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Season 7 Episode 37
Our journey with Saint John Climacus has not been an easy one; in fact, we get a taste of walking upon that narrow path that leads to the kingdom sim…
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The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXXII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 89
We continued our reading of hypothesis 32 and once again the words of the Fathers are piercing, very much like the words of scripture. This is what m…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VII: On Joy-Making Mourning, Part IV
Season 7 Episode 36
We continued our discussion of “joy making mourning” from the Ladder of Divine Ascent. It is like seeing an image slowly come to a state of clarity. …
3 years, 5 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXXI, Part II and XXXII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 88
Tonight, in Hypothesis 32
we are, one might say, confronted with the deepest challenge. It is not unlike the challenge of Christ in the gospel. What …
3 years, 5 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VII: On Joy-Making Mourning, Part III
Season 7 Episode 35
Even in the act of mourning the loss of a loved one, our thoughts can return very quickly to the things of this world. The reality of death is somet…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXXI, Part I
Season 6 Episode 87
How do we view our life in this world? Such a simple and straightforward question, and yet one that we contort ourselves so as not to have to answer …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VII: On Joy-Making Mourning, Part II
Season 7 Episode 34
The more deeply one reads the fathers, the more one begins to see that what is being revealed is the terrain of the human heart. The fathers do not p…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXX, Part I
Season 7 Episode 86
Tonight as a group we read hypothesis 30. It was a striking and detailed description of the nature of the spiritual battlefield, the demons powers (b…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VI: On the Remembrance of Death and Chapter VII: On Joy-Making Mourning
Season 7 Episode 33
To read Saint John and the other fathers, and to read their writings deeply is to find oneself caught up in wonder. We begin to see that so much of t…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXIX, Part III
Season 6 Episode 85
This evening we concluded Hypothesis 29. We heard from one father after another of the importance of having a spirit of gratitude in our lives. We ar…
3 years, 6 months ago