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Back to SearchThe Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-six and Homily Twenty-seven Part I
Season 4 Episode 48
In homilies 26 and 27 we find ourselves walking along a very difficult path to traverse. St. Isaac begins to develop for us an outline of the order o…
8 years, 6 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-five Part II
Season 4 Episode 47
We picked up this evening about midway through Saint Isaac’s Homily 25. St. Isaac has been speaking about the beauty of the solitary way of life and …
8 years, 6 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-four and Homily Twenty-five Part I
Season 4 Episode 46
Tonight’s discussion of Homily 24 and the first part of Homily 25 had a simple beauty about it. St. Isaac was succinct in expressing his thoughts bu…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-three Part II
Season 4 Episode 45
With the concluding section of Homily 23, we reach the apex of St. Isaac’s thought on what he describes as pure prayer and what is “beyond prayer”. P…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-two and Homily Twenty-three Part I
Season 4 Episode 44
Homily 22 and 23 bring us to the denouement of the preceding Homilies. The pursuit of stillness and the purification of the faculties of the soul pre…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-one Part II
Season 4 Episode 43
In the final pages of Homily 21, St. Isaac labors vigorously to help us understand that aim and end of the solitary life and one focused on stillness…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-one Part I
Season 4 Episode 42
Tonight was a wonderful journey with St. Isaac as he visited with one exemplar after another of the solitary life; describing along the way the parti…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty Part II
Season 4 Episode 41
In the second half of Homily 20, St. Isaac the Syrian lays out for us the beauty of maintaining Night Vigils. He values it so much that he tells us t…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty Part I
Season 4 Episode 40
Homily 20 focuses on St. Isaac's teaching on the "sweet works of Night Vigil." That may sound somewhat amusing to modern ears. Night is typically se…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Nineteen
Season 4 Episode 39
How do we foster stillness and unceasing prayer in our lives? St. Isaac counsels us in Homily 19 to always keep our eye - the eye of the heart - fix…
8 years, 8 months ago