Episodes
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Mark the Ascetic - On the Spiritual Law 5-9
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
- May He who inaugurates every good thing inaugurate all that you undertake, so that it may be done with His blessing.
- When reading the Holy Scriptures, he who is humble and engaged in spiritual work will apply everything to himself and not to someone else.
- Call upon God to open the eyes of your heart, so that you may see the value of prayer and of spiritual reading when understood and applied.
- If a man has some spiritual gift and feels compassion for those who do not have it, he preserves the gift because of his compassion. But a boastful man will lose it through succumbing to the temptations of boastfulness.
- The mouth of a humble man speaks the truth; but he who speaks against the truth is like the servant who struck the Lord on the face (cf Mark 14:65).
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Mark the Ascetic - On the Spiritual Law 1-4
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
1. Because you have often asked what the Apostle means when he says that 'the law is spiritual' (Rom. 7:14), and what kind of spiritual knowledge and action characterizes those who wish to observe it, we shall speak of this as far as we can.
2. First of all, we know that God is the beginning, middle and end of everything good; and it is impossible for us to have faith in anything good or to carry it into effect except in Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
3. Everything good is given by the Lord providentially; and he who has faith that this is so will not lose what he has been given.
4. Steadfast faith is a strong tower; and for one who has faith Christ comes to be all.