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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 26 On Discernment Part II

Season 2 Episode 30

St. John begins to discuss what discernment allows us to see and how it must be used. (a) Discernment, he states, helps us to understand the capita…

12 years, 6 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 26 On Discernment Part I

Season 2 Episode 29

How many times do we struggle to know God's will for our lives. As St. John notes: There are many roads to holiness - - and to Hell. A path wrong f…

12 years, 6 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 25 on Humility Part II

Season 2 Episode 28

35-64 St. John then describes how to cultivate the presence of humility within our hearts. The truly humble, he teaches, will never trust in himself…

12 years, 7 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 25 on Humility

Season 2 Episode 27

There is something very misleading about "reading about humility" as if one could learn about true humility from a book. In fact, St. John says this…

12 years, 7 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 24 on Meekness, Simplicity and Guilelessness

Season 2 Episode 26

Having shown us the danger of pride, St. John wishes to lead us step by step to the virtue of humility (Step 25). Before we consider humility, how…

12 years, 7 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 23 on Pride part II

Season 2 Episode 25

Pride Part II

St. John says that pride flows out of our love of the praise of men (Vainglory). Its midpoint is "the shameless parading of our achie…

12 years, 7 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 23 on Pride

Season 2 Episode 24

 St. John says that pride flows out of our love of the praise of men (Vainglory). Its midpoint is "the shameless parading of our achievements, compl…

12 years, 7 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 22 on Vainglory

Season 2 Episode 23

I am sure that each one of us can easily relate to what St. John is describing in this step. Vainglory is the beginning of pride; it is the congratu…

12 years, 8 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step 21 On Fear

Season 2 Episode 22

St. John describes this spiritual danger in these words: "Fear is danger tasted in advance, a quiver as the heart takes fright before unnamed calam…

12 years, 8 months ago

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Ladder of Divine Ascent - Steps 20 On Alertness

Season 2 Episode 21

As we labor to ascend to God (understanding that prayer is both the way of and the end of the ascent) we must prepare ourselves for the test of pray…

12 years, 8 months ago

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