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Back to SearchThe 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVIII, Part VI
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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago