The Forgotten Way

Passion 154 Foreswearing oneself

Foreswearing oneself is to make a liar of yourself under oath or to commit perjury.

Passion 153 Aggressiveness

Aggressiveness is an inclination to fight and towards hostility. It is a lack of gentleness and meekness. 

Passion 152 Severity

Severity is the quality of being rigid, inflexible, unpleasant, or harsh.

Passion 151 Frenzy

Frenzy is a state of wildly excited activity or emotion.

Passion 150 Ferocity

Ferocity is acting with extreme, unrestrained violence and brutality.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- A New Our Father?

There is an often a disconnect in the words we pray and the actions we take.

Passion 149 Dishonor

Dishonor is to treat in a degrading manner, to bring shame, and a loss of reputation and this is what we must expect from the world if we desire the honor that comes from God alone.

Passion 148 Insolence

Insolence is disrespectful, argumentative speech given in response to a command or request.

Passion 147 Railing

Railing is abusive, scornful language which is characterized by harsh criticisms and insults.  

Passion 146 Hatred

Hatred is an extreme dislike or disgust for someone.

Passion 145 Accusation

Accusation is a charge that someone has committed a fault.

Passion 144 Condemnation

Condemnation is to declare something reprehensible, wrong, or evil. To condemn our neighbor is a usurpation of God's power.

Passion 143 Calumny

Calumny is making false statements to damage someone's reputation. It is slander.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Heaven is Better Than Living

God calls us to Himself when our soul is most ready. 

Passion 142 Censure

Censure is to rebuke or reprimand sternly. 

Passion 141 Slander

Slander is to attribute a fault to our neighbor that is false with the intent to hurt their reputation.

Passion 140 Asperity

Asperity is harshness in speech and manner.

Passion 139 Chicanery

Chicanery is the use of deceptive means to gain a political or financial gain. 

Passion 138 Meddlesomeness

Meddlesomeness is being intrusive and interfering with our neighbor's affairs. 

Passion 137 Enmity

Enmity is a feeling of hatred, hostility, and animosity. It is being in full opposition against someone or something. 

St. Anne Women's Group at St. Nicholas Parish- Accepting Rebukes

"The person who will not accept reproof whether it is just or unjust renounces his own salvation. But the person who accepts reproof will soon receive the remission of sins." St. John Climacus

St. George Men's Group at St. Nicholas Parish- Raising Christian Gentlemen

Taking up the cross to instill virtue in young men who will become Christian's of the true faith.

Passion 136 Giving Offense

Giving offense is to cause hurt, anger, or resentment in our neighbor. It can be intentional or unintentional. 

Saturday afternoon at St. John's Skete- Hallowed Hiking

Brazenness can plunge us over cliffs, fear can paralyze us, but trust keeps us moving forward on the path.

Passion 135 Exasperation

Exasperation is to become intensely irritated and frustrated.

Passion 134 Gall

Gall is a brazen boldness fueled by self-confidence. 

Passion 133 Mindless Desire

Mindless desire is a longing for something with little awareness often driven by habit and emotion.

Passion 132 Rage

Rage is a fit of violent wrath.

Passion 131 Fighting

Fighting is engaging in violent, combative, and aggressive behavior.

Passion 130 Brawling

Brawling is to fight or quarrel in a rough and loud way. The incisive part of our soul can choose to brawl against our neighbor or against the enemy. 

Passion 129 Shouting

Shouting is to yell emphatically and can indicate poor control of anger.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-This is NOT Dr. Seuss

Have I watched over my children and the company they keep, the books they read, the entertainments they engage in, the social media they use?

Bonus Passion #2 Seeking Spiritual Consolation

Seeking spiritual consolation is to desire of feeling of warmth, delight, and comfort in prayer. It risks placing our will ahead of God's will. 

Passion 128 Abusiveness

Abusiveness is to use something for the wrong purpose. It is to take advantage of a good thing for a bad purpose. 

Passion 127 Quarrelsomeness

Quarrelsomeness is being disposed to respond in a petty, contentious, and aggressive manner.

Passion 126 Conteniousness

Contentiousness is being prone to disagreement and argument.

Passion 125 Rudeness

Rudeness is a lack of manners and courtesy. 

Passion 124 Boorishness

Boorishness is being rude, insensitive, ill-mannered, and coarse.

Passion 123 Lightmindedness

Lightmindedness is a frivolous, trifling, or immature attitude. Repentance is contrary to lightmindedness.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-No Time Off

Meaningful moments in the mundane. 

Passion 122 Gaucherie

Gaucherie is lacking social grace and awareness. It is awkwardness.

Passion 121 Uncouthness

Uncouthness is a lack of hospitality, manners, and etiquette.

Passion 120 Ignorance of Beauty

Ignorance of beauty is failing to see, comprehend, and penetrate the truth and goodness of God in the created world.

Passion 119 Love of Popularity

Love of popularity is to enjoy being well liked, praised, and applauded by many.

Passion 118 Self-Satisfaction

Self-satisfaction is smug complacency and conceit.

Bonus Passion- Ambition

Ambition is the desire from our own will to do or achieve something that typically requires determination and hard work.

Passion 117 Thoughtlessness

Thoughtlessness is being careless, unalert, and inconsiderate. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Hateless Hatred

He who loves father, mother, or children more than Me is not worthy of me.  

