The Forgotten Way

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.

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.