PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Warming at Another Fire “When they had kindled a fire of coals there… Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.” John 18:18 You would think at sixty a man would know the difference between warmth and fire. The rooster has already crowed once in my life. It crowed when I realized how much of my priesthood was constructed out of activity. It crowed when the doors closed, when requests were denied, when the scaffolding of identity began to fall. It crowed when I saw how often I

What God is doing when nothing seems to be happening “Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.” Isaiah 45:15 ⸻ There is a moment when the soul stops expecting relief. Not because it has found peace. Because it has grown tired of hoping. Prayer continues, but without anticipation. The heart no longer looks for consolation. It no longer looks for change. It no longer looks for anything. It simply endures. And it is here, in this place where nothing a