Tonight at 7:30pm EDT via Zoom - “On Prayer”

"Blessed dispassion raises the poor mind from the earth to heaven, raises the beggar from the dunghill of passion.  And love, all praise to it, makes him sit with princes, that is with holy angels, and with the princes of God's people." St. John Climacus

Take heed to yourself lest you become a partaker of the blood of the iniquitous man by not taking pains to deliver him; but rather try with your whole soul to rescue him, even to the point of dying for his sake. St. Isaac the Syrian

Though at times despondency befalls us on account of our solitude, yet through the faith of our heart, we possess the ineffable consolation of faith whereby we reckon afflictions and even death as naught. St. Isaac the Syrian

Prayer of St. Basil God, Lord of hosts and Maker of all creation, who in Your great compassion and mercy sent down Your Only-Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, for the redemption of mankind and by His precious Cross destroyed the record of our sins, triumphing over the source

O Lord, you search me and you know me, you know my resting and my rising, you discern my purpose from afar. You mark when I walk or lie down, all my ways lie open to you. Before ever a word is on my tongue you know it, O Lord, through and through. Behind and before you

City a Desert Episode 592. St. Hesychios the Priest. The Philokalia Volume I: 120. We embitter the heart with the poison-of evil thoughts when we are led by forgetfulness to long neglect of inner attention and the Jesus Prayer. But we sweeten it with the sense of blessed delight

Withdraw yourself from multitudinous affairs and have your soul as your only concern, so that you may save her innermost tranquillity from dispersion. St. Isaac the Syrian

We Bow Down Before Your Cross youtu.be/9r6viiU5-Ss?si… via YouTube

I know, Saviour, that none other has, as I have, sinned against You, nor done the deeds that I have done. But this again I surely know: neither magnitude of errors, nor multitude of transgressions, can surpass my God’s great patience and His love for man unbounded. Neither

Thrice bless'd are they, who feel their loneliness - for sick at heart, beyond the veil they fly,/ Seeking His Presence, who alone can bless. St. J. H. Newman

Searching the Depths of the Unconscious: the Desert Fathers and Psychoanalysis The Desert Fathers were in essence the first “depth psychologists”. Through the rigor of their ascetic practice and the profound introspection of their self-imposed solitude and silence, they came to

Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Ladder of Divine Ascent Step 28 - paragraphs 42-49: Above all St. John’s writing on prayer works to break through the myopic vision that we have of life, of prayer, and of God. Like so many of the fathers, he will hammer away at anything which

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