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Season 5 Episode 59
There are passages in the Fathers that do not merely instruct us. They unsettle us because they seem to speak from a place beyond ordinary language. …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 239
There is something almost incomprehensible in this passage from St. Anastasios and St. Maximos because it reveals just how surrounded we are by mercy…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XII & XIII
Season 8 Episode 58
What is striking in these homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian is not severity, though there is severity in them. Nor is it simply the exalted vision of …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part III
Season 6 Episode 238
There is a fierce honesty in the fathers that modern Christians often find difficult to endure. They do not allow us the comfort of remaining spectat…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XI, Part II
Season 8 Episode 57
There is something striking in the way that St. Isaac the Syrian speaks about the monastic life. He does not speak of it romantically. There is no se…
3 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part II
Season 6 Episode 237
There is something in us that wants to make the spiritual life clear, manageable, and measurable.
We fast.
We give alms.
We pray.
We examine ourselve…
3 months ago
Pentecost Retreat - Session Four
Season 100 Episode 22
The Fire That Remains
Life in the Spirit After the Collapse of the Religious Self
Week IV — The Heart That Bears the World
Love, Intercession, and t…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XI, Part I
Season 8 Episode 56
There is something in this word from Isaac the Syrian that unsettles us a little.
Because it speaks of a beauty that is not crafted, not projected, n…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter I, Part III and II, Part I
Season 6 Episode 236
There are sins that shock us.
And there are sins we commit while feeling righteous.
The Fathers place condemnation among the most dangerous of all, b…
3 months, 1 week ago
Pentecost Retreat - Session Three
Season 100 Episode 21
The Fire That Remains
Life in the Spirit After the Collapse of the Religious Self
Week III — When Prayer Begins to Live Itself
The Emergence of the …
3 months, 1 week ago