The Forgotten Way

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.

Passion 40 Lawlessness 15.06.2025 5:56 ↓

Lawlessness is the deceptive attraction of evil and the flippant disregard for what is good and true. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Lawn Lessons 14.06.2025 7:00 ↓

Keep mowers and marriages moving forward.

Passion 39 Sinfulness 14.06.2025 8:25 ↓

Sinfulness according to the Way of the Pilgrim is to have no love for God, no love for my neighbor, to have no religious belief, and to be filled with pride and sensual self-love

Passion 38 Wrongdoing 13.06.2025 5:46 ↓

Wrongdoing is improper or evil behavior.

Passion 37 Breaking of Faith 12.06.2025 6:06 ↓

Breaking of faith is a breach of loyalty, a betrayal of trust, or failure to keep a promise.

Passion 36 Idle Chatter 11.06.2025 5:56 ↓

Talking that is unnecessary and excessive. It often leads to gossip, lying, and vanity. 

Passion 35 Slothfulness 10.06.2025 7:06 ↓

Slothfulness is a failure to fulfill one's duty to God to exert oneself in the pursuit of virtue due to an emptiness of soul, a lack of zeal, or evil sadness.

Passion 34 A Conscienceless Soul 09.06.2025 7:41 ↓

A conscienceless soul is one that has lost the ability to make sound judgments between what is good and evil.

Passion 33 Evil Intention 08.06.2025 6:46 ↓

Evil intention is a desire to act against God's will and corrupt a good action or can be blameworthy even if no action is completed. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Mortal Stench 07.06.2025 7:03 ↓

Cleaning out the car and cleaning out the soul.

Passion 32 Injustice 07.06.2025 6:35 ↓

Injustice is to fail to give God or our neighbor what is due to them.

Passion 31 Obduracy 06.06.2025 6:59 ↓

Obduracy is invincible hardness of heart, impenitence that cannot be subdued, and inflexible persistence in sin.  

Passion 30 Lack of Discrimination 05.06.2025 7:23 ↓

Lack of discrimination is the failure to walk along the spiritual way without falling into extremes.

Passion 29 Forgetfulness 04.06.2025 6:45 ↓

Forgetfulness is the loss of recollection and concentration on God resulting in poor attention over our heart and mind.

Passion 28 Spurious Knowledge 03.06.2025 7:10 ↓

Spurious knowledge is knowledge that is unprofitable for salvation. 

Passion 27 Folly 02.06.2025 6:57 ↓

Folly is to act without wisdom.

Passion 26 Ignorance 01.06.2025 7:14 ↓

Ignorance is the failure to apply due diligence to acquire the needed knowledge for salvation.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Bird Funeral 31.05.2025 7:22 ↓

Simple lessons on keeping the last things first.

Passion 25 Over-frugality 31.05.2025 6:35 ↓

Over-frugality is stinginess that comes from smallness of heart and ignores the needs of others.

Passion 24 Avarice 30.05.2025 8:03 ↓

Avarice is the love of money and possessions. 

Passion 23 Moral Errors 29.05.2025 6:44 ↓

Moral errors occur when we deviate from what is objectively good from a lack of knowledge or poorly formed conscience.