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Season 8 Episode 38
What St Isaac exposes here is not a technique but a diagnosis. He is ruthless because the sickness is deep. The soul is meant to be good soil but soi…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XLI, and XLII, Part I
Season 6 Episode 218
The Fathers do not speak gently about what we like to call small sins. They expose them as seeds of death planted quietly in the heart. What appears …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily VI, Part I
Season 8 Episode 37
St Isaac begins Homily Six like one who will not let us hide from ourselves. He does not admire our efforts nor comfort our vanity. He forces us to l…
8 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XL, Part III
Season 6 Episode 217
There is a remarkable clarity in these sayings and stories a piercing simplicity that both unsettles and consoles. The Evergetinos places before us t…
8 months ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily V, Part VIII
Season 8 Episode 36
St. Isaac speaks as one who knows the earthquake at the root of the soul where pride fractures us from God and humility alone builds a refuge strong …
8 months ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XL, II
Season 6 Episode 216
There is a single thread running through these lives and sayings, like a hidden vein of gold through rough stone. It is the fierce and terrifying com…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily V, Part VII
Season 8 Episode 25
St. Isaac speaks as one who knows the earthquake at the root of the soul where pride fractures us from God and humility alone builds a refuge strong …
8 months, 1 week ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XXXIX, Part II and XL, I
Season 6 Episode 215
The Evergetinos gathers these stories around a single, unsettling truth:
those who endure injustice with gratitude and refuse to avenge themselves be…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily V, Part VI
Season 8 Episode 34
St Isaac reveals a truth that is both luminous and frightening. He tells us plainly that nothing shapes the soul more profoundly than the afflictions…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Evergetinos: Book Two - Chapter XXXVIII, Part IV & XXXIX, Part I
Season 6 Episode 214
There are moments when the Evergetinos confronts us with a vision so stark and so luminous that it seems almost uninhabitable. It is not a juridical …
8 months, 3 weeks ago