PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Phronema: More Than Having the Right Ideas “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” — Philippians 2:5 There is a word in the Christian East that is difficult to translate. Phronema. We can call it mind. Mindset. Disposition. Consciousness. Way of thinking. Spiritual perception. None of these is wrong. None is enough. Perhaps the difficulty itself tells us something important. Phronema does not describe merely what we think. It describes the place within us fr

Not Information, but Communion “Take for yourself the remedy of life from the table of those who fast, keep vigil, and labor in the Lord, and so raise up the dead man in your soul. For the Beloved reclines in their midst, bestowing sanctification.” — St. Isaac the Syrian, Homily 15 Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on the Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian Homily 15 paragraphs 14-17 There are passages in St. Isaac that seem less like theology and more like glimpses through