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Season 7 Episode 115
Above all St. John’s writing on prayer works to break through the myopic vision that we have of life, of prayer, and of God. Like so many of the fat…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XXI, and XXII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 160
We continued this evening to delve more deeply into the fathers’ understanding of the practice of fasting. Once again we see that they learned from …
1 year, 8 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVIII, Part V
Season 7 Episode 114
What is prayer and, more importantly, what do we become by engaging in prayer? So often we take a reductive view of the realities in our life, includ…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XIX, and XX
Season 6 Episode 159
We continued our reading of the Evergetinos this evening with hypotheses 19 and 20. Once again we find ourselves considering the fathers’ teaching on…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVIII, Part IV
Season 7 Episode 113
The very words of St. John Climacus seem to carry us up to heights hitherto unknown and unexpected. The experience of this ascent takes place as we …
1 year, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XVIII, Part III
Season 6 Episode 158
Synopsis of tonight’s group on the Evergetinos- Hypothesis 18 Sections H and I:
This evening we concluded hypothesis 18 with the clarity that only…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVIII, Part III
Season 7 Episode 112
Joy! Suddenly, as we read through the Ladder of Dive Ascent every cross, every struggle in the spiritual life, while still present, begins to fade in…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XVIII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 157
No one is going to take up the practice of fasting or come to “love fasting” as we have often spoken of unless they are taught by those who have dee…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVIII, Part II
Season 7 Episode 111
There are some things that cannot be learned from books – prayer most of all! However, St. John, as so many of the Saints speaks to us from long expe…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis XVIII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 156
We picked up this evening with the beginning of hypothesis 18. For weeks now we have been reading about the essential practice of fasting. The cultiv…
1 year, 10 months ago