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	St John Climacus
		John was now seventy-five years old, and had spent forty of them in his hermitage, when, in the year 600, he was unanimously chosen Abbot of Mount Sinai, and superior-general of all the monks and hermits in that country.
		John could not help admiring the cook of this numerous community, who seemed always recollected, and generally bathed in tears amidst his continual occupation, and asked him by what means he nourished so perfect a spirit of compunction, in the midst of such a dissipating laborious employment.
		John sighed continually under the weight of his dignity during the four years that he governed the monks of Mount Sinai; and as he had taken upon him that burden with fear and reluctance, he with joy found means to resign the same a little before his death.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/CLIMACUS.htm (1681 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was born in Syria, and came to the monastery and became a novice when he was about 16 years old, taught by monk named Martyrius.
		After the death of Martyrius John, wishing to practise greater mortifications, withdrew to a hermitage at the foot of the mountain.
		John Climacus was also known as "Scholasticus," but he is not to be confused with St. John Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Saint_John_Climacus (577 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > John Climacus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		579 - 649), also known as John of the Ladder, was a seventh century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai.
		(It is because of this book that John is known as "Climacus", which means "of the ladder".) It describes how to raise one's soul to God, as if on a ladder.
		This book is one of the most widely read among Eastern Orthodox Christians, especially during the season of Great Lent which immediately precedes Easter.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/jo/John_Climacus (227 words)

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		John is a monk who has experienced both the summit of monastic life - the deification of man by the uncreated Light, and the way that leads there.
		John speaks of eight capital vices (13:11) but it is not easy to tell which they are among all the vices of which he speaks.
		John is therefore the intermediary between the monasticism of the Desert Fathers whose experience he culls and the monasticism of Mount Athos to which he transmitted this inheritance.
	www.scourmont.be /studium/bresard/14-climacus.html (5430 words)

	St. John Climacus
		The region of Mount Sanai was then celebrated for the holiness of the monks who inhabited it; he betook himself thither and trained himself to the practice of the Christian virtues under the direction of a monk named Martyrius.
		John Climacus has left us two important works: the "Scala [Klimax] Paradisi", from which his surname comes, composed at the request of John, Abbot of Raithu, a monastery situated on the shores of the Red Sea; and the "Liber ad Pastorem".
		The "Scala", which obtained an immense popularity and has made its author famous in the Church, is addressed to anchorites and cenobites, and treats of the means by which the highest degree of religious perfection may be attained.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/j/john_climacus,saint.html (626 words)

	Gleanings from Orthodox Christian Authors & the Holy Fathers - Remembrance_of_wrongs
		If it is a mark of extreme meekness, even in the presence of one’s offender, to be peacefully and lovingly disposed towards him in one’s heart, then it is certainly a mark of hot temper when a person continues to quarrel and rage against his offender, both by words and gestures, even when by himself.
		Remembrance of wrongs is the consummation of anger, the keeper of sin, hatred of righteousness, ruin of virtues, poison of the soul, worm of the mind, shame of prayer, cessation of supplication, estrangement of love, a nail stuck in the soul, pleasure-less feeling cherished in the sweetness of bitterness, continuous sin, unsleeping transgression, hourly malice.
		Remembrance of wrongs is the consummation of anger, the keeper of sins, hatred of righteousness, ruin of virtues, poison of the soul, worm of the mind, shame of prayer, cessation of supplication, estrangement of love, a nail stuck in the soul, pleasureless feeling cherished in the sweetness of bitterness, continuous sin, unsleeping transgression, hourly malice.
	www.orthodox.net /gleanings/remembrance_of_wrongs.html (664 words)

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		From the time of John Climacus (seventh century), the repetition of short phrases in this manner has been known as ‘monologic prayer’, that is, prayer of a single logos, a single word or phrase.
		To this last Climacus devotes the final section, Step 30, and in language that recalls Maximus he extols it as the ultimate end of all spiritual striving.
		Note also the way in which Climacus adapts Evagrius’ phrase, ‘Prayer is the putting away of thoughts’ (On Prayer, 71): for the author of the Ladder, as for Diadochus, the invocation of the Holy Name is a means of entry into the inner silence of the heart, a way of attaining nondiscursive prayer.
	ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu /@texts2/1980_kal-ware/04_hesyc-orig.htm (3870 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Events
		Saint John of the Ladder is honored by Holy Church as a great ascetic and author of the reknowned spiritual book called THE LADDER, from which he is also called "of the Ladder" (Climacus).
		John went to Sinai when he was sixteen, submitting to Abba Martyrius as his instructor and guide.
		John felt that such a task was beyond his ability, yet out of obedience he fulfilled the request.
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/stjohnclimacus.cfm (1255 words)

	Prolog: March 30
		John Climacus is the author of "The Ladder of Divine Ascent." John came to Mt. Sinai as a sixteen year old youth and remained there, first as a novice under obedience, and afterwards as a recluse, and finally as abbot of Sinai until his eightieth year.
		John, in prayer in his cell, saw that his disciple was in danger and prayed to God for him.
		Then John said to him, that, if he [John] were found worthy to be near God in the other world, he would pray to Him, that, he, [George], would be taken to heaven that same year.
	www.westsrbdio.org /prolog/my.html?day=30&month=March (1198 words)

	Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center Our Father among the Saints John Chrysostom, Patriarch of ...
		John was baptized by Melece, Patriarch / Batriyark of Antioch.
		Our Father among the Saints John Chrysostom died on Sept. 14, 407, the Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross, so the anniversary of his death is celebrated in Nov.
		St. John was such a great speaker that the services at which he preached attracted huge crowds seeking inspiration and / or entertainment.
	www.mliles.com /melkite/fatherjohnchrysostom.shtml (1157 words)

	Holy Fathers – St. John Climacus
		As ever-blossoming fruits thou offerest teachings from thy book, O most wise one, and delightest the hearts of those who accept them in sobriety, O blessed one; for a ladder is it, leading up from earth to heavenly and enduring glory the souls of those who venerate thee with faith.
		For if Jacob, who was a shepherd of sheep, saw by means of a ladder such a dread vision, surely we can expect the director of spiritual sheep to show to all not only in vision, but in.
		John died sometime after the year 600, but his memory is guarded by generations of Christians who have received immeasurable spiritual benefit from reading his soul penetrating work.
	www.roca.org /OA/38/38f.htm (570 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - John Climacus: From the Egyptian Desert to the Sinaite Mountain (John Chryssavgis)
		John Climacus: From the Egyptian Desert to the Sinaite Mountain (John Chryssavgis)
		He reveals John as an author knowledgeable about the writings of those who came before him, and who contributed his own ideas to the development of eastern medieval theology.
		Chryssavgis first addresses John's concept of the whole human person, including the body and flesh, the heart, and the intellect, in their natural state, as God originally created them to be.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0754650405.htm (834 words)

	St John Klimakos - On Repentance that Leads to Joy
		To the mind of St John there is no question that the ascetic life, indeed the life of every Christian, is a journey upon which the whole of the human person—both body and soul—is engaged; and which, at the resurrection and in the fullness of the Kingdom, will again involve the wholeness of that person.
		When St John pictured the human person, then, he thus saw it as an organic whole from which the body and soul could not be extracted separately without destroying the humanity—except in the great temporary mystery at the moment of death, before the resurrection.
		John does not deny the negative aspects of repentance (indeed, he is far more realistic about them than most writers before or after), but he never sets up repentance itself as a negative act.
	www.monachos.net /patristics/klimakos_repentance.shtml (3342 words)

	John Wyclif
		From 1376 to 1378 Wyclif was clerical advisor to John of Gaunt, who effectively governed England until his nephew, Richard II, came of age in 1381.
		It is not clear what influence each man had on the other, but it is conjectured that John of Gaunt, who had his own reasons for opposing the wealth and power of the clergy, may have used a naive Wyclif as his tool.
		Later generations saw him as a precursor of the Protestant Reformation of the 1500's, but his direct influence on the beginnings of that movement appear to be surprisingly slight.
	www.holytrinitynewrochelle.org /yourti16629.html (709 words)

	MethodX \| The Life
		At age sixteen John Climacus joined the monks at Mount Sinai and pursued the common life.
		John, a mystic of light rather than divine darkness, avoids apophatic language and does not intend that his "steps" be taken literally or dogmatically.
		If John Climacus had taken the Spiritual Types Test, he probably would have been a Mystic.
	www.upperroom.org /methodx_this/thelife/saints.asp?act=showitem&item_id=351037 (369 words)

	The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. - Meditation - by Pope John Paul II
		Like St John Bosco after him, Pavoni's used encouraging and preventative methods; he preferred gentleness to severity.
		John's Gospel stresses that Christ's death was ordained "to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad" (Jn 11:52).
		Thus the proclamation of the Gospel will be more eloquent and an ever living message of hope and love to the men and women of every age.
	www.godspy.com /meditations/The-hour-has-come-for-the-Son-of-Man-to-be-glorified-Meditation-by-Pope-John-Paul-II.cfm (570 words)

	John Climacus
		John Darby, Geneva Study Bible, John Gill, Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, A. Robertson, Scofield, Charles Spurgeon, John Wesley; Fourfold Gospel (single-column harmony of the Gospels).
		John Fletcher was known as John Wesley's indicator and his personally designated successor as the leader of Methodism.
		Contains a biography of John Dee by Charlotte Fell Smith (1909), and a thesis entitled "John Dee Studied as an English neo-Platonist" by I.R.F. Calder (1952).
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=John_Climacus (1492 words)

	theosis: March 26, Sunday of the Fourth Week of Lent - Sunday of Saint John Climacus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		O John, our father and guide, the Lord has raised you on high to be a true guiding star of asceticism, you enlighten the whole world with your virtue.
		We celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of Saint John Climacus with meditations upon the words of Saint Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians and the wisdom of the Desert Fathers.
		The "Ladder" of Saint John Climacus is a very important spiritual text in the Eastern tradition and an important Lenten guide because it shows that our advancement in the Lord comes only through continuous and persistant effort.
	www.isidorescorner.com /theosis/2006/03/march_26_sunday.html (439 words)

	Web Directory » Web Directory » Society » Religion and Spirituality » Christianity » People ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Climacus, Abbot - Biography, with some quotes from his writings.
		Our Righteous Father John of Sinai, author of "The Ladder of Divine Ascent" - Short overview of the life of St. John Climacus and his importance in the Orthodox Church.
		John Climacus, Abbot - From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
	www.dcpages.com /DC_ODP/?c=Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/People/Saints/J/Saint_John_Climacus (216 words)

	Catholic Exchange - Your Faith. Your Life. Your World.
		John of Climacus was born in Syria around 525.
		When John was seventy-five years old he was asked by the monks of Sinai to be their abbot.
		This was composed at the request of another John, Abbot of Raithu, a monastery on the shore of the Red Sea.
	www.catholicexchange.com /node/20664 (363 words)

	John Climacus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in Syria, and came to the monastery and became a novice when he was about 16 years old, taught by monk named Martyrius.
		John Climacus was also known as "Scholasticus," but he is not to be confused with St. John Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople.
		The translations of the Scala by Arnauld d'Andilly (Paris, 1688) is preceded by a life of the saint by Le Maistre de Sacy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Climacus (572 words)

	Christian History - John Calvin - 131 Christians Everyone Should Know
		With his brother and sister and two friends, John Calvin fled Catholic France and headed to the free city of Strasbourg.
		It was the summer of 1536; Calvin had recently converted to the "evangelical" faith and had just published The Institutes of the Christian Religion, which articulated his Protestant views.
		John acquiesced, and the next five or six years saw him at the University of Orleans, attaining distinction in a subject he did not love.
	www.christianitytoday.com /history/special/131christians/calvin.html (1843 words)

	St. Pachomius Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To fullfill the wish of Abbot John of Raithu, St. John wrote The Ladder of Divine Ascent (also called The Ladder to Paradise) to describe the way to apatheia, or passionlessness.
		Based on Jacob's dream, the book uses aphorisms and anecdotes to illustrate the vices to be overcome and the virtues to be cultivated as one ascends the ladder to perfection.
		John was 70 or 75 when he became abbot of St. Catherine's on Sinai.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xjn-ladder.html (150 words)

	This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis: Sunday of St John of the Ladder
		From thy book thou dost offer teachings as everlasting fruits, O wise one,/ and dost sweeten the hearts of those who watchfully attend to them, O blessed one./ For it is a ladder that from earth to heavenly glory/ leads souls who honour thee with faith.
		We have found thy God-given virtues to be a divine ladder to heaven./ For thou, O holy Father John, wast a model of the virtues.
		In traditional icons, both the ascetics who are still on course, and those who have been dislodged by the demons, are a mixture of laity and clergy, monastics and married, relating the teaching that victory in the ascetic struggle is not granted by office or status, but obedience, humility and perseverence.
	www.chattablogs.com /aionioszoe/archives/034631.html (432 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of March 30
		A learned Syrian abbot and spiritual director, Saint John authored The Ladder to Paradise or Ladder of Perfection, from which he acquires the appellation, "Climacus," which is Greek for "ladder." John's early life is hidden in obscurity.
		From the age of 35, after the death of Martyrius, John spent many years as a hermit at Thole at the foot of Mount Sinai, where he studied the Scriptures and the lives of the Fathers of the Church.
		John also admired the cook of this community, who seemed always recollected, and generally bathed in tears amidst his continual occupation.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0330.htm (3396 words)

	Feast of our Righteous Father John (Climacus) of Sinai, Author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent
		In the evening, when Moses returned, he told John that in his sleep he had, all of a sudden, heard the voice of his elder calling him, at the very moment when the rock began to break away from its moorings and threatened to crush him.
		The Abbot of Raitho, who was also named John, having been informed of the wonderful manner of life of the monks of Sinai, wrote to Saint John, asking him to explain briefly but in an methodical way what those who had embraced the angelic life should do in order to be saved.
		As ever-blooming fruits, you offer the teachings of your God-given book, O wise John, most blessed, while sweetening the hearts of all them that heed it with vigilance; for it is a ladder from the earth unto Heaven that confers glory on the souls that ascend it and honor you faithfully.
	www.goarch.org /en/special/listen_learn_share/johnclimacus/learn (2095 words)

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