ultimately it is not some collective or spiritual or traditional thing. It’s something ephemeral; it’s something made by a corporate boardroom. You know, that’s not the new release of an iPhone, where the iPhone is finally undoing some error they did a while ago, or the new release of some video game, or the new release of yada yada yada. Who cares? You know, this now defines our entire society.
I remember what it’s like, and sometimes I do get sucked into some event like this. People get sucked into even elections—not to say they’re not totally devoid of meaning, but there’s a spiritual trap there, you know, where you’re often being engaged in something you don’t have control over that’s not actually for your spiritual benefit but for your spiritual deficit. You know, and that’s what consumerism is. It’s a new religion; it’s a new liturgical calendar that has you celebrating the next product coming out. When you put it that way, there are a lot of people who denigrate religion, and at the same time, they’re a member of the most pathetic religion ever: the religion of modernity, the religion of consumerism. They might even say they hate capitalism, but that’s their religion. You know, that is what they live and breathe; that’s what they look forward to; that’s all of their life.
And I will say, I hope you don’t look at things that way. The good news is, if you look at things that way, you’re wrong, and you should be excited that you’re wrong. That is not the liturgical calendar you should be following. You should really be following the liturgical calendar of the Orthodox Church. I mean, that’s where it is. But that’s not really the point I have of this video. It’s really just that our new religion is dangerous. You know, the new religion of modernity—and make no mistake, it is a religion. That’s what it is. Because, you know, religion ultimately—people say, obviously, the Latin word is “religio,” which means “binding.” That’s what the word originally means; it binds a society together. It has them celebrating together, mourning together. When they’re told to mourn, they mourn. When they’re told to celebrate, they celebrate. When they’re told to look forward to the next product to consume, they look forward to the next product to consume.
That is a religion, and they are much more organized; they’re much more religious than, unfortunately, most Orthodox Christians. We’re not quite as religious as they are sometimes. But, in fact, unfortunately, we get caught up in those things too. So, you know, I know I have—I lived my life like that for a long time, and you know, it’s still a temptation. But that’s something for you to think about. Just think about every day, every week, every month: what really are you looking forward to? What really are the events that define your life? What are you waiting for? Are you just waiting for something to happen? Are you just waiting for some kind of event, some kind of new product? Because that isn’t quite how it should be. Let’s just say that.
@VTubeFishing - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
Updooting now+136
@PinballCollection - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
I was really upset when E3 was removed from the consoomer liturgical calendar. At least we still have the feast of Black Friday+304
@mono-ub4vc - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
Going by how you describe it, gacha gamers are the most religious people in the world. They do their dailies, weeklies and look forward to whatever new character is coming out at regular intervals. They gather in communities and their entire lives and finances revolve around the gacha games they play.+100
@xeroxyde3397 - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
One obvious example is the release of GTA VI. A sizable part of the western world will stop work all together to play the game for a week straight.+268
@Gaaaarf - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
The superbowl is like Mecca for the ideal consoomer. Your annual 800$ NFL subscription has led to aa ticket purchase (minimum $5k), all for you to spend 45$ on 3 beers to cheer for a team you don't root for in the regular season.+97
@mos6581com - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
Steam sales are my liturgical calendar.+222
@Anti_Moonboy - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
The modern man consooms sports. Monday night football, Thursday night football, College football, Sunday. Anticipation throughout the week listening to talk shows talk about the games that haven't happened yet or the games that just happened. Debate with other people at work, on social media. And that's just football.+69
@PetesSubs - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
January - False Promises February - Month of Missing Credit Card Minimum Payments March - Progressivism April - Spring has Sprung, Gooners have Gooned May - Marx month June - Month of the smoke detector chirp July - Month of hating one’s own nation August - Month of enjoying pollution, poisoning, and plastics September - Epic Reddit social media month October - Spooky consooooom month November - Thankful consoooooomption month December - THE MONTH OF CONSOOOOOM+90
@dumbsterbaby8996 - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
I have always distanced myself from holidays because how consumerist they are but I always felt like something was missing without them, but this video made me realize there should be something greater to be looking forward to.+31
@ivanivanov938 - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
The first day of iPhone sales is similar to bringing the relics of holy people to your city. But the queue is not at the church, but at the store.+139
@sarundayo - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
"All You Can Eat Shrimp" at Golden Corral Sundays+28
@thelastgekko - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
My local Orthodox Church put the entire liturgical calendar available to add to your own digital calendar. Has helped me to be mindful of each day+42
@JoboHompkins - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
Love how you embrace the Norwood. I still buzz my head like a coward.+51
@NONAME-wc1tc - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
The 4channer's liturgical calendar has one of your videos too luke+38
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
Victorian age Russian writer dons his best university professor jacket for a stroll in the woods while talking to viewers of his tech channel+26
@connormccartney1604 - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
we have Liturgical caldendar video before GTA 6+87
@MeneltirFalmaro - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
Never get excited for anything because nothing ever happens+26
@cypke - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products+17
@obitrsa - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
The fastest way to enter the cycle Luke is talking about (the orthodox one) is through The Prologue from Ohrid by Saint Nikolai Velimirovic. It offers brief lives of the saints, hymns, reflections, and homilies for each day - only about three pages daily. A monk once brought people into a monastery library and said: “If you put all of these books into a blender and made a spiritual smoothie, you'd get The Prologue from Ohrid.” You can find it online in English, updated daily.+16
@adamsulak8751 - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
"The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle." Erich Fromm+15
@andrej-vukov - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
⬆️+1
@Ravix0fFourHorn - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
the upcummies must flow+19
@FinnaTrynaBeHonest - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
This comment is gold+2
@decorumlopez9147 - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
doot doot!+1
@thewooque - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
Break the cycle of addiction and install Debian+1
@Kalergi_Plan_Accelerationist - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
@FinnaTrynaBeHonest thanks for the gold kind stranger!+12
@codey1391 - 2025-06-03 11:39:33
updooting is uncool+1
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
Honestly, E3 was great and I get nostalgic for it. I was a normie kid back then but that was the golden age of gaming. It's death was very symbolic of the industry just turning to crap.+41
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
Love some good Cyber Monday+1
@jacobo_fungus_farmer - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
Rip booth babes 🫡+5
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
Where can I now urge+1
@RAMZAVFX - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
To be fair only gamer with money really gave a shit about e3. Trailers were neet but irrelevant if you knew you were too broke for a new game or console.+1
@Max-xp1wo - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
Gatcha gamers are the only people on the world to think that you need to play daily to be considered 'active'. If I play a game once a week, then that is enough to be considered active+5
@thomas.thomas - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
There probably are some religions that are similarily strict or even stricter+3
@Radi0he4d1 - 2025-06-08 11:39:34
That’s by design 👌+3
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
And you will not?+8
@LZRD107 - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
It looks fun+3
@3567-j3n - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
@JonasThente-ji5xx yes+30
@fergthethirdthethird4964 - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
GTA is garbage+41
@ponder3020 - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
