PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

O Saint Charbel, silent watcher of the cedar heights, friend of the night wind and the long vigil, you who learned the language of God where words were stripped away, pray for us. You fled the noise of many voices to hear the One Voice that never fades. In the narrow cell of obedience you discovered the vastness of mercy, and in the poverty of all things you found the riches that do not pass. Intercede for us, O faithful one. Teach us the hunger that does not bargain, the des