PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Enter the Wound Prayer Before the Iconostasis “Put your finger here and see my hands; and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believing.” (John 20:27) ⸻ This icon does not allow distance. It refuses to remain a memory. It will not let me stand among the observers, arms folded, studying the mystery from a safe place. Christ stands in the midst. Wounded. Exposed. Alive. And Thomas is not shamed. He is summoned. ⸻ I used to think this moment w