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Back to SearchLenten Retreat: The Dismantling of the Religious Self, Session One
Season 100 Episode 14
The Dismantling of the Religious Self
Four Lenten Reflections on Delusion, Abandonment, and the Life That Remains in God
“Unless a grain of wheat fa…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part XI
Season 8 Episode 47
“Death in battle for God’s sake is better than a shameful and sluggish life.”
There is always a lion for the man who does not want to begin.
Always a…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVII, Part IV
Season 6 Episode 228
As we come to the end of this hypothesis, the Fathers leave us with something painfully ordinary. They do not give us visions of heaven or heights of…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part X
Season 8 Episode 46
Tonight in Homily 6 Saint Isaac did not merely instruct us. He set fire before us.
In the first six homilies he has laid the foundations of the spiri…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVII, Part III
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…
5 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…
5 months, 4 weeks 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…
6 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 …
6 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…
6 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…
6 months, 1 week ago