As we follow Saint John’s teaching on the passion of anger, we truly begin to get a sense of what a great spiritual teacher and physician he and the other fathers are. St. John has the capacity to see the various ways that anger manifests itself in our lives, the subtlety of the demon’s trickery, and the danger of our own blindness to self-conceit. St. John makes it very clear to us that if we struggle with the passion of anger we must be willing to place ourselves in a situation where we are going to be able to diagnose it and bring it before another in order that a healing balm might be applied. The person who is in the grip of anger is going to bring agitation to all those around him. Therefore, a person must go where this passion might revealed by testing and overcome by trial. Austerity in life and firmness from one’s spiritual director or elder is often needed to break one free from the grip of this passion. However, John tells us, he who has won this battle by sweat has conquered all the passions that precede it. Let us then not be afraid to be mortified in regards to our self-esteem and pride; for they both collaborate to hold us captive.
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The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty-seven Part V
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty-seven Part IV
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty-seven Part III
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty-seven Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty-six and Homily Thirty-seven Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty-four and Homily Thirty-five
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty-two Part III and Homily Thirty-three
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty-two Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty Part II, Homily Thirty-one and Homily Thirty-two Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-nine and Homily Thirty Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-eight Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-seven Part II and Homily Twenty-eight Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-six and Homily Twenty-seven Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-five Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-four and Homily Twenty-five Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-three Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-two and Homily Twenty-three Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-one Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty-one Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty Part II
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