Another example is Luke Smith fans avidly awaiting the release of Luke's next video.+88
@TravisHi_YT - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
@JonasThente-ji5xx No, it looks like crap so far. GTA 5 wasn't even that good.+9
@stacksmasherninja7266 - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
This is so true+1
@Gadottinho - 2025-06-03 11:39:34
@TravisHi_YT indeed, almost no story shown so far, looks like another wokoid game+7
@acrez3260 - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
A sizable portion of Luke smiths audience stop plying video games and going on 4chan and make an identity around not playing video games and going on 4chan+8
@yarghhargh9345 - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
yeah it kinda made me reflect on things+1
@blueorb7030 - 2025-06-09 11:39:35
And it will be awful+1
@copperlemon1 - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
I've been thinking for a while that the Disney World vacation is the American Hajj.+14
@youcefsiouda - 2025-06-09 11:39:35
Amerimutt culture isn't soulful just capitalism and cash and profits Gross..+1
@ariathyf144 - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
For what? games you don't even own and you have no guarantee to be able to play in 5-10 years.+28
@QTwoSix - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
Pirate+15
@beach_lion - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
@ariathyf144 For the experience of playing a game. Is a library pointless because you never own the books you read?+7
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
>games you don't even own and you have no guarantee to be able to play in 5-10 years GABEN GIVETH, GABEN TAKETH AWAY+10
@QTwoSix - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
@beach_lion For said experience you can pirate the game.+4
@roripantsu - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
@ariathyf144 just 2 more weeks bro+2
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
@beach_lion I have a library in which I didn't pay for a single book. With a proper RAID it could also outlive me. I own all the books and no company can revoke my access.+2
@shallex5744 - 2025-06-03 11:39:35
@beach_lion if the library is digital then yes it is pointless+6
@stacksmasherninja7266 - 2025-06-03 11:39:36
OMG+1
@henkerr - 2025-06-04 11:39:36
I stopped gaming the day i realized women exist.+1
@Shellshock1918 - 2025-06-07 11:39:36
@QTwoSix that’s theft. Thou shall not steal.+1
@QTwoSix - 2025-06-07 11:39:36
@Shellshock1918 Except it's not theft, it's copyright infringement.+2
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-03 11:39:36
This but soccer except its le good+4
@colirie - 2025-06-03 11:39:36
Forgot about drugs and porn.+8
@Zoxide_ - 2025-06-03 11:39:36
wheres NNN?+7
@seyadeodin - 2025-06-03 11:39:36
This, but (un)ironically+1
@zojaXII - 2025-06-03 11:39:36
june is not black history month silly+3
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-03 11:39:36
WWDC is like Christmas+3
@George88851 - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
If you can afford it the synaxarion, has the saint's life each day!+1
@philipps.9309 - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
What‘s the name of your church?+1
@johnstamos5948 - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
I put my liturgical calendar up next to my icon corner. So I can check which Saint is commemorated and any upcoming fasts or feasts after my morning prayers+3
@dominusantonius - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
I have my calendar in the kitchen lol.+3
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
I wonder what alternate universe steampunk Luke is talking about+6
@dimitrilensflareabrams2893 - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
The release of GTA 6 will be a major event on the consoomer liturgical calendar.+26
@orthodoxNPC - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
This is the year 1 BGTA6+12
@kriegrrr - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
Thematic comment+4
@DobroPlayer12 - 2025-06-03 11:39:37
I eagerly await the coming of GTA, praise Science+3
@buckbreaker5185 - 2025-06-06 11:39:37
Oh my Fauci can't wait to play GTA6!!!!+1
@boxbobbyblock - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
Saint Nikolai also known as the John Chrysostom "Golden Tongue" of Serbia. GOATED+4
@g0ddy_X_X - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
Where would you say "The philokalia" fits in with regard to "The prologue"? Being a roman catholic from a third world country, I wish to explore more about orthodox way of living life. Could you maybe guide me by suggesting which book should I start off with? Thanks.+2
@boxbobbyblock - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
@g0ddy_X_X Certainly start with the prologue - although a physical copy is pricy, online versions are everywhere, very easy to digest. But there is a good book "about" the Philokalia called The Way of the Pilgrim which was a great introduction for me myself+2
@g0ddy_X_X - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
@boxbobbyblock Apologies for the late reply. Thank You for the recommendation brother I suppose I'll be staring of with "The Way of the Pilgrim" then move onto, "The Prologue" and then perhaps, "The Philokalia". God Bless!!+2
@santobernabel4216 - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
The bald wizard has returned we must listen+63
@dj3904 - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
Thank you I think this is the best of the return videos so far because now we are speaking with Christ in mind first+60
@jackMeought-fr8vl - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
June is gay Ramadan+14
@aRaskyl - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
I was very excited that we Christians had a united Easter Sunday this year. Great video as usual, Luke.+9
@Azerth - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
Why would I be waiting for something to happen? That wouldn't make any sense at all. Nothing ever does.+9
@522viper - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
I hate how everything has become so consumerist. It’s gotten so bad that I can’t even look up fishing and gun vids without having every product slapped in front of me. If I don’t buy it, I’m considered poor.+23
@jad_c - 2025-06-04 11:39:38
Interestingly, as a Muslim, the only thing I get from Christmas is that winter-y feeling. It is still one of my favourite times of the year.+3
@FrickelbudeCH - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
In Europe, everything revolves around taking a holiday, or rather 3-5 holidays during the year. People spend so much of their income for their house/mortgage, but the moment they have some free time, they immediately have to flee their place. It's pathetic.+10
@juandavidortizt - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
I used to be a gambler and even I gotta say it got erroded as well. Now with online casinos, gacha, everyone is sport-betting now, etc. Made me actually stop doing it. It was a fun time going to the real casino and play knowing i could win or lose big, the convos with strangers, the "free" drinks, the decoration, the sounds. It's been a year but I don't miss it, specially now. Funny how that works+5
@seyadeodin - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
Now that I think about this explains so much why people react so violently and disproportionately when their favorite movie, or video game franchise doesn't meet their expectations, they have invested a great part of their identity and energy into that, that's like our modern heretic hunt.+5
@NEVERGOON-e7q - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
I love the consistent uploads.+6
@NexusR7 - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
once Luke realizes where the cult of suffering started in religion (starving promoted as fasting - when running out of grains for the peasants; meat is already a big no-no for the slaves) it's joever :face-orange-biting-nails:+6
@avavaviv1 - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
There are decades in which no videos happen and then there is a week in which years of videos happen.+2
@jasondouthit4490 - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
Thank you Luke for starting my family's journey into Holy Orthodoxy. I first learned about it from your videos, and February my wife, daughter and I were all baptized. Thank you+27
@decorumlopez9147 - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
Luke of the Woods hath spoken!+7
@cinemint-music - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
The only secular liturgical days I can think of are the feasts of deals days (Toyotathon, Amazon day, Black Friday, etc..). I don't believe there are any fasts unless you are one of the "bad" people+7
@_idiot - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
We're all sick and Luke has returned to help us heal through Christ!☦+2
@SolazJamais - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
People nowadays feel the need to consume things since it seems that now they are what shape our identity. I'm not exactly Orthodox, but I do agree that we should rethink our priorities. God bless you.+4
@sousahenrique - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
The liturgical calendar (and canonical hours) are not exactly exclusive to the Orthodox Church, but it's also part of the Roman Catholic Church.+3
@Ultrajamz - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
Whenever Reddit Notification says+6
@decorumlopez9147 - 2025-06-03 11:39:38
His scalp was not bestowed with water cooling.+3
@ChellSneed - 2025-06-03 11:39:39
God bless you, fren.+5
@alexanderuser1282 - 2025-06-03 11:39:39
@ChellSneed "fren" ?+2
@joshallison153 - 2025-06-03 11:39:39
