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Season 7 Episode 129
The stories of the humility of the Saints and monks described in The Evergetinos can be hard to stomach. But if we consume them with the spirit of fa…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXV: On Humility, Part IV
Season 7 Episode 81
It is impossible to capture in words the joy that sweeps over the heart when one comes to understand what St. John Climacus is revealing to us about …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis I, Part III and Hypothesis II, Part I
Season 6 Episode 128
Once again, reading the fathers on humility is humbling. Gradually our eyes are opened to the nature and reality of virtue; not as human reason or un…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXV: On Humility, Part III
Season 7 Episode 80
The language that St. John Climacus uses to describe humility and its qualities is striking. In fact, in some ways it becomes unsettling. Unsettling …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Hypothesis I, Part II
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago