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Lenten 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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