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Season 6 Episode 127
In hypothesis 1 of book 2 of The Evergetinos, we continue to hear one story after another of the humility of the fathers. Again and again, what we fi…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXV: On Humility, Part II
Season 7 Episode 79
It is a curious thing to be humbled by hearing a saint speak about humility. Yet, this is what happens. In and of itself, it reveals to us how far th…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis I, Part I
Season 6 Episode 126
We began this evening with page one of the second volume of The Evergetinos. In many ways, we pick up where we left off in the first volume with humi…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXIV: On Meekness, Part IV and XXV: On Humility, Part I
Season 7 Episode 78
Elder Porphyrios wrote “whoever wants to be a Christian must first become a poet”. I mention this because the truth of it plays out in St. John’s wr…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Evergetinos - Conclusion of Volume One
Season 6 Episode 125
Tonight we read the final hypotheses of the First Volume of the Evergetinos. From beginning to end the volume and its teachings are as challenging as…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXIV: On Meekness, Part III
Season 7 Episode 77
Guile. It is rarely a word that is used in our day; nor one which we use to examine our own minds and hearts. Yet, as St. John describes it, guile h…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLVI, Part I
Season 6 Episode 124
We are drawing close to the end of the first volume of the Evergetinos. We’ve come to the end of a long journey; but in reality it’s just the beginni…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXIV: On Meekness, Part II
Season 7 Episode 76
To be simple, guileless, and meek are described by St. John as a habit of soul. Habits form deeply over the course of time and those that we form thr…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLV, Part VIII
Season 6 Episode 123
What a privilege it is to read the fathers! As we are being drawn by them into a deeper understanding of the virtue of humility, their vision of its …
2 years, 7 months ago
Searching the Depths of the Unconscious: The Desert Fathers and Psychoanalysis
Season 100 Episode 10
A lecture presented at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. Sponsored by the Department of Catholic Studie…
2 years, 7 months ago