The Forgotten Way

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.

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