The Forgotten Way

Passion 73 Sorcery

Sorcery is the practice of exercising preternatural power over person and things with the aid of the evil spirts.

Passion 72 Divination

Divination is to seek after knowledge of future events through occult practices.

Passion 71 Astrology

Astrology is a form of divination based on the theory that planets and stars influence human affairs.

Passion 70 Magic

Magic is the attempt to manipulate supernatural forces or to gain power over events outside of God's will. 

Passion 69 Impiety

Impiety is a lack of reverence for God and sacred items.

Passion 68 Ignorance of God

Ignorance of God is failing to seek out God, His teaching, and His will. Ignorance of God obscures the Truth.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Mercy and Ice Cream

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Passion 67 Idolatry

Idolatry is the Divine worship given to anyone or anything other than the True God.

Passion 66 Polytheism

Polytheism is the belief and worship in multiple gods. 

Passion 65 Fellowship in Heresy

Fellowship in heresy is to join or lead others to believe a teaching that is a distortion or denial of the Gospel.

Passion 64 Heresy

Heresy is holding onto a belief that contradicts a teaching of the Church.

Passion 63 Poverty of Faith

Poverty of faith is to doubt God's goodness and to not trust in Him fully. 

Passion 62 Wrong Belief

Wrong belief is an error in our understanding of the truth revealed by Christ through His Church.

Passion 61 Lack of Faith

Lack of faith is the difficulty believing in God's Providence and Goodness in all situations.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Shocks at the Skete

Learning the need for firm purpose of amendment can be a painful process. 

Passion 60 Unbelief

Unbelief is a gradual loss of faith, a slow turning to the world that is difficult to perceive at first, and leaves the person void of the Truth.

Passion 59 Transgression

Transgression is a deliberate violation of God's law.

Passion 58 Aberration

Aberration is our tendency to change and inconstancy. 

Passion 57 Disdain of God

The thought, words, or actions that God and His sacraments are not worthy of our respect.

Passion 56 A Reprehensible Despondency

Reprehensible despondency is the refusal to fight against evil sadness, it is the road to spiritual gloom, and despair. 

Passion 55 Laziness

Laziness is a waste of the gift of time.

Passion 54 Negligence

Negligence is a lack of diligence to carry out one's duties. It is a lack of care in the fulfillment of an obligation.  

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-What is a Skete?

Striving to live domestic monasticism. 

Passion 53 Weakness of Intellect

Weakness if intellect is difficulty comprehending and applying the truth due to darkening of the mind through sin and worldly wisdom.

Passion 52 Enervation

Enervation is lacking strength or vitality. It is spiritual weakness and feebleness. 

Passion 51 Sickness of Soul

Sickness of soul is the pain and suffering caused by sin to our soul associated with a loss of desire to fulfill God's commandments.

Passion 50 Stumbling

Stumbling is sin through weakness or a momentary lapse in attentiveness. 

Passion 49 Vice

The tendency to a particular sin acquired through repetition. 

St. George Men's Group at St. Nicholas Parish- Technology Encroaching on Holy Rest

The struggle to balance needed technology with our responsibility to cultivate holy rest in Christ. 

Passion 48 Bodily Comfort Beyond What is Required

Excessive pampering of our sensory desires and an unwillingness to mortify our flesh to grow in virtue.

Passion 47 Dallying

To act without full attention to our thoughts. A failure to expel evil thoughts and to indulge in them for amusement.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Bodily Comfort

Rejecting comfort to prepare for the cross.

Passion 46 Demonic Provocation

The initial enticement to sin that assails a person from the outside.

Passion 45 Mindless Coupling

Entertaining and playing with a sinful thought.

Passion 44 Assent to Evil

Assent to evil is the approval and cooperation with sinful thoughts or actions.

Passion 43 Seduction

Seduction is the enticement of another to engage in carnal or impure relations.

Passion 42 Passion

Passion is an appetite or impulse that violently attack the soul and incline it to evil. 

Passion 41 Criminality

Criminality is the passion and state of a person who transgresses the law.

Passion 40 Lawlessness

Lawlessness is the deceptive attraction of evil and the flippant disregard for what is good and true. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Lawn Lessons

Keep mowers and marriages moving forward.

Passion 39 Sinfulness

Sinfulness according to the Way of the Pilgrim is to have no love for God, no love for my neighbor, to have no religious belief, and to be filled with pride and sensual self-love

Passion 38 Wrongdoing

Wrongdoing is improper or evil behavior.

