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Back to SearchThe 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter VII: On Joy-Making Mourning, Part V
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…
3 years, 7 months ago
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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 months ago