who considers you poor? don't hang out with them+10
@wizkidstudios404 - 2025-06-03 11:39:39
and conversely, people defending brands and franchises like defending their bloodline. because these products raised them more than their parents+5
@Crossbow02-u6p - 2025-06-03 11:39:39
Lard hands typed this+5
@NexusR7 - 2025-06-03 11:39:39
@Crossbow02-u6p excellent point my bro 😭🙏🔥+2
@tissuepaper9962 - 2025-06-03 11:39:39
bruh the famines are coming back soon, might as well get ready.+2
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
"Luke of the Woods" -- lol.. underrated+2
@netdoll - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
I would consider things like Memorial Day or MLK Jr Day to be fasts, but only in a very minor sense.+1
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
What about WWDC?+1
@meanmole3212 - 2025-06-07 11:39:40
unironically+1
@Exemonster9 - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
Just I've seen the video's title I think It'll be about all these movies, shows,sport matches and games that people are so excited waiting for their released+4
@thattimestampguy - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
0:01 Liturgical Calender 0:08 For those who don’t know. There is a Liturgical Cycle The Orthodox celebrate. Sunday = Resurrection Day. 0:56 Wednesday and Friday Wednesday = Betrayal by Judas day Friday = Crucifixion Monday = Commemoration of Angels 😇 1:53 A Mood to how things are, throughout the Calendar 🗓️ . 2:35 Holidays in America 🇺🇸 2:58 Thanksgiving 🦃 3:20 Halloween 🎃 *What Really is The Liturgical Calender of Americans?” 🇺🇸 3:40 “Save The Date” events. The thing you look forward to as a public community. • ex. Movie Releases 🎥 • ex. The next product 📱 5:40 The times when I get to get stuff. 6:41 The American Work Schedule (generally speaking) • Monday thru Friday Work Week • (9AM to 5 PM) • Saturday and Sunday off work 8:13 Getting sucked into elections, etc • Engaging in things you don’t have control over, to your own spiritual detriment. 8:40 Consumerism is a Modernity Liturgical Calendar. 9:14 I hope you don’t look at things that way. 9:37 Religion, “a binding together” Modernity Consumerist Religion. 10:33 What are you really looking forward to?+11
@blakebonecutter - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
Calvinists have a liturgical calendar. That being said, I’m glad Luke wasn’t caught up in Prequel Revisionism.+6
@hopscotchoblivion7564 - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
Back then I guess towns had occasional periods of amusements: carnivals, festivals, and whatnot. Nowadays we are amused everyday by TV, Video Games, and Social Media. What people used to look forward to then is what we now have access to everyday. Call me an accelerationist, but I'm anticipating at some point down the line society is going to have a breaking point where they can no longer reconcile their amusements and their responsibilities. We need to prepare ourselves for this and pick up the pieces at the right moment. I don't look forward to Idiocracy but I think we're heading in that direction.+4
@ChristopherDistrobution - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
Thank you for this video. As I have been walking towards Orthodoxy and embracing its prayers and veneration, especially the Jesus Prayer, I considered how much devotion there is here. But you show clearly here that plenty of people put just as much devotion, but to temporal things. Thank you for that reminder. Christianity is just taking that devotion and shifting it to God. You can get excited for product, consume it, and get excited for the next product, or you can fall absolutely in love with Christ and the church which is ETERNAL. What else is to consume? Are you just going to get excited for the next product like I see so many, or will you be caught up and engaged with the wonder of Christ?+5
@traddad9172 - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
On the flip side is the "consumer calander" a term to describe the calander developed roughly 5 years ago that persuades oneself to buy a hamburger or celebrate a 7 deadly sin.+4
@blitzkrieg2928 - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
Reminds me of that guy being sad his friend hanged himself because he couldn.t coomsume the current media.+6
@elliesuckz - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
At my church it’s at least 2 hours a day prayer + study + adoration….ive done it (kinda, I get lazy some days which is not an excuse but yeah) and it’s fun and get I filled with sweet and deep contentment…Fasting is definitely hard but god really does reveal a lot…even in 1 day…with a true faith and a humble heart… he’ll answer, in subtle ways he confirms and relieves your anguish+1
@matthewegan7321 - 2025-06-03 11:39:40
I look forward to consooming Luke Smith videos+3
@aaaa9r - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
great video Luke, love your topics and points of view about pretty much anything. I might not agree in some views, but even those makes me re-think from different perspectives and I pretty much always end up in a better place. Glad to see you back here!+1
@ultraxerox - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
Romans didn't have ~the modern~ understanding of economics. I mean basically they just conquered new territories, put tributes and enslaved peoples. I don't think it's completely right to compare their society and our todays western society. If we could compare a two day weekend e.g. with Japan. People work there much more rather than in Europe, the stay much longer at work, just to show how loyal and hard working they are. And they are indeed loyal and hard working. Nothing against loyalty, but I mean their su*ide rate is much higher rather than in European countries. Much more social pressure and problems, burnout, anonymity in megacities etc. One could say that europeans are bit lazy, but I would say we are just have different cultures with just different working habits. I mean it's like sleep - nowadays what is the average sleeping length - 8 hours a day in "one shot". In the medieval ages people slept twice a day. They didn't have electricity and life was also a bit different than nowadays.+9
@NadTvaryna - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
man this whole video is just soaked in that "everything modern is bad" nostalgia-core cope yeah, people get hyped for star wars or the next iphone. so what? maybe it’s not the same as fasting and praying on schedule - but guess what? some of those moments actually matter. not everything’s made in a corporate boardroom for mindless drones. there are releases that are genuinely great cultural pieces. you just have to find them and care. don’t get excited for the next marvel slop, sure - but be excited for that bandcamp artist with 10 listeners who hits you in the chest. or that obscure film director from some random festival who stuck with you. follow their work. support something real. or, wild idea - make something yourself. film. music. writing. it's never been more accessible. do something. and the alienation rant? spare me. nobody’s stopping you from building community - you just have to actually do it. shocking, I know. we’re finally at a point where people can decide what matters to them, and that’s apparently a moral collapse? as for the “return to tradition”, that stuff got replaced because it stopped working. how many lives were lost because of resentment raised in people for centuries and how many wars and revolutions started because of that? this kind of thinking is not dumb but lazy. try to come up with something that is not "ooga booga muh tradition" nonsence evangelicals cry about modernity but offer nothing new or vital. what’s the big spiritual promise again? die and maybe get a ticket to heaven? so empowering. and the path to get there? fasting and praying. sounds like a great recipe for raising strong, independent people who create meaning for themselves. if your answer to modern confusion is "let’s pretend it’s 1300 AD again," then maybe the problem isn’t society—it’s you.+8
@Baiyu83 - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
I am enjoying these walking talking videos, thank you.+1
@SUDRLANDIA - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
There's a completely artificial consumer calendar atop the real one, with rhythms you are expected to abide by more than that of the natural world. Nearly every holiday that was once grounded in a real, substantive tradition and was held on its day for a reason, no longer has any reason to be held on that day. The seasons once mattered, a successful harvest once mattered (and they still very much do), but these things are seen as mere background noise by most people today. They used to be seen as opportunities to celebrate life. What do we celebrate now?+2
@robinwhg - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
Of course that's a big word for Star Wars Episode I, but films are an art form and I like to think that art is more than just mindless consumption. I wouldn't want to live in a world without art and the enjoyment I get out of it.+3
@offensivearch - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
NFL and college football perfectly overlay here. It's the same kind of event and on a nearly exact same schedule every year. There's even "monday night football". It maps on perfectly. The problem with movies and iphone releases are that they either aren't on consistent dates or are not the same kind of thing in subsequent releases. To be a liturgical calendar I think it has to be consistent in both time and content.+2
@volotat - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
My Liturgical Calendar is the waiting for the next Luke Smith video. Sometimes years.+1
@palchum1185 - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
