PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

“You who have said: Lord, my refuge!  and have made the Most High your dwelling.” The psalm does not say that the world has become safe. It does not promise that harm will cease or that suffering will be explained. It names something far more severe and far more liberating. It declares that refuge is not found in conditions, outcomes, or protections, but in a Person. The Most High is not a shelter built to keep the world out. He is a dwelling entered precisely because the wor

Faith in a Fallen World There comes a moment when the mind can no longer carry what the heart is being asked to bear. The news of the world presses in from every side, violence without meaning, corruption without shame, suffering that seems to multiply rather than heal. Even prayer can begin to feel unreal, like speaking a language that no longer touches the ground of lived experience. The soul asks quietly, sometimes with fear, sometimes with anger, Is any of this real? Is G