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Season 8 Episode 55
Many will read this homily of St. Isaac the Syrian and hear only threat. They will imagine that he is merely moralizing, merely warning, merely tryin…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter I, Part II
Season 6 Episode 235
The shallow reader sees only a warning against suspicion. The deeper reader trembles, because this account unveils something far more demanding: the …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Pentecost Retreat - Session Two
Season 100 Episode 20
The Fire That Remains
Life in the Spirit After the Collapse of the Religious Self
Week II — Remaining in the Fire Without Rebuilding the Self
The Sp…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily IX, Part II
Season 8 Episode 54
There is a sobriety in the Fathers that cuts deeper than anything sentimental, yet within that severity there burns a tenderness that refuses to let …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Pentecost Retreat - Session One
Season 100 Episode 19
The Fire That Remains
Life in the Spirit After the Collapse of the Religious Self
Week I — The Fire That Reveals the False Life
Pentecost and the Be…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter L, Part III and Book Three - Chapter I, Part I
Season 6 Episode 234
The Fathers bring us to a place where the soul is stripped of every illusion about itself.
We imagine that we see clearly.
We imagine that we under…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter L, Part II
Season 6 Episode 233
We want to help.
We want to fix.
We want to speak the right word at the right time and be the instrument of someone’s healing.
And hidden beneath all…
4 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VIII, Part IV & IX, Part I
Season 8 Episode 53
There is a clarity in the Fathers that we often resist because it leaves us no place to hide.
They do not flatter the human condition. They do not so…
4 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VIII, Part III
Season 8 Episode 52
There is a humility that we speak about.
And there is a humility that is given.
The first is clean.
Understandable.
Manageable.
The second is devasta…
4 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLIX, Part IV and XL, Part I
Season 6 Episode 234
There is a form of speech that wears the mask of righteousness
and yet is born entirely of death.
The Fathers tear this mask from our face.
Mariam sp…
4 months, 1 week ago