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In the Quiet Where the Uncreated Light Touches Dust
The Phronema of the Desert Fathers To enter the world of the desert is to step into a way of seeing shaped not by systems or theories but by the slow purification of the heart. The writings of the Fathers do not open with questions about strategies or obligations. They open with the deeper question of what allows the heart to be healed of fear and pride and blindness so that it may love as God loves. Everything in the desert begins from this interior place where a person stan
Father Charbel Abernethy
Dec 12, 20253 min read
The Hands That Lead Us Home
Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos Volume II Hypothesis XL Section E There is a remarkable clarity in these sayings and stories a piercing simplicity that both unsettles and consoles. The Evergetinos places before us the most difficult and necessary truth. The evil done to us is not a detour on the spiritual path but the path itself. Wickedness does not destroy wickedness. Resentment never cures resentment. Anger never frees us from anger. Only goodness that is un
Father Charbel Abernethy
Dec 8, 20253 min read
A Terrible Mercy
Psalm 94 - The Evergetinos and the Humiliation of Logic There is a moment when the Word of God cuts straight through every illusion we have about righteousness and justice. Psalm 94 does not soften the blow. It names the violence of a world where those who carry the sword of judgment often wield it against the innocent, where injustice hides behind the veneer of legality, where condemnation is drafted on paper but written in blood. Can judges who do evil be your friends? They
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 21, 20253 min read
The Divine Ethos Beyond Justice: Reading the Evergetinos with Open Eyes
Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos Hypothesis XXXVIII Paragraphs 10-13 and Hypothesis XXXIV Section A: There are moments when the Evergetinos confronts us with a vision so stark and so luminous that it seems almost uninhabitable. It is not a juridical vision of justice. It is not a measured discourse about the protection of innocents. It does not weigh competing moral claims or concerns about equity or rights. What it reveals is something else entirely. It opens b
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 17, 20253 min read
Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos Hypotheses XXXVIII Sections C-D
Freedom from Anger, Desire for Vengeance, and Trust in Divine Providence The Evergetinos continues to unveil through the lives of the saints the beauty and power of a heart freed from anger and the desire for vengeance. In the story of Saint Spyridon and the deceitful shipowner we see how divine simplicity disarms deceit. The Saint entrusted his gold to another with pure confidence and without suspicion, and when that trust was betrayed he did not rage or demand justice. Inst
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 3, 20252 min read
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