Saint John Climacus Resource Page

Verses

John, who when alive in the flesh was dead,

Liveth eternally, though he appeareth a breathless corpse.

He left a writing, in which he showeth

A Ladder of Ascent, the journey of his own ascent.

 

About St. John and His Work

  

Synaxarion of Saint John Climacus

  

Synaxarion for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

  

Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent (St. Justin Popovich)

 

The Fourth Sunday of Great Lent Before the Thirteenth Century

 

On Saint John Climacus (St. Anastasios of Sinai)

 

Saint John Climacus (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)

  

Brief Life of Saint John of the Ladder

 

The Origins of John Climacus: Was He the Son of Saints Xenophon and Maria?

  

St John Climacus and the "Ladder of Divine Ascent"

   

Saint John of the Ladder as a Model for our Lives

 

The Hymnography of the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

 

Saint John Climacus and his Heavenly Ladder (Fr. George Florovsky)

  

The "New Moses" and the "Secret Tablets" - A Reference to Saint John Climacus 

 

Scetis Came to Gaza, Gaza Came to Sinai - The Trajectory of Climacus

 

The Spiritual Legacy of Saint John Climacus

  

"The Ladder of Divine Ascent" and the Modern Reader

 

The "Ladder" of Saint John of Sinai

  

An Outline of "The Ladder of Divine Ascent"

 

Lectionary for "The Ladder of Divine Ascent"

  

The Patristic Wisdom of the "Ladder"

 

The "Ladder" of St. John of Sinai, a Book for all Christians

 

Where St. John Climacus Lived in Asceticism (photos)

 

A Synoptic View of the Orthodox Ascetical Tradition of Mount Sinai

 

Is the Burning Bush Still Burning?

 

The Ladder of Heavenly Unity

 

Synaxis of All Saints of Mount Sinai

 

"The Ladder of Divine Ascent", First Book Printed in the New World

  

Eldress Mary Magdalene (Marie Madeleine Le Beller), Hermitess of Sinai (+ 2013)

  

 

Teachings

 

Love as the Essence of Asceticism in Orthodoxy

 

Illness, Cure and the Therapist According to St. John of the Ladder

 

The Monk and the Demon: The Demonology of the Byzantine Fathers

 

The Demonology of St. John of the Ladder

 

St. John Climacus on Demons and Dreams

 

Divine Eros in "The Ladder of Divine Ascent" (1 of 2)

 

Divine Eros in "The Ladder of Divine Ascent" (2 of 2)

 

The Ladder of Ascent to Spiritual Rebirth (St. Symeon the New Theologian)

 

The Ladder of Divine Ascent For Those In the World

 

Slander and Condemnation According to Saint John of the Ladder

 

Saint Akakios of the "Ladder"

 

A Theophany Story for All Enthusiasts for Perfection

 

Venerable Menas of Sinai

 

Hesychius the Horebite and the Remembrance of Death

 

St. John Climacus on the Remembrance of Wrongs

 

Insights on True Repentance (St. John Climacus)

 

On Purity and Chastity

 

Those Who Wish To Learn the Will of the Lord (St. John Climacus)

 

Saint Paul the Simple as the Rule and Type of Blessed Simplicity (St. John Climacus)

  

Blessed Are the Enemy-Makers (St. John Climacus)

 

Beware of Demonic Biblical Exegesis! (St. John of the Ladder)

  

What Would You Do If You Had More Money?

 

On Gaining Riches as a Pretext for Almsgiving

 

St. John Climacus on the Love of Money (or Avarice)

 

Doing Theology While Subject to the Passions

 

A Conundrum in "The Ladder of Divine Ascent"

 

Meteora's Prison for Monks