Men's Group

St. Barbara's Men's Group Meeting Times: Sunday Jun 2 @ 3 PM
Meeting Location: Varies, usually at someone's house, contact Chris Wagner.
Contact: Chris Wagner, [email protected]

The St. Barbara's Men's Group meets up to discuss a wide variety of topics. We read scripture, theology books, and writings of the Church Fathers together, and occasionally we just get together to have good fraternity and strengthen our relationships. If you would like to join and get updates, please contact Chris Wagner at the email above.

Current topic: St John Chrysostom on the importance of reading scriptures (document pages 58-60 or excerpt)

Past topics:
Divine Reading/Lectio Divina
Homily 51 of St. Isaac the Syrian (pdf link)
Conferences of St John Cassian (Conference 1 and Conference 2)
Exerpts from the Annotated Philokalia (Amazon purchase)
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) (pdf link)
Some documents of the Seven Ecumenical Councils (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th)
The Way of the Pilgrim (unknown author) (audio)
The Didache (link)
Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton) (pdf link)
The Island (Russian movie, Остров) (youtube link)
Discussions on Exorcisms
Man of God movie (wiki description, youtube trailer)
The letter of St.  Ignatius of Antioch to Polycarp and to the Smyrnaeans (see first and second links)

Suggested future topics:
More homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian
The Ladder of Divine Ascent (St. John Climacus)
We Are All Schismatics (a.k.a. Tous Schismatiques? Archbishop Elias Zoghby)