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Season 7 Episode 75
“We are reading to fast!” This is typically something that we would never say about our study groups. However, as we sit at the feet of St. John Cl…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLV, Part VII
Season 6 Episode 122
Coming towards the end of the first volume of the Evergetinos, it is clear that we are being nourished upon solid food. During these many weeks, the …
2 years, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXIII: On Pride, Part IV
Season 7 Episode 74
Pride destroys the one thing that the spiritual person should desire - the unfailing light in the eye of the heart. The ascetic life seeks to remove…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLV, Part VI
Season 6 Episode 121
Is it possible for us to let go of our private judgment - to let ourselves be led by the Spirit of God into the Truth? As we read the teachings and t…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXIII: On Pride, Part III
Season 7 Episode 73
As we pour through the sayings of Saint John Climacus about pride and overcoming pride, what we see in the Evergetinos and its teaching on humility w…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLV, Part V
Season 6 Episode 120
We were turn once again to the most important of virtues - humility. Despite the repeated sayings about humility and the many illustrative stories, o…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXIII: On Pride, Part II
Season 7 Episode 72
“An arrogant man yearns for authority; he cannot, or rather, does not wish to perish utterly.“ In many ways, this one saying sums up our reflection t…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLV, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 119
How beautiful is the path that the Lord sets before us to draw us to Himself. Its beauty is rooted in the fact that it is the path that He took towa…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXII: On Vainglory, Part IV, and On Pride, Part I
Season 7 Episode 71
Rarely do we acknowledge the extraordinary gift that God gave to his Church in the Desert fathers. It is precisely through their “living martyrdom” -…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLV, Part III
Season 6 Episode 118
Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos:
We often hear the question: “How would you describe the taste of honey to another who has never had i…
2 years, 8 months ago