To be precise, Isaac was not the said Nestorian Bishop.

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I don't follow. Wikipedia said Isaac the Syrian is also known as Isaac of Nineveh. The Novus Ordo docuмent even identifies him under both names. The Catholic Encyclopedia article you quote says this person was a Nestorian bishop:

A Nestorian bishop of that city in the latter half of the seventh century, being consecrated by the Nestorian Patriarch George (660-80). Originally a monk of the monastery of Bethabe in Kurdistan, he abdicated for unknown reasons after an episcopate of but five months ...

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I don't follow. Wikipedia said Isaac the Syrian is also known as Isaac of Nineveh. The Novus Ordo docuмent even identifies him under both names. The Catholic Encyclopedia article you quote says this person was a Nestorian bishop:

My bad. You are correct. 

I heard back from Fr. Abernethy. He is on the road, and could not reply in full. He said that if you read the entirety of Isaac the Syrian you will find that he NEVER said anything like what the SIN-od on SIN-modality quoted. He said that he will reach back out when he can.

I know for a fact that Father has covered in painstaking detail everything in print on Isaac. Therefore I believe him. I do not now hold Isaac in contempt as some insane heresiarch, just because the insane heresiarch Bergoglio co-opted him.

One last thought, Isaac is valued a spiritual father, not as a theologian. Maybe at worst he might be in the category of a Tertullian or an Origen, but I think better of him, because he did not traffic in theology.  

I did not read this, but was directed to it as being the sermon in question:

https://jbburnett.com/resources/Isaac-the-Syrian-Homily-51.pdf

I think this has to do with the claim that Isaac does not hold for an eternal hell. 

PRAYER COMPOSED BY ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN


O Lord Jesus Christ our God,
Thou that didst weep over Lazarus,
and shed tears of sorrow and compassion for him,
accept the tears of my bitterness.

By Thy Passion cure my passions.
By Thy wounds, heal my wounds.
By Thy Blood, purge my blood; and mingle the fragrance of Thy life-creating Body with my body.

Let the gall Thou didst drink at enemies’ hands,
sweeten my soul from the bitterness which the foe has given me to drink.

Let Thy Body, O Lover of men, 
which was stretched on the Tree of the Cross, 
extend toward Thee mine intellect,
which is dragged evilly downward by demons.

Let Thy Head,
which Thou didst bow on the Cross, raise up my head,
which is buffeted by mine adversaries.

Let Thine all-holy Hands,
which were nailed to the Cross by the unbelieving Jews,
lead me out of the abyss of perdition to Thee,
as Thine All-holy Mouth hath promised.

Let Thy Countenance,
which received blows and spittings from accursed men,
brighten my countenance, which is stained with iniquities.

Let Thy Soul,
which on the Cross Thou didst commend to Thy Father,
guide me to Thee by Thy grace.

I have not a mournful heart wherewith to seek Thee,
I have no repentance,
I have no compunction,
which bring children into their proper inheritance.

O Master, I have not a comforting tear.
My mind is darkened by the affairs of this life,
and hath no strength to look steadfastly toward Thee with groaning.

My heart is grown cold from the multitude of temptations,
and cannot warm herself with tears of love for Thee.

But Thou, O Lord and God Jesus Christ,
the Treasury of good gifts,
grant me thorough repentance and a sorrowing heart,
that with all my soul I may go forth to seek Thee.

For without Thee,
I am a stranger to all that is good.
Therefore, O Good One,
freely grant me Thy grace.
Let the Father,
Who hath timelessly and everlastingly brought Thee forth from His bosom,
renew in me the features of Thine image.

I have forsaken Thee,
do not forsake me.
I have gone out from Thee,
come out to seek me,
and lead me up to Thy pasture,
and number me among the sheep of Thy chosen flock,
and nourish me with them on the verdure of Thy Divine Mysteries;
for their pure heart is Thy lodging-place,
and therein is the illumination of Thy revelations clearly beheld,
which is the comfort and refreshment
of those who for Thy sake have travailed
in afflictions and every kind of outrage.

May I also be deemed worthy of this illumination
by Thy grace and love for man,
O our Savior Jesus Christ,
unto the ages of ages.
Amen.

Novus Ordo Watch did an excellent article on this. Isaac of Syria has other heresies besides universalism. I recommend the read. He quotes the Encyclopedia of Monasticism that has this disturbing passage describing Isaac's ideas:

From the NOW article:

It is difficult to count all the heresies in Isaac’s thought as laid out above ...

