The Forgotten Way

Passion 61 Lack of Faith 06.07.2025 6:21 ↓

Lack of faith is the difficulty believing in God's Providence and Goodness in all situations.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Shocks at the Skete 05.07.2025 6:14 ↓

Learning the need for firm purpose of amendment can be a painful process. 

Passion 60 Unbelief 05.07.2025 5:55 ↓

Unbelief is a gradual loss of faith, a slow turning to the world that is difficult to perceive at first, and leaves the person void of the Truth.

Passion 59 Transgression 04.07.2025 6:42 ↓

Transgression is a deliberate violation of God's law.

Passion 58 Aberration 03.07.2025 6:14 ↓

Aberration is our tendency to change and inconstancy. 

Passion 57 Disdain of God 02.07.2025 6:01 ↓

The thought, words, or actions that God and His sacraments are not worthy of our respect.

Passion 56 A Reprehensible Despondency 01.07.2025 6:47 ↓

Reprehensible despondency is the refusal to fight against evil sadness, it is the road to spiritual gloom, and despair. 

Passion 55 Laziness 30.06.2025 6:17 ↓

Laziness is a waste of the gift of time.

Passion 54 Negligence 29.06.2025 6:17 ↓

Negligence is a lack of diligence to carry out one's duties. It is a lack of care in the fulfillment of an obligation.  

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-What is a Skete? 28.06.2025 8:25 ↓

Striving to live domestic monasticism. 

Passion 53 Weakness of Intellect 28.06.2025 5:11 ↓

Weakness if intellect is difficulty comprehending and applying the truth due to darkening of the mind through sin and worldly wisdom.

Passion 52 Enervation 27.06.2025 5:46 ↓

Enervation is lacking strength or vitality. It is spiritual weakness and feebleness. 

Passion 51 Sickness of Soul 26.06.2025 6:27 ↓

Sickness of soul is the pain and suffering caused by sin to our soul associated with a loss of desire to fulfill God's commandments.

Passion 50 Stumbling 25.06.2025 5:41 ↓

Stumbling is sin through weakness or a momentary lapse in attentiveness. 

Passion 49 Vice 24.06.2025 7:00 ↓

The tendency to a particular sin acquired through repetition. 

St. George Men's Group at St. Nicholas Parish- Technology Encroaching on Holy Rest 23.06.2025 38:44 ↓

The struggle to balance needed technology with our responsibility to cultivate holy rest in Christ. 

Passion 48 Bodily Comfort Beyond What is Required 23.06.2025 6:50 ↓

Excessive pampering of our sensory desires and an unwillingness to mortify our flesh to grow in virtue.

Passion 47 Dallying 22.06.2025 5:27 ↓

To act without full attention to our thoughts. A failure to expel evil thoughts and to indulge in them for amusement.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Bodily Comfort 21.06.2025 5:45 ↓

Rejecting comfort to prepare for the cross.

Passion 46 Demonic Provocation 21.06.2025 5:59 ↓

The initial enticement to sin that assails a person from the outside.

Passion 45 Mindless Coupling 20.06.2025 5:48 ↓

Entertaining and playing with a sinful thought.

Passion 44 Assent to Evil 19.06.2025 6:10 ↓

Assent to evil is the approval and cooperation with sinful thoughts or actions.

Passion 43 Seduction 18.06.2025 5:13 ↓

Seduction is the enticement of another to engage in carnal or impure relations.

Passion 42 Passion 17.06.2025 6:08 ↓

Passion is an appetite or impulse that violently attack the soul and incline it to evil. 

Passion 41 Criminality 16.06.2025 6:42 ↓

Criminality is the passion and state of a person who transgresses the law.