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Back to SearchThe Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter V, Part II, VI, and VII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 247
The Fathers are extraordinarily subtle here because they know that the human heart is subtle.
They refuse the comforting simplicity by which we divid…
3 weeks ago
The Name Above Every Name, Conference One
Season 100 Episode 27
The Name Above Every Name Conference One
Receiving the Name
The Gift Before the Method
“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XVII, Part I
Season 8 Episode 66
This passage can easily be misunderstood as a catalogue of monastic etiquette or a list of ancient customs that no longer matter. Yet St. Isaac is do…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter IV, Part II and V, Part I
Season 6 Episode 246
The Fathers insist that the spiritual life is decided long before words are spoken or actions are taken. It is decided in the hidden conversation of …
1 month ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XVI, Part II
Season 8 Episode 65
The Christian life is not first the struggle to become better people, but the gradual unveiling of what we have already become through Christ. We hav…
1 month ago
Nazareth and The Hidden Life, Session Four
Season 100 Episode 26
Nazareth and the Hidden Life
Retreat Reflection IV
The Hidden Life and the Healing of Desire
Epigraph
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall…
1 month, 1 week ago
Nazareth and The Hidden Life, Session Three
Season 100 Episode 25
Nazareth and the Hidden Life
Retreat Reflection III
The Silence of Nazareth and the False Self
Epigraph
“He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause Hi…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter III, Part II and Chapter IV, Part I
Season 6 Episode 245
The Fathers understood something that we have almost entirely forgotten: very few souls fall suddenly. Almost every great collapse begins with someth…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XVI
Season 8 Episode 62
One of the most striking characteristics of St. Isaac’s writings is that he never asks us to renounce the world because the world is evil. Rather, h…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part VIII and III, Part I
Season 6 Episode 244
The Fathers place before us a vision of the human person that is almost unbearable in its simplicity and demands. We do not live with others because …
1 month, 1 week ago