PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

When the monastic heart ceases to be an idea and becomes the place where one must live “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.” — Abba Moses For years I have spoken of the monastic heart as something universal. I have insisted that the desert does not belong only to monks, that hesychia is not the possession of those behind monastery walls, and that the summons to purity of heart is nothing other than the Gospel addressed to every human being. The monk