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Back to SearchThe Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXIV, Part II & XXV, Part I
Season 6 Episode 165
Why is it that we engage in the ascetic life and the spiritual life as a whole? How is it that we come to understand the extreme practices of the de…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXX, Part II
Season 7 Episode 119
What does it mean to be drawn into the mystery of Divine Love? Even as beautifully as John writes, it is difficult to wrap our minds around the exper…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXIII, Part II and XXIV, Part I
Season 7 Episode 164
Tonight we read the final sections on the fathers’ reflection on the practice of fasting. Once again the focus is on decorum; how does one eat in th…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXIX, and XXX, Part I
Season 7 Episode 118
We are brought to the denouement of the Ladder in these final steps on Dispassion and the “Trinity of Virtues” - Faith, Hope and Love. The words of …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXIII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 163
We have continued to make our way through the final few hypotheses about fasting and eating in general. What is gradually coming to light is that our…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXIX, Part I
Season 7 Episode 117
St. John understands that we are out of our depths whenever we try to capture with words what comes through experience. This is true in particular of…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXII, Part III
Season 6 Episode 162
It’s important for us as we read the fathers and consider the discipline that they embraced regarding our appetites and desires that we do not demoni…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVIII, Part VII
Season 7 Episode 116
As St. John draws us more deeply into his understanding of prayer and the experience of intimacy with God, he begins to emphasize the importance of m…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 161
It may seem surprising that the fathers spend so much time speaking about food and how we approach eating. Yet the needs of the flesh are very much a…
1 year, 8 months ago