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Season 7 Episode 127
One of the reasons that I’ve decided to prolong our study by reading this letter of St. John Climacus is that it speaks to our hearts about not only …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXVI, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 173
The human appetites and desires are ever so powerful. This we know from experience. Reflecting upon them through the lens of the ascetic life of the…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Appendix "To The Shepherd", Part V
Season 7 Episode 126
As we read this letter we slowly begin to see that St. John is not presenting his reader with a manual for spiritual direction; that is, specific cou…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXVI, Part III
Season 6 Episode 172
After many weeks of reading the hypotheses on fornication and the pursuit of purity of heart, what finally comes into focus is the fruit of the fathe…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXVI, Part II
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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago