PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The Terrible Comfort of the Familiar “Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear.” — Luke 8:37 There are passages in the Gospel whose terror lies almost hidden. This is one of them. We see the man among the tombs and imagine that he is the frightening figure in the story. He is naked. Violent. Possessed by a legion. He cannot live among men. Chains cannot hold him. He has become a strange