Its the exact same in the Catholic Church with saints and feast days+13
@GhostofTradition - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
Luke making daily vlogs to make dat YouTube bank for consooming+10
@FourOfClubs - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
In a society in which everything revolves around increasing the GDP at all costs, all important calendar events will revolve around consumption and exchange of currency.+2
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
username checks out ✓✓+2
@boxbobbyblock - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
Which denomination are you?+1
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:39:41
Him recycling the 4chan meme "consume product get excited for next product" is very thought-provoking to you? Or is it his religious propaganda that's so thought-provoking?+1
@gamma4053 - 2025-06-03 11:39:42
And their productivity/efficiency is poor.+1
@titandino - 2025-06-04 11:39:42
Have you considered that the only reason efficiency and productivity must remain this high is to unrealistically maintain exponential economic growth in perpetuity even while the population is dying off?+1
@useruser6240 - 2025-06-03 11:39:42
He is on the right route but unfortunately he don't know where to stop!+1
@iiisaac1312 - 2025-06-05 11:39:42
You sound vaccinated.+2
@DrAg-ez3ps - 2025-06-03 11:39:42
I see what you mean and I agree that films are an art form. However I would add that a film is art if it isn't a product by a corporation (board room with execs, producers) but a collaboration of artists (composer etc) with a director who has a clear vision. This however isn't the case all the time and many movies can be described as a consumerism. which has happened more and more over time and is especially the case now.+1
@wizkidstudios404 - 2025-06-03 11:39:42
Episode I is a rare example where it actually was an artist and roughly his pure vision... but something like the Minecraft movie and similar consumerist flavored movies? I could live without that "art"+1
@shaurz - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
Even a devout Orthodox Christian needs to consooom product from time to time+3
@JeffWright828 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
Luke Smith’s Liturgy of the Long Consoomer+3
@Sarge198 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
The equinox and solstice are my liturgical calendar+1
@grandfatherrabbit - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
I look forward to the passing of the seasons and all the changes each one brings to the natural world.+2
@Piotr-n8p7r - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
where your heart is there is your treasure+3
@1111Tactical - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
But Luke, when Arma 4 releases it's gonna be so cool to consoom.+2
@iluan_ - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
In this analogy, elections and midterms would be like jubilee years, just every couple of years instead of 25.+1
@NovaInquisicaoGN315 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
The modern holidays, the days of a certain group, are a try to substitute the liturgical system+1
@gl0sek - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
Perhaps it's just me, but I feel that the consoomer religion is dying right before our eyes. I can't remember the last time buying something made me feel excited or happy. I think it was different decades ago. People used to care much more about the things they owned. If you wanted to give someone a gift, it took time, money, and effort. Now, you can buy almost anything online in minutes. When my father wanted to buy a drill driver, he had to save up for months. And if it broke, he would do everything he could to fix it!(back then, we used to repair things instead of throwing them away).Now you can buy a set of cheap battery-powered tools, break them, toss them out, and get a new set for the next job. We have everything at our fingertips, so nothing feels special anymore.Yesterday's sacrum is tomorrow's profanum.+6
@ChellSneed - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
God bless you.+4
@adcodes - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
I just wait for the next Luke Smith video, consooome, repeat.+2
@uroosh - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
WE ARE SO BACK !!+21
@threedog27 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
I think these feasts and days are nit bad in any way. I actually think especially these cultural or religious feasts are important. On these days we remind ourselfs that life is not just about working and producing numbers or something. Gather with the family and just have a good time. I live in Germany so I dont know Thanksgiving. But important days for us are of course christmas and easter. And I like these days.+1
@memoism457 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
So glad you came back !+1
@MartinJungblut - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
Hear me out: Calendar based around LTS releases.+2
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
I knew a guy back in the day who told me if he lost all reason to live he would keep living to see Stars Wars episode 1. I wonder how that turned out for him. He had dropped out of school and nerd hobbies (D&D, MTG) and gotten into clubbing and drugs. Don't even remember his name.+1
@charshii3745 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
Another example is sports. Many Americans revolve their whole lives around sports and their team, and the Super Bowl, the Playoffs, World cups, whatever. Probably one of the biggest “liturgical calendars” of modernity+1
@Pepxico-y7d - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
The memetic warfare has gone too far. Lord forgive us+3
@fullserstorm83 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
in Brazil we consume less material products, but then people's "liturgical" calendar is centered around events like carnival, which is just carnal feasting (with a little bit of african paganism celebration to be honest) and that is also very true to what Seneca told about Saturnalia - 'that I regard as correct the remark of the man who said: "Once December was a month; now it is a year."'+1
@cipherlofi6453 - 2025-06-11 11:39:43
are you Eastern or Oriental Orthodoxy follower?+2
@lonsinflowerss - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
Art is a reason to live. It's just a shame when art become consumed by corporate greed+1
@spaghettiking653 - 2025-06-03 11:39:43
I've felt the same thing as you, but I think that's just us. It's just us who've become numb, world-wearied and worn out, aloof to consumerism but only through ideology. When I think back to when I was younger, I could happily play games, watch TV or YouTube, get excited about new films and games and stuff, even for Christmas and Easter. Now I feel like I've killed all of that off, by trying to be too woke towards consumerism, I have thought myself into a hole of actively not wanting to be engaged by this stuff anymore, so as to resist the urge to consoom. And it's worked, but now like you said, nothing feels special, I don't even get the urge to have fun or do things anymore, and, by trying to stifle consoomerism, I've just killed most of the things that once brought joy. I think the solution will be to wake up, to the fact that everything does still matter, everything is still special, and we should not make ourselves ascetics over ideological reasons. At least for me. Sorry if I've gone on a tangent entirely unrelated to your experience.+6
@DrLicuid - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
So nowadays you're wearing a chainmail openly when going out. I guess times really have changed after the cough.+4
@aldrickdev - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
Only thing I look forward too is the weekend so I can code lol+2
- 2025-06-03 11:39:44
Personally, I use the 1960 Kalendarium Romanum.+3
@ibeezhashin - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
I am waiting for my return unto my creator and i will make no associates with him until i am returned, or, when the final hour arrives. You can only serve ONE master in this life time.+1
@bosko2592 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
I remember this guy giving great Linux advices+1
@GilbertWilliams-x3d - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
Even the Unaboomer was disappointed by the Phantom Menace+2
@porky1118 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
10:45 I'm only waiting for free time. And when I have free time, I'm often too tired to do anything productive. I'm not really looking forward to anything exterior anymore. Only video games once in a while, but often I don't even really play them because I have better things to do.+5
@b.p.5324 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
You made a joke about Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving has actually been blessed by Orthodox bishops as a worthy holiday/feast. My parish, and others I've visited, read the Akathist of Thanksgiving as its own prayer service. It is one of the most beautiful prayers/hymns, one of my favorite services of the year.+1
@1Iljo1 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
Will you start printing more books? Maybe some orthodox books? would 100% buy+6
@abracadabra2337 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
I've thought about this before, how we judge past civilization and people as less advanced, yet we are trapped in our own conventions and customs. Ego. We follow along because we want to fit in. Its what we grew up in after all.+1
@Pariatech - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
I'm waiting for the Feast of the Sacred Heart.+2
