Philokalia Ministries
Episodes
Wednesday Mar 27, 2013
Nous Part Nine - Nous in Temptation and Battle
Wednesday Mar 27, 2013
Wednesday Mar 27, 2013
Stages of Temptation; Inventiveness of the Demons and their strategies; Examining one's falls, their causes and committing them to memory; knowing one's weak spots; Ignorance and Captivity; Cures; Spiritual work and the beauty achieved through humility, silence and prayer.
Wednesday Mar 20, 2013
Nous Part Eight - Prayer, Asceticism, Dispassion
Wednesday Mar 20, 2013
Wednesday Mar 20, 2013
Prayer; Body and its place in purifying the nous through asceticism; necessity of asceticism; impassioned nous and dispassionate nous; contemporary questions about connection between liturgy, worship and the ascetical life; group questions about disciplining the body as a means of purifying the nous and rigor and consistency needed in such discipline.
Wednesday Mar 13, 2013
Nous Part Seven - Prayer That Transcends the Passions and Conceptual Thoughts
Wednesday Mar 13, 2013
Wednesday Mar 13, 2013
Prayer and the Apophatic tradition; imageless and without conceptual thoughts or the use of imagination; perceived and real differences from Western Spirituality; purification of the Nous essential for salvation; signs of such true prayer; virtue alone does not lead to God; how prayer binds us to God
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013
Nous Part Six - Prayer and the Cultivation of the Soul, Fathers Understand of Demons
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013
Prayer and the Purification of the Nous; Critique of Centering Prayer; The Fathers Understanding of Demons; Demons in the Desert; Snares of the Demons; Struggling Against the Demons, Indirect Warfare, Asceticism and Modernity