PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Breathing the Reign of God “Greater than the roar of mighty waters, more glorious than the surgings of the sea, the Lord is glorious on high.” — Psalm 93:4 (Grail) Phronema is not first an idea we hold. It is an atmosphere we breathe. Long before it becomes a thought, it becomes a climate. Long before it is articulated, it is inhaled. One does not so much learn  the phronema of the Church as one gradually discovers that one has been living inside it, or outside it, all along.

Signs of Phronema and the Grace That Forms the Heart “The Church is not understood; she is breathed.” — Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra Phronema is not first an idea. It is a way of breathing. It is the air the Church inhales and exhales, and the soul either learns to live in it or finds itself quietly suffocating. Scripture never presents the mind of Christ as a concept to be mastered but as a life to be entered. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus”  is i

Phronema as Fire, Fracture, and the End of Spiritual Compromise “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” — Philippians 2:5 Phronema is not an idea one accepts, nor a theological emphasis one adds to an otherwise unchanged life. It is air. And once the lungs have learned to breathe it, any other atmosphere becomes suffocating. To encounter the phronema of Christ and His Church is to discover that one has been living on borrowed breath. Saint Paul does not invi