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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
Non-Resistance, Justice, and the Peace of Christ
A Desert Reflection in Conversation with St. Thomas Aquinas In a recent reflection I wrote on the Evergetinos , I tried to name the scandal many of us feel when we read stories of monks who refuse to defend themselves, who accept theft, insult, or even violence in silence, as if it were a blessing. Everything in our Western formation cries out that this cannot be right. Someone then sent me a series of texts from St. Thomas Aquinas on peace, justice, rights, judgment, scandal
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 16, 20258 min read
The Scandal of Non-Resistance and the Blessing of Christlike Love
A Reflection for Those Troubled by the Evergetinos and the Gospel’s Hardest Word When we read the Evergetinos , something in us recoils. The stories of monks who refuse to defend themselves, who stand silent before violence, who surrender their few possessions to thieves without protest—these accounts strike our modern Western sensibilities as unreasonable, even dangerous. We live in a world shaped by the language of rights, boundaries, justice, and the moral duty to protect
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 13, 20254 min read
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