St Isaac the Syrian – Homily 72 P2: “Every Virtue Being Achieved Is a Cross”

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Homily 72, of which there are 77.

So we're getting close to the end.

Some of the highlights of tonight's lesson.

A person cannot experience spiritual knowledge unless they're first converted.

Now, I'm not going to leave it there because I need to explain that, but I'm just talking about the highlights.

So obviously we need to know what is it that he's referring to that we need to be converted in order to have any access to spiritual knowledge.

Now, from the previous lessons, we know that we're not talking about knowledge, worldly knowledge.

but spiritual knowledge, of which you cannot search for it in order to find it.

And that's another paradox.

The other thing I wanted to talk about, as a highlight, is that God gives us grace, and his grace... gives us access to many incredible things, and we'll talk about that as well.

But the highlight, really, of the highlights, which may seem to be very confronting to us, is that, and it says, that we should not be astonished if and when you begin to practice virtue.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Homily 72, of which there are 77.

So we're getting close to the end.

Some of the highlights of tonight's lesson.

A person cannot experience spiritual knowledge unless they're first converted.

Now, I'm not going to leave it there because I need to explain that, but I'm just talking about the highlights.

So obviously we need to know what is it that he's referring to that we need to be converted in order to have any access to spiritual knowledge.

Now, from the previous lessons, we know that we're not talking about knowledge, worldly knowledge.

but spiritual knowledge, of which you cannot search for it in order to find it.

And that's another paradox.

The other thing I wanted to talk about, as a highlight, is that God gives us grace, and his grace... gives us access to many incredible things, and we'll talk about that as well.

But the highlight, really, of the highlights, which may seem to be very confronting to us, is that, and it says, that we should not be astonished if and when you begin to practice virtue.