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Season 8 Episode 62
At first reading, Isaac’s words can sound severe, even shocking. He speaks of idle speech as fornication, unhealthy attachments as adultery, and cert…
1 day, 21 hours ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part VII
Season 6 Episode 242
The Fathers tell us again and again not to judge.
We nod our heads.
We agree.
We repeat the commandment.
And then we continue judging.
The reason is …
1 day, 21 hours ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XV, Part II
Season 8 Episode 61
When we read a passage like this from St. Isaac, it is tempting to focus on the warnings. We notice his words about passions, distraction, worldlines…
1 day, 21 hours ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part VI
Season 6 Episode 241
The Desert Fathers knew something that many of us have forgotten.
The greatest danger to the spiritual life is not always the obvious sins we can nam…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XV, Part I
Season 8 Episode 60
There are moments in the writings of St. Isaac the Syrian where one realizes that what he is speaking about is not “religion” as we commonly understa…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part V
Season 6 Episode 240
There is a fierce honesty in the Desert Fathers that can unsettle us if we read them too quickly.
They never soften the reality of sin. They do not s…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XIV
Season 5 Episode 59
There are passages in the Fathers that do not merely instruct us. They unsettle us because they seem to speak from a place beyond ordinary language. …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 239
There is something almost incomprehensible in this passage from St. Anastasios and St. Maximos because it reveals just how surrounded we are by mercy…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XII & XIII
Season 8 Episode 58
What is striking in these homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian is not severity, though there is severity in them. Nor is it simply the exalted vision of …
4 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part III
Season 6 Episode 238
There is a fierce honesty in the fathers that modern Christians often find difficult to endure. They do not allow us the comfort of remaining spectat…
1 month ago