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Back to SearchPentecost Retreat - Session One
Season 100 Episode 19
The Fire That Remains
Life in the Spirit After the Collapse of the Religious Self
Week I — The Fire That Reveals the False Life
Pentecost and the Be…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter L, Part III and Book Three - Chapter I, Part I
Season 6 Episode 234
The Fathers bring us to a place where the soul is stripped of every illusion about itself.
We imagine that we see clearly.
We imagine that we under…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter L, Part II
Season 6 Episode 233
We want to help.
We want to fix.
We want to speak the right word at the right time and be the instrument of someone’s healing.
And hidden beneath all…
2 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VIII, Part IV & IX, Part I
Season 8 Episode 53
There is a clarity in the Fathers that we often resist because it leaves us no place to hide.
They do not flatter the human condition. They do not so…
2 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VIII, Part III
Season 8 Episode 52
There is a humility that we speak about.
And there is a humility that is given.
The first is clean.
Understandable.
Manageable.
The second is devasta…
2 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLIX, Part IV and XL, Part I
Season 6 Episode 234
There is a form of speech that wears the mask of righteousness
and yet is born entirely of death.
The Fathers tear this mask from our face.
Mariam sp…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VIII, Part II
Season 8 Episode 51
“A heart that is broken and humbled, God will not despise.”
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A man begins in need.
Not in strength. Not in clarity. Not in light. He begins in th…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLIX, Part III
Season 6 Episode 231
You think sin begins when you speak.
The Fathers say it begins when you listen.
The serpent did not force Eve. He spoke.
She inclined her ear.
And …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VII, Part III and VIII, Part I
Season 8 Episode 50
After speaking in broad and sometimes severe lines about the struggle of the spiritual life, the holy elder begins to lower his voice.
He does not a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Lenten Retreat: The Dismantling of the Religious Self, Session Four
Season 100 Episode 19
Lenten Retreat 2026 Fourth Reflection The Man Who Has Nothing Left But God
On the Life That Appears When the Self That Lived Has Died “I live, yet n…
2 months, 4 weeks ago