A Quiet Work of Preservation and Nourishment “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.” — Abba Moses For many years now, Philokalia Ministries has been a small and hidden labor of the heart. What began simply as a desire to return to the Fathers, to listen again to the fierce honesty and luminous hope of the Desert Fathers, and to sit quietly at the feet of the saints and modern elders of the Church, slowly became something more. Through reading groups,