The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XVII, Part I

Podcast: Philokalia Ministries · Father David Abernethy

Opublikowano: 2026-07-13

This passage can easily be misunderstood as a catalogue of monastic etiquette or a list of ancient customs that no longer matter. Yet St. Isaac is doing something far deeper. As we noted earlier, he is acting first as a physician of attention before he becomes a teacher of prayer. He knows that the human heart cannot be united to God while it remains scattered among a thousand impulses. Every small discipline he prescribes is ordered toward healing the fragmentation of the soul. The remarkable thing is that Isaac never begins with mystical experience. He begins with...