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Back to SearchThe Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLV, and XLVI, Part I
Season 6 Episode 222
These texts from the Evergetinos unsettle us because they refuse to remain within the boundaries of what feels morally tidy or intellectually managea…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part IV
Season 8 Episode 40
St. Isaac is not describing admirable behaviors. He is naming a different kind of human being.
Mercy, humility, and almsgiving are not virtues added …
5 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLV
Season 6 Episode 221
The Fathers do not allow us to soften this teaching. They place truth at the very center of the ascetical life and they do so without apology. A trut…
5 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part III
Season 8 Episode 39
Here St. Isaac does not define virtues as behaviors but as states of being before God. He strips away external markers and leaves the soul alone with…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLIII and XLIV
Season 6 Episode 220
There is something terrifyingly honest in these stories because they do not allow us to hide behind good intentions or spiritual reputation. They exp…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 219
The Fathers do not flatter us here. They speak with a severity that at first wounds, then heals, if we allow it. They do not treat resentment as a mi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part II
Season 8 Episode 38
What St Isaac exposes here is not a technique but a diagnosis. He is ruthless because the sickness is deep. The soul is meant to be good soil but soi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLI, and XLII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 218
The Fathers do not speak gently about what we like to call small sins. They expose them as seeds of death planted quietly in the heart. What appears …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part I
Season 8 Episode 37
St Isaac begins Homily Six like one who will not let us hide from ourselves. He does not admire our efforts nor comfort our vanity. He forces us to l…
6 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XL, Part III
Season 6 Episode 217
There is a remarkable clarity in these sayings and stories a piercing simplicity that both unsettles and consoles. The Evergetinos places before us t…
6 months ago