Passion 37 Breaking of Faith

Breaking of faith is a breach of loyalty, a betrayal of trust, or failure to keep a promise.

Passion 36 Idle Chatter

Talking that is unnecessary and excessive. It often leads to gossip, lying, and vanity. 

Passion 35 Slothfulness

Slothfulness is a failure to fulfill one's duty to God to exert oneself in the pursuit of virtue due to an emptiness of soul, a lack of zeal, or evil sadness.

Passion 34 A Conscienceless Soul

A conscienceless soul is one that has lost the ability to make sound judgments between what is good and evil.

Passion 33 Evil Intention

Evil intention is a desire to act against God's will and corrupt a good action or can be blameworthy even if no action is completed. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Mortal Stench

Cleaning out the car and cleaning out the soul.

Passion 32 Injustice

Injustice is to fail to give God or our neighbor what is due to them.

Passion 31 Obduracy

Obduracy is invincible hardness of heart, impenitence that cannot be subdued, and inflexible persistence in sin.  

Passion 30 Lack of Discrimination

Lack of discrimination is the failure to walk along the spiritual way without falling into extremes.

Passion 29 Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness is the loss of recollection and concentration on God resulting in poor attention over our heart and mind.

Passion 28 Spurious Knowledge

Spurious knowledge is knowledge that is unprofitable for salvation. 

Passion 27 Folly

Folly is to act without wisdom.

Passion 26 Ignorance

Ignorance is the failure to apply due diligence to acquire the needed knowledge for salvation.

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Bird Funeral

Simple lessons on keeping the last things first.

Passion 25 Over-frugality

Over-frugality is stinginess that comes from smallness of heart and ignores the needs of others.

Passion 24 Avarice

Avarice is the love of money and possessions. 

Passion 23 Moral Errors

Moral errors occur when we deviate from what is objectively good from a lack of knowledge or poorly formed conscience. 

Passion 22 Dearth of Good Actions

Dearth of good actions is a scarcity and lack of good works that spring forth from a living faith.

Passion 21 Lethargy

Lethargy is drowsiness, apathy, and boredom about our work of salvation.

Passion 20 Cowardice

Cowardice is a lack of bravery stemming from vanity and lack of faith.

Passion 19 Rashness

Rashness is a lack of deliberation and prudence. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete- Slips and Falls

We should never trust ourselves even in the small things. 

Passion 18 Coarseness

Coarseness is language and behavior that is crude, gross, and obscene. 

Passion 17 Derangement

Derangement is hatred stemming from pride and paranoia.

Passion 16 Madness

Madness is a state of irrationality and a loss of judgment.

Passion 15 Idiocy

Idiocy is utterly senseless and foolish behavior. Idiocy is a lack of wisdom.

Passion 14 Silliness

Silliness is a lack of common sense and sound judgement.

Passion 13 Flattery

Flattery is false and excessive praise

Passion 12 Stupidity

Stupidity is ignorance of the highest principles. 

Saturday Afternoon at St. John's Skete-Inspirations from the Swiss Guard

Trying to learn self-control as a family.

Passion 11 Sluggishness

Sluggishness is a slowness in soul due to a lack of diligence and zeal.

Passion 10 Idleness

Idleness is a waste of the time that God has blessed you with.

Passion 9 Lack of Understanding

Lack of understanding is the failure to be able to grasp the truth needed for salvation.

Passion 8 Dullness

Dullness is a deadening of the soul that leaves it unresponsive to truth and grace.

Passion 7 Enticement

Enticement is to tempt our neighbor into sin.

Passion 6 Licentiousness

Licentiousness is the disregard of moral standards.

Passion 5 Mindlessness

Mindlessness is a scattered life.

Passion 4 Perversity

Perversity is the deliberate desire to behave in a morally unacceptable way. It is contrary to what is righteous and just. It is a stubborn opposition to what is right. 

Passion 3 Malice

Malice is a deliberate transgression of the law of God.

Passion 2 Trickery

The deliberate effort in speech, writing, or action to conceal the truth.

Passion 1 Harshness

Harshness is the abruptness in manner and speech towards our neighbor due to our impatience with their faults, defects, and limitations.

Introduction to the Passions

An overview of the spiritual warfare each Christian must undertake in their struggle against the 298 passions as outline by Saint Peter of Damaskos.