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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter V: On Repentance, Part IV and Chapter VI: On Remembrance of Death, Part I
Season 7 Episode 32
We take a step now with Saint John that one likely would not consider as essential - The Remembrance of death. John begins by makes some important di…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXIX, Part II
Season 6 Episode 84
We found ourselves this evening entering more deeply into the nature of the spiritual struggle and warfare and the effects that it has upon us and ot…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter V: On Repentance, Part III
Season 7 Episode 31
It has always been difficult for men to allow God to lead them in accord with His wisdom. There is always a part of us that wants to embrace what fit…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Evergetinos - Hypothesis XXVIII, Part III and Hypothesis XXIX, Part I
Season 6 Episode 83
It’s hard to imagine the depths of the beauty of the fathers’ insights into the nature of spiritual warfare. Having read the writings of the fathers …
3 years, 9 months ago
The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Chapter V: On Repentance, Part II
Season 7 Episode 30
As a group we read through Saint John’s description of the “Prison”, that place of deep repentance freely entered and embraced by those who had broke…
3 years, 9 months ago