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Season 7 Episode 70
One of the prophets writes: “the human heart is a treacherous thing, who can endure it!“ We begin to see the truth of this statement or more accurate…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLV, Part II
Season 6 Episode 117
Humility is above all the other virtues.” Living in the truth allows for the most important thing to emerge in a person’s life – repentance. When we …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLIV, Part III and Hypothesis XLV, Part I
Season 6 Episode 116
Humility often eludes us not only in practice but in our ability to understand it. As always, we have to look to Christ as the standard. What we see …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXII: On Vainglory, Part II
Season 7 Episode 69
With stunning clarity, St. John Climacus begins to show us the subtlety of vainglory; how easily it draws us to focus upon the self in one fashion or…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLIV, Part II
Season 6 Episode 115
Every generation, every person, must be made humble! Whatever way that takes place - whatever means we are shown this, it must happen if we are to …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXII: On Vainglory
Season 7 Episode 68
Self-esteem . . . how the meaning of that has changed over the generations. And when it becomes abstracted from our relationship with God, when our s…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLIII, Part II and Hypothesis XLIV, Part I
Season 6 Episode 114
I can say this without any caveat - reading the Evergetinos is one of the most important things that we could do for ourselves in the spiritual life…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXI: On Unmanly and Puerile Cowardice, Part I
Season 7 Episode 67
Anxiety, it has been said, is ubiquitous. We all experience it and in its many manifestations. On a purely psychological level, one can never get to …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLII, Part IV and Hypothesis XLIII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 113
One of the most difficult things about the faith is not simply desiring God with all of our heart, but allowing God and His desire for us to transfor…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XX: On Bodily Vigil, Part II
Season 7 Episode 66
All that was to be redeemed had also then to be assumed in the Incarnation. All that is human and all that is part of the human experience must be em…
2 years, 10 months ago