Isaac the Syrian
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Sep 13, 2026
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
It longs for eternity.
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
Look at one of our church fathers, Saint Isaac of Nineveh.
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
Nineveh is a city in Iraq, Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, where this good old looking bishop and many more like me come from that part of the world.
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
I come from Iraq.
Brant HansenHOST
Last thought.
Brant HansenHOST
I mentioned this on, it was either during our Bible study thing or our podcast before, but Isaac the Syrian, this is from the seventh century, St. Isaac the Syrian, whom I don't know much about, but he said something I think is so great.
Brant HansenHOST
And again, this is so central to Christianity, these ideas.
Brant HansenHOST
He said, "Conquer evil," and I'll leave you with this thought.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
It was radical now and then.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
which was his own little critique of Abba Isaac.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
So look, there's always ways of doing things, but Abba Isaac was very aware of being challenged.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
I'll tell you a lovely story.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
I invited young people, academic students, to learn with him one Shabbat, because he liked being around these young people, and I organized a Shabbat, and literally on the Thursday, the Jewish Chronicle newspaper came out, and he'd been attacked by some latest issue by a whole bunch of people.
John Michael TalbotGUEST
through scripture tradition and magisterium and the greatest expression of that would be integration so we would integrate the east and the west solitude community charismatic contemplative liturgical spontaneous states of life again we have monks sisters singles families in the monastery and then we also have a domestic expression out who live our spirituality in their own homes So we integrate a lot of things together.
John Michael TalbotGUEST
Right now, where I am living, you're catching me talking about Celtic monasticism in a time when I'm up to my eyeballs in Saint Isaac of Nineveh, who was born in Qatar and was briefly a bishop in Nineveh for five months until he abdicated and went back and lived in the hermitage.
John Michael TalbotGUEST
And he wrote some writings that are considered the pinnacle, the peak of Eastern Christian spirituality.
John Michael TalbotGUEST
It's meaty stuff.
Ken SullivanGUEST
I very much do.
Ken SullivanGUEST
I just believe in the version of it that you find in Origen and Isaac of Nineveh.
Ken SullivanGUEST
And who's that guy? The Apostle Paul.
Trevor MeierHOST
I saw that.
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
Don't ever.
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
St. Isaac of Nineveh, he was one of our church fathers in the 7th century.
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
St. Isaac of Nineveh, he says, "Make peace with yourself, and heaven and earth will make peace with you." If you make peace with your own self, heaven and earth will make peace with you, my beloved.
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
The problem, we are always in chaos because it is not the external issue, it is the internal issue.
Mar Mari EmmanuelHOST
Internally, we are not at peace.