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The Sweetness of Those Who Breathe the Same Air
Not Information, but Communion “Take for yourself the remedy of life from the table of those who fast, keep vigil, and labor in the Lord, and so raise up the dead man in your soul. For the Beloved reclines in their midst, bestowing sanctification.” — St. Isaac the Syrian, Homily 15 Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on the Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian Homily 15 paragraphs 14-17 There are passages in St. Isaac that seem less like theology and more like glimpses through
Father Charbel Abernethy
Jun 173 min read
Sitting at the Feet of the Fathers
Docility and Teachability as the Beginning of Wisdom “Abba Anthony said: I no longer fear God, but I love Him. For love casts out fear.” One of the most striking things about the desert fathers is that nearly every story begins in the same way: “A brother came and asked…” The monk comes. He asks. He listens. This simple pattern reveals something essential about the spiritual life. One cannot enter the Kingdom of God while remaining self-enclosed and convinced of one’s own und
Father Charbel Abernethy
Jun 173 min read
The Soil That Must Be Broken
Asceticism as Truth, Remembrance, and the Cost of Seeing God Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian Homily 6 paragraphs 5-6: What St Isaac exposes here is not a technique but a diagnosis. He is ruthless because the sickness is deep. The soul is meant to be good soil but soil is not neutral ground. It either receives the seed with vigilance or it becomes choked. Remembrance of God is not a poetic feeling but a sustained pressure on the he
Father Charbel Abernethy
Dec 17, 20253 min read
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