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Back to SearchThe Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVI, Part III
Season 6 Episode 224
The Evergetinos does not offer us inspiring stories. It offers us a blade. These elders do not behave reasonably. They do not protect their reputatio…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part VI
Season 8 Episode 42
St. Isaac the Syrian does not allow us the comfortable fiction that we can want less than everything and still be safe. His words strip away a thousa…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLVI, Part II
Season 6 Episode 223
This section of the Evergetinos exposes slander not as a minor moral failure or social misstep but as a profoundly spiritual violence. The Desert Fat…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part V
Season 8 Episode 41
St. Isaac the Syrian is not offering speculation about the afterlife. He is unveiling the inner logic of existence itself, now and forever. He begins…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLV, and XLVI, Part I
Season 6 Episode 222
These texts from the Evergetinos unsettle us because they refuse to remain within the boundaries of what feels morally tidy or intellectually managea…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part IV
Season 8 Episode 40
St. Isaac is not describing admirable behaviors. He is naming a different kind of human being.
Mercy, humility, and almsgiving are not virtues added …
7 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLV
Season 6 Episode 221
The Fathers do not allow us to soften this teaching. They place truth at the very center of the ascetical life and they do so without apology. A trut…
7 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part III
Season 8 Episode 39
Here St. Isaac does not define virtues as behaviors but as states of being before God. He strips away external markers and leaves the soul alone with…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLIII and XLIV
Season 6 Episode 220
There is something terrifyingly honest in these stories because they do not allow us to hide behind good intentions or spiritual reputation. They exp…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLII, Part II
Season 6 Episode 219
The Fathers do not flatter us here. They speak with a severity that at first wounds, then heals, if we allow it. They do not treat resentment as a mi…
7 months, 2 weeks ago