PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Judgment, Nakedness, and the Loss of Brotherly Love in the Light of the Desert Fathers “Busy yourself with your own faults, and not with other people’s, and the workshop of your mind will not be despoiled.” — The Evergetinos There is a fierce honesty in the fathers that modern Christians often find difficult to endure. They do not allow us the comfort of remaining spectators to the Fall. We prefer to think of Adam’s transgression as history, tragedy, doctrine, or inherited co