- The Ladder of Divine Ascent Step 06.09 (mp3 format)
Step 06
Remembrance Of Death
Long Habit
2016
SYNOPSIS:The Ladder, Step 06.09 Remembrance of death. How to eradicate bad habits. St John tells us that if we all knew the day of our death, we would delay repentance and... "From long habit, (we) would become confirmed in vice, and would remain utterly incorrigible." We talk about the purpose of reading the Ladder, how the remembrance of death helps eradicate bad habits, how to fight certain bad habits in a practical way, and a great fear we must have regarding bad habits - all in under 5 minutes. "Some inquire and wonder: ‘Why, when the remembrance of death is so beneficial for us, has God hidden from us the know ledge of the hour of death?’—not knowing that in this way God wonderfully accomplishes our salvation. For no one who foreknew his death would at once proceed to baptism or the monastic life; but everyone would spend all his days in iniquities, and only on the day of his death would he approach baptism and repentance. From long habit he would become confirmed in vice, and would remain utterly incorrigible."
Long Habit
2016
SYNOPSIS:The Ladder, Step 06.09 Remembrance of death. How to eradicate bad habits. St John tells us that if we all knew the day of our death, we would delay repentance and... "From long habit, (we) would become confirmed in vice, and would remain utterly incorrigible." We talk about the purpose of reading the Ladder, how the remembrance of death helps eradicate bad habits, how to fight certain bad habits in a practical way, and a great fear we must have regarding bad habits - all in under 5 minutes. "Some inquire and wonder: ‘Why, when the remembrance of death is so beneficial for us, has God hidden from us the know ledge of the hour of death?’—not knowing that in this way God wonderfully accomplishes our salvation. For no one who foreknew his death would at once proceed to baptism or the monastic life; but everyone would spend all his days in iniquities, and only on the day of his death would he approach baptism and repentance. From long habit he would become confirmed in vice, and would remain utterly incorrigible."
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