PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

When Christ Reclines in the Midst of Those Who Labor “Take for yourself the remedy of life from the table of those who fast, keep vigil, and labor in the Lord… for the Beloved reclines in their midst, bestowing sanctification, and He transforms the bitterness of their hardship into His ineffable sweetness.” — St. Isaac the Syrian There are moments when the spiritual life feels less like ascending a mountain and more like carrying stones through a wasteland. One prays, studies