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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 75 – Part 4: “Self-Love Precedes all passions”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 75 – Part 3: “No Foreign Thoughts but a Treasury of Insight”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 75 P2: “The Vigil – Not to Count Words but to Attain Heavenly Mansions”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 75: “I as a man have sinned; but do You as God, forgive me”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 74 – P2: “The Cross is the Door to the Mysteries”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 74: “Self-love precedes all the passions, and scorn of ease precedes all the virtues”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 73: “Better to Die in Our Struggle Than to Live in Our Fall”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 72 P4: “The Mind Hardens like a Diamond in its Endurance”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 72 P3: “Grace imperceptibly attends”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 72 P2: “Every Virtue Being Achieved Is a Cross”

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St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 72: “Human Knowledge is a Hindrance to Spiritual Knowledge”

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St Isaac The Syrian: Homily 71 – P4 – “The Humble Man is always at rest”

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St Isaac The Syrian: Homily 71 – P3 – “Why Is Hope So Sweet?”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 71 – P2 – “Purity is a heart that shows mercy to all created nature”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 71 – “How Much Earth Is Overturned to Obtain the Precious Stone”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 70 – Part 3 – “From Virtue to Vice”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 70 – Part 2 – “Self Prejudice and The Inability to Read Our Heart”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 70 – “God Wishes the Alteration of Our Mind”

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St Isaac the Syrian Homily 69 – Part 3 – “Every Day and Hour, Proof of Our Love for God is Demanded

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St Isaac the Syrian Homily 69 – Part 2 – “Trials That Befall a Man Can Make Him Wise”

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St Isaac the Syrian Homily 69 – “Every Hour Variations Pass Over All Men”

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St Isaac the Syrian Homily 68 – P2 – “Conviction and the Continuous Conversation with God”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 68 – “The Strength of the Soul and the Need for Refined Knowledge”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 67 – Part 4 – “Medicines of the Soul by the Great Physician”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 67 – P3 – “The Soul’s Awakening to a Great Confidence in God”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 67 – P2 – “Certain Thoughts can Tear up the Soul”

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What Are the Obstacles and Hurdles Facing Those Who Strive to Keep Their Orthodox Faith?

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

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 66 – Part 3 – “The Love of God is found in the Soul’s Self-Renunciation”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 66 – Part 2 – “The Sweetness of the Second Sun”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 66 – “The Blossoming of Spiritual Knowledge is Divine Love”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 65 – “Silence is a Mystery of the Age to Come”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 65 – “Stillness and Silence and The Inner Eye of Divine Vision”

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

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 – P6 – “Repentance – Fix your departure into your heart with gladness”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 – P5 – “The Merciful Man Is the Physician of His Own Soul”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 – P4 – “A Hard and Merciless Heart Will Never Be Purified”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 – Part 3 – “Silence Brings you Near to what the Tongue cannot Express”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 – Part 2 – “Be Alert Against Mental Wandering”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 64 – “To Love Truth is to Love Silence”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 63/64 – “True Wisdom is Gazing at God”

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

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 62 – “Love Abolishes Fear”

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

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

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 60 – Part 2 – “The Righteous Consider Themselves Unworthy Before God”

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

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 59 – “He Who Loves the World Cannot Acquire Love for God”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 58 – Part 2 – “To Hear the Word of God and to Keep It”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 58 – “Good Desire Must Be Accompanied by Prayer”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 57 – Part 2 – “The Mind Cannot Abide in Humility Without Buffeting”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 57 – “There is no reward for any effort without humility”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 56 – Part 2 – “Man’s Will Has Much Power Where There Is a Love for Christ”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 56 – “God is Near to the Distressed Heart”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 55 – “Zeal and The Dog”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 54 – Part 3 – “Guarding the Mouth Wakes Up the Conscience to God”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 54 – Part 2 – “Angelic Manifestation in Saintly Souls”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 54 – “On Prayer: To Enjoy the Love of God and to Be in Communion With Him”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 53 – “By Faith, Knowledge is Abolished”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 52 – Part 2 – “The Power is the Comforter Himself”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 52 – “Worldly Knowledge Is Opposed to the Simplicity of Faith”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 51 – Part 7 – “Love God, Love Him, Love Him”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 51 – Part 6 – “Discernment Is the Salt of Every Virtue”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 51 – Part 5 – “Not Faith From Instruction but Faith From Knowledge”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 51 – Part 4 – “No Man Is Humble if He Is Not Peaceful”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 51 – Part 3 – “Be a Friend to All but in Your Mind Remain Alone”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 51 – Part 2 – “Mercy and Justice Is Like a Man Who Worships God and the Idols”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 51 – “A Stranger to Peace Is a Stranger to Joy”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 50 – “This Poor Man Cried, and the Lord Heard Him”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 49 – Part 2 – “The Power of God Overshadows Us and Enters Us”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 49 – “The Angelic Movement Awakened in Us”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 48 – Part 6 – “The Silent Deed Has More Power to Reform”

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Anagenesis Interview – Blake Finds His Name

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 48 – Part 5 – “Life in God Is the Downfall of the Senses”

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Anagenesis Interview – A Year 12 Student – New To Orthodoxy

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 48 – Part 4 – “The Heart That Receives The Heavenly Seed Is Changed”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 48 – Part 3 – “Our Love for God, if Genuine, Is Never Extinguished”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 48 – Part 2 – “God Chastises with Love For Our Correction”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 48 – “Humility Is to Know the Extent of One’s Weakness”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 47 – “The Natural Man and The Spiritual Man”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 46 – “Paradise Is the Love of God”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 45 – “The Human Condition is Weak”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 44 – Part 2 – “We Cannot Be With God and Men”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 44 – “Stillness and Silence to Be With God”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 43 – “Spiritual Discipline – The Awestruck Wonder of God”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 42 – Part 2 – “These Are the Trials of the Soul”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 42 – “God Does Not Grant a Great Gift Without a Great Trial”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 41 – Part 3 – “The Mark of True Repentance”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 41 – Part 2 – “The Ascetic Life Is Bittersweet”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 41 – “What Is Good Has No Beginning”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 40 – Part 2 – “The Love of Wisdom Is With Him Who Is Watchful Over Small and Insignificant Things”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 40 – “The Foundation of All Good Things”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 39 – “Four Methods the Devil Uses to Undermine Us”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 38 – “The Body That Fears Temptations Becomes a Friend of Sin”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 37 – Part 7 – “Tears”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 37 – Part 6 – “Stillness Is the Beginning of the Soul’s Purification”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 37 – Part 5 – “Half-Heartedness”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 37 – Part 4 – “God’s Gifts”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 37 – Part 3 – “The Hope of Our Salvation”

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St Isaac the Syrian: Homily 37 – Part 2 – “What Is the World?”