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Back to SearchThe Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XXXVII, Part III
Season 6 Episode 208
Abba Mark’s teaching pierces the heart because it strips away our worldly sense of “justice” and places us before the wisdom of the Cross. The lawyer…
10 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XXXVII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 207
The Gospel Without Varnish
The Desert Fathers present the Gospel in its rawest form. Their words strike the heart not because they soften Christ’s co…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily IV, Part X
Season 8 Episode 28
St. Isaac does not flatter us with easy consolations. He sets before the monk the radical alternative: almsgiving is like the rearing of children, bu…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Part XXXVI, Part II and XXXVII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 206
The Fathers in the Evergetinos remind us that the measure of our discipleship is often revealed in how we respond to insult and injury. The world tea…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily IV, Part IX
Season 8 Episode 27
St. Isaac speaks with the voice of one who has tasted what he teaches. His words carry both severity and sweetness, and at their heart lies a single …
11 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Part XXXV, Part V and XXXVI, Part I
Season 6 Episode 205
The Evergetinos gives us stories that cut to the heart of Christian life: how do we respond when insulted, wronged, or treated unjustly? The world wo…
11 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily IV, Part VIII
Season 8 Episode 26
St. Isaac’s words fall like a plough upon the heart. He does not speak of religion as ornament, nor of spiritual life as a gentle addition to human c…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Part XXXV, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 204
The Fathers teach that anger is a form of idolatry. Just as the pagans once bowed before false gods, so too does the man who gives himself to wrath b…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily IV, Part VII
Season 8 Episode 25
St. Isaac the Syrian leads us into a subtle yet decisive truth about the spiritual life: to taste of God rightly, one must be weaned from the world—n…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Part XXXV, Part III
Season 6 Episode 329
The fathers speak with one voice concerning the passion of anger: it blinds the eyes of the soul and expels the grace of the Spirit. St. Cassian tell…
11 months, 2 weeks ago