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Season 6 Episode 112
Being thrown off balance! The experience of vertigo! This is what comes to mind when considering the writings from the Evergetinos this evening. Once…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XX: On Bodily Vigil, Part I
Season 7 Episode 65
The healing of the soul! So often we lose sight of the meaning of the spiritual life and the disciplines that we embrace. We often look at them as be…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 111
If I were to give a title to this evening’s session, it would be “What is the place of the Christian in a post-Christian culture? Even better, “What …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XIX: On Sleep, Prayer, and Psalmody with the Brotherhood
Season 7 Episode 64
When we think of appetites or bodily desires, we rarely consider something such as sleep. Yet this evening St. John shows us that sleep is something …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 110
“In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start.”
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
“The road of cleansing goes through that desert. It shall be n…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XVIII: On Insensibility
Season 7 Episode 63
Darkness, whatever its source, cannot be driven out or overcome by mere force of will or through reason. The fathers reveal to us a darkness that ex…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLI, Part III
Season 6 Episode 109
The conclusion of hypothesis 41 was as beautiful as it was convicting. The fathers speak of a stability of mind and heart that deepens through the as…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XVI: On Avarice, Part II and Chapter XVII, On Non-Possessiveness, Part I
Season 7 Episode 62
Freedom! We often associate this word with our own rights in this world or our capacity to do as we will and go where we want. A kind of promise is p…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XV: On Chastity, Part XI and Chapter XVI: On Avarice, Part I
Season 7 Episode 61
The Mystery of the Human Person!
What comes forward in the ascetical writings of the fathers is not a moralistic or legalistic view of sin. Rather, …
2 years, 11 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XLI, Part II
Season 6 Episode 108
Avoidance: often this can be the fundamental reason that an individual gravitates towards solitude, religious, or otherwise. We do not want to be in …
2 years, 11 months ago