PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

On the silent catastrophe of a Church without elders “Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.” Deuteronomy 32:7 ⸻ There is a wound in the Church that few speak of openly. It is not doctrinal. It is not liturgical. It is not moral in the way people usually mean. It is paternal. There are not enough fathers. Not priests. Not administrators. Not scholars. Fathers. Men and women who have passed through the fire and emerged without illusion. Sou

St Isaac the Syrian on the prayer that rises from neglect instead of love “He is a fool who does not draw near to God in his heart and yet when tribulation surrounds him lifts his hands to Him with confidence.” St Isaac the Syrian ⸻ There is a kind of hope that is not hope at all. It has the vocabulary of faith but none of its weight. It speaks the Name of God but has never learned to carry it in the heart. It turns to God not because it loves Him but because it hurts. It rem