desert fathers

Episode 555

Happy (almost) Father’s Day! In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re concluding our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Poemen (called the Shepherd).

Father Poemen said, “Watchfulness, self-knowledge, and discernment: These are the guides of the soul.”

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Episode 554

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Arsenius.

He also said, “If we seek God, he will show himself to us, and if we keep him, he will remain close to us.”

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Episode 553

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Moses.

One of the brothers came to visit Father Moses and asked him to give him a valuable teaching. The old man said, “Go, sit in your room in solitude, and your room will teach you everything.”

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Episode 552

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Agathon.

The old man replied, “Humankind is like a tree; bodily asceticism is the leaves, interior watchfulness the fruit….All our care should be directed toward the fruit, but it needs the protection and the adornment of the leaves, which is bodily asceticism.”

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Episode 551

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Isidore of Pelusia.

Father Isidore of Pelusia said, “To live without speaking is better than to speak without living. For the former who lives rightly, does good even by his silence; but the latter does no good even when he speaks. When words and life correspond to one another they are together the whole of philosophy.”

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Episode 550

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Isidore the Priest.

The same Father Isidore said, “It is the wisdom of the saints to recognize the will of God. Indeed, in obeying the truth, people surpass everything else, for they are the image and likeness of God.”

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Episode 549

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of John the Dwarf.

Father John said, “…Use great patience in the love of God, with all the fervor of your soul and body. Exercise great humility; bear with interior distress; be watchful and pray often with reverence, with purity of speech and control of your eyes….Do your work in peace.”

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Episode 548

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Gregory the Theologian.

He also said, “The entire life of humankind is but one single day for those who are working hard with longing.”

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Episode 547

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Theodora.

She also said that neither asceticism, nor vigils, nor any kind of suffering is able to save. Only true humility can do that.

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Episode 546

We’re preparing for Father’s Day with a new series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a saying of Antony the Great.

Father Antony said,“…Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes. Whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures. Wherever you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved.”

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