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Season 7 Episode 90
In St. John’s discussion of discernment, he reveals to us the beauty of a human being transformed by the grace of God and living in communion with C…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis III, Part III
Season 6 Episode 135
We continued our discussion from The Evergetinos on idleness. What begins to emerge from the wisdom of the fathers is that everything that is part o…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVI: On Discernment, Part VII
Season 7 Episode 89
As we have discussed, the fruit of humility is discernment. But what is that? Is it simply private judgment, a human wisdom that has deepened over th…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis III, Part II
Season 6 Episode 135
What a blessing it is to read slowly. It allows insights to unfold before our minds and imaginations that we often would not be attentive to due to o…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVI: On Discernment, Part VI
Season 7 Episode 88
Where are we in the spiritual battle? Do we understand the virtues that are generally most necessary in the pursuit of virtue? So often in our day, w…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis II, Part VII and Hypothesis III, Part I
Season 6 Episode 134
We turn now in the Evergetinos to consider the “avoidance of idleness”. With this, of course, we are compelled to consider the nature of work, and it…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVI: On Discernment, Part V
Season 7 Episode 87
Extraordinary and beautiful! We are currently reading Step 26 from The Ladder on discernment. As St. John begins to unpack things for us, that is, wh…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis II, Part VI
Season 6 Episode 133
After listening to a multitude of stories from the Evergetinos about responding to insults from others, the only response that one seems to be able …
2 years, 4 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXVI: On Discernment, Part IV
Season 7 Episode 86
When reading The Ladder of Divine Ascent, we begin to see that discernment is quite different from what we imagine. It is not simply the use of our r…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis II, Part V
Season 6 Episode 132
Humility and selfless-love often bears no resemblance to what we hold in our minds as their meaning. It is only seeing these things through the grace…
2 years, 4 months ago