@remsee1608 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
The Super Bowl is the new year. Then March Madness, the masters, NBA playoffs, Baseball/golf/olympics or World Cup, then Football season. Repeat+11
@ianhoolihan2396 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
I disagree the change is not religion to consumerism it is from community celebration to individual celebration I see the movie I want to see. I celebrate my birthday, my graduation, my wedding it's all about me, for everyone+5
@shaurz - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
The liturgical calendar is CES, Computex, MWC, Steam Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter Sale, Apple Event day+1
@UnKnownv5 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
"words are lacking me" xD+3
@nemodot - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
Luke I am a 36 old millennial reddit atheist since 2006. I came to appreciate religion more and I even went into some orthodox discords to chat with people but I just can't bring myself to believe there is a god. What would you say to people like us?+6
@psofronas96 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
Liturgical calendar as a kid: birthday, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, summer vacation.+1
@ziozzot - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
never thought about it that way+1
@thewillowspeak - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
I get that overconsumption in modernity can be more demoralizing but I don't think it's totally novel behavior. Like when peasants in Europe were eager to offensively season their whatever meat pie dish for Christmas because "whoa! Get a load of these expensive foreign spices!". I don't believe people back then weren't just as susceptible to soy jacking at x fashionable trend or social mannerism. Also in Mexico, we still celebrate pretty much everything in the liturgical year and I think we do a fair job of balancing the spiritual seriousness with the communal exiting celebratory stuff.+22
@Ms.aeriri - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
Waaaaaatt my favorite boomer is back?!+1
@spaghettiking653 - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
Real+2
@boxbobbyblock - 2025-06-03 11:39:44
True it's in the St Tikhon Prayer book -- although my Bishop does bless me to feast that day if it's during the Nativity Fast+1
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:39:45
Speaking of Orthodox books, The Kingdom of Satan by Father Spyridon is great.+2
@1Iljo1 - 2025-06-03 11:39:45
@Hero_Of_Old Yes I really love Father's books+3
@maximilianmusterhans4659 - 2025-06-03 11:39:45
If you actually were interested you would find the books yourself and just print them with amazon or barnes.+1
@xboneyt485 - 2025-06-03 11:39:45
🍞 & 🎪🎪+5
@RightOverWrong - 2025-06-03 11:39:45
Bread and circus+1
@netdoll - 2025-06-03 11:39:45
The two changes are actually one and the same.+2
@shaurz - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
Apple Event day is like our Easter because the date changes from year to year+1
@philipwittamore - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
You either embrace mysticism or the scientific method. The wonder of the humain brain us that for some it can do both in parallel without giving migraine.+1
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
Try not to think of God in terms of religion.+1
@philipwittamore - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
@Hero_Of_Old Which god?+1
@FromTheWombTotheGrave - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
Redditor+3
@nemodot - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
juangiordani-v6z im afraid i wont uderstand anything and i will promptly drop them out. I get really anxious about translations, as our prophet here Luke says about the word "word" and its meaning "logos"+1
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
Step 1: Ignore the responses here. Orthodox discords are not where you need to be. We have churches and they are much better. That's a good place to start wherever you are.+16
@gnomelinux - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
I wouldn't use the internet for anything that isn't something you can't explain "logically."+1
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
@philipwittamore there's only one, it's the primordial force behind all creation.+1
@aqyx - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
@LukeSmithxyz unc made his 300k to retire and now has ego putting himself over his peers XD+1
@cherubin7th - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
This is human nature, but now corporations hire behavioral physiologist and biologists and doctors to abuse this human weaknesses.+22
@RA9U1 - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
In previous eras, everything was more art than science, and as such, people were less likely to be algorithmically influenced & programmed. The system/machine is maximizing consumption & consoomerism, and utilizes cutting-edge technology & sciences to achieve it.+7
@satnik-333 - 2025-06-03 11:39:46
> Also in Mexico, we still celebrate pretty much everything in the liturgical year and I think we do a fair job of balancing the spiritual seriousness with the communal exiting celebratory stuff. Is that why so many want to migrate to US? In any religious celebration, upholding the modern degeneracy has been become the focal point. The worshipping is but a five-minute formality. But sure, that's what counts as spiritual seriousness in today's time.+1
@NovaOutlaw - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
The question is why is he back?+7
@bug______ - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
the Laotian calendar objectively makes more sense; the new year starts in spring and ends in winter/fall+1
@silent_shout - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
When I was 26 I got mocked by a guy because I had an iPhone 6 or something and we were supposed to have the the 9 or 10. He had watched Deadpool like 4x in a row.+1
@ScottF99 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
It's crazy how many days off people in Europe still get. My company's SharePoint website updated to show all of the upcoming holidays. Since the company has locations in places like the UK and Germany, we get to see all the days they have. They get tons more than the measley handful of government holidays that we do and many of them are Catholic feast days/solemnities (especially in Germany). I suppose the celebration of those days are just the holdovers from medieval Christian society.+1
@sean..L - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
Seasons dont exist for people who stay inside all day so the cycle of the calendar for a consoomer probably revolves around paycheck time.+1
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
GTA 6 is the biggest liturgical calendar event of the decade.. lol.. I wish I was joking.... Society is cooked I mean, other than Ubuntu going to RUST and Firefox hitting the bankruptcy wall soon.+4
@vespertine-t1f - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
Bro disappeared off the face of the internet for multiple years just to make a sudden reappearance as karl marx bravo vince+6
@keiganthetennessean1796 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
I prefer the Julian over the Consoomlian.+3
@legostory33 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
Are you orthodox?+2
@absolutegarbage3654 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
I LOOOVE CONSOOMING ❤❤❤+2
@old_gaffer - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
2:08 - the ideal term for this is "joyful sorrow".+1
@FantasticTales1272 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
They follow the glory of the Natural Man+1
@maddam50 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
i'd follow the liturgical calendar of the orthodox church if they updated to the gregorian calendar+1
@siddid7620 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
The Lord is back.+1
@mattewlefty991 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
Also sports events define the "modern liturgical calendar"+1
@kurku3725 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
I have academia calendar :D semester changes semester and that is all it no holidays, pure unadulterated grind+2
@DannyThePatton - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
Trad pablum. You can actually read without succumbing to sunk-cost fallacy and concluding you have to take on a new ideological costume to get some value out of that time. You can read marx without being a marxist and read the primary texts of abrahammic religions without converting, you just need time, humility, and discipline.+4
@ZMax96 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
how many episodes i lost,last time i saw luke smith he didn't have that long beard😭+2
@perguto - 2025-06-09 11:39:47
Windows 11 just told me it's Donut Day...+1
@jameslegare5394 - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
I feel like I am in the beautiful forest! - In a manner of speaking. JL - :goat-turquoise-white-horns:+1
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
Everyone runs out of money eventually..+8
@poika22 - 2025-06-06 11:39:47
"nooo you can't just use the internet every now and then"+1
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-03 11:39:47
I don't think he subscribes to Karl Marx+7
@joshallison153 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
but what football team do you support?+4
@JoeyG-o8r - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Luke, the first rule of survival is "stay where you are". If you keep wandering during your rants we'll never find you.+1
@jibblito2004 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Get excited to Consume next product!+1
@BandanazX - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
I should start fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays+2
@SuperRetroBoy64 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
"Please ask questions, attend holidays and then get excited for next holidays." When you've been unplugged for a while, it feels trite to complain about consumerism. But then you remember that Eleventy kajillion people are addicted to tiktok. Intelligent men must repeat themselves every 10 years. Although, it makes one wonder whether it is objectively unfulfilling, or whether it is one's subjective dissatisfaction with society: the kind that would have driven Roman slaves to Christianity while the pagans celebrate none the wiser.+1
@kodekata - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Earth Day, with Google beating everyone over the head with the industriousness of the honeybee+1
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
I am celebrating Apple every year during their conference+1
@jaws3peopleZERO - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
I can’t wait for the next Super Bowl+1
@hineko_ - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
How I see americans. Everything in usa is about the exchange of money and products. Personal relationships too. I don't know how you live like that+3
@alexxx4434 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
It's a sign of dark times ahead when Vim God starts to talk about religion...+16
@cipriant9190 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Happy to see and hear you Luke talking about this. Technology seems so different and far away from Theology.+1
@ExhaltedÜbermensch - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Good morning, Based one.+2
@Chris-on5bt - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
We are at an engineered end point of history. Detached from any mooring of tradition that might help us find the direction out of the halls of decay. We are kept in the continuous stasis of desire and release through artificial cycles of programmed want. Luke has come back to speak to a new generation of internet normies who are asleep. The old guard sets aside in bemusement listening to the old instrument being tuned up again and the old melody strummed with some new variants formed by the days on the open road.+1
@ajdaniel123 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Orthodoxy is just the threshold of the front door. Keep searching.+1
@quickestlaughs - 2025-06-11 11:39:48
☦️+2
@yungkaizoku2578 - 2025-06-04 11:39:48
Bring back the podcast please+1
@orlando7448 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Luke is peaking my friends+1
@shaurz - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
I can't believe Luke fell for the Orthodox meme. Probably mogged by Fr Tryphon videos.+3
@elliesuckz - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Amen Luke very excited if you decide to do vids on god and his word….but i understand if it’s not something you don’t want to yet ❤+1
@monsterzero9456 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
cant wait for gta 6 bro+1
@iotkualt - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
You must be new here+14
@FromTheWombTotheGrave - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Some prophecy is coming true+1
@ultraxerox - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
You remind me of father Grigori 😉+2
@1337GigaChad - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
I have no calendar, and I must consoom+2
@godnyx117 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Please never stop uploading Luke! I enjoy your videos so so much! I also feel such peace!+2
@ratdan935 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Woah before GTA6!?+1
@BobanOrlovic - 2025-06-08 11:39:48
I don't think anyone was looking forward to celebrating the liturgical calendar like it the new call of duty was coming out bro, it's not fun, its a duty, that's why its called a service.+1
@pecuna7985 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
do rocket launches count+3
@YeloPartyHat - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
I don't think any one group has what you describe. I think there is crossover in different cultures one may represent but there exists not the collaboration required to make it how you describe. I think it is merely an aggregation that gives the illusion of collective presence but modern man is splintered far more than I see described in earlier times. I also think this is a good thing as we become less sheepish this way.+1
@aczajka74 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Oh no Luke is a Byz larper 😭😭😭+1
@xX_Yakub_Jr_Xx - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Are you making any more not related episodes?+2
@seyadeodin - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Answer the real questions Luke, like: what's the deal with orthodox christian letting their beard grow so much more?+2
@522viper - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
DONT ASK QUESTIONS. CONSUME PRODUCT AND GET EXCITED FOR NEXT PRODUCT.+1
@johnstamos5948 - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Before I converted, I had a wfm engineer job, made good money but lived for nothing. I would go to nerd conventions and take time off for them. That was my consoomer liturgical calendar. CHRIST IS RISEN!!! ❤️☦️☦️☦️❤️+3
@rothbardfreedom - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
You are endangering these woods man, you are on fire. Get out of there.+2
@Being_Joe - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Amazon Prime Days.....+2
@screechpicasso - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
I'm just learning people are getting two days off for Thanksgiving. I get one day off this is some bullsh*t.+1
@jimc.goodfellas - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
DON'T THINK JUST CUNSOOOM+2
@Beerbeerosa - 2025-06-03 11:39:48
Bravo, you are true Lucky Luke SKYWALKER if you found Orthodoxy ! ;) XD+2
@danutmh - 2025-06-03 11:39:49
You peel off the veneer of western traditions and you find out it's just made in china with super glue and noodles.+1
@Man_Getter - 2025-06-03 11:39:49
Don't forget our months of worship black history month and pride month+1
@wonkafansonly2005 - 2025-06-03 11:39:49
Not sure if you went full Ron Swanson and chucked your computers in the trash, but the certificate on your site has expired+2
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-06-03 11:39:49
I will definitely stop uploading at some point. I am not the person to trust for your peace.+11
@godnyx117 - 2025-06-03 11:39:49
@LukeSmithxyz Well, I was exaggerating with "never" but I will definitely enjoy it while it lasts. Take care of yourself above all ;)+2
@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 - 2025-06-04 11:39:49
Many Orthodox men do not have beards it’s not a requirement. I certainly don’t have one and never will grow one.+1
@spookyskeleton5179 - 2025-06-03 11:39:49
Dont ask questions. Just pray and give tithe. You must use this framework to be happy.+2
@whatevr-y9o - 2025-06-03 11:39:49
Is that worse than the liturgical calendar of various Christian churches?+1
@alexxx4434 - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
Capitalism is a religion, where money is God+6
@justin266 - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
What was Calvin’s deal+2
@e3k0n - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
You are one of my favorite thinkers. Thank you+2
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
Steam seasonal/holiday sales+1
@Sychotix-fc8bw - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
a genuine question since i started my business. most of the time i'm just think of "when will i get the next contratc" or "when will i get paid". idk i don't mind it but it is causing me a lot of stress. do you have any advice about that?+2
@OrthoDust - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
Looked to my left to see my phone ring a notification. Saw this, and I am not disappointed. (It's only been 1 minute).+3
@coffeedude - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
When's the next Luke Smith video cooming out??+1
@YouTubecensorshipteam - 2025-06-10 11:39:50
I'M CONSOOMING AHHH+1
@old_gaffer - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
In Orthodoxy (when it comes to the English language) we generally prefer to call Easter - Pascha. The term "easter" seems to have pagan roots.+2
@Crewlietsful - 2025-06-04 11:39:50
I wish I had saturday and work 5 day a week+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
8:40 I'm looking forward to the release of new Nintendo games for example. But I'm not too invested into them anymore. I'm happy if they are good. I'm not disappointed when they are bad. I don't expect too much anymore. I have my own goals unrelated to society, my job or some group. And I'm looking forward to making progress. My projects are usually related to programming and writing. Especially writing can be like waiting for the next episode of some show. But I have control over it. If I today, the next episode will come out today. If I don't write, the next expisode will not come out at all. If I watch a show, the next episode will come out in one week, and sometimes I have to wait a year until the next season. And sometimes it's just over. I can decide myself when it's over. Also I'm working with artists, who I pay, and once in a while see new progress they made.+1
@tidus4400 - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
It's not NEW by any means and honestly "both" calendars look pretty dumb. But anyways they give someone a purpose, something to look for (especially in case of people without kids or other "higher callings"). At the end of the day, if it doesn't damages others, let people do whatever they want.+1
