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Season 6 Episode 171
How do we approach in our own lives the interior struggle for purity of heart, chastity? The battle, as we see in the writings of the fathers can be …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Appendix "To The Shepherd", Part IV
Season 7 Episode 125
As one moves along through this text, one begins to understand that St. John Climacus is not only addressing elders but all those who have the care o…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXV, Part VI and XXVI, Part I
Season 6 Episode 170
Once again, we find ourselves in the midst of the laboratory of the desert and watching the Fathers’ struggle with the passions, in particular the pa…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Appendix "To The Shepherd", Part III
Season 7 Episode 124
Sometimes during a group it is as if a light comes on that illuminates some aspect of life in a magnificent fashion and that speaks to each person in…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXV, Part V
Season 6 Episode 169
We were taken very deep this evening; not only into our understanding of the passion of lust or fornication, but also deep into the human mind and h…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Appendix "To The Shepherd", Part II
Season 7 Episode 123
We continued our reading and discussion of the treatment and cures that the spiritual father must understand for every malady that afflicts a person …
1 year, 6 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXV, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 168
We continued our reflection upon the fathers’ writing on fornication and the passion of lust. What becomes immediately clear is how much they prized …
1 year, 6 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Appendix "To The Shepherd"
Season 7 Episode 122
Having completed the 30th Step of the Ladder of Divine Ascent, we are blessed to receive from the hand of St. John one additional bit of writing – “T…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXV, Part III
Season 6 Episode 167
Both in the stories that we are told from the lives of the fathers and from the particular teachings that they offer their spiritual sons, we begin …
1 year, 6 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXX, Part IV
Season 7 Episode 121
As we come to the end of the Ladder of Divine Ascent St. John unfolds for us the heights to which we are drawn – the theological virtues of Faith, Ho…
1 year, 6 months ago