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Guard the Treasure
The Small Neglects by Which the Heart Grows Cold “Turn away from evil, and do good… remain thereafter in wakefulness, so that you might preserve them.” — St. Maximos the Confessor Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos Volume III Hypothesis IX Section C-D2 There is something almost frightening about the stories preserved for us in the Evergetinos. They are frightening not because they portray extraordinary wickedness, but because they reveal how quietly the heart can
Father Charbel Abernethy
Aug 245 min read
The Antichrist of the Heart
Remaining in Christ in an Age of False Light “Do not be surprised if truth becomes lonely. Christ Himself stood alone before Pilate.” — Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra The Fathers would not read this passage first as a prediction about political events, secret conspiracies, or the rise of some monstrous figure at the end of history. They would read it as a word addressed directly to the heart. “Children, these are the last days.” For the Desert Fathers, the “last days” began
Father Charbel Abernethy
May 134 min read
Lift Up Your Heads, O Gates
On Entering the War Under the Banner of the King of Glory “Who is the King of glory? The Lord, the mighty, the valiant, the Lord, valiant in war.” Psalm 23(24):8 Grail Translation There is a war being waged over your heart. Not metaphorically. Not emotionally. Not symbolically. Literally. The Apostle does not soften the truth to make it palatable. He says it plainly. “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the
Father Charbel Abernethy
Feb 104 min read
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