PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

There is a silence that follows Good Friday that is unlike any other. It is not the silence of peace. It is not the silence of resolution. It is the silence that remains when everything has been said and nothing has been answered. The cry has already been uttered. “It is finished.” And yet nothing feels finished. In that silence, she walks. Mary does not speak. What word could carry the weight of what she has seen? The flesh she bore hangs lifeless in memory. The voice that o