@paindespik4884 - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
i wasnt disappointed with star wars 1-2-3 :(+1
@RAMZAVFX - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
Stram seasonal sales for the pc gamer bros.+1
@georgiosf.1223 - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
Ορθοδοξία ή θάνατος+2
@makam2089 - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
GPUs,iPhones,cars...+2
@Dan-nn8ys - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
Yeah, Luke is definitely in Montenegro, am I right Dimi?+1
@netsaosa4973 - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
nice jacket bro+1
@DMAIRS - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
Been a short while welcome+1
@AdasHere - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
get ur own things to get excited about+2
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
Well yeah, that's obvious.+4
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:39:50
and Working" is the devil.+4
@CIB8282 - 2025-06-03 11:39:51
Let go of greed, and help the poorest among you.+2
@paindespik4884 - 2025-06-03 11:39:51
am i missing the point of the video ? probably+1
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:39:51
Phantom Menace is actually an underrated banger. Atleast George had an overarching plot and story he wanted to tell, and had creativity and uniqueness. He was making a movie he wanted to make.+2
@paindespik4884 - 2025-06-03 11:39:51
@Hero_Of_Old yes :)+2
@calholli - 2025-06-03 11:39:51
You're on the wrong timeline.. It's Rifles, 2Strokes, Voip, riding mowers, wood splitters, swivel ratchet wrenches, excavators, sheet metal and diesels.. and Linux OS+3
@makam2089 - 2025-06-03 11:39:51
@calholli I mean the normies.+1
@collagen1738 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
whats the argument for those who arent necessarily religious but also don't really look forward to consumer dates of interest either? is this a spiritual hole that must be filled somehow?+1
@arkbooi - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
Hey luke, can you tell me where do you get most of your wallpapers from \ some repo of sorts with wallpapers you use?+1
@TheTastyPancake - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
This is going to sound condescending, but I'm gonna talk straight now. I have to say that this is a very american problem. In just one generation, people from all across Europe went to completely unnatural lengths to replace their ancestor's land and culture with a completely artificial one. To this day you guys are suffering generational PTSD and it's the reason you don't feel connected to the land below your feet or the people around you. This is why americans have such a natural drive to be part of a team, a group of any kind. In the northern Europe, we track the year by weather and the four seasons. There are still places which the juice haven't completely destroyed yet and just by looking you can see how the people are literally from this specific earth, their phenotypes and ancestry. It's also often well known. This is also the reason why praising God in the form of ancient texts from a desert and a culture I've never seen myself, feels so weird. I get my spiritual bread and butter from reading the mythology of my people and connecting to the forests and the bedrock on which my ancestors once walked upon. Performing meditations (prayers), eating different herbs and psychedelics that grow here, bathing in the Sun when it's bright and freezing in the dark for half of the year... you get the point. I seriously feel sorry for american people's mutilated psyche, for their made-up land, language, culture etc. It must be awful. I hope you find truth, peace and love in whatever you find the best for you Luke. Orthodoxy sound great, and you're totally right about the importance of tradition. When we one day wake up from this dissociative process of the Ego, it's gonna be clear to everyone that God actually made us to be loving toward each other and that the whole universe is really just one thing. Have a great summer Luke! :) <3+3
@Halpr - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
Orthodoxes use Debian. They don't seek the newest package.+1
@t01 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
LESGOO+3
@SkyChipz - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
nice drip bro+1
@Yogurtcups - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
I can say at this point i'm mostly detached from the religion of modernity/consoomerism, I don't follow any pop culture news or consume any newly released media. The only thing I might be looking forward to is Elder Scrolls 6 but I hardly ever think about that. I and many others mostly look forward to the overcoming of obstacles and new stepping stones in our personal lives/development. Not exactly a calendar but still presents a rhythm of events that guides one's existence. Some might say this still pales in comparison to having god in your life and makes your existence no more meaningful than if you were a consoomer, but at least it's not so sheep-like.+1
@Subzearo - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
FACTS+1
@BRAVENmusic - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
OUTPUTTTTT+1
@karikovacs3824 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
☦+1
@TohnoEn - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
Thank you Dostoevsky.+1
@BobanOrlovic - 2025-06-08 11:39:52
A system of values and a Religion are not the same thing, this comparison has been way overused.+1
@tomaso0 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
Low effort tradposting+3
@colirie - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
I've noticed the trend of being a consoomer unfortunately being carried more by kids and teenagers now, instead of just the adults, it's just like kids now are indoctrinated into getting the brand new "kawaii" or "cute" stuff big corporations are promoting through tiktok or whatever, it was hello kitty, then calico critters and now everything related with the japanese culture overall is being targeted by the consoomers. You will see grown adults fighting with literal kids to get the newest plushie imported from japan or korea, it's almost like consumerism now has to be labeled as "cute" to be less nocive to nature and our surroundings.+2
@javierm.n5455 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
My payslip. Basically.+1
@samueldahl4973 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
To me, Thanksgiving is when I celibrate my ancestors sailing across the ocean to claim their freedom to worship according to their own beliefs. I know that is a Protestant angle to take on it, but it does have spiritual significance to Protestants. To us, it is more than just a day off work. It is also a day of gratitude where we think about the blessings God has given us and the immense gifts our ancestors passed to us through devotion and discipline.+3
@lostintechnology1851 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
hello fellow larper+1
@somenamesome - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
Jesus was not crucified+1
@Spillpolitiet - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
first+4
@StpMakinMeChangMyNam - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
Wait, you guys get 2 days off for Thanksgiving?+2
@netdoll - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
Actually, they use Slackware. All of the conservative benefits of Debian + it doesn't require you to be married to an internet connection to use it.+1
@mistahsusan2650 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
your father and i are so proud of you+2
@CIB8282 - 2025-06-03 11:39:52
Yeah, Thursday and Friday for office workers+2
@trumppence3834 - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
What's the point of practicing Orthodoxy when it leads you to the same Hell "modern man" goes to? Being seen as Epic Beard Man? Cringe.+6
@wizkidstudios404 - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
This is HUGE in the Nintendo world. They treat Nintendo directs (an hour of ads) like a holiday and console releases like a second-coming.+1
@icxcarnie - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Revert to the Catholic Church, Luke.+7
@maximilianmusterhans4659 - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Is he wearing chain mail now!?+1
@wasumyon - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Summer break+1
@bananomet4052 - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
The only thing I am religiously waiting for is the housing market crash lmao.+1
@freedomgoddess - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
why no recipe website in the description?+1
@FromTheWombTotheGrave - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
3:25 lmao+1
@Tivvv3 - 2025-06-04 11:39:53
7:40 Hey I'm quite pleased with Hoyoverse' gacha games updates more often than not. I mean they do try to tell good stories. They do have a Nous in Honkai Star Rail as well!+1
@Beissi-nb9hi - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Date/Season Event Satirical Meaning Early January CES / Tech unveilings Worship of new gadgets February–March Oscar Season / New MCU Movie Pilgrimage to theaters March Nintendo Direct Ritual chant: “Please be Metroid Prime 4” April iPad refresh cycle Annual tablet baptism May 4 Star Wars Day Liturgical chanting: “May the Fourth…” June E3 (or Summer Game Fest) Digital altar to game trailers September Apple Event iPhone Eucharist October Pumpkin Spice Season Sacred flavor of the masses November Black Friday Holy Bloodletting of Wallets December Advent of Disney+ / Holiday specials+1
@Sputnikcosmonot - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
