PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

St. Isaac, Tears, and the Birth of the Soul into the Air of Grace “When you attain to the region of tears, then know that your mind has left the prison of this world and has begun to breathe that other air, new and wonderful.” — St. Isaac the Syrian Synopsis of Tonight's Group on The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian Homily 14 There are passages in the Fathers that do not merely instruct us. They unsettle us because they seem to speak from a place beyond ordinary lan