PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

How the heart is slowly broken open by prayer “Let the psalms be familiar to you; let them dwell in your heart. They are a calm harbor for the soul.” — St. Basil the Great The desert fathers did not study the psalms. They breathed them. The psalter was not a book they occasionally opened during prayer. It was the atmosphere of their life. The monk rose in the darkness before dawn and the first sound that entered the silence of the cell was the psalm already waiting on his lip