The Forgotten Way

Passion 121 Uncouthness 05.09.2025 6:32 ↓

Uncouthness is a lack of hospitality, manners, and etiquette.

Passion 120 Ignorance of Beauty 04.09.2025 7:28 ↓

Ignorance of beauty is failing to see, comprehend, and penetrate the truth and goodness of God in the created world.

Passion 119 Love of Popularity 03.09.2025 6:43 ↓

Love of popularity is to enjoy being well liked, praised, and applauded by many.

Passion 118 Self-Satisfaction 02.09.2025 7:26 ↓

Self-satisfaction is smug complacency and conceit.

Bonus Passion- Ambition 01.09.2025 9:09 ↓

Ambition is the desire from our own will to do or achieve something that typically requires determination and hard work.

Passion 117 Thoughtlessness 31.08.2025 7:07 ↓

Thoughtlessness is being careless, unalert, and inconsiderate. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Hateless Hatred 30.08.2025 8:14 ↓

He who loves father, mother, or children more than Me is not worthy of me.  

Passion 116 Self-will 30.08.2025 6:55 ↓

Self-will is attachment to our own ideas and plans rather than seeking uniformity with God's will.

Passion 115 Fickleness 29.08.2025 7:07 ↓

Fickleness is a lack of steadfastness, constancy, and determination. 

St. George Men's Group at St. Nicholas Parish- Poverty of Spirit and Material Poverty 28.08.2025 22:21 ↓

Exploring the need to develop the virtue of detachment and poverty of spirit to make material renunciation meaningful. 

Passion 114 Indifference 28.08.2025 6:42 ↓

Indifference is a lack of zeal for Christian perfection. It is lukewarmness and tepidity.

Passion 113 Solitary Eating 27.08.2025 6:41 ↓

Solitary eating is eating alone when it is not appropriate to our state in life. It misses the opportunity to grow in virtue due to avoidance.

Passion 112 Hoggishness 26.08.2025 6:54 ↓

Hoggishness is gross selfishness, gluttony, and filth.

Passion 111 Secret Eating 25.08.2025 6:09 ↓

Secret eating is eating alone in order to hide our food choices or act of eating from others.

Passion 110 Insatiability 24.08.2025 6:53 ↓

Insatiability is being incapable of being satisfied.

Passion 109 Gluttony 23.08.2025 7:02 ↓

Gluttony is excess eating or drinking, it is rushing through food, it is mindlessly eating, and it is being excessively particular about what we eat.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Salvific Stuffies 23.08.2025 9:03 ↓

Illness as medicine to the passions.

Passion 108 Over-eating 22.08.2025 6:08 ↓

Over-eating is a form of gluttony of the consumption of food that is beyond what our body needs.

Passion 107 Sensuality 21.08.2025 6:34 ↓

Sensuality is the desire to have pleasurable experiences.

Passion 106 Torpor 20.08.2025 7:23 ↓

Torpor is a state of insensibility, dullness, and indifference.

Passion 105 Doltishness 19.08.2025 5:53 ↓

Doltishness is a dullness of mind that is slow to respond.

Passion 104 Satiety 18.08.2025 6:40 ↓

Satiety is eating to fullness. It seeks comfort, undue enjoyment, and satisfaction from food.

Passion 103 Foulness 17.08.2025 6:40 ↓

Foulness is gross and obscene language and behavior.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Outer Darkness 16.08.2025 6:14 ↓

Behold the Bridegroom is coming in the middle of the night, will the door be opened for you?

Passion 102 Infatuation 16.08.2025 7:30 ↓

Infatuation is the intense, unreasonable attraction to someone.