commodity fetishism etc etc+1
@preeth-raksh - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Follow whatever takes good care of Us ?+1
@infidelcastro6687 - 2025-06-06 11:39:53
Steam summer sale+1
@intothewildtrail - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
At this point I am just waiting for the day to end so I can go back to sleep, rinse and repeat every day+1
@ronp6108 - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Game console releases, black friday, "cyber monday", tax refund day+2
@dacho707 - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
luke stop spamming videos i'm getting desensitooozed+1
@soychotic - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Wrestlemania+1
@idan4989 - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
where are you live now+1
@PhillyCYOSports - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Superbowl+1
@SauliusKva - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
Marge?+1
@damcheus9675 - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
wdym?+1
@1toneboy - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
He already said he’d only consider sedevacantism. But that has hardly any presence in the church, so orthodoxy is easier+3
@icxcarnie - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
@1toneboy Where did he say say that? I'm not too caught up on his positions.+2
@1toneboy - 2025-06-03 11:39:53
@icxcarnie My memory isn't that good, a couple years ago+2
@freedomgoddess - 2025-06-03 11:39:54
it's in the main website, i still think it should be in the description.+1
@Tivvv3 - 2025-06-04 11:39:54
Also good point to not make your existence all about waiting for some content drop.+1
@idan4989 - 2025-06-03 11:39:54
@ЕгорКазей AI said: "Glowie" can refer to a few different things. Most commonly, it's a slang term used online to describe individuals who are perceived as being undercover government agents, particularly those who infiltrate online extremist spaces, according to Wikipedia. This term often suggests that these agents are easily recognizable and conspicuous.+1
@alexeytelepnev9582 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
you need better quality clothing made from wool i hope you have means for that+1
@BobDoe_69 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
so evil wins in the end, I knew it+2
@sseadss - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
GTA 6 GTA 6 😃😃😃😲😲😲😲😲+1
@alt_warn4211 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
not related+1
@gnomelinux - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Lemme ask something here. What is so important about gta6 coming out?+3
@saucebossmossdrums - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
512th+1
@karakondzula1388 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Consooomers even have daily remembrances on their lithurgical calendar. It is things like "world breast cancer awareness day", or " world hunger day", or " world insert any meaningless bullshit day". They venerate their saints there, which are big companies and famous people who raise the "awareness" of these incredibly important subjects. They also always have a fundraiser where you can spend money while you consoom the bullshit that you are a great person for donating to the fund raised by some very dodgy persons.+1
@qchtohere8636 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Religious hype... When regular hype won't cut it.+2
@lindenhawthorn4761 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Mixed conifer-deciduous forest with glacier rocks, you must be somewhere in New England now.+1
@Arniores - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Laudetur Jesus Christus+1
@kyosefgofa - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Me looking to my collection of anime figures, practically worshipping them 😮😮😮+1
@lol-ld3jh - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Gooning profusely+3
@antinominianist - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Luke i appreciate your disdain for consoomers. But without consoomers i wouldnt have medicines i need for a my chronic cluster headaches for the last 20+ years. Perhaps traditionalists should have offered a cure or a prevention before telling people who suffer to consoom less. I am a religious capitalist because it cured my pain. Traditionalists dont believe unjustified suffering exists but it does and it can be cured.+1
@elliesuckz - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
ortho bro arc incoming? Uh based+1
@jegga9199 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Read the Bible, Faith in Christ alone is the most important thing, all authority must come from his word+2
@martingeorgiev999 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
bootleg Varg Vikernes+4
@ponder3020 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Cope+4
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
Aren't the Abrahamic religion just Saturn worship? The crucifix folds into a cube, the star of David folds into a cube. Muslims walk around the black cube. The black cube is the symbol of Saturn.+3
@interests3279 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
1:04 "Betrayed by Judas" 🤔+1
@bobby13730 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
consoom 3d items set in reality: bad consoom ideas about the invisible man: good+2
@wizkidstudios404 - 2025-06-03 11:39:55
What does hinging your entire life on corporate product consumption have to do with medication+2
@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 - 2025-06-04 11:39:55
Who decided which texts are canonical?+1
@HPLovecraftsCat9 - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
Wrong. Luke isn't taking pictures of his children for public view every two seconds.+2
@martingeorgiev999 - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
@HPLovecraftsCat9 Not yet. You gotta give him some time.+3
@drednaught608 - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
Not quite. The cross is the unfolding of the cube which freely reveals the secret of salvation with Christ at the center whereas others still have secret knowledge which perpetuates the barrier of enlightenment as the black cube still in its unrevealed form.+1
@helloimatapir - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
Get a job.+6
@roi12555 - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
You are loosing it. You are the village weirdo+2
@elliesuckz - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
Uh based Halloween devil worship day hater uh based+1
@HollyTroll - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
I like watching these Orthodox-related videos. I've always heard that Orthodox/Eastern Christianity is one of the closest sects to Islam. Some ideas in this video really highlighted the resemblance - especially the part about "modernity is a religion" and of course, the "Liturgical calendar." The Arabic word deen is usually translated as "religion" in English, but it has a broader meaning: a complete way of life, or a system of belief and practice. In the Qur’an, Islam is referred to as a deen, and at the same time, you can find the word deen also referring to other ideological systems or ways of life (akin to hedonism, for example). Also, the word worshipping isn't just reserved for conscious religious practice toward a god or deity - it can also refer to conscious or subconscious idolization of other people, materialistic objects, or even being enslaved to human psychological or bodily desires. This also brought to mind a saying of Prophet Muhammad addressing his companions (and future generations): "By God, it is not poverty I fear for you, but I fear that the world will be spread out for you as it was for those before you, and you will compete for it as they competed for it, and it will destroy you as it destroyed them." The Arabic word used here for "spread" kind of refers to globalization, mass production, materialism, etc. Regarding the part about the Liturgical calendar—I’ve always found it curious, while traveling to Western countries, how the 5 daily prayer calls from mosques are absent. On one hand, in a temporal sense, they give structure to our day. On the other hand, the communal aspect of meeting with your small community multiple times a day is something I found strongly missing while abroad - especially nowadays, where individualism is taking over. Zooming out, the annual celebrations and holidays are also usually rooted in communal values or the idea of simplicity and rejecting materialism (like the month of Ramadan, for example). Sorry for rambling - I hope you keep these videos going. And welcome back! :)+1
@lilacscepter223 - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
leaning too hard into being a living meme, fix your beard so real bros might respect you and want listen to something you say cause most people treat this like its hot air and your videos are something for them to doze off to and try themselves at a funny comment. you wouldn't listen to yourself nor click on this sh you gone too far+2
@idan4989 - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
seems like you need therapy and yoga+1
@jamestony - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
but Christmas is pagan+1
@palchum1185 - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
Censor the j slur please+25
@tree_0I0_bark - 2025-06-03 11:39:56
Jobs are unpleasant welfare, work is endless goals+2
@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 - 2025-06-04 11:39:57
He disagrees with you so he’s losing it?+1
@SILLY_BILLY_777 - 2025-06-03 11:39:57
Read these quaran verses: 5/43 5/44 5/45 5/46 5/47 5/48 7/157 And then read the writings of 7th century Orthodox Christian Saints, and they will teach you what the bible and torah say+2
@Sever3dHead - 2025-06-03 11:39:57
that is for skittles people+17