Passion 116 Self-will

Self-will is attachment to our own ideas and plans rather than seeking uniformity with God's will.

Passion 115 Fickleness

Fickleness is a lack of steadfastness, constancy, and determination. 

St. George Men's Group at St. Nicholas Parish- Poverty of Spirit and Material Poverty

Exploring the need to develop the virtue of detachment and poverty of spirit to make material renunciation meaningful. 

Passion 114 Indifference

Indifference is a lack of zeal for Christian perfection. It is lukewarmness and tepidity.

Passion 113 Solitary Eating

Solitary eating is eating alone when it is not appropriate to our state in life. It misses the opportunity to grow in virtue due to avoidance.

Passion 112 Hoggishness

Hoggishness is gross selfishness, gluttony, and filth.

Passion 111 Secret Eating

Secret eating is eating alone in order to hide our food choices or act of eating from others.

Passion 110 Insatiability

Insatiability is being incapable of being satisfied.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Salvific Stuffies

Illness as medicine to the passions.

Passion 109 Gluttony

Gluttony is excess eating or drinking, it is rushing through food, it is mindlessly eating, and it is being excessively particular about what we eat.

Passion 108 Over-eating

Over-eating is a form of gluttony of the consumption of food that is beyond what our body needs.

Passion 107 Sensuality

Sensuality is the desire to have pleasurable experiences.

Passion 106 Torpor

Torpor is a state of insensibility, dullness, and indifference.

Passion 105 Doltishness

Doltishness is a dullness of mind that is slow to respond.

Passion 104 Satiety

Satiety is eating to fullness. It seeks comfort, undue enjoyment, and satisfaction from food.

Passion 103 Foulness

Foulness is gross and obscene language and behavior.

Passion 102 Infatuation

Infatuation is the intense, unreasonable attraction to someone.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Outer Darkness

Behold the Bridegroom is coming in the middle of the night, will the door be opened for you?

Passion 101 Boastfulness

Boastfulness is to vainly bring light to our virtue to receive the praise of men.

St. Anne Women's Group at St. Nicholas Parish- Inspiration to Implementation

How do we translate spiritual inspiration to daily implementation with discernment and obedience?

Passion 100 Self-Elation

Self-elation is the feeling of intense joy and satisfaction in oneself for an accomplishment or act of virtue.

Passion 99 Presumption

Presumption is to act with conceit and to falsely judge an idea as true although in reality it is unknown for certain.

Passion 98 Pride

Pride is an opponent of God, that leads us to despise our neighbor, reject obedience, and act without compassion.

Passion 97 Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is the excessive value we place on our self-image and own opinions.

Passion 96 Listlessness

Listlessness is the dissatisfaction with our duties that leads to inactivity or excessive busyness.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Work and Peace

The value of manual labor as a family.

Passion 95 Dejection

Dejection is evil sadness fueled by self-pity and despairing thoughts.

Passion 94 Anger

Anger is the sudden movement in the soul that seeks to correct and injure the one who wronged it.

Passion 93 Avarice

Avarice is the love of money, the worship of an idol, that stems from a lack of faith.

Passion 92 Unchastity

Unchastity is to give ourselves over to carnal desires.

Passion 91 Voracity

Voracity is an excessive appetite for food, pleasure, or power. It seeks to fill the void that only God can.

Passion 90 Dissoluteness

Dissoluteness is sinking to a state of low moral standard and behavior. 

Passion 89 Soft-living

Soft-living is to reject the salvific cup of suffering.

St. George Men's Group at St. Nicholas Parish- Spiritual Envy

We need to strive to take joy in the good we see in others.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Hell is Worse Than a Spanking

Sometimes we need corrected, and it is done for our good done out of love.

Passion 88 Eating of Unclean Foods

Eating of unclean foods is the eating of any foods that fails to aid us in our spiritual life.

Passion 87 Defilement

Defilement is to be made unclean or impure and we must be aware of that one passion that is likely to lead to our defilement. 

 

Passion 86 Witchcraft

Witchcraft is the practice of evil magic and spells.

Passion 85 Audacity

Audacity is to act with excessive boldness.

Passion 84 Delusion

Delusion is accepting a mirage for the truth.

Passion 83 Deceit

Deceit is the intentional beguiling of another. 

Passion 82 Lack of Progress

Lack of progress is the failure to grow in virtue and unity with Christ due to a lack of consistency or perseverance.

Passion 81 Inattentiveness

Inattentiveness is a lack of focus and watchfulness over your heart. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Byzantine Assembly

"The world is thy ship and not thy home." St. Therese of Lisieux 

Passion 80 Self-love

Self-love is the desire to preserve our bodily comfort and self-image. It is a resistance to sacrifice.

Passion 79 Indolence

Indolence is an inclination toward laziness, avoidance of activity or exertion.

Passion 78 Loquacity

Loquacity is the quality of being very talkative.

Passion 77 Profligacy

Profligacy is a leading a shameless, immoral life given up dissipation and licentiousness with no indication of remorse. 

Passion 76 Dissipation

Dissipation is the scattering and dispersing of our attention, a cooling of our heart, and a loss of recollection.

Passion 75 Love of Idols

Love of idols is to have your heart set on possessions and is invariably associated with the rejection of God.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Pirate Fasting

Scurvy may be preferrable over self-love. 

Passion 74 Denial of God

Denial of God is when the creature forgets that he came from the Creator.