Extraordinary and beautiful! We are currently reading Step 26 from The Ladder on discernment. As St. John begins to unpack things for us, that is, what discernment allows us to perceive about our intentions, our dispositions, how virtue and vice often get mixed together, why prayers sometimes go unanswered, and why demons often will cease their attack for a period of time - - St John also shows us the beauty and the mystery of the human person in relationship to God and as created by God.
God‘s loving care for us, when seen with the clarity of the fathers’ wisdom and experience is enough to make one weep for joy. And this joy fosters a desire for God that, if inflamed, can not only purify us of the passions but transform us in such a fashion that we are drawn into the life of the very Holy Trinity. May God grant us this desire!
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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
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Twenty Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Nineteen
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Seventeen Part III and Homily Eighteen
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Seventeen Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Seventeen Part I
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