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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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter XXII: On Vainglory, Part III
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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago