Christian Saints Podcast

Reference materials for this episode:  https://www.catholic.com/tract/sabbath-or-sunday - Early church quotes about not Judaizing  Hymns of The Lamentations Service Hymns of Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday Hymns of The Divine Liturgy Scripture citations for this episode: Genesis 2:1-3 - God’s day of rest Genesis 2:24 - Jesus as the bridegroom going to His bride Exodus 31:12-17 - sabbath as part...

Reference materials for this episode:  https://stmaryofegypt.org/files/library/life.htm - St Mary of Egypt Scripture citations for this episode: 2 Samuel/2 Kingdoms 6:3-8 & 1 Chronicles 13:7-11 - Uzzah is killed for touching The Ark of The Covenant The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion. Our hosts are Father Symeon Kees of Iowa City &am...

What Does It Mean for Christians to Keep Sabbath? Reference materials for this episode:  St. Gregory Palamas The Homilies, edited and translated by Christopher Veniamin homily 17 "Explaining the Mystery of the Sabbath and of the Lord's Day and Referring to the Gospel of New Sunday" (Waymart: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2009) Scripture citations for this episode: Genesis 18 - Abraham’s...

How Can I Begin to Pray?  Reference materials for this episode:  The Art of Prayer The Inner Closet of the Heart St Dimitri of Rostov pg 43, 45 St. Gregory of Sinai, “Instructions to Hesychasts”: Scripture citations for this episode: Psalm 140/141 Matthew 6: 6-15 Matthew 24: 36-44 The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion. Our hosts are Father...

How Can I Overcome My Blindness?  Reference materials for this episode:  St Gregory Palamas The Homilies Homily 34: On the Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord & God & Savior Jesus Christ St Symeon The New, Theologian On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses, Vol 2 Fifth Discourse Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul’s Ascent St Mark the Ascetic Sayings of the Egyptian Father...

Why Can’t I Be Still? Reference materials for this episode:  Lao Tsu - Tao Te Ching - - poem 16 Cai Song Fang - Warriors of Stillness - - author’s intro Philokalia vol 1  - Evagrios the Solitary - - pg 40-41 - - - watchdog passage  - St Mark the Ascetic  - - pg 128  - - - sayings 29-31  - St John Cassian  - - pg 91  - - - first paragraph “On Self Esteem” St Gregory Palamas  - “On the Entry into th...

How do I become a gardener? Reference materials for this episode:  The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Volume 59) - pg 85-86 &125-126 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Liturgical Press; Revised edition (January 1, 1984) ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0879079592 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0879079598 Scripture citations for this episode: Genesis 1:28-31 Ezekiel 37:1-10 John 20:11-16 The Christian Saints Podcast...

A brief discussion on the categories of knowledge, how the life of the way of faithfulness to Christ prioritizes them, how this is in stark distinction to our culture, & why the examination of this question is at the heart of the restructuring of this podcast for Season Six.  This is, essentially, episode 000 as our first true conversational episode will be our true kick-off of the new format...

A quick note from one of our hosts to let you know about the reboot of the program which will begin publishing in about a month. The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion. Our hosts are Father Symeon Kees of Iowa City & James John Marks of Chicago. Paradosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555 https://www.instagram.com/ch...

Saint Nikolai Velimirović of Žiča ( March 18 ) Reference materials for this episode: https://orthochristian.com/46256.html - biography https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/03/18/100825-repose-of-saint-nikolai-of-zhicha - biography http://orthodoxclergy.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-statement-concerning-sin-of-racism.html “Prayers by the Lake” A Treasury of Serbian Orthodox Spirituality Vol 5 Translated...

Saint Symeon the New, Theologian ( March 12 ) THE ICON FEATURED IN THIS WEEK’S PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL IS NOT BY THE HAND OF NICHOLAS PAPAS & IS NOT THE PROPERTY OF St DEMETRIUS PRESS Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/03/12/100790-venerable-simeon-the-new-theologian https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2019/12/on-incarnation-of-word-st-symeon-new.html https:/...

Saint Felix, Bishop of Dunwich, Enlightener East Anglia ( March 8 ) Reference materials for this episode:  https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2021/03/saint-felix-of-burgundy-bishop-of.html - life of St Felix https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38326/38326-h/38326-h.html - St Bede mentions Bishop Felix (Book II-Chap XV, Book III-Chap XVIII&XX) The Silver Chair   - by CS Lewis  - HarperCollins; Reprin...

St John Cassian ( Feb 29 ) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/02/29/100623-venerable-john-cassian-the-roman https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/14557292 - first episode on St John Cassian https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/6356446 - episode on Desert Fathers https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/350705.htm - The Institutes https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3508....

St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna ( Feb 23 ) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/02/23/100589-hieromartyr-polycarp-bishop-of-smyrna http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ignatius.html   - St Ignatius’ letter to St Polycarp https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0136.htm - St Polycarp’s letter to the Phillipians https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/martyrdompolycarp...

St Empress Theodora, Defender of Icons  (Feb 11) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/02/11/100504-righteous-theodora-wife-of-emperor-theophilus-the-iconoclast https://www.oca.org/fs/paschal-cycle https://orthodoxwiki.org/Sunday_of_Orthodoxy https://orthodoxwiki.org/Seventh_Ecumenical_Council https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3819.htm - degree & canons of...

Ss Barsanuphius the Great & John the Prophet ( Feb 6 ) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/02/06/100443-venerable-barsanuphius-the-great-and-john-the-prophet Title: Guidance Toward Spiritual Life: Answers to the Questions of Disciples Publisher: Saint Herman Press ISBN 10: 0938635840 Author: Saint Barsanuphius, the Prophet, Saint John Translation: Fr Ser...

St Ephraim the Syrian ( Jan 28 ) conversation w/ Fr Symeon Kees producer of Paradosis Pavilion & host of "Eastward Iowa City" podcast Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/01/28/100328-venerable-ephraim-the-syrian https://orthodoxwiki.org/Ephrem_the_Syrian St. Ephrem the Syrian, Hymns on Paradise,  - trans. by Sebastian Brock - St. Vladimir’s Sem...

St Gregory The Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople (Jan 25) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/01/25/100298-saint-gregory-the-theologian-archbishop-of-constantinople - hagiography of St Gregory Poems on Scripture - written by the saint - Popular Patristics Vol 46 - St Vladimir’s Seminary Press - ISBN 978-0-88141-433-2 - copyright 2012 On God & Chri...

St Macarius the Great of Egypt ( Jan 19 ) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/01/19/100226-venerable-macarius-the-great-of-egypt - life of St Macarius of Egypt https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/01/healthy-and-sick-monasticism.html - Monasticism is not intrinsically virtuous https://pemptousia.com/2016/12/marriage-or-monasticism - the pursuit of virtue vi...

Feast of the Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ( Jan 6 ) Reference materials for this episode: https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/10/why-do-we-baptize-in-the-name-of-the-holy-trinity-and-not-in-the-name-of-jesus - understanding “in the name of” during baptism Scripture citations for this episode: Genesis 1:2 - God begins creation to correct empty chaos referred to as “the water...

The Feast of the Circumcision of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Jan 1) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/01/01/100001-the-circumcision-of-our-lord-and-savior-jesus-christ - information about the feast day https://orthodoxwiki.org/Jesus_Christ - details on what name was actually given  Scripture citations for this episode: Genesis 2&3 - God’s covenan...

St Joseph the Betrothed ( Dec 26 & Sunday after Nativity ) Scripture citations for this episode: Leviticus 12 - the timeline of purification for a woman after childbirth  Matthew 1 & 2 - Jesus’ birth & the story of the wise men & the flight into Egypt Luke 2 - Jesus’ presentation in the Temple as well as the events in His twelfth year John 8:12-20 - The Pharisees imply Joseph wasn’...

Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer, Bishop of Antioch (Dec 20) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/12107042 - previous episode https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/12/20/103594-hieromartyr-ignatius-the-god-bearer-bishop-of-antioch - bio of the saint http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ignatius.html - translations of all St Ignatius’ epistles https://www.fai...

Repose of Venerable Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America ( Dec 13 ) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/htc/orthodox-calendar/ - biography of St Herman (find Dec 26/13) https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/12/13/103530-repose-of-venerable-herman-of-alaska-wonderworker-of-all-america - more detail on the interaction with the sailors (plus a LOT more!)...

Saint Ambrose of Milan ( Dec 7 ) Reference materials for this episode: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/12/07/103485-saint-ambrose-bishop-of-milan - bio of Saint Ambrose https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1101.htm - Augustine’s “Confessions” in which he discusses his relationship with Ambrose https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2014/12/when-saint-ambrose-humbled-emperor.html - incident between Am...