The Second Sunday of Lent, St Gregory Palamas, is the subject of this week's episode.
Considered a second triumph of orthodoxy, because just as the veneration of icons is necessary for Christian worship as we remembered last week, the prayer of a single thought, hesychasm, ceaseless prayer, through which we see the uncreated light of God within ourselves, is also necessary. St Gregory defended this tradition against scholastic innovations from the Latin West which rejected the capacity of the human person to have the direct experience of God.
Reference materials for this episode:
Previous episode about St Gregory
- https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/13986560
The Trinity & The Life of The Soul
- https://enlargingtheheart.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/gregory-palamas-the-trinity-and-the-life-of-the-soul/
Homily on The Second Coming of Christ by St Gregory
- http://www.eschatologia.com/2018/02/homily-on-christs-second-coming-st.html#more
The Ladder of Divine Ascent, St John Climacus - Step 25
Translation & publication by Holy Transfiguration Monastery
revised edition 2012
Scripture citations for this episode:
Hebrews 1:10-2:3
Mark 2:1-12
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