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Season 4 Episode 12
St. Isaac calls us in this homily to abandon the small things, to spurn the superfluous in favor of pursuing the pearl of great price. We are to live…
9 years, 6 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Three Part IV
Season 4 Episode 11
We picked up on page 133 of the text where St. Isaac begins to describe Purity of Heart. Through guarding the mind and the senses, one can achieve a …
9 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Three Part III
Season 4 Episode 10
St. Isaac continued to guide us to a clearer understanding of the Passions and in particular they are contrary to the nature of the soul that has bee…
9 years, 7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Three Part II
Season 4 Episode 9
St. Isaac begins homily three by making an argument that the passions are not natural to the soul. The soul by nature is pure and virtuous. Its con…
9 years, 8 months ago
The 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago