PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The Quiet Strength of Christ’s Mercy A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. Isaiah 42:3 The Fathers lingered over this line because it names the way God comes near without violence, the way Christ heals without haste, the way salvation unfolds without forcing the soul. They saw in the bruised reed  the human heart after fear, failure, sin, or exhaustion. A reed bends easily. Bruised, it has already learned its weakness. And precisely th

"Infans", the God Who Does Not Speak The One through whom all things were made enters the world without words. The Gospel of John tells us that “In the beginning was the Word”  (Jn 1:1), and in the same breath confesses that this Word “became flesh and dwelt among us”  (Jn 1:14). What it does not say, yet what the Church dares to contemplate, is that when the Word became flesh, He became infans : the One who does not speak. The Creator of language chooses silence. The Logos e