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Back to SearchThe Evergetinos: Book Two - XXXII, Part VI
Season 6 Episode 194
Contrition is love! To many this will seem to be an absurdity, but when we look not only to the writings of the fathers, but to the life of Christ hi…
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The Evergetinos: Book Two - XXXII, Part V
Season 6 Episode 193
One of the amazing things about reading the lives in the teachings of the desert fathers is that we begin to see that we are part of the body of Chri…
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The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily III, Part III
Season 8 Episode 14
Saint Isaac for Syrian proves himself once more to be one of the most beautiful and poetic of teachers. He describes for us the nature of the human p…
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The Evergetinos: Book Two - XXXII, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 192
“Contrition is his very name!” This is how the authors describe a monk who not only is contrite of heart, but who also lives always in this state. Wh…
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The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily III, Part II
Season 8 Episode 13
Orthodoxy and Orthopraxis (right belief and right practice) are intimately tied together. All of the fathers and, in particular, Saint Isaac the Syri…
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The Evergetinos: Book Two - XXXII, Part III
Season 6 Episode 191
The loss of the spirit of contrition can take place whenever our hearts become hardened; when we grow sluggish in the spiritual life or our attention…
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The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily III, Part I
Season 8 Episode 12
Upon reading the beginning of this homily, one clearly gets the sense that Saint Isaac the Syrian wants our understanding of the spiritual life, who …
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The Evergetinos: Book Two - XXXII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 190
At the end of many of these groups, my only thought is that the beauty of the writings of the fathers is exquisite. Often when reading them one is bo…
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The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily II, Part V
Season 8 Episode 11
What is it that forms and shapes us the most as human beings? What affects the way that we perceive reality and gives form to the thoughts that we ha…
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The Evergetinos: Book Two - XXXI, and XXXII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 189
In their discussion of the struggle with the passions and in particular those associated with the bodily appetites and what we experienced through th…
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