Orthodox Thursdays at Evangelismos

A special address of Fr Antipas of the Holy Mountain who spoke to the young people of the Evangelismos Church in Perth Western Australia. The talk was conducted in Greek and interpreted in English by Fr Makarios of the Holy Monastery of St John in Forrestfield, Western Australia.

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 67 - "A Theatre of Spectacles - Wandering Thoughts and the Mind’s Loss of Resolve and Discipline"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 66 - Part 3 - "The Love of God is found in the Soul's Self-Renunciation"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 66 - Part 2 - "The Sweetness of the Second Sun"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 66 - "The Blossoming of Spiritual Knowledge is Divine Love"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 65 - "Silence is a Mystery of the Age to Come"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 65 - "Stillness and Silence and The Inner Eye of Divine Vision"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 - P7 - "He Who Is Conscious of His Sins Is Greater Than He Who Profits the Whole World"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 - P6 - "Repentance - Fix your departure into your heart with gladness"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 - P5 - "The Merciful Man Is the Physician of His Own Soul"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 - P4 - "A Hard and Merciless Heart Will Never Be Purified"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 - Part 3 - "Silence Brings you Near to what the Tongue cannot Express"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 - Part 2 - "Be Alert Against Mental Wandering"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 - "To Love Truth is to Love Silence"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 63/64 - "True Wisdom is Gazing at God"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 62/63 - "The Greatest of All Mortal Men Is He Who Converses With God"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 62 - "Love Abolishes Fear"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 61/62 - "What they did to become Saints and then to consider themselves as nothing"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 61 - "Without trials in the experience of evil we cannot have a taste for the good"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 60 - "God's Hidden Care of Us"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 59 - Part 2- "The Door to Heaven Is Opened Before the Soul by the Hand of Trials"

St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 59 - "He Who Loves the World Cannot Acquire Love for God"

Father Emmanuel further explores the themes of Homily 58 - "To Hear the Word of God and to Keep It"

Father Emmanuel begins on Homily 58 of St Isaac.

Father Emmanuel continues with Homily 57.

Father Emmanuel discusses Homily 57.

Father Emmanuel continues Homily 56 and talks about the importance of fasting.

Father Emmanuel discusses Homily 56 - God is Near to the Distressed Heart.

Father Emmanuel continues with Homily 54 and starts Homily 55, discussing the distinct characteristic of those that love God have, as well as distraction and the spiritual understanding of energy.

Father Emmanuel continues with Homily 54. "Have you ever read any of the Psalms as if they are your own words? If you do, you will see what enormous power there is in the Psalms, and how personally they resonate."

Father Emmanuel continues with Homily 54. "What is our relationship with what is Holy and Angelic?"

Learn how prayer is the recollection of God based on St Isaac's teachings. "Prayer is the flower of gentleness and the freedom from anger"

Fr Emmanuel discusses St Isaac's 53rd Homily.

Fr Emmanuel continues exploring St Isaac's 52nd Homily.

Fr Emmanuel explores St Isaac's teachings on the 3 kinds of knowledge.

Fr Emmanuel continues with St Isaac's 51st homily, focusing on patience and peace.

Fr Emmanuel continues with St Isaac's 51st homily, focusing on discernment.

Fr Emmanuel continues with St Isaac's 51st homily, focusing on themes of catechism and hope.

Fr Emmanuel continues with St Isaac's 51st homily, and uses the term of "Spiritual Reductionism" to describe points that St Isaac teaches.

Fr Emmanuel continues with St Isaac's 51st homily.

Fr Emmanuel discusses how mercy does not equal justice.

Fr Emmanuel explores themes of zeal and the three stages of spiritual life

Fr Emmanuel focuses on St Isaac's 50th homily that opens up about prayer and being confronted by darkness.

Fr Emmanuel discusses how important it is to not overload the mind with the noise of thoughts.

Fr Emmanuel discusses St Isaac's 49th homily and explores what Theoria is.

Fr Emmanuel explores the silent deed.

Fr Emmanuel interviews Blake who was recently baptised as Phanourios, who found his faith during his final high school years.

Fr Emmanuel discusses why we need both spiritual order and discipline.

Fr Emmanuel interviews Markos, a student who found the true Church.

Fr Emmanuel continues to explore St Isaac's wisdom-filled 48th homily, as well as introducing teachings from St Niketas Stethatos about the 3 modes of living.