Dying to Sin
The First Steps in Askesis
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Are we all called to askesis, or asceticism, or is it only the calling of a select few? Join us this Great Lent as we learn from the great ascetics of the Church, discovering how to apply the practice of askesis in our own lives.
Instructor
Rev. Thomas Moses
Rev. Thomas Moses lives in Upstate New York with his wife and two daughters. He serves as administrator and priest of St. Basil the Great Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Utica, NY. He and his wife Rebekah serve as co-directors of the National Association for Melkite Youth, and he is a frequent host and presenter for God With Us. He graduated from Sts. Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2017 with a Master of Divinity degree. He served as a theology teacher at Bishop Guertin High School and a per diem chaplain at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, NH until he was ordained a priest in November of 2021.
Resources
- Lecture Outline
- Purification of the Heart: The First Stage in the Spiritual Life
- The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations by Michael Holmes
- The Byzantine Ascetic and Spiritual Fathers by Georges Florovsky
- The Life of St. Anthony by St. Athanasius
- The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation by St. Theophan the Recluse
- Unseen Warfare revised by St. Theophan the Recluse
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- The New Media Epidemic: The Undermining of Society, Family, and Our Own Soul by Dr. Jean-Claude Larchet
- The Philokalia by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St. Macarius of Corinth
- The Bible and the Holy Fathers compiled by Johanna Manley