PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The Incarnation and the Terrible Beauty of the Human Person “Man, completed and perfected, is wondrous, even as God is wondrous.” — St. Sophrony of Essex, His Life Is Mine “A man is born into the world.” We hear these words and think of something ordinary. Another child. Another life beginning among billions of lives. Another small creature entering a world already immense before him and destined to continue long after he is gone. But St. Sophrony hears something altogether d

Courage is born when the heart ceases to demand that the world make God trustworthy “The essence of Christ’s peace lies in his perfect knowledge of the Father.” — St. Sophrony of Essex, His Life Is Mine There comes a point in the spiritual life when peace can no longer mean that things have been resolved. Perhaps this is one of the most difficult truths we ever learn. For much of our lives, we imagine peace as the fruit of circumstances finally coming into order. A door opens