Same Sex Attraction and Three Desert Fathers

We live in a generation that has been taught to tie their personal identity to their imagined sexual preferences. Consequently, it is difficult to help people who struggle with sexual passions to find hope and repentance. However, the teaching of holy fathers such as St. Isaac the Syrian and St. Barsanuphius of Gaza provide a very helpful alternative to the world’s way of thinking about such passions. For these saints, same-sex attraction is a passion like any other. It is not part of one’s identity, but is a parasitical passion, resisted and struggled against as all other passions are.

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Same Sex Attraction and Three Desert Fathers is an episode from Praying in the Rain by Fr. Michael Gillis, and Ancient Faith Ministries.

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This episode was published on Aug 28, 2023.

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