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Back to SearchLadder of Divine Ascent - Steps 18 and 19 On Insensitivity and Sleep
Season 2 Episode 20
According to St. John, as we pursue the heavenly goal we need to be aware of the great danger of becoming desensitized to the importance of spiritual…
12 years, 9 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Steps 16 and 17 on Avarice and Poverty
Season 2 Episode 19
We will be looking at these two steps together because they represent opposite sides of the same coin. Step 16 describes the spiritual illness, whil…
12 years, 9 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step Fifteen on Chastity Conclusion
Season 2 Episode 18
In this step, St. John writes about the struggle for chastity: "The man who decides to struggle against his flesh and to overcome it by his own effor…
12 years, 9 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step Fifteen on Chastity
Season 2 Episode 17
In this step, St. John writes about the struggle for chastity: "The man who decides to struggle against his flesh and to overcome it by his own effor…
12 years, 9 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step Fourteen On Gluttony
Season 2 Episode 16
We are all familiar enough with the urges of gluttony. But perhaps we have not stopped to fully consider the spiritual dangers of gluttony. This is…
12 years, 10 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Steps Twelve and Thirteen on Falsehood and Despondency (Acedia)
Season 2 Episode 15
FALSEHOOD
Throughout the Ladder John Climacus discusses the logical progression from one vice to another. And so it is with the vice of falsehood. …
12 years, 10 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Steps Ten and Eleven on Slander and Talkativeness
Season 2 Episode 14
We are all aware of the nature of slander. To slander someone is to speak evil of them behind their backs; it is to criticize them and to malign them…
12 years, 10 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Steps Nine and Ten On Remembrance of Wrongs and Slander
Season 2 Episode 13
REMEMBRANCE OF WRONGS is the offspring of anger and its culmination. It holds on to another's sins. Climacus describes it as a poison of the soul. …
12 years, 11 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step Eight On Placidity and Meekness
Season 2 Episode 12
CALMING THE STORM: ADDRESSING OUR ANGER AND BITTERNESS TOWARD OTHERS.
It is only through attaining the virtue of mourning spoken of in the previous st…
12 years, 11 months ago
Ladder of Divine Ascent - Step Seven On Mourning
Season 2 Episode 11
JOYFUL SORROW: TEARS OF REPENTANCE THAT LEAD US INTO THE EMBRACE OF LOVE
In this step John discusses the source of tears and what they do for the…
12 years, 11 months ago