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Back to SearchThe Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Two Part IV and Homily Three Part I
Season 4 Episode 8
In a magnificent closing to Homily Two and beginning to Homily Three, St. Isaac in a short few paragraphs lays out for us the types of passions and t…
9 years, 6 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Two Part III
Season 4 Episode 7
The impact of sloth on the soul is often neglected and its significance minimized. St. Isaac the Syrian warns that without harsh tribulations of the …
9 years, 6 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Two Part II
Season 4 Episode 6
Where is spiritual joy to be found? What does it mean to be a lover of virtue? How does one show mercy to those who have fallen? Where does sloth beg…
9 years, 6 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Two Part I
Season 4 Episode 5
The thread that connects the thoughts of St. Isaac the Syrian's second homily is thankfulness to God. How we receive the gifts of God has great sig…
9 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily One Part IV
Season 4 Episode 4
Once again St. Isaac's words stir the heart to hope and the desire for God. As a homily it offers with surprising brevity a clear and rich explicati…
9 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily One Part III
Season 4 Episode 3
St. Isaac continues to lay the foundations for the discipline of virtue which include in particular the purification of the passions and the avoidanc…
9 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily One Part II
Season 4 Episode 2
St. Isaac begins by encouraging us to become drunk with faith in God; to be so immersed in our relationship with Him that we are constantly under the…
9 years, 8 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily One Part I
Season 4 Episode 1
After a brief introduction to St. Isaac and his times, we began reading and reflecting upon his first homily on "Renunciation and Monasticism." In t…
9 years, 8 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Twenty-four On Mortification Part IV Final
Season 3 Episode 97
After nearly 2 3/4 years we finally came to the final few paragraphs of Cassian's last Conference (24) on Mortification - and O how fitting and beau…
9 years, 9 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Twenty-four On Mortification Part III
Season 3 Episode 96
As we draw close to the end of the Conferences, the final pages follow Germanus and Cassian as they engage Abba Abraham on the theme of Mortification…
9 years, 9 months ago