PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Repentance as the Continual Turning of the Heart Toward Christ “If he is a true laborer, he can make a new beginning at every moment.” — Abba Silouan Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos Volume III Hypothesis IX D3 - Hypothesis X A-C1 There is an intensity in the Fathers that can sometimes frighten us. They speak of vigilance, struggle, examination, tears, watchfulness, and the danger of negligence. St. Synkletike tells of a servant of God who watched the movements

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