Chapter 95Evagr.1.95
Κεφ. ϞΕ'
The Immortal Father
A monk demonstrates his total detachment from earthly ties by affirming his true identity as a child of the immortal God.
A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Stop blaspheming. My Father is immortal."✦
Read the original Latin
Ἐμηνύθη τινὶ τῶν μοναχῶν θάνατος τοῦ πατρός· ὁ δὲ πρὸς τὸν ἀπαγγείλαντα, παῦσαι, φησί, βλασφημῶν· ὁ γὰρ ἐμὸς πατὴρ ἀθάνατός ἐστιν.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.23.9 — And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father—the One in heaven.
The Praktikos companion
A daily portion of stillness
Chosen Portion delivers one short contemplative reading and a guided moment of silence each day — the ascent, one step at a time.
Chosen Portion is the paced doorway into this collection: it portions the dense mystical treatises into one daily reading plus guided silence, exactly as the 14-day plan teaches.
- Daily bite-sized excerpts from the contemplative classics, never a wall of text
- A built-in timed stillness practice that grows from 2 minutes to 10
- Gentle progression through the tradition — the app remembers where you are on the ascent