Passage he's referring to contains no heresies, so not sure what he's talking about.  Maybe that's why he left it at being "difficult to count".  Well, I counted zero.

From the NOW article:
Passage he's referring to contains no heresies, so not sure what he's talking about.  Maybe that's why he left it at being "difficult to count".  Well, I counted zero.

Thank you, Lad. I don’t feel so alone anymore! LOL!!!!

In the current stampede to publicize the crimes of Bergoglio et. al. - objectively a noble work indeed - some poor anchoritic desert slob (and maybe even a Saint?) is being mud-racked to bits - for no good reason.

Perhaps the grinders of the lions are forgetting a solid, oft-demonstrated, and golden principle: The Vatican II scuм co-opt even the words of Sacred Scripture, and try to make them ring with their own falsity.

What has become of Isaac in this sirocco? Certainly folk are making of him a dervish, a dust devil of epic heresiarchal proportions. Really?

My reading of the “catastrophe” is that it’s more of the same infelicitous Vatican II nonsense, and that it has nothing to do with Isaac the Syrian. Why then are we being summoned to convene an inquisition against this man, or to call a crusade to “clown him with many clowns?” It ain’t about Isaac.

Vatican II is the clown of many clowns.

As far as Isaac is concerned, the Catholic Encyclopedia saith:

“Towards the end of his life he passed under a cloud as his Nestorian orthodoxy became suspected. He was author of three theses, which found but little acceptance amongst Nestorians. Daniel Bar Tubanita, Bishop of Beth Garmai (some 100 miles south-east of Mossul), took umbrage at his teaching and became his ardent opponent. The precise contents of these theses are not known, but they were of too Catholic a character to be compatible with Nestorian heresy. From an extant prayer of his, addressed to Christ it is certainly difficult to realize that its author was a Nestorian. Eager to claim so great a writer, the monophysites falsified his biography, placing his life at the beginning of the seventh century, making him a monk of the Jacobite monastery of Mar Mattai, and stating that he retired to the desert of Scete in Egypt. Since the discovery of Ishodenah's "Book of Chastity" by Chabot in 1895 the above details of Isaac's life are beyond doubt, and all earlier accounts must be corrected accordingly. Isaac was a fruitful ascetical writer and his works were for centuries the main food of Syrian piety ……. Isaac's writings possess passages of singular beauty and elevation, and remind the reader of Thomas à Kempis.”

With regard to the controversial passage, the anti-Vatican cited Homily 74. No, it’s Homily 71. I do have to thank Mario Derksen for helping me find the confounded thing. Were it not for him, I would have given up the search. Thank you, Derksen!

Here is a discussion of the now infamous passage during the study group on Isaac conducted by Fr. Abernethy. It took place in February 2020, long before anyone might want to guard his speech.

Discussion of Homily 71, begins at minute 32:50; the infamous passage at 46:25:

https://philokalia.podbean.com/e/the-ascetical-homilies-of-saint-isaac-the-syrian-homily-seventy-part-ii-and-homily-seventy-one-part-i/

As anyone can see, this is a discussion centered entirely on the spiritual life. Father notes the surprising aspect of Isaac’s definition of purity of heart, and goes on to discuss its application.

The Vatican II sect worships reptiles. That’s why they especially love South American idolatry. They found a passage in some relatively obscure yet prolific desert father that made them salivate wildly. They co-opted him. All the more reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. 

One final principle to keep in mind. If we are looking for a consistently presented doctrine, we must study the entire body of work. We do not pull one paragraph out of thousands and thousands of words, in order to distill the essence of a corpus of instruction. If you look at the entire canon of Isaac, then perhaps you will find that he believes in the spiritual combat as much as any desert father, and does not advocate “sympathy with the devil.” That we could - in knee-jerk fashion - accuse him of such a thing, simply because of this newest Vatican II outrage, actually makes us clowns.

Yeah, as I said, one has to understand the context.  

And the context of this deployment of Isaac the Syrian is the satanic Vatican II anti-church disseminating it's foul sputum. The devil quoted Scripture, out of its proper context, to our Lord Jesus Christ in the desert; and our Incarnate God put things back into their proper perspective. 

I think that Fr. Abernethy made a good beginning of keeping Isaac's words in their proper context, and of challenging our puny hearts to expand their contracted notions of "Deus Caritas Est."  

Lad saith: Now, the problem with Jorge et al. is that they've co-opted this mystical and theological perspective and translated in the practical order to mean, "Hey, no problem, sodomites, God loves you as if you were straight."

That is in fact not love but hatred.

Thou hast spoken well.

Pax!