PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

When the Soul Refuses All but God “O God, you are my God, for you I long; for you my soul is thirsting. My body pines for you like a dry, weary land without water.” — Psalm 63 There are seasons when the soul knows with terrifying clarity that nothing in this world can quench its thirst. Not ministry. Not reputation. Not affection. Not even the sweetness of prayer when it is sought for consolation rather than for God Himself. The earth cracks beneath our feet and we discover t

Abiding in the Open Side “Let us concentrate ourselves so completely in the divine love, and enter so far into the living fountain of wisdom, through the wounded Side of our Incarnate God, that we may deny ourselves and our self-love, and so be unable to find our way out of that Wound again.” — St. Philip Neri Philip tells us to enter the Wound and lose the way back out. It is not a metaphor meant to stir passing devotion but a command to relocate the whole of our life. Conce