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Season 6 Episode 227
The fathers did not endure silence.
They loved it.
This is the difference between a man who is forcing himself to be quiet and a man who has discover…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part IX
Season 8 Episode 45
St. Isaac does not flatter us.
He does not tell us that the ascetic life is noble. He tells us it burns.
He does not tell us it is peaceful. He tells…
4 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part VIII
Season 8 Episode 44
St. Isaac the Syrian is ruthless here because he is protecting us from despair on one side and fantasy on the other.
Most of us live precisely in the…
4 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 226
The Fathers do not treat speech as a social matter. They treat it as a matter of life and death.
Because speech reveals what the heart lives from.
A …
4 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 225
We speak because we are afraid to be still.
We speak because silence exposes us.
We speak because when the mouth closes the heart begins to make nois…
4 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part VII
Season 8 Episode 43
Here Isaac is not giving us a technique for moral improvement. He is unveiling an icon.
Behind his austere language of toil and Scripture and withdra…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVI, Part III
Season 6 Episode 224
The Evergetinos does not offer us inspiring stories. It offers us a blade. These elders do not behave reasonably. They do not protect their reputatio…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part VI
Season 8 Episode 42
St. Isaac the Syrian does not allow us the comfortable fiction that we can want less than everything and still be safe. His words strip away a thousa…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVI, Part II
Season 6 Episode 223
This section of the Evergetinos exposes slander not as a minor moral failure or social misstep but as a profoundly spiritual violence. The Desert Fat…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part V
Season 8 Episode 41
St. Isaac the Syrian is not offering speculation about the afterlife. He is unveiling the inner logic of existence itself, now and forever. He begins…
4 months, 4 weeks ago