PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The Beheading of John the Baptist and the Freedom of the One Who Has Become the Friend of the Bridegroom “He must increase, but I must decrease.” — John 3:30 There is something almost unbearable in the apparent smallness of John’s death. This is the Forerunner. The voice crying in the wilderness. The one who leapt in the womb at the approach of Christ. The one who stood at the Jordan and pointed away from himself toward the Lamb of God. The one whom Christ Himself called more