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Season 8 Episode 49
“Faith has need of labors also, and confidence in God is the good witness of the conscience born of undergoing hardship for the virtues.”
— St. Isaac…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLIX, Part II
Season 6 Episode 230
A brother said to an elder,
“Father, what is calumny?”
The elder said,
“Death.”
The brother was troubled.
“I did not strike anyone.”
The elder said,
…3 months ago
Lenten Retreat: The Dismantling of the Religious Self, Session Three
Season 100 Episode 17
Third Reflection Lenten Retreat 2026 When God Begins to Take Everything
On the Delusion of Belonging to God While Still Belonging to Oneself “My God…
3 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VII, Part I
Season 8 Episode 48
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Matthew 6:33
St. Isaac places hope after the fi…
3 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVIII and XLIX, Part I
Season 6 Episode 229
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”
Psalm 13
A man stole two sheep and thought he could seal the theft with holy words.
He walked tow…
3 months, 1 week ago
Lenten Retreat: The Dismantling of the Religious Self, Session Two
Season 100 Episode 15
The Dismantling of the Religious Self
Four Lenten Reflections on Delusion, Abandonment, and the Life That Remains in God
“Unless a grain of wheat fa…
3 months, 1 week ago
Lenten Retreat: The Dismantling of the Religious Self, Session One
Season 100 Episode 14
The Dismantling of the Religious Self
Four Lenten Reflections on Delusion, Abandonment, and the Life That Remains in God
“Unless a grain of wheat fa…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part XI
Season 8 Episode 47
“Death in battle for God’s sake is better than a shameful and sluggish life.”
There is always a lion for the man who does not want to begin.
Always a…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVII, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 228
As we come to the end of this hypothesis, the Fathers leave us with something painfully ordinary. They do not give us visions of heaven or heights of…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part X
Season 8 Episode 46
Tonight in Homily 6 Saint Isaac did not merely instruct us. He set fire before us.
In the first six homilies he has laid the foundations of the spiri…
3 months, 3 weeks ago