PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Learning to Pray from the Wounds of Christ “I have not a mournful heart wherewith to seek Thee.” — St. Isaac the Syrian, Homily 16 This prayer of St. Isaac is unlike many of our prayers because it contains almost no demands, explanations, or arguments. It is a cry. It is the speech of one who has reached the end of himself and has finally discovered that every part of him is wounded and that only Christ Himself can heal what has been broken. The desert fathers would say that