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Back to SearchThe Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXXIII, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 94
Reading the fathers deeply is unsettling. It strikes against every sensibility that we have and calls into question our perception of reality itself…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter IX: On Remembrance of Wrongs, Part I
Season 7 Episode 42
There are certain moments while reading the fathers when one trembles. The truth expressed is so vivid and pierces so deeply that the experience of i…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXXIII, Part III
Season 6 Episode 93
The further we get into the Evergetinos, the more we are poised to begin to understand something important: our pursuit of virtue, such as obedience,…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VIII: On Freedom from Anger, Part III
Season 7 Episode 41
As we follow Saint John’s teaching on the passion of anger, we truly begin to get a sense of what a great spiritual teacher and physician he and the …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VIII: On Freedom from Anger, Part II
Season 7 Episode 40
What is our standard of judgment? When we consider anything about life in this world, or our struggle with vice, or seeking to grow in virtue, where …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXXIII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 92
What does obedience allow us to hear? This may seem to be a funny question. In light of how we often characterize obedience or think about it in our …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VII: On Joy-Making Mourning, Part VII and Chapter VIII: On Freedom from Anger, Part I
Season 7 Episode 39
Today someone mentioned to me that Saint John Climacus does not mince words when speaking about the spiritual life, and in particular when speaking a…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXXII, Part IV and Hypothesis XXXIII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 91
To have Christ praying within us, to have Christ fasting within us, to have Christ suffering within us. We hear from the fathers that the ascetical l…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VII: On Joy-Making Mourning, Part VI
Season 7 Episode 38
What does it mean to live in Christ and for Him? Perhaps this is a question that we rarely ask ourselves because it’s too threatening. What would our…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXXII, Part III
Season 6 Episode 90
The times reading The Evergetinos I find my mind and heart swimming not in darkness but rather in a light with which I am unfamiliar. For in reading …
3 years, 5 months ago