PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The Desert Fathers and the Humility of Spiritual Vigilance “Do not be self-confident, brother, until you depart from the body; for you may say that you are dead, but Satan is not dead.” — The Evergetinos Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos Volume III Hypothesis IX Section B3-8part1 There is a great mercy hidden within these unsettling sayings from the Evergetinos. The Desert Fathers do not speak to us about spiritual warfare in order to make us preoccupied with the

What the Desert Fathers Saw When They Looked at Sin “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.” — St. Luke 6:37 Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos Volume III Hypothesis II Section H 1-12: There is a fierce honesty in the Desert Fathers that can unsettle us if we read them too quickly. They never soften the reality of sin. They do not sentimentalize weakness. They do not pretend evil is harmless, nor do they collapse into the modern